beestung

"there was an era where nat raum wasn’t allowed to do shit, but their floridian counterpart natalie ann stevens was the toast of baltimore, queen of tequila soda, roused each day at sunset to raise hell"

—nat raum

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love the troublemaking & nostalgia of this
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

"there was an era where nat raum wasn’t allowed to do shit, but their floridian counterpart natalie ann stevens was the toast of baltimore, queen of tequila soda, roused each day at sunset to raise hell"

—nat raum

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"Daddy hits a lot harder when you’ve tried to rid your body of masculinity."

—Jubilee Finnegan

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"Daddy hits a lot harder when you’ve tried to rid your body of masculinity."

—Jubilee Finnegan

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"She’s on a bus. Top deck, right at the front. She reeks of sweat but not like the t-boy, not like his bottled boy smell, she could have climbed into his armpit and slept there, slept off the hangover."

—Kit McGuire

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"She’s on a bus. Top deck, right at the front. She reeks of sweat but not like the t-boy, not like his bottled boy smell, she could have climbed into his armpit and slept there, slept off the hangover."

—Kit McGuire

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trying to get my lesson how grandma said

now i know running
for my life cannot be running from myself

rain flooding my home
all around is water
for me to wade

"beauty finds me dappled in ecstasy
i found by the magnolia outside

maybe these were killing fields
but today my heart is here"

—Marlanda Dekine

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"beauty finds me dappled in ecstasy
i found by the magnolia outside

maybe these were killing fields
but today my heart is here"

—Marlanda Dekine

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"years into mourning
you
i learn ashes
can be pressed into vinyl
wonder what song i would be"

—Tina Zafreen Alam

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"years into mourning
you
i learn ashes
can be pressed into vinyl
wonder what song i would be"

—Tina Zafreen Alam

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“The parking lot was all dappled in shadow with the white-black birch trees wafting overhead, cold and wispy and somewhat otherworldly. Orange pine needles and brown leaves on the blacktop, soft yellow grass shooting up in the cracks, and I thought of Bram and his fried blonde hair.”

‘At some point I awoke with someone crying in my ear, and in a lull between sobs I whispered, “Who is this?”’

"Well, whatever: don’t you think
I look even prettier than before?
Kid, this is what
Butch looks like..."

—Joan Angel Estrada

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"Well, whatever: don’t you think
I look even prettier than before?
Kid, this is what
Butch looks like..."

—Joan Angel Estrada

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“That’s how we spent every Saturday and Sunday that fall semester. Cartoons in the mornings, horror movies at night. Bram sick in bed. This was the pattern; this was the way. Bram would be Bram—multifaceted, rainbow, chameleon. And Melissa would be Melissa—tomboy, plain-faced, cracked-tooth Melissa”

"But the world outside kept calling, and it was a fantastic and ridiculous place. People are strange and wonderful. There are days when I think, "God, I'm so glad I chose to stay. I wish you had too.""

—Kat Joplin

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"But the world outside kept calling, and it was a fantastic and ridiculous place. People are strange and wonderful. There are days when I think, "God, I'm so glad I chose to stay. I wish you had too.""

—Kat Joplin

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Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive. “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” These are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…

Mutual aid organizations like The Sameer Project, a rapid-response initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, need your help to support their work in Gaza.

Sundress Publications is seeking members for our Reader Board. This is a remote, volunteer position with a possibility for renewal after one year. Apply by August 5, 2025. For more information, visit our website. www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#re...

Best of the Net is now accepting nominations for the 2026 anthology! Submissions must come from the editor of the publication, or, if the work is self-published, it may be sent by the author. The deadline is September 30th, 2025. For full submission guidelines, please visit bestofthenetanthology.com

“disremember all the tonguesick paradigms / paradise
a walled lotus-garden / utopia / which means nothing
of heaven / its root of sky / ceiling / boundary / limit”

—Leon Barros

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One Poem by Jess Silfa – beestung beestung

It takes me a moment to realize that the doctor thinks dolor is pronounced like dollar, piece together that his thick mouth isn’t asking me for money but assuring...

Read “Preventative Measures, 1949” by Jess Silfa in @beestung.bsky.social! #DisabilityPrideMonth: beestungmag.com/issue16/one-...

“disremember all the tonguesick paradigms / paradise
a walled lotus-garden / utopia / which means nothing
of heaven / its root of sky / ceiling / boundary / limit”

—Leon Barros

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"And I’m still in love with Billy Idol, though Billy Idol isn’t
Billy Idol literally speaking. I mean I love Billy Idol meaning
every boy/girl/gender binary rejecting person in split
kneed jeans and too many piercings"

—E.B. Schnepp

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"And I’m still in love with Billy Idol, though Billy Idol isn’t
Billy Idol literally speaking. I mean I love Billy Idol meaning
every boy/girl/gender binary rejecting person in split
kneed jeans and too many piercings"

—E.B. Schnepp

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"i’m at the south street wawa at 1:15am reeking of sex when i text kale that it turns out not only do i like being bitten, i like biting."

—sterling-elizabeth arcadia

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"i’m at the south street wawa at 1:15am reeking of sex when i text kale that it turns out not only do i like being bitten, i like biting."

—sterling-elizabeth arcadia

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