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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Things are not ok. There's not a lot we can do as a random small press in Canada, but at the very least, gatekeeping books is not something we want to continue. I've decided now until forever, all our digital chapbooks are $0/pay-what-you-can. Sending love & lit <3

now - forever
all digital chapbooks
free/pay what you can

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

We need to talk about Spite. Let us know which of these three stories might draw you in (or haunt you) the hardest. & if you're brave, preorder: wrongpublishing.com

"French Turn"

In New York in the late seventies, Celeste and Arthur are having an affair.

Set against the backdrop of their self-involved partners and wealthy, claustrophobic circle of friends, "French Turn" is a response to F. Scott Fitzgerald's early piece "The Popular Girl." The story is set after the sexual revolution and considers queer carnal impulses absent from Fitzgerald's conversation about self-inflicted tragedies of the upper class.

"Saint Jane"

Jane’s boyfriend has died young in a horrible accident. She’s moved to North Carolina to live with her maiden aunt. She’s also started hallucinating about a slender ghoul that balances on the edge of her desk: Sybil, her childhood friend, who’s grown impossibly tall and is still wearing her old school uniform. Sybil lurks around the house and asks Jane insensitive questions about why her life has come to a sudden halt.

"The Wizard"

An immortal wizard with crippling depression and the power to tell the future lives in Akron, Ohio. His help is sought by a woman named Sara, who’s unaware that her own mother and grandmother have both visited him with the same problem.

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

The good news is that preorders are open today for SPITE, the new fantastical fiction collection by Anjeli Chapman Wolf. The bad news is this will be the last ever title from our press. For my health, I have to step back, but this is a fantastic closer. Enjoy it all the more- t.co/PxLZJvOKeV

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

We can't believe it's real, but "without a listener: a comedy" from our magazine's final issue made it into @sundresspub.bsky.social's Best of the Net. A gigantic congrats to writer Amelia K, who is not on social media. Thank you for getting our name up there with your words.

Camille U. Adams's "Up Covigne Road" from The Forge Literary Magazine
Lissa Batista's "Dreaming in Brazil" from West Trade Review
Amelia K's "without a listener: a comedy" from Wrongdoing Magazine
Michele Lovell's "What They Bring with Them" from Sky Island Journal
DW McKinney's "In the Water's Grip" from Ecotone
Jamila Osman's "Street View" from Bellingham Review

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

"he wound his mouth into a falsetto & asked which has eaten more flesh—the soil or a bullet?" — “Lágbájá” by Saheed Sunday from SOMEDAY, BULLETS WILL STOP TRAILING MY SKIN, out now in print & digital 🌲☁️ Get your dose of vital poetry from this exciting young author. wrongpublishing.com

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

We're so elated to announce our next title—Saheed Sunday's poetry chapbook SOMEDAY, BULLETS WILL STOP TRAILING MY SKIN. A must-read collection on identity and perseverance, it's coming into the world this June 14th. READ MORE & PREORDER: wrongpublishing.com/store/p142/s...

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

She has also written 20+ plays and immersive experiences performed across Southern California. For more info, visit chelseasutton.com. And make sure to get your copy of ONLY ANIMALS — PRINT: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p140/o... DIGITAL: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p141/o...

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

She’s a graduate of the 2022 @clarionucsd.bsky.social SF&F Workshop and holds an MFA in CW & Writing for the Performing Arts from UC Riverside. Her flash and longer fiction has appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, @apexmag.bsky.social, @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, F(r)iction, CRAFT, and others.

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

IT'S TIME! ONLY ANIMALS is here in the flesh, alive in print and digital formats, slithering. MEET OUR AUTHOR: @crsutton.bsky.social is a writer and theatre maker of what she likes to call gothic whimsy— magical realism and horror with a sense of humor.

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

“Ursula's face slips off easily, as if it never fit just right, as if something had dislodged and warped it long ago, as if it were a gold-plated cathedral door rusting on its hinges.” — @crsutton.bsky.social, "Ursula the Monster" from ONLY ANIMALS www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p140/o...

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

🗓️ Countdown to ONLY ANIMALS 🗓️ @crsutton.bsky.social's stories are so enthralling and vividly imagined... the magic of transformation in each narrative is pure and undeniable. —SUSAN STRAIGHT, bestselling author of MECCA and IN THE COUNTRY OF WOMEN Preorder: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p140/o...

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

@crsutton.bsky.social 's writing is electric. The stories in ONLY ANIMALS crackle with wit, emotion, and big, strange ideas that linger long after you're finished reading. — @gwenda.bsky.social, New York Times bestselling author of THE FRAME-UP PREORDER! www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p140/o...

