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A magazine of fiction, poetry, & nameless things around and in-between. // alwayscrashing.com // alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"All of this is shown on-screen in detail." Harrison F. Dietzman's meditation on media, suburbia, and desire, "Game of Single Family Homes" / New today at AC
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HARRISON F. DIETZMAN / GAME OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES — always crashing
Episode 1 The single-family homes in neat subdivisions are built by various contractors under the auspices of Willcuts Company Realtors, a company owned and operated by the Willcuts family. Once comp...
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 18h
Have learned that we are apparently on a "Best Kept Secrets" starter pack and y'all you really should not be keeping that secret
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Evening re-up!
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"All of this is shown on-screen in detail." Harrison F. Dietzman's meditation on media, suburbia, and desire, "Game of Single Family Homes" / New today at AC
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HARRISON F. DIETZMAN / GAME OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES — always crashing
Episode 1 The single-family homes in neat subdivisions are built by various contractors under the auspices of Willcuts Company Realtors, a company owned and operated by the Willcuts family. Once comp...
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Have you considered that there might be a good reason that those babies are being tossed into the water?" "Dilemma Tales" by Matthew E. Henry (MEH) (@mehpoeting.bsky.social) // New today at Always Crashing
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MATTHEW E. HENRY (MEH) / DILEMMA TALES — always crashing
An old man had three boys who grew into men. When he was too old to provide for himself, he sent them out to bring him food and clothing. After the brothers traveled a very long distance, they arrived...
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Updating our submissions page... www.alwayscrashing.com/submissions
We remain open to newsletter submissions from or about former Always Crashing contributors: interviews, book reviews, playlists, recipes, literary news reports—anything that doesn’t quite fit in the journal. David Markson (allegedly) referred to innovative literature as the "research and development wing of culture." Our only rule is that you keep it interesting. Send pitches or completed submissions to editors@alwayscrashing.com with the subject line “NEWSLETTER SUBMISSION.” Newsletter submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be deleted unread.
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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New creative nonfiction piece published in @alwayscrashing.bsky.social
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
OH WAIT THAT'S TODAY
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Have you considered that there might be a good reason that those babies are being tossed into the water?" "Dilemma Tales" by Matthew E. Henry (MEH) (@mehpoeting.bsky.social) // New today at Always Crashing
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MATTHEW E. HENRY (MEH) / DILEMMA TALES — always crashing
An old man had three boys who grew into men. When he was too old to provide for himself, he sent them out to bring him food and clothing. After the brothers traveled a very long distance, they arrived...
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Open for submissions through Sept 15 OH HEY WAIT THAT'S TOMORROW
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Open for submissions through Sept 15 OH HEY WAIT THAT'S TOMORROW
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
thanks Elastic Arts thanks @maudlinhouse.bsky.social thanks @alwayscrashing.bsky.social thanks Long Day Press thanks Printers Row Lit Fest
Joshua Bohnsack, Scott Laudati, me, Meghan Lamb, Mallory SmartJoshua Bohnsack, Scott Laudati, me, Meghan Lamb, Mallory SmartJessica Anne, Emily Capers, Kathleen Rooney, Joshua Bohnsack, Aug Stone, Robert Kloss, Scott Laudati, me, Meghan Lamb, Mallory Smart, Téa Jones-Yelvington
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Honestly feel like more awards should recognize our commitment to the bit
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Prepping our Best of the Net nominations
J I Daniels / Written
followed by a lot of code
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tonight! ~see you there~
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Mr. Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Recent article for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social that came out rather well. The first event is tonight, hosted by @neonpajamas.bsky.social at The Whistler. Second event tomorrow night, hosted by @mallorysmart.bsky.social of @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2026/09/...
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Event: Beyond Dearborn—Building an Offsite Lit Community During Printers Row Lit Fest | Third Coast Review
For years, the Printers Row Lit Fest has made a temporary home of South Dearborn Street, snugly tucked between Polk and Ida B. Wells. Local writer and publisher Mallory Smart wants […]
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tomorrow! 7pm @ The Whistler
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tomorrow! 7pm @ The Whistler
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
THIS FRIDAY! This reading is going to be mayhem (complimentary)
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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm reading poems at the Whistler baby Come with me Friday, don't say maybe I'm just a teenage dirt bag baby like you
Printers Row Lit Fest Offsite Reading Marathon, Friday, September 11 at The Whistler (2421 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Doors at 6p, readings from 6:15p-8:00p)
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hey Chicago friends ~ this Friday join us (and a murder of other Chicago indie presses) at the Whistler for a Printers Row Offsite hosted by the indefatigable @neonpajamas.bsky.social:
Printers Row Lit Fest Offsite Reading Marathon, Friday, September 11 at The Whistler (2421 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Doors at 6p, readings from 6:15p-8:00p)
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Happy Robot Birthday to all who celebrate
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Daft Punk - Instant Crush (Official Video) ft. Julian Casablancas
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
...and on Saturday join AC / @maudlinhouse.bsky.social / Long Day Press for Devils in the White City: Readings and Performances at Elastic Arts!
Saturday, September 12 at Elastic Arts (3429 W. Diversey Ave. #208), Doors at 7p, Readings at 8p
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hey Chicago friends ~ this Friday join us (and a murder of other Chicago indie presses) at the Whistler for a Printers Row Offsite hosted by the indefatigable @neonpajamas.bsky.social:
Printers Row Lit Fest Offsite Reading Marathon, Friday, September 11 at The Whistler (2421 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Doors at 6p, readings from 6:15p-8:00p)
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
my book is out next month! if you grab a copy, let me know, and I'll write you a personalized poem www.gasherpress.com/product-page...
"Made death new to me." - Hedgie Choi

book cover of Uncle Time by Benjamin Niespodziany, 2025 poetry chapbook prize winner

out on October 15, 2026 with Gasher Press
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kristin @klooky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
love to be part of the always crashing to ghost harmonics pipeline
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today's email edition features--in addition to new work by Adam McOmber and updates on @veryrealbatman.bsky.social, @klooky.bsky.social, Mike Corrao, Erik Tyler Benick, and @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social--a report on free jazz from Grant Maierhofer:
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“Full, Masculine Lips”
featuring increasing clowns, library hustles, coiled serpents, surprisingly large hands, and a report on Free Jazz from Grant Maierhofer
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"The world makes its own demons, you know? Every temple is a diagram of the powers permitted to enter it." New today at AC: Thrilled to have Adam McOmber return with the short, incantatory "The Property Brothers Are Dating"
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ADAM MCOMBER / THE PROPERTY BROTHERS ARE DATING — always crashing
I saw them at a restaurant in Topanga Canyon. It was a nice Italian place, white tablecloths and candles. They held hands across the table, Drew and Jonathan. They have surprisingly large hands. At th...
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"The world makes its own demons, you know? Every temple is a diagram of the powers permitted to enter it." New today at AC: Thrilled to have Adam McOmber return with the short, incantatory "The Property Brothers Are Dating"
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ADAM MCOMBER / THE PROPERTY BROTHERS ARE DATING — always crashing
I saw them at a restaurant in Topanga Canyon. It was a nice Italian place, white tablecloths and candles. They held hands across the table, Drew and Jonathan. They have surprisingly large hands. At th...
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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
On a personal note, I'd like to publish at least a ~couple~ more people from the general Durham NC area so I can have an excuse to put together a reading down here I mean, why should Chicago get all the fun?
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"The name of Jakob would not stretch far enough to cover them both, and yet there was no other that either could use." New work at the site tomorrow / which means today's an excellent day to dive back into @raviddice.bsky.social's infinity pool of a story "Jakob As Father," up now
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DAVID LEO RICE / JAKOB AS FATHER — always crashing
The name of Jakob would not stretch far enough to cover them both, and yet there was no other that either could use. Whether this doubled or halved the power the name carried with it was what remained...
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The Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Today we are featuring James Tadd Adcox and his fiction piece "The Ascent" from our Summer 2026 Issue OUT NOW! Read the rest of his story and our Issue on our website, linked in bio!
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Michael Younger @makizdat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Open for submissions until 15 Sept / Send us your clusterfucks, your endless mazes, the pieces that are too strange and beautiful for anyone else We will love them
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 25/08/2026
dolly parton taught me it's ok to be hot and know how to read
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Making it a goal to have our Printers Row offsite readings officially sponsored by the fest next year Until then: hype for both of these this year
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"He enters this terrain so fully that he requires no avatar to inhabit it. He and it are one. I am my son, he thinks." From David Leo Rice (@raviddice.bsky.social), the spiraling, absorbing, redoubling "Jakob as Father" New today at Always Crashing:
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DAVID LEO RICE / JAKOB AS FATHER — always crashing
The name of Jakob would not stretch far enough to cover them both, and yet there was no other that either could use. Whether this doubled or halved the power the name carried with it was what remained...
