brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Gerty the Great seems too kind a name for nausea. Miranda Jensen tries to write an uninvited companion into the margins.briefincorrect.substack.comA Writer’s StomachBy Miranda Jensen // An Intrusion received at 9:17 am EDT 010
Reposted by brief + incorrectTadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And honored to learned that "A Movie," one of the first pieces published at @briefincorrect.bsky.social, has been nominated for a Best of the Net: 131
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The fox may have cracked the code. The squirrels dispute it. The owls would like a grant. Word is getting around, although no one has established which word. New work by mryoungbriefincorrect.substack.comWord Got AroundBy mryoung 120
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ndukwe goes to midnight service planning to steal the speakers. The pastor tries to push him down in prayer. Neither intends to give way. New fiction by Ekenedirichukwubriefincorrect.substack.comSpeakersBy Ekenedirichukwu 000
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026brief + incorrect is booked through January and publishing M/W/F. Submissions are paused while I catch up; I plan to reopen in December or January. I’m also editing NO-WIN, with hopes of finishing it by late January. Thanks for making all of this possible.briefincorrect.substack.comAn Editor’s Interruption: A Good Problem to HaveBooked through January, catching up with myself, and grateful for the company 111
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“They pose in family photos, passed down through generations.” Something is wrong with the children. Susan R. Morritt gives us the troubling possibility that the family photograph knows more than the family does.briefincorrect.substack.comDirty Little SecretsBy Susan R. Morritt 110
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Existential accessories. Search party favors. A snow globe from Novo Nordisk. Son House’s Holy Bible. A horseshoe crab automaton. Dr. T. J. Eckleburg’s medical diploma. Malvolio has come up for an express purpose.briefincorrect.substack.comDas Kabinett; or, Pulverized by This Latest ThingBy Evan D. Williams // A Found Object relayed at 2:53 pm EST 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 25/09/2026T-Rex can hold the taco. He cannot eat the taco. The algorithm sees potential.briefincorrect.substack.comTaco Tuesday T-RexBy Jennifer Weigel 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Amber sells flood insurance. Every year, the tide enters her home. This time, only six inches remain between the water and the ceiling when someone knocks on the door.briefincorrect.substack.comThe Tide That TakesBy M. J. Rose 120
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A soldier threw a letter to his wife into the English Channel. He died two days later. Eighty-five years passed before a fisherman found the bottle and carried the letter to the same address, where the soldier’s daughter still lived.briefincorrect.substack.comA Soldier Slipped Two Messages into a Ginger Beer BottleBy Kate LaDew 020
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A child searches the keychain rack for her name while ordinary girls hold proof that they have been seen. Years later, the sound of those metal names remains tangled with the jangle of a belt buckle.briefincorrect.substack.comKeychainsBy Ansley Haines // After Hours released at 11:00 pm EDT 000
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hallucination or ghost, fictional creation or creator, Perdue leaves Zlotchew with a profoundly disturbing possibility: perhaps writers do not invent their characters. Perhaps the characters invent them. And then there is the brown leather-bound book dated 1835.briefincorrect.substack.comDead Man TalkingBy Clark Zlotchew 020
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A rusty nail, a dead horse’s stolen bones, the Bell Witch, Waterloo, poisonous wallpaper, Oscar Wilde, syphilis, Baudelaire. One fact develops complications.briefincorrect.substack.comNailedBy Holly Woodward 120
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Circles of language with no particular interest in letting you out.briefincorrect.substack.comPentagramsBy Richard Kostelanetz 000
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A funeral director. A handsome widower. A dead wife who won’t keep quiet.briefincorrect.substack.comPeachesBy Jennifer Lorne 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Brendan Clancy is reading about time. His audience is leaving in dribs and drabs. The narrator is disgusted by their impatience. Then Clancy announces a second reading. The audacity of the man.briefincorrect.substack.comReadingsby Mark Keane 120
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 06/09/2026During lunch, an android criticizes a man’s eating habits. The man responds by reconsidering the proper role of AI in his life and writing.briefincorrect.substack.comAI and MeBy Jeffrey Zable // A Found Object relayed at 10:47 am EDT 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Dyuti and Indra disagree. Then the night, the bed, a reader, the words, a poet, the story, its title, time, the narrator, and the author all weigh in.briefincorrect.substack.comCome, Let’s ReadBy Suryendu Chaudhury 120
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 02/09/2026She wore the aqua dress because it circled her waist just right and made her red hair pop. All day at school, she leaned forward, smiling, hand raised, dying to be noticed. At home, she discovered that she had been.briefincorrect.substack.comBloodstainBy Marie Cloutier 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 31/08/2026John Lennon is dead. Dad is angry about Baxter at The Christian Book Emporium, Mum is flicking crumbs, and the cream of mushroom soup has been made with the “phoniness of milk instead of forthright water.”briefincorrect.substack.comJohn Lennon is Dead, and Dad is Home For LunchBy Karen Walker 120
