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the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · Oct 15
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So in January we're gonna do some awards.
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2026

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Best Small Fictions Nominations 2026 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine is thrilled to nominate the following for Best Small Fictions 2026:
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November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

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November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Sent Book Club members a sneak peek at the covers for Stanchion Books Spring 2026 lineup today! Join now and I'll send it to you, too!

Read all about the 12 books, 4 exclusive goodies, and 1 supportive community. I'd love to have you as a part of this.

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2026 Stanchion Book Club Membership | Stanchion
When you become a member of the 2026 Stanchion Book Club, you will receive all 12 of the physical books Stanchion will publish in 2026, including our first two novels. But this is just the start of wh...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Today's ISSUE 04 SPOTLIGHT is a lesson in compassion by @ivyintheroad.bsky.social

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A red-and-yellow toned image of a two-headed sheep standing in a field, against a backdrop of trees. The text reads: "[Fern] tells us during read-and-share that there was a fire in the bathroom and that her bird died. Smoke pressed against its chest feathers and its heart stopped beating and it went black and still." - Ivy Jones, Cream-and-Sugar ISSUE 04 BLEATINGTHINGMAGAZINE.COM
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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This is SO GOOD.
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

Our #spotlight is on Myfanwy Williams !

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November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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"Modified" bc it wasn't originally formatted for print---margins & fonts are a bit different.
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall - who is about to submit to @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social ?
Send us your poetry, send us your art, for the MIRROR issue!We're open until November 30!!
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A construction of angled mirrors with a a view of distant hills
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Twitter keeps putting warnings on these posts and i can only assume it's because the title's so awesome and they reeealy want me to know how much they love trans femme books. me too, guys, me too!
kithbooks.bsky.social kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 6d
FEMMEDOM GANGBANG EROTICA
by Esmeralda Quick

Dirty and funny and furious, these poems are viscerally feminine—blood wetted and hungry—in search of a promise they’ll ever be full.

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FEMMEDOM GANGBANG EROTICA poems by Esmeralda Quick cover image: A black and white x-ray of paperclips colourized so that the paperclips are pink, green, orange, black, and blue on a background of static pure violence it’s kind of a fuckass move to put a word like “solipsistic” or “anathema” in a poem then talk about “accessibility,” but i keep doing it. one of the biggest arguments i’m always having with myself is: are people generally intelligent and easily tricked, or are they idiots who do things on purpose. on one hand i think people should trust each other and, on the other hand, i never let my laptop leave my sight. sometimes it sleeps in my bed. watching instagram softcore porn in the back of the captain america screening inspired me to write a poem calling bullshit on how sex has different moral rules. i fucking hate how easily people seem to support whatever way the wind is blowing. the poem says that criminalizing queerness and sex work only concentrates violence, is just another way to condemn sex as inappropriate and sinful. to simplify my argument i’ll say i’m a trans woman, which makes me extra-scared to put my neck out like this, but god knows cis people won’t. topographic map of my thumb topographic map of my thumb, save me. we were never bisexual. we just said we liked back shots and lounged around playing with our nipple tattoos. we just read rimjob poems at the work christmas party then after fucked nasty in the boss’s wife’s walk in closet. but nasty in a safe, non-bisexual way. nasty in a quick and sensible liberal-faggots-fucking- in-their-boss’s-wife’s-closet way, with prep but also with condoms, no peri-libidinal naked frotting between our pack’n’play penises. squirt and blood and cum dried in the ridges of our fingerprints.
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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New #poetry #books from b l u s h, Nine Mile, Penguin Random House UK, Indiana University Press, Flood Editions, Milkweed Editions, Yale University Press, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, Circumference Books & World Poetry. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...
New Poetry Titles (11/18/25)
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/18 from b l u s h, Nine Mile, Penguin Random House UK, Indiana University Press, Flood Editions, Milkweed Editions, Yale University Press, Bloodaxe Books,...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Super chuffed to have this feminist piece nominated. Thanks @templeinacity.bsky.social 🙏🏾. And super chuffed to be in the company of such amazing writers including my love @kathrynreese.bsky.social and my bestie @nomad-sw18.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡
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Nominations nominations nominations with a corrected typo because we are having a very mercury retrograde day just like cloudflare
With apologies. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-...
Best of the net 2025 Sumitra Singam, Bird swallowers Rachel Rodman, He Always Lied, I Always Told the Truth. And Then We Fell in Hate Kathryn Reese, Post-vespers Pushcart Prize 2025 Cole Beauchamp, If Only Emily Rinkema, Lou June Gemmell, The Homecoming Kendra Cardin, A change in the recipe S.A. Greene, Brian Wilson is dead and why can't I stop crying? Dominic Walsh, Slice of life, in Absentia
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Street Cats & Where to Find Them: The Most Feline-Friendly Cities and Attractions Around the World
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November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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ghostlyverse.bsky.social
Determined to include a Hallowe'en piece in every WIP, I wrote "Hallowe’en Masquerade in New Orleans" for my horror WIP "Return of the Werewolf: Poems."
🩸 🐺 🪄 💀 Moral: beware of enchanted costume shops!

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Hallowe’en Masquerade in New Orleans - @ghostlyverse.bsky.social
This poem follows a tourist whose search for a costume unravels into something far stranger. Curiosity seeps into metamorphosis in this uncanny piece.

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TUESDAY TASTERS Reality was ripped to shreds by what Appeared: a werewolf get-up, fur so soft I dared to try it on. A perfect fit. "How much?" No one replied. What sort of game Is this? No matter how I tried, the pelt Adhered to me — became my second skin. Complaints were useless. Speech turned into howls. Hallowe’en Masquerade in New Orleans LindaAnn LoSchiavo Text is on a black background. Underbelly Press logo in the top right corner. In the background behind the poem is an image of an orange leaf.
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Affirmation is reality is dreaming is affirmation.

Read hannah rubin's poem "I Am" in RETAIL HELL 2: Retail Never Sleeps, issue no.7 from MIDLVLMAG

Out now at midlvlmag.com/hannah-rubin...
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

Our #spotlight is on Brennan Thomas !

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November 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM