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Christopher McCurry - Bila — Brown Hound Press It is after we try the charts with the stars, the timeouts, the “ignore and isolate” strategy, that we tell Sila about our other son, Bila. Bila, we say, is our first son. He’s your brother. My brothe...

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Always like how you pick up on the music connection!

This popped up in the inbox just when I sat down for dinner in between shoots and man this was an amazing story.

Go ahead, read it, you'll love it.

(Also +1 on the paired song @joshaboldt.bsky.social I was thinking of the same one when reading it 😬)

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I really dug the mix of horror and humor here -- what hath these parents done?

Christopher McCurry - Bila — Brown Hound Press It is after we try the charts with the stars, the timeouts, the “ignore and isolate” strategy, that we tell Sila about our other son, Bila. Bila, we say, is our first son. He’s your brother. My brothe...

Story of the Week - Christopher McCurry's “Bila” is a dark humor adventure in parenting that provides much-needed levity for anyone who has ever dealt with a misbehaving child. In other words, anyone who has ever dealt with a child.

-Josh Boldt, Editor

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A message to all the writers out there who are feeling overwhelmed and overlooked by an industry that often feels cold and harsh. Keep writing stories. Keep sharing them with the world. We need you.

Story Track: The Sigur Rós song “Samskeyti” employs the band’s signature sound: sequences of gradually-layering, syncing patterns, similar to the thoughts of the story’s narrator. The Icelandic title roughly translates to “seam” like the mental connection between the two telepathic characters.

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Thursday Treats: 3/5/2026

A nice mention about my story in @brownhoundpress.bsky.social on Kevin Tipple's blogspot! kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2026/03/thur...

New story of the week is up!
#weekendreading

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My weekly read has been the short story @brownhoundpress.bsky.social publishes every Thursday.

Otherwise a whole lot of shorts that I need to edit and polish 😅😂

Soramimi Hanarejima - Minding Yourself — Brown Hound Press Three stops before yours, a telepathic flare-up comes on fast, like a stream-of-consciousness flash flood you can’t escape in this train car. Immediately you regret skipping your usual afternoon coffe...

For the late crowd. New Story of the Week up today. #shortstories

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Soramimi Hanarejima - Minding Yourself — Brown Hound Press Three stops before yours, a telepathic flare-up comes on fast, like a stream-of-consciousness flash flood you can’t escape in this train car. Immediately you regret skipping your usual afternoon coffe...

It's Thursday and that means it's time for a new #shortstory from @brownhoundpress.bsky.social

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what a gorgeous little story! (this is going to stay with me for a long time, and inspire me to write something new, I know it)

take a 5 minute breather and read this, you'll appreciate something about yourself that's meant to be… just for you!

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The way this story made my ADHD mind feel seen ;)

Soramimi Hanarejima - Minding Yourself — Brown Hound Press Three stops before yours, a telepathic flare-up comes on fast, like a stream-of-consciousness flash flood you can’t escape in this train car. Immediately you regret skipping your usual afternoon coffe...

Story of the Week: In Soramimi Hanarejima's “Minding Yourself” we are dropped into telepathic chaos along with the narrator. As we read, the urgency overtakes us until we become the tandem skydiver of the story’s beautiful last line.

-Josh Boldt, Editor

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Learn about the origins of Brown Hound. And meet Ruby, the dog who inspired the logo!

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Check out this article about the founding of Brown Hound Press in the Lexington, Kentucky Arts magazine Under Main. They really captured the vision of the press and its editor.

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It’s hard to get published at Brown Hound Press, but one thing we guarantee all authors is you will hear back from us quickly. Two weeks or less. Every submission.

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March has sprung with 175 submission opportunities, plenty of great lit, & some fun literary inspiration. Enjoy this week's edition of the NewPages Newsletter.

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Brown Hound Press & The Last Detail | The Stiletto Gang The Last Detail is the title of a short story, written by me and recently published by Brown Hound Press. A new online publisher, Brown Hound is a small press

Today on The Stiletto Gang: The inspiration behind my short story, now on @brownhoundpress.bsky.social www.thestilettogang.com/2026/03/02/b... #shortstory

The title says it all for this week’s song pairing: Queen’s “I’m in Love With My Car.” Neighbor Carl has an unhealthy relationship with his automobile. If you spot him lurking in your driveway, you better cover that tailpipe!

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New story this week from @judypenzsheluk.bsky.social!

#darkhumor #mystery #crime

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Judy Penz Sheluk - The Last Detail — Brown Hound Press It started with the grass clippings. I’d just finished mowing the front yard. True, the rows lacked the zigzag symmetry of the adjacent lawns, and the edges were a bit on the shaggy side—I hadn’t yet ...

It's live! My short story on @brownhoundpress.bsky.social Inspired by a true event. The moral of this story? Don't tick off a writer!
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I went in blind for this story, and it had everything and more I expected as it progressed.

@judypenzsheluk.bsky.social whattay great story! loved it so much!

p.s. @joshaboldt.bsky.social perfect track combo (I was thinking of Greased Lightening at the fixer upper bit)

This one is such a fun read!

Fun read.