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Floating Down, Unafraid - The Offing Insight - The Offing Magazine

“There is a backstory here, of course, to how they became Husband and Wife.”

From “Floating Down, Unafraid,” a new Insight essay by Carolina Pfister.

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16.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Before I could even call his name, a dance came to me, from somewhere beyond the hall, somewhere long before I was born, when all this was ordinary: earth, water, love.”

From “Only Hands,” a new Poem by Michelle Phương Hồ.

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15.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bihoods - The Offing Back of the Envelope - The Offing Magazine

"We stand precisely in the doorway—neither both nor none. Guest nor host. Speak in neutral tenses, dress in night palettes. Half our verbs are borrowed, but everything makes sense."

From “Bihoods,” a new Back of the Envelope piece by Warren C. Longmire.

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14.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Torn paper revealing a message: Call for submissions; The Offing’s Micro department is seeking new works !

Torn paper revealing a message: Call for submissions; The Offing’s Micro department is seeking new works !

14.10.2025 01:30 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Sidelined, or No Pain, No Gain - The Offing Essay - The Offing Magazine

I got to edit another essay by @mcrane12.bsky.social and now you all get to read it in @theoffingmag.bsky.social. If you've followed the impact of ACLs on WoSo in recent years, it's a must read.

09.10.2025 13:12 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

“I don’t know where to begin. That, and there is no end, because as old as this pain is, it feels forever fresh.”

From “Sidelined, or No Pain, No Gain,” a new Essay by Mac Crane.

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09.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Leaf Blower Apocalypse - The Offing Wit Tea - The Offing Magazine

“The men are quite pleased, light again on their feet after so many years of plodding steps. To and fro they spin, they waltz, they dance.”

From “The Leaf Blower Apocalypse,” a new Wit Tea piece by N.J. Webster.

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08.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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grime - The Offing Micro - The Offing Magazine

“the first time I saw my legs could carry me faster when I dressed less modestly, I learned more about my dad’s god than He ever told me.”

From “grime” a new Micro by Deborah Brown.

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06.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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From the Archives: 물귀신 | Mul Gwishin - The Offing Fiction - The Offing Magazine

“In abandoned barns behind campus, watch her tongue curl around the words of your second language. Match your tongue to hers.”

From “물귀신 | Mul Gwishin” and "Hip Deep in the Chesapeake," Fiction by Kat Lewis, originally published on February 1st, 2021.

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03.10.2025 12:52 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Aubade - The Offing Poetry - The Offing Magazine

“In the hills the fire-frightened wildlife are drawn to the scent of what has burned, as I still smell you weeks after leaving my home.”

From “Aubade,” a new Poem by Benjamin Bartu.

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01.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Black Dad - The Offing Insight - The Offing Magazine

Today in @theoffingmag.bsky.social: an excerpt from Steve Majors @600mildollarman.bsky.social's forthcoming memoir, Man Made: Searching for Dads, Daddies, Father Figures, and Fatherhood: theoffingmag.com/insight/blac...

29.09.2025 14:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Black Dad - The Offing Insight - The Offing Magazine

“With time, I see the only doubts about my Blackness lie within me, not my kids. To my Black daughters, I am no different than other fathers.”

From “Black Dad” a new Insight essay by Steve Majors.

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30.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Internet Ephemera and a Mid-century London Artist - The Offing Art - The Offing Magazine

"I like knowing that Terence Greer felt his legacy appreciated during his lifetime."

From "Internet Ephemera and a Mid-century London Artist" new Art by Tracy J. Prince.

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26.09.2025 16:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Spell of Exile - The Offing Essay - The Offing Magazine

“On the morning I turned forty, I woke early, compelled to write—not to preserve the past, but to reshape it.”

From “The Spell of Exile” new Essay by Chris Campanioni (@chriscampanioni.bsky.social).

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26.09.2025 12:38 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Incident Reports - The Offing Wit Tea - The Offing Magazine

“Incident: Heard shouting at midnight (quiet hours violation). Went to kitchen and found Andrew, Hunter, and Thomas (RA, floor 3) drunk. Thomas and Hunter not wearing shirts. Andrew not wearing pants.”

From “Incident Reports” new Wit Tea by Shannon Mahoney.

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24.09.2025 18:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Refuge - The Offing Micro - The Offing Magazine

“they could take him any day now
they are taking one a day now”

From “Refuge,” new Poem by Edythe Rodriguez.

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23.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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From the Archives: Q&A with C Pam Zhang, author of “Are They Vampires, or Are They Just Chinese?” - The Offing Q&A - The Offing Magazine

“C Pam Zhang: Books started out as escapism for me, and I want my writing to maintain some of that.”

From a Q&A with C Pam Zhang, author of “Are They Vampires, or Are They Just Chinese?" Originally published May 1st, 2017.

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22.09.2025 15:27 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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bliss, eternity - The Offing Insight - The Offing Magazine

“I return to the perfect green field, the perfect blue sky, where it feels impossible that anything has ever ended, or ever could end.”

From “bliss, eternity,” a new Insight essay by Nikki Barnhart.

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19.09.2025 12:14 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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On My Way to See You - The Offing Poetry - The Offing Magazine

“I am turmeric dust weeklong stains gleaming across nailbeds I am animal yellow tang ghost crab this banana slug this firefly bulb times a billion”

From “On My Way to See You,” a new Poem by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad.

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18.09.2025 12:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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From the Archives: Track 3: I Miss You - The Offing Comics - The Offing Magazine

“There's an old friend who I don't talk to anymore, and the universe keeps sending me signs of her.”

From “Track 3: I Miss You” a Comic by Kaitlin Chan, originally published on October 1st, 2021.

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12.09.2025 20:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Glengarry Glen Ross for the Gig Economy - The Offing Wit Tea - The Offing Magazine

“A, Always. B, Be. C, Closing. Always Be Closing. You wanna work here? Close! Otherwise, you’re fired.”

From “Glengarry Glen Ross for the Gig Economy,” new Wit Tea by Sue D. Gelber @suegelber.bsky.social.

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12.09.2025 18:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am always excited to read a new @rossshowalter.com story and having this pop up in my feed first thing this morning was exactly what I needed.

12.09.2025 14:08 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
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Ant Farm - The Offing Back of the Envelope - The Offing Magazine

“What I’m saying is: there’s a real reluctance to call what these ants are doing agriculture. To say: that’s farming, they’re farming!”

From “Ant Farm,” new Back of the Envelope by Ahana Ganguly.

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11.09.2025 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mon Tabac - The Offing Micro - The Offing Magazine

“Always the same thwap-thwap of his sweeps, always a cigarette molded perfectly to his pink mouth.”

From “Mon Tabac,” a new Micro by Sophie Nunberg.

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11.09.2025 13:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Q&A with Khadijah Queen, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - The Offing Q&A - The Offing Magazine

“KQ: There’s got to be other stories of women at sea, women in the Navy, women pirates, merchants.”

From a Q&A with with Khadijah Queen, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Ashaki M Jackson ( @ashakijackson.bsky.social ).

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10.09.2025 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A Manual for ASL Students - The Offing Fiction - The Offing Magazine

“I always give the postcards to men who stay the night. I like the morning light to come in with this new information. A new day brings a new discovery of yourself.”

From “A Manual for ASL Students,” new Fiction by Ross Showalter ( @rossshowalter.com ).

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10.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 3
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"I Liked Myself Better as an Exquisite Skeleton" and "Black Lake" - The Offing Poetry - The Offing Magazine

“A me who is trying to cradle my own face in my hands, telling myself it’s okay.”

From “I Liked Myself Better as an Exquisite Skeleton” and “Black Lake,” new Poetry by Angela Townsend.

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09.09.2025 17:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Manual for ASL Students - The Offing Fiction - The Offing Magazine

New story! I wrote (yet again) about ASL students, romantic relationships, and the uncertainty that arises when someone starts to learn a language after meeting you.

I'm grateful to @rrrubenstein.bsky.social and @theoffingmag.bsky.social for giving it space.

05.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 27    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
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Smart Search List of the Day The Smart Search List of the Day is: Literary Flash Fiction feat. @theoffingmag.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/literary-flash-fiction-5o16r2F8

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Literary Flash Fiction feat. @theoffingmag.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

30.08.2025 13:01 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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From the Archives: Pigeon Forge - The Offing Fiction - The Offing Magazine

“I thought leaving everything behind would make it better, she says. I thought I’d remember how it used to be. But remembering just makes it worse.”

From “Pigeon Forge,” Fiction by Jenny Xie, originally published on November 6, 2017.

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01.08.2025 12:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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