Rejection Letters

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There Must Be Blood (Elizabeth R. McClellan) For Honest Lewis “There must be blood”—the unbreakable lawof revolutions and fairy tales.This I knew. We grow up knowing. The emperor was cleaning outthe granaries we had filled for winter,the burs…

I missed my #NationalPoetryMonth post yesterday to the #SkyPoets on #PoetSky but I think your make up post, given the fascism, is this piece i published in @rejectionlit.bsky.social in 2020. rejection-letters.com/2020/10/08/t...

I did it! @rejectionlit.bsky.social tattoo in the bag.

Also, @kevinmkearney.bsky.social read from his new book FREELANCE from @rejectionlit.bsky.social, which you can pre-order here: asterismbooks.com/product/free...

#AWP25 haul.
Books by:
@gracelp.bsky.social
@samuelashworth.bsky.social
@zoebossiere.bsky.social
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
@dtrobbins.bsky.social
@wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social
(among others)

babe, wake up! @kevinmkearney.bsky.social's novel, FREELANCE, is available for pre-order!!!

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There Must Be Blood (Elizabeth R. McClellan) For Honest Lewis “There must be blood”—the unbreakable lawof revolutions and fairy tales.This I knew. We grow up knowing. The emperor was cleaning outthe granaries we had filled for winter,the burs…

a poem for days like these that @rejectionlit.bsky.social published years ago rejection-letters.com/2020/10/08/t...

Cover for the downright important, life-changing, and epoch-defining novel FREELANCE by Kevin M. Kearney

My second book arrives May 31 from @rejectionlit.bsky.social. It's a speculative noir about a rideshare driver in Philly. It's called FREELANCE.

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Kevin Kearney is officially joining the RL catalog with his second novel, FREELANCE, and lemme tell y’all… this shit is beyond fucking good!! Dropping 5/31/25!

coming out of obscurity today to share my first straightforward attempt at horror and to say thank you to @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social and @femmeintheory.bsky.social for publishing this over at @poolpartymag.com.

hope y'all enjoy it.

If you love horror like me, this one is a thing of nightmares 🫨

Nobody brings the big, beautiful, unruly, grotesque prose like D.T. Robbins. So stoked to publish his newest, "Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore," up today over at @poolpartymag.com 🔥

Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore by D.T. Robbins The ultimatum that Will’s fiancé, Leslie, had given him wasn’t sincere, and he knew this. Really, it was more of a nudge, an encouragement to push past whatever the fuck it was which rendered him inca...

"Mommy’s neck lengthens like a Jack jumping out of the box. She bounces in Will’s face, screaming and laughing and screaming and laughing."

D.T. Robbins dropping some next level body horror in "Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore." 🌊🏋️‍♀️👶

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like a rash you can't get rid of, back by no demand whatsoever: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LEAVE ME ALONE by D.T. Robbins.
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Finished @emilylauracosta.bsky.social book GIRL on GIRL from @rejectionlit.bsky.social This press is building serious cred in my book. The stories are linked in a through vein of nostalgia, sadness, cynicism and a young persons idea of love.

Pool Party Mag is coming in hot with this total banger from everybody’s favorite story writer @emilylauracosta.bsky.social!!! Give it a read, then order GIRL ON GIRL from @rejectionlit.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

I am beyond proud to share our first publication!!! I fell in love with @emilylauracosta.bsky.social while reading GIRL ON GIRL (grab a copy via @rejectionlit.bsky.social!!) and am so thrilled to be able to break the Pool Party seal with such an epic piece 🔥

i wrote a poem once upon a president and @rejectionlit.bsky.social gave it a home rejection-letters.com/2020/10/08/t...

French Girl Chic (Chris L. Terry) The perfect shoes were finally on sale. He ordered them while standing over his bathroom sink. In the time it took the shoes to arrive, a windowpane popped from a decaying frame, one cabinet knob d…

I feel absolutely honored to share some artistic space with Chris Terry in this latest piece on @rejectionlit.bsky.social. Check out some excellent fiction (and a cool photo by yours truly) here: rejection-letters.com/2025/02/03/f...

French Girl Chic (Chris L. Terry) The perfect shoes were finally on sale. He ordered them while standing over his bathroom sink. In the time it took the shoes to arrive, a windowpane popped from a decaying frame, one cabinet knob d…

New fiction about the three S's (shopping, spiraling, shirking) up @rejectionlit.bsky.social

Read FRENCH GIRL CHIC:
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Really surprised and impressed with the structure of this story in Girl on Girl.Feels like it will be taught one day, the dichotomy and rising action of each character couple in opposition to each other and then finally at the end, synchronous

@emilylauracosta.bsky.social @rejectionlit.bsky.social

A Collection of Losses (Laura Gill) On Miami Beach, people look for lost items—they walk with metal detectors searching for rings, bracelets, and buckles. They move the device from one side to the next, down and back along the shore,…

@rejectionlit.bsky.social

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“Friendship is a lifelong effort between two people who love each other deeply. It’s a lifelong effort between two people who hate each other a little, too.”

Finally got to read this beautiful, haunting story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @rejectionlit.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

I bit into a nectarine (Ewan Glass) and the stone was a diamond. My front teeth shattered but now I was rich I could get new ones, better ones! This plunged  me into a thought crisis. How could they be better? Sharper? More dura…

I have a new poem up if you’d like to read it. It’s pretty short!!!! Thanks to all @rejectionlit.bsky.social 🍑 💎

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Worked (Rob Yates) I realize that Frostis fine and that oneshouldn’t be a Kant,but I prefer Carmelitato getting blood on the tracks. A cigarette and a love poem is cliche, but half an Ambien and a bottle o…

Holiday break has set in well enough to start making the move over to bluesky after abandoning X. Here's a piece I had in @rejectionlit.bsky.social last year.

Under the Desk Is a Good Place to Hide (Elena Zhang) We start by lighting candles, two white, two red, all of them tall and spindly like fingers reaching toward a promise. Then comes the prayer. Closing our eyes, we recite the words we know by heart,…

“Under the Desk is a Good Place to Hide” – @rejectionlit.bsky.social (Feb 2024) rejection-letters.com/2024/02/21/u...

“The early worm, after many years, finally gets the bird” – @honeyliterary.bsky.social (Feb 2024) www.honeyliterary.com/issue-7-1/an...

There Must Be Blood (Elizabeth R. McClellan) For Honest Lewis “There must be blood”—the unbreakable lawof revolutions and fairy tales.This I knew. We grow up knowing. The emperor was cleaning outthe granaries we had filled for winter,the burs…

setting up my WordPress site is exhausting.
in case you missed it; this poem I wrote during the run-up to the Trump administration is relevant all over again. Read free at @rejectionlit.bsky.social today. rejection-letters.com/2020/10/08/t...

Now it’s nothing but flowers (Anna Vangala Jones) I know I’m her ghost. The one that lingers in the corners of her memory, waiting to strike—when some song by Bruce Springsteen plays, or when she drives by our old favorite diner, or when it rains …

I have a new story up at @rejectionlit.bsky.social today! it’s about friendship breakups and the living ghosts that haunt us. so grateful to amazing editor @kevinmkearney.bsky.social & any of you who read it ♡ rejection-letters.com/2025/01/02/n...

Excited to dive in! GIRL ON GIRL stories by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social 💚💚💚 @rejectionlit.bsky.social

"I want to take up smoking again, just one more time, and pretend we’re seventeen. Sitting in her car together, singing and straining to hit the high notes between drags and coughing fits,...."

Wow, brilliant storytelling by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @rejectionlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