Alvin Lu
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Alvin Lu
@alvinlu.bsky.social
· Jul 15
Daydreamers is out in the world now.
"A story of immigration, brilliantly inflected with undercurrents both noir and comic.” —Susan Daitch
"Daydreamers kind of sinks in slowly. Then it becomes absorbing in a way that doesn't let up." —Stacey Levine
Cover concept by @illepitaph.bsky.social
"A story of immigration, brilliantly inflected with undercurrents both noir and comic.” —Susan Daitch
"Daydreamers kind of sinks in slowly. Then it becomes absorbing in a way that doesn't let up." —Stacey Levine
Cover concept by @illepitaph.bsky.social
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Just what is going on In "Tiered Rejections" is part of the fun as one learns to read the "story," or stories. Stephen Cicirelli seems to have distilled here the elements of fictional drama to their essences, allowing other, stranger patterns to form as the scenarios accrete.
Tiered Rejections | Issue 33
By Stephen Cicirelli — "His brother, a junior and an athlete in high school, was visiting campus. Wanting to show him a good time—and, perhaps, convince him to play soccer there—he bought weed and Ban...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just what is going on In "Tiered Rejections" is part of the fun as one learns to read the "story," or stories. Stephen Cicirelli seems to have distilled here the elements of fictional drama to their essences, allowing other, stranger patterns to form as the scenarios accrete.
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Praise from Joanna Ruocco on Pamela Ryder's DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM ~ this marks Ryder's third work we're delighted to be publishing, now available for PREORDER ~ Coming January 2026 fc2.org/authors/ryde...
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Praise from Joanna Ruocco on Pamela Ryder's DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM ~ this marks Ryder's third work we're delighted to be publishing, now available for PREORDER ~ Coming January 2026 fc2.org/authors/ryde...
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We're thrilled to have @israelbonilla.bsky.social —"One of the great prose stylists around right now" according to our very own @alvinlu.bsky.social— back in our latest issue!
bit.ly/4rkNQT7
bit.ly/4rkNQT7
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We're thrilled to have @israelbonilla.bsky.social —"One of the great prose stylists around right now" according to our very own @alvinlu.bsky.social— back in our latest issue!
bit.ly/4rkNQT7
bit.ly/4rkNQT7
Just what is going on In "Tiered Rejections" is part of the fun as one learns to read the "story," or stories. Stephen Cicirelli seems to have distilled here the elements of fictional drama to their essences, allowing other, stranger patterns to form as the scenarios accrete.
Tiered Rejections | Issue 33
By Stephen Cicirelli — "His brother, a junior and an athlete in high school, was visiting campus. Wanting to show him a good time—and, perhaps, convince him to play soccer there—he bought weed and Ban...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just what is going on In "Tiered Rejections" is part of the fun as one learns to read the "story," or stories. Stephen Cicirelli seems to have distilled here the elements of fictional drama to their essences, allowing other, stranger patterns to form as the scenarios accrete.
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Julia Meinwald has an ear for cringe and eye for shopping-mall realism (e.g, Barnes & Noble, TGI Fridays), which reminds me a bit of Christian TeBordo, but the best trick of "Winners" lies in its portrayal of an awkward encounter and how, in an indestructible descent, it gets worse from there.
Winners | Prose
By Julia Meinwald — "It was in the Self-Help section of Barnes and Noble that April met Justin. She was holding Open Yourself to a Win, a title her over-eager roommate had recommended forcefully to he...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Julia Meinwald has an ear for cringe and eye for shopping-mall realism (e.g, Barnes & Noble, TGI Fridays), which reminds me a bit of Christian TeBordo, but the best trick of "Winners" lies in its portrayal of an awkward encounter and how, in an indestructible descent, it gets worse from there.
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Congratulations to @illepitaph.bsky.social, @geoliminal.bsky.social, Elisabeth Sheffield, Peter Grandbois, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, and @molarawood.bsky.social—this year's Pushcart nominees!
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Congratulations to @illepitaph.bsky.social, @geoliminal.bsky.social, Elisabeth Sheffield, Peter Grandbois, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, and @molarawood.bsky.social—this year's Pushcart nominees!
Julia Meinwald has an ear for cringe and eye for shopping-mall realism (e.g, Barnes & Noble, TGI Fridays), which reminds me a bit of Christian TeBordo, but the best trick of "Winners" lies in its portrayal of an awkward encounter and how, in an indestructible descent, it gets worse from there.
Winners | Prose
By Julia Meinwald — "It was in the Self-Help section of Barnes and Noble that April met Justin. She was holding Open Yourself to a Win, a title her over-eager roommate had recommended forcefully to he...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Julia Meinwald has an ear for cringe and eye for shopping-mall realism (e.g, Barnes & Noble, TGI Fridays), which reminds me a bit of Christian TeBordo, but the best trick of "Winners" lies in its portrayal of an awkward encounter and how, in an indestructible descent, it gets worse from there.
The snaking sentences in @supernaturalfeat.com's "Storing Dinosaurs" seem like they can go off in any direction at any moment, much like the story itself. Liked this so much I even hunted down Dan on Bluesky to get this submission back (longish story) but glad it all worked out in the end.
Storing Dinosaurs | Issue 33
By Dan Weaver — "After Carmen married Phillip I couldn’t chase her with my lizards no more since it scared Phillip and he would hide in the room and the one time it made it so that Carmen couldn’t dri...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The snaking sentences in @supernaturalfeat.com's "Storing Dinosaurs" seem like they can go off in any direction at any moment, much like the story itself. Liked this so much I even hunted down Dan on Bluesky to get this submission back (longish story) but glad it all worked out in the end.
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Read an interview with Karen An-hwei Lee at @yourimpossiblevoice.com ~ and look forward to her Doctorow prize-winning MARIMO, MON AMOUR, coming Fall 2026.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Read an interview with Karen An-hwei Lee at @yourimpossiblevoice.com ~ and look forward to her Doctorow prize-winning MARIMO, MON AMOUR, coming Fall 2026.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
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remember:
girls don't want boys 🚫
girls want more books from fiction collective 2 🥰
girls don't want boys 🚫
girls want more books from fiction collective 2 🥰
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
remember:
girls don't want boys 🚫
girls want more books from fiction collective 2 🥰
girls don't want boys 🚫
girls want more books from fiction collective 2 🥰
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I loved "The End of My Sentence" by Roberto Ontiveros (Assisted Living @coronasamizdat.bsky.social), the portrait of a community you get when done by one of its eccentrics, told in an indelibly American yet invented voice, a kind of cross between Los Brothers Hernandez and William Burroughs.
The End of My Sentence | Prose
By Roberto Ontiveros — "The deal I had with my people was that I could sleep in. I got up early those last days at the hotel, but not if I knew I had to get up."
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I loved "The End of My Sentence" by Roberto Ontiveros (Assisted Living @coronasamizdat.bsky.social), the portrait of a community you get when done by one of its eccentrics, told in an indelibly American yet invented voice, a kind of cross between Los Brothers Hernandez and William Burroughs.
I loved "The End of My Sentence" by Roberto Ontiveros (Assisted Living @coronasamizdat.bsky.social), the portrait of a community you get when done by one of its eccentrics, told in an indelibly American yet invented voice, a kind of cross between Los Brothers Hernandez and William Burroughs.
The End of My Sentence | Prose
By Roberto Ontiveros — "The deal I had with my people was that I could sleep in. I got up early those last days at the hotel, but not if I knew I had to get up."
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I loved "The End of My Sentence" by Roberto Ontiveros (Assisted Living @coronasamizdat.bsky.social), the portrait of a community you get when done by one of its eccentrics, told in an indelibly American yet invented voice, a kind of cross between Los Brothers Hernandez and William Burroughs.