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Now at AC // www.alwayscrashing.com/current
Tobin reaches into the darkness beneath him to pull out a second trotter and hands it, dripping blood and sinew, over to Jakob, who knows now that he’ll never reenter the house in which his family and his life as a man in a small town, an artist at some remove from the city who, like so many others, spent his ten or twenty years there doing his best, climbing as high as he could before the vertigo forced him to beg for mercy, either is or is not preparing to go on without him. The house where the figures of his wife and son would have turned out to be live people or dolls or dead bodies is, all at once, far behind him, or off to the side, a tertiary exhibit never to be explored, or to be explored by someone else, the next Jakob to come along, so much earlier in the journey that this Jakob now senses is nearing its end.
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Tobin reaches into the darkness beneath him to pull out a second trotter and hands it, dripping blood and sinew, over to Jakob, who knows now that he’ll never reenter the house in which his family and his life as a man in a small town, an artist at some remove from the city who, like so many others, spent his ten or twenty years there doing his best, climbing as high as he could before the vertigo forced him to beg for mercy, either is or is not preparing to go on without him. The house where the figures of his wife and son would have turned out to be live people or dolls or dead bodies is, all at once, far behind him, or off to the side, a tertiary exhibit never to be explored, or to be explored by someone else, the next Jakob to come along, so much earlier in the journey that this Jakob now senses is nearing its end.
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"He enters this terrain so fully that he requires no avatar to inhabit it. He and it are one. I am my son, he thinks." From David Leo Rice (@raviddice.bsky.social), the spiraling, absorbing, redoubling "Jakob as Father" New today at Always Crashing:
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DAVID LEO RICE / JAKOB AS FATHER — always crashing
The name of Jakob would not stretch far enough to cover them both, and yet there was no other that either could use. Whether this doubled or halved the power the name carried with it was what remained...
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Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Printers Row was way too much fun last year, so obviously we’re doing it again. Ben kicks things off Friday with a marathon reading at The Whistler again, then Saturday we’re at Elastic Arts, with Always Crashing + Long Day Press joining the chaos. Can’t fucking wait…🖤
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Chicago: We'll be at Printers Row with an absolutely *stacked* list of readers & presses!
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Always Crashing is open for submissions until Sept 15 After Sept 15, any submissions will be forwarded directly into the sun You have been warned
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Considering BotN nominations, and damn, our archive is absolutely stacked www.alwayscrashing.com/archive
screenshot of https://www.alwayscrashing.com/archive
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Sarp Sozdinler @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Stoked to feature in the new issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social with a new story. It would mean a lot to me if you could give it a read. Big thanks to dearest Diana (@dehardy.bsky.social) for giving my story such a wonderful home.
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"We go slow with our fingers, until there is so little space between us and them that the only thing left is their death." New today at AC: "How We Eat Them Is with Our Tongue," a beautifully visceral or viscerally beautiful work by Niles Baldwin you won't want to miss & will dream about afterwards
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NILES BALDWIN / HOW WE EAT THEM IS WITH OUR TONGUE — always crashing
We kill whatever bugs love our lamplight the most. We go slow with our fingers, until there is so little space between us and them that the only thing left is their death. We move so slowly that even ...
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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is based on truth (my baby gnawing his feet) and I consider it Creative Nonfiction.
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"We go slow with our fingers, until there is so little space between us and them that the only thing left is their death." New today at AC: "How We Eat Them Is with Our Tongue," a beautifully visceral or viscerally beautiful work by Niles Baldwin you won't want to miss & will dream about afterwards
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NILES BALDWIN / HOW WE EAT THEM IS WITH OUR TONGUE — always crashing
We kill whatever bugs love our lamplight the most. We go slow with our fingers, until there is so little space between us and them that the only thing left is their death. We move so slowly that even ...
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
DEVILS IN THE WHITE CITY: a Printers Row offsite featuring Always Crashing with @maudlinhouse.bsky.social & Long Day Press Sept 12, 7pm / 3429 W. Diversey #208
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Maudlin House, Long Day Press, and Always Crashing present: Devils in the White City, a Printers Row Offsite — Elastic Arts Foundation
Join us for a multi-genre Printers Row offsite event featuring performances from Casts , Norman W. Long , and Akjai , and readings from local small press authors, including Kathleen Rooney , Téa ...
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