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A literary magazine obsessed with revenge. Open for submissions! https://www.villaineralit.com Mastermind: @charlesjensen.bsky.social
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Francesca Leader is (still) trying to teach her (soon-to-be-ex-) husband about two-way streets, today at Villain Era!
Four Poems by Francesca Leader
Goodbye, John Not the Jesus to my child——you were the child, I the second coming——or first, or last, depending whether we countthe wife who resented your paintings,the mother who called you golden, or neither,since I alone stayed. No number of melted-downwedding bands could heal your cracks——you were, to hold another, too broken. But when you…
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November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Jen Jabaily-Blackburn meditates on a bumper sticker that reads "Keep Honking! I'm sitting in my car crying to the Cranberries' 1993 hit single 'Linger'," today at Villain Era!
Two Poems by Jen Jabaily-Blackburn
Bumper Sticker that Reads Keep Honking! I’m sitting in my car crying to the Cranberries' 1993 hit single “Linger” Good one, but for me it’s “Dreams”& I tried to tell my daughter “this is an all-time banger” though it came out like [high whine] because these days verbally admitting to liking anything makes me cry& it’s particularly bad with pop songs, which feels like a non-problem to bring to a therapist so I have not brought it to a therapist (or myself to a therapist) …
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November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Marianne Villanueva reveals why the blacksmiths's son was never heard from again--or was he?--today at Villain Era!
Hunger by Marianne Villanueva
The blacksmith was called Black Johannes because of the dirt that seemed to have worked its way permanently into the creases of his cheeks. His eldest son was called Black Ardan, and he was expected to follow his father into the trade. But there was nothing Black Ardan loved more than to feel the springy heather underfoot. He wandered far, eating the oat-cakes and cheese he kept in his pockets.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Love this one, Shaina Nanavati and @villaineralit.bsky.social ! I'm crazy about these short, tight lines.
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Thoughts on one of my longtime personal villains (does she or doesn’t she make the cut?) and a shout out to @villaineralit.bsky.social 🔪 newsletter.mommyselcamino.com/archive/the-...
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Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. don’t mind if I do On Friday I ventured into my office cupboards where I recently relocated all my journals. There was a...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I never thought I’d write historical fiction, but give me a witch in central PA and I won’t be able to resist. Check out my new short story over at @villaineralit.bsky.social. It’s based on a true story and it’s spooky and vengeful. Happy Halloween 👻
The Hex Hollow Murders as Told by the River Witch of Marietta, Pennsylvania, 1928 by Casey Reiland
Warlocks and the black arts, hexes and pow-wows have been neglected by a race of modern rustics who, when their crops are bad or their pigs perish, appeal to the U.S. government. City people, who s…
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October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Casey Reiland explains how the man the river witch had been fantasizing killing for days arrives at her door, setting of a series of unstoppable events, today at Villain Era!
The Hex Hollow Murders as Told by the River Witch of Marietta, Pennsylvania, 1928 by Casey Reiland
Warlocks and the black arts, hexes and pow-wows have been neglected by a race of modern rustics who, when their crops are bad or their pigs perish, appeal to the U.S. government. City people, who supposed that the last U.S. beldame had long since ridden up the wind and that the rattle of wild laughter in the autumn air had never been heard since Salem, were surprised to learn of the York witches.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Can’t wait to share my new work with you all in November!

@pitheadchapel.bsky.social - flash CNF
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social - 3 poems
@villaineralit.bsky.social - 4 poems
Storms Jrnl - 1 poem

(*Sorry if updates get annoying, just so excited after the publication drought I’ve had this year 😉)
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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HAUNTED is the code for 40% off today through November 1st 👻 nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014856...
Running from alligators, tsunamis, bombs, masked men; conversations with suspicious characters; matricide; being pregnant but not knowing how it happened; floating out in the middle of the ocean—Bruja is horror. bookshop.org/p/books/bruj...
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco wonders if you knew about her phone calls late in the night, today at Villain Era!
Three Poems by Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
Patio It wasn’t summertill the cheese began to sweat. My kneesgrew ridged: the outlines of pleistocene lakes on a school map,in the wrong place. We lay in indoor sleeping bagsright on the lawn. Dew soaking through. Our bodies lumped like swallowed seeds in too——hot cloth. Just shapes of things. Once we sang folk songswith my uncle, rattling…
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October 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Would love an essay for Weekend Reads on the new Lily Allen….
October 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Congrats to #ExpoContributor @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social on the new book YEET! (@omnidawn.bsky.social)! YEET! features afrofuturist poetry that envisions Black people finding new worlds of freedom. Get it in our Bookshop, along with jason’s YEAR OF THE UNICORN KIDZ:
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Yeet!
Check out Yeet! - <b>Afrofuturist poetry that envisions Black people finding new worlds of freedom.</b> <p/> Following the traditions of Eve L. Ewing, Rio Cortez, and Douglas Kearney, jason b. crawfor...
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October 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Launching a new, sporadic Weekend Reads feature: Triumphant returning villain Kelly Foster Lundquist gets the Villain Era Third Degree in today's interview about her new book BEARD: A MEMOIR OF A MARRIAGE!
If Past Is Precedent: An Interview with Kelly Foster Lundquist
Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2025) recounts how Kelly Foster Lundquist met Devin at church camp when she was nineteen in the late ’90s. Immediately inseparable, the two bonded over bootleg Tori Amos recordings and a sense of disconnection from the spiritual fervor of their fellow camp counselors. Devin was classically handsome and Kelly on the plain side of pretty, but they matched.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Writing and publishing really is a small world.

Villain Era was one of my first publication credits and, though we haven't been in touch for several years now, Cat is an excellent poet who lives in the next town over from me.
October 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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