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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

“Did the world fall ill at once, or was only the ill world visible?” Editor @daniellezacc.bsky.social has work in the new issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social! anmly.org/ap41/daniell...

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Danielle Zaccagnino – ANMLY

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Happy Pride Month!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Our gender issue is out now! Featuring: - Limousine by Cela Xiè - Taxonomy by E. Peregrine - Every Villain is Gay by Hunter Burke - Selected Passages from Men Explaining Women by Tiffany Harris (@proliffany.bsky.social) - Artwork by Larissa Hauck fastflesh.net/issue-11

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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Loooove this poem by Mai Hindawi in @fastfleshlit.bsky.social

Poem titled unnameable creature by Mai Hindawi

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We had so much fun reading the submissions for our Experimenting with Form issue! Here it is in all its glory, featuring Marek Danielewski, Mai Hindawi, Lukas Wood, Jonathan McLelland, and JI Kleinberg. fastflesh.net/issue-10

Artwork for issue 10: “The 12 Caesars of Rome” by Marek Danielewski

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

our youngest editor, but by far our most discerning. Miles is looking for work that truly surprises him. he wants to read something he’s never read before.

baby Miles in a Fast Flesh onesie and red flannel pants, looking very surprised by your submissions

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Jack’s essay, “We Feral Few,” is out now in Passengers! @jackmaes.bsky.social www.passengersjournal.com/volume-5-issue-4-prose/#maes

Jack Maes is a Latino teacher and writer from Southern California living in Northern Virginia. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the College of William and Mary and an M.S. from MIT: He is one of the co-founders of Fast Flesh Literary Journal.

We Feral Few

There is no carpet in the living room when you arrive. Mom is smiling because you're a chubby baby with enormous eyes, and immediately you're the more honest one. You let it all get to your skin.

We grow up together in that house, we navigate and find rhythm. We invent the joke and the cartwheel and the same movie run raw until we know all the lines and pauses. You are my closest friend, but knowing someone is an effort, not a prize.

As a twenty-something I visit the house again in winter, pulling up the drive, wary of slick. The tires shuffle loose on the ice like they are absorbing every direction. When I press on the brakes, the chassis settles but does not stop, a gentle mistake. The headlights catch the outside air and betray it. Every moving particle and gust of wind is licked with light and trailed in motion. My blood is moving I think. The pond out front of the drive is only a few yards across and is frozen over, the water swelling just above the calm meter of the surrounding dirt. From the car window where I idle, the marbling from the freeze makes it look like a striped stone, gray and white, something I could pick up and thumb in my pocket for luck. I try to make my blood halt. I really try this time.

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

#callforsubmissions you have nine more hours to send us work for issue 10 (Experimental Forms)! send this to your weirdest friends! #flashfiction #cnf #poetry #hybrid #art

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

so, question for other writerly nerds home thinking on a friday night: what do you think of when you think of experimental form? any favorite stories, essays, books, or journals come to mind? ✍️💙📚

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

reading through our submissions, I keep coming back to the question “is this experimental?” there’s a lot of what I’d consider experimental content but not experimental form.

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

we promise to be extra lazy to balance things out

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

love to wake up, stretch, and then shape my human form around the devils rectangle so i can read some of the worst words crafted on the lords internet

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

@sscott15.bsky.social is the skull, @jackmaes.bsky.social is the fencer, @eawest.bsky.social is the unicorn, and @daniellezacc.bsky.social is the ghost vomiting her every thought into this sacred space

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

the reason for the season (our editors’ group chat)

group chat called “denis johnson pilled” (members of the chat are fencer, skull, and unicorn)

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Started a starter pack!

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Danielle Zaccagnino Maes @daniellezacc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

reskeet w/ controversial book takes 💙📚 the movies based on Stephen King’s books are so much better than his actual books The Shining and Misery in particular great premises but goddamn he needed an editor

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

reskeet w/ controversial book takes 💙📚 my own: - Hemingway is boring as fuck - Julia by Sandra Newman was infinitely better than 1984

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

reskeet w/ controversial book takes 💙📚 just came across 1-star reviews of Frankenstein in an AP Lit group, including “I threw it out my window,” “I’d put this alongside other amateur horror authors like Stephen King” and “I’d rather read the Berenstain Bears” the Berenstain motherfucking bears

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

too pretty, too hot, too smart. the ideas are endless

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Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

So we are here and we want you to know that we are returning in 2025 starting with the 2024 Advent Calendar. We know you need it: www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...

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The Essay Daily Advent Calendar

The 2024 Essay Daily Advent Calendar is back after a year away from the keyboard! Each year, we publish an Advent Calendar, a new essay each...

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We publish work under 500 words, so there are SO many pieces that just missed the boat with word counts between 400 and 500. If that’s you, don’t fret! There are so many other ways we will honor your wonderful work! #indielit

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Final nomination: “Last Night” by Ryan Thomas LaBee (@ohthatryan.bsky.social) We loved the way this subverted our Newborn theme! www.fastflesh.net/last-night

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Second nomination: “The End of Bluebird Days” by Brandon McWilliams (unfortunately so appropriate right now) www.fastflesh.net/the-end-of-b...

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We were so excited to send in our nominations this morning! 💙📚📝🧵 The first piece we nominated: “In Which Michael Myers' Remains are Distributed Across the U.S. in Neatly Wrapped Parcels of Ground Meat” by Sarp Sozdinler (come on, tell me that title doesn’t intrigue you) www.fastflesh.net/myers

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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Stuck in traffic behind a lit mag editor

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Danielle Zaccagnino Maes @daniellezacc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Who has horror recs? I recently read Gus Moreno’s This Thing Between Us, which explored grief through the story of a cucuy. What else ya got? 💙📚

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

good choice! I remember loving this one too

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Attn small press friends!⭐️ It's that time of year again! Per Write or Die Magazine tradition, I'm putting together our annual literary gift guide to feature books, classes, magazines, merch and more. Fill out this form to be included! ↓ bit.ly/3Z1PVr0

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

you look so pretty for a turd man made of turds

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Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

While we are manifesting or whatever how do I get across a poem in the shape of the president forgiving my student loans?

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Reskeet with a favorite book from your childhood

Book cover of Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar. In the cover image, students are chaotically flailing / flying / falling inside a classroom while the brick building tilts like the Leaning Tower.

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I felt terrible being someone’s 667th follow today :(

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

It’s time! Best Microfiction open for magazine editors' nominations! Now until 12/15. This year's anthology judged by @DawnRaffel. Edited by @megpokrass & Gary Fincke. Editors: Sub 5 stories (up to 400 words each). #flashfiction #microfiction tinyurl.com/5aakrphh

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

pssst: we follow back anyone with some variation of writer / poet / essayist / artist / librarian / lit mag in their bio. if your profile’s blank, give us a way to recognize you as one of our own. 🖤

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

recently made a spreadsheet of all our contributors’ links and social media handles, but! we didn’t foresee the great migration. if we’ve published you before, please reach out so we can tag you on here when we share your work!

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Connie Post @conniepostpoet.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

starter pack of everyone who gets just a little manic at the same times I do

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Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

hello? poems, is that you?

a room at the MoMA. the words “DIAL-A-POEM +1(917)994-8949” are on a white wall. Ally stands by a table with a rotary phone on it, holding the receiver up to their ear.

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