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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it annoys me that Bluesky doesn't allow me to choose a custom image for link posts. instead, the featured image from the page being linked to is shown. i cannot choose a different image, nor even embed a link with no image

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Art by David Weigham

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my new opening when i meet someone: "Hi, What's your trauma?" #CPTSD

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Sticking her tongue out in every photo, she is madness at the orgy eating doritos referencing sex ed pie charts and diaphragms in lubed latex cherry hip boots giggling maniacally..." #poetry by @heatherleerogers.bsky.social

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Tongues

Poetry by Heather Lee Rogers

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"Gladiola mass burial decoration campaign Cartilage punctuates mulch progression Fabulist element—parsimonious inoculated Honey weather wet cypress pattern..." ECO MORI is #poetry by #NicholasAlti

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Eco Mori

Poetry by Nicholas Alti

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Wistful I waited. Watch the deforestation of your soft unbeating heart. Your rib cage grey, decay of driftwood decorating last vestiges, what remains of your shape..." #poetry by #QuinnIonascu Roadkill Eulogy for Jane Doe existotherwise.com/roadkill-eul...

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roadkill eulogy for jane doe

Poetry by Quinn Ionascu

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It would be helpful to see screen captures from anyone who has any problem connecting to the site.

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Of course, I'll try to get this resolved asap, but because I'm traveling, I can't troubleshoot as vigorously as I would be able to from home.

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I think that Comcast/Xfinity has put our website on a blacklist. I've had sporadic reports of our site being blocked but today is the first time I experienced the problem myself (because I'm traveling). In my case, I could still get to the site by clicking a 'Proceed Anyway" link...

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David Brickey Bloomer @davidbrickey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Happy to share that my poem "Meet Me in the Dead Letter Office" has been published on Exist Otherwise this month @existotherwise.bsky.social #existotherwise You can read it here: existotherwise.com/meet-me-in-t... and the entire issue: existotherwise.com/tag/issue-19/

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issue 19 - Exist Otherwise

"Tendency to push everything to the absolute, and thus: to the absurd." —Claude Cahun

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We're taking a little bit longer of a break between issues than usual. Issue #20 will be published on March 13, 2027. Submissions open November 16. Have a wonderful summer and autumn. existotherwise.com/tag/issue-19/

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issue 19 - Exist Otherwise

"Tendency to push everything to the absolute, and thus: to the absurd." —Claude Cahun

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Ana Hein @anahein.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Like me, this poem I wrote is weird and horny. It's about vampires and masochism and the pleasure of self-eradication; also, it's the first poem of mine to be published since college. Up now @existotherwise.bsky.social! #poetry #writing #vampire #dracula #renfield existotherwise.com/renfield-pra...

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Caio Major @caiomajor.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

for my bday I'm going to be self-indulgent and link to some pieces I published this year. I reviewed two short story collections from trans authors for The Metropolitan Review, arguing for a critical lens that splits from the discourse of representation substack.com/@metropolita...

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Submerged Populations vs. Representation

On Max Delsohn’s ‘CRAWL’ and Anton Solomonik’s ‘Realistic Fiction’

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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Please note CW I’m sitting in a nondescript room at my gynecologist’s office. The walls are an inoffensive gray – that of a timid storm whose clouds look much more substantial than the rain they bring. Read more by Azalea Withrow in The B'K, Vol 16, Issue 2: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch

Background image is the cover art by Amuri Morris featuring a woman in a blue heavy gown crouches with her pet wolf sitting behind her. The subject is in a vast forest with bits of bright blue sky peaking through. Behind her a gold portal opens to another world of flames and a burning city. Text overlaid is the excerpt from the piece. Text at the bottom says Read more in The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 2!

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

i never really through of EO as a flash publisher, but i guess we are. many people consider #flash to be under 1,000, and we now have a 500 word limit speaking of flash, here's a brilliant short work by Azalea Withrow existotherwise.com/my-girlfrien...

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My Girlfriend’s Ex-Girlfriend Has a Gun

poetry by Azalea Withrow

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

if you sent us a #submission for Issue 19, you should have heard back from us by now if you haven't, please reach out

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

poetry by Edylan Liu Edylan (they/them) is a queer migrant poet and theatre-maker exploiting the capitalist system by writing during their day job.

The only retort to
be a good girl
is I am not
good for her
microscopic glare.
The skin allowed
in a school of
tailing suits & dresses:
sweatpants, shirt.
As she did my first
windsor, or they
maybe, knighted my
coping mechanism.
Dressed to
dress up.
I stole a tie cut
on its back. An
accident to allege
a misprint
in a monochrome
dictionary, where
my entry is
a slur.

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"You should be nominated for Cannes or the Oscars this year; no one has ever died as realistically as you did. The way you screamed, the way you played your part, the way you died and were torn apart... " #prose #poetry by Zar Mohseni existotherwise.com/a-requiem-fo...

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A Requiem for the Fallen/Apart

prose poetry by Zar Mohseni

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mk zariel {it/they} @mkzariel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm doing a #fundraiser bundle for my friend and we're only at 13% of our goal...so now I've decided that if you donate, i'll give you a free PDF of one of my #books 👀 and you'l also get a bunch of #queer / #trans #zines & #games! itch.io/b/3720/fundr... @fairshare.help @mutualaidvoid.bsky.social

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Fundraiser #3 for Lazarus Halliwell by mk zariel and 9 others

Fundraiser #3 for Lazarus Halliwell: 45 items for $0.00

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Kristin Fouquet @kristinfouquet.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A week ago, we lost our beloved Stella. Here is a short video tribute I made for her: youtu.be/0F989lYcgUk?...

