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by Craig Stephens

Found in an elementary school parking lot walking my dogs.

Andrea Cohen, who else!

Game. Stress. Then rain.... Hope you'll find inspiration in @justin_karcher 's beautiful photograph! Send me your rain-themed micro-memoirs @FiveMinuteLit fiveminutelit.com/marathon

Insomnia by Zhiyong Jing

Mark your calendars. Thirty West is opening for book manuscripts on May 23 thirtywestph.com/submit

Read my new poem in @spectrapoets today or a bad May. spectrapoets.org/Factory-Psalm-…

Many thanks to the editors of @puertomag for including my poem All All #67 in their fantastic new print issue.

I have a new fiction in @pocketsmag today called “2007: The Summer the Smoking Ban Came into Place.” If, like me, you’re a bit confused about where the last (almost) two decades have gone then why not give it a read? 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 👻 🖤

“The first days after discovering the affair, Marcus whistled. Nothing recognizable. Just random, like wind through the cracks of an old barn. I want to say something snide, biting. FLIPPANT. I don’t.” Our EiC @jedwardkruft w/ new work at Fictive Dream fictivedream.com/2026/05/08/roa…

‘paul, three days after the last party’ by suze kay @suz_chef burialmagazine.neocities.org/paul

“And, you know, whoever even once in his life has caught a perch or seen thrushes migrate in the autumn, when on clear, cool days they sweep in flocks over the village, will never really be a townsman and to the day of his death will have a longing for the open.” —Anton Chekhov.

“The universe is an industrial sized dryer that we’re all tumbling around inside” really loved the wandering, wondering mind of this Sarah Mills piece havehashad.com/hadposts/all-o…

Our managing editor’s account was hacked a few weeks back and has evolved from crypto investment to BTS army. It’s fascinating in a sick way, our economy of scams. FYI, real L Mari is over at Bluesky.

"Figure Eight" from Overtakelessness by Daniel Moysaenko (@GraywolfPress)

You know when you write a story and you just feel really...happy with it? This is one of those. Infinite thanks to @kimmagowan for being so kind about my writing. I'm thrilled "Shadow Dancing" found a home with Pithead Chapel. pitheadchapel.com/shadow-dancing/

Tomorrow's front page photobomb

“Chihaya waits for a book to save her. It’s her childhood creation myth—that a book could be a savior.”

Caravaning to Red Rocks to see Bright Eyes. Time to sell a chapbook or two. $8 each. The Angel of Coincidence from Inkfish Press. All True Heavens from Alien Buddha Press and American Parade Routes from Seven Kitchens Press. $8 each or all 3 for $20 DM for paypal

Around 100 million years ago, several thrust plates pushed up out of an ancient sea and created the foundation of the Spring Mountains. That rupture lifted limestone from roughly 300 million years ago into the sky, forming what Dr. Steve Rowland from UNLV calls “a classic Monte Cristo formation.” The limestone on these sheer faces of Mummy Mountain is full of fossils from a world older than the dinosaurs. All of that limestone we hike across and climb on was made from the remains of marine creatures that lived so deep in old earth’s time that the mountains themselves had not yet been imagined.