TrashLight Press
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Lit mag for the feral, the rejected, the brilliantly unpublishable. We light fires with forgotten pages. We take what the others won’t touch. This is your home now.
Leyla Guirand’s Butter Pecan Seeker drips with desire — a lush, fevered meditation on sweetness, obsession, and the hunger that devours restraint.
Butter Pecan Seeker - TrashLight Press
My neighbor, Desmond, has this unassuming, jaunty luminosity about him. He was an especial child, all wistful, precise. I gloss over the photos hanging along his shrouded gallery, in my own stannic re...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Leyla Guirand’s Butter Pecan Seeker drips with desire — a lush, fevered meditation on sweetness, obsession, and the hunger that devours restraint.
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My paintings This Is Not A Vape Pen and The Execution of Holofernes have been included in the Burn It Down issue of Trashlight Press
Thank you @trashlightpress.bsky.social!
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Thank you @trashlightpress.bsky.social!
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October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
My paintings This Is Not A Vape Pen and The Execution of Holofernes have been included in the Burn It Down issue of Trashlight Press
Thank you @trashlightpress.bsky.social!
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Thank you @trashlightpress.bsky.social!
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My poem, God Bless the Queers, has been published in the second issue of @trashlightpress.bsky.social , “Burn it Down”. This whole issue is 🔥🔥🔥You can check it out here: www.canva.com/design/DAGz5...
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
My poem, God Bless the Queers, has been published in the second issue of @trashlightpress.bsky.social , “Burn it Down”. This whole issue is 🔥🔥🔥You can check it out here: www.canva.com/design/DAGz5...
TrashLight Issue 02-“Burn It Down” is live on our site and lighting itself ablaze… check it out
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October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
TrashLight Issue 02-“Burn It Down” is live on our site and lighting itself ablaze… check it out
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Two new poems just dropped this week at TrashLight Press:
“Strawberry Juice” by Lance Mazmanian — color, rage, and the stillness of no departures.
“You Turned Time Into Torture” by Kate Lewington — the weight of waiting, and the breaking point of love.
“Strawberry Juice” by Lance Mazmanian — color, rage, and the stillness of no departures.
“You Turned Time Into Torture” by Kate Lewington — the weight of waiting, and the breaking point of love.
September 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Two new poems just dropped this week at TrashLight Press:
“Strawberry Juice” by Lance Mazmanian — color, rage, and the stillness of no departures.
“You Turned Time Into Torture” by Kate Lewington — the weight of waiting, and the breaking point of love.
“Strawberry Juice” by Lance Mazmanian — color, rage, and the stillness of no departures.
“You Turned Time Into Torture” by Kate Lewington — the weight of waiting, and the breaking point of love.
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TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐ is accepting submissions through Duosuma. #WritingCommunity
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TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐ is accepting submissions through Duosuma. #WritingCommunity
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September 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐ is accepting submissions through Duosuma. #WritingCommunity
Don’t forget to submit your raw and feral anti-establishment work to us for Burn it Down. Art is political & so are we.
TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Burn It Down - Issue 02. #CallforSubmissions
Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐
TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Burn It Down - Issue 02. #CallforSubmissions
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August 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Don’t forget to submit your raw and feral anti-establishment work to us for Burn it Down. Art is political & so are we.
An absolute must read piece, “Stranger” by Stevie doCarmo is a gut punch to the senses. A homage to the ephemeral beauty of strangers, a voyeur’s glance at the sacredness of longing.
Stranger - TrashLight Press
She was who she is who she’ll always be: the young woman on the concrete stoop of the little clapboard farmhouse by the side of the road, sitting reading in a gloaming. That’s a book in her hands. No...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
An absolute must read piece, “Stranger” by Stevie doCarmo is a gut punch to the senses. A homage to the ephemeral beauty of strangers, a voyeur’s glance at the sacredness of longing.
Let that flame of rage within you bring your art to life. We want to see the too feral, too political, too angry pieces that smolder in you as the world around us burns.
TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Burn It Down - Issue 02. #CallforSubmissions
Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐
TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Burn It Down - Issue 02. #CallforSubmissions
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August 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Let that flame of rage within you bring your art to life. We want to see the too feral, too political, too angry pieces that smolder in you as the world around us burns.