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Stella M. Fouquet's Obituary Video

YouTube video by Kristin Fouquet

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monaiv @monaiv.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Thanks Lachlan!

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"My mother then, she called me queer (the strange one, not the dyke). Yet I was there and saw it clear the ways she got me right..." #poetry by @mosquitochaser.bsky.social existotherwise.com/autobiograph...

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Autobiography of a Queer Bug Child

poetry by Cassie Urquhart

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"I have given freely of my soul (prostituted her would be a better word). Nevertheless, I love you with her virgin force. But the soul has taken the name of love in vain so often that now she’s ashamed and is hiding..." #ClaudeCahun #quotes 1/2

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"How Does War Affect the Stock Market?" is #DigitalArt by Cleomé Morra in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal existotherwise.com/how-does-war...

Montage of a bombed out city in the background. There is a large primitive style humanoid figure in the top right, crudely drawn with an erect penis and a hatchet in its right hand. The hatchet seems to be shooting several small bomb/sperm shapes onto a crowd of small, similar figures with no arms. The are multiple large moons and skulls in the sky. The image depicts the insanity of war.

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

#ExperimentalEssay by Jessica Bao "Before you chastise me for thinking that strangers care about what I am writing in a co-working cafe, I know it is possible for I was always doing it...

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On Writing

experimental essay by Jessica Bao

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Click through to see the #photograph, "Earth Cradle," by Coriander Focus it tells quite a story (or three or four) existotherwise.com/earth-cradle/

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Earth Cradle

photography by Coriander Focus

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

#Submissions were supposed to close last night, but I've been so busy the last week that I haven't sent out the usual reminder to get your last minute submissions in. I'll keep the submission form live until midnight on Wednesday. existotherwise.com/submit/

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Submission Form

This page was last updated on May 13, 2026. Submissions Close on May 31, 2026 Make sure you're familiar with our Submission Guidelines. We accept the following types of written work: poetry, prose...

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Why Bother? is a photograph by #DeannaFaye in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal... This is not it. To see the photograph, click through. As a disabled artist who struggles with mental health issues, art is her way of navigating both the joy and despair of the human condition. Deanna is on instagram.

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Why Bother?

photography by Deanna Faye

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Have you had work published in our journal, #ExistOtherwise? If so, please reply or tag us. We're putting together a bsky List of contributors...

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monaiv @monaiv.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

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Caio Major @caiomajor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

trust me, you want to read "Plastic, Prism, Void," a fantasy novel that combines delightful romp, postmodern literary mystery, and genuinely hot romance to wonderful effect. don't miss this one!!

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mk zariel {it/they} @mkzariel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

i'm doing a live #reading at REDROSETHORNS coming up, just in case reading poetry is scary but listening to it is fun (respect) or you just want to be in community with some cool #trans people. www.redrosethorns.com/event-detail...

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A Live Reading of Voidgazing by mk zariel | redrosethorns.com

Join 'A Live Reading of Voidgazing by mk zariel' for an evening of poetry exploring the insurgent and tender. Don't miss this online event!

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

#poetry by Adam K. Bechtold “Oh star of Bethlehem or Manhattan or San Francisco, take my hand and lead me home…” existotherwise.com/angel/

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Angel

poetry by Adam K. Bechtold

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

ah shit, sorry for boosting a slop video. i was duped for a moment

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"what fantastical masculinities could i muster with breasts?" gender is a scam is a poem by Ari Cottingham

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gender is a scam

poetry by Ari Cottingham

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

existotherwise.com/villain/ art by #MikeDressel in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal #CaudeCahun used masks often in her art and writing

Central image is a slick intense black mask with whited out eyes and three white stripes in [;ace of eyebrows and mouth. Behind the mask is a background of many red dots. There are three small patches of paper cutouts pasted on the mask. These read, in this order: “Villains know that they can’t trust each other.” “Did you expect to find this? A super hero?” “Fuck No!!”

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

lurvable candidates self-defeating nihilism appeasing cis people #haiQu #senryu

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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A Requiem for the Fallen/Apart

prose poetry by Zar Mohseni

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"The Human Animal hates watching other human animals fight.. A bad human animal ran a red light at an intersection... This happened because she loves you all so much..." poetry by Susan L. Lin existotherwise.com/not-was-this/

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NOT WAS THIS

poetry by Susan L. Lin

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"Revolutionary love is, as Christ insisted, a threat to the established order. To rebuild love in the future, it might be necessary to save love now..." www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/apo...

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Apostles of Golden Love — Parapraxis

Were the Surrealists the First Freudo-Marxists? Kevin Duong

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

'Love was an alchemical reagent that transformed pessimism into revolutionary action, Georges Bataille concluded in a 1938 essay, “L’Apprenti sorcier”: you can’t start a revolution without it....' www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/apo...

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Apostles of Golden Love — Parapraxis

Were the Surrealists the First Freudo-Marxists? Kevin Duong

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"Césaire’s claim... that Hitlerism was colonialism boomeranged home is much celebrated, but it did not come out of nowhere. It crowned a twenty-five-year effort by Surrealists to theorize the psychodynamics of fascist imperialism..." www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/apo...

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Apostles of Golden Love — Parapraxis

Were the Surrealists the First Freudo-Marxists? Kevin Duong

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J. L. Yocum @jlyocum.com · 21/04/2026

Hey! I am able to access your website for the first time in months!! What a happy day. :)

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Exist Otherwise @existotherwise.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

yes, we have artwork in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal this painting is by #SeaniceLenay existotherwise.com/gluttony/

Oil painting of mostly faceless brown bodies that are unclothed and partially obscured. Their limbs are entwined with grey snake-like shapes, and there are a few green Venus Fly Trap flower shapes in the mix. The image is surreal, sensual, dark, primitive, and haunting.

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