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Kirsti MacKenzie
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writer • editor Major 7th Mag • BETTER TO BEG out with House of Vlad
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good morning, folks

five albums, five stories, one fav! :)

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Friday Five: February 13, 2026
Five stories, five albums, one fave.
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February 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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I have a tiny new micro today in @bulbregion.bsky.social. grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social & any of you who read this story! 🥭 🥃 bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...
Title: Mangoes and Tequila Author: Anna Vangala Jones Image of a large mango Text of the story: My ex-boyfriend—who we now say is my best friend which hurts my actual best friend’s feelings though it’s not a real title accompanied by any sort of perks—helped me move into my new apartment in a faraway state today, so I tell him he can stay over for the night before his long drive back home alone. It’s only fair, I try to explain to my actual best friend over the phone but she laughs and says we’ll probably fall into bed together one last time for a wistful unhealthy goodbye. I think she’s wrong and this move is us starting fresh. Right now we’re at my neighborhood grocery store and I’m struck by that strange sense of being lost in a dream. I’m squeezing fruit like I’m touching the body of a new love while my heart is still longing for the familiarity of the one I’ve just left or lost. My ex-boyfriend / best-friend-in-name-only reaches for a mango at the same time as me so we can touch hands and pretend it is an accident of fate, but I pull away before he can prove my actual best friend right. In the liquor aisle, we hesitate but buy some tequila so as to make the temptation tonight almost too much to bear or resist. “Am I here because I come running whenever you call or because I can lift heavy furniture for you?” He’ll ask this when we’re almost asleep and I'll tell him, “you're here because you’re my best friend and I'm going to miss you.” That last part will be true.
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 PM
keersteemack.bsky.social
double dog dare ya to make it past the first sentence open.substack.com/pub/keerstee...
Marty vs. Mordecai
If you loved—or hated—Marty Supreme, you should be reading Duddy Kravitz.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:10 PM
keersteemack.bsky.social
forever and always the coolest to find out that people love your book
jessdawn.bsky.social Jessica Dawn @jessdawn.bsky.social · 4d
I finished Better to Beg by @keersteemack.bsky.social today and what a fucking delightful read. As someone who was in a band in LA in 2003 playing shitty bars and scrambling for a record deal, it hit me right in my guts. Way to nail that very specific time and experience. Absolutely loved it.
February 9, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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today I put on a record and finished a manuscript. that makes two in a year. i dunno what will come of them, but i’m super proud.
February 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
keersteemack.bsky.social
is it me or is The Pitt real bad this season
February 7, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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I have been invited to read at the @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social / @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and friends AWP off-site reading. I'm absolutely honored. If you are free on Thursday March 5, 2026 at 7pm, come see this absolutely knockout roster of readers (and me) at Golden West Cafe
February 6, 2026 at 5:13 PM
keersteemack.bsky.social
today i had surgery! i’m all looped on painkillers but i lived, bitch
February 6, 2026 at 6:46 PM
keersteemack.bsky.social
One hundred years from now some poli-sci major at Ottawa U or McGill will write a thesis like “New World Order: How Canada’s Quiet Quest for Hegemony Began with the Chadification of a Prime Minister” and its supporting materials will just be reams of horny Carney memes like this
February 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM
keersteemack.bsky.social
never any less nice and exciting to see people enjoy your book 😊
justinallec807.bsky.social Justinallec807 @justinallec807.bsky.social · 8d
A horny, loving, drug-fueled, raging variation on "if this tour doesn't kill us then I will" fondly skewering the early-00s indie sleaze scene, each line from @keersteemack.bsky.social tuned to hit the feels. Young love and loud guitars and shitty bars.
Better to Beg by Kirsti MacKenzie.
February 5, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Ain't no party like a hot tub party. Pithead Chapel published my story Public Relations Professionals Hot Tub Night in their new issue!

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February 1, 2026 at 4:39 PM
keersteemack.bsky.social
Loved this one
bulbregion.bsky.social The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 13d
“Emergency Landings” by Sam Berman is a fragmented, darkly comic story on chance and disaster that will surely reserve its unique place in the Berman-verse. Read it in The Bulb Region today.

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Emergency Landings, by Sam Berman — The Bulb Region
Emergency Landings — Sam Berman 1. On March 20th, 2006, in a sky committed to its...
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February 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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I am nostalgic for understimulation
February 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
keersteemack.bsky.social
give me! your eyes! i need! the sunshine
February 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
keersteemack.bsky.social
happy pub day Stephanie! grab your copy of BURN
February 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Reading Better to Beg and intensely amused by the “we maimed her Malm” line @keersteemack.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 4:43 AM
keersteemack.bsky.social
Aaron’s an educator and nowhere more so than by example - he lets you know it’s ok to leave your heart on the page (whatever that looks like for you!)

Happy pub to Aaron and TACOMA 😊
February 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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I finally watched The Long Walk! i wrote a little bit about that here! I hope you will take a look and consider subscribing to my newsletter if you are interested in hearing me talk about other art! Xoxo gossip girl
Welcome to Only Dans!
And a Few Thoughts About The Long Walk
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January 30, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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major7mag.bsky.social
Hi folks - quick note

We received a higher than average volume of submissions last call window

If you are waiting on a response for a submission from last window, they're still in queue and being considered for next issue

Thanks for your patience xo
February 2, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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Don’t blame anybody for not being able to do it. We can’t really afford to be doing it either, but we are. It’s not the superior choice, just a choice.

If you don’t mind the ask, we’d love for people to check out the site and consider an online order tonight or this weekend

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Evening House Books
Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.
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January 29, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Very happy to say that this year we’ll publishing poetry EPs (micro-collections, if you will) by Rachel King, Lotte Mitchell Reford, and Stephan Antoine Viau, @paulwrites7.bsky.social and @lyfaulk.bsky.social.

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5 Poetry EPs — Malarkey
Sometime last year I was feeling regretful that we weren’t going to publish any poetry collections in 2026 or 2027 and I got to thinking about what we could to get some more poems in our lineup. A few...
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January 31, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Leading a generative writing workshop next month on humor. Hoping it will provide some much-needed lightness.

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Laughing to Keep from Crying: A Generative Writing Workshop on Humor with Ben Niespodziany February 20- 22, 2026 About the Course The comedian and TV show host Milton Berle once said, “Laughter is an instant vacation.” Now more than ever, we could all use a good laugh. An escape from the doom scrolling, from the news cycles, from the terrors outside our windows. In this highly generative writing workshop (my fourth with Bending Genres, if you know, you know), we’ll be discussing the many ways to include humor in poetry, prose poetry, microfiction, and flash fiction. Tips and tricks to help you incorporate humor into any type of literary medium. From Matthew Olzmann’s mantra of “Start with a joke, end with a prayer” to the conceptual narrative humor of Zachary Schomburg and Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi to the more laugh-out-loud humor of Russell Edson and Jack Handey and Jennifer L. Knox. Other authors we’ll be reading include Mark Leidner, Rachel B. Glaser, Richard Brautigan, John Maradik, and S.E. Smith. With an excessive amount of examples, we’ll also feature an excessive amount of writing prompts. Enough prompts for you to choose to work on and share over the weekend with plenty of extras to take home with you (virtually) after the workshop is over. We’ll be laughing, chuckling, cackling, howling, and roaring away. Who knows, we might even invite a chortle or two. Modern life can be stressful and overwhelming, and in this weekend workshop, we’ll offer an escape from reality for a little bit, looking at ways to use your imagination and disconnect as well as ways to turn your stressors and anxieties into something funny and expressive on the page. It’ll be a safe and welcoming space to be goofy and silly for a little while. Anything can happen. Pack your Groucho glasses. Bring a Slinky. We’re going to have fun.
January 24, 2026 at 3:36 PM
keersteemack.bsky.social
would love for you all to give this a read today

sometimes it feels like there's nothing to say that hasn't already been said. i gave it a shot, anyway.
January 31, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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open now to 45 of you who've never submitted to HAD before!
NEWBIES ONLY Submit if you've never managed to hit one of our open windows. If I catch you repeating, I'll be very cross, I will reject you and leave a permanent note on your file. Loose guidelines: any genre, prose length < 1200 words, poetry up to 5 poems or 3 pages. Yours, @crowjonah.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:06 PM
keersteemack.bsky.social
nice lil review of my novel. thanks Bryan for spending time with it, amidst, you know. the horrors
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM