@paranoidxtree.bsky.social
📚 Hybrid lit mag & art zine 💌 New print issue every month 📬 Submissions always free & open ⚡️ Proud to pay contributors 📍 Minneapolis, MN paranoidtree.com
🎉🎉🎉 Party Alert!
In partnership with @conium.bsky.social, we will be hosting Shapes & Sound, a reading event & book/zine party. Come hang with us at Dual Citizen Brewery on 11/8. Beverages will be available for purchase and we’ll have some snacks for y’all to enjoy! No RSVP and totally free. ❤️
Had a book published before mid-2021? Take 5 minutes to see if it's listed here and if so another 5 to enter info. And look up your grandma's book, the book of your friend, etc. and let them know
07.10.2025 18:18 — 👍 7 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2We're still trying to raise $246 this year to cover expenses, if you're feeling generous.
We'll never charge a submission fee, and we pay our writers.
Your help will also ensure that we can bring on a guest editor in the new year, to avoid that whole 'monolithic voice' business 💛🖤
Thank you. 🐝
Read my little story online here!
I'm still so happy this found such a perfect home. One of the few stories that I wrote without prompts and/or a deadline, just a growing appreciation of nature coupled with a growing heartbreak over how we treat it. Go hug a tree today 💚
New issue alert! It has multiple sets of wings and eyes and creepy crawlies. Just in time for fall.
Full story here: www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-57
Thank you for sharing! Glad you enjoyed! 💜🖤
12.09.2025 19:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Always a good mail day when a new issue of @paranoidxtree.bsky.social shows up! Love this evocative little ticket to defying gravity (if briefly)...
12.09.2025 18:20 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
"You may be groped. You may be robbed. You may be kicked or punched."
Courtney Skaggs (& Alyssa Bluhm!) in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social
www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-56
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26.08.2025 00:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Twin Cities folks!!! @paranoidxtree.bsky.social is looking for an assistant editor!
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Join Our Team! 💌 Paranoid Tree is looking for a new Assistant Editor. This paid position will be local to the Twin Cities. More details and our application can be found at the link in our bio! Apply by September 19 🥦⚡️
25.08.2025 20:54 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1the @paranoidxtree.bsky.social sale got extended through Monday; add my King Kong zine to your library for $3!
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Volume 55 is titled "A Certain Florentine Woman Died in the Plague of 1538"
Art by Leo Covault. The Mona Lisa is disassembled as a paper doll, with different hairstyles, smiles, and clothing options.
A quote from the story by Max Fischer: "Her body was stolen, then recovered in 1913. Denizard wiped the fingerprints from the curves of her neck with his own retouches to prevent her aging. In 1970, they found teardrops wept in 1503 and insects eroding her frame, beechwood replaced with maple replaced with sycamore and metal. Five hundred years of humid stench breathed over her exposed skin and of eyes and iPhones pilfering her face buckled the poplar panel, a misshaping no carbon tetrachloride treatment could prevent."
If you could paint the Mona Lisa a new smile, what would it look like? Thanks to Leo Covault, you've got options. We're obsessed with his paper doll illustrations for our latest issue, feat. CNF by Max Fischer.
Shoutout to our friend Garrick for giving in to the impulse to assemble this one. 💌
my King Kong zine is just $3 + shipping, y'all; don't miss this great sale from @paranoidxtree.bsky.social!
www.paranoidtree.com/issues/p/vol...
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05.08.2025 03:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Back Issue Summer Sale!!! We're tired of hoarding all these oldies, but goodies all to ourselves. Become a Paranoid Tree completist! Volumes 1-30 are only $3 apiece! Sale ends Mon, Aug 11. Check it out at the link in our bio. Happy reading!
