Afterimages
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Dragged Back
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Pola often wondered how it got this way. It had gotten bad and she didn’t see a way for it to improve. In these rare mila seconds she had to herself, she gulped coffee to feel the hot rush in her throat....
What the Lemon Carried
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She stepped on it by the road outside the Mangalwar market.
A lemon, split at the seam where the road had pressed it. It was squirting pale juice into the dust. Seven green chilies tied with a black thread....
Artificial Intelligence: A Review of Matthew Gasda's Stranger Beauty
Stranger Beauty
Matthew Gasda
Arcade Publishing
Publication date: 9/8/2026
5.5 in x 8.25 in x 0 in | 192 pages
ISBN: 9781648211744
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Matthew Gasda’s latest novel Stranger Beauty arrives in the glare of Claude, Gemini, Ch...
Grass Don't Grow Under Their Feet
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Elaine first saw the woman at a jamboree in her ex, Samantha’s backyard on Laharpe. It was August, hot the way New Orleans was in summer, hellish. Elaine was sitting in a festival chair, drinking a Gnarly Barle...
2026: The Fifteenth Newsletter
New Book: Through the Lens of Time
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Through the Lens of Time is composed of stories based upon historical proceedings & factual events. There are three distinct sections: Past, Present, Future....
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Est. 2015 in Pennsylvania. Read indie lit. www.thirtywestph.com
Brief Bio: Reader, Flash Writer, Beach Walker, Cat Lover, Educator. Substack: A Lizard's Tale Website: https://www.ldebeerwriter.com
Allison Whittenberg's novels are Sweet Thang, Hollywood and Maine, Life is Fine, Tutored (Random House 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010). She is the author of the full-length short story collection, Carnival of Reality (Loyola University Press, 2022) .
Reading and performing arts series in Philly
THE ONLY LIVING GIRL IN CHICAGO• Editor-in-Chief @MaudlinHouse 📚 • Person who talks about music @PodHealing 🎧 • Horror movies @horrorpod666 🎥
David is a writer from the UK. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He lives and teaches in Georgia.
Writer limping around Chicago. Find my work in Citron Review, The Pinch, Maudlin House, New World Writing and Little Engines, or crumpled lists in trash cans at the grocery store. Assistant fiction editor at Pithead Chapel.
Stephanie is a writer & editor living in NYC. Her poetry & fiction appears in Midway Journal, Pine Hills Review, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Hollow & Sky, Nulla & elsewhere. She is a 2025 Rhysling Award Finalist in the long poem category.
THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • novel & memoir forthcoming • Anti-AI
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I am an SEO/ GEO content writer, technical writer with about 8 years experience. I have written on IT tools and tech, auto, sustainability, and other tech topics
Joseph Edwin Haeger is the author of the disjointed crime novella BARDO (Thirty West Publishing House) and the experimental memoir LEARN TO SWIM (University of Hell Press). He lives in Spokane, WA.
Yuna Kang is a queer, half-deaf, Korean-American writer based in Northern California. She loves postcards, crows, God(x), and cats.
Josh Dale is the author of Duality Lies Beneath, The Light to Never Be Snuffed, and RAGE: Stories. He is the publisher of Thirty West Publishing House. Support indie lit. www.joshdale.co www.thirtywestph.com
Shamus Award-winning author of the detective novel Wait There Till You Hear from Me (Crescent City Books 2025). Work in Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2025. Most recent record is The Ones That Brought You Home.
Hugh Blanton's latest book is The Pudneys. He can be reached on X @HughBlanton5.
Editor of Doric Literary: doric-literary.com & Fiction Editor at Exposition Review: expositionreview.com (For the moment, I'm using this Substack to reprint all my published work that, for whatever reason, is no longer available online.)
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