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New content published every Monday at noon PST ✨
Check our website for updated submission windows 🖋️📚
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"The doctor speaks in percentages...as if my body is suddenly a math problem to be solved." - excerpt from Measured in Ghosts, non-fiction by Tara Hashagen #TheMetaworker
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December 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"The doctor speaks in percentages...as if my body is suddenly a math problem to be solved." - excerpt from Measured in Ghosts, non-fiction by Tara Hashagen #TheMetaworker
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"A body speaks in fabric..." - excerpt from Available Space, visual poetry by Shannon Cates
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December 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"A body speaks in fabric..." - excerpt from Available Space, visual poetry by Shannon Cates
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"When I was eight I had a friend who ate bugs." - excerpt from Bug Girl, fiction by Taylor Kelley #TheMetaworker
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November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"When I was eight I had a friend who ate bugs." - excerpt from Bug Girl, fiction by Taylor Kelley #TheMetaworker
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"That one, she's got nails sharp, mouth sharp, / and a heart blunter." - excerpt from Accusations by a Half-Lover, poetry by Tejal Doshi
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November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"That one, she's got nails sharp, mouth sharp, / and a heart blunter." - excerpt from Accusations by a Half-Lover, poetry by Tejal Doshi
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"On the neighborhood page they argue about outdoor cats and songbirds, carpenter bee traps and pollinators." - excerpt from does anybody know, prose poetry by Jennifer Lubke #TheMetaworker
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November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"On the neighborhood page they argue about outdoor cats and songbirds, carpenter bee traps and pollinators." - excerpt from does anybody know, prose poetry by Jennifer Lubke #TheMetaworker
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"It was dark, warm, and sticky in there." - excerpt from Falling in Love Inside a Stray Hot Sauce Packet, micro fiction by Sarp Sozdinler #TheMetaworker
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November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"It was dark, warm, and sticky in there." - excerpt from Falling in Love Inside a Stray Hot Sauce Packet, micro fiction by Sarp Sozdinler #TheMetaworker
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"moonish, midnight flesh / swollen with frost, / the plum blooms melodramatic..." - excerpt from Of Plum and Cherry, poetry by Shannon Cates #TheMetaworker
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November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"moonish, midnight flesh / swollen with frost, / the plum blooms melodramatic..." - excerpt from Of Plum and Cherry, poetry by Shannon Cates #TheMetaworker
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"Families and partners mill about in the sun and the warm air. No one is with me. Not anymore." - exerpt from I'm Okay, non-fiction by Ed Kratz #MetaworkerMonday
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November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"Families and partners mill about in the sun and the warm air. No one is with me. Not anymore." - exerpt from I'm Okay, non-fiction by Ed Kratz #MetaworkerMonday
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"we're watching that Beatles / documentary. Get Back. / it’s pretty good generally." - excerpt from Yoko, poetry by DS Maolalai #MetaworkerMonday
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October 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"we're watching that Beatles / documentary. Get Back. / it’s pretty good generally." - excerpt from Yoko, poetry by DS Maolalai #MetaworkerMonday
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"we carve what we call secret tongues / into the tender skin of trees, / fingernails packed with earth / and vows strung like webs." - excerpt from "Kicker Kids, poetry by Tejal Doshi #MetaworkerMonday
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October 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"we carve what we call secret tongues / into the tender skin of trees, / fingernails packed with earth / and vows strung like webs." - excerpt from "Kicker Kids, poetry by Tejal Doshi #MetaworkerMonday
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"...echoes of Sunday School pull me from my book to the unyielding curve of a church bench." - excerpt from "Abecedarian Lament", creative non-fiction by M.R. Lehman Wiens #MetaworkerMonday
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October 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"...echoes of Sunday School pull me from my book to the unyielding curve of a church bench." - excerpt from "Abecedarian Lament", creative non-fiction by M.R. Lehman Wiens #MetaworkerMonday
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"my shadow slips like fallen light into the gelato rain of second grade ants in raisin boxes" - excerpt from Gelato Rain, poetry by Azure Brandi #TheMetaworker
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October 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"my shadow slips like fallen light into the gelato rain of second grade ants in raisin boxes" - excerpt from Gelato Rain, poetry by Azure Brandi #TheMetaworker
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"I find the station where the long tracks meet. / It's burrowed beside an old steel mill..." excerpt from On the Train to Charlotte, poetry by M. C. Tuggle #TheMetaworker
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September 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"I find the station where the long tracks meet. / It's burrowed beside an old steel mill..." excerpt from On the Train to Charlotte, poetry by M. C. Tuggle #TheMetaworker
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"you rise, / lay your arms like the seam / of the first dawn across / my shoulders and sigh with the robins," excerpt from Sharh on on Sahih al-Bukhari 5460, poetry by Reyzl Grace @reyzlgrace
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September 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"you rise, / lay your arms like the seam / of the first dawn across / my shoulders and sigh with the robins," excerpt from Sharh on on Sahih al-Bukhari 5460, poetry by Reyzl Grace @reyzlgrace
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"Emerald did not tell Harrison that she worked at BIT, the London underground information service." excerpt from Emerald in the Seventies, fiction by Joan Slatoff
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September 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Emerald did not tell Harrison that she worked at BIT, the London underground information service." excerpt from Emerald in the Seventies, fiction by Joan Slatoff
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"and the beer / tastes of bathwater / but water is not safe / to drink, and so / here we are" excerpt from Outsourcing, poetry by DS Maolalai #TheMetaworker
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September 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"and the beer / tastes of bathwater / but water is not safe / to drink, and so / here we are" excerpt from Outsourcing, poetry by DS Maolalai #TheMetaworker
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First Date, Blank Zoo and Last Year, micro fiction by Erin Matheson Ritchie #TheMetaworker
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September 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
First Date, Blank Zoo and Last Year, micro fiction by Erin Matheson Ritchie #TheMetaworker
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"she asked eggs / for an answer / they could not give." - excerpt from Monday Morning, poetry by Mark J. Mitchell @MJMitchellwriter #TheMetaworker
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September 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"she asked eggs / for an answer / they could not give." - excerpt from Monday Morning, poetry by Mark J. Mitchell @MJMitchellwriter #TheMetaworker
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"walk the highway until you see the billboard ad of the same two politicians, year-marked with bad graffiti and dust..." - excerpt from To find your grandmother’s house, poetry by Yev Gelman #TheMetaworker
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August 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"walk the highway until you see the billboard ad of the same two politicians, year-marked with bad graffiti and dust..." - excerpt from To find your grandmother’s house, poetry by Yev Gelman #TheMetaworker
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Congratulations to Metaworker author Ken Poyner, who has a new collection of speculative poetry out in the world! Buy a copy of "Science is Not Enough" on his website or on Amazon.
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August 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Congratulations to Metaworker author Ken Poyner, who has a new collection of speculative poetry out in the world! Buy a copy of "Science is Not Enough" on his website or on Amazon.
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and i agree, a micro poem by Breton Lalama #TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday
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August 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
and i agree, a micro poem by Breton Lalama #TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday
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"My mother's ninety-fifth birthday was in late June. I couldn't let the occasion pass unnoticed, regardless of her condition." - excerpt from The Finding Momo Birthday, creative nonfiction by Madlynn Haber #TheMetaworker
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August 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"My mother's ninety-fifth birthday was in late June. I couldn't let the occasion pass unnoticed, regardless of her condition." - excerpt from The Finding Momo Birthday, creative nonfiction by Madlynn Haber #TheMetaworker
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"For a dog or a squirrel you might hit the brakes, but for something so small, you lift your foot and hope for the best." - excerpt from Swerve (you're hit), fiction by Charles Sutphin #TheMetaworker
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August 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"For a dog or a squirrel you might hit the brakes, but for something so small, you lift your foot and hope for the best." - excerpt from Swerve (you're hit), fiction by Charles Sutphin #TheMetaworker
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"The panther paces her cage / Heavy velvet paws pad the cell / back and. forth / left. and right." - excerpt from Through the Motions, poetry by Diane Funston #TheMetaworker
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August 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"The panther paces her cage / Heavy velvet paws pad the cell / back and. forth / left. and right." - excerpt from Through the Motions, poetry by Diane Funston #TheMetaworker
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"Tonight we burn away the stain / We bid farewell to the profane" - excerpt from Light the Fire, poetry by LeAnna McEuen. #TheMetaworker
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August 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Tonight we burn away the stain / We bid farewell to the profane" - excerpt from Light the Fire, poetry by LeAnna McEuen. #TheMetaworker
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