iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Every Day. People will be begging for the bike lanes to be put back in.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18h

If you try to fly a Chicago flag upside down to signal distress it just looks like a normal Chicago flag, which raises the possibility that every Chicago flag you've ever seen was flying upside down to signal distress

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HAD @havehashad.com · 7h

today from Alina Kalontarov ❤️‍🔥 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/thi...

October 15, 2026
THIS IS NOT A GHOST STORY
Alina Kalontarov

Around the kitchen table, the children
play pretend. Let’s pretend to be ancestors,
the youngest suggests. You can’t be
an ancestor, the oldest replies, because then
you’d be dead. The mother silently wiping
the counter pretends to be there, ghosts
bleating like lambs in her head. The children
abandon the old game. The past goes on
pretending to be gone. The ancestors
play dead.

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Roughhouser @roughhouser-mag.bsky.social · 9h

Issue 1 out now roughhouser.neocities.org/issue-1/

Hand-drawn illustration of a balloon seller

Paul Bavister | "Grizzly"
Blake Lapin | "Long Distance Love Poem"
Pippa Phillips | "Five Senryu"
Sarp Sozdinler | "melting mountains
Stephen Williams | "Wishbone" & "My Whole
Thingồi
Jason Davidson | "Mother, Horse, Scold and RoughiỊạỊ
Jacob Schepers| "las glitch whelps we're prone to certain vulnerabilitiesiẠạ
Jenna V. Wray | "Women/durance"
Chris Gylee | "Second Song for Bravery Riding"
LC Gutierrez "Where Art Thou Unbroken"
Josh Tvrdy | "Fagment 6"

Devon Neal | "Once You Lose One, You See Them Everywhere"
Zoë Davis | "dorsum"
James Kelly Quigley | "First Word"
John Yamrus | "her dad," "like a bible," "i think i was 14," & "he named the dog Hacksaw,"
Cole Shuherk| "I communion I'
Ewen Glass | "Naked as the Day I Was Dead"
Ron Mohring | "Faith"
Christopher Lloyd | "hope gap"
Stephen Brown | Hello, Beautiful
Illustration | "Balloon Seller from The Third Man" by Teddy Dinner

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 5h

Had a nightmare that I bombed at a poetry reading. Fumbling with the microphone, awkward dead silences. Anyways come see me read this weekend

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 8h

My new book of poems, UNCLE TIME, is out today! It's a collection of linked surreal prose poems loosely inspired by my upbringing in Nowhere, Indiana I'm quite proud of this weird little book www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

UNCLE TIME
2025 Poetry Chapbook Prize Winner
Benjamin Niespodziany

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Good day, I think this will be a fun season of TV where nothing bad happens and all of the characters learn and grow www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQIY...

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Yellowjackets | Season 4 Official Teaser | SHOWTIME® Original | Paramount+

YouTube video by Paramount Plus

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Simba Kundizeza is owed an apology by the Atlantic. That's at the very least, imo. I am not litigious in any way but this has done damage to his reputation with no evidence other than our AI machine detects AI.

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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"How can you keep a gift from another world?" Do not miss this beautiful ekphrastic by @lorettec.bsky.social in Issue 3. Truly feels like another world! Written after "Wolf" by Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski (Poland) ca 1900. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

✨Let the countdown begin!✨ Only 4 WEEKS to go until ‘Light Chemical Sea’ is released into the wild on November 10, 2026 with the wonderful Bull City Press! ✨Stay tuned for a few behind the scenes glimpses as we get closer to the launch date!

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October 13, 2026

YouTube video by jenwithwords

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Now this is gaming

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Fall trees

Path between trees with orange red leaves drawn with watercolor crayons

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2026

that’s right

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

About three years ago they found a spot on my x-ray. It was an incidental find. It turned out to be a tumor. This story is about that. Sometimes Death moves into your home. Thank you @anmlymag.bsky.social for publishing it. anmly.org/ap43/chelsea...

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Chelsea Stickle – ANMLY

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ooh I do actually have flax seeds, gonna try this asap

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The internet said marigolds attract birds I hope the internet did not lie to me

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"The scariest kind of ghost is a moon ghost. The dust gets in everything and sticks to the space behind your ribs..." New on hex, a beautiful and achingly yearning piece from @sadboyslowjams.bsky.social, ideal company for dwindling autumn days. 👇 🌜👇

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Lunatic by Axel B. Kolcow

The man in the moon spends a lot of time looking down on Earth. He likes it best when the people he can see on Earth are dancing. He likes the wolves that howl up toward him. He dances and howls, too,...

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 13/10/2026

Ah yes, perhaps the most beloved literary trope of all: the classic McMuffin

A screenshot that reads: Moore throws in a Hitchcock-style McMuffin in the shape of a secret tape recording which will reveal just who has been betraying the gangsters.
The problem is that no-one has a machine on which to play it.

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Trying to lure the birds away from my neighbor’s window to my window with prettier flowers

Planter box on window railing full of yellow red marigolds

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Over the moon that my book is out today. Heart overflowing with gratitude to @vanwinkle.bsky.social who gave these families a perfect home & is a joy to work with. Ty @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social team. And thank you @amymarques.bsky.social for creating this gorgeous cover. Hope you'll give it a read.

