Felix

Somehow, one of my worst stories managed to win one of the best prizes, the 'Anxious Nihilist Prize for Fiction'. Big thanks to Cody and the others who had to read this! You can find 'À Rielle' here:
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/09/fict...

There’s a Weevil in My Left Ear and a Shark ... at Spillwords.com Spillwords.com presents: There’s a Weevil in My Left Ear and a Shark in My Right, poem by Felix Anker, born, raised and based in Germany.

Here's a little surreal poem of mine, just published in ›Spillwords‹

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Rehkitzler E-Zine absurde, surreale, bizarre Flash Fiction und Lyrik

One year ago – inspired by 'Don't Submit!' (donotsubmit.net) – I started the German lit mag 'Rehkitzler', and so far this has been a strange but wonderful journey. If you understand German, feel free to check out the absurd, surreal, and bizarre pieces I got to publish.

www.rehkitzler.de

The dismantling and remantling of Rupi Kaur

Just got my little weird story "X marks the void" published over at Maudlin House

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Wiewiewieschschsch

"I was ten when my father took me to see the vampire."

This week on hex, a contender for our most disquieting. A short visit with a vampire on a rainy day. Don't miss being haunted by @jackklausner.bsky.social ‘s Memory of Biting." 🧛😱

This is so good, thank you!

Happy to have another one of my strange texts published by one of my favourite lit mags

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"ALT + END" by Felix Anker According to my grandmother, not finishing my meal would bring rain, but it never did. Until last week. Last week we had potato soup, I hate soup and I hate potatoes and I hate that two wrongs didn��...

If you're craving something weird and prefer your fingers al dente, you might like this lottle experimental story I just got published

Today we published the first issue of Germany's only lit mag dedicated to humour and I'm a bit proud actually

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I definitely need more stories that involve vegetable-fighting

Just had some surreal poetry published in one of my favourite lit mags

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Dance like everybody's judging

Are there any lit mags that don't want a specific number of words but rather the exact Scrabble score of all the letters used in the text?

Beginn der Geschichte "Augen auf Herr B." Berthold Birnenbacher war ein geborener Kämpfer. Nicht dass er jemals gewonnen hätte, aber er hatte den Ring des Lebens so oft schon bestiegen, dass sich eine Stempelkarte fast gelohnt hätte. Jetzt gerade kämpfte Herr Birnenbacher (der aus Einfachheitsgründen im restlichen Verlauf der Geschichte nur noch Herr B. genannt wird) mit einem Stück Klamotte. Siegessicher steckte er seinen Arm in den Hemdärmel, zog den Arm wieder aus dem Hemdärmel, der wider Erwarten ein Hosenbein war, und führte das passende Bein hinein. Ein seufzender Luftstoß entwich dem Auswuchs in der Mitte seines Gesichtes, den man in Fachkreises Nase nennt, durchstrich seinen rhododendronbuschartigen Schnurrbart und verlor sich im Raum. Herr B. tastete sich durch seinen Kleiderschrank, bis er alles gefunden hatte, was er brauchte und hatte schon bald das Wunder der Ankleidung vollzogen. Früher hatte Herr B. Bücher verlegt, am vergangenen Freitag jedoch seine Brille ...

Titelseite des neuen UND-Heft

Eine möglicherweise lustige Kurzgeschichte von mir gibt's jetzt im neuen UND-Heft

Featherhand: Inquiry for the Department of Ornithology by Thad DeVassie It was just another walk in the park as I tried logging my necessary steps and subsequent hydration. I recently began eating sunflower seeds, popping them like energy pills on these walks, which made ...

"A bird called my name with perfect consonant-and-vowel alignment... I offered it some sunflower seeds. The bird ate from my hand, then ate my hand..." Don't miss @ThadDeVassie.bsky.social's gorgeous ornithological (dream?) (nightmare?), fresh on hex 🦅🪶🐦
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"As they surrender, they creak louder and harsher, their bones snap until they collapse into the dark embrace of the soil, finding peace in the light they had blocked for so many years."

Got a short story about dying trees published in 'A Thin Slice of Anxiety'

Can we all agree that all ears look so weird yet we never really notice unless they're slightly weirder than normal?

Felix Anker - Mann über Bord, Karl! - Sechzehn Seiten Die Symptome waren eindeutig. Im Baum schrien die Vögel, vor dem Fenster bienten die Bienen und die Sonne stürzte sich auf meine Zehen ...

Meine humoristische Wannabe-Wodehouse'sche Kurzgeschichte "Mann über Bord, Karl!" (1920er-Jahre, Dorf, aber ganz ohne Politik, keine Angst) gibt's jetzt im Literaturmagazin 'Sechzehn Seiten'

NASA launches the entire world's supply of mistletoe into orbit so everybody has to make out all the time.

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