Plott Hound Magazine
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Deeply animal, deeply human -- Plott Hound Magazine is an e-zine on the hunt for amazing animal stories 🦮🐾
We open for submissions from December 1st-15th!
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We open for submissions from December 1st-15th!
https://plotthoundmag.com/
Hey all, we're getting ready to open again for submissions.
We're looking for your flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essay pitches starting December 1st!
Check out our guidelines here: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
We're looking for your flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essay pitches starting December 1st!
Check out our guidelines here: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
Submission Guidelines – Plott Hound Magazine
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November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hey all, we're getting ready to open again for submissions.
We're looking for your flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essay pitches starting December 1st!
Check out our guidelines here: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
We're looking for your flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essay pitches starting December 1st!
Check out our guidelines here: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
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Cover reveal for Plott Hound Issue 3 (by @madbrake.bsky.social) ✨🍂
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Cover reveal for Plott Hound Issue 3 (by @madbrake.bsky.social) ✨🍂
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"At the Edge of the Tale" by @authortrsteele.bsky.social free to read online!
“You are either very wise,” said Twirl, “or very cruel.”
The unicorn’s long lashes swept over their cheek. “Why can I not be both?”
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“You are either very wise,” said Twirl, “or very cruel.”
The unicorn’s long lashes swept over their cheek. “Why can I not be both?”
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October 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
"At the Edge of the Tale" by @authortrsteele.bsky.social free to read online!
“You are either very wise,” said Twirl, “or very cruel.”
The unicorn’s long lashes swept over their cheek. “Why can I not be both?”
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“You are either very wise,” said Twirl, “or very cruel.”
The unicorn’s long lashes swept over their cheek. “Why can I not be both?”
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"Hound of Annwn" by @remedy.bsky.social free to read online!
"You want to press your snout into the wound, but have just enough man-sense left in your dog-mind to hold back and stay still, your ears tucked down low..."
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"You want to press your snout into the wound, but have just enough man-sense left in your dog-mind to hold back and stay still, your ears tucked down low..."
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October 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"Hound of Annwn" by @remedy.bsky.social free to read online!
"You want to press your snout into the wound, but have just enough man-sense left in your dog-mind to hold back and stay still, your ears tucked down low..."
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"You want to press your snout into the wound, but have just enough man-sense left in your dog-mind to hold back and stay still, your ears tucked down low..."
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Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
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Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
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October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
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Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
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All of the submissions from September should have heard back by now.
If you're still waiting, please check your spam filter, and if you still find nothing, please query.
We are happy to sniff about Moksha and figure out what's up.
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We are happy to sniff about Moksha and figure out what's up.
Submission Guidelines – Plott Hound Magazine
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October 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
All of the submissions from September should have heard back by now.
If you're still waiting, please check your spam filter, and if you still find nothing, please query.
We are happy to sniff about Moksha and figure out what's up.
If you're still waiting, please check your spam filter, and if you still find nothing, please query.
We are happy to sniff about Moksha and figure out what's up.
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"Mild Fish and Linen" by Veronica Mullin now free to read online!
"The name they had for him, or what passed for one, was a low tut and a breath through the nose, followed by a little rasp. It meant, as near as he could translate, 'Mild Fish and Linen.'"
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"The name they had for him, or what passed for one, was a low tut and a breath through the nose, followed by a little rasp. It meant, as near as he could translate, 'Mild Fish and Linen.'"
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October 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
"Mild Fish and Linen" by Veronica Mullin now free to read online!
"The name they had for him, or what passed for one, was a low tut and a breath through the nose, followed by a little rasp. It meant, as near as he could translate, 'Mild Fish and Linen.'"
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"The name they had for him, or what passed for one, was a low tut and a breath through the nose, followed by a little rasp. It meant, as near as he could translate, 'Mild Fish and Linen.'"
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"Flames Sprout Wings" by @cdgoodman.bsky.social free to read online!
"I saw. I know. Night grows hot. Egg cracks embers. Flames sprout wings and a phoenix hatches awake."
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"I saw. I know. Night grows hot. Egg cracks embers. Flames sprout wings and a phoenix hatches awake."
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October 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"Flames Sprout Wings" by @cdgoodman.bsky.social free to read online!
"I saw. I know. Night grows hot. Egg cracks embers. Flames sprout wings and a phoenix hatches awake."
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"I saw. I know. Night grows hot. Egg cracks embers. Flames sprout wings and a phoenix hatches awake."
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YOU DID IT! We are at $12,000 exactly!! REPRINTS REPRINTS!!
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OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!
A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
YOU DID IT! We are at $12,000 exactly!! REPRINTS REPRINTS!!
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"After a Wolf Swallowed the Sun" by @linardos.bsky.social free to read online!
"Man wanted the sun, and he’d have sucked it dry, turned it to tall towers of glass and more machines. So I swallowed it, to protect it from the Man.”
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"Man wanted the sun, and he’d have sucked it dry, turned it to tall towers of glass and more machines. So I swallowed it, to protect it from the Man.”
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October 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"After a Wolf Swallowed the Sun" by @linardos.bsky.social free to read online!
"Man wanted the sun, and he’d have sucked it dry, turned it to tall towers of glass and more machines. So I swallowed it, to protect it from the Man.”
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"Man wanted the sun, and he’d have sucked it dry, turned it to tall towers of glass and more machines. So I swallowed it, to protect it from the Man.”
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"In the Sea of Binary Stars" by @herlizardness.bsky.social free to read online!
"We are both shadows of each other, but we are also ebb and flow, binary stars forever circling, both shining just as bright."
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"We are both shadows of each other, but we are also ebb and flow, binary stars forever circling, both shining just as bright."
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October 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"In the Sea of Binary Stars" by @herlizardness.bsky.social free to read online!
"We are both shadows of each other, but we are also ebb and flow, binary stars forever circling, both shining just as bright."
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"We are both shadows of each other, but we are also ebb and flow, binary stars forever circling, both shining just as bright."
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"Your Birdsong Pleading" by @loragray.bsky.social now free to read online!
"So, why, sister, are you here, with your milky feathers, your downy breast, your songbird pleading for more time, more love, more sameness?"
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"So, why, sister, are you here, with your milky feathers, your downy breast, your songbird pleading for more time, more love, more sameness?"
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”Your Birdsong Pleading” by Lora Gray – Plott Hound Magazine
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October 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Your Birdsong Pleading" by @loragray.bsky.social now free to read online!
"So, why, sister, are you here, with your milky feathers, your downy breast, your songbird pleading for more time, more love, more sameness?"
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"So, why, sister, are you here, with your milky feathers, your downy breast, your songbird pleading for more time, more love, more sameness?"
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"Who is Wrong When They Are Hungry" by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social now free to read online!
"You step out of the skin around your legs and kick it off like you are a tree and it was bark you had to scrape off."
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"You step out of the skin around your legs and kick it off like you are a tree and it was bark you had to scrape off."
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October 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"Who is Wrong When They Are Hungry" by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social now free to read online!
"You step out of the skin around your legs and kick it off like you are a tree and it was bark you had to scrape off."
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"You step out of the skin around your legs and kick it off like you are a tree and it was bark you had to scrape off."
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"Animapod" by Kite Marsh now free to read online!
"Always together; always side by side. I thought sometimes it would be more pleasant to be Eight, or One, and have some privacy to one side at least."
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"Always together; always side by side. I thought sometimes it would be more pleasant to be Eight, or One, and have some privacy to one side at least."
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October 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Animapod" by Kite Marsh now free to read online!
"Always together; always side by side. I thought sometimes it would be more pleasant to be Eight, or One, and have some privacy to one side at least."
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"Always together; always side by side. I thought sometimes it would be more pleasant to be Eight, or One, and have some privacy to one side at least."
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"To Dream of Birdsong" by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social now free to read online!
"Ren dreams in her pyrobed for three years as the ship diverts its course, travels to the next destination. She has died six hundred and seventeen times."
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"Ren dreams in her pyrobed for three years as the ship diverts its course, travels to the next destination. She has died six hundred and seventeen times."
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October 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"To Dream of Birdsong" by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social now free to read online!
"Ren dreams in her pyrobed for three years as the ship diverts its course, travels to the next destination. She has died six hundred and seventeen times."
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"Ren dreams in her pyrobed for three years as the ship diverts its course, travels to the next destination. She has died six hundred and seventeen times."
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"When the Crow Sings" by Anna Madden is now free to read online!
"Her voice is a thundering, a wooing.
It grays into a many-beaked murder
eating the hearts of mortal man."
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"Her voice is a thundering, a wooing.
It grays into a many-beaked murder
eating the hearts of mortal man."
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“When the Crow Sings” by Anna Madden – Plott Hound Magazine
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September 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"When the Crow Sings" by Anna Madden is now free to read online!
"Her voice is a thundering, a wooing.
It grays into a many-beaked murder
eating the hearts of mortal man."
plotthoundmag.com/when-the-cro...
"Her voice is a thundering, a wooing.
It grays into a many-beaked murder
eating the hearts of mortal man."
plotthoundmag.com/when-the-cro...
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"Respect the Hustle" by @risawolf.bsky.social is now free to read online!
"It was a shamble type of eve, the moon bulging quiet and hush-hush up in the sky. I had a full pouch and none was buying, not even the raccoons tussling in the big cans."
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"It was a shamble type of eve, the moon bulging quiet and hush-hush up in the sky. I had a full pouch and none was buying, not even the raccoons tussling in the big cans."
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September 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"Respect the Hustle" by @risawolf.bsky.social is now free to read online!
"It was a shamble type of eve, the moon bulging quiet and hush-hush up in the sky. I had a full pouch and none was buying, not even the raccoons tussling in the big cans."
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"It was a shamble type of eve, the moon bulging quiet and hush-hush up in the sky. I had a full pouch and none was buying, not even the raccoons tussling in the big cans."
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"The Buffalo Woman" by Jacy Morris is now free to read online!
"Something was taking them. The rumors had been spread by her lover who had seen fields of the dead, their horns taken, their skins removed, their meat left to rot."
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"Something was taking them. The rumors had been spread by her lover who had seen fields of the dead, their horns taken, their skins removed, their meat left to rot."
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September 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"The Buffalo Woman" by Jacy Morris is now free to read online!
"Something was taking them. The rumors had been spread by her lover who had seen fields of the dead, their horns taken, their skins removed, their meat left to rot."
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"Something was taking them. The rumors had been spread by her lover who had seen fields of the dead, their horns taken, their skins removed, their meat left to rot."
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Plott Hound Magazine closes tomorrow night!
If you have a story, poem, essay pitch, or flash fic to send us, now's the time!
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If you have a story, poem, essay pitch, or flash fic to send us, now's the time!
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Moksha
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September 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Plott Hound Magazine closes tomorrow night!
If you have a story, poem, essay pitch, or flash fic to send us, now's the time!
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If you have a story, poem, essay pitch, or flash fic to send us, now's the time!
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"Cold Blood" by Kristy Ettel now free to read online!
"Where dusk frays into threads of night,
a serpent spills from fissured stone,
his body a gutter, ice-glimpse of blackness
like obsidian vine drunk on night’s wine-light."
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"Where dusk frays into threads of night,
a serpent spills from fissured stone,
his body a gutter, ice-glimpse of blackness
like obsidian vine drunk on night’s wine-light."
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“Cold Blood” by Kristy Ettel – Plott Hound Magazine
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September 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"Cold Blood" by Kristy Ettel now free to read online!
"Where dusk frays into threads of night,
a serpent spills from fissured stone,
his body a gutter, ice-glimpse of blackness
like obsidian vine drunk on night’s wine-light."
plotthoundmag.com/cold-blood-b...
"Where dusk frays into threads of night,
a serpent spills from fissured stone,
his body a gutter, ice-glimpse of blackness
like obsidian vine drunk on night’s wine-light."
plotthoundmag.com/cold-blood-b...
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"A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" by @srinivassimo.bsky.social now free to read online!
"They were not really calves, she knew—there was no calf-like innocence in those gleaming white eyes—but she did not know what else to call them."
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"They were not really calves, she knew—there was no calf-like innocence in those gleaming white eyes—but she did not know what else to call them."
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September 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" by @srinivassimo.bsky.social now free to read online!
"They were not really calves, she knew—there was no calf-like innocence in those gleaming white eyes—but she did not know what else to call them."
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"They were not really calves, she knew—there was no calf-like innocence in those gleaming white eyes—but she did not know what else to call them."
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"Fire & Flight" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social now free to read online!
"I know the song is at the part where speaks of lighting the fire—le feu. I know that part. If there’s one thing a dragon knows it’s fire."
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"I know the song is at the part where speaks of lighting the fire—le feu. I know that part. If there’s one thing a dragon knows it’s fire."
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September 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Fire & Flight" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social now free to read online!
"I know the song is at the part where speaks of lighting the fire—le feu. I know that part. If there’s one thing a dragon knows it’s fire."
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"I know the song is at the part where speaks of lighting the fire—le feu. I know that part. If there’s one thing a dragon knows it’s fire."
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The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Mainstream Science Fiction Short Stories feat. @castofwonders.org @trollbreathmag.bsky.social @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social @plotthoundmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Mainstream Science Fiction Short Stories feat. @castofwonders.org @trollbreathmag.bsky.social @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social @plotthoundmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/fee-free-mainstream-sf-short-stories-vhENoBJM
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September 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Mainstream Science Fiction Short Stories feat. @castofwonders.org @trollbreathmag.bsky.social @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social @plotthoundmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
Six more days to get your work off to Plott Hound Magazine (that's us!) for consideration.
We have a Moksha portal accepting short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and also pitches for non-fiction essays.
You got this!
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We have a Moksha portal accepting short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and also pitches for non-fiction essays.
You got this!
plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...
Moksha
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September 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Six more days to get your work off to Plott Hound Magazine (that's us!) for consideration.
We have a Moksha portal accepting short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and also pitches for non-fiction essays.
You got this!
plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...
We have a Moksha portal accepting short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and also pitches for non-fiction essays.
You got this!
plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...
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Plott Hound issue 2 is now live!
Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
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September 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Plott Hound issue 2 is now live!
Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
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Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
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