MB Valente
@mbvalente.bsky.social
writer of weirdness, translator of comics and graphic novels
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it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀
buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us
we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!
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behold!
buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us
we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!
please like + RT this to help spread the word
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
behold!
October 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀
buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us
we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!
please like + RT this to help spread the word
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
behold!
buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us
we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!
please like + RT this to help spread the word
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
behold!
Mmmmm the cheerful fatalism and funweird of this! "Anti-Capitalism vs the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia @naokan.bsky.social www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/anti...
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August 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Mmmmm the cheerful fatalism and funweird of this! "Anti-Capitalism vs the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia @naokan.bsky.social www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/anti...
Delighted to have a short piece in Flash Fiction Magazine, online today: a woman's cat loses patience with her depressive behavior and tells her all the reasons she's pathetic... but in a, you know, violent way. flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Delighted to have a short piece in Flash Fiction Magazine, online today: a woman's cat loses patience with her depressive behavior and tells her all the reasons she's pathetic... but in a, you know, violent way. flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...
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Asking only the toughest questions here
August 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Asking only the toughest questions here
"Lyrics of love lost drift into the sac-like chambers of its long, muscular heart."
A dark, watery ode to Dolly's magic 💙
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...
A dark, watery ode to Dolly's magic 💙
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...
Brett Pribble — Does It Have Pockets
The Anglerfish Hears Dolly Parton
www.doesithavepockets.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"Lyrics of love lost drift into the sac-like chambers of its long, muscular heart."
A dark, watery ode to Dolly's magic 💙
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...
A dark, watery ode to Dolly's magic 💙
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...
Love this recent piece in Flash Fiction Mag: "You are almost five years old, and you have never been smaller—a mouse, a fly, a flea."
Thank you to the editors at Flash Fiction Magazine for publishing this little story 💛
flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...
flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...
Salt Circle
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August 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Love this recent piece in Flash Fiction Mag: "You are almost five years old, and you have never been smaller—a mouse, a fly, a flea."
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Choose your fighter.
July 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Choose your fighter.
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do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?
June 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?
The print edition of Quentin Zuttion's All Princesses Die Before Dawn, a graphic novel about a day in the life of a family struggling to care for each other, is also up for an Eisner 💙 (and in incredible company)
May 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The print edition of Quentin Zuttion's All Princesses Die Before Dawn, a graphic novel about a day in the life of a family struggling to care for each other, is also up for an Eisner 💙 (and in incredible company)
Thrilled to see these incredible authors getting international recognition and proud to be a part of it! Both these books are stunners btw and available from various ebook platforms 🐠💣
May 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Thrilled to see these incredible authors getting international recognition and proud to be a part of it! Both these books are stunners btw and available from various ebook platforms 🐠💣
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eat a book to gain its vocabulary
April 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
eat a book to gain its vocabulary
My favorite illustrator-photographer-human being is now here in the 'Sky 💙
March 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
My favorite illustrator-photographer-human being is now here in the 'Sky 💙
This gorgeous book is already out in French, coming soon in English 🩵
Pour la sortie de ce livre, je teste une sortie d'instagram allez !
Le 17 janvier, chez Charivari @dargaud.com Inlandsis Inlandsis, tome 1 : la glace
Le 17 janvier, chez Charivari @dargaud.com Inlandsis Inlandsis, tome 1 : la glace
January 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This gorgeous book is already out in French, coming soon in English 🩵
My dear friend Marianne Villière is now sharing her brilliant, fierce and compassionate work on this platform. Check it out, I dare you.
Workshop in duo with Mickaël Roy (association Tôt ou t’art) at the association Emmaüs Alsace, 2024 in order to extend the “manifestation of good will” by the companions of Emmaüs Scherwiller in 2023.
January 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My dear friend Marianne Villière is now sharing her brilliant, fierce and compassionate work on this platform. Check it out, I dare you.
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This story emanates atmosphere, like the pink neon lights that flit across the MCs hand in the tattoo parlour. Read it now #writingcommunity #litfic
It's been a long, weird road for my speculative story "Four Words" about a society sliding into silence. I'm delighted that it has found a home, with excellent company, in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social Read it here --> pitheadchapel.com/four-words/
January 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This story emanates atmosphere, like the pink neon lights that flit across the MCs hand in the tattoo parlour. Read it now #writingcommunity #litfic
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pitheadchapel.com/four-words/
A beautiful sad story by MB Valente. And hopefully not as prescient as it feels.
A beautiful sad story by MB Valente. And hopefully not as prescient as it feels.
Four Words
MB Valente Her tattoo parlor is the only thing like it still open, at least on this side of the lake. A pink neon sign in the window shares its glow with the sidewalk; a sawed-out square in the d…
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January 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
pitheadchapel.com/four-words/
A beautiful sad story by MB Valente. And hopefully not as prescient as it feels.
A beautiful sad story by MB Valente. And hopefully not as prescient as it feels.
It's been a long, weird road for my speculative story "Four Words" about a society sliding into silence. I'm delighted that it has found a home, with excellent company, in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social Read it here --> pitheadchapel.com/four-words/
January 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's been a long, weird road for my speculative story "Four Words" about a society sliding into silence. I'm delighted that it has found a home, with excellent company, in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social Read it here --> pitheadchapel.com/four-words/
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Happy New Year from Pithead Chapel! Kick off the year by reading incredible writing selected by Danielle Lazarin for the Larry Brown Short Story Award contest issue. Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/01/01/v...
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Volume 14, Issue 1
PHOTO PROVIDED BY TOM RANKIN THE 2024 LARRY BROWN SHORT STORY AWARD ISSUE AWARD WINNER: UNIDENTIFIABLE CELLS BY REEMA RAO SECOND PRIZE: AND ONLY I REMAIN BY MICHAEL PEARSON THIRD PRIZE: A TIME TO C…
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January 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Happy New Year from Pithead Chapel! Kick off the year by reading incredible writing selected by Danielle Lazarin for the Larry Brown Short Story Award contest issue. Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/01/01/v...
@reemarp.bsky.social @mbvalente.bsky.social
@reemarp.bsky.social @mbvalente.bsky.social
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We are excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions of the 2024 Larry Brown Short Story Award! Please join us in congratulating these incredible writers: @reemarp.bsky.social @mbvalente.bsky.social
You can read their stories in the forthcoming January issue!
You can read their stories in the forthcoming January issue!
December 14, 2024 at 6:17 PM
We are excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions of the 2024 Larry Brown Short Story Award! Please join us in congratulating these incredible writers: @reemarp.bsky.social @mbvalente.bsky.social
You can read their stories in the forthcoming January issue!
You can read their stories in the forthcoming January issue!
New flash story about alien mind games out from AntipodeanSF --> www.antisf.com/the-stories/...
December 13, 2024 at 9:32 AM
New flash story about alien mind games out from AntipodeanSF --> www.antisf.com/the-stories/...
Breaking into this hitherto unknown social medium with a story about a sad anarchist in the "punkest little shit" mag, JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social
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The Violet Ladder to Heaven
I read the whole Bible after she dumped me: Old and New Testament. Why the Bible? It’s probably not most people’s first choice of break-up read. But she’d been going on a lot about God and angels late...
jakethemag.com
May 7, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Breaking into this hitherto unknown social medium with a story about a sad anarchist in the "punkest little shit" mag, JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social
jakethemag.com/the-violet-l...
jakethemag.com/the-violet-l...