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Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 17d
I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press!

Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
New Release Issue 5 08 November Underbelly Press In the background is a yellow circle. In the middle of the circle is the Issue 5 cover, it reads: Issue 5, Autumn 25 Underbelly Press at the top and below a crisp picture of orange maple leaves in the foreground and a blurred blue-green background.
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A huge thank you to all those who have already grabbed things in our sale.

We'll be losing some incredible authors in January so please do support them if you can!

Everything is 25% off with the code NORTHODOXMAS until 5th January
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November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Burned Flowers Fallen by @tednorthodox.bsky.social
Told through the eyes of a survivor desperately trying to reach his mother, it's an emotional piece with a punch. The horror feels very much human, balancing grit and tenderness beautifully. Read it now in Issue 5.
Tuesday Tasters I tried to put my thoughts in order and shake away the shock. Mum had just been turning a corner and was finally able to get dressed and use the stairs on her own, but it wasn’t as if she had all her faculties back. My legs were wobbling, but miraculously I didn’t seem to have any real injuries. Ground zero must have been far away, but the devastation wreaked on the area, and my skeletal friend showed how powerful it was. Burned Flowers Fallen T. E O’Connor Text is on a black background. Underbelly Press logo in the top right corner. In the background behind the poem is an image of an orange leaf.
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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🚨STATEMENT🚨

We know there have been rumours circulating and we've been investigating all avenues to continue in extremely difficult circumstances, both industry-wise and within the team.

The support from our readers and writers means the world to us.
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Crescent Bar by @ewenglass.bsky.social
A compelling piece with evocative imagery, we were especially struck by its opening & the personification of the wood panels.

Check out Ewen's latest publication, released 14 November: amzn.eu/d/iZcEtYw
'Playful, heartbreaking and formally adventurous'
SUNDAY SNIPPETS The wood panels have a ‘complicated relationship with themselves’ by osmosis; splashes of alcohol, late Saturday tears, midweek wakes agreed with the ownership. Crescent Bar Ewen Glass Text is on a black background. Underbelly Press logo in the top right corner. In the background behind the poem is an image of an orange leaf.
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Clipped Wings by Sreelekha Chatterjee
This unique, sorrowful piece offers a vivid portrayal of despair and decay through the eyes of a bird.

A stark and striking read from our very first issue, find it here:
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Thursday Throwback A giant comes out and doesn’t shoo me away. Blinking my eyelids while cawing, I flap my wings without any lift. My burnt black wings confine me to the land. A few days ago, when I delved into the foul-smelling heap of leftover food and detritus of everyday life, a terrible irritation seized me, as if I was set ablaze. Consequently, my feathers fell like the season’s leaves, and the existing ones resembled the spikes of bottlebrush flowers. Clipped Wings Sreelekha Chatterjee Text is on a black background. In the bottom right corner is a yellow outline image of a feather.
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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ghostlyverse.bsky.social
Determined to include a Hallowe'en piece in every WIP, I wrote "Hallowe’en Masquerade in New Orleans" for my horror WIP "Return of the Werewolf: Poems."
🩸 🐺 🪄 💀 Moral: beware of enchanted costume shops!

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Hallowe’en Masquerade in New Orleans - @ghostlyverse.bsky.social
This poem follows a tourist whose search for a costume unravels into something far stranger. Curiosity seeps into metamorphosis in this uncanny piece.

Check out LindaAnn's recent collection:
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TUESDAY TASTERS Reality was ripped to shreds by what Appeared: a werewolf get-up, fur so soft I dared to try it on. A perfect fit. "How much?" No one replied. What sort of game Is this? No matter how I tried, the pelt Adhered to me — became my second skin. Complaints were useless. Speech turned into howls. Hallowe’en Masquerade in New Orleans LindaAnn LoSchiavo Text is on a black background. Underbelly Press logo in the top right corner. In the background behind the poem is an image of an orange leaf.
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Hallowe’en Masquerade in New Orleans - @ghostlyverse.bsky.social
This poem follows a tourist whose search for a costume unravels into something far stranger. Curiosity seeps into metamorphosis in this uncanny piece.

Check out LindaAnn's recent collection:
www.prolificpulse.com/lindaannlosc...
TUESDAY TASTERS Reality was ripped to shreds by what Appeared: a werewolf get-up, fur so soft I dared to try it on. A perfect fit. "How much?" No one replied. What sort of game Is this? No matter how I tried, the pelt Adhered to me — became my second skin. Complaints were useless. Speech turned into howls. Hallowe’en Masquerade in New Orleans LindaAnn LoSchiavo Text is on a black background. Underbelly Press logo in the top right corner. In the background behind the poem is an image of an orange leaf.
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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@prolificpulsepress.bsky.social will host a 7 pm ZOOM reading on Nov. 18, 2025!
I'll read my eerie paranormal poms from "Cancer Courts My Mother."
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November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Aubade Close by Derek Jennings.

Thoughtful and melancholic, this piece offers a poignant take on the autumn theme. Derek transforms a mundane moment, an ordinary human experience, into something tender and compelling.

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Sunday Snippets The many years lived of love and happiness and accumulated wealth in these bungalows could not stop the creep of loneliness and ill health though. Nothing ever can. Long lives lived behind four walls and almost seen, almost touched every day by him through letterboxes. Twelve, ten, eight. Aubade Close Derek Jennings Text is on a black background. Underbelly Press logo in the top right corner. In the background behind the poem is an image of an orange leaf.
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Armchair by Alan Brickman.
It's a poignant, resonant piece that beautifully explores the way grief interacts with memory & routine. Turning a mundane object into a metaphor for presence, absence, & grief, it's a moving and tender read

Find it in Issue 4.
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Thursday Throwback He walked through the front door into his house without remembering how he got home, and dropped himself onto the couch, his breath rushed and shallow. He looked across at his wife's armchair and saw that her indentation from just a few hours ago was still there, as if she had stood only moments before and walked into the kitchen for a second cup of coffee. He found this heartbreaking, but also reassuring. It felt as if things had not really changed that much. As if his life had not been turned inside out. Armchair Alan Brickman Text is on a black background. In the bottom right corner is a drawing of an armchair with a yellow outline.
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Winging It by Lee Fraser

Striking both visually and internally, this piece uses enjambment beautifully to mirror its themes of deconstruction and metamorphosis. It’s unique and raw, exploring the inescapable transformation that comes with parenthood.

Read it now in Issue 5.
Tuesday Tasters Winging It Lee Fraser The baby is out but you are still forming your cocoon: advice column shreds, leaves from trending parenthood books, family tree twigs that you realise don’t hold to threadbare social fabric, but metamorphosis is not optional. Deconstruct your surroundings & internal world; pray it doesn’t all wind up hollow or tar. The poem takes the shape of a cocoon. Text is on a black background. Underbelly Press logo in the top right corner. In the background behind the poem is an image of an orange leaf.
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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darkonelf.bsky.social
I wrote this story in a mood during summer. The heat, the crowds, the emotional stuff that happens when we feel caged & then autumn comes along & changes everything.

So happy to be published with Underbelly Press. Here it is.

Beneath the Sun

#writing

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November 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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So happy to be featured here, among this amazing roll call. Thank you, @underbellypress.bsky.social
underbellypress.bsky.social Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 17d
Short Fiction
Amy Leacy ☆ @deniseb.bsky.social ☆ Derek Jennings☆ @emyrpayne.bsky.social ☆Heather Walker ☆ Ian Johnson☆ John Storey☆ @jupiterjonz.bsky.social ☆ @darkonelf.bsky.social ☆ @lozzawriting.bsky.social ☆ @madeleinewrite.bsky.social ☆ Rebecca Tiger ☆ Scott MacLeod☆ @tednorthodox.bsky.social ☆
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Here's a great magazine, and what better time to fill a piece of Sunday with some Underbelly tales from a delight of great writers 📚
underbellypress.bsky.social Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 17d
I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press!

Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
New Release Issue 5 08 November Underbelly Press In the background is a yellow circle. In the middle of the circle is the Issue 5 cover, it reads: Issue 5, Autumn 25 Underbelly Press at the top and below a crisp picture of orange maple leaves in the foreground and a blurred blue-green background.
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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underbellypress.bsky.social Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 17d
I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press!

Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
New Release Issue 5 08 November Underbelly Press In the background is a yellow circle. In the middle of the circle is the Issue 5 cover, it reads: Issue 5, Autumn 25 Underbelly Press at the top and below a crisp picture of orange maple leaves in the foreground and a blurred blue-green background.
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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emyrpayne.bsky.social
So chuffed to have my short story, 'Key Worker' included in issue 5 of Underbelly Press - there are some stellar pieces in this issue and I highly recommend anybody who is interested in the underbelly of existence to check it out - just follow the link below to download a PDF copy free!
underbellypress.bsky.social Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 17d
I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press!

Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
New Release Issue 5 08 November Underbelly Press In the background is a yellow circle. In the middle of the circle is the Issue 5 cover, it reads: Issue 5, Autumn 25 Underbelly Press at the top and below a crisp picture of orange maple leaves in the foreground and a blurred blue-green background.
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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youcanandyouwill.bsky.social
Thrilled to be an Underbelly barnacle on this lush thing. Autumnal melancholia lies within both from super talented folk I know, and will for sure get to know. Plus, a niche comfort/small victory from me!
underbellypress.bsky.social Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 17d
I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press!

Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
New Release Issue 5 08 November Underbelly Press In the background is a yellow circle. In the middle of the circle is the Issue 5 cover, it reads: Issue 5, Autumn 25 Underbelly Press at the top and below a crisp picture of orange maple leaves in the foreground and a blurred blue-green background.
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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'Claude spots a row of four blue padded worms. Blonde curls spring from the top of a small sleeping bag.' Sumptuous descriptions in this heartwarming heartbreaking story by @deniseb.bsky.social in @underbellypress.bsky.social today⬇️⬇️⬇️
deniseb.bsky.social Denise Bayes @deniseb.bsky.social · 17d
Exciting to be part of this excellent edition of @underbellypress.bsky.social Beautiful production
underbellypress.bsky.social Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 17d
I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press!

Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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It's here! What a terrific collection of words this is. Delighted to have my flash, "Who's afraid of little old me?" on P42. Watch this space for a novella in flash with this character. Link below. Take a peek at everyone! @underbellypress.bsky.social Thanks!

@pdevonald.bsky.social issue bud!
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I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press!

Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
New Release Issue 5 08 November Underbelly Press In the background is a yellow circle. In the middle of the circle is the Issue 5 cover, it reads: Issue 5, Autumn 25 Underbelly Press at the top and below a crisp picture of orange maple leaves in the foreground and a blurred blue-green background.
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Exciting to be part of this excellent edition of @underbellypress.bsky.social Beautiful production
underbellypress.bsky.social Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 17d
I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press!

Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
New Release Issue 5 08 November Underbelly Press In the background is a yellow circle. In the middle of the circle is the Issue 5 cover, it reads: Issue 5, Autumn 25 Underbelly Press at the top and below a crisp picture of orange maple leaves in the foreground and a blurred blue-green background.
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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pdevonald.bsky.social
Aamazing poetry, thank you so much for all your exceptional curation and talents
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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My piece in here is for a KK - a wonderful teacher who gave me the last line to this piece. 🌰 🤬
Thank you @underbellypress.bsky.social - what a fantastic thing you have produced - congratulations to everyone involved!
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November 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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tednorthodox.bsky.social
Well, it would have been Mum's 70th birthday party today, so it's fitting the short story I wrote in aftermath of her passing has been published the same day! Page 55 if anyone is interested! Also, note @northodoxpress.bsky.social 's Amy on page 12, and John Storey on 34 😍
underbellypress.bsky.social Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 17d
I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press!

Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
New Release Issue 5 08 November Underbelly Press In the background is a yellow circle. In the middle of the circle is the Issue 5 cover, it reads: Issue 5, Autumn 25 Underbelly Press at the top and below a crisp picture of orange maple leaves in the foreground and a blurred blue-green background.
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press!

Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
New Release Issue 5 08 November Underbelly Press In the background is a yellow circle. In the middle of the circle is the Issue 5 cover, it reads: Issue 5, Autumn 25 Underbelly Press at the top and below a crisp picture of orange maple leaves in the foreground and a blurred blue-green background.
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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There are 27 short fictions in our print anthology - two of them deal beautifully with stories of escape 🦝
If these teases tempt you, you can grab a copy for less than £10!
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What Comes to Light by @quickasaflash.bsky.social 💜
Thin Place by @justine1902.bsky.social 💜
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM