Will Musgrove
@willmusgrove.bsky.social
Writer, jazz enthusiast, bibliophile, plant dad, and cartoon aficionado. Website: williammusgrove.com
Five games to get to know me:
Metal Gear Solid
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Final Fantasy VII
Starfox 64
Undertale
Metal Gear Solid
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Final Fantasy VII
Starfox 64
Undertale
Five games to get to know me:
Final Fantasy 3
Bloodborne
Mega Man 2
Elden Ring
Sekiro
Final Fantasy 3
Bloodborne
Mega Man 2
Elden Ring
Sekiro
Five games to get to know me:
Outer Wilds
Silent Hill 2
The Quarry
Metal Gear Solid 2
Dino Crisis
Outer Wilds
Silent Hill 2
The Quarry
Metal Gear Solid 2
Dino Crisis
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Five games to get to know me:
Metal Gear Solid
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Final Fantasy VII
Starfox 64
Undertale
Metal Gear Solid
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Final Fantasy VII
Starfox 64
Undertale
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We’re open for the Mealarkey Winter Menu. FYI this is one of the most under the radar but delightful projects in the world.
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
We’re open for the Mealarkey Winter Menu. FYI this is one of the most under the radar but delightful projects in the world.
oleada.io/publication/...
oleada.io/publication/...
Excited to have my work featured in the upcoming issue of @southerninreview.bsky.social 💙
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 8: Will Musgrove
Will Musgrove's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, Pinch, Wigleaf, The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, and Tampa Review.
www.williammusgrove.com
@willmusgrove.bsky.social
Twitter: @Will_Musgrove
Will Musgrove's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, Pinch, Wigleaf, The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, and Tampa Review.
www.williammusgrove.com
@willmusgrove.bsky.social
Twitter: @Will_Musgrove
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Excited to have my work featured in the upcoming issue of @southerninreview.bsky.social 💙
I need a cool pose for whenever I'm reading at a reading, like I'm reading on episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or something.
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I need a cool pose for whenever I'm reading at a reading, like I'm reading on episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or something.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Feel like a Thanksgiving leftover 💙 🍻
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Feel like a Thanksgiving leftover 💙 🍻
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As a press, we are all over the place genre-wise, and nowhere is that represented better than in @johnchrostek.com’s story collection, Boxcutters, which blurs and blends the lines between speculative, horror, and literary fiction
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Boxcutters, stories by John Chrostek — Malarkey
One Amazon delivery stolen from a neighbor’s porch leads to plenty more. To keep the show going, a balding sitcom actress tries out a new wig and discovers a hunger for life. Jesus Christ claims the o...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
As a press, we are all over the place genre-wise, and nowhere is that represented better than in @johnchrostek.com’s story collection, Boxcutters, which blurs and blends the lines between speculative, horror, and literary fiction
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
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King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 is now available. Edited by @zacharykocanda.bsky.social, this one features new fiction from Jacob Stovall and T.L. Xue.
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
King Ludd's Rag No. 25 — Malarkey
The twenty-fifth issue of King Ludd’s Rag features stories by Jacob Stovall and T. L. Xue. The cover will print in black and white.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 is now available. Edited by @zacharykocanda.bsky.social, this one features new fiction from Jacob Stovall and T.L. Xue.
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
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From now to the end of the year we’re offering 15% off anything we’ve got with code MALARKEY. Will post book links below but this is a great opportunity to join the book club even cheaper. A year of book mail for $120 but with the discount it’s $102.
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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
From now to the end of the year we’re offering 15% off anything we’ve got with code MALARKEY. Will post book links below but this is a great opportunity to join the book club even cheaper. A year of book mail for $120 but with the discount it’s $102.
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
Thankful for Rolaids.
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Thankful for Rolaids.
Inviting all my literary rejections to stay for Thanksgiving like they’re John Candy at the end of Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Inviting all my literary rejections to stay for Thanksgiving like they’re John Candy at the end of Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Mabel is thankful for you 💙 🐕
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Mabel is thankful for you 💙 🐕
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Gratitude upon gratitude to @maudlinhouse.bsky.social and editor @mallorysmart.bsky.social for publishing this fable-esque story of mine today! It’s the third time they’ve featured my work over the years and I hope it won’t be the last. maudlinhouse.net/becoming-tha...
Becoming Thatch
The pragmatic businessman is always composed: abundant hair fixed in a quaff, gym-fit form clothed in cognac oxfords and a charcoal puppytooth suit, decisions made from behind a custom mahogany execut...
maudlinhouse.net
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Gratitude upon gratitude to @maudlinhouse.bsky.social and editor @mallorysmart.bsky.social for publishing this fable-esque story of mine today! It’s the third time they’ve featured my work over the years and I hope it won’t be the last. maudlinhouse.net/becoming-tha...
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I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
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"Giving thanks for what we are allowed to think about it, grateful for it even as it wanes. For knowing it is there... All of it a blessing. The being there. Being alive then. Like a giant bell ringing long after you can’t hear it." —Jack Gilbert, "Burma"
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Giving thanks for what we are allowed to think about it, grateful for it even as it wanes. For knowing it is there... All of it a blessing. The being there. Being alive then. Like a giant bell ringing long after you can’t hear it." —Jack Gilbert, "Burma"
You know it's serious when I'm making a pie while wearing a blazer 🥧
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You know it's serious when I'm making a pie while wearing a blazer 🥧
It's only November and I already miss baseball.
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
It's only November and I already miss baseball.
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Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and everyone at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new piece, "Hello." Stoked!
hello — Blood+Honey
by Michael Czyzniejewski “ Whisenhunt explained he’d just learned the word Hello hadn’t been invented until the early 1800s, and for decades, was considered vulgar slang, big-time commoner ...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and everyone at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new piece, "Hello." Stoked!
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Thanks to @jmwwjournal.bsky.social for the love, and the editors for the smart, thoughtful attention you paid to this one!
"Maggie ended up with Gouda. She didn’t choose him. He didn’t choose her."
Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
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Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
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Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
An expensive, sought-after breed, which Maggie only knew because she took a photo of the animal’s smushed face and uploaded it to Google. Maggie ended up with Gouda. She didn’t choose him. He didn’…
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Thanks to @jmwwjournal.bsky.social for the love, and the editors for the smart, thoughtful attention you paid to this one!
This old picture of my dog napping always cheers me up, and I hope it will cheer you up too. 🐕 💙
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This old picture of my dog napping always cheers me up, and I hope it will cheer you up too. 🐕 💙
Mabel just woke up from a nap 💙 🐕
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Mabel just woke up from a nap 💙 🐕
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Holiday season is lean times for us so time to lean in to the grift! malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2
The Grift: Volume 2 — Malarkey
The Grift, the greatest and most important literary magazine in history, is back, this time with work from Jacquelyn Bengfort, Zachary Kocanda, Christopher Stevenson, Neil Willcox , Dereck Heckman, Cr...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Holiday season is lean times for us so time to lean in to the grift! malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2
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You will look so cool with one of these. Also someone ordered just a tote and it felt weird to only put a tote in a box to mail out so we threw in a free book.
We have about five tote bags left, don’t know that we’ll ever get more. Snag one while you can!
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malarkeybooks.com/store/bag
Tote Bag — Malarkey
A tote bag designed by Adrian Sobol, author of Hair Shirt and The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You’re the Last One Around . Fill it with books! These totes will be printed in Tulsa, O...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
You will look so cool with one of these. Also someone ordered just a tote and it felt weird to only put a tote in a box to mail out so we threw in a free book.
The best thing about Thanksgiving is it gives me a reason to bake pies on a weekday.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The best thing about Thanksgiving is it gives me a reason to bake pies on a weekday.
Taking my glasses off at the end of the day is my version of easing into a hot bath.
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Taking my glasses off at the end of the day is my version of easing into a hot bath.