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New publisher listing for: TrashLight Press (Website) @trashlightpress.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
New Publisher Listing: TrashLight Press (Website)
New publisher listing for: TrashLight Press (Website) @trashlightpress.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
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August 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
New publisher listing for: TrashLight Press (Website) @trashlightpress.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
From half-written thoughts to full-blown catharsis—our new NotesApp Series kicks off with three raw, beautiful fragments of human experience.
“After Midnight” by Brittany Mazzatto
“Panfried Apples” by Erin Jamieson
“Vindication” by Jude Jones
Feel their beauty in your bones.
“After Midnight” by Brittany Mazzatto
“Panfried Apples” by Erin Jamieson
“Vindication” by Jude Jones
Feel their beauty in your bones.
Poetry Archives - TrashLight Press
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July 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
From half-written thoughts to full-blown catharsis—our new NotesApp Series kicks off with three raw, beautiful fragments of human experience.
“After Midnight” by Brittany Mazzatto
“Panfried Apples” by Erin Jamieson
“Vindication” by Jude Jones
Feel their beauty in your bones.
“After Midnight” by Brittany Mazzatto
“Panfried Apples” by Erin Jamieson
“Vindication” by Jude Jones
Feel their beauty in your bones.
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Updated my linktree with my two newest publications @trashlightpress.bsky.social Rejects issue (and first issue ever!) and @kerry767.bsky.social a link to buy Dark Descent Vol 13 featuring my Religious Horror flash 🙏🩸⛪🚗🔗
July 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Updated my linktree with my two newest publications @trashlightpress.bsky.social Rejects issue (and first issue ever!) and @kerry767.bsky.social a link to buy Dark Descent Vol 13 featuring my Religious Horror flash 🙏🩸⛪🚗🔗
TrashLight is hitting new levels of raw today with, “Child Rapist Cop” by Shoshana Ray. @shoshanaraywrites.bsky.social
It’s visceral, it’s raw, it pain bleeding onto the page, and it comes with audio recitation from the author. Check it out now!
It’s visceral, it’s raw, it pain bleeding onto the page, and it comes with audio recitation from the author. Check it out now!
Child Rapist Cop - TrashLight Press
Author’s recitation of piece: He tried to erase me with all the restA pledge to serve and protect, an oath to humanityStewards of The LawSafety for allHe’s a cop, po-po, 5-O“We’re gonna get the guy wh...
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July 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
TrashLight is hitting new levels of raw today with, “Child Rapist Cop” by Shoshana Ray. @shoshanaraywrites.bsky.social
It’s visceral, it’s raw, it pain bleeding onto the page, and it comes with audio recitation from the author. Check it out now!
It’s visceral, it’s raw, it pain bleeding onto the page, and it comes with audio recitation from the author. Check it out now!
“Hallway 5” by Nathan Poole Shannon is live now on TrashLight.
It starts with a guy in a trash compactor but it ends… somewhere else entirely.
There’s a Hallway, a door that shouldn’t exist, a faceless man, and something else. Something … waiting.
It starts with a guy in a trash compactor but it ends… somewhere else entirely.
There’s a Hallway, a door that shouldn’t exist, a faceless man, and something else. Something … waiting.
Hallway 5 - TrashLight Press
“WHOA! STOP!” Albert slammed the Emergency Stop button on the trash compactor. Did he really just see what he thought he saw? Some guy climbing into the compactor? “Cut the power,” he yelled over to D...
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July 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“Hallway 5” by Nathan Poole Shannon is live now on TrashLight.
It starts with a guy in a trash compactor but it ends… somewhere else entirely.
There’s a Hallway, a door that shouldn’t exist, a faceless man, and something else. Something … waiting.
It starts with a guy in a trash compactor but it ends… somewhere else entirely.
There’s a Hallway, a door that shouldn’t exist, a faceless man, and something else. Something … waiting.
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TrashLight Press is a fun way to spend quiet moments reading loud words-a beautifully curated collection of art, poetry, fiction and more. Check them out. We all need something feral in our lives! trashlightpress.com #poetry #fiction #writers #readers #art @trashlightpress.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
TrashLight Press is a fun way to spend quiet moments reading loud words-a beautifully curated collection of art, poetry, fiction and more. Check them out. We all need something feral in our lives! trashlightpress.com #poetry #fiction #writers #readers #art @trashlightpress.bsky.social
Laura DeHart Young’s “Don’t call it dinner” is a love letter to small goodbyes, bad weather, and even worse coping snacks.
Terribly beautiful touches of life - read them now.
( @lauradehartyoung.bsky.social )
Terribly beautiful touches of life - read them now.
( @lauradehartyoung.bsky.social )
Don't Call It Dinner - TrashLight Press
An Arctic blast freezes my face—wind hissing snow sidewaysinto darkness. I tug my Merino beanie over my earsas wind shoves me toward the buildings.Fluorescent lights glow behind glass,figures move ins...
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July 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Laura DeHart Young’s “Don’t call it dinner” is a love letter to small goodbyes, bad weather, and even worse coping snacks.
Terribly beautiful touches of life - read them now.
( @lauradehartyoung.bsky.social )
Terribly beautiful touches of life - read them now.
( @lauradehartyoung.bsky.social )
Our first issue - REJECTS - just dropped!
This is for the ones who keep writing anyway. Who make things even when they get told it’s “too much.”
Thank you to every beautiful soul who brought this to life. We’re just getting started.
This is for the ones who keep writing anyway. Who make things even when they get told it’s “too much.”
Thank you to every beautiful soul who brought this to life. We’re just getting started.
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July 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Our first issue - REJECTS - just dropped!
This is for the ones who keep writing anyway. Who make things even when they get told it’s “too much.”
Thank you to every beautiful soul who brought this to life. We’re just getting started.
This is for the ones who keep writing anyway. Who make things even when they get told it’s “too much.”
Thank you to every beautiful soul who brought this to life. We’re just getting started.
Our first full issue releases tomorrow and it’s full of amazing work. Get hyped!!
July 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Our first full issue releases tomorrow and it’s full of amazing work. Get hyped!!
everything’s crumbling,
but at least the tits are thriving.
Stephanie Inverso’s “Retrograde Musings ~1.2” is a one-woman sermon on chaos, cleavage, and cosmic nonsense.
Mercury’s in retrograde. Laugh about it.
but at least the tits are thriving.
Stephanie Inverso’s “Retrograde Musings ~1.2” is a one-woman sermon on chaos, cleavage, and cosmic nonsense.
Mercury’s in retrograde. Laugh about it.
Retrograde Musings ~ 1.2 - TrashLight Press
Everything breaks and turns to shitExcept my titsThose are perfect.Sage and crystals will fix the universeIn amusement, I shake my head to affirm.
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July 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
everything’s crumbling,
but at least the tits are thriving.
Stephanie Inverso’s “Retrograde Musings ~1.2” is a one-woman sermon on chaos, cleavage, and cosmic nonsense.
Mercury’s in retrograde. Laugh about it.
but at least the tits are thriving.
Stephanie Inverso’s “Retrograde Musings ~1.2” is a one-woman sermon on chaos, cleavage, and cosmic nonsense.
Mercury’s in retrograde. Laugh about it.
most grudges burn out eventually
what’s left is the faint heat of disappointment,
the shrug of knowing you lived through it
Ed Ahern’s “Chilled Out” is a sharp, tired exhale—
a poem for anyone who’s been pissed off long enough
to finally cool down.
what’s left is the faint heat of disappointment,
the shrug of knowing you lived through it
Ed Ahern’s “Chilled Out” is a sharp, tired exhale—
a poem for anyone who’s been pissed off long enough
to finally cool down.
Chilled Out - TrashLight Press
My hatreds have mostly mellowed into distains and disappointments,and I breathe more freely for it.The uncaring, venal attempts againstmy amour propre and well beingseem largely cockroach incursionsra...
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July 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
most grudges burn out eventually
what’s left is the faint heat of disappointment,
the shrug of knowing you lived through it
Ed Ahern’s “Chilled Out” is a sharp, tired exhale—
a poem for anyone who’s been pissed off long enough
to finally cool down.
what’s left is the faint heat of disappointment,
the shrug of knowing you lived through it
Ed Ahern’s “Chilled Out” is a sharp, tired exhale—
a poem for anyone who’s been pissed off long enough
to finally cool down.
jet haze in the sky.
plastic eggs in June.
whiskey in the pews.
a hawk with fur in its claw.
“While the world winds down” by Matthew T. Hummer is now live. Read it with the lights low and your teeth clenched, seeing the creeping American decay
plastic eggs in June.
whiskey in the pews.
a hawk with fur in its claw.
“While the world winds down” by Matthew T. Hummer is now live. Read it with the lights low and your teeth clenched, seeing the creeping American decay
While The World Winds Down - TrashLight Press
I. Each pale sky troubled with jethaze the old man swept as grassclippings his walk kept, after buzzing edges. He carried a bucket, dustpan, and broom, ready to reject our sunnedface while steel moled...
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June 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
jet haze in the sky.
plastic eggs in June.
whiskey in the pews.
a hawk with fur in its claw.
“While the world winds down” by Matthew T. Hummer is now live. Read it with the lights low and your teeth clenched, seeing the creeping American decay
plastic eggs in June.
whiskey in the pews.
a hawk with fur in its claw.
“While the world winds down” by Matthew T. Hummer is now live. Read it with the lights low and your teeth clenched, seeing the creeping American decay
she thought the world worked a certain way.
and for a while, it did.
then truth showed up like rot in a tooth.
“A Neighbor” by Susan Scutti is live now on TrashLight Press.
soft on the outside, treacherous on the inside.
and for a while, it did.
then truth showed up like rot in a tooth.
“A Neighbor” by Susan Scutti is live now on TrashLight Press.
soft on the outside, treacherous on the inside.
A Neighbor - TrashLight Press
i sensed she only ever saw what she wanted to seewhat she expected to seethough really she was simply refusing to perceivethe hemorrhagic fever that life can sometimes be for other peopleshe’d decided...
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June 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
she thought the world worked a certain way.
and for a while, it did.
then truth showed up like rot in a tooth.
“A Neighbor” by Susan Scutti is live now on TrashLight Press.
soft on the outside, treacherous on the inside.
and for a while, it did.
then truth showed up like rot in a tooth.
“A Neighbor” by Susan Scutti is live now on TrashLight Press.
soft on the outside, treacherous on the inside.
In “Youth” by Kim Farleigh, longing crashes into shame, adolescence spirals into obsession, and one golden girl becomes both beacon and blinding eclipse. A story of stumbling love, missed cues, and the kind of emotional fallout that only teenage years and bad beer can ignite.
Youth - TrashLight Press
She escaped my thoughts only when I played football or surfed, activities requiring skills that came easily to me, while conversation, the skill I really wanted, resembled scaling Everest. We were onl...
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June 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In “Youth” by Kim Farleigh, longing crashes into shame, adolescence spirals into obsession, and one golden girl becomes both beacon and blinding eclipse. A story of stumbling love, missed cues, and the kind of emotional fallout that only teenage years and bad beer can ignite.
A girl unfathered, a mouth sewn shut, a house lit from within by the quiet violence of inheritance. In this scorched and spectral poem, Zickgraf threads fire through silence, and memory through smoke.
It’s not survival—it’s something older. Something slower.
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It’s not survival—it’s something older. Something slower.
#writingcommunity #poetry #feminist
Heaven - TrashLight Press
A lyrical haunting of silenced girlhood, escape, and slow-burning vengeance—where fire, smoke, and memory braid into a final act of reclamation.
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June 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A girl unfathered, a mouth sewn shut, a house lit from within by the quiet violence of inheritance. In this scorched and spectral poem, Zickgraf threads fire through silence, and memory through smoke.
It’s not survival—it’s something older. Something slower.
#writingcommunity #poetry #feminist
It’s not survival—it’s something older. Something slower.
#writingcommunity #poetry #feminist
Nuclear escalation, but make it dermatological.
The micro-nations on your left foot are at it again—marching, warring, innovating weapons of mass destruction, and somehow dragging your thighs into global conflict.
This is body horror meets geopolitical satire, and it stings.
The micro-nations on your left foot are at it again—marching, warring, innovating weapons of mass destruction, and somehow dragging your thighs into global conflict.
This is body horror meets geopolitical satire, and it stings.
The Kingdom of My Left Foot - TrashLight Press
The little people who live on my left foot have gone to war, marching legions up my left leg to claim the calflands and the hinterland that is my thigh. It’s amusing, really, that such tiny beings are...
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June 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Nuclear escalation, but make it dermatological.
The micro-nations on your left foot are at it again—marching, warring, innovating weapons of mass destruction, and somehow dragging your thighs into global conflict.
This is body horror meets geopolitical satire, and it stings.
The micro-nations on your left foot are at it again—marching, warring, innovating weapons of mass destruction, and somehow dragging your thighs into global conflict.
This is body horror meets geopolitical satire, and it stings.