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October 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute

We are excited to present the October 2025 issue, which is our Nine Year Anniversary issue. We've put out an issue every month on the first since we started, making this our 108th issue. Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social.

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Man Staring, 2025 Oil on Canvas — Ghost Parachute You are an eight-foot painting in a gallery in Mallorca. Your stomach is swollen with creatures inside. Animals with gnashing teeth and eyes big like Muppets. Something you’d see under the microscope....

Read "Man Staring, 2025 Oil on Canvas" written by @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.

"You are an eight-foot painting in a gallery in Mallorca. Your stomach is swollen with creatures inside."

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After School Special ~ by Mamie Pound Stale beer and cigarettes. Chick-fil-a grease on my brown polyester uniform. Parkingdeck lights and shadows. His blue pinto with the yellow hood. His eyes the same blue as hisGyro Wrap uniform. The…

"His blue pinto with the yellow hood. His eyes the same blue as his Gyro Wrap uniform. The steering wheel against my back. His soft thighs, warm." by @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social
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Thank you. ☺️

Stephen Miller is the key architect, leader, and planner of the destruction of American democracy.

Trump has no idea what habeas corpus means.

Stephen Miller is in charge.

He is as gifted a liar as he is a hater. He has lied, repeatedly, and hated, repeatedly, for multiple decades.

Someone skipped Marbury v. Madison day in school.

Yay!!!!! We are beyond thrilled!

Thank you, Liz

I love this!

Great story.

Have you read Nini Berndt's amazing story, "Wingdings," in our December issue yet? We just nominated it for Best Small Fictions, and we hope you will check it out! https://buff.ly/3ZJDxv6

What is happening in Los Angeles is our future | Francine Prose The news from California is clear, but we don’t want to see it. It’s too confounding, big, complex. But we can sense the danger

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Congratulations to all!!

Congratulations!!

🙄 It’s basically his fault.

Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."

These Worn Bodies Flash Fiction by Avitus B. Carle 978-0-913785-79-9 Paper November 2024

You know it’s gonna be a good day when your best friend lets you know that her copy of THESE WORN BODIES (@mooncitypress.bsky.social) has SHIPPED!

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1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).

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Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment The president-elect’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.

I feel like—ten years into the Trump era—journalists should have better language for what is happening that goes beyond verbs like shocking, upending, overturning, frustrating...

Every educated person understands Donald Trump is at war with the United States itself.

He's doing violence to America.

So beautiful

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