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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 2h

Wow!

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 3h

It's cool and sexy to read books and hate fascism.

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks!!

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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 11h

Patty Q with a new piece at Ghost Parachute!

@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social

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The Untranslatable German Word for a Gate Slamming Shut — Ghost Parachute

My only friend, Little Hansel, smells like closet. That’s what my mother said the one time she met the four-year-old. I was babysitting him for my weed dealers, a pair of comfy old dykes. My mother sn...

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 11h

www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/whats-y...

What’s Your Poison? - Patricia Q. Bidar — Bulb Culture Collective

It’s Halloween and California is on fire.

www.bulbculturecollective.com

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 11h

This time of year, the veil between worlds is thinnest. We glide between. Connected. Unconnected. Stable. Unstable. Masked. Passing.

The busboy bangs his cart into our table; I emit a cry.

Thank you, @bulbculture.bsky.social

What’s Your Poison? - Patricia Q. Bidar — Bulb Culture Collective

It’s Halloween and California is on fire.

www.bulbculturecollective.com

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 13h

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Issue 32 | Francine Witte – LEON Literary Review

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 13h

"It had happened summers ago, gingham and swat flies, and a three-month business trip that kept her husband away and away. A night sweet with buzz and water lapping from a nearby stream. "

A wintry stunner from @francinewitte.bsky.social.

Issue 32 | Francine Witte – LEON Literary Review

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 14h

A little gem of advice from Dana Isokawa. www.pw.org/agents_edito...

Dana Isokawa of the Margins

When I edit a piece, whether it is an essay, article, or poem, I latch on to a writer’s transitions and section breaks. In these leaps, I often detect the joints in a writer’s logic, hear their voice,...

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

Beautiful.

Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 2d

it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures

Departures
by Dina L. Relles
handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry.

I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again.

I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate.

You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

a woman peeking out from behind a wall looking at the camera

ALT: a woman peeking out from behind a wall looking at the camera

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

Soon!

SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure to register for @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's book launch event with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social over Zoom on November 7th at 7pm EST! buff.ly/CtKtA0k

Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET right here: buff.ly/3pPOviA
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

Check us out!

Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 2d

You guys still like starter packs, right? Be sure to browse our regularly updated guide of all our contributors and staff — it's writers all the way down! 💫

(Don't forget to reach out if you've ever appeared in OKD and you're not on here, and we'll add you)

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

The upside-down, tampon POV makes it.

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, I love this.

Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · Sep 5

"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom."

"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGee

Alexis throws a big party and everyone’s invited. She lives a half-hour drive from her childhood home, the one with the big bay window and the basement where we had sleepovers every other weekend f…

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D.E. Hardy @dehardy.bsky.social · 2d

“Enough cannot be said about Aldridge-Morris’s ability to pin an era. She is simply a wizard of time-and-place vibe.”

Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 2d

Check out our review of Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris! ❄️🍞🐈‍⬛

@kazbarwrites.bsky.social

www.claudineliterary.net/coldtoast

Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris | A Review

www.claudineliterary.net

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 2d

🫠😵‍💫🥴🤠

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 2d

"It’s in their eyes, when they see my clothes, figure out when I’m from: Haven’t you moved on, old timer? "
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social‬, what is wrong with you?? 😱🤣

Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 2d

Thrilled to kick off @flashfrog.bsky.social's Frogtober with a ghost story! Thanks to @ericscottryon.bsky.social, and thanks to my bud, @courtneyb77.bsky.social, for absolutely perfect art; shout out to her and @kimmagowan.bsky.social for the early eyes on the piece.
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Collision by Michael Czyzniejewski

Light my candles in a daze ‘cause I’ve found God. —Nirvana, “Lithium” The hardest part about being a ghost is getting over the sex, as in watching the living go at it. It’s ironic because when you …

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 2d

So I saw. I got very emotional! I cannot thank you enough.

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D.E. Hardy @dehardy.bsky.social · 2d

“Doyle stands by our side, asking us why we’re so willing to trust a good story, why we’re so primed to believe.”

Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 2d

Check out our review of The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle. 🫥👧🏻🐈‍⬛

@jacqdoyle.bsky.social

www.claudineliterary.net/themissinggirl

The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle | A Review

www.claudineliterary.net

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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 2d

Check out our review of Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris! ❄️🍞🐈‍⬛

@kazbarwrites.bsky.social

www.claudineliterary.net/coldtoast

Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris | A Review

www.claudineliterary.net

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 2d

MY favorite title. Love the story.

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 3d

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Animal Visitation: Bald Eagle — Ghost Parachute

If you are lucky, you will draw this card only once. You’re walking around the slushy lake on a day with some thaw, a day where spring is still hidden but there is a flirtation, a softness in the wint...

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 3d

"The unspoken hangs like spilled paint. Another person, another relationship, you might say something optimistic, say it’s not going to happen. You don’t do that."

Absolutely unmissable flash by Nancy Stohlman in Ghost Parachute!

Animal Visitation: Bald Eagle — Ghost Parachute

If you are lucky, you will draw this card only once. You’re walking around the slushy lake on a day with some thaw, a day where spring is still hidden but there is a flirtation, a softness in the wint...

ghostparachute.com

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 3d

"The unspoken hangs like spilled paint. Another person, another relationship, you might say something optimistic, say it’s not going to happen. You don’t do that."

Absolutely unmissable flash by Nancy Stohlman in @brettpribble.bsky.social 's Ghost Parachute.

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