Tom Busillo

Side A Short Story: “The Foster” by Tom Busillo We were having dinner, and she said, “I signed us up for a foster.” I thought she was kidding, but everything had already been arranged. His name was Lollie. The next morning, he was in the kitchen…

I'm super-excited to have a short story and an interview in Heavy Feather Review. Thanks Jason and the HFR team! @hfr.bsky.social‬
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Thanks for posting that. I just read her "I Hold A Wolf By the Ears" collection and could not write anything for about 2 weeks - everything I wrote seemed so small and trite in comparison. It's the best short story collection I've ever read, and I'm now enjoying "The Isle of Youth."

Really thrilled to have a piece in Dishsoap Quarterly about a man holding up a very odd family tradition having to do with marbles. Inspired by a true story...sort of. Thanks so much, Zoe and Aster! ‪@dishsoapquart.bsky.social‬ dishsoap-quarterly.com/7-15-25/lega...

I woke up to a nice surprise - an acceptance from the Baltimore Review for a piece inspired by my wife's tendency to buy too many bananas. Quite ironically, now that I want to eat one to celebrate, I can't find one Thanks Barbara and the BR team!🍌@baltimorereview.bsky.social‬

My son Nick and I at today's No Kings event in Philly. My wife took the shot. #NoKings #NoKingsPhilly #Philly

Zoe & Aster, it's well-deserved. You treat writers the way they wish more lit mags would treat them.

Excited to be wearing my "Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia" t-shirt to the protest here in Philly.

I woke up this morning to find an acceptance from Right Hand Pointing in my email. So psyched! Thanks Dale and the team! @ambidextrouslit.bsky.social

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

If you are sickened by what's been happening under Trump 2.0, consider attending a No Kings event this Saturday. It is shaping up to be the largest day of nationwide mass protest against him since the women's march back in the early days of Trump 1.0. www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Eulogy Press A literary magazine that rejects what's safe to create something meaningful.

Really psyched to have a piece up at Eulogy Press! I love Eulogy, in part, because they ask for for bio that's an eulogy/obit. So cool! Thanks so much Eulogy team!
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That's fantastic! Congrats.

One of the Chosen Chambers by Tom Busillo — surely

This one is for people who enjoy the notion that some of us secretly harbor insects inside of our bodies. surelymag.com/one-of-the-c...

Baking Cookies of Myself by Tom Busillo — surely

Really excited to have 2 pieces in the latest issue of surely. Thanks Colleen and Lauren! @surelymag.bsky.social surelymag.com/baking-cooki...

FWIW, the piece in question was a 650-word absurdist story about a man with a squirrel on his back and how he grows to accept and love it, despite the strangeness of the situation.

The Displaced Story by Tom Busillo

So thrilled to have a piece up on trampset! I just got a ding letter from another place on another piece saying I lacked the ability "to communicate experience and transfer emotion across distances." Thanks Joe & team for not being that dusty place and for taking risks! trampset.org/the-displace...

There nothing sexual about a man finding the courage to stay soft in a world that demands he stays hard. Why, not in the least.

FWIW, it ended up being a bathtub full of buttered egg noodles. The piece just wanted to go there.

You know me well, sir!

@seanmcfadden2.bsky.social Hey man! Guess who has a spotless sink? This guy! So clean you could eat out of it...oh no...I feel a story coming on based on that...

I think that's going to be my goal for today...try to find as many lit mags as I can over here where it's blue.

The Evil Empire's site is down - AGAIN! I wish more lit mags would migrate over here. I generally am still on there to keep up with lit mags news...I've also been known to troll a cabinet member or 2.

My Daddy’s Accordion ~ poetry by Tom Busillo My Daddy’s Accordion My daddy’s accordion was his second set of lungs. The first was for breathing, He played it every night between Jeopardy and his bedtime medicine. He named it “Darla.” Said it …

So excited to have a poem up on The Disappointed Housewife! The headshot is me attempting to look hard-boiled - if you're wondering what that looks like. Kevin, thanks so much for carving out a place in the world where a poem like this can find a home!
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April 2025 Issue #95 Garrett Speller A memory of someone long gone and a haiku we wrote together (a haibun) My mind winks back a few years into the past, minutes and hours ticking backwards, letting grandfath…

Really happy to have 2 poems published in the April issue of Neologism Poetry Journal. Thanks so much Christopher! @neologismpoetry.bsky.social
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So excited to have stories coming out soon in trampset and Heavy Feather Review. Thanks so much Joe and the team at @trampset.bsky.social and Jason, Bill, Lucy, & Jeff at @hfr.bsky.social!

Tom Busillo | The Solutions Dimitri’s nose kept falling off. He’d tried tape and glue, but nothing would hold it. On his way to buy stronger glue, he met Reza, a friend from university, and told him of his immediate problem.“…

I'm happy to say I have an absurdist homage to Daniil Kharms in Issue #10 of The Coalitionist. Thanks Jaime! coalitionfordigitalnarratives.org/2025/03/31/t...

OK. This is just not how you should be spending your Sunday...I'm trolling the DOGE AI to give factual information that contradicts the lies it has been programmed to spew out.

I also told Howard Lutnick that he has a very winning smile.

Stop me from tweeting to Howard Lutnick on that other site! Every king needs a court jester; Lutnick is Trump's. His statements re: a sunny future for the economy are so preposterous, it's like watching a hostage video where they're doing something unusual to indicate they're making it under duress.

"I wish I were in a gang that sang karaoke of The Smiths." I had written that line earlier this week, thinking it would make a decent title, and I finally have the rest of the poem to go with it. Now I need to find a place that can interpret the pop culture references in it.

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I accidentally called Howard Lutnick a nudnik on his Elon feed when replying to someone else. He has to know he appears like a complete buffon lying about fentanyl coming from Canada, when the live U.S. border patrol data shows only 0.2% of border seizures occurring on the Canadian border.