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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 3d

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"Books Books Books," by Peter McAllister

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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you so much, @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social for the nomination!

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · Aug 21

Publication day for this darkly comic little piece I think many readers can relate to. Thanks to @defenestrationmag.bsky.social for getting it up on your site. 🙂

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Leila's front wheel wobbles when she cycles over a crack in the tarmac. A car behind blares its horn as she struggles to steady the books in her basket and keep her summer dress from flaring up. 'You...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · Aug 17

"Dad’s personality traits are gatherer, unstable, nurturing, handy, and insane. He wants to fix things and that’s what he’s good at, but he has these random mood swings where he runs after you wielding a garden gnome or pruning shears." - Kate Horsley mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Ra'Niqua Lee, PhD @raniqualee.bsky.social · Jul 10

"So we – us two – have chosen love. And celibacy. We may be different species; but we are both as old as dinosaurs and we are in love. We’ll take whatever time we have."

Daily reads: Nell Carroll Turner in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️

Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 9

Ma says she’s coming all the way to the port with me but she leaves halfway. I see her carapace swimming backwards; her eyes locked on mine. My heart starts screaming' Read 'Dylan Red Claw', a short story by Nell Carroll Turner

'Dylan Red Claw' by Nell Carroll Turner

Short Story

Interview with Jackie Taylor

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 10

'I like to write early in the morning with my dream-head still in touching distance. My writing space is at the top of the garden, with a view across the sea from Rame Head to Looe Island.' Kate Horsley interviews Jackie Taylor

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'Dylan Red Claw' by Nell Carroll Turner

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 9

Ma says she’s coming all the way to the port with me but she leaves halfway. I see her carapace swimming backwards; her eyes locked on mine. My heart starts screaming' Read 'Dylan Red Claw', a short story by Nell Carroll Turner

Short Story

'The Red Kite' by Ambika Bates

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 8

'When I stopped emailing, I thought to myself, now it’s really the end of the known world. Now I really won’t sleep. Winter rolled, a slow wagon, upon which I was not having a good time.'
Read 'The Red Kite', a Prose Poetry/Flash Fiction Hybrid by Ambika Bates

Prose poetry/Flash Fiction Hybrid

'The Riverbank' by Amirah Walters

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 7

'It had been her brother who taught her how to tie a rope secure enough to swing on. It was him who had shown her how to swing from it into the river. According to her, Logan had always been in love with being alive.'
Read 'The Riverbank', a short story by Amirah Walters

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 6

'My laboratory is on the basement level with soundproofing and no windows, so it’s only once I leave work that I can see and hear the birds without mediation.'
Read 'What the birds are saying', flash fiction by Fiona Mossman

'Fungi' and other poems by Susan Kostick

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Ra'Niqua Lee, PhD @raniqualee.bsky.social · Jul 2

"What other plants and creatures were here with them?
What abundance of clean water and shellfish?
What clam gardens?
What cold rivers and salmon?
What relatives?"

Daily reads: Susan Kostick in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️

Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 2

'These fungi grow together
but are not communal–
like us,
walking together,
keeping our own counsel.'
Read 'Fungi' and other poems by Susan Kostick

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 6

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'Snowshoeing' & 'Newfoundland Buffalo' by Logan Ropson

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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · Jul 5

Happy friday! Here’s a few mags whose names start with a vowel that you should go check out:
@anmlymag.bsky.social
@afterdinnerconversation.com
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
@okaydonkey.bsky.social
@identitytheory.bsky.social
@eunoiareview.bsky.social
@underbellypress.bsky.social

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 5

'She hears rather than feels her legs snap out on instinct and away from the warmth of the old horse rugs, up the creaky metal stairs and into the bower at the top of the barn, where she can hear the mice shifting and hiding...'
Read 'Hunting Season', a short story by India Fishburn buff.ly/91bXBiS

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 4

"Yvonne Battle-Felton’s Curdle Creek is a fever-dream odyssey that begins in an all-Black town governed by nightmarish traditions and spirals into something far more expansive and terrifying." Read our Review of Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton @whyiwrite.bsky.social buff.ly/TpVNzQu

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 3

'North of Frog Pond
a path is beaten
into the snow so worn
that it can bear your weight
without rackets.'
Read 'Snowshoeing' & 'Newfoundland Buffalo' by Logan Ropson

'Fungi' and other poems by Susan Kostick

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 2

'These fungi grow together
but are not communal–
like us,
walking together,
keeping our own counsel.'
Read 'Fungi' and other poems by Susan Kostick

'The taproot of the Sycamore' by Vanessa Gebbie

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 1

'The taproot of the Sycamore/is a strong old sod, no/manners, never says/please, pushes past/shoulders aside/boulders, animal/bones, burials'. Read 'The taproot of the Sycamore', concrete poetry by Vanessa Gebbie buff.ly/A14D7uY

Concrete poetry

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'Gutted' & 'Here is my haul' by Vivienne Tregenza

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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · Jun 30

July's 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter, recommending Isabelle Baafi's 'Chaotic Good' @faberbooks.bsky.social & feat @serenbooks.bsky.social @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social @arvonfoundation.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social mailchi.mp/315fe9108e32...
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Smiling woman performing at a poetry festival with hands raised

Copy of Isabelle Baafi's 'Chaotic Good' poetry collection with an orange flower

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 30

'That was the year/of seared flesh and fishbones,/the year I was landed/gasping for breath, gulping/thin air, jerking and juddering/on the slimy ground/as a knife eased my body/from its backbone .' Read ''Gutted' and 'Here is my haul', poems by Vivienne Tregenza

'A Thrice Tilled Field' by Tim Moder

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 29

'June bug, kettle-moraine, delta, heather, black ice, prairie, witches-halo,
feathered aerie, vernal pools, will-o-the-wisp, darkling beetle, cuckoo.' Read 'A Thrice Tilled Field', concrete poems by Tim Moder