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Painting of peach and plum and grapes with text reading call for submissions

Cranberry background with text reading what to submit currently accepting • flash fiction (max 1,000 words) • short fiction (max 2,500 words) • nonfiction (max 2,500 words) we're honored to consider your little fruits. submit your story in the Google Form at the link in bio. littlefruitsmagazine.com

Submissions are OPEN. We’re publishing inaugural stories and can’t wait to read your work.

Submit at link in bio.

#litmag #submissions #submission #writingcommunity

Cranberry red background with circular logo for little fruits magazine with tag-line "hand-picked prose" over the title "meet the editors"

Image of purple, red, and golden plums over text that reads ghost loves the word ‘interstitial’ and is often hiding in the intervening spaces. she is a writer of short fiction and ritualistic non-fiction.

Image of red cherries over text maggie loves the word ‘crepuscular’ with all it's hard edges for such a soft time of day. they are a fiction writer and luddite in tech.

image of green and yellow limes over text that reads jahla’s loves the word ‘mansikoita’ (‘strawberry’ in Finnish). she is a fiction writer and creative director at an ad agency.

Meet the Editors of Little Fruits Magazine: Ghost, @maggiekantor.bsky.social, and Jahla. We’re getting ready to harvest the fruits of your labor.

Opening for submissions this month

#writingcommunity #litmag #submissions

The first season is one of the best produced, written, and acted season of television ever. It was impossible to live up to and it’s heartbreaking that it couldn’t!

Blurry pic of an orange tabby laying on a black cat while the black cat grooms the orange cat. The photo blurred because they were purring so hard and were so happy.

I think you should do it!!! Our oldest cat is 10 and requires HOURS of cuddling a day. He is so much more playful with his buddy (who is now four and we got three years ago) and they cuddle and play literally all day.

You had the chance to wash some of the blood from your hands @hickenlooper.senate.gov and @bennet.senate.gov and you chose not to. Be courageous and do the right thing.

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

They’ll have to pry the em dash from my cold dead hands. 🩷
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

And I can’t believe that I’m rooting for my favorite shows that tackle philosophy and morality and fun sexy times to get cancelled.

The only good news about this getting approved is that Star Trek will probably not be renewed and I can just switch to watching my DVDs

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

This was such a charming watch!!!!

NGO thing. I’m being a *little* flip because it wasn’t *just* that. Extremely hostile environment, low pay, and tied to the government.

I quit a job rather than meet Rahm and have to shake his hand.

Go fuck yourself and the rotting corpse of Reagan you rode in on.

Reagan not only worsened the AIDS crisis, he broke up unions, killed the social safety net, and set the stage for this era in America.

Superman says Free Palestine

No one trusts Ada. She doesn’t blame them.

But thousands of years after humans broke the planet, the androids who replaced (and resurrected) them are on the same precipice.

Ada must convince everyone to skip the second apocalypse or she won’t get to redeem herself.

#bluepit 📖 #A #SF #Q

Mood Board for Starlit Wanderer. The images are of a corkboard with strings and a hand pointing at a potential clue, flowers, a starlit mountain range, lovers kissing at sunset, a grumpy moon and cheerful sun, a protest with the a sign urging people to fight for a better future, grasped hands, and a magical circle of light surrounding an outstretched hand.

UPROOTED x THE FAMILIAR x OCEAN’S ECHO

Sparks fly when carefree Astra and steadfast Grey touch—they don’t know why and don’t have time to find out between a budding romance, a malevolent secret society, and a minor revolution.

Romantasy meets Eugene Debs for a #hotlaborsummer.

#bluepit 📖 #A #R #F

There’s a similar idea with the phrase “Bad Boyars, Good Czar” from pre-revolution Russia. People loved Nicholas and wanted to believe it was the aristocracy hurting them, not their “father” the king. They believed he would stop the abuse if he only knew.

I hate how impressed I am that he has any trigger discipline. I truly thought he would have his finger on it while also looking like the piece of shit he is.

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

I left TikTok awhile ago and your videos were one of the main things I missed. I’m so glad I found you through this video being sent to my YouTube algorithm 🙃

I personally don’t believe in guilty pleasures in the same way you talk about cringe in this essay. People need to be earnest sometimes!

YouTube video by pagemelt be your own algorithm

hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times?
youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI

the summer they had free fares on buses and trains for everyone was glorious. I wish they’d kept it up (and added more buses)!

The evil that men do lives after them

the early K/S shippers in the 60s / 70s / 80s, living in eras of intense queer persecution and trauma while writing fanfic where two men in love get to have a happy ending on their little spaceship 300 years from now, speaking into existence a future they couldn’t even see, are absolute icons to me

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.

CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one

PELOSI: Take the shot

I assume this will be the Butlerian Jihad with an additional focus on not putting ketchup on hot dogs