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CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION @cascadecascade.com · 18h

CASCADE CASCADE ISSUE 2 IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW! - All 24 articles from ISSUE 2 on CASCADECASCADE.com - A physical exclusive article from @rhysticstudies.bsky.social - a fun bonus or two. :) - 8 1/2"x11" magazine with THICC paper - $19.99 Read more: www.cascadecascade.com/cascade-casc...

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is this a safe space to say that I find the Kyle Gordon music parodies utterly repulsive? Just mean-spirited, unfunny, and categorically not a good time.

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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*ahem* 1,911 posts. 1,342 writers. 5 years. Issue #100 live now. Give your grandma her lucky number before she heads to the bingo hall, yes? www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

More ice cream experiments tonight. Made a batch of B&J's sweet cream base that was larger than expected (going for a cookies and cream vibe), and used the leftovers w/some orange juice for a creamsicle thing. Also trying maple syrup, and just straight frozen orange juice sorbet.

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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Have you ever read the opening lines of a story and wondered if you missed something? Like an entire chapter? Now imagine you're the narrator in that story, how you'd feel! Check out "Good Morning!" by Mark Ifanson and find out! Sunday!

ONCE MY EYES ADJUST TO THE LIGHT, I TRY TO MOVE MY LEGS, BUT CANNOT. LOOKING DOWN, I SEE THEY'RE BOUND BY TWINE. I'M WEARING BLUE JEANS AND A TATTERED PLAID SHIRT WITH THE CUFF BUTTONS MISSING. STRAW IS POKING OUT OF MY SLEEVES. I'M BAFFLED.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think I need to have a writing/critique/accountability group again. It's been a long time since I had that kind of structure around my work, but it might be nice.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Does DraftKings need a spokesperson in the literary community? Because I am a cash-poor author with low ethical standards and no soul.

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Melissa Flores Anderson @melissacuisine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Get me some heartache! Submissions are open and free over @brokenheartslit.bsky.social

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very glad to have started Stafford over Maye in Fantasy this week

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today is a great day to be a long term fan of both the Rams and the Angels lmaooo

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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sup? We're just out here doing hot girl shit. Issue 99 is live right now, so you should probably tell your childhood crush. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

First non self-pubbed thing I put out this year. Excited to be a part of issue 2 of this mag!

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Watermelon ice cream currently freezing. High effort, but damn, it's good

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

First non self-pubbed thing I put out this year. Excited to be a part of issue 2 of this mag!

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Feeling mentally and physically fried, so I'm doing the only sane thing and watching Sam Raimi's Spider Man 3

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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Heads up: JAKE's backend experienced a breach one of his contributors (thankfully) spotted this week. Almost 250 pieces were affected (had an LLM-sounding paragraph of advertising inserted). All should be fixed now, but if your piece is still messed up, email JAKE & he'll fix it.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Went to a restaurant I'm definitely not cleaned up enough for to eat dinner because I need a vegetable dammit

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just finished signing up to pay many bills at the new apt. Scheduled friends and family to help with the move in. And picked out a bunch of furniture. Big things happening, I guess. Life goes on.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's been about a week since my dad passed, and it definitely isn't feeling less strange yet. He really was the best I could have asked for, and I already miss him a lot

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Looks like the cat is officially out of the bag! I've joined the incredible team at @rfpress.bsky.social as their newest Reader/Editor! Excited to see these first couple pieces I've picked come out!

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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

AYO! Guess what day it is? We're going back to a simpler time. Tell the uncle who wears his flip phone in a belt holster. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Man, I am immensely disappointed by the new Strokes album. And I really like that band!

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Why the hell is Domino's sending me a push notification about a meal deal at 9:23p.m. on a Wednesday? It's almost like my fridge ratted me out for drinking a cider like 45 minutes ago.

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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It’s Christmas in July, people! “A Holiday Shopping Odyssey” by @johntures1.bsky.social re-re imagines the epic tale as a shopping trip gone awry, with several Michigan State “Spartans” failing to make it home after defeating the USC Trojans. Read it Sund-ee 7/26.

"BEATING THE TROJANS WAS
EASIER THAN PLANNING FOR THIS CRAZY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
EXCURSION," MUSED EUSTIS OUT LOUD, TO HIS FELLOW SPARTANS.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just got approved for an apartment LFG!

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We reached our first milestone already! Next benchmark is $3k. Thank you so so so much for all the donations and sharing of our fundraiser.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Getting this when I move bc this is so my brand of twee lmao.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I realized the other day that I missed the 10-year anniversary of my writing being published anywhere. But then I remembered that the reason I didn't repost it is because it was a comedy essay about looking forward to the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I love the way a good piece of criticism can make you rethink how you feel about a piece of art, even a little while after you finish it. Definitely softens my opinion on S5 of the show.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Been cracking up lately spinning "Rocking the Suburbs" on repeat. It's just so good lmao

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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Goooooooood morning! Guess who has an announcement? It's US. Are you tremendously excited? Can you simply not wait? Well, you're going to have to, because this was just an announcement letting you know we have an announcement. HAH!

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Pitched one to an editor and he said to send it over. Gonna need to give it one more pass first, but hopefully soon!

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase. ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

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Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

For some reason today feels like a day to listen to Neutral Milk Hotel while I'm writing

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Idk if this is a good thing or not, but I've been starting a lot of essay drafts lately with the working title of "Against __________." Maybe I'm just getting (more) crotchedy as I end my 20's.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You guys ever submit to lit maga moments before they close to feel like you're back in college?

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Also, I'm working on an essay about Hades II right now, but I can only work on it a couple hundred words at a time because the end of that game makes me too mad. Just put a small session in and now I probably won't sleep for another hour lol

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I don't want to spoil the surprise, but I just got access to help edit one of my favorite mags on the web today.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Red card this, red card that, this is the only red card you need

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

AND...with both of our editors in the same state (finally) your chances of a lightning-fast response are pretty good, if you submit TODAY.

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