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One of the great prose stylists around right now, @israelbonilla.bsky.social, takes a turn to noir, in Guadalajara, with this excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites. Just a hint of what's to come in this novel, where modes and settings journey further afield. For now, though, you'll have this.
from Cityscape with Sybarites | Issue 33
By Israel Bonilla — "The cellphone’s alarm woke me up to a bunch of pillows, a crumpled blanket, and the pungent smell of my armpits. I hadn’t registered Marina’s absence; her belongings were gone."
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
One of the great prose stylists around right now, @israelbonilla.bsky.social, takes a turn to noir, in Guadalajara, with this excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites. Just a hint of what's to come in this novel, where modes and settings journey further afield. For now, though, you'll have this.
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Issue 33 of Your Impossible Voice is here, featuring my story, Winners! So honored to be included as part of this wonderful community, featuring "voice-driven, off-center" work! yourimpossiblevoice.com/winners/
Winners | Prose
By Julia Meinwald — "It was in the Self-Help section of Barnes and Noble that April met Justin. She was holding Open Yourself to a Win, a title her over-eager roommate had recommended forcefully to he...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Issue 33 of Your Impossible Voice is here, featuring my story, Winners! So honored to be included as part of this wonderful community, featuring "voice-driven, off-center" work! yourimpossiblevoice.com/winners/
One of the great prose stylists around right now, @israelbonilla.bsky.social, takes a turn to noir, in Guadalajara, with this excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites. Just a hint of what's to come in this novel, where modes and settings journey further afield. For now, though, you'll have this.
from Cityscape with Sybarites | Issue 33
By Israel Bonilla — "The cellphone’s alarm woke me up to a bunch of pillows, a crumpled blanket, and the pungent smell of my armpits. I hadn’t registered Marina’s absence; her belongings were gone."
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
One of the great prose stylists around right now, @israelbonilla.bsky.social, takes a turn to noir, in Guadalajara, with this excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites. Just a hint of what's to come in this novel, where modes and settings journey further afield. For now, though, you'll have this.
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Me on Marimo Mon Amour: "A plague journal narrated by a chibi Rabelais becomes by way of limitless lists, alliteration, and logophilia something darker and more serious, a meditation on meaning, death, and God in the manner of Donne and the Metaphysicals."
yourimpossiblevoice.com/xiaolongbao-...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/xiaolongbao-...
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Me on Marimo Mon Amour: "A plague journal narrated by a chibi Rabelais becomes by way of limitless lists, alliteration, and logophilia something darker and more serious, a meditation on meaning, death, and God in the manner of Donne and the Metaphysicals."
yourimpossiblevoice.com/xiaolongbao-...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/xiaolongbao-...
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More about Elisabeth Sheffield here~one of our Collective members with multiple FC2 works, incl. a role as one editor of the 1996 CHICK LIT 2: NO CHICK VICS-"voices in women’s fiction whose stories do not involve trauma that comes from the outside." Compelling time capsule!
fc2.org/authors/shef...
fc2.org/authors/shef...
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
More about Elisabeth Sheffield here~one of our Collective members with multiple FC2 works, incl. a role as one editor of the 1996 CHICK LIT 2: NO CHICK VICS-"voices in women’s fiction whose stories do not involve trauma that comes from the outside." Compelling time capsule!
fc2.org/authors/shef...
fc2.org/authors/shef...
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Here is an excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites, my second novel: yourimpossiblevoice.com/from-citysca...
As ever, very grateful to Alvin and Keith.
As ever, very grateful to Alvin and Keith.
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Here is an excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites, my second novel: yourimpossiblevoice.com/from-citysca...
As ever, very grateful to Alvin and Keith.
As ever, very grateful to Alvin and Keith.
Me on Marimo Mon Amour: "A plague journal narrated by a chibi Rabelais becomes by way of limitless lists, alliteration, and logophilia something darker and more serious, a meditation on meaning, death, and God in the manner of Donne and the Metaphysicals."
yourimpossiblevoice.com/xiaolongbao-...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/xiaolongbao-...
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Me on Marimo Mon Amour: "A plague journal narrated by a chibi Rabelais becomes by way of limitless lists, alliteration, and logophilia something darker and more serious, a meditation on meaning, death, and God in the manner of Donne and the Metaphysicals."
yourimpossiblevoice.com/xiaolongbao-...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/xiaolongbao-...
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Don't miss our new interview with YIV contributor Karen An-hwei Lee on her new work, Marimo, Mon Amour!
Author Interview with Herself: Karen An-hwei Lee about Marimo, Mon Amour |
Karen An-hwei Lee's forthcoming novel, Marimo, Mon Amour (University of Alabama/FC2), is about an obscure poet and dumpling-maker who lives with a pet moss ball, Marimo, in Alphabet City.
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Don't miss our new interview with YIV contributor Karen An-hwei Lee on her new work, Marimo, Mon Amour!
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It wouldn't be a new issue without some brash and velvety work in translation. Don't miss this stunner from the late Tatyana Bek (translated by Bita Takrimi)! #poetry
Let’s Sit on the Bench and Chat | Issue 33
By Tatyana Bek, translated by Bita Takrimi — "Let’s sit on the bench and chat a bit, / Smile, and let our heads nod like birds. / 'I don’t think you should cry,'You’ll say, / 'Or let the cold numb you...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It wouldn't be a new issue without some brash and velvety work in translation. Don't miss this stunner from the late Tatyana Bek (translated by Bita Takrimi)! #poetry
Graced by the presence of experimentalist Elisabeth Sheffield, author of a remarkable run of novels mostly from @fictioncollective2.bsky.social, whose tour de force here mashes up 2nd-person by retail marketing with extreme decompression of time, while taking a wry look at the tradeoffs of mid-life.
Cate’s Upstate or Fashion After the Apocalypse | Prose
By Elisabeth Sheffield — "Welcome to Cate’s Upstate, a fashion forward boutique located in downtown Toddsville. The term 'downtown' is used lightly, of course—Toddsville is a one-stoplight village wit...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Graced by the presence of experimentalist Elisabeth Sheffield, author of a remarkable run of novels mostly from @fictioncollective2.bsky.social, whose tour de force here mashes up 2nd-person by retail marketing with extreme decompression of time, while taking a wry look at the tradeoffs of mid-life.
Extended section from Pamela Ryder's forthcoming @fictioncollective2.bsky.social book Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him: The Lives of Billy the Kid appeared back in Socrates on the Beach #3.
Be careful with that prose. It will cut you.
socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder
Be careful with that prose. It will cut you.
socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Extended section from Pamela Ryder's forthcoming @fictioncollective2.bsky.social book Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him: The Lives of Billy the Kid appeared back in Socrates on the Beach #3.
Be careful with that prose. It will cut you.
socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder
Be careful with that prose. It will cut you.
socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder
So opens the new issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com—with "Leeuwenhoeuk's Lens", a mini-novel from @geoliminal.bsky.social, of Toadstones and Hellarkey fame, that rattles along with the pace of a great espionage thriller, working in the history of microscopy and a touch of Lovecraft in the process.
Leeuwenhoek’s Lens | Issue 33
By Eric Williams — "From the deck of the trekschuit, I watched Rotterdam and its forest of ships’ masts shrink and recede, and with the sight of them went, blessedly, the smell of herring and the scre...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
So opens the new issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com—with "Leeuwenhoeuk's Lens", a mini-novel from @geoliminal.bsky.social, of Toadstones and Hellarkey fame, that rattles along with the pace of a great espionage thriller, working in the history of microscopy and a touch of Lovecraft in the process.
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My story Storing Dinosaurs is in the new issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Please give it a read!
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...
Storing Dinosaurs | Issue 33
By Dan Weaver — "After Carmen married Phillip I couldn’t chase her with my lizards no more since it scared Phillip and he would hide in the room and the one time it made it so that Carmen couldn’t dri...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
My story Storing Dinosaurs is in the new issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Please give it a read!
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...