Always Crashing
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A magazine of fiction, poetry, & nameless things around and in-between. // alwayscrashing.com // https://alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com/
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Hey Bsky, we're an online & occasionally a print lit mag that's been around for let's say seven or so years now? Maybe eight? Here're a couple of semirepresentative pieces from our archive:
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I'm hosting a writing workshop over at @bendinggenres.bsky.social next month! Highly generative & full of prompts, we'll be focusing on humor & escapism through poetry / flash / microfiction. Join us for a weekend of comedy & fun. We could all use a laugh.
bendinggenres.com/register/lau...
bendinggenres.com/register/lau...
Laughing to Keep from Crying: A Generative Writing Workshop on Humor with Ben Niespodziany
bendinggenres.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I'm hosting a writing workshop over at @bendinggenres.bsky.social next month! Highly generative & full of prompts, we'll be focusing on humor & escapism through poetry / flash / microfiction. Join us for a weekend of comedy & fun. We could all use a laugh.
bendinggenres.com/register/lau...
bendinggenres.com/register/lau...
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We await the coming of the bard of touching grass
January 12, 2026 at 1:25 PM
We await the coming of the bard of touching grass
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January 11, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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Never Angeline North
Black Hole Science is Filled with Apologies
Online Book Release Party
Feat
June Martin, author of Love/Aggression @theworldsgreatestwriter.com
Kristin Lueke, poet of record @klooky.bsky.social
Suzy Valentine, comix hero instagram.com/weeptowaterthetrees
1pm PST
February 7 2026
Black Hole Science is Filled with Apologies
Online Book Release Party
Feat
June Martin, author of Love/Aggression @theworldsgreatestwriter.com
Kristin Lueke, poet of record @klooky.bsky.social
Suzy Valentine, comix hero instagram.com/weeptowaterthetrees
1pm PST
February 7 2026
January 9, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Never Angeline North
Black Hole Science is Filled with Apologies
Online Book Release Party
Feat
June Martin, author of Love/Aggression @theworldsgreatestwriter.com
Kristin Lueke, poet of record @klooky.bsky.social
Suzy Valentine, comix hero instagram.com/weeptowaterthetrees
1pm PST
February 7 2026
Black Hole Science is Filled with Apologies
Online Book Release Party
Feat
June Martin, author of Love/Aggression @theworldsgreatestwriter.com
Kristin Lueke, poet of record @klooky.bsky.social
Suzy Valentine, comix hero instagram.com/weeptowaterthetrees
1pm PST
February 7 2026
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THE MINUTE REVIEW - a little magazine, photocopied & sewn - seeks short (250-500 word) reviews of experimental, concrete, and risk-taking poetry and prose, especially by women and writers of colour. Please send submissions to [email protected]
January 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
THE MINUTE REVIEW - a little magazine, photocopied & sewn - seeks short (250-500 word) reviews of experimental, concrete, and risk-taking poetry and prose, especially by women and writers of colour. Please send submissions to [email protected]
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Sometimes, when you're lucky, great world building is the narrator's sudden cello, yet to be packed in its special shipping container, obvious, and never mentioned again.
"I folded the letter, stamped it, and walked it to the curbside postbox. Then I tore it to confetti and shoved the pieces in my mouth."
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
KATHERINE MARTIN / TELL ME I'M ALIVE — always crashing
I was scrubbing the toilet when the phone rang. The bathroom light buzzed (too bright, state-issued, like everything here) and for a moment, my reflection in the water wavered, thin and translucent as...
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January 10, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Sometimes, when you're lucky, great world building is the narrator's sudden cello, yet to be packed in its special shipping container, obvious, and never mentioned again.
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Today is the liminal day, the one between Bowie's birth day and death day. Behave accordingly.
January 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Today is the liminal day, the one between Bowie's birth day and death day. Behave accordingly.
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"I folded the letter, stamped it, and walked it to the curbside postbox. Then I tore it to confetti and shoved the pieces in my mouth."
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
KATHERINE MARTIN / TELL ME I'M ALIVE — always crashing
I was scrubbing the toilet when the phone rang. The bathroom light buzzed (too bright, state-issued, like everything here) and for a moment, my reflection in the water wavered, thin and translucent as...
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January 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
"I folded the letter, stamped it, and walked it to the curbside postbox. Then I tore it to confetti and shoved the pieces in my mouth."
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
👇👇👇
A hell of a FIRST PUBLICATION
"I folded the letter, stamped it, and walked it to the curbside postbox. Then I tore it to confetti and shoved the pieces in my mouth."
