Mamie Willoughby Pound
@mamiewilloughby.bsky.social
Smokelong Quarterly, James Dickey Review, Image Journal, Ghost Parachute, Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, Gooseberry Pie, Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize finalist, Craft Fiction Award long list.
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We are excited to present the October 2025 issue, which is our Nine Year Anniversary issue. We've put out an issue every month on the first since we started, making this our 108th issue. Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social.
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October 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
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October 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We are excited to present the October 2025 issue, which is our Nine Year Anniversary issue. We've put out an issue every month on the first since we started, making this our 108th issue. Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/mtcaexjy
tinyurl.com/mtcaexjy
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Read "Man Staring, 2025 Oil on Canvas" written by @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"You are an eight-foot painting in a gallery in Mallorca. Your stomach is swollen with creatures inside."
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"You are an eight-foot painting in a gallery in Mallorca. Your stomach is swollen with creatures inside."
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Man Staring, 2025 Oil on Canvas — Ghost Parachute
You are an eight-foot painting in a gallery in Mallorca. Your stomach is swollen with creatures inside. Animals with gnashing teeth and eyes big like Muppets. Something you’d see under the microscope....
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October 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Read "Man Staring, 2025 Oil on Canvas" written by @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"You are an eight-foot painting in a gallery in Mallorca. Your stomach is swollen with creatures inside."
tinyurl.com/9xrxhz5j
"You are an eight-foot painting in a gallery in Mallorca. Your stomach is swollen with creatures inside."
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"His blue pinto with the yellow hood. His eyes the same blue as his Gyro Wrap uniform. The steering wheel against my back. His soft thighs, warm." by @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social
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After School Special ~ by Mamie Pound
Stale beer and cigarettes. Chick-fil-a grease on my brown polyester uniform. Parkingdeck lights and shadows. His blue pinto with the yellow hood. His eyes the same blue as hisGyro Wrap uniform. The…
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August 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"His blue pinto with the yellow hood. His eyes the same blue as his Gyro Wrap uniform. The steering wheel against my back. His soft thighs, warm." by @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social
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Stephen Miller is the key architect, leader, and planner of the destruction of American democracy.
Trump has no idea what habeas corpus means.
Stephen Miller is in charge.
He is as gifted a liar as he is a hater. He has lied, repeatedly, and hated, repeatedly, for multiple decades.
Trump has no idea what habeas corpus means.
Stephen Miller is in charge.
He is as gifted a liar as he is a hater. He has lied, repeatedly, and hated, repeatedly, for multiple decades.
May 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Stephen Miller is the key architect, leader, and planner of the destruction of American democracy.
Trump has no idea what habeas corpus means.
Stephen Miller is in charge.
He is as gifted a liar as he is a hater. He has lied, repeatedly, and hated, repeatedly, for multiple decades.
Trump has no idea what habeas corpus means.
Stephen Miller is in charge.
He is as gifted a liar as he is a hater. He has lied, repeatedly, and hated, repeatedly, for multiple decades.
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Someone skipped Marbury v. Madison day in school.
April 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Someone skipped Marbury v. Madison day in school.
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Yay!!!!! We are beyond thrilled!
I have won a Pushcart Prize for my story “Plate Spinner,” from New World Writing. Thank you editor, Kim Chinquee for the nomination. Shoutout to SmokeLong summer workshop where this was written.
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Francine Witte ~ Plate Spinner
I was probably eleven when my father started spinning plates. He’d been watching The Ed Sullivan Show and in between Petula Clark and Sergio Franchi, there was a man, all tuxed-up, spinning fifteen…
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April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Yay!!!!! We are beyond thrilled!
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Have you read Nini Berndt's amazing story, "Wingdings," in our December issue yet? We just nominated it for Best Small Fictions, and we hope you will check it out! https://buff.ly/3ZJDxv6
January 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Have you read Nini Berndt's amazing story, "Wingdings," in our December issue yet? We just nominated it for Best Small Fictions, and we hope you will check it out! https://buff.ly/3ZJDxv6
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December 8, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."
November 24, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."
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You know it’s gonna be a good day when your best friend lets you know that her copy of THESE WORN BODIES (@mooncitypress.bsky.social) has SHIPPED!
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These Worn Bodies
Flash Fiction by Avitus B. Carle
978-0-913785-79-9 Paper
November 2024
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November 22, 2024 at 1:38 PM
You know it’s gonna be a good day when your best friend lets you know that her copy of THESE WORN BODIES (@mooncitypress.bsky.social) has SHIPPED!
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1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).
November 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM
1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).
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I feel like—ten years into the Trump era—journalists should have better language for what is happening that goes beyond verbs like shocking, upending, overturning, frustrating...
Every educated person understands Donald Trump is at war with the United States itself.
He's doing violence to America.
Every educated person understands Donald Trump is at war with the United States itself.
He's doing violence to America.
Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment
The president-elect’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.
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November 18, 2024 at 3:31 AM
I feel like—ten years into the Trump era—journalists should have better language for what is happening that goes beyond verbs like shocking, upending, overturning, frustrating...
Every educated person understands Donald Trump is at war with the United States itself.
He's doing violence to America.
Every educated person understands Donald Trump is at war with the United States itself.
He's doing violence to America.
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