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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

See you there?

Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series

feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich

music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts

free, all ages

ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station

This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series

feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich

music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts

free, all ages

ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station

This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...

comfortstationlogansquare.org

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series

feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich

music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts

free, all ages

ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station

This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...

comfortstationlogansquare.org

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 6d

Now at AC // www.alwayscrashing.com/current

italicized text in four columns asking a series of questions

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 6d

Now at AC // www.alwayscrashing.com/current

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Alex Higley @alexhigley.bsky.social · 7d

thanks @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social! excited to see TRUE FAILURE shortlisted!

Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 7d

We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for 2025 CHIRBys!!! Congratulations to all of our finalists 🥳🥳🥳

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These Days @thesedayszine.bsky.social · 7d

Holy Cow read these QUESTIONS now

Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 8d

"A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose."

>>> Orion Allen's "Matrix Worry" and "Questions" >>> New today at AC

www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

ORION ALLEN / 2 POEMS — always crashing

Matrix Worry A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose. What stretches and leeches and loads. The roads are a cube, are matter, are for sale and partitioned. The box has...

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 8d

"A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose."

>>> Orion Allen's "Matrix Worry" and "Questions" >>> New today at AC

www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

ORION ALLEN / 2 POEMS — always crashing

Matrix Worry A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose. What stretches and leeches and loads. The roads are a cube, are matter, are for sale and partitioned. The box has...

www.alwayscrashing.com

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 7d

New email edition features work by Orion Allen, something from the archive by Whitney Koo, updates on Addison Zeller and Alex Tretbar, a terrible confession about Sparks (we like them)

"Who Determined This Body for Purpose"

featuring half wolves, half wombs, half elegy, half against, half DeKalb, half Had, half reading, half asleep, half sure it's the eighth year, half positive it's the ninth, and B movies. This is NPR.

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 7d

I like to think they have a particular fondness for us because we do things like mail them the printed-out source code for our interactive pieces as nominations

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 7d

Somehow, inexplicably, the Pushcart committee has once again tracked down our mailing address

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 8d

"A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose."

>>> Orion Allen's "Matrix Worry" and "Questions" >>> New today at AC

www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

ORION ALLEN / 2 POEMS — always crashing

Matrix Worry A city is half wolves, half wombs. Who determined this body for purpose. What stretches and leeches and loads. The roads are a cube, are matter, are for sale and partitioned. The box has...

www.alwayscrashing.com

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 8d

New work at the site tomorrow // many new ~things~ in general in upcoming days // but now is a good time to take a moment if you will, won't you, to read or reread Gina Hay's breathtaking, uncanny "Simia, Cupid," up now

GINA HAY / SIMIA, CUPID — always crashing

1. Mother brings her daughters a picture book from the museum. One charcoal drawing, unlike the others, a shadowy white horse fixed to a shroud of storm clouds. The mother tears Dela away. Mother lik...

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 14d

Chicago! New live show announcement, featuring AC ed Josh Watkins! We have been assured this is not standup or improv. Repeat: not standup or improv.

GENIUS NIGHT: A Night for Geniuses, on Monday, September 29th at 7pm at Cafe Mustache / TOM McHENRY
SARA McHENRY
MIKE MIGDALL
DEVON PRICE
erica dreisbach
JOSH WATKINS
and KEVIN JOHNSON doing the news quiz from the Skewer

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 19d

Now at AC // www.alwayscrashing.com/current

Lyko likes to fool her mother—tonight, on her way home, she will recapture the pardoned frog at the base of the lake, cut through her iliac arteries, the crooks of the thigh. While Dela and the mother sleep, Lyko skulks through the kitchen and smuggles the girl in with the rest. Tomorrow, she will watch her mother gnaw at every anonymous thigh, even the frog that lived but died anyway. Before Dela, Lyko and her mother practiced monkey-see monkey-do: the mother eases the stone out of a plum with a fruit knife and younger Lyko mimics the cupping of the plum empty handed. Lyko laces up one boot and her mother its twin. But the game has finished. When Lyko leaves the house some nights she can sense her mother’s peevish ear on the other side of a wall. The mother refuses to monkey-do. She is brazen, industrious in this refusal. The older woman sits on a rickety swing chair chewing her lower lip. Spare strands of hair go into their quilt for winter. One hand pierces the ventilating needle through the lace cap, the other pulls the hair taut. Pierce, pull, pierce, pull.

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 21d

New email edition features work by Gina Hay, an important dispatch on fragrances from AC special correspondent @alec-ivan.bsky.social, plus updates on @perfidiousscript.bsky.social, @raviddice.bsky.social, and an upcoming performance from AC ed Meghan Lamb

"Then, oh! The curse!"

Featuring eyeless spirits, marrowless care, drone mysticism, cemetery performances, and the top seven fragrances of 2025—so far!

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 21d

@nmwhitley.bsky.social with some kind words about 'Some Column Poems' which were published on @alwayscrashing.bsky.social in July!

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Alec Ivan @alec-ivan.bsky.social · 21d

Always Crashing? You mean the legendary lit mag? You mean the cultural tour de force of online literary voices? You mean the GOAT of the domain of the English language? Them?

Yeah, it’s them.

Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 21d

New email edition features work by Gina Hay, an important dispatch on fragrances from AC special correspondent @alec-ivan.bsky.social, plus updates on @perfidiousscript.bsky.social, @raviddice.bsky.social, and an upcoming performance from AC ed Meghan Lamb

"Then, oh! The curse!"

Featuring eyeless spirits, marrowless care, drone mysticism, cemetery performances, and the top seven fragrances of 2025—so far!

alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com

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Sara Lammergier Wolfthing @never.horse · 21d

In Honor of the day of Sara (the book)'s coming out, here are four more excerpts that were published in the wonderful @alwayscrashing.bsky.social

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 21d

New email edition features work by Gina Hay, an important dispatch on fragrances from AC special correspondent @alec-ivan.bsky.social, plus updates on @perfidiousscript.bsky.social, @raviddice.bsky.social, and an upcoming performance from AC ed Meghan Lamb

"Then, oh! The curse!"

Featuring eyeless spirits, marrowless care, drone mysticism, cemetery performances, and the top seven fragrances of 2025—so far!

alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 21d

New email edition coming tomorrow >>> watch, as always, yr inboxes

Always Crashing Magazine | Substack

Our online edition, delivered every two weeks. Click to read Always Crashing Magazine, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 21d

"The black bear Dela and the mother brought home this morning is cut on the kitchen floor."

>>> An incantation, a myth, a troubled dream >>> Gina Hay's "Simia, Cupid" >>> new today at AC

GINA HAY / SIMIA, CUPID — always crashing

1. Mother brings her daughters a picture book from the museum. One charcoal drawing, unlike the others, a shadowy white horse fixed to a shroud of storm clouds. The mother tears Dela away. Mother lik...

www.alwayscrashing.com

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 21d

"The black bear Dela and the mother brought home this morning is cut on the kitchen floor."

>>> An incantation, a myth, a troubled dream >>> Gina Hay's "Simia, Cupid" >>> new today at AC

GINA HAY / SIMIA, CUPID — always crashing

1. Mother brings her daughters a picture book from the museum. One charcoal drawing, unlike the others, a shadowy white horse fixed to a shroud of storm clouds. The mother tears Dela away. Mother lik...

www.alwayscrashing.com

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 22d

New work at the site tomorrow // which means tonight's the night for visiting or revisiting Jack Lennon's two blistering dropkicks of fiction, now--yes, now--at AC

www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

Jason’s tiny bones are splintering and cracking under Chad’s jaw; Jason obviously doesn’t get enough calcium. Jason should go on a calcium bulk. Strengthen up these weak, effeminate bones. Chad’s bones are strong, they’re like metal. How else could Chad be biting down on so many things and making them die. Chad releases Jason’s arm and turns to look at the woman. Maybe she’ll have Chad now. No, she definitely will. She needs a strong man to protect her. She’s probably turned on by all this. But Chad thinks she looks… scared, maybe? She’s screaming and cowering on the floor, with her arms up over her face. Women are so hard to read. So maybe she’s horny. Or on her period. Or a lesbian. It’s hard for Chad to tell.

Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 22d

You've got (checks watch) four hours, thirty-two minutes

Wait, now it's thirty-one

Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 23d

Last day of open submissions for this cycle // www.alwayscrashing.com/submissions

Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 27d

Closing down for submissions after Sept 15 // that's, what, four days from now?? My God // send em if you got em

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