formercactus

a hug from us to you in 60 tiny instances * * * our last issue: formercactus.wordpress.com/14-the-great-f…

@blakebutler Our condolences, Blake

My partner Molly Brodak passed away yesterday. I don’t know how else to tell it

@ahimaaz Spiritual fascism sounds like a Pynchon term that would make for an extensive literary exploration.

there's nothing called hinduism, yes, but there's the brahminist caste-hinduism though. you can also call it jati-hinduism or just plain casteism or spiritual fascism

Let's talk about money. Writers should always get paid. Also, we need to stop pretending like having one or three jobs isn't a hell of an obstacle in terms of time & energy. The starving writer thing isn't fun. It's okay to want to get paid and sleep well knowing rent is covered.

@decompmagazine Sad to see this tremendous mag go in cryosleep. On the other hand, we believe to understand the reasons behind this decision, having gone through the same ourselves. We wish the minds behind this project to soon find their best-fitting footing.

decomP is on hiatus until further notice. You are welcome to continue submitting work, but the timetable for responses is unknown. Thank you.

@CryptoNature @AgapeEditions Cacti with their perseverance and thriving despite arid conditions (and general human indifference toward their unflowerness) is Our definition of sacred.

Do you ever feel like a holy person in a religion that doesn't exist yet? My religion would have hymns about mitochondria and box turtles. We'd call curiosity sacred and form a community around simple gratitude for nature. How about you? Tell me about your version of sacred.

The end is such because it's unavoidable. Tomorrow or next year or (unlikely) next century--it's pulling you, teleologically, toward itself. Have you consciously accepted that yet? How has it changed your everyday life? Will it change it at all? #TuesdayThoughts?

@Ames236 The theme is Post-End. The end of what is left to the author to interpret, as is the angle from which to approach it--in a melancholic, regretful, liberating, or cathartic way. What does being "after" mean to you, awake in you, kill in you.

@Ames236 None. As we said, the issue is mostly for the folks who've been following us for all this time, even after we "stopped being", on Twitter. We accept flash (up to 1k words) and poetry. One work per sub per peep.

@hisRyanHighness Of course, we've never closed our doors on anybody, established or otherwise.

@formercactus Can those who were already published here in FC still submit?

2+ years since we had to unfortunately close down, we still receive submissions. It puts things into perspective. We're grateful, but saddened for not being able to fulfill such expectations.

Today I am grateful to @formercactus and @bestmicrofic for including me among such talented and beautiful work. What you’re all doing for the genre of micro fiction is truly remarkable.

Here's remembering you ⁦@formercactus⁩

So excited that my microfiction piece (nominated by @formercactus who were gracious enough to give it a home in the first place) will be in this anthology. I couldn’t be more honored to be among such talented writers in this growing genre. 💕

So grateful to have two poems in the final issue @formercactus They support art that is alive, beating heart.

My sweetie @SimonPinkerton had some hilarious stuff out in the world, and I loved this @formercactus story: formercactus.wordpress.com/2018/07/15/sim…

And @ErikFuhrer, whom I could never find on Twitter before now whilst adoring his work, had this killer piece in @formercactus: formercactus.wordpress.com/2018/03/15/a-c…

Muffin @CavinBGonzalez had this awesome piece in @formercactus: formercactus.wordpress.com/2018/07/15/cav…

Happy holidays to all our snow-adverse desert-bound cacti friends!