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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s a Monday and I went to work on a humid day without any product in my curly hair

Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“you learn that ghosts can lurk inside walls until the moment they conquer a room.” A story about the shadows of danger on the edges of childhood and the vagaries of memory. @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The worst thing about my dream was not that the kids were possessed but that I had walked unknowingly through a town with the hem of my skirt snagged in my underwear after going to the bathroom.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Never mind,” said Frog.

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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Delighted to have a flash in the wonderful @necessaryfiction.com. A special thanks to fiction editor Lacey Dunham.❤️

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’d like to blame David Byrne for my thrown back but it’s my own damn fault

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“Everything’s eerily quiet like this is the apocalypse, an apocalypse where we have to deal with a f—ing camel” in @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/what-we-lost...

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WHAT WE LOST IN THE FIRE | Fiction by Lori Sambol Brody – Reckon Review

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New story in Boudin! thereview.mcneese.edu/olives/

Olives
Lori Sambol Brody
In our hotel room overlooking Marrakech's Djemaa el Fna, you feed me olives you bought in the Medina. Reaching
into pink plastic bags bulging with fruit. Green olives cured with lemon, olives seasoned with harissa, wrinkled black
olives desert-dry, olives tart with vinegar, olives brined to taste of the sea. Last week, on Ibiza, I licked the sea off your
skin in the room the hotel called the honeymoon suite, until you turned away and made the mattress between us an
infinite waste. Now: your fingers slick with oil, your fingers stained red with chili peppers. You are mine, you say. My
lips burn with harissa and part as your fingers near. I do not say: I am yours. My teeth scrape off meat, sucking pits and spitting them into the glass ashtray, into your palm. It is always a feast with you, until it's famine. More? you ask, and yes, I always want more. How much do I really know about you, the wedding ring sitting new and uneasy on my ring
finger; you returned from the bathroom at that club in Ibiza with red lipstick on your collar and said it was mine. The
sheets now stained; we will need to leave the maid a large tip. I tell you that I want to go out into the Medina and you
hesitate before saying yes, dress warmly because the wind comes down from the hills. I wear a long skirt, slit up to my
thigh. The wind whips my hair into my lip gloss, a duller shade than the one still staining your shirt. On the Djamaa el
Fna, a man in white robes bewitches a cobra out of a basket with a song. The snake charmer says to me, I will marry
you and adorn you with necklaces of venomous snakes. I flash my ring and tell him I'm already married. You glower.
Would you string serpents around my neck as jewelry or a noose? We wander through the maze of the souk, and I feel
eyes on me, not only yours. A merchant displays mounds of olives in shallow clay bowls. Green and black and brown and even dun red. Mademoiselle, ma gazelle, you will never taste olives as good as …

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Looking for fresh fiction? Contributor @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social's story was published in Reckon Review! 🔥 buff.ly/O5mcqEi

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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Say, friends—here are about 84 literary journals opening for submissions in September. Some are open now or will close soon in August or September. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well.

The Cincinnati Review
A Public Space
Wigleaf
The Fiddlehead
Kenyon Review
LIT Magazine
Glassworks
Prairie Schooner
Doubly Mad
addanomadd
Crab Creek
In Short
Last Leaves
Garfield Lake
Adroit
DarkWinter
InterrobangLit
Quartet
Kweli Journal
Inlandia
The MacGuffin
Orchards Poetry
The Spectacle
OxMag
Recenter Press Poetry
Foglifter
Passages North
Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit
The Dodge
Prime Numbers
Barely South
Apricity
Dunes Review
Long River
Atlantic Northeast
Haunter Review
Floating Acorn
MUSE Literary
Route 7
Penn Review
Think
Scattered Flock
Revolute
Paper Dragon
Wild Garlic
Valley Voices
Thirteen Bridges
Wordgathering
Mania Magazine
Pictura Journal
Rust & Moth
Southhampton
Orion
Hawkeye
Sontag Magazine
Oyster River Pages
RockPaperPoem
Ignatian Literary
Salt Hill
ROOM
Constellations
Soundings East
The Journal
The Passionfruit Review
Twisted Tongue
Louisiana Literature
The Rumpus
The New Yorker
Pine Hills Review
Compulsive Reader
Mad Persona
South Florida Poetry
Up The Staircase
Terrazo
Poetry Northwest
CRAFT
Okay Donkey
Rappahannock Review
The Quasar Review
Cosmic Daffodil
Barcelona Review
X-R-A-Y
3Elements Review
Red Ogre Review

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

When I told you we had too many blueberry-sized tomatoes, I was hoping you had a recipe for tomato muffins.

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Being gluten free means you always get stuck with the vegan quinoa salad in restaurants.

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is very good story about how seeking Wall Street clients for the corporate department destroyed a law firm’s principles.

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Another gorgeous story by @sfreligh.bsky.social - I too have been trying to forget them for years ….

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New story in Boudin! thereview.mcneese.edu/olives/

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It really really really bugs me how many people simply do not understand what it means when the government tries to convict you even IF THEY FAIL TO DO IT. Do you know how many thousands of dollars in legal fees it costs? You will most likely lose your job. You might lose your home.

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Judianna @judianna.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just a thought.

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Today finds me dancing to Peter Murphy in my bedroom.

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Michele Riv formerly mama_pause 🧵& dead bird app @rivet-em.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We should not have to live this way. He has stolen 11 years of our lives. We should not have to live every day under assault psychologically by a deeply disturbed POTUS. This is all happening because REPUBLICANS will not do a thing to check his insanity and destruction.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

LA freeways 🤝 New York neighborhoods

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Recall that calls to decorum only go one way - to hide that they are POS and history will judge them.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Attorney at Leisure @notsonicely.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

No one is emphasizing to nonlawyers enough that the pace ay which this Supreme Court is changing the law has never been seen before in US history, and all of the history of common law for that matter

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in July.

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Insta has given up on selling Moldava to me and is showing me Uzbekistan - a place I do want to visit (again).

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“The Prairieland cases should be understood as the government’s effort to heroize ICE in the face of community defense efforts to stop mass deportations, and to shift the blame for political violence from federal officers to the left.” — @melissagiragrant.com for @newrepublic.com

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I’m reading a book published by Harper Voyager and so far I’ve seen two inappropriate “it’s”

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Every week I resist doing something that takes 1.5 minutes (filling my pill pox with vitamins)

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This was one of the best books I read this year!

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I found Yesteryear propounding disturbing - cannot shake the feeling.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/06/2026

This ruling is a cruel blow to hundreds of thousands of people who came to the US seeking safety after fleeing violence, war, and instability in their home countries, and who built their lives here under protections granted by our own laws. These are our neighbors, coworkers, friends, and relatives.

apnews.com

The Supreme Court lets the Trump administration end legal protections for Haitians and Syrians

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to pot...

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 25/06/2026

Here are the specific zine link that he said makes me a "useful idiot and member of the revolution against America" Oh no, dang, I accidentally shared it again just now, heck. I don't know how to delete a link, sorry.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026

One last thing: I often see people saying things like ‘never talk to the police without a lawyer’ and a lot of people don’t have lawyers and are like, what should I do? The answer is that you should not talk to the police at all.

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The legacy of the Roberts Court and its conservative justices ….

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“But they would teach their children how to be so quiet a crane could swoop low and roost right next to them.” Lovely story by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Insta really wants me to visit Moldova

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It’s Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Island & issued General Order No. 3. It announced that “all slaves are free.” This story of this one event was commemorated through the diaspora of Black Americans for more than 150 years before becoming a national holiday.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I hope all the Black folks here and everywhere are gearing up for an absolutely dialed-up Juneteenth this year. All of us who are non-Black, especially those of us who are white, it's a great time to honor and observe by tripling down with learning and action. One book list:

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Read Black Writers

Read Black writers all the time. Always. A highly incomplete and ongoingly updated list of great stuff. 

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Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is just a coyote baby account now.

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