Brett Pribble

Thrilled to see my story published in the latest issue of Gone Lawn. Big thanks to editors @amygcb.bsky.social and @owenwyke.bsky.social.

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The Intruder — Ghost Parachute The intruder is clean—skin smooth, freshly shaved, black hair wet from the shower. He is toweling off in my bedroom while I stand watching from the doorway. He smiles lightly at me, as if maybe I knew...

Read "The Intruder" written by @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

"The intruder is clean—skin smooth, freshly shaved, black hair wet from the shower. He is toweling off in my bedroom while I stand watching from the doorway."

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Precipitation — Ghost Parachute I can’t afford heat, so we stay under the covers to trap the heavy air. We change positions to work up a sweat. Only when we’re about to suffocate do we pull back the blanket and let our hot air escap...

Read "Precipitation" written by @bestthingaround.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"I can’t afford heat, so we stay under the covers to trap the heavy air. We change positions to work up a sweat. Only when we’re about to suffocate do we pull back..."

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The Geometry of Unicorns — Ghost Parachute Leslie Abbott is a high-school sophomore sitting in Geometry class, staring at x’s and y’s and z’s, and thinking about how everything equals something else in the end, how the world wants to make sens...

Read "The Geometry of Unicorns" written by Melanie Maggard and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

"Leslie Abbott is a high-school sophomore sitting in Geometry class, staring at x’s and y’s and z’s, and thinking about how everything equals something else in the end..."

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Evie — Ghost Parachute When the last bird goes extinct, Dad calls the 3D Printer Man and pays for me. My back is downed vermillion red and my long fish-hook curved beak is painted the salmon of spawning fish heading upstrea...

Read "Evie" written by @kimsrogers.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"When the last bird goes extinct, Dad calls the 3D Printer Man and pays for me."

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What the Body Remembers — Ghost Parachute The herpes outbreak that covered half of Rania’s face a week before her wedding; red spots of fury as she prepared for the happiest day of her life, as she cried and bit the soft skin around her thumb...

Read "What the Body Remembers" written by
@delgeo14.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.

"The doctor promised her father it wouldn’t leave scars following the treatment, but she scratched it raw, and it drew a white spot next to her left eye..."

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Family Business — Ghost Parachute ‘Jesus, would you look at her, what is she like?’ ‘You know I can’t see anyone from this angle, mam. I’ve got to keep looking up, keep imploring me da to save me from myself, you know the drill,’ Jesu...

Read "Family Business" written by @fionamckay.bsky.social
and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
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‘Jesus, would you look at her, what is she like?’

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Things AI can’t tell you about the soulmate you didn’t meet on the trip you didn’t take because you were afraid of flying alone — Ghost Parachute S is the kind of fearless who treats chaos like a mentor and shouts anger into a fan so it blows back, chopped and distorted, like the dramatic downbeats of a funk-like requiem that gathers pain, clip...

Read "Things AI can’t tell you about the soulmate you didn’t meet on the trip you didn’t take because you were afraid of flying alone" written by @amymarques.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

"S is the kind of fearless who..."

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The Periodic Father — Ghost Parachute Daddy is solid today, wearing the human body that he designed with Mum’s help. He’s proud of how much he looks like a typical American dad. On Daddy’s planet, there are lakes but no oceans, and he has...

Read "The Periodic Father" written by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"Daddy is solid today, wearing the human body that he designed with Mum’s help."

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Paper Mache — Ghost Parachute Lisa cuts strips of the newspapers she collected from the neighbor with the willow tree that blooms pink in the spring, her fingers smearing black, words seeking solace along whorls on her tips and ed...

Read "Paper Mache" written by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social
and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

"Lisa cuts strips of the newspapers she collected from the neighbor with the willow tree that blooms pink in the spring..."

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Over Drinks — Ghost Parachute I used to create a miniature horse, just using the power of my thoughts. I performed the trick only when we had guests over, when the children were peeking through the stairs at our friends pouring hi...

Read "Over Drinks" written by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social
and illustrated by @courtneyb77.bsky.social.

"I used to create a miniature horse, just using the power of my thoughts."

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Because — Ghost Parachute Because she couldn’t see the model completely and because she was shy and because her pen had leaked all over her bag and because she’d had that crush on Ned and because Ned modeled sometimes, like to...

Read "Because" written by @sherrieflick.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

"Because she couldn’t see the model completely and because she was shy and because her pen had leaked..."

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It's an incredible piece!

House Odds — Ghost Parachute In her first year of college, at a Halloween party in a fraternity house, my mother was raped by a pre-med student called Buck Whitney. True name redacted. But you can be sure his name was something l...

Read "House Odds" written by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and illustrated by @kaystedmanfriedman.bsky.social.

"True name redacted. But you can be sure his name was something like that, like Brock or Biff or Whit or Trent. Something white. Something rich. Something rapey."

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March 2026 Issue — Ghost Parachute

The March 2026 issue of Ghost Parachute is here! Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social.

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The Hairbrush — Ghost Parachute The hairbrush lay on the wooden floor beneath the dressing table in my dead mom’s bedroom in my childhood home, which was up for sale in old Palo Alto. It was a fading shade of purple, with a light cr...

Read "The Hairbrush" written by @swethaamit.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"The hairbrush lay on the wooden floor beneath the dressing table in my dead mom’s bedroom in my childhood home, which was up for sale in old Palo Alto."

