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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 10d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

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behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 29d

A masterpiece! Truly boundary pushing in a way few things I've read recently can touch

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Aug 30

Mmmmm the cheerful fatalism and funweird of this! "Anti-Capitalism vs the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia @naokan.bsky.social www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/anti...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Aug 28

Haruspice! You have such a stock of amazing words

MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Aug 28

Delighted to have a short piece in Flash Fiction Magazine, online today: a woman's cat loses patience with her depressive behavior and tells her all the reasons she's pathetic... but in a, you know, violent way. flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...

Screenshot of webpage of Flash Fiction Magazine showing the title and start of the story "A Farewell Letter, Translated from the Felinese" by MB Valente

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Aug 8

Asking only the toughest questions here

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Aug 9

Damn guy you're getting good at this

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Aug 8

Ugh I love her so much

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Aug 8

"Lyrics of love lost drift into the sac-like chambers of its long, muscular heart."

A dark, watery ode to Dolly's magic 💙

www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...

Brett Pribble — Does It Have Pockets

The Anglerfish Hears Dolly Parton

www.doesithavepockets.com

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Aug 7

Love this recent piece in Flash Fiction Mag: "You are almost five years old, and you have never been smaller—a mouse, a fly, a flea."

Adele Hally @adelehally.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thank you to the editors at Flash Fiction Magazine for publishing this little story 💛

flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...

Salt Circle

flashfictionmagazine.com

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Julia Bernhard @juliabernhard.bsky.social · Jul 15

Choose your fighter.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jun 14

do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · May 18

The print edition of Quentin Zuttion's All Princesses Die Before Dawn, a graphic novel about a day in the life of a family struggling to care for each other, is also up for an Eisner 💙 (and in incredible company)

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · May 18

Thrilled to see these incredible authors getting international recognition and proud to be a part of it! Both these books are stunners btw and available from various ebook platforms 🐠💣

List of Eisner Award nominees for Best Digital Comic, which includes The Beauty Salon by Quentin Zuttion and The Spider and the Ivy by Grégoire Carlé

Cover of The Beauty Salon by Quentin Zuttion

Cover of The Spider and the Ivy by Grégoire Carlé

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · May 17

I'm sure you were!

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · May 5

Yesss one of my favorites, too

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Apr 21

Sounds badass

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Apr 15

eat a book to gain its vocabulary

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Apr 13

Thank you! 🩵

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Mar 8

My favorite illustrator-photographer-human being is now here in the 'Sky 💙

Raphaël Maghraoui Pérez @regiafeles.bsky.social · Mar 8

#migalguita

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Jan 21

This gorgeous book is already out in French, coming soon in English 🩵

benjamin adam @benjamin-ad-m.bsky.social · Jan 13

Pour la sortie de ce livre, je teste une sortie d'instagram allez !
Le 17 janvier, chez Charivari @dargaud.com Inlandsis Inlandsis, tome 1 : la glace

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Jan 13

My dear friend Marianne Villière is now sharing her brilliant, fierce and compassionate work on this platform. Check it out, I dare you.

M V @mariannevilliere.bsky.social · Jan 11

Workshop in duo with Mickaël Roy (association Tôt ou t’art) at the association Emmaüs Alsace, 2024 in order to extend the “manifestation of good will” by the companions of Emmaüs Scherwiller in 2023.

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · Jan 9

This story emanates atmosphere, like the pink neon lights that flit across the MCs hand in the tattoo parlour. Read it now #writingcommunity #litfic

MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Jan 2

It's been a long, weird road for my speculative story "Four Words" about a society sliding into silence. I'm delighted that it has found a home, with excellent company, in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social Read it here --> pitheadchapel.com/four-words/

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · Jan 9

Thanks!!

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