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An independent publisher of defamiliarized creative writing. We publish work that stranges in pursuit of a renewed sense of discovery. Recent publications at thegravityofthething.com Submission guidelines at thegravityofthething.com/submit

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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 18h
"Bouquet Garni" by Laurel Prieto for our Fall 2026 issue. New works of defamiliarized creative writing will appear in our fall issue throughout October and November. Learn more at thegravityofthething.com.
Black and white aquatint etchings of herb bouquets.
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Take a workshop about writing about writing, a new-to-you subject you’re interested in exploring..." An experimental craft essay by Marie Cloutier recently appeared in our Baring the Device column. @mariecloutier.bsky.social #craftessay #creativenonfiction #experimentalwriting
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Five Steps to Figure Out What You Already Know About Writing | Marie Cloutier
"Be an ambitious emerging writer who wants to try something new. Take a workshop about writing about writing, a new-to-you subject you’re interested in exploring..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"the wagon rattles the horses’ gait drums into my back hooves undoing over stone follow the pain until I lose its track..." Our Summer 2026 issue concludes with a prose poem by Janet Belding. #poetry #prosepoetry #crossgenre #poetrycommunity
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The Air Creates | Janet Belding
"Sometimes I float above us the sheet around me, out behind me fluttering in the pure air the landscape grass brown against purple-shadowed hills, the color so sweet it tastes like flowering grass..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The first object is not a door. It is catalogued as 'breathing seam', though no one agrees on when the name changed..." Fiction by Kumar Sen from our Summer 2026 issue. #fiction #shortfiction #shortstory #experimentalwriting
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The Register Remains Blank | Kumar Sen
"When it opens, the room forgets one detail it was sure it needed. When it closes, the room continues as if that loss was never structural..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Define cohort. a) the people you fall with. The kids whose potential you see drain out of them when burnout hits..." A hermit crab essay by Abby Lavery from our Summer 2026 issue. #hermitcrabessay #creativenonfiction #crossgenre #experimentalwriting
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A Vocab Test for the Overachiever | Abby Lavery
"Define cohort. a) the people you fall with. The kids whose potential you see drain out of them when burnout hits..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"HOMETOWN: the negative space was born of its own hoard..." Poetry by Panika M. C. Dillon appeared this morning in our Summer 2026 issue. @withoutreports.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity #experimentalwriting
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The Four of Coins Makes an e-Harmony Profile | Panika M. C. Dillon
"NAME: populate lonely places with weapons the negative space loves most. they are the host. AGE: the negative space doesn’t need agency when it has an incendiary device..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"This old spell . from the SHADOW . STORY the grim noir this is, was a (poem) ing . needs be some explaining..." A new poem by Juris d. Ahn from our Summer 2026 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity #experimentalwriting
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The Strange Case of D | Juris d. Ahn
"...instead of an actorskooling floral like / GARDENIA, floridawater on altar / gold bell, honey, champagne-ya / and doing such a good job, bardlike convince / the flies..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"There is a sunrise crawling up your toes, a sunrise you trust to hold you close, to whisper with you, I still live, you still live, we still live..." Our Summer 2026 issue recently launched with genre-bending poems by Hibah Shabkhez. @hibahshabkhez.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity #crossgenre
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Selected Poems | Hibah Shabkhez
"There is a sunrise crawling up your toes, a sunrise you trust to hold you close, to whisper with you, I still live, you still live, we still live..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Morning Walk" by Laurel Prieto for our Summer 2026 issue. New works of defamiliarized creative writing will appear in our summer issue throughout July, August, and September. Learn more at thegravityofthething.com.
A pink and green screen print of overlapping houses, porches, gardens, and palm trees.
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"The spatula clattered to the ground, carrying with it droplets of grease. A baby stood outside the window, though perhaps stood was not so much the correct word as hovered..." Our Spring 2026 issue recently concluded with a short story by Meggie Royer. #fiction #shortfiction #shortstory
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Delegate | Meggie Royer
"The spatula clattered to the ground, carrying with it droplets of grease. A baby stood outside the window, though perhaps stood was not so much the correct word as hovered..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"See, I say, the spark of the battered transformer, the whaler straining against its slip, beating the bulwark into dark and splinter..." "The Storm" and other poems by Randall Watson recently appeared in our Spring 2026 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity #experimentalwriting
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Selected Poems | Randall Watson
"This is the lie I tell. / That I am South of Boston. / That I am the Great Bay, chop and white-cap, / north wind shouldering a tidal heave, / the fire burning in the house by the shore..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"threads, bodkins thimbles, the weft of fabric and the craft needles burrow..." A poem by Marie-Andree Auclair from our Spring 2026 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
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Stitches | Marie-Andree Auclair
"Mother teaches me life skills / how to baste, embroider / hem and mend so I’ll understand / about silk and serge / satin, linings, padding / and about the necessity of scissors..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"Sometimes the woman thought the trees protected her and sometimes she thought the trees would kill her. Sometimes, too, she could hear them talking, hear them calling to her..." New fiction by Justin McDevitt from our Spring 2026 issue. #fiction #shortfiction #shortstory #experimentalwriting
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Everyone Else Is Crazy | Justin McDevitt
"Sometimes the woman thought the trees protected her and sometimes she thought the trees would kill her. Sometimes, too, she could hear them talking, hear them calling to her..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"...today is April Fool’s, but all jokes have become decrepit; the bouquets with roses are too neat, too coiled, too circular..." A flash nonfiction story by Nicki Youngsma from our Spring 2026 issue. @nickiswonderlist.bsky.social #flash #creativenonfiction #experimentalwriting
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At the Florist Shop | Nicki Youngsma
"I want to be drenched in flower musk, breathing it to bind what’s broken; today is April Fool’s, but all jokes have become decrepit; the bouquets with roses are too neat, too coiled, too circular..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"...I wouldn’t mind being dizzy more often, falling down and into things, spilling other people’s drinks in fancy restaurants." Our Spring 2026 issue recently launched with three poems by jms xuange. #poetry #poetrycommunity #experimentalwriting
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Selected Poems | jms xuange
"I wouldn’t mind / being dizzy more often, falling down and into things, / spilling other people’s drinks in fancy restaurants. / I’d like the attention—being asked to leave..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"Backyard" by Laurel Prieto for our Spring 2026 issue. New works of defamiliarized creative writing will appear in our spring issue throughout April and May. Learn more at thegravityofthething.com.
A dark green screen print of waving fences overlapped by light green, pink, and yellow screen prints of ferns and blossoms.
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"Danny fell asleep. His hunting rifle was propped up against a tree. He left the safety off. You never leave the safety off..." Our Winter 2026 issue recently concluded with a short story by Brenna Dean, which experiments with point of view. #fiction #shortfiction #shortstory #experimentalwriting
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How It Happened | Brenna Dean
"Danny fell asleep. His hunting rifle was propped up against a tree. He left the safety off. You never leave the safety off. Danny dozed on the ground, leaning against the tree, and then he shifted an...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"At three days post-treatment, eye contact was erroneously made between a member of the laboratory staff and an individual in the experimental group..." A genre-bending short story by Jack Dixon from our Winter 2026 issue. #shortfiction #genrebending #crossgenre #experimentalwriting
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The Effects of Monophosphoryl Lipid A on the Development of Multiple System Atrophy | Jack Dixon
"The resulting rupture in the singularity of the researcher’s consciousness was described as ‘desperate, painful, and deeply unsettling’ and persists to the date of publication..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"Threshold is a wall. When you look at those orange bricks, you see smears of blood. It’s from the last woman who tried to go through the wall..." A poem by Wen Jing appeared this morning in our Winter 2026 issue. @wenjingauthor.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity
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Threshold | Wen Jing
"Threshold is a wall. When you look at those orange bricks, you see smears of blood. It’s from the last woman who tried to go through the wall..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"Next: relief. You have survived. Everything from here on out is improvement, no?" A new short story from our Winter 2026 issue. Click below to read "Postscript to a Horror Film" by John Higgins. #fiction #shortfiction #shortstory
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Postscript to a Horror Film | John Higgins
"Next: relief. You have survived. Everything from here on out is improvement, no?" John Higgins's work has been featured in Always Crashing, Misery Tourism, and more.
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"...she looks naïve. It’s sweet. But that sweetness is as brief as a camera flash capturing her. We lean to the side and see all at once how brief this moment is..." Flash fiction by @lillian-durr-art.bsky.social from our Winter 2026 issue. #fiction #flashfiction
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Instincts | Lillian Durr
"...she looks naïve. It’s sweet. But that sweetness is as brief as a camera flash capturing her. We lean to the side and see all at once how brief this moment is..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"...it was the morning when the fish jumped out of the pan and swam around the room, when the pictures and their frames came unmoored and drifted into each other..." Our Winter 2026 issue recently launched with a flash nonfiction story by Ethan Stanton. #creativenonfiction #experimentalwriting
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November 6th, 2024 | Ethan Stanton
"I woke up it was Wednesday and I made the coffee and prepared the lunchboxes, brushed the ants off the counter and the lunchbox was pink and plastic and needed extra scrubbing..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
"Harvest" by Laurel Prieto for our Winter 2026 issue. New works of defamiliarized creative writing will appear in our winter issue throughout February and March. Learn more at thegravityofthething.com.
A black and white screen print of chanterelle mushrooms.
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We are excited to share our 2025 nominations for the Pushcart Prize, the Best American anthologies, and the Best of the Net anthology. A very big congratulations to our contributors!
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2025 Nominations: Best of the Net, Best American Anthologies, and More
The Gravity of the Thing’s editors are excited to share our 2025 nominations for the Best of the Net anthology, the Best American anthologies, and the Pushcart Prize.
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"The Boys could be found on the Rock whenever there was sun. Their brown and pink tones dappling the grey jut, an image of the languid summer they all wished could last forever..." Our Fall 2025 issue recently concluded with a short story by Eric Oman Callahan. #fiction #shortfiction #shortstory
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The Boys | Eric Oman Callahan
"The Boys could be found on the Rock whenever there was sun. Their brown and pink tones dappling the grey jut, an image of the languid summer they all wished could last forever..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"A mimosa represented chastity because the leaves of the mimosa close at night, or when touched. White carnation meant pure love and good luck, and a pink one, a mother’s undying love..." "Pink Carnation" by Rebecca Suzuki recently appeared in our Fall 2025 issue. #creativenonfiction
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Pink Carnation | Rebecca Suzuki
"A mimosa represented chastity because the leaves of the mimosa close at night, or when touched. White carnation meant pure love and good luck, and a pink one, a mother’s undying love..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"work is a place where some adolescents and most adults spent a good deal of their waking time doing specified tasks or acting in prescribed roles in order to earn money..." Genre-bending writing by Carrie Nassif from our Fall 2025 issue. #crossgenre #experimentalwriting
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In the Beforetimes | Carrie Nassif
"work is a place where some adolescents and most adults spent a good deal of their waking time doing specified tasks or acting in prescribed roles in order to earn money..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"If you should ever miss me, take the boat. If the boat is stalling, jump and fly. May strong winds float you, levant kids." "The Firth of Forth" and other poems by Judy Thorn recently appeared in our Fall 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
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Fealty and Other Poems | Judy Thorn
"If you should ever miss me, take the boat. / If the boat is stalling, jump and fly. / May strong winds float you, levant kids. / I sing for quarters now, into my hat. / Nothing bad I’ve ever done has...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"I want the small sky brightnesses on the piece of hard ground like I want food, but different. I want to look at it. I want to touch it..." A new flash fiction story by Rob Swystun from our Fall 2025 issue. #fiction #flashfiction
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The Birth of Evil | Rob Swystun
"Other like me has sky brightness. He showed me. It was like many sky brightnesses, but small. They are in a piece of hard ground. They move like sky brightness on water..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"how our distant ancestors first learned to grind with their teeth how we have so many words for the act of sifting one thing from another" Our Fall 2025 issue recently launched with two poems by CS Crowe. #poetry #poetrycommunity
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Selected Poems | CS Crowe
"we have so many words / for the act of sifting one thing / from another / sift, sieve, sort, strain / how many of these words / are gentle and soft / in our mouths / thresh, sever, sunder, winnow..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"First Steps" by Laurel Prieto for our Fall 2025 issue. New works of defamiliarized creative writing will appear in our fall issue throughout September and October. Learn more at thegravityofthething.com.
Green, red, and pink screen-printed images of brick walkways and wood picket fences.
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"did he touch a cigarette to synthetic? a single spark igniting. curtains / cabinets furniture. the hot cloud pawing through fusty / hallways..." Our Summer 2025 issue recently concluded with a poem by Kathleen Hellen. #poetry #poetrycommunity
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How the Fire Must Have Started | Kathleen Hellen
"black smoke charring faded floral wallpaper. / they were old, we didn’t know them. call it failure of occupation. the grass untamed. trackless. / the vines that willed a wall. call it failure of atte...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
"If anyone knows where this tlanguage of rocks leads then it’s a trap / A dead end for people who are looking for something resembling the truth..." A new poem by Mykyta Ryzhykh from our Summer 2025 issue. #poetry #poetrycommunity
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Loneliness is a Room | Mykyta Ryzhykh
"If anyone knows where this tlanguage of rocks leads then it's a trap / A dead end for people who are looking for something resembling the truth / We drowned like drowned men who have swum out three t...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"I convince myself that the view of sun breaking over water is what I need, to soothe this body whose pieces were cut with different blades, painted the same color, and built back together..." Two prose poems by @warmaiden.bsky.social from our Summer 2025 issue. #poetry #prosepoetry
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Selected Prose Poems | Colleen S. Harris
"My room is rural dark, back field dark, so dark I can read by the wan glow cast from the kitchen light through the crack under my bedroom door, the same dim radiance as this unhurried burn of inflamm...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"you're a fungus expanding your fibrous tendrils across dead skin and decaying organs; sing in the language of hunger, the words an ancestral memory buried in the genetic code..." Genre-bending writing by @gorillapoet.bsky.social from our Summer 2025 issue. #flash #experimentalwriting
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Re(Evolution) | Nathan Tompkins
"you're a fungus expanding your fibrous tendrils across dead skin and decaying organs; sing in the language of hunger, the words an ancestral memory buried in the genetic code..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"Malicious, bleary-eyed scammers, payola and crime and all that. It wasn’t a life I knew, was acquainted with at all. But I liked to dream about it anyway..." Check out Yuna Kang's short fiction story, which appeared this week in our Summer 2025 issue. #fiction #shortfiction #shortstory
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Walnut Creek Gas & Co. | Yuna Kang
"Malicious, bleary-eyed scammers, payola and crime and all that. It wasn’t a life I knew, was acquainted with at all. But I liked to dream about it anyway..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"A man stands in front of a mirror wearing last night’s makeup. He knows he should have taken it off, but he didn’t. He was having a good time, living his truest self, and he got home so late (so early)..." Our Summer 2025 issue launches with a #flashfiction story by @adjinntonic.bsky.social.
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Put Your Lips Together and Blow | Tate A. Geborkoff
"A man stands in front of a mirror wearing last night’s makeup. He knows he should have taken it off, but he didn’t. He was having a good time, living his truest self, and he got home so late (so earl...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"Lichen" by Laurel Prieto for our Summer 2025 issue. New works of defamiliarized creative writing will appear in our summer issue throughout July and August. Learn more at thegravityofthething.com.
A teal-green screen print of molecules, seed pods, and air waves on top of gray and blue blocks of color.
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"We had no language, you understand, only the possibility of it; three strands of hibiscus arranged left to right would mean grandmother" Our Spring 2025 issue concludes with a poem by Zachariah Claypole White. @zachariahcw.bsky.social #poetry
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I Give the Angel Chuck’s Watch, and He Recalls the First Night of Creation | Zachariah Claypole White
"We had no language, you understand, / only the possibility of it; / three strands of hibiscus arranged / left to right would mean grandmother; / it could also mean subway or wheelchair."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"Did you ever think you’d end up here Those times you went on Oprah, talking tough To teenage moms? You never quite became a star." New #poetry by Nadia Kalman from our Spring 2025 issue.
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Getting Personal with Dr. Phil | Nadia Kalman
"Did you ever think you’d end up here / Those times you went on Oprah, talking tough / To teenage moms? You never quite became a star." Nadia Kalman is an NEA Literature grantee and the author of The ...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"In the beginning not yet sacred all is apropos. As I traverse a simple closed curve counterclockwise the interior is always on the left." A prose poem by Heikki Huotari from our Spring 2025 issue.
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Call to Order | Heikki Huotari
"In the beginning not yet sacred all is apropos. As I traverse a simple closed curve counterclockwise the interior is always on the left. I'll gaze in wonder only at that which I've gazed in wonder at...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"Out of sight of the hero’s dead eyes, he brushes his bony hands and gets back to the very important work of writing his treatise on the condition of the undead..." New fiction by Henry Stevens from our Spring 2025 issue.
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Death Trap | Henry Stevens
"He sits back down in his throne of bone and ebony, admiring his phylactery. He wants to be excited, but there is something empty in his victory. No one to tell."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"I was told growing up 'you’re a quarter' of each thing, like a dollar bill, but with the weight of making sure you can keep all the pieces together, to be able to buy what you need at the dollar store." Creative nonfiction by Elica Sue from our Spring 2025 issue.
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Ten-Course Chicken (Adobo) Dinner | Elica Sue
"I was told growing up 'you’re a quarter' of each thing, like a dollar bill, but with the weight of making sure you can keep all the pieces together, to be able to buy what you need at the dollar stor...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"Something wraps your ankle in a tight grip. A sharp end presses into your lower back and threatens to pierce your skin. A claw? A sting? A beak?"‪ Our Spring 2025 issue recently launched with a short story by @johansmits.bsky.social.
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The Fearsucker | Johan Smits
"Something wraps your ankle in a tight grip. A sharp end presses into your lower back and threatens to pierce your skin. A claw? A sting? A beak?"
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Pathways" by Laurel Prieto for our Spring 2025 issue. New works of defamiliarized prose and poetry will appear in our spring issue throughout May and June. Learn more at thegravityofthething.com.
A multilayered screen print that features a yellow, brick walkway on top of purple and green flowers and bulbs.
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"the Valkyries predicted we would crave quake, that the stars existed to shine down on our teeth embedded in sidewalks like ivory sequins..." Our Winter 2025 issue concludes with three experimental poems by Panika M. C. Dillon. @withoutreports.bsky.social
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Selected Poems | Panika M. C. Dillon
"the Valkyries predicted we would crave quake, that the stars existed to shine down on our teeth embedded in sidewalks like ivory sequins / there’s a crack in the bruised sky of Ymir’s skull—that’s ho...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"The seeds of my prison were sown in the third century when a drunk calligrapher scrawled an impromptu poem. On a spring afternoon beside a stream, the calligrapher Xizhi composed the Orchid Pavilion Preface..." A new short story by Alex Zhao.
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The Emperor's Mirror | Alex Zhao
"The seeds of my prison were sown in the third century when a drunk calligrapher scrawled an impromptu poem. On a spring afternoon beside a stream, the calligrapher Xizhi composed the Orchid Pavilion ...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"Within a nanosecond, we are alert, guarded, equipped. We multiply into a huge army, ready for action. Not for nothing, we’re called your first line of defense. We charge with one goal. To protect you." A new short story by Shanti Chandrasekhar from our Winter 2025 issue.
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For Your Self-Defense | Shanti Chandrasekhar
"Within a nanosecond, we are alert, guarded, equipped. We multiply into a huge army, ready for action. Not for nothing, we’re called your first line of defense. We charge with one goal. To protect you...
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"when you were tucked in your grave, neat as a napkin in a lap, all words soared off to some shining tree, bereaving me..." Two poems by Amy Allison from our Winter 2025 issue. @byamyallison.bsky.social
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Mourning and Highways | Amy Allison
"when you were tucked in your grave, / neat as a napkin in a lap, / all words soared off to / some shining tree, / bereaving me / now they’re transforming / into things that hurl by..."
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The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"Says once she tripped that she was her own mother giving birth to herself. She was in labor for forty-eight hours and remembers every second of it..." New prose poetry by Noah Anthony Mezzacappa from our Winter 2025 issue.
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Selected Poems | Noah Anthony Mezzacappa
"Says once she tripped that she was her own mother giving birth to herself. She was in labor for forty-eight hours and remembers every second of it: the bed of ice they laid her on as they tried to br...
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