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

We missed you. And we couldn't be more excited to announce ONLY ANIMALS—11 tales of gothic whimsy by the very awesome @crsutton.bsky.social. OUT APRIL 30TH! Cover artwork is by Mashaal Sajid, who always kills it. 🖤🐙 Preorder yours now: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p140/o...

ONLY ANIMALS
stories by Chelsea Sutton

Preorders OPEN
Publication April 30th
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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

"i dialed the number on your throat the operator said “on your knees” time for praying so i slot a peseta in the payphone and the mcflurry machine… starts working (hallelujah)." —"sourdough" from CRINGEROTICA by Soli OUT NOW: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p138/c...

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Come celebrate our two latest releases with a NEW online reading event! When: Feb 16 evening, 9 ET/8 CT/7 MT Where: Twitter Spaces (@wrongpublishing) What: Tune in to hear Mary Mandeville and Kate Pashby read from their beautiful chapbooks... then an extra special preview of CRINGE.... 👀 🕷️🥩🕯️

Kate Pashby + Mary Mandeville
VIRTUAL READING
Feb 16, 2024
9 ET/8 CT/7 MT (PM)

+ a special preview of our next title, CRINGEROTICA
Feb 16, 2024
9 ET/8 CT/7 MT (PM)

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

🕯️🕯️ Cover reveal 🕯️🕯️ CRINGEROTICA. 23/02/24. Preorder yours: wrongpublishing.com/store/p138/c...

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

"I grew roots so deep and strong no wind could blow me down. Not a detective calling to tell me about my son’s multiple felonies, not his commitment to residential treatment, not even the dark-eye-circle insanity that enveloped him at age nineteen.” WHAT LASTS is OUT NOW in print & digital 💙⬇️

Mary Mandeville, "Blooming is Just a Promise" from WHAT LASTS

What I didn’t notice as quickly was the way my heart stretched and grew. The way I faced challenges with an expanding sense of calm. I grew roots so deep and strong no wind could blow me down. Not a detective calling to tell me about my son’s multiple felonies, not his commitment to residential treatment, not even the dark-eye-circle insanity that enveloped him at age nineteen.

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

MEET THE AUTHOR! Together with her wife, Mary cares for a century-old house, tends a flock of city chickens, and shepherds a really old canine through his final years. Mary and her wife hold the memory of the son they lost a decade ago to teen suicide. Continued ⬇️

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

"This book is a love song and a heart prayer. I will carry the pieces in my body forever." — Lidia Yuknavitch "WHAT LASTS is essential heart reading." — Anne Gudger WHAT LASTS is up for preorder below! Get yourself these intimate essays—insights on trying to breathe after losing a son to suicide.

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

"One wild ride of weird, it’s a haunted house story perhaps best compared to HOUSE OF LEAVES." — @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social reviewed @jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social's POSTHASTE MANOR (@tenebrouspress.bsky.social) READ ON THE WRONG BLOG: wrongpublishing.tumblr.com

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

"he says you are a fine specimen an excellent example of your race but you don’t know what these dragons do with their collections" —Kate Pashby, "collection" from A SHELF OF MY ANCESTORS Out now in print & digital formats: wrongpublishing.com

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

"SISTERS is enough to set my old Catholic school nuns on an extended rant about faith, respect, and chastity (which is to say that former Catholics will catch something gleeful about it)." @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social reviewed @authorplm.bsky.social's novella (@timberghostpress.bsky.social) ⬇️

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

What happens when human remains are objectified, when they are assigned serial numbers in a catalog and placed into storage? Happy book birthday to Kate Pashby's A SHELF OF MY ANCESTORS, available now in both print & digital formats: wrongpublishing.com

"a shelf of my ancestors is frustrating and beautiful in all the right ways. Part One has us caught up in bureaucracy and legends and letters and semantics. Part Two speaks of defiance, allegory, ancestorial point of view and hope. Simply excellent work by Kate Pashby. Just marvellous."

— Daniel Poitras, Edmonton poet

"To read a shelf of my ancestors is to share in an archivist’s rage. To witness real people reduced to specimens as a gentle and clinical poet pulls you further into a spiraling history. Pashby’s strong voice, historian’s heart, and aching storytelling make this chapbook a vital part of the narrative."

— Kit E Lascher, Editor-in-Chief of Trash Wonderland Magazine

"a shelf of my ancestors is an emotionally resonant collection of poems with an electric voice that explores colonization as a living practice, one that commodifies even the bones of the ancestors."

— Audrey T. Carroll, author of In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

48-hour essay collection sale starts NOW❗❗ Get a discount bundle of IN THE NAME OF THE BODY + a way-ahead-of-the-line preorder of Mary Mandeville's WHAT LASTS. It won't be back again for several weeks, so get your sneak peek while you can: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p132/n...

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Some advance praise for A SHELF OF MY ANCESTORS: "Pashby’s strong voice, historian’s heart, and aching storytelling make this chapbook a vital part of the narrative." — Kit E Lascher, Editor-in-Chief of Trash Wonderland Magazine PREORDER: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p130/m...

Advance praise for A SHELF OF MY ANCESTORS

"To read a shelf of my ancestors is to share in an archivist’s rage. To witness real people reduced to specimens as a gentle and clinical poet pulls you further into a spiraling history."

— Kit E Lascher, Editor-in-Chief of Trash Wonderland Magazine

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

MEET THE AUTHOR! Kate Pashby is an Indigenous, Two Spirit poet belonging to the Huachichil Nation of México. Kate’s poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Kate is also an MA student of Indigenous Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. wrongpublishing.com

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Author announcement! It feels weird to be releasing new chapbooks right now, but we also feel A SHELF OF MY ANCESTORS is mandatory anti-colonial reading. PREORDERS ARE NOW OPEN—and also keep your eyes out for this new list of authors to come. www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p130/m...

Wrong Publishing
Second series authors

a shelf of my ancestors by Kate Pashby

Mary Mandeville
Anjeli Chapman Wolf
Chelsea Sutton
Soli
Saheed Sunday

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

" @ivygrimes.bsky.social's STAR SHAPES starts with every woman’s nightmare: a small boy lures her into a kidnapping... Once she’s forced into watching The Sound of Music, you’ll be hooked." — Read @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social's review for the Wrong blog: wrongpublishing.tumblr.com

STAR SHAPES
by Ivy Grimes
with illustrations by Alana Baldwin

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Black Friday weekend is here! Use code FUCKCOLUMBUS for 30% off any Wrong Publishing books or merch until 11/27/23. wrongpublishing.com

30% OFF EVERYTHING
Nov 24-27
Use code: FUCKCOLUMBUS

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

"These authors use the void of space as a blankness on which to impose our darkest fears." — @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social on Salt Heart Press's space horror anthology (edited by @authorplm.bsky.social.) Enter the darkness; read her full review here: wrongpublishing.tumblr.com

THE DARKNESS BEYOND THE STARS
An Anthology of Space Horror
EDITED BY P.L. McMILLAN
FOREWORD BY DAVID WELLINGTON

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Can we meet our goal of 50 sales to help support the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund? With a table of contents like this one, how could you even resist? wrongpublishing.com/store/p124/w...

Nonfiction
Highway to Hell: Cars in Horror Cinema by Bronwen Harding

Fiction
Tachycardia by Nat Reiher
The Greys by Mathew Gostelow
Is He Really into You? Or Is He Just A Man Haunted by an 30 Ancient Curse that He Must Pass Off to You to Save Himself? by Janice Leadingham
The Boy with Stars for Eyes by Carolin Jesussek
Wake Up, Precious Starlight by Sarah Lofgren
Peach Pit by Pun
Nobody Wants to Be Around You When You’re Depressed by Luz Rosales
Grass by Joseph Alcala
Vampire Radio by J. M. Tyree

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

It's out! Here's @nikonamerica.bsky.social's Editors Note—telling you why you should go and get a copy of our super spooky anthology right fucking now. Also, it's for a really great charity. www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p124/w...

I’m petrified of taking a wrong turn. Where it could lead, who could be stalking the shadows, the discoveries to be found there. There’s nothing more intriguing than a self-fulfilling prophecy: down the road less traveled is from where your end stems, but who can resist finding out what patiently lurks in the belly of a mistake?

These pieces are some of what you might find in there. They don’t apologize for the darkness they uncover, they simply bring it to life. In this way, they become somewhat of a street lamp guiding us down that road less traveled—but quickly you will discover that they, in all their malignance, mean to leave us stranded where no one will find us, to unearth what it means to be taken victim to circumstance, fate, and pure evil.

I hope you love them, these sinister sets of words, as much as I do.

— Lex Briscuso

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

We are thrilled to announce the cover and 100% unsolicited contributor list for our upcoming Halloween anthology, YOU TOOK THE WRONG TURN (guest edited by @nikonamerica.bsky.social !) PS: ALL NET PROCEEDS will go to The Palestine Children's Relief Fund. Read more & PREORDER ⬇️ wrongpublishing.com

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Poking at your face to remind you you can get a sexy discount on our Spring-Summer chapbooks if you buy them as a bundle. SUPPORT OUR AUTHORS. 👀 www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p122/p...