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 10/10/2026

Join me for some spooky writing fun on Halloween Eve 🦇⚡️ we'll be talking about how horror contributes to every genre & how to capitalize on each deliciously bloody drop of it in your stories

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I have a new micro fiction story in @havehashad.com! grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social for my 8th 💀 & you for reading ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

Title: Therapy in the Park
Author: Anna Vangala Jones
Text of the story: “Therapy has gotten too expensive or always was but there was a time I thought a professional’s advice or guidance was needed but now it’s not that I seek answers so much as someone to listen without judgment or interruption so instead of taking the long bus ride to my old therapist’s office between the Chinese food takeout counter and the stationery store—isn’t it funny and lovely how we still sell and purchase letterhead, envelopes, and journals when so many have fallen out of practice at handwriting even their own names—I venture a few blocks past the giant fountain with birds chirping and children shrieking in the cold water to visit my favorite statue of the bronze couple on the bench, the man reading a book with the woman reading over his shoulder, and I sit beside them like they’re expecting me and tell them about my late rent, my mother’s anxious calls I haven’t yet returned about my father’s test results, and the violinist I’d fallen in love with for as long as it took him to fall in love with me until the fear of being someone’s beloved made me forget any tender feeling he or his music had evoked, and as I breathe and blink hard to slow the tears, a beautiful young woman places her hand on my shoulder and asks me if I’m okay so I look up and tell her yes, sorry for being weird, and she smiles and that’s enough therapy for one day so I rise and start walking as the golden setting sun burns bright like it’s lighting the way home just for me.”
Illustration: a pile of skulls

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"It is the bygone summer sea that dissipated the memories Of the stars in your auburn eyes" —Liu Yuniang beestungmag.com/issue28/nowa...

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Nowaki by Liu Yuniang

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trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We have a fun, slightly macabre, beautifully haunting issue coming Oct. 30 w/ new work from Zhu Xiao Di @praxmar.bsky.social Adam McOmber @egspeckman.bsky.social Dale Bridges @adamfinney.bsky.social @jennymliu.bsky.social @brettstuckel.com @baileyloveless.com @ezhang77.bsky.social & Bob Hicok.

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A Great Blue Heron who knows it. Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary. 10.9.2026 #Birds #Herons

A Great Blue Heron looking like it is strutting in water at the beach with its wings spread wide.

(It's actually landing from a short flight)

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Visit the tiny wren gallery, now showcasing Issue 11: Ekphrastic! www.tinywrenlit.com/issue-11

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Issue 11 | Tiny Wren Lit

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Zoë Ryder White 💙 “Clouds have come down to touch us.” from THE VISIBLE FIELD (River River Books) Happy #smallpoemsunday! @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Quarantine 9

How beautiful the spent annuals,
tied to their roots. The yard's dense mud.
The viral load, the unscrolled breath.
Clouds have come down to touch us.
They hang around; they will not leave.
We have enclosed the yard with strings of light.
In this way, we are kept company.
In this way, our company is kept.

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trees and lake

Green and yellow trees by lake with fallen leaves in surface drawn with watercolor crayons

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Want to treat yourself to a workshop for under 10 dollars? All thirty-four of my popular 3-in-90 workshop recordings are now available for purchase! Expect to come away with three fresh flash drafts! Every purchase includes lifetime access in your account. www.artofflashfiction.com/videos

Graphic shows descriptions of three of the thirty-four video recordings available for purchase: Delving into the Subconscious and Dream Work, Boldly Going: Drafting with Confidnce, and Writing Standout Flash Fiction. Graphic shows short description of each class with option to watch a five minute preview and purchase price of $9.95.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Me, trying to make small talk with Ishmael about his podcast

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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My little contribution to www.engineidling.net/current?utm_...

Glass jaw

Milwaukee and the organ player.
The kite with a long tail pretending to be dragon. Dee
with his God save the queen ringtone,
just so we'd laugh. Just so he could stand at
attention instead of answering calls. A girl
died hitchhiking, as a cautionary tale.
She had to die or we'd get in strange cars.
We thought we knew and it turned out we didn't.
A single punch. That's all it took.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

did you listen to the wind today? no? then you probably won’t get an award

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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ghost Parachute has a monster of an issue out to celebrate 10 years! As I was reading the TOC, I was like, wow, then Wow, then WOW, then like, OMG! It's a real testament to @brettpribble.bsky.social. And the ART! omg, the art... the whole thing is just Art. TY, Brett, for always supporting my work.

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In your dream, you turn into a boulder — Ghost Parachute

You wake up and stretch your arms in the direction of the clouds, you have gotten into the habit of sleeping on the roof, so there are actually clouds above you—you love sleeping on a roof so much mor...

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here's one of my favorite poems from my new MS of ekphrastic prose poems (this one appeared in @bulbregion.bsky.social) AND here's a link to the animation that inspired it: 35mm.online/en/vod/anima...

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

8yo: Lake Michigan is a Great Lake because it’s great

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cannot stop drawing apples

Six apples of various green, red, yellow varieties drawn with watercolor crayons

Four apples of various green, red, yellow varieties drawn with watercolor crayons

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Milkweed spat Tattoos inked in leaves A skin home #TheRottingHaiku @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

these are good apples

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New poem today in @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social! This is what happens when I read articles on astronomy and historical demonology in quick succession: www.justkeepupmagazine.com/expandcontra...

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expand/contract by Marie Brennan — Just Keep Up Magazine

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We have hit our submission quota for the month and are now closed until November. BUT–we are experimenting with short-form poetry. For a chance to be featured in an upcoming issue, write an eco-inspired haiku, use the tag #TheRottingHaiku, and tag us in the post!

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Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

High as the sleepwalking girl to have a story in one of my all-time favourite lit mags! Thank you for having me @hexliterary.bsky.social ❤️🍄

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