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Steve C
@stevexisxok.bsky.social
Fiction Editor: @okaydonkeymag.com
Co-person: @litmatchcollective.com
https://stevehasawebsite.com/
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this is insane lmao
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Want to learn more about landing a funded residency?

This Sunday is our Residency Chat! So bring ALL your questions.

In the meantime, check out www.pineywoodatlas.com
A great resource for emerging & unconventional residencies.
(All free, cheap, or will PAY you to go)
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
daydreaming about getting a beautiful bouquet of these for Valentine's... 🥲 i am a simple man
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Yessss we are ALL now CHANG
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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We've never been so proud to be misaligned! Your support keeps us doing the thing this administration sees as a threat and a disruption.
We could do this forever. Stay the course with us by making a tax deductible donation at the link in our bio! 🔥
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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c’mon okay donkey!! 🫏
It’s back 😏

Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️

www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Breaking news: 83% of KISS KRUISE attendees are weirdly defensive no eye contact antisocial dorks. Love that they are true to themselves ⚡🧡
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Lesson 2 of 4 is live: On Situation vs Story pt. 2

How to:
- humanize character vs types
- generate consequences to make incidents matter
- break free from writing synecdoche for routine and 'activate' your narrative

(LMC members get 1 free month of FW)
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke

history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This Sunday! In our Discord server!
Want to break hearts while landing zingers like “adorkable but hotkward?”

On Nov 16 at 8PM ET, chat and get craft-y with award-winning author @1demerith.bsky.social & @epochliterary.com editor @jrobertlennon.com about Meredith’s fizzingly witty, disarmingly tender short story “The Best Man.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If a Canadian team ever won the World Series, Canada should get to keep baseball.
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Have you ever wondered how...
• a literary magazine is run?
• decisions are made on submissions?
• to improve your chances of getting published by an established literary magazine?

Ask our editors (almost) anything by 11/30: forms.gle/NiBR9KQG2PHZ...

Answers coming in our January newsletter! 🫏
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Been feeling out the world of flash? There's no better guide🔥
Hey friends, become an ANNUAL subscriber & get a spot in an EXCLUSIVE 90-minute flash workshop ($60 value) & my undying gratitude. Details below: ...https://open.substack.com/pub/artofflashfiction/p/fragmentary-flash-beauty-from-the?r=4e5y2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Fragmentary Flash: Beauty from The Broken
Photo by Riho Kitagawa on Unsplash
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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And when the medium is prose to build the fictive dream: what does it mean to hammer too hard and splinter it?
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Okay Donkey is looking for a Social Media Associate focused on graphic design! This role pays a small honorarium (read: "independent lit mag"-sized). Apply with our super short form by Friday, November 14 for first consideration.

More details: forms.gle/E9MCaKzEAE1x...
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Don’t forget! Sunday, Nov 16, we’re diving into craft with Freund Prize winner and @lambdaliterary.org finalist @1demerith.bsky.social and EPOCH editor @jrobertlennon.com 🔥

Pre-game by reading “The Best Man” in @epochliterary.com or this scorcher in @therumpus.net:

therumpus.net/2022/06/13/r...
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Welcome to the editing workshop by Editor @stevexisxok.bsky.social!

On identifying common problems and solving them.

Featuring pre- and post-revision versions of work from @okaydonkeymag.com

First up: BSF winner "1000" by @robroensch.bsky.social

www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/editor-ins...
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
So many people invited to Dick Cheney's housewarming party🤞Gonna be packed soon
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Love this haunting piece so much.

For fans of Junji Ito, Charles Burns, and doubling down.
"I start drawing the spiral on the back of my hand in crusty ballpoint pen, refreshing it whenever it fades, so when the aliens come back they'll know right away who to trust."

"Spirals" by @narwhallington.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
Spirals by Natalie Wallington
I am nine when I see the lights in the sky. I crow to Mom from the back seat that there’s a triangle over the field, moving away from us. She says she needs to keep her eyes on the road, but …
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November 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Laurie Anderson
November 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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And in November, Editor @stevexisxok.bsky.social will be teaching a course at The Forever Workshop on different story types and revising for common challenges they present.

w/ pre- and post-revision versions of 4 pieces from @okaydonkeymag.com

www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/how-to-com...
How to Complete a Professional Self-Edit
Revise like an editor & up your submissions game with our November workshop
www.theforeverworkshop.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Stoked to be headed to @massmoca.bsky.social 🔥Grateful for the generosity and looking forward to creative community

www.massmocastudios.news/studios-news...
Welcome October Artists-in-Residence! — Studios at MASS MoCA
This month we welcome a new cohort to the Studios at MASS MoCA.
www.massmocastudios.news
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Our plans for November are here!

🔥$15 Basic memberships!
🔥Chats with residency directors & @1demerith.bsky.social!
🔥A monthlong Write-More challenge led by @okaydonkeymag.com associate fiction editor @heidimarjamaki.bsky.social!

And more👇
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November Plans!
Q&As w/Residency Directors & Meredith Talusan, $15 membership, monthlong Write-More challenge, and more!
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October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Want more chills? Here's another haunted fave by @abigailoswald.bsky.social

You'll love what it does with doppelgangers & disappearing

(Even if you don't believe, like I do, that the screen is a mirror from beyond which The Nether beckons)
#commonsense

ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/you-are-st...
You Are Still Allowed Your Dreams by Abigail Oswald
"I was fourteen when I found my doppelganger on the internet... Here was a picture I did not remember taking, in a posture I had never assumed, wearing clothes I had never owned..."
ashortstorylong.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM