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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · 20h

🎉🎉🎉 Party Alert!

In partnership with @conium.bsky.social, we will be hosting Shapes & Sound, a reading event & book/zine party. Come hang with us at Dual Citizen Brewery on 11/8. Beverages will be available for purchase and we’ll have some snacks for y’all to enjoy! No RSVP and totally free. ❤️

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 1d

Had a book published before mid-2021? Take 5 minutes to see if it's listed here and if so another 5 to enter info. And look up your grandma's book, the book of your friend, etc. and let them know

PSA: Get Your AI Money, Authors

The Anthropic settlement has been preliminarily approved, which means people can join in to be a member in this class action suit.

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 5d

We're still trying to raise $246 this year to cover expenses, if you're feeling generous.

We'll never charge a submission fee, and we pay our writers.

Your help will also ensure that we can bring on a guest editor in the new year, to avoid that whole 'monolithic voice' business 💛🖤

Thank you. 🐝

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy non-binary day and week!

We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.

If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year.

Shares are very much appreciated, too!

www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

Donate to beestung: Years Six & Seven, organized by Sarah Clark

What is beestung: beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderquee… Sarah Clark needs your support for beestung: Years Six & Seven

www.gofundme.com

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Melissa Jornd @melissajorndwrites.bsky.social · 11d

Read my little story online here!

I'm still so happy this found such a perfect home. One of the few stories that I wrote without prompts and/or a deadline, just a growing appreciation of nature coupled with a growing heartbreak over how we treat it. Go hug a tree today 💚

Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · 12d

New issue alert! It has multiple sets of wings and eyes and creepy crawlies. Just in time for fall.

Full story here: www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-57

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · 12d

New issue alert! It has multiple sets of wings and eyes and creepy crawlies. Just in time for fall.

Full story here: www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-57

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you for sharing! Glad you enjoyed! 💜🖤

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 26d

Always a good mail day when a new issue of @paranoidxtree.bsky.social shows up! Love this evocative little ticket to defying gravity (if briefly)...

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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · Sep 5

"You may be groped. You may be robbed. You may be kicked or punched."

Courtney Skaggs (& Alyssa Bluhm!) in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social

www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-56

VOL. 56: How to Crowd Surf — Paranoid Tree Press

Courtney Skaggs | Alyssa Bluhm

www.paranoidtree.com

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Aug 26

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T Guzman @tguzman.bsky.social · Aug 25

Twin Cities folks!!! @paranoidxtree.bsky.social is looking for an assistant editor!

Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Aug 25

Join Our Team! 💌 Paranoid Tree is looking for a new Assistant Editor. This paid position will be local to the Twin Cities. More details and our application can be found at the link in our bio! Apply by September 19 🥦⚡️

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Aug 25

Join Our Team! 💌 Paranoid Tree is looking for a new Assistant Editor. This paid position will be local to the Twin Cities. More details and our application can be found at the link in our bio! Apply by September 19 🥦⚡️

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Abigail Oswald @abigailoswald.bsky.social · Aug 15

the @paranoidxtree.bsky.social sale got extended through Monday; add my King Kong zine to your library for $3!

Abigail Oswald @abigailoswald.bsky.social · Aug 6

my King Kong zine is just $3 + shipping, y'all; don't miss this great sale from @paranoidxtree.bsky.social!

www.paranoidtree.com/issues/p/vol...

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Aug 14

If you could paint the Mona Lisa a new smile, what would it look like? Thanks to Leo Covault, you've got options. We're obsessed with his paper doll illustrations for our latest issue, feat. CNF by Max Fischer.

Shoutout to our friend Garrick for giving in to the impulse to assemble this one. 💌

Volume 55 is titled "A Certain Florentine Woman Died in the Plague of 1538"

Art by Leo Covault. The Mona Lisa is disassembled as a paper doll, with different hairstyles, smiles, and clothing options.

A quote from the story by Max Fischer: "Her body was stolen, then recovered in 1913. Denizard wiped the fingerprints from the curves of her neck with his own retouches to prevent her aging. In 1970, they found teardrops wept in 1503 and insects eroding her frame, beechwood replaced with maple replaced with sycamore and metal. Five hundred years of humid stench breathed over her exposed skin and of eyes and iPhones pilfering her face buckled the poplar panel, a misshaping no carbon tetrachloride treatment could prevent."

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Abigail Oswald @abigailoswald.bsky.social · Aug 6

my King Kong zine is just $3 + shipping, y'all; don't miss this great sale from @paranoidxtree.bsky.social!

www.paranoidtree.com/issues/p/vol...

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T Guzman @tguzman.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Aug 5

Back Issue Summer Sale!!! We're tired of hoarding all these oldies, but goodies all to ourselves. Become a Paranoid Tree completist! Volumes 1-30 are only $3 apiece! Sale ends Mon, Aug 11. Check it out at the link in our bio. Happy reading!

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Aug 5

Back Issue Summer Sale!!! We're tired of hoarding all these oldies, but goodies all to ourselves. Become a Paranoid Tree completist! Volumes 1-30 are only $3 apiece! Sale ends Mon, Aug 11. Check it out at the link in our bio. Happy reading!

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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · Jul 1

Another gorgeous story up at @paranoidxtree.bsky.social

"When she returns to the tree, she collects the most intact exoskeletons from the bark, pulling gently so they don’t break under her fingers."

paranoidtree.com/read/vol-54

VOL. 54: Mulberries and Molts — Paranoid Tree Press

Hayli Cox | Kiki Lana

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Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · Jun 28

new on our mainpage: THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 (selecting editor @samanito.bsky.social )

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Ra'Niqua Lee, PhD @raniqualee.bsky.social · Jun 26

"The girl’s stained fingers slip the necklace over her grandmother’s neck as she prays to something, everything. She waits for her grandmother to emerge, wings fresh and hungry for flight."

Daily reads @heyhaylimay.bsky.social in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social ❤️

Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Jun 26

Read @heyhaylimay.bsky.social‬ capture the creepy crawl of childhood nostalgia, drenched in deep berry-toned art by Kiki Lana.

New issue out now! 💌 🍇 🐜

paranoidtree.com/read/vol-54

A quote from the issue. It reads, "The night is full with the sound of a million insects longing. A waxing gibbous is all that lights her way, aside from the ever-shifting glow of the television through the screen of the open door."

"Mulberries and Molts" by Hayli Cox, art by Kiki Lana.

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Jun 26

Read @heyhaylimay.bsky.social‬ capture the creepy crawl of childhood nostalgia, drenched in deep berry-toned art by Kiki Lana.

New issue out now! 💌 🍇 🐜

paranoidtree.com/read/vol-54

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Jun 13

It might be Friday the 13th, but we feel like the luckiest alive ⚡️💕

Jenny M. Liu @jennymliu.bsky.social · Jun 13

Contract signed! @paranoidxtree.bsky.social is the best! 💖🌳

Please look out for my first ever CNF, "Rage in Retail," later this year. Paranoid Tree pairs their stories with incredible artists (check out their gorgeous print zines!), and I am so excited to see what mine will come up with!

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Jun 13

"The radio plays a melody from the past; I’m only half listening. I’d say it makes me think of you, but that is only part true. There’s an 88% chance we exist as a series of unexpressed possibilities—here, now, then, everywhere."

A little love poem to wrap up your week: paranoidtree.com/read/vol-53

An image of a radio tower with a red light at the top, shaped like a heart. This is volume 53 of Paranoid Tree, with a poem by Ana Reisens and art by Vivian Steckline.

Find the issue online & in print at paranoidtree.com.

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you’re looking for a home for a spooky piece of microfiction, today is a great day to send it our way! We’re on the hunt for creepy stories to feature in our fall issues 👻🎃

Duotrope @duotrope.com · Jun 11

Today's listing of the day is: Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Listing of the Day

Today's listing of the day is: Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

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Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social · Jun 5

Volume 53 just landed! Featuring sky-high art by Vivian Steckline and a dreamy double feature of poems by Ana Reisens.

Read them online & in print ✈️ paranoidtree.com/read/vol-53

The front side of Vol. 53 depicts an airplane taking off into the sky, above a radio tower. The red light at the top of the tower is shaped like a heart.

The back side of vol. 53 contains the author and artist bios.

A close-up of a single folded issue of vol. 53, as it would appear in the mailbox of our print subscribers.

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