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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Nov 18
Our latest issue finds us rushing through time and space courtesy of new work from @geoliminal.bsky.social Elisabeth Sheffield, @israelbonilla.bsky.social Roberto Ontiveros, @supernaturalfeat.com @juliaevem.bsky.social Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, @addisonzeller.bsky.social
Issue 33 | Fall 2025 | Your Impossible Voice
Our latest issue includes new work from Eric Williams, Elisabeth Sheffield, Israel Bonilla, Roberto Ontiveros, Dan Weaver, Julia Meinwald, Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, Addison Zelle...
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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"This book has been out for a half dozen years and was well received for a small press volume. But I just came across it a few weeks ago and was so happy to read it that I feel compelled to publicly respond with my thanks to the one-named San Francisco poet, Klipschutz."
Ignoring Poetic Schools: Premeditations by Klipschutz | Your Impossible Voice
Review by Art Beck — This book has been out for a half dozen years and was well received for a small press volume. But I just came across it a few weeks ago and was so happy to read it that I feel com...
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January 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame | Your Impossible Voice
By Sage Tyrtle — "The bus driver brakes hard and I stumble, my 37 weeks pregnant belly stumbles, my whole big self stumbles into a woman in a baseball hat who mutters fat bitch and I open my mouth to ...
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January 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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We are delighted to share that "Rate My Professor: Allen Ginsberg" by Arlene Tribbia was listed among the "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American Essays 2025. Congratulations!
Rate My Professor: Allen Ginsberg | Issue 31
By Arlene Tribbia — Professor Ginsberg seems to spend a lot of time at the beginning of class trying to get a poetry carpool going to Rocky Flats. Everyone—except for me—seems to know the reason for t...
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January 5, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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My micro "We're All Bananas" about sisters and skin found a home at @yourimpossiblevoice.com.

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We’re All Bananas | Your Impossible Voice
By Chelsea Stickle — "After my mother’s skin cancer diagnosis, I was bullied by my older sister Sally into scheduling a 'skin test,' which is what they call it when you strip in a cold room and show a...
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December 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The second story was "Who by Fire", a dark natural disaster/apocalypse micro: yourimpossiblevoice.com/who-by-fire/

Thank you @yourimpossiblevoice.com for giving this story a place in your pages 🙏
Who By Fire | Your Impossible Voice
By Laila Amado — "In this story, we don’t die by fire. We don’t wake in the middle of the night to the screeching of the warning sirens on the phones under our pillows."
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December 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Here's my second story in @nffr.bsky.social's 2025 flash fiction prize issue. Boundless gratitude to Valerie Fox and colleagues for selecting "My Brother, the Salmon," which got its lungs in workshop with the wonderful @megpokrass.bsky.social!
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My Brother, the Salmon | Issue #39
He’s swimming upstream again, dogged and lean, ready to spawn his latest ideas. I wonder aloud if perhaps he doesn’t need to have all the answers.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Links to the stories I published this year are on my site, along with many more from years past. Thanks for checking them out if you have time!

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December 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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yes that’s what’s stopping bookstores from doing this. a lack of courage
December 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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5/ “Libation” in @yourimpossiblevoice.com

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Libation | Your Impossible Voice
By Matthew Jakubowski — "I later learned people had a lot of opinions about the kind of people we were, and our so-called lifestyles, a word they thought was so vaguely clever."
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December 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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A story in Your Impossible Voice. @yourimpossiblevoice.com With special thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social
The Blue Plastic Basin
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The Blue Plastic Basin | Issue 32
By Eric T. Racher — "Lying just then on the bed well not bed really not thinking of anything thinking nothing of skin of the heaviness of days of dead starling or grackle not sure which not thinking o...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Guest editor @alvinlu.bsky.social said it best when he described Another Place by Addy Evenson as "a perfect and poisonous dose of Southern Gothic." What more do you need to know? bit.ly/492zcZE
Excerpt from Another Place by Addy Evenson: Two months ago, a man she had never seen before promised her his life. He coaxed her behind the back shed and undid her tulle dress. “You ever think about touchin’ ‘em?” he asked. “What?” “Their bodies.”
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Delighted to have @addisonzeller.bsky.social back in our latest issue with not one but two micros! bit.ly/4pqfUmR #flashfiction
Excerpt from Point of Comparison by Addison Zeller: Of the lawn, a photograph exists, dated more than a century ago. The size of the camera has reduced over time, but at the date of the photo, it was still clumsy and large, the lens still projecting from a kind of foliated snout, and the face behind it still obscured by funereal drapery.
December 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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"Crow dreams an eerie peacefulness laced with fear" is the second of two new poems from Peter Grandbois in our latest issue. Check them both out today! bit.ly/48I7tvR
Excerpt from Crow dreams an eerie peacefulness laced with fear by Peter Grandbois: And wakes, trembling at the emptiness of it, the vast cavities / And begs God to squeeze him, to crush out the air of protest / The wind carrying a hornet’s nest buzzing is the only response / He chews on the answer until it’s dark on both sides, / Until it cracks
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Our last Tuesday #flashfiction of 2025 is here! Peel back the layers of "Girl Crushed – 1985" by Phyllis Rittner!
Girl Crushed – 1985 | Your Impossible Voice
Phyllis Rittner — In the office kitchen, all lashes and cheekbones, gift-wrapped cozy in your cashmere sweater, peeling an orange like a surgeon, sectioning each sliver, the way you segment our time, ...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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We’ve all been there—propositioning our therapists for some light nude modeling. Catch a glimpse in The Robinson-Barber Thesis by Joyce Meggett in the latest issue of Your Impossible Voice! bit.ly/48VDv94
Excerpt from The Robinson-Barber Thesis by Joyce Meggett: Maybe I’ll draw you. That’d be rich, right? My parents would be paying you to sit for me. We have a deal, okay? You don’t have to take your clothes off if you don’t want to, although it would be good practice for me. It’s harder than you would think to hire a nude model when you don’t have a real studio. Or maybe you’d want to wear a costume.
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The final poem from our new issue burns bright! Finish off your week with "past is a flame" by Karen Earle!
Excerpt from past is a flame by Karen Earle: bird-boned singer I / smoke-and-mirror you / minor-keyed to confusion/hovering ash-to-ash auras all / star-prick constellations/the broken wheel the lucky strikes / in spider-sticky spins
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Who said family get-togethers had to be dull? Pull up a chair for "Brother From Another" by Jaryd Porter! bit.ly/48S9Ptq
Excerpt from "Brother From Another" by Jaryd Porter: We were three blocks from Mom’s house, and all of the houses looked copied and pasted with different earth tones and a few objects on the driveway and porch to make them look lived in. The whole neighborhood looked like a white town, and appearances weren’t deceiving—my sister Paula and I were the blackest people on the block, and we were only half.
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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In "Tired Rejections," Stephen Cicirelli challenges readers to read the "story of stories," distilling the elements of fictional drama down to their essences along the way. Click the link and unlock the mystery!
Tiered Rejections | Issue 33
By Stephen Cicirelli — "His brother, a junior and an athlete in high school, was visiting campus. Wanting to show him a good time—and, perhaps, convince him to play soccer there—he bought weed and Ban...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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You've either met the people in this story or you are one of the people in this story. Check out "Winners" by @juliaevem.bsky.social !
Winners | Prose
By Julia Meinwald — "It was in the Self-Help section of Barnes and Noble that April met Justin. She was holding Open Yourself to a Win, a title her over-eager roommate had recommended forcefully to he...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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"In the back of the closet, sealed in a garment bag, was the ghost. A dark, woolen suit, smelling faintly of camphor, and a life she had meticulously shed."

Tuesday #flashfiction: Two Funerals by Toshiya Kamei
Two Funerals | Your Impossible Voice
Toshiya Kamei — The phone call had come that morning. Etsuko’s sister-in-law, Akiko, her voice thin and stretched tight as a wire. “Kenji passed,” she’d said, no preamble, no softening.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Today's listing of the day is: Brilliant Flash Fiction #WritingCommunity
Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: Brilliant Flash Fiction #WritingCommunity
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December 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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A truly great short story tells you everything you need to know about it from its very first line. This is one of them. Check out "Storing Dinosaurs" by @supernaturalfeat.com in our latest issue! bit.ly/3XY7fMa
Excerpt from Storing Dinosaurs by Dan Weaver: A fter Carmen married Phillip I couldn’t chase her with my lizards no more since it scared Phillip and he would hide in the room and the one time it made it so that Carmen couldn’t drive Phillip to work and he was late and he didn’t want to tell his boss that Carmen was getting threatened with lizards.
December 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Spent the day in the car getting ahead of the snow, but this is such an honor! What a great group of stories! Thanks to @yourimpossiblevoice.com, an incredible journal!
yourimpossiblevoice.com Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Nov 28
Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2025 (or 2026, however they calculate it)! @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
Dana Wall
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Congratulations to our Best Small Fictions nominees: The Last Lipstick Factory by Dana Wall; Hotdogs by Hugh Behm-Steinberg; Anthem by Brett Biebel; A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame by Sage Tyrtle; Of the Lovers by Addison Zeller
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM