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Fast Flesh Literary Journal
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We like work that’s bold, rich, lush, & other 4-letter words. https://www.fastflesh.net/
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Happy Pride Month!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Our gender issue is out now! Featuring:

- Limousine by Cela Xiè
- Taxonomy by E. Peregrine
- Every Villain is Gay by Hunter Burke
- Selected Passages from Men Explaining Women by Tiffany Harris (@proliffany.bsky.social)
- Artwork by Larissa Hauck

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Art by Larissa Hauck
June 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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NO KINGS
Signs: The Emperor Has No Clothes, Immigrants Make America Great, No Kings, Diversity Equity Inclusion
June 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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We had so much fun reading the submissions for our Experimenting with Form issue! Here it is in all its glory, featuring Marek Danielewski, Mai Hindawi, Lukas Wood, Jonathan McLelland, and JI Kleinberg.

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Artwork for issue 10: “The 12 Caesars of Rome” by Marek Danielewski
April 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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our youngest editor, but by far our most discerning. Miles is looking for work that truly surprises him. he wants to read something he’s never read before.
baby Miles in a Fast Flesh onesie and red flannel pants, looking very surprised by your submissions
January 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Jack’s essay, “We Feral Few,” is out now in Passengers!

@jackmaes.bsky.social

www.passengersjournal.com/volume-5-issue-4-prose/#maes
Jack Maes is a Latino teacher and writer from Southern California living in Northern Virginia. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the College of William and Mary and an M.S. from MIT: He is one of the co-founders of Fast Flesh Literary Journal. We Feral Few There is no carpet in the living room when you arrive. Mom is smiling because you're a chubby baby with enormous eyes, and immediately you're the more honest one. You let it all get to your skin. We grow up together in that house, we navigate and find rhythm. We invent the joke and the cartwheel and the same movie run raw until we know all the lines and pauses. You are my closest friend, but knowing someone is an effort, not a prize. As a twenty-something I visit the house again in winter, pulling up the drive, wary of slick. The tires shuffle loose on the ice like they are absorbing every direction. When I press on the brakes, the chassis settles but does not stop, a gentle mistake. The headlights catch the outside air and betray it. Every moving particle and gust of wind is licked with light and trailed in motion. My blood is moving I think. The pond out front of the drive is only a few yards across and is frozen over, the water swelling just above the calm meter of the surrounding dirt. From the car window where I idle, the marbling from the freeze makes it look like a striped stone, gray and white, something I could pick up and thumb in my pocket for luck. I try to make my blood halt. I really try this time. (image ends but essay continues in the link)
December 1, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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the reason for the season (our editors’ group chat)
group chat called “denis johnson pilled” (members of the chat are fencer, skull, and unicorn)
November 21, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Reskeet with a favorite book from your childhood
Book cover of Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar. In the cover image, students are chaotically flailing / flying / falling inside a classroom while the brick building tilts like the Leaning Tower.
November 14, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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all of us rn
Selina Meyer from the show Veep with new, short hair
November 12, 2024 at 3:21 AM
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your eye, my fish hook
[you fit into me] by Margaret Atwood: you fit into me / like a hook into an eye / a fish hook / an open eye
November 11, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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cover of Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
November 11, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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We’re featured on Duotrope as today’s Listing of the Day! We’re open for our Experimental Forms and Gender issues and we hope you fuck our shit up. 🖤
Stats for Fast Flesh Literary Journal: 2 days minimum response, 88 days maximum. 100% of submissions responded to, 5% accepted. Similar journals: Fractured Lit, Okay Donkey, Fugue Literary, SmokeLong Quarterly, and many more.
November 11, 2024 at 5:48 PM