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Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)
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November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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2nd tiny glass unicorn one of my BFA students has made for me. I don’t mind this becoming a tradition. 🥲

Really leveled things up with these pegasus wings. 🦄🪽
A hand holding the tiny glass figurine of a unicorn pegasus under a purple UV light. Bookshelf kitsch in background.
September 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Subs open until Dec 1 #SubmissionCall
Call for submissions! Who’s the King?: Men, Manhood, and Masc Anthology. Now accepting poetry, fiction, and visual art for print anthology! Send submissions to kingsanthology at gmail dot com
September 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Top text: The Firemen of Philadelphia are Giddy, Expressionless Dancers. A photo of a person with glasses and long hair. Bottom text: Stephen Brown is a writer-activist with a Philly attitude and a background in LGBT+ studies. He is the author of two multi-genre chapbooks, A Portrait of Brotherhood as Two Boys from Space (2025) and His Boyfriend Materials (2024), both of which are available from Bottlecap Press. Find him at: scarletwitchy.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Freshly printed poetry smells so good. 😤😤😤 @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social
A print literary magazine entitled Metachrosis featuring a painting of a girl squatting over a plate with a butter knife and a jar of jam. A glimpse of the inside of Metachrosis literary magazine, showing the title of a poem “Eulogy for an Old Man Who’s Still Alive” by Stephen Brown.
September 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Gladioli poppin offfff 👏
Three rust-colored garden planters with white and red gladioli.
July 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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My mom is babysitting this week while I’m at my writers’ residency. I suspect she’s being outsmarted.
A screenshot of a text exchange with a photo of the character Fox Face from Hunger games and a white husky puppy covered in mud.
July 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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A bright yellow tiger lily growing in front of a kitchen window.
July 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I say let it out, too 😤😭
Call for Submissions! Who's the King?: Men, Manhood, and Masc Anthology. Now accepting Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Visual Art for print anthology! A QR code leads to a PDF with more information.
July 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Putting together a new project! Masc Anthology. Please share around. 🤙😎 #poetry #writing #cnf #writingcommunity
A call for submissions to the Who's the King?: Men, Manhood, and Masc Anthology. Who's the king? How does being the king, or the expectation thereof, impact our mental and social well-being? Defining "king" broadly as someone who expresses themselves in a masculine way regardless of gender identity, Who's the King?: Men, Manhood, and Masc Anthology seeks to explore and express the interconnected challenges which now impact our public and private lives. Now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art. Submissions open from July 5th, 2025 to December 1st, 2025. Email submissions to kingsanthology at gmail dot com. Email Subject Example: Poetry Submission Submissions open for print anthology. Works of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art are welcome. Poetry: Up to 5 pieces. Prose: Up to 5k words. Visual Art: Show me what you got. Formatting: Be reasonable. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please let me know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Previously published work may be considered if author retains the rights, but please include acknowledgements. No Al-generated work. I cannot compensate contributors at this stage. Now accepting Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Visual Art for print anthology. About the Editor. Find him at scarletwitchy.bsky.social. Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) is a writer-activist with a Philly attitude and a background in LGBT+ studies. He is dedicated to the belief that art shapes ideology and that education is crucial for achieving social justice and social mobility. Former Managing Editor and Fiction Editor of Rathalla Review, Stephen's poetry and prose have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, mostly queer ones. He is the author of two multi-genre chapbooks, A Portrait of Brotherhood as Two Boys from Space (2025) and His Boyfriend Materials (2024), both of which are available from Bottlecap Press.
July 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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he love air conditioner
A red and white husky splayed out on a yellow bedspread. He is smiling in his sleep.
July 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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A code to add a trainer as a friend on Pokemon Go: 2337 2813 6477
June 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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A code to add a trainer as a friend on Pokemon Go: 2337 2813 6477
June 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Was gifted random assortment bulbs that didn’t get to bloom before my place burned down, and it’s taken them a year to establish themselves again after re-planting them. But finally starting to find out what color they are!

