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Unlikely Stories @unlikely-stories.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Unlikely Stories Six, the latest incarnation of the web-journal founded in 1998, is publishing literature and art and submissions are wide open! We’re currently accepting submissions of all kinds but are particularly looking for POETRY at this time. Check out unlikelystories.org/mission #submissions

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Mission Statement & Submission Guidelines

Our guidelines intend to inspire, not restrict.Do your thing, just keep the word count sane. What is Unlikely Stories Six?

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Loish @loish.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

It’s mushroom season 🍄🍄🍄

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Portrait of the Duchess of Rotermund- Paul Mak

nearly monochrome (some green decorations in the background and a touch of red on her lips) of a wide-eyed woman with enormous and elaborate hair and a fancy dress

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Being a columnist is so cool. You can have absolutely no experience whatsoever and still drop whatever takes you want. Serve in the military? No? Work in natsec? No? Have an academic background in defense? No? Have any government experience at all? No? Who cares! Fire that column off anyways!

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natou @tichatnwa.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

i wanna kick everybody in the fucking teeth

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Roses are red Sweetly sings the lark

Telegraph headline: Aggressive goats, with taste for human urine, are airlifted out of park. Image shows mountain goats in slings dangling from a helicopter over trees

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 29/08/2025

Footwear Friday once again! These everyday shoes were owned by Margaret Gorsline Baker (1820-1853) of Stillwater, NY during her short adult life. Their square toes and flat soles are au courant with the fashions of the 1830s-1850s. www.facebook.com/fenimoreartm... 🗃️🪡

A pair of flat-soled shoes with long, squared toes. The front half of the shoes and the backs of the heels are covered with black kid leather, and the rest of the shoe is tan wool.

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Chris @seismicshed.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I think I've accidentally taken some drugs.

A screen capture from a BBC article, it reads ”Thatcher Fest will begin in her home town on 13 October and will include a drag show and talks by former minister Edwina Currie and TV personality Gyles Brandreth"

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

BIG EXCITING NEWS in the lit mag world! Contributor @saralippmann.bsky.socia is now the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of @epiphanylit.bsky.social‬!

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Christine E. Hamm @chamm6.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I also, would like to read about 5000-year-old beads.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

i suppose i love this life in spite of my clenched fist. — andrea gibson

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MudRoom | Submissions OPEN @mudroommag.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This poem by @chamm6.bsky.social‬ is “part of a series based on [her] studies of insane asylums for women in Great Britain and America during the late 19th century." Read the full poem here, as well as the rest of its context limited by the Bluesky word count. www.mudroommag.com/christine-e-...

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Pronouncing it "lehnwort" in order to harness its full power

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Laura Bundesen @laurabundesen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Art found in and around the hospital 🥰

An abstracted figure painted with a white line through it

An outdoor yellow large abstract sculpture with daylillies in front

A fiber art installation that looks like a crazy quilt - it says mending Boston at the top and has a river running through it

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

If not friend why friend shaped.

A wild rabbit stretched out comfortably on a bed of clover in our yard. He’s sprawled like our dog on a couch.

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Solomon Georgio @solomongeorgio.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Gonna wish y’all a Pride. It don’t need to be happy. Be mad as hell, girl. Key a car. Terrorize a homophobe. Be the gay bully you’re meant to be. This is the year to do it. Throw a brick for me.

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Christine E. Hamm @chamm6.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Grackles are gorgeous and entitled.

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

fuck the leadership at The New York Times, too

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Christine E. Hamm @chamm6.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I finished this new collage/painting today, but I've been working on it, one way or another, for a few years. I think it's related to my mother -- the woman's face ended up looking like her. #art, #collage, #acrylicpainting, #painting, #artist

A women's red face, with eyes looking upward, with a background of organic shapes, black, yellow, white and bright blue.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20/02/2025

As a big fan of not having prisons anymore, seeing Indigenous people block a prison by buying the land out from under the state is very satisfying.

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One way to stop a prison? Return the land to Indigenous stewards

The Appalachian Rekindling Project purchased land in Kentucky originally slated for the development of a federal prison

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 21/02/2025

More of this, please. It's hell or glory now.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

eBay’s been writing poetry again

Screen grab from eBay which reads
Head Clown Doll with Cloth Body.
Clown Sways Top of Body around Slowly to
Music.
Music is some sort of Lullaby.

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Christine E. Hamm @chamm6.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I've been doing a series of prints and collages, and I finally did a few I like. The first one is "two faces with bird", and the other is "two faces and nose". #collageart, #collageartist, #printandpattern, #gelliplate, #gelliprinting, #drawing, #art

A collage on brown distressed paper with two blue ink birds. Two women's half faces and a horse.

A side view of woman's head full of shades of blue and scribbles. The background is distressed brown and navy.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 14/02/2025

A little art appropriate for the day

Art piece of a drawing of 2 leaping rabbits forming a circle around an anatomically correct heart with a large silver pin piercing it. The rabbits are mirror images of each other but the one on top is white-furred and crying red tears while the one on bottom is red-furred with its white skeleton exposed and crying blue tears.

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Black folk started getting rights 60 years ago and white folk really decided they’d rather destroy their own country than let that madness continue.

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Norma Krautmeyer 🏳️‍🌈 🍵🎨✂️🖍️🐈‍⬛ @blushandmumble.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Privilege is a shield. You can use it to shield other people too.

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Jennifer Shelby @jennifershelby.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Antifascist Book Club 📚

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pacificalit.bsky.social @pacificalit.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It's FINALLY here! New site & new Issue, feat. @terryallenbelew.bsky.social, @chamm6.bsky.social, @jpjrpoet.bsky.social, Ryan Burruss, Caitlin Dwyer, Scott Nadelson, Shraya Singh, Sara Blazevic, & Lillian Emerick Valentine! Cannot wait to share this one with all y'all 🎉🥂 www.pacificareview.com

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Pacifica Literary Review | An inclusive space for the best emerging and established writers

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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Loved this exhibit: www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

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Kickass Women of History @kickasswomenof.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Not only is it Women's Christmas, but it is also just one more day till our podcast debuts. Don't forget to subscribe!

Only 1 day
Kickass Women of History
Launching 7th January 2025
www.kickasswomenofhistory.com

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 18/12/2024

Napkins + poems = Afterimages Until 1/22/25, @gardnerdorton.bsky.social is reading napkin poems for a unique submission call on Afterimages. Poems, ekphrasis, doodles, & anything that can fit on a napkin. Full details can be found below. Get to writing! thirtywest.submittable.com/submit/31529...

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 14/12/2024

Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

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Christine E. Hamm @chamm6.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Working on some portraits using Gelli plate prints as the background, to create textures. I call this one Cat Eyes.

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Amy J. Rutenberg @amyjay401.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Grad students, I cannot emphasize enough what a difference this conference made on my future career. I made connections and received feedback that *STILL* has an impact, close to 15 years after I attended. Apply if you can. 🗃️ #milhist #academicsky networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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CFP: 2025 UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, May 8–10, 2025 | H-Net

Call for Papers:2025 UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, May 8–10, 2025

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Christine E. Hamm @chamm6.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This should be every day. Every minute, perhaps...

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