Steven R. Kraaijeveld
@srkraaijeveld.bsky.social
Philosopher, ethicist, writer.
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I just found out that another one of my stories, "Only A Shopping List," was nominated for Best Small Fictions 2026! Many thanks to the editors of L'Esprit Literary Review (@lespritlit.bsky.social). You can read the story here: lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/11/16/o...
Only A Shopping List
Vegetables because I told her I’d eat healthy while she is away; she made me promise especially, which I know was a way for her to tell me that she loves me; like my promising her was a way f…
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December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I just found out that another one of my stories, "Only A Shopping List," was nominated for Best Small Fictions 2026! Many thanks to the editors of L'Esprit Literary Review (@lespritlit.bsky.social). You can read the story here: lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/11/16/o...
I have two new stories out in L'Esprit Literary Review (@lespritlit.bsky.social)! "Only A Shopping list" takes the form of a shopping list, while "The Thing Is Never The Thing" engages with Wallace Stevens's poem "The Pure Good of Theory." Read here: lespritliteraryreview.org/notes-and-er...
Notes and Errata
Find our Quarterly features, along with other releases, here. Quarterly XIII–Fall 2025 On Vocations and Timing Only A Shopping List, Steven R. Kraaijeveld The Thing Is Never The Thing, Steven…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I have two new stories out in L'Esprit Literary Review (@lespritlit.bsky.social)! "Only A Shopping list" takes the form of a shopping list, while "The Thing Is Never The Thing" engages with Wallace Stevens's poem "The Pure Good of Theory." Read here: lespritliteraryreview.org/notes-and-er...
It's a beautiful issue, so do make sure to pick up your own copy. :)
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's a beautiful issue, so do make sure to pick up your own copy. :)
So excited to receive my contributor copies of the Fall 2025 issue of the Massachusetts Review (@themassreview.bsky.social)! It includes my story "Anna Kavan's Cats"—a love letter to British novelist Anna Kavan (and cats) and a parody of academic scholarship.
November 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
So excited to receive my contributor copies of the Fall 2025 issue of the Massachusetts Review (@themassreview.bsky.social)! It includes my story "Anna Kavan's Cats"—a love letter to British novelist Anna Kavan (and cats) and a parody of academic scholarship.
Also: congrats and good luck to all the nominees! You can read my story here: anmly.org/ap41/steven-...
Steven R. Kraaijeveld – ANMLY
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November 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Also: congrats and good luck to all the nominees! You can read my story here: anmly.org/ap41/steven-...
Honored that my story "Birdsong" was nominated for Best Microfiction 2026! Many thanks to editor Sarah Clark and everyone at ANMLY. 💜
Good luck to ANMLY's Best Microfiction 2026 Nominees!
Samia Saliba
Desiree Remick
Aida Bardissi
Steven R. Kraaijeveld
Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador
Read their work at anmly.org
Samia Saliba
Desiree Remick
Aida Bardissi
Steven R. Kraaijeveld
Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador
Read their work at anmly.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Honored that my story "Birdsong" was nominated for Best Microfiction 2026! Many thanks to editor Sarah Clark and everyone at ANMLY. 💜
And do read the rest of this beautiful issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social, which you can find here: anmly.org/ap41/
ANMLY #41 – ANMLY
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October 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
And do read the rest of this beautiful issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social, which you can find here: anmly.org/ap41/
Thrilled to have my (very short) story "Birdsong" included in Issue #41 of ANMLY! You can read it here: anmly.org/ap41/steven-...
October 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Thrilled to have my (very short) story "Birdsong" included in Issue #41 of ANMLY! You can read it here: anmly.org/ap41/steven-...
My story "The Violinist" is out now in Issue 33 of MoonPark Review (@moonparkreview.bsky.social). You can read the story—and see the brilliant artwork by Lesley C. Weston—here:
The Violinist
By Steven R. Kraaijeveld In the city’s busiest square, street artists compete for the pockets of passersby. Day in, day out, the artists go about their business, working hard to amuse ephemer…
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September 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My story "The Violinist" is out now in Issue 33 of MoonPark Review (@moonparkreview.bsky.social). You can read the story—and see the brilliant artwork by Lesley C. Weston—here:
My flash story "The Coots" is out now in Epiphany (@epiphanylit.bsky.social)! This piece means a lot to me and I'm happy that it found a home in such a beautiful place. You can read it here:
The Coots by Steven R. Kraaijeveld — Epiphany Magazine
But something is wrong with these coots. Why are they moving so strangely?
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September 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My flash story "The Coots" is out now in Epiphany (@epiphanylit.bsky.social)! This piece means a lot to me and I'm happy that it found a home in such a beautiful place. You can read it here:
"He thought: Words, words.
No more words now.
Here is my thirsting hand."
No more words now.
Here is my thirsting hand."
August 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"He thought: Words, words.
No more words now.
Here is my thirsting hand."
No more words now.
Here is my thirsting hand."
a semblance of order
August 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
a semblance of order
My Kawabata collection. ✨
August 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
My Kawabata collection. ✨
Reposted by Steven R. Kraaijeveld
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L’Esprit merch is also available—shirts, mugs, candles, totes!
Find everything over at the Indirect Press bookshop:
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Merci!
#WritingCommunity
#litmag
Bookshop
Find merchandise for Indirect Books and L’Esprit Literary Review–collectively, 1882 Literary–here, along with back issues of L’Esprit and forthcoming titles from Indirect. 1…
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July 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Our brand new Bookshop site is now live! Help support fearless writing by purchasing back issues in print!
L’Esprit merch is also available—shirts, mugs, candles, totes!
Find everything over at the Indirect Press bookshop:
indirectbooks.org/bookshop/
Merci!
#WritingCommunity
#litmag
L’Esprit merch is also available—shirts, mugs, candles, totes!
Find everything over at the Indirect Press bookshop:
indirectbooks.org/bookshop/
Merci!
#WritingCommunity
#litmag
made a friend
July 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
made a friend
"The city taught me fear, an infinity of fear.
A crowd, a street, sometimes a thought I saw
on somebody's face, have made me shake with terror.
My eyes still feel the hard, cruel light cast
by the endless streetlights on the tramping feet below."
A crowd, a street, sometimes a thought I saw
on somebody's face, have made me shake with terror.
My eyes still feel the hard, cruel light cast
by the endless streetlights on the tramping feet below."
July 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"The city taught me fear, an infinity of fear.
A crowd, a street, sometimes a thought I saw
on somebody's face, have made me shake with terror.
My eyes still feel the hard, cruel light cast
by the endless streetlights on the tramping feet below."
A crowd, a street, sometimes a thought I saw
on somebody's face, have made me shake with terror.
My eyes still feel the hard, cruel light cast
by the endless streetlights on the tramping feet below."
I discovered a Kawabata that I hadn't yet read.
July 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I discovered a Kawabata that I hadn't yet read.
"Compelled to speak unceasingly, they all replace ideas with words, feelings with phrases, and their soul becomes their larynx."
—Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes
—Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes
July 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Compelled to speak unceasingly, they all replace ideas with words, feelings with phrases, and their soul becomes their larynx."
—Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes
—Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes