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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 12h

Muleskinner Journal is excited to open submissions for Journal 16. Our theme is Sabotage! Do your worst.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 3d

Submissions for Journal 16 open on October 15. Our theme? Sabotage! Do your worst.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 14d

Muleskinner Journal Presents TENSION, our fifteenth journal

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 15d

Muleskinner closes out our meditations on Tension with a remarkable story from Maryah Converse. Please afford it the space and honor it deserves. We’ll see you soon.

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/seeking-citrus

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 17d

Nick Di Carlo takes us on another wild ride. Our patience is wearing thin. Our tension is running out.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 17d

Scott Ruescher’s new poem, gracing Muleskinner today, swims upstream with piranha and crocodile, and all sorts of tense and wonderful things.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 19d

Writer Atma Frans brings us a tension-filled short story about gardening. And a few other matters, as well.

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/returning-home

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 22d

Today, a short poem from the acclaimed Paul Hostovsky. Back Door 1973. Includes a tetherball.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 25d

Poet David Kirby returns to Muleskinner with forgotten history, a story for the ages to make your day

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · 26d

Muleskinner presents a poem with pain and wonder. Father in the Next Room is a room with and without a view.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Sep 15

Margot Wizansky’s remarkable poem To Love in that Insane Tortured Way will make you think twice – a good thing.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Sep 11

A.Z. Foreman brings us a sonnet cut short, for our time. This poem brings it all home.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Sep 9

From poet Callie Crouch, a poem you can’t quite quit.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Sep 7

Annie Weeks brings us an excerpt from her upcoming novel. It’s set in the Netherlands, a long time ago, today.

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/der-tod

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Today in MSJ: Poet Joel Bush offers insight on roads taken, not taken, and lived on. Not a beginner’s course. A collision course.

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/freeway

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

From MSJ today, flash fiction that moves: “The Bus Driver’s Routine” and the road to redemption.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 30

Poet Shannon Cates sings a song for what’s been lost, but not forgotten

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/give-it-back

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Today, on the eve of Labor Day, an amazing poem. Briana Naseer takes us on a journey of acceptance

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/coin-toss

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

Diane Gottlieb lines things up in just the right way. Did you hear it too?

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 22

Today in MSJ: Ken Foxe takes us on a wild ride – without ever leaving the house.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

Today in MSJ, a short piece of family history. Heather Pegas reminds us that there’s no tension like generational tension.

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/family-lore

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 12

A Muleskinner request: Please read this poem from David J.S. Pickering.

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 6

MSJ today presents a new poem from Sarah Dickenson Snyder. The Beekeeper will stay with you.

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/the-beekeeper

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Aug 1

Buenos Aires-based writer Calla Smith presents a tense, powerful, thought-provoking flash fiction story that comes to stay.

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/our-land

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muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social · Jul 29

Rev up your engine. Poet Marisa P. Clark was born to ride. And so is our collection on Tension.

www.muleskinnerjournal.com/motorcycle-s...

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