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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · 12d

@delgeo14.bsky.social, @hilary55.bsky.social @joycebingham.bsky.social @sugarpigblog.bsky.social @tomljanovic.bsky.social

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · 12d

"Today's must-haves are nothing more than tomorrow's junk."

Read "Dear Society; A Collective Roar" An exquisite corpse up now at The Pride Roars!

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Dear Society / Collective Roar

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · 13d

An exquisite corpse - where each contributor sent their last line to the next writer as a prompt - that turned into an exquisite rant. Coming tomorrow!

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · 24d

New on The Pride Roars 'Liberty, TX, Travelodge' by Megan Hanlon @sugarpigblog

'we stayed there six weeks one small room four of us two beds zero jobs'

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Liberty, TX, Travelodge / Megan Hanlon

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · Sep 6

"you’ve had a bad hair day all your life. Not straight, not curly, not sure what to be, pathetically insecure"

Read "The Collateral Haircut" by @delgeo14.bsky.social in The Pride Roars

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The Collateral Haircut / Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · Jul 24

Congratulations to our lionesses @hilary55.bsky.social @mlmcguinness.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @amymarques.bsky.social on their Best of the Net nominations!

Read these pieces and more at theprideroars.blogspot.com

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · Jun 25

Get reading, you know it's beautiful 😍😍

Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social · Jun 25

Raw Lit - Issue 7 - is live!
Editor - François Bereaud @fbereaud.bsky.social
Cover: Katharine Weinmann
rawlit.weebly.com/issue7.html

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Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social · Jun 12

Call to artists - submission call closing on the 15th of June
for guidelines & submission form:
rawlit.weebly.com/submissions....

Themes/Imagery
cactus - bread - oil lamp - train station - donut - girl/woman - moth - mother - classroom/school - puzzle - cooking - empty road

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · Jun 10

"Contains: hydrogenated and/or liquid canola oil farmed for generations in Saskatchewan, may contain palm oil not the black gold that built skyscrapers in Alberta"

Read "The Family Margarine Tub" by @tomljanovic.bsky.social in The Pride Roars

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The Family Margarine Tub / T.L. Tomljanovic

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · Jun 1

"It places its limbs upon my bough and lays across my bark. Lies, always lies, wielding machines to cut us down"

Read "Hunger Three Ways" by @joycebingham.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute

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Hunger Three Ways — Ghost Parachute

Blood The wolf howls into the night, adrenaline and cortisol in my blood increases. I’ll taste of fear. He must enjoy that bitter sweet meat. But in front of me there is a tree, glorious in the moonli...

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · Jun 1

"She would never get frightened by the storm, an earthquake, or the dog’s bark, would never enjoy the birds’ song as they welcomed dawn, or fall asleep to a lullaby"

Read "Still Life Pain-ting by @delgeo14.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute

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Still Life Pain-ting — Ghost Parachute

It swallowed her. The pain engulfed Marie whole, like a triskelion of emotional, physical, spiritual agony. She had stopped asking questions. There were no answers to be had. There was no why, and no ...

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · May 20

"The chances are high that, unless you have it, you've probably never heard of aphantasia"

Read "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" by @hilary55.bsky.social in The Pride Roars

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind / Hilary Ayshford

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · May 19

“We want Lennon here, but—” The words safe spaces and inclusivity buzz like bees into ear wax"

Read 3 micros from @tomljanovic.bsky.social in @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social

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Other Moms... by T.L. Tomljanovic | The Woolf

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · May 18

"I met my father for the first time when I was fifty-seven and he, forty-one"

Read "How I Met My Father" by @delgeo14.bsky.social in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social

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How I Met My Father – THE HOOGHLY REVIEW

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Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social · May 12

Congratulations to Raw Lit's contributor Katrina Moinet, whose poetry book 'Portrait of a Young Girl Falling' made the shortlist of Wales Book Of The Year!

Vote for the Wales Book of the Year 2025 People’s Choice Award

nation.cymru/culture/vote...

Vote for the Wales Book of the Year 2025 People's Choice Award

The Wales Book of the Year Award celebrates talented Welsh writers who excel in a variety of literary forms in both Welsh and English. There are four categories in both languages – Poetry, Fiction, Cr...

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · May 11

"Sounds are not always my friend; I find myself prone to my brain hooking onto repetitive irritant noises"

Read "How do you like your Muzak" by @joycebingham.bsky.social in The Pride Roars

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How do you like your Muzak? / Joyce Bingham

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · May 11

Check out the Q&A up at @trashcatlit.bsky.social from our very own @delgeo14.bsky.social!

Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · May 10

Today's highlight from the Spring Pop-Up also comes with a side of Q&A 🦝
We loved @delgeo14.bsky.social's powerful, relatable reflection on grief. You can also listen to the story here:
trashcatlit.com/the-woman-yo...

and here Delphine answers Trash Cat's questions:
trashcatlit.com/2025/05/10/q...

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · May 9

"And as you smile your apple-chomping teeth same as you did the morning after like it’s me that’s done something weird"

Huge congratulations to @pleomorphic2.bsky.social for winning the @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social competition, judged by @lumchanmfa.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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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · May 5

"I'm sorry we thought people shouldn't go bankrupt paying for healthcare; obviously cancer is a choice."

Read "My Sincere Apologies" by Megan Hanlon @sugarpigblog.bsky.social in The Pride Roars

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My Sincere Apologies / Megan Hanlon

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · May 2

Check out the latest Ghost Parachute issue packed with beautiful work, including 'We Only Have Eyes For You' by @fionamckay.bsky.social, 'Popcorn for Hale-Bopp' by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social & 'Sour' @amymarques.bsky.social ♥️

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May 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · May 1

"I think of words like “Primitivism” and how he (Gauguin) wanted to live it, he didn’t want to
experience it second hand"

Read "My Brother Lectures Me About Gauguin" by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social

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MY BROTHER LECTURES ME ABOUT GAUGUIN -

He says, “Art is in the eye of the beholder.”I say, “So you want to behold a naked fourteen-year-old Javanese girl whom he bought as asex slave?”And he says,

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · May 1

"Remember her before; her laughter, her smile, but not her pain, not her shouts, not her insults"

Read "The Woman You Knew Nothing About" by @delgeo14.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social

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The Woman You Knew Nothing About

Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos Listen to Delphine read her story Content Warning grief Breathe in the chill winter air blowing through the window you left open for her spirit to be set free. Free…

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · Apr 30

"I’m procrastinating. Of course I am. I mean, I’m a writer"

@fionamckay.bsky.social is back with her series of posts 'Also Counts as Writing' Read part 3 at The Pride Roars

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Also Counts As Writing - Part Three/Fiona McKay

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · Apr 24

"She screams like a banshee and swears like a sailor. Sailors are soft, actually. #SayNoAndFuckThisShit"

Read "When the Inner Bitch Awakens" by @delgeo14.bsky.social in The Pride Roars

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When The Inner Bitch Awakens / Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos

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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · Apr 21

"What was I meant to do with such flimsy origins, organza and chiffon, wispy dreams and cryptic words, nothing to anchor my stick thin body?"

Check out this Exquisite Corpse born from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social's Yeah-Nah group in The Pride Roars

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Yeah Nah 3 April 2025 Exquisite Corpse / Sumitra Singam

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