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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · 22h

“Did the world fall ill at once, or was only the ill world visible?”

Editor @daniellezacc.bsky.social has work in the new issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social!

anmly.org/ap41/daniell...

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Jun 16

Happy Pride Month!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Our gender issue is out now! Featuring:

- Limousine by Cela Xiè
- Taxonomy by E. Peregrine
- Every Villain is Gay by Hunter Burke
- Selected Passages from Men Explaining Women by Tiffany Harris (@proliffany.bsky.social)
- Artwork by Larissa Hauck

fastflesh.net/issue-11

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Jun 14

NO KINGS

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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · Apr 8

Loooove this poem by Mai Hindawi in @fastfleshlit.bsky.social

Poem titled unnameable creature by Mai Hindawi

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thanks, Haley!!

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Apr 7

We had so much fun reading the submissions for our Experimenting with Form issue! Here it is in all its glory, featuring Marek Danielewski, Mai Hindawi, Lukas Wood, Jonathan McLelland, and JI Kleinberg.

fastflesh.net/issue-10

Artwork for issue 10: “The 12 Caesars of Rome” by Marek Danielewski

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Jan 4

thank you!!

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Jan 4

our youngest editor, but by far our most discerning. Miles is looking for work that truly surprises him. he wants to read something he’s never read before.

baby Miles in a Fast Flesh onesie and red flannel pants, looking very surprised by your submissions

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Dec 1

Jack’s essay, “We Feral Few,” is out now in Passengers!

@jackmaes.bsky.social

www.passengersjournal.com/volume-5-issue-4-prose/#maes

Jack Maes is a Latino teacher and writer from Southern California living in Northern Virginia. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the College of William and Mary and an M.S. from MIT: He is one of the co-founders of Fast Flesh Literary Journal.

We Feral Few

There is no carpet in the living room when you arrive. Mom is smiling because you're a chubby baby with enormous eyes, and immediately you're the more honest one. You let it all get to your skin.

We grow up together in that house, we navigate and find rhythm. We invent the joke and the cartwheel and the same movie run raw until we know all the lines and pauses. You are my closest friend, but knowing someone is an effort, not a prize.

As a twenty-something I visit the house again in winter, pulling up the drive, wary of slick. The tires shuffle loose on the ice like they are absorbing every direction. When I press on the brakes, the chassis settles but does not stop, a gentle mistake. The headlights catch the outside air and betray it. Every moving particle and gust of wind is licked with light and trailed in motion. My blood is moving I think. The pond out front of the drive is only a few yards across and is frozen over, the water swelling just above the calm meter of the surrounding dirt. From the car window where I idle, the marbling from the freeze makes it look like a striped stone, gray and white, something I could pick up and thumb in my pocket for luck. I try to make my blood halt. I really try this time.

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 30

#callforsubmissions

you have nine more hours to send us work for issue 10 (Experimental Forms)!

send this to your weirdest friends!

#flashfiction #cnf #poetry #hybrid #art

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 30

so, question for other writerly nerds home thinking on a friday night:

what do you think of when you think of experimental form? any favorite stories, essays, books, or journals come to mind? ✍️💙📚

Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 30

reading through our submissions, I keep coming back to the question “is this experimental?”

there’s a lot of what I’d consider experimental content but not experimental form.

Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 11

We’re featured on Duotrope as today’s Listing of the Day! We’re open for our Experimental Forms and Gender issues and we hope you fuck our shit up. 🖤

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 30

reading through our submissions, I keep coming back to the question “is this experimental?”

there’s a lot of what I’d consider experimental content but not experimental form.

Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 11

We’re featured on Duotrope as today’s Listing of the Day! We’re open for our Experimental Forms and Gender issues and we hope you fuck our shit up. 🖤

Stats for Fast Flesh Literary Journal: 2 days minimum response, 88 days maximum. 100% of submissions responded to, 5% accepted.

Similar journals: Fractured Lit, Okay Donkey, Fugue Literary, SmokeLong Quarterly, and many more.

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 26

we promise to be extra lazy to balance things out

Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · Nov 25

Big rejection week out there in lit mag world. Editors across the country, bored and stuck in overcrowded airport terminals, clearing the queue before going home and trying again to explain to their aunt that actually $50 for a 4000 word story is *pretty good*

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · Nov 21

love to wake up, stretch, and then shape my human form around the devils rectangle so i can read some of the worst words crafted on the lords internet

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 21

@sscott15.bsky.social is the skull, @jackmaes.bsky.social is the fencer, @eawest.bsky.social is the unicorn, and @daniellezacc.bsky.social is the ghost vomiting her every thought into this sacred space

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 21

the reason for the season (our editors’ group chat)

group chat called “denis johnson pilled” (members of the chat are fencer, skull, and unicorn)

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · Nov 16

Started a starter pack!

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Danielle Zaccagnino Maes @daniellezacc.bsky.social · Nov 19

reskeet w/ controversial book takes 💙📚

the movies based on Stephen King’s books are so much better than his actual books

The Shining and Misery in particular

great premises but goddamn he needed an editor

Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 19

reskeet w/ controversial book takes 💙📚

just came across 1-star reviews of Frankenstein in an AP Lit group, including “I threw it out my window,” “I’d put this alongside other amateur horror authors like Stephen King” and “I’d rather read the Berenstain Bears”

the Berenstain motherfucking bears

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 19

reskeet w/ controversial book takes 💙📚

my own:

- Hemingway is boring as fuck
- Julia by Sandra Newman was infinitely better than 1984

Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 19

reskeet w/ controversial book takes 💙📚

just came across 1-star reviews of Frankenstein in an AP Lit group, including “I threw it out my window,” “I’d put this alongside other amateur horror authors like Stephen King” and “I’d rather read the Berenstain Bears”

the Berenstain motherfucking bears

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 19

reskeet w/ controversial book takes 💙📚

just came across 1-star reviews of Frankenstein in an AP Lit group, including “I threw it out my window,” “I’d put this alongside other amateur horror authors like Stephen King” and “I’d rather read the Berenstain Bears”

the Berenstain motherfucking bears

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 18

too pretty, too hot, too smart. the ideas are endless

Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Nov 18

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

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Essay Daily (back for 2025) @essaydaily.bsky.social · Nov 17

So we are here and we want you to know that we are returning in 2025 starting with the 2024 Advent Calendar. We know you need it: www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...

The Essay Daily Advent Calendar

The 2024 Essay Daily Advent Calendar is back after a year away from the keyboard! Each year, we publish an Advent Calendar, a new essay each...

www.essaydaily.org

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 17

We publish work under 500 words, so there are SO many pieces that just missed the boat with word counts between 400 and 500. If that’s you, don’t fret! There are so many other ways we will honor your wonderful work!

#indielit

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 17

Final nomination:

“Last Night” by Ryan Thomas LaBee (@ohthatryan.bsky.social)

We loved the way this subverted our Newborn theme!

www.fastflesh.net/last-night

Last Night — Fast Flesh Literary Journal

www.fastflesh.net

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Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social · Nov 17

Second nomination:

“The End of Bluebird Days” by Brandon McWilliams

(unfortunately so appropriate right now)

www.fastflesh.net/the-end-of-b...

The End of Bluebird Days — Fast Flesh Literary Journal

www.fastflesh.net

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