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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 1h

You're going to want to sink your crab claws into Juliet Way-Henthorne's CNF, but start by getting to know a bit more and checking out "The Quiet"

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The Quiet by Juliet Way-Henthorne

I’ve sat shoulder-to-shoulder with Casey through all the sad movies of the last six years. We were the last two in the theater downtown, the last place playing The Boy and the Heron. I felt her heart ...

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 2h

Time for a little togetherness! Issue 16 is almost here, so you're going to want to spend some time getting to know these lovely contributors!

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 20h

Still can't get over Danielle Monroe's lovely CNF piece "Three Aprils." If you didn't catch it last time, don't miss it twice! vastliterarypress.org/2025/07/20/m...

Three Aprils

April 2023 I am still married. My husband is elsewhere. My children sleep in their beds. I ready the house and myself for when they wake. I am the center of a seesaw and I keep th…

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 2d

We were excited to learn Harriet Weaver has a new piece coming out in the Roanoke Review next month! While you wait, revisit her poem “To the Girl Working at the Tea Shop in Provincetown”
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To the Girl Working at the Tea Shop in Provincetown

I asked you about the novel you were readingand realized too late I was flirting,despite wearing an oversized nautical sweaterand a fanny pack designed to carrya child around my postpartum fat. You…

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 2d

Leave your baggage behind and take a trip on over to Meeting House to read “MIA” by Sara Rauch

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MIA —Meetinghouse Literary Journal

“We’ll deliver it as soon as it turns up. I’ll need your name and a description of a few items inside the missing piece, please.” The office was cramped, papers stacked high, central air blasting from...

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 3d

It was a joy to read and an honor to share, Lindy! Always glad for any excuse to spend time with your work.

Added bonus if it means we get to be supportive (like an extra-firm mattress 😁)

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 3d

We want to make sure you didn’t miss this piece by Jennifer Lai in Issue 15:
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Missed Connections

Seattle, WA Northbound on the Sound Transit Light Rail We sat opposite one another, heading from the U district to my stop at Mountlake Terrace. New Year’s Eve. Around 9:30 p.m. You: Olive-gr…

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 4d

A piece by @lindybiller.bsky.social is always a treat, but this one you can practically taste: waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...

Salt | Lindy Biller

My mother says her mouth tastes like salt. Her lips, her tongue, her teeth. It started the day my boyfriend and I moved in together, though, according to her, the timing was purely coincidental.❡

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 6d

You're going to want to revisit Emma Townsend with this 2025 poem "hi elise" out of Parley Lit

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Emma Townsend — storytelling is a performance

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 6d

Read three of 25Q3 contributor @mmveritas.bsky.social's poems @acrossthemargin.bsky.social. As they put it, “traverse the dark borderlands of human emotion where love, grief and rage intertwine in quietly explosive ways.”
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Three Poems by M. M. Adjarian — Across The Margin

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 8d

You won't have to be lonely much longer! Our fall issue comes out later this month, but we'll spend the week revisiting those lovely folks from issue 15.

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 28

We know you’ve been yearning to join in on the fun so…

Put your own spin on the issue with our Make-A-Micro interactive piece vastliterarypress.org/2025/07/20/m...

Make-a-Micro – Issue 15 by Vast

In the spirit of jumping into uncertainty and making something new together, we invite you to pick two random numbers between one and eight (or spin our wheel twice) and form a new micro story. Can…

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 27

‪“I am the center of a seesaw and I keep the balance. I cook, clean, plan, arrange, manage, and listen…I hold the middle. I hold still.”‬

‪— Danielle Monroe, “Three Aprils” in 25Q3‬

‪https://vastliterarypress.org/2025/07/20/monroe-three-aprils/‬

Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 26

It’s what we all dream of...
taking ourselves to the forest to dance naked
away from laundry and picking up
countless old socks and half-full Coke cans—
in other words, away from men.

— Harriet Weaver, “To The Girl Working at the Tea Shop in Provincetown”
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To the Girl Working at the Tea Shop in Provincetown

I asked you about the novel you were readingand realized too late I was flirting,despite wearing an oversized nautical sweaterand a fanny pack designed to carrya child around my postpartum fat. You…

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 25

‪“The first time you saw him, you thought, No one should be that perfect. It was impossible. No one’s lips were that color naturally.”‬

‪— Sara Rauch, “December” in 25Q3‬
‪https://vastliterarypress.org/2025/07/20/rauch-december/‬

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 24

"You asked if I was OK. I didn’t answer. Too busy staring at my phone, rereading that last message.

Decent guys are hard to come by nowadays. Would love to chat. I never got the chance to thank you."

— Jennifer Lai “Missed Connections"
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Missed Connections

Seattle, WA Northbound on the Sound Transit Light Rail We sat opposite one another, heading from the U district to my stop at Mountlake Terrace. New Year’s Eve. Around 9:30 p.m. You: Olive-gr…

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 23

"The first time I ask God for a sign, He leaves a dead mouse on the sidewalk."

— @lindybiller.bsky.social “I Love You, God, But This is the Last Time I’m Asking” in 25Q3

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I Love You, God, But This is the Last Time I’m Asking

The first time I ask God for a sign, He leaves a dead mouse on the sidewalk. I see it, curled up next to Mom’s wilting dahlias, on my way to the school bus. At first I think it’s a gray rock.…

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 22

‪“so i guess that’s why we’re in‬
‪some state where the grass flows like‬
‪water and my voice sounds so‬
‪out of place”‬

‪— Emma Townsend, “my southern bones” 25Q3‬

‪https://vastliterarypress.org/2025/07/20/townsend-my-southern-bones/‬

Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 21

“Tender cuts on man-sized platters piled high to heaven with heaping sides of disrespect, / they live to be consumed and then discarded”

— @mmvaritas.bsky.social “Self-Congratulation” in 25Q3

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Self-Congratulation

Texas women love and curse with a fatal bless your heart. Sun-burned plains enclose them, their multi-colored bodies corralled in branded jeans. Tender cuts on man-sized platters piled high to heav…

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 20

The yearning is over! Launch yourself into the new issue and face the uncertainty with these fantastic contributors.

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25Q3

Editor’s Note It’s summer in the States, the thick heat of July, and I am yearning for a breeze, a stirring of something better swooping in. We’re sick of the oppressive heat, the oppressive …

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 18

The tea is brewing in Harriet Weaver’s upcoming Issue 15 poem! You’re going to want to savor it, so whet your appetite for now with her “What Occurs to Me This Morning”

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What Occurs to Me This Morning | Los Angeles Review of Books PubLab

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 16

‪Emma Townsend is the author of two children’s books, which you can find at Kids at Heart Publishing, but we promise her new poem is not all child’s play. We’re excited to bring it to you soon!‬

‪https://kidsatheartpublishing.com/product-tag/emma-townsend/‬

Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 15

New fiction that’s sure to have you feeling all kinds of ways from Sara Rauch coming soon! If you want a glimpse into that future feeling, read her story “Falling Is Like This” at Lunch Ticket

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Falling Is Like This - Lunch Ticket

“One minute it was road beneath us, and the next was sky.” —Ani DiFranco The hotel lobby is square, all elegant chandeliers and dark leather chairs. Jazz standards float above the concierge. Women c...

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 14

We’re excited to bring you heartbreaking and hopeful cnf from Danielle Monroe later this month! Danielle is currently seeking representation for her debut novel, SAMUEL IS RUNNING. See what else she’s up to here: daniellehmonroe.com

Danielle H. Monroe

Failing in the Right Direction

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · Jul 13

Does the word nurdle make you giggle? Check out this heartbreaker of a toothbrushing story in Atlas and Alice and get hyped for Jennifer Lai's upcoming missed connections piece in our next issue.
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Fiction from Jennifer Lai

Photo: William Warby Portrait of a Normal Nuclear Family As with last Sunday, and the Sunday before that, and the Sunday before that, the husband and wife are shopping for toothpaste. It’s one of t…

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