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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I don’t want to be political, or at least too political. There are people who do that & there are people who do that well but for me, I want a poetics that helps me understand myself." Justin Carter (@juscarts.com) is back in The Bulb Region with personal essays on poetry. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Nature, fit to hate the sky, To yearn deeper with Its pecking —” The inimitable Noam Hessler is in The Bulb Region today with three mythic, darkly playful poems. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to read this pitch-perfect haiku by our recent contributor a.d. in @plaguecircus.bsky.social. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We resume tomorrow with two exciting new pieces, but before then, give this delicious micro by our returning contributor @zachalanmichael.bsky.social a read in Gonzoid. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"corpse girls have traded their pearls for maggots, their makeup for lividity, the nightclub for the morgue" @godstained.bsky.social is in The Bulb Region today with a couple of harrowing, mordantly visceral poems. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"She was riding her new bike down that same hill, hurtling as though she’d never been hit by a truck at all. I wanted to roll the window down and tell her to stop, to use her head for just one goddamn second." @zachalanmichael.bsky.social returns to The Bulb Region with a wryly tender micro. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Before tomorrow’s new edition drops, make sure to read our recent contributor Kassie Rene’s short story "Breakfast" in Sarka, set in the same universe as her triptych in The Bulb Region. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We return tomorrow with two new pieces, but before then, give a read to our returning contributor aka house favorite Clare Kelly's delightfully uncanny poem, "A Lived Example," published last month in Bizarre Publishing House. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"When I start to feel something for My Specific Person, I immediately book a bunch of dates with other guys. I would never ask My Specific Person out because I have all these rules about seeing him." Don't miss Kassie Rene's intimate, ingenious triptych in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"before there was language there was water can’t a woman have a secret?" The one and only Clare Kelly returns to The Bulb Region with three mind-bending poems. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Our first time I was surprised in a good way, since my ex accused me of being white bread in bed. The silky black strands of the Kardashian wig feel quite pleasant cascading across my face." Beth Sherman (@bsherm36.bsky.social) is in The Bulb Region today with a delightful, darkly comic story. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"When we saw the works of G-d, we burned and ate and smoked and robbed [...]" Our shortest-ever publication comes from the inimitable Zachary Swezy. Don’t miss his bleakly biblical poem, “We Arrived with Untoward Plans,” in The Bulb Region. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I begin to question males unable to recall if they have pouches or if their compartmentalization remains purely mental" Chris Dolan (@mcdolan.bsky.social) drops by the region today with a pair of darkly comic, off-kilter Americana poems. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"He felt like he was in an opera, the conceit of which is that the audience already knows what will happen but the drama is so engorging that they enjoy it regardless." @nickvanosdol.bsky.social is in The Bulb Region today with a pair of delightful, poignant, heartfelt stories. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"You can briefly hold some clouds in the palm of your hand. Others will swallow you whole with a mist mouth until you’re whiteblind, damp and shivering." If you're going to do one thing today and one thing only, make it about reading Ava Loomar's micro in The Bulb Region. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Home is 364 miles away as the crow flies except the crow has a broken wing and bird flu and there’s a missile defense system called Time [...]" Don't miss @kentkosack.bsky.social's poems in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The mystery is not always a whodunit. Sometimes, like this time, that part is ..." "Some scenes can’t help themselves." "Sometimes murder scenes hold no truth at all." @jackbedell.bsky.social with four nutshell studies in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Nutshell-Stu...

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Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths, by Jack B. Bedell — The Bulb Region

Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths — Jack B. Bedell I. Barn, 1939 The...

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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"It’s the way this one-day king of stone not skin looks past my eyes / unbreathing to my breathless self." Don't miss M.J. Young's (@mjyoungwrites.bsky.social) delightful poems in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Some scenes can’t help themselves. Their order of events conforms naturally into one or two reasonable chronologies. One act simply leads to the next until the final outcome declares itself." The amazing @jackbedell.bsky.social enters four crime-scene dioramas in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Please join us in celebrating our Best Small Fictions 2027 nominees! ⚡️ @kplumhoff.bsky.social @keersteemack.bsky.social @anniejowrites.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social @davidwryan.bsky.social To be able to publish your work has truly been an honor!

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"They’ve been done landing, for six decades now And two congressmen from the Corn Flakes Belt Now lead the charge, sources leaking sources." We are happy to welcome Rodrigo Toscano (@rodrigo-toscano.bsky.social) to The Bulb Region with three ethereal poems. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Maybe I just can’t take the lyrics seriously enough after all those schizuationships, textuationships, and storylikeationships, or maybe it sounds more like a version of Tristan und Isolde in the Manhattanverse [...]" Don't miss @hasancemcal.bsky.social's twin micros in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm honored to see my story, "Dimensions," published in @bulbregion.bsky.social on this fine shortlist. Many thanks, @turnandwork.com and @kdiannerule.bsky.social 💙

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Here is the pink of my brainstuff. Here it is again trying to make sense of the godlike values pulled from the painter’s pallet." Don't miss Adam Gianforcaro's (@adamg.bsky.social) "Poem Draped in Perfect Pink" in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"When the bands I sang in were inactive, I recorded covers. The throat is a muscle that, if not used enough, hurts when you have to sing again." The one and only Oliver Land of @plaguecircus.bsky.social returns to The Bulb Region with three more drabbles. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"I am our sin-eater pursued by shame- sustenance of our progenitors— A crime I bear; you break as you watch." We celebrate Eva Alter's (@evaalterpoet.bsky.social) new poetry collection "Sea-oath"—out from Hesse Press—with an excerpt of four poems. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"But no matter how impossible the reflections should have been, there they were. Her infinite army of clones stared back at her from every window in the mansion, mimicking each minute movement of her body." Check out this delightful excerpt from Steve Gergley's new novel, "Stone Cells." 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In celebration of Steve Gergley's new novel "Stone Cells," out today from Translucent Eyes Press, we are publishing both a review and an excerpt from the book. Both are now live on the website. Don't forget to congratulate Steve and make sure to spread the word. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🚨 Over the past few months, we've amped up our publication frequency to three times a week, but starting September we'll go back to our original routine and publish new work only on Tuesdays & Saturdays, with two pieces per each as usual. We love you but we need our me-time too.

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Happy happy pub day to our wonderful contributor Drew Buxton. His first novel “Daytona Teddy Riggs” is just out via @hubcitypress.bsky.social. Order your copy today! www.hubcity.org/books/fictio...

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Francesca Leader @mooninabucket.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I haven’t published or even written a whole lot this year, but this piece came together quickly in the wake of my grandmother’s passing this January. So grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving it a beautiful home in @bulbregion.bsky.social 🙏 🥰 Link to full piece below 👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"She is my empress & I am her Green Ranger / You call her evil but she used her dark sorcery to give me ancient space powers just like the rest of you." Don't miss RJ Ingram's deliciously esoteric prose poems in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"In life, they both conserved their best love for cats and gardens—stylish broads, or selfish bitches, depending when you met them, and what kind of animal you were." We welcome the brilliant Francesca Leader (@mooninabucket.bsky.social) to The Bulb Region with a breathless, multi-layered piece. 👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🚨 Later this week, our house favorite Steve Gergley will have a new novel coming out via Translucent Eye Press. We’ll simultaneously run an excerpt and review of "Stone Cells" on publication day (8/28), so just make sure to preorder your copy before then! www.amazon.com/Stone-Cells-...

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to read our recent contributor Greta Kaluževičiūtė's modern love essay, "Shabu Shabu," in Hobart. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We resume tomorrow with two of my favorite writers, but before then, stop what you are doing and read this absolutely hilarious story by another one of my favorite writers, aka recent TBR contributor, Ian Johnson (@youcanandyouwill.bsky.social), published earlier this year in Hawkeye. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“[P]eople are perverts—not always sex perverts. Mortgage perverts. Thing perverts. Power perverts, essentially. When you’re young, you’re a functional pervert with peers that are also perverts...” The one and only @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social is in the region today with an absolute cracker. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Is my hair long Is my hair short Do I smoke into lungs or mouth Am I celibate or a luscious creature of touch" Greta is not on here, but her absolutely gorgeous poem is, and you really should NOT miss it. Read "The Ick of Life" in The Bulb Region today! 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Before tomorrow’s new edition, make sure to read our recent contributor Shawn Scott Smith’s (@luckycreature.bsky.social) deliciously eclectic poems in Michigan City Review of Books. mcrb.neocities.org/TwoPoems_Sha...

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We return tomorrow with two new pieces, but until then, stop what you are doing and read this gut-punch of a story by our recent contributor aka house favorite Sylvia Math (@incindery.bsky.social) in Hobart. www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

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Five Bucks by Sylvia Math

There was one other underage freshman girl besides me at Cool House, and we got tight right away. She was from New York City—the Bronx. One of the first things she told me was that she had slept with ...

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Victor, like most men of wealth, / have too much pride to name their illegitimate children. / Often they hide their pain inside of two legs [...]" Don't miss Shawn Scott Smith's (@luckycreature.bsky.social) deliciously eclectic, eerily wonderful poems. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Some of my most treasured memories of early motherhood are at this pool. How S clung to me in the water, especially the deep end. The deep end of deepening trust." Truly honored to welcome the one and only Sylvia Math (@incindery.bsky.social) with a deeply insightful, nuanced story. 🔗👇

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"I crouch in the corner of my dark closet where I stash the cookies, the chips, the horde I gulp in whole bites I don’t taste, just stuffing and swallowing" Visceral writing from @tracieadams.bsky.social; the power of this breathless sentence

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"What do any of them know about a marriage that lasted longer than they’ve been alive? About how a husband is a bear, and a bear is love wrapped in fur and paws and muscle memory." What a beautiful story @tracieadams.bsky.social

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DG @1dgrn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

achingly gorgeous

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Kathryn Silver-Hajo @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Don’t miss this heartbreaker from Tracie Adams. 💙💙💙

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, make sure to give a read to our recent contributor Tracie Adams' (@tracieadams.bsky.social) absolutely gorgeous story, "The Bear Who Loved Me," published earlier this year at @doricliterary.bsky.social. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We resume tomorrow with two killer pieces, but before then, why don't you stop what you are doing and have a read of our recent contributor aka the king Damon Hubbs' (@hubbsd.bsky.social) poems over at @poolpartymag.com. Then tell me which one is amazing-er—the poems, the poet, or the mag? 👇

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