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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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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
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Graced by the presence of experimentalist Elisabeth Sheffield, author of a remarkable run of novels mostly from @fictioncollective2.bsky.social, whose tour de force here mashes up 2nd-person by retail marketing with extreme decompression of time, while taking a wry look at the tradeoffs of mid-life.
Cate’s Upstate or Fashion After the Apocalypse | Prose
By Elisabeth Sheffield — "Welcome to Cate’s Upstate, a fashion forward boutique located in downtown Toddsville. The term 'downtown' is used lightly, of course—Toddsville is a one-stoplight village wit...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Graced by the presence of experimentalist Elisabeth Sheffield, author of a remarkable run of novels mostly from @fictioncollective2.bsky.social, whose tour de force here mashes up 2nd-person by retail marketing with extreme decompression of time, while taking a wry look at the tradeoffs of mid-life.
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Issue 33 of Your Impossible Voice is here, featuring my story, Winners! So honored to be included as part of this wonderful community, featuring "voice-driven, off-center" work! yourimpossiblevoice.com/winners/
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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November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Issue 33 of Your Impossible Voice is here, featuring my story, Winners! So honored to be included as part of this wonderful community, featuring "voice-driven, off-center" work! yourimpossiblevoice.com/winners/
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One of the great prose stylists around right now, @israelbonilla.bsky.social, takes a turn to noir, in Guadalajara, with this excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites. Just a hint of what's to come in this novel, where modes and settings journey further afield. For now, though, you'll have this.
from Cityscape with Sybarites | Issue 33
By Israel Bonilla — "The cellphone’s alarm woke me up to a bunch of pillows, a crumpled blanket, and the pungent smell of my armpits. I hadn’t registered Marina’s absence; her belongings were gone."
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November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
One of the great prose stylists around right now, @israelbonilla.bsky.social, takes a turn to noir, in Guadalajara, with this excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites. Just a hint of what's to come in this novel, where modes and settings journey further afield. For now, though, you'll have this.
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I loved "The End of My Sentence" by Roberto Ontiveros (Assisted Living @coronasamizdat.bsky.social), the portrait of a community you get when done by one of its eccentrics, told in an indelibly American yet invented voice, a kind of cross between Los Brothers Hernandez and William Burroughs.
The End of My Sentence | Prose
By Roberto Ontiveros — "The deal I had with my people was that I could sleep in. I got up early those last days at the hotel, but not if I knew I had to get up."
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November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I loved "The End of My Sentence" by Roberto Ontiveros (Assisted Living @coronasamizdat.bsky.social), the portrait of a community you get when done by one of its eccentrics, told in an indelibly American yet invented voice, a kind of cross between Los Brothers Hernandez and William Burroughs.
I don't know for sure that we would have accepted this piece based on the title alone — I don't know that we wouldn't have either, though. Either way, enjoy some light boutique shopping as the world falls apart in "Cate’s Upstate or Fashion After the Apocalypse" by Elisabeth Sheffield!
Cate’s Upstate or Fashion After the Apocalypse | Prose
By Elisabeth Sheffield — "Welcome to Cate’s Upstate, a fashion forward boutique located in downtown Toddsville. The term 'downtown' is used lightly, of course—Toddsville is a one-stoplight village wit...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I don't know for sure that we would have accepted this piece based on the title alone — I don't know that we wouldn't have either, though. Either way, enjoy some light boutique shopping as the world falls apart in "Cate’s Upstate or Fashion After the Apocalypse" by Elisabeth Sheffield!
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Me on Marimo Mon Amour: "A plague journal narrated by a chibi Rabelais becomes by way of limitless lists, alliteration, and logophilia something darker and more serious, a meditation on meaning, death, and God in the manner of Donne and the Metaphysicals."
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November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Me on Marimo Mon Amour: "A plague journal narrated by a chibi Rabelais becomes by way of limitless lists, alliteration, and logophilia something darker and more serious, a meditation on meaning, death, and God in the manner of Donne and the Metaphysicals."
yourimpossiblevoice.com/xiaolongbao-...
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It wouldn't be a new issue without some brash and velvety work in translation. Don't miss this stunner from the late Tatyana Bek (translated by Bita Takrimi)! #poetry
Let’s Sit on the Bench and Chat | Issue 33
By Tatyana Bek, translated by Bita Takrimi — "Let’s sit on the bench and chat a bit, / Smile, and let our heads nod like birds. / 'I don’t think you should cry,'You’ll say, / 'Or let the cold numb you...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It wouldn't be a new issue without some brash and velvety work in translation. Don't miss this stunner from the late Tatyana Bek (translated by Bita Takrimi)! #poetry
Don't miss our new interview with YIV contributor Karen An-hwei Lee on her new work, Marimo, Mon Amour!
Author Interview with Herself: Karen An-hwei Lee about Marimo, Mon Amour |
Karen An-hwei Lee's forthcoming novel, Marimo, Mon Amour (University of Alabama/FC2), is about an obscure poet and dumpling-maker who lives with a pet moss ball, Marimo, in Alphabet City.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Don't miss our new interview with YIV contributor Karen An-hwei Lee on her new work, Marimo, Mon Amour!
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Here is an excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites, my second novel: yourimpossiblevoice.com/from-citysca...
As ever, very grateful to Alvin and Keith.
As ever, very grateful to Alvin and Keith.
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Here is an excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites, my second novel: yourimpossiblevoice.com/from-citysca...
As ever, very grateful to Alvin and Keith.
As ever, very grateful to Alvin and Keith.
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it's always such a nice surprise when you find out that you basically executed exactly what you wanted to with a story! huge thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social and @yourimpossiblevoice.com for giving this piece such a great home!
So opens the new issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com—with "Leeuwenhoeuk's Lens", a mini-novel from @geoliminal.bsky.social, of Toadstones and Hellarkey fame, that rattles along with the pace of a great espionage thriller, working in the history of microscopy and a touch of Lovecraft in the process.
Leeuwenhoek’s Lens | Issue 33
By Eric Williams — "From the deck of the trekschuit, I watched Rotterdam and its forest of ships’ masts shrink and recede, and with the sight of them went, blessedly, the smell of herring and the scre...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
it's always such a nice surprise when you find out that you basically executed exactly what you wanted to with a story! huge thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social and @yourimpossiblevoice.com for giving this piece such a great home!
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So opens the new issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com—with "Leeuwenhoeuk's Lens", a mini-novel from @geoliminal.bsky.social, of Toadstones and Hellarkey fame, that rattles along with the pace of a great espionage thriller, working in the history of microscopy and a touch of Lovecraft in the process.
Leeuwenhoek’s Lens | Issue 33
By Eric Williams — "From the deck of the trekschuit, I watched Rotterdam and its forest of ships’ masts shrink and recede, and with the sight of them went, blessedly, the smell of herring and the scre...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
So opens the new issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com—with "Leeuwenhoeuk's Lens", a mini-novel from @geoliminal.bsky.social, of Toadstones and Hellarkey fame, that rattles along with the pace of a great espionage thriller, working in the history of microscopy and a touch of Lovecraft in the process.
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...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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
New from our very own @brokenzipper.bsky.social! Each copy is beautifully handbound by Sara Lefsyk at Ethel Press,
a fragile assemblage made with care.
a fragile assemblage made with care.
In Green Carnations by Nicholas Alexander Hayes — Ethel
2025//60 copies limited edition//6×8, 30 pages Nicholas Alexander Hayes is a Chicago-based writer and educator. He is the author of the poetry collection Lexicartographies , the chapbook Amo...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New from our very own @brokenzipper.bsky.social! Each copy is beautifully handbound by Sara Lefsyk at Ethel Press,
a fragile assemblage made with care.
a fragile assemblage made with care.
New issue drops Tuesday. Clear your calendars, people!
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
New issue drops Tuesday. Clear your calendars, people!
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Thank you Keith at @yourimpossiblevoice.com - great to be part of the YIV vibrancy!
It's a convoy of the dead in today's Tuesday #flashfiction, courtesy of @victordavid.com!
Check it out! bit.ly/47oRV0U
Check it out! bit.ly/47oRV0U
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Thank you Keith at @yourimpossiblevoice.com - great to be part of the YIV vibrancy!
It's a convoy of the dead in today's Tuesday #flashfiction, courtesy of @victordavid.com!
Check it out! bit.ly/47oRV0U
Check it out! bit.ly/47oRV0U
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It's a convoy of the dead in today's Tuesday #flashfiction, courtesy of @victordavid.com!
Check it out! bit.ly/47oRV0U
Check it out! bit.ly/47oRV0U
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"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 say I’m pregnant, as if she’s right to say it."
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
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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October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"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 say I’m pregnant, as if she’s right to say it."
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
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 ...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"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 say I’m pregnant, as if she’s right to say it."
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
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New Kelly Krumrie forthcoming, from Crop Circle Press. Excerpt from Concentric Macroscope first appeared in @yourimpossiblevoice.com:
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October 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New Kelly Krumrie forthcoming, from Crop Circle Press. Excerpt from Concentric Macroscope first appeared in @yourimpossiblevoice.com:
yourimpossiblevoice.com/concentric-m...
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"The article’s author makes reference to a broad series of books, films, and humans that I haven’t the vaguest familiarity with, and I become intimidated. I start freaking out because who the fuck am I?"
Find out why certain writers make @painhub.substack.com want to die!
Find out why certain writers make @painhub.substack.com want to die!
Certain Writers Make Me Want to Die |
By Jupi Bowen — "For some masochistic reason, I have a subscription to Poets & Writers Magazine. Mostly because I want to peer into the publishing world and see what normies are reading without comple...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"The article’s author makes reference to a broad series of books, films, and humans that I haven’t the vaguest familiarity with, and I become intimidated. I start freaking out because who the fuck am I?"
Find out why certain writers make @painhub.substack.com want to die!
Find out why certain writers make @painhub.substack.com want to die!
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This is a lovely, poignant flash. @sarlynh.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This is a lovely, poignant flash. @sarlynh.bsky.social
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I love how it felt in my hand. Many more stories to come.
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I love how it felt in my hand. Many more stories to come.
@yourimpossiblevoice.com @marinerbooks.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Available for sale now.
I love how it felt in my hand. Many more stories to come.
@yourimpossiblevoice.com @marinerbooks.bsky.social
@koneensaatio.fi
I love how it felt in my hand. Many more stories to come.
@yourimpossiblevoice.com @marinerbooks.bsky.social
@koneensaatio.fi
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I'm afraid I can't help myself with a weepy coming-of-age girlhood lament from time to time <3
Huge thank you to Keith and Your Impossible Voice for giving this one a home!
Huge thank you to Keith and Your Impossible Voice for giving this one a home!
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I'm afraid I can't help myself with a weepy coming-of-age girlhood lament from time to time <3
Huge thank you to Keith and Your Impossible Voice for giving this one a home!
Huge thank you to Keith and Your Impossible Voice for giving this one a home!
October 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Hello, hello, hello, how low? Tuesday's #FlashFiction smells like (pre)teen spirit. Tune into "The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died" by @ashdoeswords.bsky.social!
The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died | Your Impossible Voice
By Ashleigh Adams — "That June, I stole a red-and-black checkered flannel from my stepdad and frayed the hem with kitchen shears."
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October 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Hello, hello, hello, how low? Tuesday's #FlashFiction smells like (pre)teen spirit. Tune into "The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died" by @ashdoeswords.bsky.social!