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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 5h

You have the first sentence.😎

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 8h

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Sand and Gravel Chapbooks @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social · 2d

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Five Stories, a chapbook by @travisflatt.bsky.social is available now on our website!

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Ida Keogh @idakeogh.bsky.social · 9d

There's queer lit, then there's THIS. An amazing piece @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - congratulations!

Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 10d

ICYMI @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social annual writing award winner by the wonderful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

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The Undulating Movement Of The Predatory Arthropod At The 10-Year College Reunion - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo be Pexels.com: Cottonbro by Sumitra Singam When you walk into the reunion with your husband like a phalanx and your apple-pie-posed photos of your 2.3 kids and dog like armour, I kick my heels o...

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 10d

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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you so much, @jhhwriter.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for picking the weirdest queer-ass story I have ever written. It was such a thrill to win this contest. Thanks for pinging this round again 🧡🏳️‍🌈

Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 10d

ICYMI @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social annual writing award winner by the wonderful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 10d

"When you en garde your business card and ask me for mine, my feet have already turned into a bitter, hard-shelled pointed end plate, a telson at the end secreting musky and glandular." Love this winning story @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 10d

ICYMI @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social annual writing award winner by the wonderful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

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The Undulating Movement Of The Predatory Arthropod At The 10-Year College Reunion - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo be Pexels.com: Cottonbro by Sumitra Singam When you walk into the reunion with your husband like a phalanx and your apple-pie-posed photos of your 2.3 kids and dog like armour, I kick my heels o...

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 10d

I hope you check out this banger from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social!!

Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you so much, @jhhwriter.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for picking the weirdest queer-ass story I have ever written. It was such a thrill to win this contest. Thanks for pinging this round again 🧡🏳️‍🌈

Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 10d

ICYMI @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social annual writing award winner by the wonderful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 10d

ICYMI @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social annual writing award winner by the wonderful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

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The Undulating Movement Of The Predatory Arthropod At The 10-Year College Reunion - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo be Pexels.com: Cottonbro by Sumitra Singam When you walk into the reunion with your husband like a phalanx and your apple-pie-posed photos of your 2.3 kids and dog like armour, I kick my heels o...

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 10d

“because everyone knows pigtails and pinafores belong in Kansas (said The Man.)”

A fresh take on Glinda and the Wizard of Oz all in six sentences by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 12d

Open for submissions. Send us a 6-sentence story with no more than 400 words. #microfiction

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Open For Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Unsplash+ Just a reminder that Gooseberry Pie Lit is open for submissions. Responses usually in less than two weeks. BTW, our editor loves when an animal pops up in a story.

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 12d

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 13d

ICYMI: I had a flash in @yourimpossiblevoice.com

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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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 13d

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you so so much Jeff Harvey and @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social ❤️ Appreciate this so much! And congrats @kyleisamu.bsky.social

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 13d

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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 13d

Revision tip: check your manuscript for gasp, held breath, twisted guts, glanced, saw, felt, monitor, control, lighting strike, smiled, fringed, glared, sucked in, scrunched, blood stopped, ran cold, anything filtering emotions as bodily responses, especially ones which are involuntary in real life

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 13d

Announcing @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social nominees for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards

Kyle Weik and
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Monarch Queer Literary Nominations - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Agustin Gunawan on Unsplash Monarch is a new awards anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. Gooseberry Pie Lit is th...

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Patience Mackarness @patiencemackarness.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social !

Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 14d

@patiencemackarness.bsky.social

“she left us and moved with someone called Freya Firewing to mid-Wales, where they built a roundhouse out of reclaimed railway sleepers and cob plaster, with a compost toilet and bottleglass windows.”

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Skipping Generations - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash by Patience Mackarness Mum said growing up in suburbia stunted her soul, the semi-detached house, the brick school with concrete playground and excellent exam results, a...

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 14d

@patiencemackarness.bsky.social

“she left us and moved with someone called Freya Firewing to mid-Wales, where they built a roundhouse out of reclaimed railway sleepers and cob plaster, with a compost toilet and bottleglass windows.”

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Skipping Generations - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash by Patience Mackarness Mum said growing up in suburbia stunted her soul, the semi-detached house, the brick school with concrete playground and excellent exam results, a...

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 15d

“Only the eyes and the mouth are still well placed on a face that floats between two hands, like they’re holding it, but in fact wave aimlessly at passers-by as if asking for help.” @happilander.bsky.social

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Everything Ruined - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash by Mileva Anastasiadou Broken and discarded and floating around like a jigsaw determined to fall back into place but can’t. He stares while my pieces linger undecided...

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elisabeth-66.bsky.social @elisabeth-66.bsky.social · 16d

bsky.app/profile/goos... Thank you to Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine for featuring my piece! What a thrill!

Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 23d

“We knew not to mention to anyone that dad drank three six packs and listened to Barry Manilow until he cried when mom was out.” -Elisabeth Meyer Gonzalez

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White Suburban Morality 1977 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Alvin Engler on Unsplash by Elisabeth Meyer Gonzalez No one ever came out and said not to tell grandma and grandpa that mom and dad were having an open marriage until they could afford a divo...

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 16d

“Next stop, this sweat-glued geezer, oozing bad breath and booze, topples onto the seat next to me,”
@kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social

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Boston to New York Greyhound at Rush Hour - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Hendrik Schlott on Unsplash by Kathryn Silver-Hajo Just two seats left, back by the toilets, rusted fan screeching overhead, so I flick my book back and forth for a whisper of wind, glug my m...

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 17d

@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
“The manual described the Olivetti’s body parts – space bar, ribbon spool, paper table, platen knob, ribbon vibrator – and I read you out the last two, tangled naked with you in our hotel sheets, and you laughed at me,”

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Red Olivetti - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Dcps Chloé on Unsplash by Kate Horsley Every time I move, I take the typewriter with me – Olivetti Lettera 35, kitsch relic of the 1970s, the keys like raked auditorium seats climbing towards...

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 19d

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“When Papa’s safely gone, I climb on Mama and wrap my arms tight around her and snuggle my face in her flower-smelling neck, whispering, you’re mine, all and always mine,”

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Peanut - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Pexels.com Photo by Melike-baran by Kate Horsley On Sundays, when Papa’s out running, Mama and I look at photos of us, cuddling in bed with Kipper the dog and Mama’s photo box labelled ‘Peanut’ in Mam...

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 20d

What if there was some kind of app where writers could sponsor other writers so they could afford submission fees? Writers could donate and others could pull from it to pay Submittable. I want to hear all the voices.

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 20d

@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social

“Four years of separation are duly mourned in sleeves of interlocking puzzle pieces inked in orange and green, while blackwork notes freckle tender inner thighs every time a lover tries to read their bodies,”

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Needles - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Dynamic Wang on Unsplash by Kate Horsley Every time something big happens, the sisters get tattoos, beginning with that constellation eulogising their virginity, twin Scorpios hich later blur...

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