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A.R. Bender

@arambender.bsky.social

- Multi-genre author of German heritage. Recent words in: Guilty Crime Mag, Chiron Review, Hidden Peak Press, Bristol Noir, Pulp Modern, Mystery Tribune, Thriller Magazine, Close To The Bone - THE BLACK BOW now out on https://amazon.com/dp/B0DD6YX6FJ/

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→ The 2026 FISH List (Finest Indie Story Houses) of lively lit mags

• Flash Fiction Magazine - One flash story a day

• The Lascaux Review - Beautiful language is meant to be heard

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Literary adventure lantasy with flair and impact

• Consequence - Human realities of war and geopolitical violence

• trampset - Work with lost and wandering hearts

• The Sunlight Press - Moments that give birth to epiphany

• Okay Donkey - Home for the odd, off-kilter, or just plain weird

• Pangyrus - Stories connect here

• SmokeLong Quarterly - Honesty, emotional resonance, and vulnerability

• McSweeney's Internet Tendency - Daily humor since 1998

• BULL lit mag - Rewriting modern masculinity

• The Forge - Where literary excellence is the only criteria

• Emerge Literary Journal - Growth, change & experimentation

• Radar Poetry - Interplay between poetry and visual media

• Terrain.org - Work focused on place, climate, and justice

Painstakingly scored by Charlie Fish with data provided by Chill Subs and awards data by Brecht de Poortere.

→ The 2026 FISH List (Finest Indie Story Houses) of lively lit mags • Flash Fiction Magazine - One flash story a day • The Lascaux Review - Beautiful language is meant to be heard • Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Literary adventure lantasy with flair and impact • Consequence - Human realities of war and geopolitical violence • trampset - Work with lost and wandering hearts • The Sunlight Press - Moments that give birth to epiphany • Okay Donkey - Home for the odd, off-kilter, or just plain weird • Pangyrus - Stories connect here • SmokeLong Quarterly - Honesty, emotional resonance, and vulnerability • McSweeney's Internet Tendency - Daily humor since 1998 • BULL lit mag - Rewriting modern masculinity • The Forge - Where literary excellence is the only criteria • Emerge Literary Journal - Growth, change & experimentation • Radar Poetry - Interplay between poetry and visual media • Terrain.org - Work focused on place, climate, and justice Painstakingly scored by Charlie Fish with data provided by Chill Subs and awards data by Brecht de Poortere.

The brilliant @charliefish.bsky.social's second annual FISH list is out! 4,000 magazines, 14 different criteria, all indie lit goodness.

Check it out here: www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p/fish-list....

02.12.2025 17:01 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
Quincy Jones  – Killer Joe – 1969 [HQ REMIX/REMASTER]
YouTube video by Bob Zwolinski Quincy Jones – Killer Joe – 1969 [HQ REMIX/REMASTER]

Now listening to:

#MusicSky #KillerJoe #QuincyJones

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A106...

02.12.2025 02:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Baltimore Review A journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction

Just a heads-up that November 30 is the last day of our current submission period. Then we'll be catching up and getting the winter issue together. baltimorereview.org

24.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Celebrate Indigenous Literature With These 13 New Books by Native Writers - Electric Literature Explore books by acclaimed and debut Native American writers

Thanksgiving is a perfect time to celebrate the many stories and experiences of Indigenous people and remember the true history and legacy of settler colonialism.

23.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

runway model
displays bold
onesie couture

24.11.2025 00:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

should add #MusicSky to this

24.11.2025 00:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Donald and Daisy
ducklings in love

23.11.2025 00:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

on my list to watch

22.11.2025 01:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Street of Crocodiles (1986) clip | On BFI Blu-ray on 10 October | BFI
YouTube video by BFI Street of Crocodiles (1986) clip | On BFI Blu-ray on 10 October | BFI

now watching an excerpt from The Street of Crocodiles, a stop-motion animation short by the Brothers Quay, inspired by the Bruno Schulz short story.

#Filmsky #WritingCommunity #BrothersQuay #BrunoSchulz
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW3d...

22.11.2025 01:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Writers!
Who are the best litmags of 2025?

CHILL SUBS®

Writers! Who are the best litmags of 2025? CHILL SUBS®

It’s back 😏

Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️

www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!

17.11.2025 14:47 — 👍 65    🔁 36    💬 0    📌 41

Alvin watches Peas Porridge Hot game

14.11.2025 02:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Drawing of Robert Louis Stevenson (by Lucy Scott), with caption “RLS 13/11/1850”.

Drawing of Robert Louis Stevenson (by Lucy Scott), with caption “RLS 13/11/1850”.

Happy birthday to Robert Louis Stevenson!

13.11.2025 13:51 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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a close up of a cat 's face looking to the side Alt: A Pallas's cat sticking his lil tongue out

Everyone, quiet! 🤫 It's time to announce November's flash fiction theme!

This month's theme is...CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE! 👅🐱 The theme can be literal (a cat and a tongue) OR the metaphorical meaning of the saying (incapable of communication). Deadline is Nov. 30th!

www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...

07.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

You now officially have something like 11 days to get your micros in! Grand prize: $1000! Previously published and unpublished work considered! Guidelines: www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

04.11.2025 12:25 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
A miniature basset hound stands in front of a miniature bone in the middle of a palm of a hand. A thought bubble with a drawing of a dog reading a book hovers above its head.

A miniature basset hound stands in front of a miniature bone in the middle of a palm of a hand. A thought bubble with a drawing of a dog reading a book hovers above its head.

You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.

01.11.2025 13:02 — 👍 45    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 0
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and the car in Detour (1945). a '41 Lincoln Cabriolet

06.11.2025 02:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Buddy watches
raccoons raid
nut stash

04.11.2025 02:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Winner of our Short Story Contest gets $400 and 5 copies of the anthology they appear in. Use the link in our bio to submit! #shortstorycontest #writersky

01.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead, Symphonic poem Op. 29 - Andrew Davis
YouTube video by Variatio24 Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead, Symphonic poem Op. 29 - Andrew Davis

Now listening to: #MusicSky #ClassicalMusic #Rachmaninoff #IsleOfTheDead

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbt...

01.11.2025 01:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Did you think it was over?! ☠️
The spirits are still calling and they want your horror short scripts! 🩸⛧

Answer the call for our Final Deadline on December 5th for only $35! ⏱️

🕯️Submit via killershorts.com/submit/, @filmfreeway.bsky.social, @networkisa.bsky.social, @stage32.bsky.social + Scrybe!

30.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

owl octet
rehearsing for
upcoming hootenanny

28.10.2025 02:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jekylls and Clyde
pose for photos

27.10.2025 01:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What Renan said. If you want to see @apexmag.bsky.social stick around and keep publishing great fiction, help them reach their goal. Donate if you can spare it, share either way.

25.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 10    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

haven't heard this one in ages. vaguely remember their vid during the golden age of MTV

25.10.2025 01:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Big Sleep 1946. Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart about horses
YouTube video by X Time Goes By The Big Sleep 1946. Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart about horses

Bogart and Bacall talk about the horses in The Big Sleep.
#Filmsky #FilmNoir #TheBigSleep

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxaH...

24.10.2025 01:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Julee Cruise - "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart" - ORIGINAL VIDEO - stereo HQ
YouTube video by FyAthyRio69 Julee Cruise - "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart" - ORIGINAL VIDEO - stereo HQ

now listening to: David Lynch's Industrial Symphony No. 1, featuring music by Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise

#MusicSky #Flimsky #DavidLynch #JuleeCruise #AngeloBadalamenti

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eZU...

18.10.2025 01:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A woman carrying an infant ina tikanagan, walks along a boardwalk in Attawapiskat in 1955. A girl and young boy walk ahead of her; the infant and girl are looking back at the camera. A black and white photo.

A woman carrying an infant ina tikanagan, walks along a boardwalk in Attawapiskat in 1955. A girl and young boy walk ahead of her; the infant and girl are looking back at the camera. A black and white photo.

Along the boardwalk in Attawapiskat in 1955. From 'People of the Watershed: Photographs of John Macfie' now at The Muse: Lake of the Woods Museum, Kenore, Ontario until Dec. 21.
themusekenora.ca/.../people-o...
📷 John Macfie | © Macfie Family Estate

11.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 42    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Owl choir
hooting Charlie Parker
Ornithology

11.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Raven
battle ready
against the Gulls

11.10.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Submit to the Driftwood Annual Anthology: Use the link in our bio to submit your best short story or poem for a chance to be published and get paid! #callforsubmissions

10.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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