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books and lit mag.

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kevinmkearney.bsky.social
IT'S TRUE
April 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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popelizbet.bsky.social
I missed my #NationalPoetryMonth post yesterday to the #SkyPoets on #PoetSky but I think your make up post, given the fascism, is this piece i published in @rejectionlit.bsky.social in 2020. rejection-letters.com/2020/10/08/t...
There Must Be Blood (Elizabeth R. McClellan)
For Honest Lewis “There must be blood”—the unbreakable lawof revolutions and fairy tales.This I knew. We grow up knowing. The emperor was cleaning outthe granaries we had filled for winter,the burs…
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April 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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mmkaufman.bsky.social
I did it! @rejectionlit.bsky.social tattoo in the bag.
April 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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robbiemaakestad.bsky.social
Also, @kevinmkearney.bsky.social read from his new book FREELANCE from @rejectionlit.bsky.social, which you can pre-order here: asterismbooks.com/product/free...
April 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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robbiemaakestad.bsky.social
#AWP25 haul.
Books by:
@gracelp.bsky.social
@samuelashworth.bsky.social
@zoebossiere.bsky.social
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
@dtrobbins.bsky.social
@wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social
(among others)
April 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
rejectionlit.bsky.social
babe, wake up! @kevinmkearney.bsky.social's novel, FREELANCE, is available for pre-order!!!

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Freelance: A Novel | Asterism Books
Simon McNamara might only be 19, but he knows he’s destined for greatness. Sure, he barely finished high school. And, okay, he’s hopelessly in love with Angelica, an OnlyFans girl who constantly remin...
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April 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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popelizbet.bsky.social
a poem for days like these that @rejectionlit.bsky.social published years ago rejection-letters.com/2020/10/08/t...
There Must Be Blood (Elizabeth R. McClellan)
For Honest Lewis “There must be blood”—the unbreakable lawof revolutions and fairy tales.This I knew. We grow up knowing. The emperor was cleaning outthe granaries we had filled for winter,the burs…
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March 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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kevinmkearney.bsky.social
My second book arrives May 31 from @rejectionlit.bsky.social. It's a speculative noir about a rideshare driver in Philly. It's called FREELANCE.
Cover for the downright important, life-changing, and epoch-defining novel FREELANCE by Kevin M. Kearney
March 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
rejectionlit.bsky.social
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Kevin Kearney is officially joining the RL catalog with his second novel, FREELANCE, and lemme tell y’all… this shit is beyond fucking good!! Dropping 5/31/25!
March 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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dtrobbins.bsky.social
coming out of obscurity today to share my first straightforward attempt at horror and to say thank you to @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social and @femmeintheory.bsky.social for publishing this over at @poolpartymag.com.

hope y'all enjoy it.
poolpartymag.com Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · Feb 27
"Mommy’s neck lengthens like a Jack jumping out of the box. She bounces in Will’s face, screaming and laughing and screaming and laughing."

D.T. Robbins dropping some next level body horror in "Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore." 🌊🏋️‍♀️👶

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Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore by D.T. Robbins
The ultimatum that Will’s fiancé, Leslie, had given him wasn’t sincere, and he knew this. Really, it was more of a nudge, an encouragement to push past whatever the fuck it was which rendered him inca...
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February 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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femmeintheory.bsky.social
If you love horror like me, this one is a thing of nightmares 🫨
poolpartymag.com Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · Feb 27
"Mommy’s neck lengthens like a Jack jumping out of the box. She bounces in Will’s face, screaming and laughing and screaming and laughing."

D.T. Robbins dropping some next level body horror in "Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore." 🌊🏋️‍♀️👶

poolpartymag.com/like-a-tsuna...
Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore by D.T. Robbins
The ultimatum that Will’s fiancé, Leslie, had given him wasn’t sincere, and he knew this. Really, it was more of a nudge, an encouragement to push past whatever the fuck it was which rendered him inca...
poolpartymag.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
Nobody brings the big, beautiful, unruly, grotesque prose like D.T. Robbins. So stoked to publish his newest, "Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore," up today over at @poolpartymag.com 🔥
poolpartymag.com Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · Feb 27
"Mommy’s neck lengthens like a Jack jumping out of the box. She bounces in Will’s face, screaming and laughing and screaming and laughing."

D.T. Robbins dropping some next level body horror in "Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore." 🌊🏋️‍♀️👶

poolpartymag.com/like-a-tsuna...
Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore by D.T. Robbins
The ultimatum that Will’s fiancé, Leslie, had given him wasn’t sincere, and he knew this. Really, it was more of a nudge, an encouragement to push past whatever the fuck it was which rendered him inca...
poolpartymag.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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poolpartymag.com
"Mommy’s neck lengthens like a Jack jumping out of the box. She bounces in Will’s face, screaming and laughing and screaming and laughing."

D.T. Robbins dropping some next level body horror in "Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore." 🌊🏋️‍♀️👶

poolpartymag.com/like-a-tsuna...
Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore by D.T. Robbins
The ultimatum that Will’s fiancé, Leslie, had given him wasn’t sincere, and he knew this. Really, it was more of a nudge, an encouragement to push past whatever the fuck it was which rendered him inca...
poolpartymag.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
rejectionlit.bsky.social
like a rash you can't get rid of, back by no demand whatsoever: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LEAVE ME ALONE by D.T. Robbins.
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February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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srschulzwriting.bsky.social
Finished @emilylauracosta.bsky.social book GIRL on GIRL from @rejectionlit.bsky.social This press is building serious cred in my book. The stories are linked in a through vein of nostalgia, sadness, cynicism and a young persons idea of love.
February 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
Pool Party Mag is coming in hot with this total banger from everybody’s favorite story writer @emilylauracosta.bsky.social!!! Give it a read, then order GIRL ON GIRL from @rejectionlit.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥
poolpartymag.com Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · Feb 11
"The story is he killed one woman while wearing a pig’s head and then escaped capture. We weren’t even sure if pig’s head meant rubber mask or hollowed-out flesh." 🐷🔪

So stoked to launch Pool Party Mag w/ CRYPTID SUMMER by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social! So good!!🔥🌭🔥

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Cryptid Summer by Emily Costa
The Mystic Pigman is barely special. No clear eyewitness accounts, no police record. The story is he killed one woman while wearing a pig’s head and then escaped capture. We weren’t even sure if pig’s...
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February 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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femmeintheory.bsky.social
I am beyond proud to share our first publication!!! I fell in love with @emilylauracosta.bsky.social while reading GIRL ON GIRL (grab a copy via @rejectionlit.bsky.social!!) and am so thrilled to be able to break the Pool Party seal with such an epic piece 🔥
poolpartymag.com Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · Feb 11
"The story is he killed one woman while wearing a pig’s head and then escaped capture. We weren’t even sure if pig’s head meant rubber mask or hollowed-out flesh." 🐷🔪

So stoked to launch Pool Party Mag w/ CRYPTID SUMMER by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social! So good!!🔥🌭🔥

poolpartymag.com/cryptid-summ...
Cryptid Summer by Emily Costa
The Mystic Pigman is barely special. No clear eyewitness accounts, no police record. The story is he killed one woman while wearing a pig’s head and then escaped capture. We weren’t even sure if pig’s...
poolpartymag.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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popelizbet.bsky.social
i wrote a poem once upon a president and @rejectionlit.bsky.social gave it a home rejection-letters.com/2020/10/08/t...
February 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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ckcwrites.bsky.social
I feel absolutely honored to share some artistic space with Chris Terry in this latest piece on @rejectionlit.bsky.social. Check out some excellent fiction (and a cool photo by yours truly) here: rejection-letters.com/2025/02/03/f...
French Girl Chic (Chris L. Terry)
The perfect shoes were finally on sale. He ordered them while standing over his bathroom sink. In the time it took the shoes to arrive, a windowpane popped from a decaying frame, one cabinet knob d…
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February 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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chrislterry.bsky.social
New fiction about the three S's (shopping, spiraling, shirking) up @rejectionlit.bsky.social

Read FRENCH GIRL CHIC:
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French Girl Chic (Chris L. Terry)
The perfect shoes were finally on sale. He ordered them while standing over his bathroom sink. In the time it took the shoes to arrive, a windowpane popped from a decaying frame, one cabinet knob d…
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February 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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srschulzwriting.bsky.social
Really surprised and impressed with the structure of this story in Girl on Girl.Feels like it will be taught one day, the dichotomy and rising action of each character couple in opposition to each other and then finally at the end, synchronous

@emilylauracosta.bsky.social @rejectionlit.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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@rejectionlit.bsky.social

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A Collection of Losses (Laura Gill)
On Miami Beach, people look for lost items—they walk with metal detectors searching for rings, bracelets, and buckles. They move the device from one side to the next, down and back along the shore,…
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January 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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drobnik.co
“Friendship is a lifelong effort between two people who love each other deeply. It’s a lifelong effort between two people who hate each other a little, too.”

Finally got to read this beautiful, haunting story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @rejectionlit.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥
January 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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ewenglass.bsky.social
I have a new poem up if you’d like to read it. It’s pretty short!!!! Thanks to all @rejectionlit.bsky.social 🍑 💎

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I bit into a nectarine (Ewan Glass)
and the stone was a diamond. My front teeth shattered but now I was rich I could get new ones, better ones! This plunged  me into a thought crisis. How could they be better? Sharper? More dura…
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January 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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roblyates.bsky.social
Holiday break has set in well enough to start making the move over to bluesky after abandoning X. Here's a piece I had in @rejectionlit.bsky.social last year.
Worked (Rob Yates)
I realize that Frostis fine and that oneshouldn’t be a Kant,but I prefer Carmelitato getting blood on the tracks. A cigarette and a love poem is cliche, but half an Ambien and a bottle o…
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December 18, 2024 at 5:22 PM