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
👇👇👇
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Writing a story (architectural fantasy shenanigans) so complicated that my notes for it are vastly longer than the story itself will be
January 7, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Writing a story (architectural fantasy shenanigans) so complicated that my notes for it are vastly longer than the story itself will be
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A hell of a FIRST PUBLICATION
"I folded the letter, stamped it, and walked it to the curbside postbox. Then I tore it to confetti and shoved the pieces in my mouth."
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
KATHERINE MARTIN / TELL ME I'M ALIVE — always crashing
I was scrubbing the toilet when the phone rang. The bathroom light buzzed (too bright, state-issued, like everything here) and for a moment, my reflection in the water wavered, thin and translucent as...
www.alwayscrashing.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:50 AM
A hell of a FIRST PUBLICATION
"I folded the letter, stamped it, and walked it to the curbside postbox. Then I tore it to confetti and shoved the pieces in my mouth."
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
KATHERINE MARTIN / TELL ME I'M ALIVE — always crashing
I was scrubbing the toilet when the phone rang. The bathroom light buzzed (too bright, state-issued, like everything here) and for a moment, my reflection in the water wavered, thin and translucent as...
www.alwayscrashing.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
"I folded the letter, stamped it, and walked it to the curbside postbox. Then I tore it to confetti and shoved the pieces in my mouth."
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
New year, new work / "Tell Me I'm Alive" by debut author (!) Katherine Martin / New at Always Crashing:
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New work arriving for the new year at the site tomorrow / which means today's an excellent time to read or re-read Kolby Harvey's 3 Python scripts, up now
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
![sunday_afternoon()
["Or was it braver to?", [
"Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.",
"Truly off-putting shit."
],
["Know what I did when I saw that man again?",
"I fucking smiled.",
"Walked up,",
"gave him a hug,",
"said ‘good to see you.’",
"He looked gobsmacked.",
"I'm still ashamed of that."
],](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4i4j6sxxyrf466y2iahtn4gv/bafkreia6vzoo75qxof23usueuntqfyrq4mopgylzofz76dugwkpdj6uemi@jpeg)
January 5, 2026 at 6:12 PM
New work arriving for the new year at the site tomorrow / which means today's an excellent time to read or re-read Kolby Harvey's 3 Python scripts, up now
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
New work arriving for the new year at the site tomorrow / which means today's an excellent time to read or re-read Kolby Harvey's 3 Python scripts, up now
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
January 5, 2026 at 6:12 PM
New work arriving for the new year at the site tomorrow / which means today's an excellent time to read or re-read Kolby Harvey's 3 Python scripts, up now
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
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| Literary Feature |
"Make things with your hands" // An Interview with Poet Kyle Marbut
www.neonpajamas.com/blog/kyle-ma...
@burnsidereview.bsky.social
"Make things with your hands" // An Interview with Poet Kyle Marbut
www.neonpajamas.com/blog/kyle-ma...
@burnsidereview.bsky.social
"Make things with your hands" // An Interview with Poet Kyle Marbut — [neonpajamas]
Speaking with the author of Black Swan Theory .
www.neonpajamas.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM
| Literary Feature |
"Make things with your hands" // An Interview with Poet Kyle Marbut
www.neonpajamas.com/blog/kyle-ma...
@burnsidereview.bsky.social
"Make things with your hands" // An Interview with Poet Kyle Marbut
www.neonpajamas.com/blog/kyle-ma...
@burnsidereview.bsky.social
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Hi, everyone! We're back with new posts this week! 💡
We hope you're doing well as we enter into this new year, and as a reminder, we are open for previously published submissions!
We hope you're doing well as we enter into this new year, and as a reminder, we are open for previously published submissions!
January 5, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Hi, everyone! We're back with new posts this week! 💡
We hope you're doing well as we enter into this new year, and as a reminder, we are open for previously published submissions!
We hope you're doing well as we enter into this new year, and as a reminder, we are open for previously published submissions!
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getting an always crashing newsletter shoutout feels (almost) as good as getting published by them
New AC email edition, featuring: 1. work by Kolby Harvey; 2. something from the archive by JA Tyler; 3. a new book from @velmatrout.bsky.social; 4. Bing and David:
"What I thought was a street lamp was some sort of flood light"
featuring good code, bad code, projection, puns, inverted stars, deviated norms, one minute where we feel like the world hasn't ended, Bing and David
alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
getting an always crashing newsletter shoutout feels (almost) as good as getting published by them
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I love Reddit. A thread I saw today: 'Is Kafka's intent to bully people with ADHD?'
December 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I love Reddit. A thread I saw today: 'Is Kafka's intent to bully people with ADHD?'