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Submissions for the anthology close tomorrow (the 24th) at 11:59 PM EST. How did the time fly by? NOTE: we've gotten tons of meaty fiction already, but would love to see more visual art. Please share with your artist friends ⬇️ wrongpublishing.com/submit

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TOMORROW

YOU TOOK THE WRONG TURN
Guest edited by Lex Briscuso
Submit Sept 10-24

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

IT’S HERE! Happy publication day to Alton Melvar M Dapanas's new collection, IN THE NAME OF THE BODY 🎉🖤 Order your copy on the website today—either on its own, or as part of the brand new ✨ discount bundle ✨, which includes all 5 of our inaugural series chapbooks 📚 wrongpublishing.com/read

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

"A short and sharp book that combines intellectual density, lyrical integrity and factuality that is almost cruel in its precision. A fascinating and thought-provoking read." — Maria Stepanova, International Booker Prize shortlisted author of IN MEMORY OF MEMORY (yes, *that* Maria Stepanova.)

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

It's here... SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN for our first ever halloween anthology, YOU TOOK THE WRONG TURN (guest edited by @nikonamerica.bsky.social.) Read the guidelines & submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit wrongpublishing.com/submit.html

YOU TOOK THE WRONG TURN; guest edited by Lex Briscuso; submit Sept 10-24

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Announcing Wrong's next OPEN MIC event 🎉 Feat: - @flameswallower.bsky.social & TRAVELER'S TALES - A preview into Alton Melvar M Dapanas's IN THE NAME OF THE BODY - Info about our upcoming anthology call - YOU & your work SATURDAY, SEPT 16TH SIGN UP & GET EARLY QUESTIONS IN @ THE LINK BELOW

TRAVELER'S TALES
Author reading + Q&A + open mic
Sept 16th

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

“Dapanas punctures the painfully retrograde *folie à deux* of the clueless communities that cling to repressive ideals.” — David Lazar, author of OCCASIONAL DESIRE: ESSAYS and editor of ESSAYING THE ESSAY AND TRUTH IN NONFICTION Read more & preorder: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p121/i...

Advance praise for IN THE NAME OF THE BODY

“...a sequential meditation on gender and sexuality, embodied in spare and unsentimental vignettes of memory. Dapanas punctures the painfully retrograde folie à deux of the clueless communities that cling to repressive ideals.”

— David Lazar, author of OCCASIONAL DESIRE: ESSAYS and editor of ESSAYING THE ESSAY AND TRUTH IN NONFICTION

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

WP is pleased to announce submissions for our HALLOWEEN ANTHOLOGY: "YOU TOOK THE WRONG TURN" SUBMISSIONS SEPT 10-24 &&& TODAY, PREORDERS ARE OPEN for the LAST book in our inaugural series: IN THE NAME OF THE BODY: LYRIC ESSAYS by Alton Melvar M Dapanas! www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p121/i...

IN THE NAME OF THE BODY: LYRIC ESSAYS by Alton Melvar M Dapanas

Preorders now open
Publication Sept 22nd
wrongpubishing.com

“Theory, cultural anthropology, autobiography, and lyric essay dance together elegantly and pointedly.”
—David Lazar, author of OCCASIONAL DESIRE: ESSAYS

“Combines intellectual density, lyrical integrity and factuality that is almost cruel in its precision.”
—Maria Stepanova, International Booker Prize shortlisted author of IN MEMORY OF MEMORY

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

"He remembers less and less of his life before the body." — @flameswallower.bsky.social's "Recovery", the final story in TRAVELER'S TALES. Hurry & pick up your print or digital copy on our website (or else): wrongpublishing.com

He remembers less and less of his life before the body, no matter how hard he tries. What he does remember won’t fit easily into words or is beyond words entirely. Maybe that’s why it’s slipping away from him.

But Creighton remembers enough to know that what Zeb tells him about “the aliens” is nonsense. His people don’t have heads and arms and legs the same way Zeb’s people do. They don’t have two forward-facing cameras and wet mouths full of bone.

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

"Sometimes there’s resistance. Sometimes the migrant soul overwhelms the current inhabitant completely." — @flameswallower.bsky.social from TRAVELER'S TALES The full story & chapbook are AVAILABLE NOW in print & digital formats: wrongpublishing.com

We blended together, he and I. Sometimes there’s resistance. Sometimes the migrant soul overwhelms the current inhabitant completely. But sometimes there’s cohesion: the sun disappeared, the moon sickled above satellites and airplanes and I could not quite say what was always Benjamin Reyes and what was new. I had been in this parking lot many times. I had never seen it before.

from "Ménage à Trois" by Briar Ripley Page

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Wrong Publishing @wrongpublishing.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

"I’m in love with @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social's recent releases... they seem to have a knack for finding stellar world-building." Today on the blog, @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social reviewed @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social's JAMIE HALLOW AND THE END OF THE WORLD: wrongpublishing.tumblr.com

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