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"Now that she was here, the gift card weighing heavy at the bottom of her bag like it was a gold ingot and not a sleek bit of cardboard with raised lettering, she felt so out of place she wished for a moment she hadn’t come."

"A New Woman" by Heidi Marjamäki: buff.ly/wgfvp87
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December 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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December 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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New on the blog today: John Elkin, creator of Anthropoetry, a poetic language where “words become stones, symbols and spells.” We talk magic, myth, cairns, bilingual worlds, and building Cairn City. themadridreview.com/f/building-c...
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Building Cairn City: John Elkin on Magic, Myth, and Antropoetry
John Elkin is a contemporary poet carving out a distinctive space at the crossroads of imagination, anthropology, myth, and language. His latest book, Cairn City/Cairn Ville (Cybirdy Publishing), pres...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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December 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Our December pop-up submissions are OPEN 🦝
Get your feline flashes out the litter box, polished and ready for the 14th.
Please make sure to read the guidelines before you sub - our guest judges are the judgiest.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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‘Here was youth in all its undying glory: rude red health, perverse and powerful, and dumb, so dumb, dumb as shit, really.’
Sean Tanner’s ‘How Soon Unaccountable’ — first published in Issue 7 — is now available to read on our website. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
How Soon Unaccountable — TOLKA
by Sean Tanner
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November 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The First Time I Hated Winter
by Rifkah Mannaf

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The First Time I Hated Winter – Free Flash Fiction
It was winter, that afternoon when I was sweeping a pile of snow off the front yard. I had always loved the season, and everything felt so calming. Now and then I sighed, for the snow was heavy. No on...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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"When Bel and I couldn’t bear to be separate any longer, Hal and I drove our Airstream down from Jersey..." Sarasota Trailer Park, 1958, black-and-white glossy by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/12/01/m...
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Respect for the Dead — Celia Collopy poem about grief - Written Tales

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Respect for the Dead — Celia Collopy poem about grief - Written Tales
Celia Collopy questions rituals of respect. Among plastic blooms and restless soil, she asks what mercy the buried would grant us, and whether remembrance can ever feel clean.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Audiobook Review: The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
Read Kate Canon's full review on our blog (link in bio)

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November 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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"The dread had no chance to waylay him. Yet he heard it thrashing outside the house like a furious whirlwind." Beatitude by Louis Gallo #shortstory #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/30/b...
November 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Freedom To Change Our World — Mark Ready poem about pride and power - Written Tales

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Freedom To Change Our World — Mark Ready poem about pride and power - Written Tales
Mark Ready traces humanity’s climb from firelight to hubris. Bright minds forge empires, forgetting gentler kin. Evolution hums a warning beneath rhyme—creation always invents its own undoing.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Our November newsletter is PACKED with stuffs to read from our Trash Family
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There's also a few cat story prompts if you're thinking of subbing to our December call.

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Hello from the first frost of November
Welcome to our latest newsletter. We have submission stuffs, a wealth of Trash Family pubs to read, and a bunch of feline story prompts.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Our silent auction closes in half an hour. Get your bids in fast!
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Herchel's bane by Margaret Organ - a drawing of an anthropomorphized salmon knight with a sea-lion head on its shield. 50 page editorial assessment from Nicole Frail An archery and a longsword student at Academie Duello
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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We're in the final stretch! Contest deadline is December 1st!

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Image shows contest information, three copies of past contest issues, the PF and McNally Robinson Booksellers logo and an illustration of a typewriter with leaves coming out the back. Text: McNally Robinson Booksellers & Prairie Fire Writing Contests 2025 Annual Writing Contests $3750 in cash prizes! One cash prize of $1250 in each category. MRB Poetry Contest (up to three poems per entry, max. 150 lines total) Judge: Tolu Oloruntoba MRB Short Fiction Contest (one piece per entry, max 5000 words) Judge: Shashi Bhat MRB Creative Non-Fiction Contest (one piece per entry, max 5000 words) Judge: Basma Kavanagh Deadline Extended to December 1st, 2025 Fee: $34 per entry, which includes a one-year subscription to Prairie Fire. Complete guidelines at prairiefire.ca. For inquiries: prfire@prairiefire.ca
November 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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'Not Alone' by Tatiana Anisimova. Oil on Canvas.

Even in the smallest corners, we’re never truly alone. Not Alone celebrates the quiet companions of life - two golden beetles keeping watch among the blooms.

Read our interview with Tatiana: buff.ly/b5f9TnA

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November 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN TOMORROW ✨

Submissions for Issue 10 open tomorrow for two weeks only! We accept work on or about the Ancient Mediterranean. For more information and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). Get those subs ready! 🏛️🏺🤎
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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We remember Bedo in our second chapter of Serial Saturday, Hide Behind by Molly May Jones:

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November 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes,
that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable
and unknowable dangers…

—Marjorie Lotfi, “Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)”
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Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014) Marjorie Lotfi I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes, that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable and unknowable dangers: sheets of metal ripped to knife edge, live wires, bloated arms reaching for light. Her hair, scraped back into a ponytail, is open to sky; remnants of buildings filter down one concrete chunk at a time, and the midday bells of rockets ring out above her. She carries a boy on her still narrow hips, his legs entwined around her yellow dungarees. Like a rodeo rider, his left arm grips her shoulder to steady himself, or her, while his torso reels back and away; his body is asking to slow down, to turn back. Instead, her eyes comb the ground for a next step, fingers of her free hand curled into a claw, as if to frighten off what she somehow sees ahead. A Palestinian girl carries a child across rubble from a building that police said was destroyed by an Israeli air strike, in the Burij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, August 1, 2014. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly. Marjorie Lotfi's poem describes the picture in detail: Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014) Marjorie Lotfi I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes, that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable and unknowable dangers: sheets of metal ripped to knife edge, live wires, bloated arms reaching for light. Her hair, scraped back into a ponytail, is open to sky; remnants of buildings filter down one concrete chunk at a time, and the midday bells of rockets ring out above her. She carries a boy on her still narrow hips, his legs entwined around her yellow dungarees. Like a rodeo rider, his left arm grips her shoulder to steady himself, or her, while his torso reels back and away; his body is asking to slow down, to turn back. Instead, her eyes comb the ground for a next step, fingers of her free hand curled into a claw, as if to frighten off what she somehow sees ahead.
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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"Life is" by Joe Wells

folded in parts
inside
a time-capsule.
            I can’t go back.
Time marches
to beats
            of a heart,
forward just forward,
            clockwise,
in perpetuity.

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November 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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For a Black Friday mythological gift guide, check out V.H. Chen’s “Gifts from on High.” Released this week on FFO! 🎁
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Gifts from on High
ChatLegend Scroll LogsMonth of the Weasel, Third-DayExHeroGirl:Dad. Did you have to send a recorder through the gift portal? TranscendantChaos:Ah, it’s there already! Good. Should I send a dizi? Or…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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It Is Sad — Vincent F. A. Golphin poem about justice and endurance - Written Tales

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It Is Sad — Vincent F. A. Golphin poem about justice and endurance - Written Tales
Vincent F. A. Golphin writes a lament for a country split by color and law. History’s ghosts walk beside him, steady as heartbeat, demanding change that costs everything.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM