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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“I look like an unknown meadow.” 🤌

The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"And that would suddenly make me feel better because it becomes an accessory—one I could even make chic. My very own crown of thorns. Is this what I need? Why I stay? Waiting for acknowledgement?" Jana Godshall is in The Bulb Region today with a story from her home in Louisiana. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"[a]ll who fell from a waterfall became the sticks that floated / at the bottom. Waterlogged sticks not good for nothing. / Not even kindling." I promise this collaborative poem by @jlmoultrie.bsky.social & @ericsubpar.bsky.social is the best thing you'll read today. Hell, probably the whole week.

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to read our recent contributor Alex Rost's freaky piece, "McCauley Will Always Be The Best Culkin," in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We return tomorrow with two killer pieces, but before then, have a read at our recent contributor Mea Cohen's micros in the wonderful @okaydonkeymag.com. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you submitted work during our July reading window and are still waiting to hear from me, I promise I’ll get back to each and every one of you before the end of the month. I’m still slowly working my way through submissions. Sorry for the delay, and thank you for your patience!

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"When you see God behind the wheel / of a passing car, close your eyes. / The headlights / are blinding anyway." Mea Cohen is in The Bulb Region today with a delightful remix of a poem. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The boy thinks the bunny is weird. The red eyes freak him out and Rebekah’s always staring. He likes normal pets, like cats." We welcome the amazing Alex Rost to The Bulb Region with an amazing rabbit story. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We return tomorrow with two new pieces, but before then, read these wonderful poems translated by our recent contributor Ursula Carroll and published in Michigan City Review of Books. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to read our recent contributor Kenan Meral's delightfully eerie longform story, "The Devil May Care but I Do Not," in Expat Press. I still believe it's one of the best stories available online, and you won't regret it. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Even our land was getting up in dust storms to leave. So I learned to walk on an earth-poor territory. I learned to draw before I learned to dirt farm. Paper became a place for summoning oases." Don't miss Kenan Meral's stunning, mind-bending story in The Bulb Region. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"You are now celestial and more star than I And with my one way ticket I swear to come In the galaxies on constellations I am running" Ursula Carroll is in The Bulb Region today with four haunting, intimate poems. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to read our recent contributor Noam Hessler's wonderful prose poem, "Do You Know How Many Have Been Torn Down?" in @havehashad.com. 🔗👇

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We return tomorrow with two new pieces, but before then, have a read at our returning contributor Justin Carter's (@juscarts.com) punchy prose piece in Sundog Lit. 🔗👇

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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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