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Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Dear Xeno Hive, friends, contributors, and readers: we have some important news to share with everyone. We’re going on hiatus for 2025 to recharge, reorganize, and eventually return to uplifting writers in our community ❤️👽 Read more here ⬇️ www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

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Cotton Xenomorph News — Cotton Xenomorph

Dear Hive Members and Readers of CX, We began this magazine years ago with one big goal: to publish amazing writing and celebrate the diversity of voices that we didn't think were getting enough reco...

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Does anyone know of places to submit flash publications for award consideration this year? I would love to send out my @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social story for consideration, Lockerbie, 1988 www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

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Lockerbie, 1988 — Cotton Xenomorph

BY Mary Thorson We learned that the sky was made of metal and people in the dark of the shortest day of the year. Just as fast as rain, the sky ripped open orange and our town’s population grew by ...

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

“Sometimes, the stars send down spider silk threads with messages attached on thin slips of parchment. Fortune cookie predictions, like…” A gorgeous dream-touched story by @sdobbie.bsky.social in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 19/11/2024

i absolutely love @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social as a lit magazine. they are terrific and their editorial staff is top notch. i wrote this story as an exercise, and finished it for Cotton Xenomorph specifically. it’s my only lit fic published piece. love it. www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2018...

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Rose Garden Funeral of Sorts — Cotton Xenomorph

By Jordan Kurella (art by MARTHA WIRKIJOWSKI ) The last time Kevin and I argued about the dog’s ashes, I made him cry. So for six months, his dead Akita sat in a plastic bag on my kitchen co...

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the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

FOLLOW THE MAG PACK

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello blueskyers I've done an intro before but with everyone finally starting to come over here 🥺 I thought I'd do a little intro thread of some of my writing to get to know me First up this story about the cost of memory, trauma, and friendship electricliterature.com/accidental-g...

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You Can’t Come Back If Your Memories Are Missing - Electric Literature

"Accidental Girls" from PATTERNS OF ORBIT by Chloe N Clark, recommended by Juan Martinez

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Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Major congratulations to our co-editor Teo for his debut poetry collection news 🤗🎉🥳👏🎊🙌🎁🎈

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Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Today’s poem “Glances / Men 1994” by Kami Enzie is definitely a poem that stays with you long after you finish reading it. We love found/erasure poetry and this one especially hits hard www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

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GLANCES / MEN 1994 — Cotton Xenomorph

BY Kami Enzie Note: “GLANCES / MEN” is erased and modified text from "Sunday, 2/6" ads in the "Glances" section of the Feb. 11, 1994 issue of the Washington Blade, page 102. Only in the ...

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Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We’re creating a CX starter pack! If you’re a contributor, please let us know so we can add you here - we’ve got years of archives! go.bsky.app/BJY7Tn3

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Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We’re creating a CX starter pack! If you’re a contributor, please let us know so we can add you here - we’ve got years of archives! go.bsky.app/BJY7Tn3

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Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

hey everybody 👋 we’re the OG “No Creeps Allowed” online lit journal aka Bleep Blorp Review aka the coolest magazine ever let’s make it happen here 👽👾🛸

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the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

I read for @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social , but before I was on staff they published a werewolf flash of mine: www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2021...

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The Wolfman — Cotton Xenomorph

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E.B. Schnepp @ebschnepp.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

So excited for this new piece up in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social!!! www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

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Aᴀʀᴏɴ Cᴀʟᴠɪɴ @aaronpcalvin.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I have a new short story published by the good folks at the literary journal @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

In case you're wondering what a modern Cassandra would look like, she's definitely queer and autistic. I wrote a flash about it that's up at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social! #flash #flashfiction www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

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In the Modern Retelling of Cassandra, You're Autistic — Cotton Xenomorph

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the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Per @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social bylaws, if you see a Waffle House, you go to a Waffle House

On the counter, a plate of scattered smothered capped and covered hashbrowns, patty melt, and Waffle House-branded coffee mug

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Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

🚨👻CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THIS PLACE IS HAUNTED👻🙀 Remember Cotton Xenomorph submission window opens today! Please follow the guidelines for this special theme call 🌚🐍 We can’t wait to see what you have! cx.submittable.com/submit

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Cotton Xenomorph

General NotesPlease only send one submission at a time and in one genre. Do not mix genres in your submission. If you publish a piece with us and later use it in another publication, we humbly ask tha...

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

Reminder that Cotton Xenomorph's This is Haunted Call opens July 1st! We'll only be open until we hit 100 subs, so get em in early!

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Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Happy six years of accepting the wild, the weird, the wonderful written works. We started out as a Twitter meme and somehow became an awesome literary journal! Thanks for all the support, Xeno Hive 👽❤️

A photo of a Xenomorph holding a photoshopped birthday cake with 6 candles

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

Happy that my first post here is this one! Thrilled to have this story out now and join the Xeno Hive.

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Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

We have another musical without music tale up on the journal today, this time by Catherine Buck! Please read "Pomp and Circumstance" and welcome Catherine to the Xeno Hive! www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/202…

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Pomp and Circumstance — Cotton Xenomorph

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Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

Hi friends! Forgot to share the poem we published on August 4, so please read "Miss T" by R. Thursday! You'll love this poem so much! www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/202…

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Miss T — Cotton Xenomorph

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Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

attention Xeno Hive: we have landed on a new planet! we are COTTON XENOMORPH and we are HAPPY to be here <3 www.cottonxenomorph.com

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