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NPR @npr.org · 08/10/2026

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. n.pr/4hzvA5M

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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eeeh thank you Ayida!! 💚💚💚

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New micro story out with the incredible @fracturedlit.bsky.social: fracturedlit.com/i-should-lik... Thank you to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for the opportunity to share!

Opening paragraph of the microfiction story 'I Should Like to Collapse,' including photograph of a tiled bathroom.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gwen!!! I am so so glad this is out in the world! Cannot wait to reread ❤️‍🔥

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Oh wow! Sure! Will email you my address.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just ordered. 😸 Thanks for all you've built with Stanchion, and excited to see what you do next!

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Back in my favorite place to write.

Image from behind a round table. A Smokelong Fitness homepage is seen on a laptop screen, next to a blue notebook, pen, AirPods case, coffee mug and bottle of lemonade. The room behind the desk includes a wooden door, wooden window frame, and a glimpse of the Camden street outside. It is the Rutgers Writers’ House.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Here is Nectar! Very grateful to LIT Magazine for publishing this piece that's part prose poem, part story, and all my heart. www.litmagazine.org/nectar/

Pink carnation and lilies against a pink backdrop

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Story acceptance for a piece I've been working on for eight (!!) years. It's very close to my heart and I can't wait to share it. 🍯

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I love reading the stories that come through each week! We are always looking for more great ones 👀

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Chat with community educator, historian, and author/editor extraordinaire Nisi Shawl. Ask Nisi about writing inclusive fiction, the history of black SF, their own writing, or that of Octavia Butler. Donate at twp.ai/9PcNcp or through our bio!

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

💥 THIS WEEKEND💥 I’ll be teaching CRAFTING STRUCTURE IN FLASH FICTION at Rutgers’ Cooper Street Workshop! Want to write your heart out? Learn more about bending form in flash?! Then this workshop is for you! ✨Details✨ When: April 11, 2026 Time: 10 am - 1 pm camden.rutgers.edu/event/cooper...

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lapin2.bsky.social @lapin2.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

What this shows is that no matter where one goes or no matter how much technology one has, what humans need most is each other.

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Our second spotlight is by @catherinebuck.bsky.social 🦝 We loved the short searing sentences that make this micro feel tense and breathless, the sense of encroaching danger and escalation and the last lines that land scalpel sharp. Read and listen here: trashcatlit.com/tattler/

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

"You should have seen it, a monster, through the window, yes I did, with my own two eyes I did. You shut up, you weren’t brave enough. You’ve never been brave like me." Tense, propulsive writing from @catherinebuck.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/tattler/

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Catherine Buck Listen to Catherine read her story Two boys in the tall grasses. Send a dare. See the witch and the witch’s pup. Transformed from a cat. No, a deer. No, a bat. Your mother’s missing …

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

So happy to be in this micro issue and excited to read the rest of these stunning pieces!

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

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Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Teasing our upcoming March Mini Bin micro issue with these two crackers 🦝 @catherinebuck.bsky.social follows two boys into the woods and has us question who the monsters are @stuartcavet.bsky.social shows us what happens when something that should help us, chooses to help itself More teases later

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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Today! Come meet "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet"! othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Here they are! Our sixteen Micro Binners! Their amazing smol works are coming on the 21st March. Be there! 🦝 @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social Ron Arbuckle @lmbayley.bsky.social Jesse Binger @catherinebuck.bsky.social @stuartcavet.bsky.social @travisflatt.bsky.social @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social 💜 1/2

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Seoung @seoungkim.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

6 - The Homeowner's Bride by Ayida Shonibar. i love the haunted house POV in this story. ayida is so good at clandestine relationships with a body count. ❤️ othersidespec.com

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OTHERSIDE - Queer Speculative Fiction

OTHERSIDE is a queer-led literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Got a whole bunch of stickers at AWP and am not going to stick them on anything until I get into their respective mags. Wish me luck!

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Loved the chance to meet you! Can’t wait to read an eventual carousel book… 🎠

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Such a good piece. Loved the way this came together. Thank you for writing it!

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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Thinking of this all the time these days

With image of Kurt Vonnegut on the left: “(talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope) Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Thrilled to be nominated and grateful to the @lostballoon.bsky.social team for all their care and work in creating this wonderful magazine.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The minute it goes above 30 degrees I can feel my brain unfurl like a giant leaf

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I haven't been able to get this book out of my head since I read it. A truly incredible work.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 31/01/2026

open again for another 45 newbies! anyone who's submitted to us before need not (better not!) apply

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

These are both incredible stories!

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I’m a constituent and this is beautiful! Thank you.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Stunningly powerful new piece from @ayidashonibar.bsky.social! A true voice to watch.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Smokelong is the best group for building community and writing flash! So excited to rejoin for 2026.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

With MFA app deadline coming up, I've been getting lots of emails from prospective students about the state the Rutgers-Camden program; please note that we are once again FULLY funded, with strong assurances of continued full funding moving forward. We're not going anywhere.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I have loved reading each issue. Thank you for all that you've built!

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

So glad to have my dialogue flash on this list! @mattkendrick.bsky.social is a deeply thoughtful reader of flash and I always love his recommendations: it's a joy to be included.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Thanks so much for including me, Matt! That's really kind. Excited to read all of the stories on your list!

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