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As 2025 draws to a close, I just want to reup the thing I am the most proud of ever writing: "Postrock," which @alwayscrashing.bsky.social published in August. www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
BRADLEY J. FEST / POSTROCK — always crashing
Things show restraint. The guitar’s evening light, the decades, at least three ways of space running on, spilling over from us no matter the font of being’s omissions. It, that: here. Here . Let’s ...
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December 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
As 2025 draws to a close, I just want to reup the thing I am the most proud of ever writing: "Postrock," which @alwayscrashing.bsky.social published in August. www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
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New AC email edition, featuring: 1. work by Kolby Harvey; 2. something from the archive by JA Tyler; 3. a new book from @velmatrout.bsky.social; 4. Bing and David:
"What I thought was a street lamp was some sort of flood light"
featuring good code, bad code, projection, puns, inverted stars, deviated norms, one minute where we feel like the world hasn't ended, Bing and David
alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
New AC email edition, featuring: 1. work by Kolby Harvey; 2. something from the archive by JA Tyler; 3. a new book from @velmatrout.bsky.social; 4. Bing and David:
New AC email edition, featuring: 1. work by Kolby Harvey; 2. something from the archive by JA Tyler; 3. a new book from @velmatrout.bsky.social; 4. Bing and David:
"What I thought was a street lamp was some sort of flood light"
featuring good code, bad code, projection, puns, inverted stars, deviated norms, one minute where we feel like the world hasn't ended, Bing and David
alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
New AC email edition, featuring: 1. work by Kolby Harvey; 2. something from the archive by JA Tyler; 3. a new book from @velmatrout.bsky.social; 4. Bing and David:
December 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I'll have more to say about this soon, but one of the things that non-coding folks (and some coders) tend to miss is that good code is not intended to communicate with the computer (which is strictly speaking impossible), but to communicate with *other people*
"['Or was it braver to?', [
'Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.',
'Truly off-putting shit.'
],
['Know what I did when I saw that man again?',
'I fucking smiled.'"
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3 Python Scripts by Kolby Harvey / New today at Always Crashing
'Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.',
'Truly off-putting shit.'
],
['Know what I did when I saw that man again?',
'I fucking smiled.'"
///
3 Python Scripts by Kolby Harvey / New today at Always Crashing
KOLBY HARVEY / 3 PYTHON SCRIPTS — always crashing
ganymede.py
www.alwayscrashing.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I'll have more to say about this soon, but one of the things that non-coding folks (and some coders) tend to miss is that good code is not intended to communicate with the computer (which is strictly speaking impossible), but to communicate with *other people*
Reposted by Always Crashing
"['Or was it braver to?', [
'Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.',
'Truly off-putting shit.'
],
['Know what I did when I saw that man again?',
'I fucking smiled.'"
///
3 Python Scripts by Kolby Harvey / New today at Always Crashing
'Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.',
'Truly off-putting shit.'
],
['Know what I did when I saw that man again?',
'I fucking smiled.'"
///
3 Python Scripts by Kolby Harvey / New today at Always Crashing
KOLBY HARVEY / 3 PYTHON SCRIPTS — always crashing
ganymede.py
www.alwayscrashing.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"['Or was it braver to?', [
'Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.',
'Truly off-putting shit.'
],
['Know what I did when I saw that man again?',
'I fucking smiled.'"
///
3 Python Scripts by Kolby Harvey / New today at Always Crashing
'Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.',
'Truly off-putting shit.'
],
['Know what I did when I saw that man again?',
'I fucking smiled.'"
///
3 Python Scripts by Kolby Harvey / New today at Always Crashing
"['Or was it braver to?', [
'Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.',
'Truly off-putting shit.'
],
['Know what I did when I saw that man again?',
'I fucking smiled.'"
///
3 Python Scripts by Kolby Harvey / New today at Always Crashing
'Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.',
'Truly off-putting shit.'
],
['Know what I did when I saw that man again?',
'I fucking smiled.'"
///
3 Python Scripts by Kolby Harvey / New today at Always Crashing
KOLBY HARVEY / 3 PYTHON SCRIPTS — always crashing
ganymede.py
www.alwayscrashing.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"['Or was it braver to?', [
'Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.',
'Truly off-putting shit.'
],
['Know what I did when I saw that man again?',
'I fucking smiled.'"
///
3 Python Scripts by Kolby Harvey / New today at Always Crashing
'Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.',
'Truly off-putting shit.'
],
['Know what I did when I saw that man again?',
'I fucking smiled.'"
///
3 Python Scripts by Kolby Harvey / New today at Always Crashing