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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 1h

Okay but for real fuck Chris Columbus (the director of Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) (that movie sucks))

Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 9h

look. we fucked up, okay?

crossposting from our facebook account where most people were upset, but it's good to own up to your mistakes everywhere. that's our motto.

PLEASE READ: Yesterday someone who no longer works for this company shared a meme on this page with the caption "Fuck Christopher Columbus." Many, many people who have never followed our account before nor shopped at our store were offended by this post. If fact, you could say they were quite triggered. We *did* approve this post, but only because we were told it was directed at Chris Columbus, the director of MRS. DOUBTFIRE (1993). If you were personally hurt by our ex-employee's poor judgment, please forgive us, and let us know how we can make it up to you.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 2h

When a lit mag I admire follows me back

An edited tweet that reads “she’s not gonna publish u bro” She will. She will if i post good

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 13h

"Fish are loveless things, really wretched and dirty. In my new capacity as junior sales associate, I often advise customers against actually putting fish in their tanks."

>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC

SEAN ENNIS / BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH — always crashing

BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH sells birds, amphibians, reptiles, and the insects they eat too. The store also functions as a front for The Old Rats motorcycle gang, who launder cash, mine cryptocurrencies, ...

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 13h

Us too!

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Mixed Metaphors @mixedmetaphors.bsky.social · 13h

Lovely prose poem / microfiction / whatever. Kind of Pynchonesque but maybe that's just because I'm reading the new Pynchon at the moment.

Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 13h

"Fish are loveless things, really wretched and dirty. In my new capacity as junior sales associate, I often advise customers against actually putting fish in their tanks."

>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC

SEAN ENNIS / BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH — always crashing

BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH sells birds, amphibians, reptiles, and the insects they eat too. The store also functions as a front for The Old Rats motorcycle gang, who launder cash, mine cryptocurrencies, ...

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 13h

"Fish are loveless things, really wretched and dirty. In my new capacity as junior sales associate, I often advise customers against actually putting fish in their tanks."

>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC

SEAN ENNIS / BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH — always crashing

BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH sells birds, amphibians, reptiles, and the insects they eat too. The store also functions as a front for The Old Rats motorcycle gang, who launder cash, mine cryptocurrencies, ...

www.alwayscrashing.com

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 1d

New work from AC editor @inauthenticity.bsky.social!

Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

"She’d had a dream the night before, or perhaps just before awakening, in which she was attempting to extract, without puncturing herself, a long needle from her throat."

"Three Stories about Loss," new in @newworldwriting.bsky.social

James Tadd Adcox ~ Three Stories About Loss - New World Writing Quarterly

Unable to Sleep For several nights now he had believed himself unable to sleep. Each morning he would rise remembering having spent the previous eight hours

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 8d

See you there?

Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 8d

Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series

feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich

music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts

free, all ages

ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station

This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 8d

Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series

feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich

music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts

free, all ages

ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station

This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...

comfortstationlogansquare.org

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 8d

Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series

feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich

music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts

free, all ages

ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station

This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...

comfortstationlogansquare.org

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 12d

Now at AC // www.alwayscrashing.com/current

italicized text in four columns asking a series of questions

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 12d

Now at AC // www.alwayscrashing.com/current

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Alex Higley @alexhigley.bsky.social · 13d

thanks @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social! excited to see TRUE FAILURE shortlisted!

Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 13d

We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for 2025 CHIRBys!!! Congratulations to all of our finalists 🥳🥳🥳

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These Days @thesedayszine.bsky.social · 14d

Holy Cow read these QUESTIONS now

Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 14d

"A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose."

>>> Orion Allen's "Matrix Worry" and "Questions" >>> New today at AC

www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

ORION ALLEN / 2 POEMS — always crashing

Matrix Worry A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose. What stretches and leeches and loads. The roads are a cube, are matter, are for sale and partitioned. The box has...

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 14d

"A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose."

>>> Orion Allen's "Matrix Worry" and "Questions" >>> New today at AC

www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

ORION ALLEN / 2 POEMS — always crashing

Matrix Worry A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose. What stretches and leeches and loads. The roads are a cube, are matter, are for sale and partitioned. The box has...

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 14d

New email edition features work by Orion Allen, something from the archive by Whitney Koo, updates on Addison Zeller and Alex Tretbar, a terrible confession about Sparks (we like them)

"Who Determined This Body for Purpose"

featuring half wolves, half wombs, half elegy, half against, half DeKalb, half Had, half reading, half asleep, half sure it's the eighth year, half positive it's the ninth, and B movies. This is NPR.

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 14d

I like to think they have a particular fondness for us because we do things like mail them the printed-out source code for our interactive pieces as nominations

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 14d

Somehow, inexplicably, the Pushcart committee has once again tracked down our mailing address

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 14d

"A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose."

>>> Orion Allen's "Matrix Worry" and "Questions" >>> New today at AC

www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

ORION ALLEN / 2 POEMS — always crashing

Matrix Worry A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose. What stretches and leeches and loads. The roads are a cube, are matter, are for sale and partitioned. The box has...

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 15d

New work at the site tomorrow // many new ~things~ in general in upcoming days // but now is a good time to take a moment if you will, won't you, to read or reread Gina Hay's breathtaking, uncanny "Simia, Cupid," up now

GINA HAY / SIMIA, CUPID — always crashing

1. Mother brings her daughters a picture book from the museum. One charcoal drawing, unlike the others, a shadowy white horse fixed to a shroud of storm clouds. The mother tears Dela away. Mother lik...

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 21d

Chicago! New live show announcement, featuring AC ed Josh Watkins! We have been assured this is not standup or improv. Repeat: not standup or improv.

GENIUS NIGHT: A Night for Geniuses, on Monday, September 29th at 7pm at Cafe Mustache / TOM McHENRY
SARA McHENRY
MIKE MIGDALL
DEVON PRICE
erica dreisbach
JOSH WATKINS
and KEVIN JOHNSON doing the news quiz from the Skewer

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 26d

Now at AC // www.alwayscrashing.com/current

Lyko likes to fool her mother—tonight, on her way home, she will recapture the pardoned frog at the base of the lake, cut through her iliac arteries, the crooks of the thigh. While Dela and the mother sleep, Lyko skulks through the kitchen and smuggles the girl in with the rest. Tomorrow, she will watch her mother gnaw at every anonymous thigh, even the frog that lived but died anyway. Before Dela, Lyko and her mother practiced monkey-see monkey-do: the mother eases the stone out of a plum with a fruit knife and younger Lyko mimics the cupping of the plum empty handed. Lyko laces up one boot and her mother its twin. But the game has finished. When Lyko leaves the house some nights she can sense her mother’s peevish ear on the other side of a wall. The mother refuses to monkey-do. She is brazen, industrious in this refusal. The older woman sits on a rickety swing chair chewing her lower lip. Spare strands of hair go into their quilt for winter. One hand pierces the ventilating needle through the lace cap, the other pulls the hair taut. Pierce, pull, pierce, pull.

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 27d

New email edition features work by Gina Hay, an important dispatch on fragrances from AC special correspondent @alec-ivan.bsky.social, plus updates on @perfidiousscript.bsky.social, @raviddice.bsky.social, and an upcoming performance from AC ed Meghan Lamb

"Then, oh! The curse!"

Featuring eyeless spirits, marrowless care, drone mysticism, cemetery performances, and the top seven fragrances of 2025—so far!

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 28d

@nmwhitley.bsky.social with some kind words about 'Some Column Poems' which were published on @alwayscrashing.bsky.social in July!

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Alec Ivan @alec-ivan.bsky.social · 27d

Always Crashing? You mean the legendary lit mag? You mean the cultural tour de force of online literary voices? You mean the GOAT of the domain of the English language? Them?

Yeah, it’s them.

Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 27d

New email edition features work by Gina Hay, an important dispatch on fragrances from AC special correspondent @alec-ivan.bsky.social, plus updates on @perfidiousscript.bsky.social, @raviddice.bsky.social, and an upcoming performance from AC ed Meghan Lamb

"Then, oh! The curse!"

Featuring eyeless spirits, marrowless care, drone mysticism, cemetery performances, and the top seven fragrances of 2025—so far!

alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com

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