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SwitchMicroMag @switchmicromag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you to SmokeLong Quarterly for this interview of my Coeditor Carol Edelstein and me. We appreciate the opportunity to highlight Switch! You can read the interview here: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/107124... The Village: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/plans/1913401 @heyflashvillage.bsky.social

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Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Lady in the Cowboy Hat by @richardpounder.bsky.social We enjoyed how our perception shifted throughout. It reflects the reality of how ordinary people can turn to cruelty when a crowd is laughing & the uncomfortable truth that you may be laughing at someone struggling beyond imagination.

Tuesday Taster
The Lady in the Cowboy Hat by Richard Pounder

'“Oh my God! He is sick. He is a sick man,” the lady with the cowboy hat says.
I evolve into clap push-ups, the adrenaline from knowing moms watch me causes me to do way more reps than I normally would.
She runs inside, shouts to someone inside, “That evil demon with the blue car is out there, he's sick!”
“Yeah, I'm sick!”
I turn and see more people watching, laughing.
Two of the twenty-something-year-old aftercare workers are now watching. One of them is filming. She looks at the other and grins.
A buzz courses through me.'

Read it now in Issue 7.

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Four of my family members have died in the past 18 months. I didn’t cry when they died. It only felt real when Norm Macdonald died." - Richard Pounder mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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HAD @havehashad.com · 06/08/2026

Sac Zmithhhhhhhhh!!!!! Zac Smith www.havehashad.com/jk93m

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HAD @havehashad.com · 05/08/2026

ben starrrrrrrrrrr Ben Starr www.havehashad.com/7wvqo

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HAD @havehashad.com · 25/07/2026

I'll consider 💯

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just got back from colorado! ate so much green chile! got a new tattoo! son got head lice! spent 5 hours in the emergency room for unrelated reasons! the mountains are so beautiful! glad to be home though! sleeping in my own bed! my birthday's coming up! what're you gonna give me? <3 crowjonah!

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HAD @havehashad.com · 20/07/2026

HAD is mostly ppl always being "very normal" about everything today from Anisha Arvind: "The pigeon is back and I have named him Gerald which my therapist says is a form of attachment and I said yes that is correct I am attached to Gerald he has information." www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-a...

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I Am Being Very Normal About the Fact That the Pigeon Outside My Window Has Been Looking at Me for Three Weeks and I Think He Knows Something by Anisha Arvind

The pigeon is back and I have named him Gerald which my therapist says is a form of attachment and I said yes that is correct I am attached to Gerald he has information. He has the look of someone who...

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Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm delighted to share Issue 7 of Underbelly Press! Our website features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/issue-s... Happy two years of Underbelly Press!

New release
Underbelly Press
Issue 7
17 July

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SwitchMicroMag @switchmicromag.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We are delighted to have new microfiction up on our website by: Kathleen McGookey, Mary Biddinger, Keith Parker, and Lynn Kozlowski. You can read their work here: www.switchonline.org/about-1

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HAD @havehashad.com · 17/06/2026

the bio is half the fun, can't urge you strongly enough to click through for that but today, from Mitch Nobis, a kinda quintessential "HAD piece": www.havehashad.com/el4pt

June 17, 2026
I Drive By a Bunch of Teenagers With My Window Down While Listening to an Audiobook by Sir David Attenborough and Right as I Pass Them He Loudly Says “Then The Couple Mates”
by Mitchell Nobis

They laugh.

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House of Vlad Press/Vlad Mag @houseofvladpress.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

PRE-ORDER a signed copy of Book of David: Stories by @mallorysmart.bsky.social, out Oct 2026! “...a gospel of cruelty engraved in viciousness, darkness, and unrelenting rot. Bewildering and utterly breathtaking...” - @ericlarocca.com, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"To the south and east lightning had begun to flicker." Storm by Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social #flashfiction #shortstory #readingcommunity #TenYears. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/06/12/s...

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House of Vlad Press/Vlad Mag @houseofvladpress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Vlad Mag: “Toxic Nostalgia,” edited by Tex Gresham and @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social, is OUT NOW, featuring work by Frankie Baby ☣️

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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 05/06/2026

You can handle this. You have been trained to handle this. This class period will be a true simulation. We will act like this is the real thing. MATH IS BEAUTIFUL by Ethan Krajewski ↓ www.bruisermag.com/Krajewski_Math

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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 22/05/2026

Strangled bones of feathered light reach through the iris of a dead dog. Four poems by David Hay www.bruisermag.com/Hay_Poems12

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Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Submissions are now open (a couple of hours early), until May 22! Issue 7: DECEPTION and DIRTY REALISM We’re looking for work that is gritty, unflinching, raw. Think gritty noir and kitchen sink realism. The underbelly of contemporary life. 🔗 forms.gle/rfX3nyUnRMwD...

$Poetry (30 lines max), submit up to three. Short fiction (1,000 words max), submit up to three. Art & Photography (of any medium), submit up to five. Please note that submissions will be responded to after the reading period. Acceptances and rejections will start being sent out after May 22. Editing will take place throughout June (I am away from mid June to early July). Issue 7 tentatively set for mid to late July. For poetry and short fiction, if you were a contributor in the last issue we won’t be accepting submissions for the consecutive issue in the same category you were published. The theme is DECEPTION. For our two year anniversary, we’re returning to our roots. Issue 7 calls back to our initial core focus - dirty realism.We’re looking for work that is gritty, unflinching, raw. The mundane, the overlooked, the everyday struggles. Think gritty noir and kitchen sink realism. The underbelly of contemporary life. Where does deception live within that? In lies, fractured relationships, self delusion, blurred truths, the things we refuse to face, the things we conceal or convince ourselves of. For artwork, we’d love to see pieces that explore illusion and distortion, as well as greyscale or black and white pieces.$

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