05.08.2025 03:02 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Another gorgeous story up at @paranoidxtree.bsky.social
"When she returns to the tree, she collects the most intact exoskeletons from the bark, pulling gently so they don’t break under her fingers."
paranoidtree.com/read/vol-54
new on our mainpage: THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 (selecting editor @samanito.bsky.social )
28.06.2025 18:18 — 👍 130 🔁 33 💬 14 📌 49Thank you for boosting! Glad you enjoyed it 💕⚡️
26.06.2025 20:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"The girl’s stained fingers slip the necklace over her grandmother’s neck as she prays to something, everything. She waits for her grandmother to emerge, wings fresh and hungry for flight."
Daily reads @heyhaylimay.bsky.social in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social ❤️
A quote from the issue. It reads, "The night is full with the sound of a million insects longing. A waxing gibbous is all that lights her way, aside from the ever-shifting glow of the television through the screen of the open door."
"Mulberries and Molts" by Hayli Cox, art by Kiki Lana.
Read @heyhaylimay.bsky.social capture the creepy crawl of childhood nostalgia, drenched in deep berry-toned art by Kiki Lana.
New issue out now! 💌 🍇 🐜
paranoidtree.com/read/vol-54
It might be Friday the 13th, but we feel like the luckiest alive ⚡️💕
13.06.2025 19:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An image of a radio tower with a red light at the top, shaped like a heart. This is volume 53 of Paranoid Tree, with a poem by Ana Reisens and art by Vivian Steckline.
Find the issue online & in print at paranoidtree.com.
"The radio plays a melody from the past; I’m only half listening. I’d say it makes me think of you, but that is only part true. There’s an 88% chance we exist as a series of unexpressed possibilities—here, now, then, everywhere."
A little love poem to wrap up your week: paranoidtree.com/read/vol-53
If you’re looking for a home for a spooky piece of microfiction, today is a great day to send it our way! We’re on the hunt for creepy stories to feature in our fall issues 👻🎃
11.06.2025 17:03 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The front side of Vol. 53 depicts an airplane taking off into the sky, above a radio tower. The red light at the top of the tower is shaped like a heart.
The back side of vol. 53 contains the author and artist bios.
A close-up of a single folded issue of vol. 53, as it would appear in the mailbox of our print subscribers.
Volume 53 just landed! Featuring sky-high art by Vivian Steckline and a dreamy double feature of poems by Ana Reisens.
Read them online & in print ✈️ paranoidtree.com/read/vol-53
Hey lit mag community! 📖 Has anyone here ever shared their publishing archives with the EBSCO database?
They recently sent us a very kind request to post our issues on their platform. Seems legit, but we worry this could be a ploy to train an LLM.
Looking for some experienced perspectives. Thanks!
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Fee-Free General Literary Flash Fiction feat. @theoffingmag.bsky.social @paranoidxtree.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @existotherwise.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
21.05.2025 13:04 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A multicolored menagerie of crocheter skulls, fish, hearts, cthulhus, eyeballs, caterpillars and mice of various sizes
A multicolored menagerie of crocheter skulls, fish, hearts, cthulhus, eyeballs, caterpillars and mice of various sizes
A multicolored menagerie of crocheter skulls, fish, hearts, cthulhus, eyeballs, caterpillars and mice of various sizes
A multicolored menagerie of crocheter skulls, fish, hearts, cthulhus, eyeballs, caterpillars and mice of various sizes
I... guess I've been a little busy* the past several months
*aka anxious
#crochet (and a tiny bit of #knitting)
A quote from the poem: "You walked out of the sea for something. When you had nothing but a cave for a home and dripping stalactites for a roof, you'd scratch rock into the walls by lamplight to say I am here."
"Remember how you had to pick up and leave, fearful of the littlest crackle in the sky? Until you came upon another cave, another home."
"And the first thing you did was to touch its walls by dark, hoping for the rough cadence of another person's hand in a language you hadn't built, speaking back I am here, I am here."
Sending a hug and a poem to anyone who needs them today. 💕
Read more of "Compassion Fatigue" by Nikita Deshpande, with art by Leah Kehr ➡️ paranoidtree.com/read/vol-52
Yayyy so glad you liked it. Thanks for sharing!! 💕⚡️
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