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#Writer, #Editor, #Poet, #Dog Servant, #Cake Eater. #Poetry #MagicalRealism #BizarroFiction #CNF and most #Words written well. Lean #Buddhist when #meditating Find me #writing, #editing and #boost nominating on Medium https://linktr.ee/peculiarjulia

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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · Nov 27

The Mad River - what you should know
You don't need a Medium account to submit and be published
The river is fussy, but fair
We love reprints
We nominate for #Boost
#Submissions are open
Weird, wonderful, ethereal, &/or experimental #Fiction #Poetry #CNF
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#LitMag

of all joys and woes: Submission guidelines

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 1d

"...Crocuses and snowdrops push up their merry heads
the cairn on the woodland path marks the unburied dead..."
Snowdrops by John E Marks
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#poetry #CeadMileFailte in The Mad River #LitPub

The snowdrop loved its ephemeralness

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 1d

"I felt as if I was floating, my body so light I found myself clutching Whisker’s fine fur in a death grip. He didn’t like it..."
Whiskers and Brews
by @theashdenise
medium.com/lit-up/whisk... #fiction #serialfiction

Whiskers and Brews

Part four: The In-between

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 1d

Four years ...
no regrets ...
If I can do it, anyone can.
Diary of a Non-smoker medium.com/brainscatter...

Diary of a Non-smoker

Day One or Day Minus One — which will it be?

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 2d

“Maybe elevators have a thing against you,” she teased once we were out on the landing. “Maybe you should take the stairs from now on...”
Great #fiction #flashfiction
Her Scent in the Elevator by Takeshi Chin medium.com/lit-up/her-s...

Her Scent in the Elevator

I met her in the elevator — or rather, her scent.

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 2d

“Your mouths multitask?”

The There and Now by @ulfwolf.bsky.social
#fiction #flashfiction #scifi #humour medium.com/lit-up/the-t...

The There and Now

James, Xrtszju, and the blown space-time continuum fuse

Reposted by Peculiar Julia

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 3d

"Three boys on foot
down a mile to the market, toes
slap tar still soft
from the day..."
Magic Hour
by Jean Campbell
#poetry #childhood
medium.com/lit-up/magic...

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 3d

"The bite of barbed wire, a ghost now
on Bernauer Strasse..."
Postcard to Anna from Bernauer Strasse
#poetry #BerlinWall
by Jennifer Chante medium.com/lit-up/postc...

Postcard to Anna from Bernauer Strasse

A free verse poem (inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall)

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 3d

"Three boys on foot
down a mile to the market, toes
slap tar still soft
from the day..."
Magic Hour
by Jean Campbell
#poetry #childhood
medium.com/lit-up/magic...

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 3d

Setting my #monday fluff level to 11 #QueenBee

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 3d

#FlashFiction from one of the fabulous Kathy Fish

The Saddest Fuckers of All — Ghost Parachute

I am needing a prescription for the Pill. I can no longer use Student Health due to living in a new town and not being a student anymore. I am telling this to the kid as he is rolling out pizza dough ...

ghostparachute.com

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 4d

"And that is how stories start by perfectly unexpected and inevitable incidents here in the Bay area-..."
Somewhere in the world.. by Miss Insomniac medium.com/lit-up/somew... #fiction #kindness

Somewhere in the world..

A story about people like you and me

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 4d

“Hopefully, my face always reveals nothing; it’s a means of survival...”
Writing Lessons, Part 7 by Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle medium.com/lit-up/writi... your favourite #fiction hit from #PuertoRico

Writing Lessons, Part 7

Less than happy endings

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 6d

Such dark genius #fiction or is it nearer fact?

Skin to Skin open.substack.com/pub/gumusser...

Three interconnected drabbles

open.substack.com

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 6d

"I remember the way the air thickened
around the hour of leaving —
how the light refused to dim all at once,
choosing instead to die by degrees..."
The Quiet Geometry of Dusk
#poetry
by Ani Eldritch medium.com/the-mad-rive...

The Quiet Geometry of Dusk

— a woman measures the distances between what is said and what is meant

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 6d

"...rearrange phrasing
reminisce my way
through the way you listened, no
lived with my thoughts
your facial expressions
embracing each ink-stained inflection..."
Please, Deliver This to Heaven by Richard Grahn medium.com/lit-up/pleas...
#poetry #remembrance #poetrymatters

Please, Deliver This to Heaven

Free Verse — A celebration

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 6d

"I am still on a loop of disbelief
the jump
into the known
if only it had caught
if he had been caught
by a loop of believing..."
Moebius Stripped
This #poem recalls a #suicide
medium.com/scuzzbucket/...

Moebius Stripped

this poem recalls a suicide

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 6d

Wondering why the editorial process for Medium pubs is so rubbish lately?
What makes me angriest is that not only are they wasting our time, they're using us as free testers.
Medium lack any respect for their users.
Medium User Experience 2025 Sucks for Editors medium.com/contemplate/... #medium

Medium User Experience 2025 Sucks for Editors

Most days I want to scream from a rooftop

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 7d

"I'll pay on the way out..."
The Disposables by Lay Low Magazine
medium.com/lit-up/the-d... #fiction in Lit Up Press

The Disposables

I’ll pay on the way out

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 8d

Weather to tourists ratio just hit my comfort zone #croatia

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 9d

“Who the hell needs your soul?”
The Contract by A. Gee
Always read the fine print ...
medium.com/lit-up/the-c...
#fiction #satire #writerproblems

Fine print below…

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 10d

It's #Monday, why not go quackers and read my #poem starring a duck? #poetry #onbeing

If Hope is a Thing with Feathers

Poetry on being

peculiarjulia.substack.com

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 10d

"Repetition brings wear
Round and over again
The mind a thin line
Of erosion and despair..."
Clockwork Child by Allie
#poetry
medium.com/the-mad-rive...

Clockwork Child

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 10d

"...The door shuts like a dream before Officer Sharp can finish, and only Shelly’s ghost is left..."
#read the latest instalment of
MITChell by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/lit-up/mitch...
#fiction #drama and #scifi meet #poetry
Take care, it's addictive.

PART 61: INT. THE SHARP FOYER — EVENING

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 11d

"She noticed the silence first..."
Dead Silence by A Maguire
medium.com/lit-up/dead-...
#fiction #grief #loss

She noticed the silence first …

Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 11d

"...How does my innocent sister meet a guy who hires killers? Why does she marry him and bring him home to Puerto Rico..."
Writing Lessons, Part 6 by Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle
The Right Hand of God
medium.com/lit-up/writi... #fiction

Writing Lessons, Part 6

The right hand of God