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@manyworlds.place
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a creative space for the place (in) between.
quarterly online space publishing works by queer/trans/Mad/disabled creators.

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EIC: @cavar.bsky.social
Managing Ed: @joyce.fyi

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And a wildly inventive nonfiction piece by @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 awardee Gaby V. Everett.

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Lesson 3.14, Time by Gaby V. Everett - manywor(l)ds :: place
Now that we have finished our unit on time, it’s time to review what you’ve learned.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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We also have an experimental speculative narrative about trauma and memory by @rjaurand.bsky.social.

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Mind Palace v1.2.1 by RJ Aurand - manywor(l)ds :: place
MIND PALACE High-fidelity memory quarantine for healthcare personnel Copyright 20XX all rights reserved v1.2.1
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November 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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We're incredibly excited about all of the pieces in this issue, including Haley Bossé's piece, "A ( )en Body Comes to Shore."

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A ( )en Body Comes to Shore by Haley Bossé Because the shore is an alarm set just loud enough to break my fugue, I silence it but don’t go back to sleep. Because I wake with pounding everywhere, the doctor is unsure how to classify the ( ). Because I reclassify my ( ) as boring, I can’t rest long enough to unmatter it from my brain. Because I cannot rest, I muster up the anti-spoons to spiral out while workshopping. Workshopping, I spiral into pain until it pops and coats me with its whiteworms. My sister texts to let me know she’s visiting. I let her know she’s visiting without telling her I’m ( ). While visiting, she’s ( ).
November 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Having learned, along with the rest of our community members, about the tragic passing of disabled oracle and activist @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, I'd like to think of this particular issue of manywor(l)ds as dedicated to Alice, and the disabled worlds she helped make possible.
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Nathan Erwin's "SPIRITUALISM" reflects on Erwin's longstanding and intimate relationship with land-based activism. Erwin's work can also be found in @ninthletter.bsky.social, @terrainorg.bsky.social, @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social, and elsewhere.

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SPIRITUALISM by Nathan Erwin - manywor(l)ds :: place
Past the narrows to Upper Canandaigua, I was drowning. Water flooded my mind praying for a story of recovery to be written on its surface. Behind me the water lilies lifted their heads. My truck’s lig...
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August 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Spencer Nitkey @spencerwriting.bsky.social, a repeat contributor to manywor(l)ds, renders a myth of the historical jesus and his family as we've never seen it before. Nitkey's work can also be found in @apexmag.bsky.social, @cosmorama.bsky.social, and elsewhere.

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Iconostasis: Between the cypress trees and the oceans. Between the sanctuary and the nave. by Spencer Nitkey - manywor(l)ds :: place
I. Christ. But not as we know him. As his father knew him. As a child smeared with shit. As a crying infant with a voice so loud it cracks the skins of his starving parents. Christ tries to shove rock...
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August 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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C. Suttee's "Se Sonhar é Uma Flor (If Dreaming is a Flower)" is an experimental essay whose beauty rests, in part, in its footnotes.

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Se Sonhar é Uma Flor (If Dreaming is a Flower) by C. Suttee - manywor(l)ds :: place
The Hubble Space telescope turns off passing over my head as I prune cosmos flowers.1 They are little orange radio telescopes and my body intercepts the signal.2 I am feverishly, barely awake, a spinn...
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August 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I like this collage!
August 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Thank you! <3
August 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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We're also excited to welcome back repeat offender @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, editor of mag-friend @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, with a poem about emotional intensity & bpd:

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if bpd could talk by nat raum - manywor(l)ds :: place
hello there, victim of the boundless urge to pull some cursed, dumb-bitch shit—
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August 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Zoe Korte's flash pr/oem is evocative & nostalgic & deeply sensory. We love it. Find Zoe at @sundresspub.bsky.social, and their work in @newwordspress.bsky.social, @enbylife.bsky.social, @maudlinhouse.bsky.social, and more.

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Acid rain is an uncut song that emeralds our matte metropolis, slippery with dirt and chlorophyll, a bright black spot on God’s sweaty palm. I can’t write music, says my other dog, before vomiting carrot greens on the hand-me-down rug. Certainty is a Happy Meal toy in a landfill, proudly assembled in the factory employing all the folks in town. If you’re here, and I’m here, who is going to feed and water the dogstar? It has gone quiet with pain, but its one remaining eye can still see faraway shapes.
August 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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endwell's anti-psychiatry collage, "neuroscience must reckon with the antipsychiatry movement."

endwell has also been featured in @beestung.bsky.social. Their novel, OLYOKE, is forthcoming with @tenebrouspress.bsky.social!

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Collage art with a poem featuring images from the “Innovations in Health Equity Incubator,” text about horrific conditions at Rikers in the 70s and a contemporary jail break, the Biodefense Commercialization Fund, and a paper about “control-averse behavior.” Poem reads: neuroscience must reckon with the antipsychiatry movement the important thing is that the more measurements we take, the better we can tell if your numbers are good or bad! right now it’s seeming like your numbers might be abnormal, so we’re designing a program of study to make sure every aspect of your biology aligns with the average for your sex/race/class/neurotype. We’re going to pull out all the stops. We are scrutinizing every aspect and we can confidently say that you’re almost certainly wrong, on an intrinsic biological level. We are making an obscene amount of money doing this and we’re opening a new center.
August 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Wenyi Xue's "god bless america," an incisive critique of u.s. imperial power + christian hegemony. Xue's work can also be found in @eunoiareview.bsky.social, @fracturedlit.bsky.social, and more.
god bless America by Wenyi Xue - manywor(l)ds :: place
How fortunate it is to live in the stomach of a beast opposed to the mouth - and how luckier still it is to be the hunter watching from afar.
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August 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Some pieces from this issue we want to highlight! First, @chasej.xyz's plural, genreless interactive text, "C:\Users\gnight\Desktop\who am i\README.txt."
August 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM