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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Poetry today by E. A. Midnight “how much of love is seeing someone else’s mental illness as a quirk / and not failure, not a dent, not something that must be fixed” librelit.com/2025/09/20/m...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

FEATURING: 🧠https://librelit.com/read/year-one/archive/ Courtney LeBlanc Stacey C. Johnson Lydia Rae Bush Chrissy Stegman David Cazden Merlin Flower Sam Floyd Claude Clayton Smith Joshua Kulseth Liz DiGregorio

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Poetry today by Eric Lawson “Too hot for clothes, too alone to care.” librelit.com/2025/08/20/e...

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @handle.invalid · 16/08/2025

“I will say my goodbyes to each room. Remember our newborn snuggling on a sheepskin rug, hear the creaking herringbone parquet floors, relive my postpartum vigil at the bedroom window, the slow-motion clouds.” Delighted to see my piece In Between in @librelit.bsky.social

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

FEATURING: MICHELLE MCMILLAN-HOLIFIELD NA ASHELEY ASHITEY LAUREN MCGOVERN JENNIFER JONES EMMA ROTH EDWARD MICHAEL SUPRANOWICZ JIANNA HEUER IVAN DE MONBRISON KUSHAL PODDAR TAYLA NADEN librelit.com/read/year-on...

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Year One Archive – LIBRE

PROSE SALENA CASHA OLIVER CATES Udochukwu Chidera AMY L. EGGERT SCOTT HOLSTAD JACK JENKINS PURBASHA ROY KETI SHEA SALENA CASHA “Her Better Half” OLIVER CATES “Deception of Beauty (or Eclipsed by Rot)”...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Fictions today by @yallaalia.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/08/16/a...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Fiction today by @ilanamiral.bsky.social “And the shorter your hair, the closer they are to your skull.” librelit.com/2025/08/13/i...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Good morning! We’re pleased present a video reading by Ace Boggess for his Issue Three: Cinema piece “How Much Do You Plan to Splurge in the Coming Year?” Link to website: librelit.com/issue-three/... Link to YouTube: youtu.be/VsgWwlCJ9w8?...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Poetry today by Adrienne Marie Barrios: “I learned that you built a wall, but the wall has windows, maybe even a door with hinges I can pry off with my teeth…” librelit.com/2025/08/09/a...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Poetry by Andrew Cox today on the site: “Before the bobcats adopted my mother and made her queen.” librelit.com/2025/08/06/a...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

We have an interview out with Victoria Garcia today. librelit.com/2025/07/29/i...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

“people i’ve outgrown” by Salem Paige “surely you recognize the migratory patterns of your whims” librelit.com/2025/08/02/s...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I’m looking Change in the eye as I write this and welcoming it over, but before it fully takes effect, we have a job to do. The archives is still underway, and after weekend work, I offer you 10 more pieces by previous contributors, now available on the site. 🧠: librelit.com/read/year-on...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Grateful to the early voices of Libre, when the intent was baby-pure, so simplified it was a nice shade of blue and see-through: a gathering of voices on the internet speaking clearly about the private, making public the caliber of pain they couldn’t publish anywhere else.

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Reppert writes around forgiveness in restrained language that elevates the art of poetic sparsity. librelit.com/2025/07/23/f...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

🧠 librelit.com/read/year-on... FEATURING: KEVIN GRAUKE ERICA DAWSON GARY GROSSMAN V.C. MYERS JAREK JARVIS SAM KERBEL ADRIANNE OLDHAM BRETT STUCKEL SHANNON FROST GREENSTEIN LORI D’ANGELO

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

A.S. Aubrey was kind enough to provide us with a moving photo montage with recorded audio of her performing her piece “Confessions From Your Therapist”. View it on the website and our YouTube channel: librelit.com/2025/07/09/a... youtu.be/a57I-30mW0Q?...

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Confessions From Your Therapist – LIBRE

By A.S. Aubrey https://youtu.be/a57I-30mW0QThis morning, I sit safe in my office in the darkened day, sun still, not yet rising, safe from client questions, the pain of being human. But I both long fo...

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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I wrote this piece published by @librelit.bsky.social on the day before the innauguration of someone. It’s called “Winter Poetics,” but is as valid today when the cold steel of politics is pressing up against us. Check it out. While you’re there, read more. librelit.com/2025/07/16/m...

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Winter Poetics – LIBRE

Thomas Chatterton's "Holiday Afternoon" By Michael Hill https://youtu.be/DAP1yn_fxKE It’s a bitter cold day, so much so that poetry is frozen in my keyboard. I’m supposed to write a poem tonight for g...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Prose this evening by Michael Hill. Be sure to check out the fantastic video he so kindly recorded for us. @ccprof.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/07/16/m... youtu.be/DAP1yn_fxKE?...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Prose by A.S. Aubrey today: “How to carve the quiet place, its shaky walls becoming stronger with repetition until you know your own home?” librelit.com/2025/07/09/a...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Isaac Russo was kind enough to film himself reading Saturday’s TWO KNAVES WALK INTO A BAR. View it on the website and YouTube, here: librelit.com/2025/07/05/i... youtu.be/iIysbofF9yI

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Prose today by Isaac Russo: “Whiskey had been a poor substitute for the love of his life, but in the end they burned the same.” librelit.com/2025/07/05/i...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

“Chronotherapy” by Lou Dee As the fading calls of machinery /Reach across the city / In its violet afterglow. librelit.com/2025/07/02/l...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

🧠 librelit.com/read/year-on... FEATURING: LIZ DEBEER LAURENA NELLIES-ORTIZ SYLVIE MELTZER EWEN GLASS AUSTIN FOSTER JOEL WUKOTICH BRYCE JOHLE CELESTE SCHUELER GARY BLOOM AMRITA MATHUR

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

🧠 librelit.com/read/year-on... FEATURING: nat raum GREG FREED CLAYRE BENZADÓN KATE LEWINGTON ROBB KUNZ IRWIN FREEMAN LUANNE CASTLE MICHELLE CRISTIANI SEAN ENNIS KATIE BESWICK

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

“Sometimes I wonder who would I be without my chemical imbalance” Poetry today by @sarahrubinstein.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/06/25/m...

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Here's my mid-year wrap-up. Incredibly grateful to have so much out this year already. @chmmagazine.bsky.social @librelit.bsky.social @innerworlds.bsky.social @ericfomley.bsky.social 's Anomaly @intrepidusink.bsky.social @pulpasylum.bsky.social @fusionfragment.bsky.social's Saros SF 💜🤘💀

2025 Mid-Year Publications
Michael Bettendorf
-Devil is Fine - Cosmic Horror Monthly Issue 55
-#E0E0E0 Sky - Libre
-Never Odd or Even - Inner Worlds Issue 6
-A Complete Collapse of Guidance Systems, Yet We Persist - Anomaly
-Somewhere in the Lunar Wilderness & Counter Offer - Intrepidus Ink
-Cyberpunk/Tech-noir Drabble set of 5 - Saros SF Issue 3 Tears in Rain
-Traced in Air - Pulp Asylum
-Between Jesus and the Joker - Backchannels

The background is a blue/purple/pink ombre. Two Pinwheels of Michael Bettendorfs bookend the title. A purple version of his dog shooting laser beams from her eyes is in the bottom right corner.

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Updated submissions guidelines means advertising about it on socials, despite my sincere desire not to have to do so. Trying to be quieter these days, but it’s hard to do that with something like Libre. We’re able to offer $15 per accepted piece. Thanks for thinking of us. 🧠 librelit.com/submit/

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Submit to Libre – LIBRE

Libre wants to publish writing about mental health, whether that takes the shape and structure of surrealist short story, true-to-life flash fiction, micro CNF memoir, brief essay, or visual art. We’r...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

🏛️ librelit.com/read/year-one/ SCOTT HOLSTAD ERIN KRONCKE JACK JENKINS AMY L. EGGERT JOHN C. KRIEG PURBASHA ROY CAVAR SARAH OLIVER CATES KYLE COX UDOCHUKWU CHIDERA

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Year One – LIBRE

Past this page is a living archive of the creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and artwork we published during our first year, beginning in June 2024 and running through April 2025. We treasure the w...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Ten previous contributors, a stretch of Sunday ahead, and a new archival system underway. You can now find these on the website under “YEAR ONE”. We’ll be posting regular updates every couple of days with more pieces you can now rediscover. Thank you for your patience with this project.

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I’ve been working on creating a custom archives for YEAR ONE contributors, including all fiction, poetry, nonfiction, reviews, artwork, & interviews we’ve published up until this previous April. I’m averaging 4-5 drafts a day, the going is slow, but we’re getting there librelit.com/read/year-one/

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Year One – LIBRE

COMING SOON Past this page is a living archive of the creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and artwork we published during our first year, beginning in June 2024 and running through April 2025. We tr...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

We have a newly-minted page on the website that further clarifies our updated vision and values for the magazine. I feel inordinately lucky and indebted to the small but mighty troop of dedicated individuals that populate our Slack. librelit.com/values/

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Values – LIBRE

Libre's mission is to maintain an archival platform for individuals impacted by neurodivergence and mental illness to define their own lived experience on their own terms; and, to highlight innovative...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Despite its minor platform, Libre should sometimes shut up. My mistake was applying my tone-deaf understanding of a theory and new science to the feed, composing a tweet that was thoughtless of its overtones, ignorant of its racial undertones, in all respects asinine,

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I made a mistake and I’ll pay for it in blood and loss of good faith and followers.

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"Anybody, Anywhere" by @jiannaheuerwrites.bsky.social librelit.com/issue-three/...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"There's something dark about There's Something About Mary" by Jer Hayes librelit.com/issue-three/...

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Nicole Brogdon @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Thank you @librelit.bsky.social & editor Mart Buchanan, for showcasing my therapy-culture-infused flash, “Self-Help”. x.com/librelitmag/...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Poetry today by Brannon O’Brennan librelit.com/2025/06/08/b...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

LIBRE UPDATES 🧠 (if anyone’s listening)

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

“How to Man: An Appeal for the Quiet Western" by Lee Keeler librelit.com/issue-three/...

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George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Thanks to @librelit.bsky.social for publishing my story ‘Car Drives Away.’ Link below!

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

“The Alignment of Existence” by Pepe Fernández Martínez librelit.com/issue-three/...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Prose today by George Oliver librelit.com/2025/06/07/g...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A review today by @stonespiral.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/06/07/m...

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