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The Simplest Snow Fort — Ghost Parachute Winter came like a polar bear, silent and merciless. At first, flakes pirouetted in the air, delicate as ash, but soon the sky collapsed into duvets of snow, smothering every sound. The lane vanished....

Read "The Simplest Snow Fort" written by David Morgan O'Connor and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"Winter came like a polar bear, silent and merciless."

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From a Hospital Bed — Ghost Parachute Discomfort feels comforting. Numbness fatal. He remembered the snake wrapping itself around his body, mouth open looking to be fed. Who isn’t searching for sustenance in these trying times? Then the h...

Read "From a Hospital Bed" written by Alex Gurtis and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"Discomfort feels comforting. Numbness fatal. He remembered the snake wrapping itself around his body, mouth open looking to be fed."

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Another Larry — Ghost Parachute Larry parked the Fiat two houses down from Sally’s Gibsonton bungalow. It was getting dark, and Sally’s neighborhood didn’t have any streetlights. Circus folk didn’t like to draw attention to themselv...

Read "Another Larry" written by Christopher Ramsey and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"Circus folk didn’t like to draw attention to themselves when they were wintering."

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Thanks for the great work!

Charitable Donation — Ghost Parachute He looks everywhere for his shadow. It was just there a moment ago, staring back him blankly like it always does. Like it always did. It’s not as if the sun suddenly clouded over or the day turned int...

Read "Charitable Donation" written by
@kiptain.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"He looks everywhere for his shadow. It was just there a moment ago, staring back him blankly like it always does. Like it always did."

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A Fixed Distance — Ghost Parachute Laura isn’t sleeping. Sometimes she experiments with pills the doctors prescribe, but they make her absentminded, like the time she called ahead for a table at T-Bones and forgot to show up. There are...

Read "A Fixed Distance" written by Abbie Barker and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"Laura isn’t sleeping. Sometimes she experiments with pills the doctors prescribe, but they make her absentminded..."

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Pearl sugar moustache — Ghost Parachute You don’t have to believe, Maggie. I just need you to come along, said my friend Betts. So we both got on a bus from Leeds to Lourdes. 650 euros; not including the paninis, the fruit juice, the nightc...

Read "Pearl sugar moustache" written by @kiklodge.bsky.social and illustrated by @jeromefage.bsky.social.

"You don’t have to believe, Maggie. I just need you to come along, said my friend Betts."

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Nightmare about the First Day of the Semester — Ghost Parachute Not that dream of teaching naked, gesticulating until I realize what everyone sees; or arriving an hour late not because parking’s become impossible but because of a crash on the turnpike, which occur...

Read "Nightmare about the First Day of the Semester" written by David Galef and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.

"Not that dream of teaching naked, gesticulating until I realize what everyone sees..."

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Losing our humanity — Ghost Parachute We started eating meat raw. Steak with blood in the core, sausages peeled from the case. We ate with our fingers—forks were outlawed—and we licked marrow from under the nails. We ate with our heads cu...

Read "Losing our humanity" written by @cieramcelroy.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"We started eating meat raw. Steak with blood in the core, sausages peeled from the case. We ate with our fingers—forks were outlawed—and we licked marrow..."

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Some Hurt Thing — Ghost Parachute Haylea is going to freak – I’m sure of that. Whether it will be a good or a bad freak remains to be seen, but I can for sure expect a reaction. I’m a city person – always have been. I was 13 the first...

Read "Some Hurt Thing" written by @karenkay.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"Haylea is going to freak – I’m sure of that. Whether it will be a good or a bad freak remains to be seen, but I can for sure expect a reaction."

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Sacred Geometry — Ghost Parachute “Are you still seeing that guy,” Sloane asks from her bed while rubbing sunscreen into the dip beneath her collarbone, “Mall Mike?” Zoe laughs with her mouth full, with orange dust clinging to her lip...

Read "Sacred Geometry" written by @wildflowerred.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

“Are you still seeing that guy,” Sloane asks from her bed while rubbing sunscreen into the dip beneath her collarbone, “Mall Mike?”

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What I Can Tell You Now — Ghost Parachute You wouldn’t risk losing your “soulmate”—your word, not mine— would you? But why haven’t I heard a peep from you since last Friday when you gave me that “I think we both need a break” speech? I mean r...

Read "What I Can Tell You Now" written by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"You wouldn’t risk losing your “soulmate”—your word, not mine— would you?"

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The Great Frontier — Ghost Parachute By morning, we dug ourselves a trench. And hung photos in the dirt, old posters from our bedrooms, framed within the mud. We paced the few feet back and forth, crouching so no one could see our bobbin...

Read "The Great Frontier" written by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

"By morning, we dug ourselves a trench. And hung photos in the dirt, old posters from our bedrooms, framed within the mud. We paced the few feet back and forth, crouching so..."

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Cross Your Heart — Ghost Parachute It’s been six weeks of the baby screaming, while he gobbles up his mother’s overcooked food, saying it’s just how he remembers. Six weeks of her saying Like this dear, swaddling the baby too tightly. ...

Read "Cross Your Heart" written by @shastagrant.bsky.social
and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.

"It’s been six weeks of the baby screaming, while he gobbles up his mother’s overcooked food, saying it’s just how he remembers."

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