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Issue 33 | Fall 2025 | Your Impossible Voice
Our latest issue includes new work from Eric Williams, Elisabeth Sheffield, Israel Bonilla, Roberto Ontiveros, Dan Weaver, Julia Meinwald, Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, Addison Zelle...
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Our latest issue finds us rushing through time and space courtesy of new work from @geoliminal.bsky.social Elisabeth Sheffield, @israelbonilla.bsky.social Roberto Ontiveros, @supernaturalfeat.com @juliaevem.bsky.social Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, @addisonzeller.bsky.social
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January 27, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Tuesday #flashfiction: @brandonmcneice.bsky.social plants the seeds of rebellion!
Detention Seeds | Your Impossible Voice
Brandon McNeice — We had planned for this. In our pockets: sunflower, cosmos, zinnia, marigold. Milkweed fluff, Kiki said her grandmother called silk. The seeds came from wherever kids get things—bode...
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January 27, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Tuesday #flashfiction: @brandonmcneice.bsky.social plants the seeds of rebellion!
Peter Mladinic on A Family of Good Women by Teddy Jones, out now from @stoneycreekbooks.bsky.social!
"Against the backdrop of this male-dominated world, Imogene raises her voice, as she ponders fundamental questions: What is family? Where is home? Who am I?"
"Against the backdrop of this male-dominated world, Imogene raises her voice, as she ponders fundamental questions: What is family? Where is home? Who am I?"
Corrine, Edna, and Imogene: A Family of Good Women by Teddy Jones | Your Impossible Voice
Review by Peter Mladinic — Against the backdrop of this male-dominated world, Imogene raises her voice, as she ponders fundamental questions: What is family? Where is home? Who am I?
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January 22, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Peter Mladinic on A Family of Good Women by Teddy Jones, out now from @stoneycreekbooks.bsky.social!
"Against the backdrop of this male-dominated world, Imogene raises her voice, as she ponders fundamental questions: What is family? Where is home? Who am I?"
"Against the backdrop of this male-dominated world, Imogene raises her voice, as she ponders fundamental questions: What is family? Where is home? Who am I?"
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Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
January 21, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
We are back with our first Tuesday #flashfiction of 2026, Squirrel Fish by Ann Yuan! It's a feast you won't want to miss.
Squirrel Fish | Your Impossible Voice
Ann Yuan — I meet my future husband on the eve of the Lunar New Year. A forty-seven-year-old Beijing native: a decent job, two apartments, recently divorced, and seeking a stepmother for his preteen s...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:12 PM
We are back with our first Tuesday #flashfiction of 2026, Squirrel Fish by Ann Yuan! It's a feast you won't want to miss.
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Before you head down to the breakers for Mathieu Parsy’s new flash in Issue 17, sink your teeth into his stunning (and bite size) piece from @yourimpossiblevoice.com
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Your Body Is a Wolf | Your Impossible Voice
By Mathieu Parsy — "It starts with a tearing—quiet at first, like silk splitting in the dark—and then the howl builds in your spine, in your teeth, in the wet hinge of your jaw."
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January 15, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Before you head down to the breakers for Mathieu Parsy’s new flash in Issue 17, sink your teeth into his stunning (and bite size) piece from @yourimpossiblevoice.com
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
"This book has been out for a half dozen years and was well received for a small press volume. But I just came across it a few weeks ago and was so happy to read it that I feel compelled to publicly respond with my thanks to the one-named San Francisco poet, Klipschutz."
Ignoring Poetic Schools: Premeditations by Klipschutz | Your Impossible Voice
Review by Art Beck — This book has been out for a half dozen years and was well received for a small press volume. But I just came across it a few weeks ago and was so happy to read it that I feel com...
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January 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM
"This book has been out for a half dozen years and was well received for a small press volume. But I just came across it a few weeks ago and was so happy to read it that I feel compelled to publicly respond with my thanks to the one-named San Francisco poet, Klipschutz."
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A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame | Your Impossible Voice
By Sage Tyrtle — "The bus driver brakes hard and I stumble, my 37 weeks pregnant belly stumbles, my whole big self stumbles into a woman in a baseball hat who mutters fat bitch and I open my mouth to ...
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January 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
We are delighted to share that "Rate My Professor: Allen Ginsberg" by Arlene Tribbia was listed among the "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American Essays 2025. Congratulations!
Rate My Professor: Allen Ginsberg | Issue 31
By Arlene Tribbia — Professor Ginsberg seems to spend a lot of time at the beginning of class trying to get a poetry carpool going to Rocky Flats. Everyone—except for me—seems to know the reason for t...
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January 5, 2026 at 1:59 PM
We are delighted to share that "Rate My Professor: Allen Ginsberg" by Arlene Tribbia was listed among the "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American Essays 2025. Congratulations!
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My micro "We're All Bananas" about sisters and skin found a home at @yourimpossiblevoice.com.
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We’re All Bananas | Your Impossible Voice
By Chelsea Stickle — "After my mother’s skin cancer diagnosis, I was bullied by my older sister Sally into scheduling a 'skin test,' which is what they call it when you strip in a cold room and show a...
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December 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My micro "We're All Bananas" about sisters and skin found a home at @yourimpossiblevoice.com.
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The second story was "Who by Fire", a dark natural disaster/apocalypse micro: yourimpossiblevoice.com/who-by-fire/
Thank you @yourimpossiblevoice.com for giving this story a place in your pages 🙏
Thank you @yourimpossiblevoice.com for giving this story a place in your pages 🙏
Who By Fire | Your Impossible Voice
By Laila Amado — "In this story, we don’t die by fire. We don’t wake in the middle of the night to the screeching of the warning sirens on the phones under our pillows."
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December 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The second story was "Who by Fire", a dark natural disaster/apocalypse micro: yourimpossiblevoice.com/who-by-fire/
Thank you @yourimpossiblevoice.com for giving this story a place in your pages 🙏
Thank you @yourimpossiblevoice.com for giving this story a place in your pages 🙏
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Here's my second story in @nffr.bsky.social's 2025 flash fiction prize issue. Boundless gratitude to Valerie Fox and colleagues for selecting "My Brother, the Salmon," which got its lungs in workshop with the wonderful @megpokrass.bsky.social!
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My Brother, the Salmon | Issue #39
He’s swimming upstream again, dogged and lean, ready to spawn his latest ideas. I wonder aloud if perhaps he doesn’t need to have all the answers.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Here's my second story in @nffr.bsky.social's 2025 flash fiction prize issue. Boundless gratitude to Valerie Fox and colleagues for selecting "My Brother, the Salmon," which got its lungs in workshop with the wonderful @megpokrass.bsky.social!
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Links to the stories I published this year are on my site, along with many more from years past. Thanks for checking them out if you have time!
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December 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Links to the stories I published this year are on my site, along with many more from years past. Thanks for checking them out if you have time!
mattjakubowski.com/about/fiction/
mattjakubowski.com/about/fiction/
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yes that’s what’s stopping bookstores from doing this. a lack of courage
December 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
yes that’s what’s stopping bookstores from doing this. a lack of courage
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A story in Your Impossible Voice. @yourimpossiblevoice.com With special thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social
The Blue Plastic Basin
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The Blue Plastic Basin
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The Blue Plastic Basin | Issue 32
By Eric T. Racher — "Lying just then on the bed well not bed really not thinking of anything thinking nothing of skin of the heaviness of days of dead starling or grackle not sure which not thinking o...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A story in Your Impossible Voice. @yourimpossiblevoice.com With special thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social
The Blue Plastic Basin
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The Blue Plastic Basin
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Guest editor @alvinlu.bsky.social said it best when he described Another Place by Addy Evenson as "a perfect and poisonous dose of Southern Gothic." What more do you need to know? bit.ly/492zcZE
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Guest editor @alvinlu.bsky.social said it best when he described Another Place by Addy Evenson as "a perfect and poisonous dose of Southern Gothic." What more do you need to know? bit.ly/492zcZE
Delighted to have @addisonzeller.bsky.social back in our latest issue with not one but two micros! bit.ly/4pqfUmR #flashfiction
December 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Delighted to have @addisonzeller.bsky.social back in our latest issue with not one but two micros! bit.ly/4pqfUmR #flashfiction
"Crow dreams an eerie peacefulness laced with fear" is the second of two new poems from Peter Grandbois in our latest issue. Check them both out today! bit.ly/48I7tvR
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"Crow dreams an eerie peacefulness laced with fear" is the second of two new poems from Peter Grandbois in our latest issue. Check them both out today! bit.ly/48I7tvR
Our last Tuesday #flashfiction of 2025 is here! Peel back the layers of "Girl Crushed – 1985" by Phyllis Rittner!
Girl Crushed – 1985 | Your Impossible Voice
Phyllis Rittner — In the office kitchen, all lashes and cheekbones, gift-wrapped cozy in your cashmere sweater, peeling an orange like a surgeon, sectioning each sliver, the way you segment our time, ...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Our last Tuesday #flashfiction of 2025 is here! Peel back the layers of "Girl Crushed – 1985" by Phyllis Rittner!
We’ve all been there—propositioning our therapists for some light nude modeling. Catch a glimpse in The Robinson-Barber Thesis by Joyce Meggett in the latest issue of Your Impossible Voice! bit.ly/48VDv94
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We’ve all been there—propositioning our therapists for some light nude modeling. Catch a glimpse in The Robinson-Barber Thesis by Joyce Meggett in the latest issue of Your Impossible Voice! bit.ly/48VDv94
The final poem from our new issue burns bright! Finish off your week with "past is a flame" by Karen Earle!
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The final poem from our new issue burns bright! Finish off your week with "past is a flame" by Karen Earle!
Who said family get-togethers had to be dull? Pull up a chair for "Brother From Another" by Jaryd Porter! bit.ly/48S9Ptq
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Who said family get-togethers had to be dull? Pull up a chair for "Brother From Another" by Jaryd Porter! bit.ly/48S9Ptq