Kim Magowan

A Stranger in My Home - Ilanot Review Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross One evening after work, I return home and find a woman in my kitchen. She’s arranging purple fingerling potatoes onto my roasting pan. I smell her before I see her. Or mo...

A fab new micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross in The Ilanot Review!

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A Stranger in My Home - Ilanot Review Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross One evening after work, I return home and find a woman in my kitchen. She’s arranging purple fingerling potatoes onto my roasting pan. I smell her before I see her. Or mo...

Michelle Ross and i have a weird new collaboration micro in wonderful The Ilanot Review:

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Thank you!

Subject: We Are All Appalled ~ by Kim Magowan We are all appalled. That’s the crucial thing we want to convey here. We, like all members of our parent community, are appalled by what happened on Saturday night, and furthermore, that our childr…

"furthermore, that our children, far from being perpetrators, are victims, too. Perhaps victims in a different sense than Ryan Gottfried, who we are relieved to hear has regained consciousness" by @kimmagowan.bsky.social from Milk Candy Review.
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Karen’s Features

I have a new story in awesome @bendinggenres.bsky.social, alongside many writers I love. Can't wait to read this issue!

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Thanks Eileen!

Thanks Eileen! I didn't realize this was up!

Karen’s Features

"Some slogans made no sense. A product could not be, logically, both 'new' and 'improved.'"

A brand new delight from @kimmagowan.bsky.social in the super new issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social 🤩™️

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Michelle Ross ~ People in Elevators - New World Writing Quarterly People in elevators are anxious. This is partly because people in elevators are going somewhere, and the elevators are not that somewhere. But it is also

A gem by Michelle Ross in New World Writing.

Kim Magowan ~ A Series of Lukes - New World Writing Quarterly What first gave us the idea is that Gwen was a lead in the school play, and her character would only love men named Ernest. So we decided that for the next

I have a new story in wonderful New World Writing! Many thanks to Kim Chinquee for taking this one:

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Thanks Josh!

“But what did I know? I was just saying a word in real life that I’d only heard in movies”

New micro from @kimmagowan.bsky.social !

Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...

I have a new story in awesome @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Many thanks to Jeff Harvey for publishing this micro, and @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social fpr the prompt that generated this micro. (And Mike is in this issue too, yay!).

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Thanks Dan!

Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...

"and so I decided fuck the funeral, I just couldn’t deal..."
@kimmagowan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social, packing an entire emotional world in six sentences ⚡

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Thanks Timothy!

Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...

A bittersweet gem from @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

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Thanks Patricia!

My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar — Ghost Parachute Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls. I’m behind the bar, so I assume I’m the bartender. We’re all in old-timey clothes. I’m wearing a l...

A great @kimmagowan.bsky.social story in the new Ghost Parachute!

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Fish Commercial — Ghost Parachute I was sitting on the bed in my hotel in Amsterdam when the fish commercial came on. Geena was in the bathroom. I had the TV on because I was nervous—she’d only been in there a minute, but it felt like...

Thanks to Ghost Parachute and @brettpribble.bsky.social for publishing my story in their 9th Anniversary Issue! Congrats them! Thanks to my pal @courtneyb77.bsky.social for her art, and to her and @kimmagowan.bsky.social for the reads. I'll post other stories soon!
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"Instead of watering blown-out peonies, crocheting baby socks, and shopping at Home Depot, doing the things we were meant to do together, I was drowning my grief by fucking a series of bad men."
@kimmagowan.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ⚡⚡

Thanks Timothy!

My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar — Ghost Parachute Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls. I’m behind the bar, so I assume I’m the bartender. We’re all in old-timey clothes. I’m wearing a l...

Read "My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar" written by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.

"Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls."

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Thank you Dan!

My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar — Ghost Parachute Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls. I’m behind the bar, so I assume I’m the bartender. We’re all in old-timey clothes. I’m wearing a l...

Thrilled to have a new story in the kick-ass 9th anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute, alongside so many flash fiction superstars. Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social for including me in this incredible issue!

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We love some flash on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 😍 Contributor @kimmagowan.bsky.social published this story on parental outrage and what it means to be truly appalled in the Milk Candy Review: buff.ly/AG2gYdj

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This phenomenon feels doubly true when the scene is being conspicuously and visibly filmed, illegally filmed moreover, without the consent of people in the room. Ryan may have been aware that Sebastian was videotaping—his goofy smile, nearly a smirk, before he imbibes the beer bong is indicative.