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 30/08/2026E. G. Pearman turns class resentment into a banquet: the rich eat our attention, sweat, blood, and waking hours. Eventually, someone gets hungry enough to return the favor. Grotesque, funny, furious.briefincorrect.substack.comMmm SkinBy E. G. Pearman // After Hours released at 11:00 pm EDT 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 28/08/2026On the day jokes were no longer permitted in their town, Tiffany decided to cut her unwieldy toenails.briefincorrect.substack.comTiffany's ToenailsBy Cheryl J. Fish 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 26/08/2026New York summer. Heartbreak. Sweat, memory, hatred, desire and the strange problem of finally escaping what was suffocating you. “What if I want to swelter?”briefincorrect.substack.comSwelterBy Julia Rose Ziegler 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 24/08/2026She has one hour before returning to her usual self: happily married, fifty-two, a teacher, a mother of two.briefincorrect.substack.comA Glass of MilkBy Isabelle Audiger 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A paragraph that makes me appreciate the side hustle. 020
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A motorcycle wobbles at sixty-six miles per hour on the Long Island Expressway. A crash is imminent, and then something impossible happens. Traffic slows. Time stretches. The Harley falls instead of crashes. The rider gets up unharmed. One person remembers it differently.briefincorrect.substack.comThe Loneliness of MiraclesBy Philip Matcovsky // An Intrusion received at 10:53 am EST 110
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Twenty-seven flowers on the curtains. Six sides to the lampshade. A childhood fear born during the Cuban Missile Crisis becomes a lifelong ritual of trying to keep catastrophe at bay. Until, eventually, the counting stops.briefincorrect.substack.comFear of ThreeBy Paul Goodwin 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 19/08/2026His wife is having a heart attack. His phone would like him to know that his cloud storage is 99% full. A story about distraction, attention, and the increasingly difficult business of staying in the room. @zaryfekete.bsky.socialbriefincorrect.substack.comAlertBy Zary Fekete 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Bartholomew Lamb investigates who is a the greater storyteller: James Joyce, whose 24-hour Ulysses takes roughly 14 hours to absorb, or David, who once took two hours to describe a car that burned for less than three minutes?briefincorrect.substack.comBurningBy Bartholomew Lamb 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 15/08/2026brief + incorrect was almost acquired this morning. The word “almost” is doing some work here.briefincorrect.substack.comAn Editor's Interruption: A Statement Regarding Recent NegotiationsThe parties remain far apart 020
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Hilda arrives at an empty cemetery on a rainy Monday morning carrying a small box. Her father has been dead seventeen years. Her mother has just died. There’s one last bit of family business to settle.briefincorrect.substack.comOver His Dead BodyBy Kenneth M. Kapp 130
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The Titanic is sinking. Julian Grey is a comic, acrobat, thief, and celebrated foot-juggler who has no intention of going down with it. All he needs is a dress, a warm coat, ladies’ boots, and one final performance.open.substack.com1912By DC Diamondopolous 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 08/08/2026A beautifully restrained piece about memory, migration, family, and the alternate lives we continue carrying long after we’ve left a place behind.open.substack.comWherever You Go, There You AreBy Beth Sherman // An Intrusion received at 10:23 am EST 120
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Love, grief, devotion, obsession—the distance between them is often measured in language. @dempseystrangeways.bsky.socialopen.substack.comI Love Your BonesBy Dempsey Strangeways 021
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 08/08/2026open.substack.comArchitect of HoursBy Daniel Christensen 120
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 08/08/2026open.substack.comThe Natural ManBy T. A. Young 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 02/08/2026You think your old friend died of colon cancer. Then you run into him at the mall, eating lunch. “A Fucked Up Encounter with a Guy I Thought Was Dead” by Salvatore Difalco is up After Hours.open.substack.comA Fucked Up Encounter With a Guy I Thought Was DeadBy Salvatore Difalco // After Hours released at 11:00 pm EST 120
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A loose screen door. A motel room. A cabin in the rain. Dale Scherfling’s “The Necessary Thing” lets silence do the work.open.substack.comThe Necessary ThingBy Dale Scherfling 120
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Some deliveries are better left unopened.open.substack.comToday's Deliveryby William Doreski 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 29/07/2026An unexpected package. A birthday song for the wrong person. A machine that walks into the marsh. William Doreski’s “Today’s Delivery” is today’s piece at brief + incorrect.open.substack.comToday's Deliveryby William Doreski 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Sometimes the funniest stories are the ones that never wink at the reader.open.substack.comSamuria Social ClubBy Paul Lewellan 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Everyone in this story thinks they’re having the same conversation. They are not. Paul Lewallen’s “Samurai Social Club” is a perfectly paced comedy built on implication, timing, and one remarkable phone call.open.substack.comSamuria Social ClubBy Paul Lewellan 010
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A man looks to the sky hoping for Superman. A crow has different plans. David Sydney (who writes fiction in and out of the EHR) brings us “Sunday Morning Sky.”open.substack.comSunday Morning SkyBy David Sydney // A Found Object relayed at 1:33 pm EST 210
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Sometimes a fear isn’t something to overcome.open.substack.comQuoth the RavenBy Deb Blenkhorn 000
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A childhood fear of birds becomes a meditation on memory, running, love, and the wisdom passed down by a grandmother. “Embrace your fears, you coward.”open.substack.comQuoth the RavenBy Deb Blenkhorn 000
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The ordinary routines of care continue while something terrible and unnamed, gathers just beyond the kitchen door. “Night Terrors” by Jack Lennonopen.substack.comNight TerrorsBy Jack Lennon 110
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Jack Lennon’s “Night Terrors” may look unfamiliar at first—it’s written in Scots—but after the first paragraph, the dialect disappears, leaving only a grandmother, a kitchen, bacon rolls, and the quiet terror of realizing someone you love may already be slipping away.open.substack.comNight TerrorsBy Jack Lennon 000