Brett Biebel

Read this brilliant story in class today. I love every word.

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Can't see this painting without thinking of DeLillo, Underworld, and baseball.

How can you not be Romantic about baseball?

The theme is "LUCK". In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th. Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry". POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don't go over this cap. PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece. Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under. Tanya Žilinskas will curate the "prose" submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the "poetry". All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours

Upcoming submission call!

Theme "LUCK"

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"

guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

I'd be real surprised if Priester doesn't get a lot of work tomorrow. Ground ball pitcher against a homer-driven lineup seems like a really good idea, especially at home. But we'll see.

If he's real hurt, I blame Shaw for making him run.

Stoked for October! Let's do this💪

anyway go see One Battle After Another in a movie theater, I know we said this about Oppenheimer but I mean it for real with this one, there are cinematographic and audio mixing things that are essential to the experience and you won't get it at home

Very difficult to imagine a better show.

Saw One Battle After Another today. Great film. Nails the spirit of Pynchon. I'm sure it'll get sucked up into the culture wars, but there's plenty of heartfelt complexity there for anyone willing to look.

The cat is the best part of this cuz notice how it is NOT HELPING

But brilliant editor Autumn Watts will.

Yeah, that cover is incredible.

The cover of Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N. Clark.

I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread

It's a good day to revisit League of Denial.

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Spoke about CTE with my lit and sports class today, before seeing this news. These cases are gutting. And they are the result of years of rampant denialism and systematic efforts to put money and entertainment above human life. As in many other areas, we've normalized convenient indifference.

Pretty sure defiance is my literary love language. I love how this piece turns it triumphant and tragic.

"I think of my own mother up there, a neutron star bursting into radio waves."

Big love for this gem by @ezhang77.bsky.social in @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙

One thing that really really surprises me is how much sitting around Hoskins has done. Really thought he'd be getting at least one start a week. Interested to see if anything changes with a division/bye clinch.

Absolute Magnitude - Exposition Review by Chloe N. Clark 1st Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Fiction   In another life, Cassie lives. She wakes up in the hospital, a slow blinking to consciousness, and the doctors say m...

And ICYMI and want to read it, I had this flash fiction out about space and time and other chances

I expect nothing less from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, but that seems kind of absurd, because things less than this are still brilliant and shiny and explosive. What I'm saying is this is all those things and more. I'm glad I read it today.

@kimmagowan.bsky.social is crushing this shit. If you need a little catharsis in your day (and if you don't, please teach me how you live), here's the right dose. Fiction fucking rules.

Nominated by @trampset.bsky.social for Best of the Net!

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The sky is raining popcorn! The carpet’s crying, the parrot won’t speak. Someone must have forgotten to traduce Josef K.

This is a mission only a flood of submissions can cure. Go ahead and make us suffer. Extra credit if there are wiggles in there.

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For those of you just waking up in the UK, sitting down to lunch in Goa, or enjoying your afternoon in Sydney, you'll be the first to read Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

This floored me this morning. I didn't realize hospitals smelled like mashed potatoes, but they do. Also, the way the narrator is brought right up to the edge of epiphany. A great kind of flash.

Kickers are better than ever. But it's also September. One of the weird things about the NFL is how much harder the kicking game can be when the games matter most, and it's sub-freezing, and the balls are rocks.

Please ask about not PHing for Bauers against Romero. Such a textbook call to do it. Even if you like Bauers-Romero more than Vaughn-Leahy (which seems weird), why not make Leahy try to get a 4-out save? Was Leahy even warming? I'm at sea on that one.

This is a great story.

This one has an ending you can feel coming, which is why you want to stretch out the scenes that precede it and live in the details you can smell. They are vivid, and they make the slow, unfolding of tragedy almost bearable.

The two that most stand out to me are "Delicate, Edible Birds," by Lauren Griff and "Clean Hands," from Europe Central, by William Vollmann. Both are difficult. Both are gut-wrenching and tragic. Both are written with care and empathy and WWII knowledge.