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Anders Crawford
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Queer kid from rural arkansas. He sometimes writes.
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I went on a hike. I wrote some words.

#arkansas #lit #poetry
AT THEIR FEET I couldn’t tell you how many times I tried to give myself back to the mountains. I don’t know how many lines of discretion I’d left with the novaculite peaks as I looked out over their dominion. Or how many borrowed problems I had laid upon the altar of sandstone boulders while we convened between sloping ridges. I told them the name my mother had given me when I was born at their feet. And then I stood beneath the PawPaw trees. I asked to put down root in their soil where worry drained away so freely. I’ve walked dirt roads, asking them kindly; waiting for them to snatch me away and take me home. They had accepted my blood and sweat, after all. They did not respond. That’s the thing about the Ouachita Mountains. They breathe alone and they just don’t care who you think you’re meant to be. @anderscrawford
January 19, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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welcome to the future: where everything is the worst it's ever been, and everything is the best it's ever going to be
July 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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💊 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 💊

Feeling sick and tired of being sick and tired? Pill Bottle Press is looking for your work! Submit #poetry, #prose, #art, and #photography submissions until March 7th!

Visit PBP's website for details: pillbottlepress.com

Submit via email to submissons@pillbottlepress.com
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Looking for that real fucked up shit! Pill Bottle Press is an online literary and art magazine that focuses on all the darker and more emotional parts of mental and physical illness. PBP is open for submissions of poetry, prose, art, and photography via email until March 7th, 2026. Send all submissions to submissions@pillbottlepress.com PBP also pays $1 USD for every accepted piece! pillbottlepress.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Queer literature doesn’t owe anyone joy. Not commercially viable it-gets-better arcs.

I understand the desire for transformation. For acceptance. For affirmation.

But for me?

Give me the corrosive. The dangerous. The unfinished.

Give me the lived experience. Unsentimental. Non-Redemptive.
January 16, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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//-
Nothing happened when I said it.
That’s what I noticed first.
We kept walking.
Same road.
Same dust.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:42 PM