Hello, white tiger lily. 🙇🏼‍♀️
A white tiger lily with multiple blooms. A smiling white husky puppy watched out-of-focus in the background.
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Six years ago, my tabletop group commissioned @illustro-obscurum.bsky.social to recreate my character for posterity. Meet the beautiful and powerful Merfistya. #dnd #oc #ocsky
A chimera-like creature with the spurred head of a lion fish, vampire fangs, human breasts, the arms of a human skeleton, and the furred legs and tail of a werewolf.
June 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A screenshot from The Simpsons cartoon. Various business-people sit around a boardroom table under dim, ominous lighting. A man in a suit faces away from the others. He is look at a downward trending graph.
June 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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🌽 Now available for preorder! 🚀
A chapbook cover depicting a can of corn fashioned to look like a rocket ship flying through outer space. Top text: A Portrait of Brotherhood as Two Boys From Space. Bottom Text: Stephen Yuffrida Brown. Black text on an orange background. Top text: from "A Portrait of Brotherhood as Two Boys from Space." Bottom text: I've never seen a flower, but I've seen a picture of some corn stalks on a can, and rather than cling to consciousness and experience our descent to Planet Earth, I cling to the pale greenness of those sharp cornstalk leaves in the hopes they might resemble petals.
June 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Local dog shows his pride.
A brown husky wearing a costume that looks like a rainbow coming out of glittery white clouds. The husky does not look amused.
June 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Cursed millennial dog training. She responds right away to: “Where you been, Loca?”
A white and cream-colored husky puppy with large yellow eyes and a big pink nose. Her nose very close to the camera, making it appear comedically larger.
May 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Shampooed the livingroom rug yesterday only to have this dumby eat a leaf outside and puke all over it. Freshly shampooed rug, take 2. 🎬
A red Siberian husky with one green eye and one blue eye. He is lying down on a distressed Monaco area rug. The shot is a close-up of his face. He looks guilty.
May 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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😛💁🏼‍♀️
An adult brown husky with one green eye and one blue and a white husky puppy with yellow eyes. They are smiling and prancing around in the grass.
April 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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“My name is Misty. I’m an American cat living with two huskies and this… is my story…”
A tortoiseshell cat sitting in a pile of husky fur sheddings, framed by broom and dustpan. The cat’s name tag says Misty.
April 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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my piece "A Playful Ode to Bad Cock" from this summer's issue of Fruitslice 🍊
Two pages of a literary magazine. On the first page, white text on a dark gray background reads: A Playful Ode to Bad Cock by Stephen Brown. Dicks need to look more like how things are inside; little dicks for little guys who try to keep me small, bigger dicks for bigger men, big enough to move the fuck out of my way, and a satisfying curve—we know the one—for those who, when life gets real, pitch their tent and stay. I'll open a DM from some dude I've never met, and instead of dick pics I didn't ask for, there shall dangle some grotesque experiment. A curiosity, a corkscrew cock with sleep crust in its eye, so a cursory glance will serve to know this man'd, for sure, fuck up my life—fuck up my family tree—something serpentine, or spurred, so when I see it, I'll know exactly what's in store for me. Dicks need to look more like how things are inside, so the next man who expects me to make him cum, will come, himself, correct. ‘Cause we'll both know I'll see the future on that dick the moment it's erect. On the second page, a collage by Claudio Parantela depicts five serrated kitchen knives floating over a person's legs, as if the knives are running toward the poem.
April 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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It’s springtime for gays in South Philly. 🚬🌼 🤗 No presh, daffodil, but my sanity hinges on you.
A cow-shaped water can held over a brightly colored planter with a small sproutling growing in it. A brown husky smelling a newly bloomed daffodil surrounded by smaller sprouts.
April 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Sundae protecting her loot. 😤
A white husky puppy in a veterinary cone sitting on top of a pile of plushie toys.
March 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM