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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 20d

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 20d

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The Now of All Things by Francine Witte

Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“She’s waiting for me," you say. You say this knowing you are breaking the now. Knowing that the now is all we have left. I tell you that wait is a future word, and I’d appreciate you not using it.

@francinewitte.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

I am talking to you from the now of all things, the universe and our bodies and the momentbefore all our cells shift, but you are examining the furniture. Reminding me that the movers are coming tomor...

Schrodinger's Sadness by Mileva Anastasiadou

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“We aren’t happy, but we aren’t sad either, we’re halfway sad when you hold me and you tell me, *I’m here*, but we could have been sadder if we knew that soon you wouldn’t be.”

@happilander.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

There’s a cat in the box. The box is closed and sealed and the air is running out. You look at the box and hear the cat moving inside. You think, it’s all fine. You mean, it’s all fine so far.You pass...

Surfer Girl by Kathryn Kulpa

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“… and you stand while this whole world whirls around you, muscles you didn’t know you had singing a wild chorus …”

@writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

For Brian WilsonWhen you roll tumbled from the waves like a de-fuzzed towel from a dryer, fingers dragging sand from your mermaid hair gone free, stretched-out scrunchie lost to the waves, and you jel...

A Circus Of Songs by Shome Dasgupta

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“I seek castles and walk in mumbles …”

“... and round and round and round I go until I am a mouse on a boat sailing to a land tucked away in my mind where no one can venture. Not even me …”

Shome Dasgupta in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

I seek castles and walk in mumbles—so let the refractions set forth from such stained glasswindows fiddle their way into me. Pry.I’m my father’s son and a mama’s boy, a moat within a moat, and it’s a ...

Storm Season by Kathryn Reese

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“If you can’t find love, there is always parchment.”

@kathrynreese.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

The girl with a forest in her chest has been without a love so long she has forgotten what it is to hold hands, so tonight she runs a finger round the outline of her own palm: thumbpad, lifeline, wris...

Mountain Path, North Wales by Bronwen Griffiths

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“You must conclude that the path up is never the same as the path down, no matter how careful you are to tread in your same footsteps.”

@bronwengriffiths.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” HeraclitusIf the path is steep and stony on the way up the mountain and if, perhaps, it crosses severalstreams or rivulets and, if there are fields ...

Beyond the Chattering Flush by Mizuki Yamagen

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“… the sea doesn’t just go away. Place your hand here and listen. Even if you can’t see it, it’s always there. Listen closer.”

@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Here’s how you do it. Sit on the ledge, where the ivy climbs, threading dark green rivulets over the old stone wall. Place your hand here where the slate is firm and constant. See the little dip, wher...

This One Comes With its own set of Obstacles, Said the Real Estate Agent by Lisa Thornton

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“We ignore the hateful yard signs and tell ourselves we belong here.”

@thorntonforreal.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

When it’s misty, you’re likely to spot deer in the cemetery. The sound of the train travels through the air and arrives at your windows louder, amplitudes leaping on water molecules, I guess. I think ...

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“The kitchen will be hot—so will you, a-flash, perspiration on your lip. [Tenderness takes a while.]"

@elinorann.bsky.social in @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“One of them, a woman who sits two desks away, whose email sign off is ‘hugs,’ who is in the midst of a messy divorce, is eating a donut. *Her first?* Morgan wonders.”

Nora Esme Wagner with two in @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…

Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“What Monica’s husband doesn’t understand is that when he’s an asshole, it takes a while for Monica to bounce back. What he doesn’t understand is these slights embed themselves into her like splinters.”

@kimmagowan.bsky.social with 2 @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“They’re halfway back down the hill when she answers. ‘We’re stronger than you think, my man.’”

@tcboudreau.bsky.social in @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“Lola never pronounces hello, and instead she welcomes him with, *Kumain ka na ba Moymoy? Have you eaten yet Moymoy*”

Joefel Bolo in @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…

Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“I should have called first. I should have come sooner. Should have pressed Moisés for details about the progression of his illness.”

“I remember the sun was slanting in, winter-thin.”

@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“Don’t be the woman who is afraid.”

“Be the woman who …”

“Be the woman with a lover who …”

@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“I imagine bringing Rod into this group, I imagine him sitting cross-legged on the floor with us. I imagine him sharing my surreal experience, a melding of 90’s food, music, culture.”

@sudhab.bsky.social in @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…

Our Goldfinch Math Doesn't Add Up — Peatsmoke

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“She turns herself upright but otherwise remains still, like she’s choosing whether to give up or go on. It takes a moment to regain your bearings when you survive. To recalculate your odds.”

@andreabishop.bsky.social in @psmokejournal.bsky.social www.peatsmokejournal.com/summer-2025-...

Andrea Bishop She turns herself upright but otherwise remains still, like she’s choosing whether to give up or go on. It takes a moment to regain your bearings when you survive. To recalculate your ...

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Los Angeles is a beautiful city because of migration—both human and otherwise.

Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21d

“Birds come here from many places, with different habits, different plumages, different songs”

@melissafitz.bsky.social in @crucialcomix.bsky.social www.crucialcomix.com/comic/birds-...

Birds of Los Angeles

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 23d

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