Gone Lawn Journal

EDIT: We're still on Submittable for submissions. (Check us out!) Just not the other stuff.

We regret at the moment being unable to go through Submittable, due to lack of money, but hopefully we can set that up in the future.

Thank you,

Gone Lawn.

We might, rabbit, we might . . . but send it to us before we decide.

Terrible story: snow and sleet all week this week for the northeast. Fun story the following Tuesday for everyone on Earth: The worm Moon rises!

Just two more weeks before the worm moon hits us, and then something will come down! You know it will! #64 in fact! Just you wait, it will blow your mind.

Still time to submit. But you'll have to find the way to do so. A little game.

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Happy snow moon, everyone! Boy, is that snow bright . . . and deep . . . and cold. In one more moon will be #64, the worm moon issue, and we're still accepting work for #65 under the blue moon.

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7° here and did a bit more shoveling and I wish I had a strawberry pineapple mango banana smoothie, I should set a plan to make a bunch of that.

It must be Dinosaur Week at Gone Lawn, so many dinosaur pieces! We like dinosaurs.

Hey! Hey there! We're always looking for cover art, you know! Send us some!

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Apologies for the handful declined before remembering it's an effective holiday, today.

Hope everyone's doing okay in the storm. :(

We're reopening submissions at Gone Lawn. Same old thing, you know what we like & you've got it.

& as always (not to be judged!), please consider a donation to keep a struggling mag afloat, if you can. Bad times, bad times.

And come the next full moon, dance under it!

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Fuzzy snowy wood in evening.

Here it's snowing, tonight it will be dark for all. But guess what will be bright? Gone Lawn 63 will be! This is the micro-excerpt issue, featuring thirteen brilliant authors. Enjoy!

Art by BEE LB.

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Congrats to Liam Strong for winning in the Monarch awards for "the year of lost limbs,"

also Robert McDonald for inclusion in Best Microfiction for "Jane Goodall of the Mantid Kingdom!"

The micro-excerpt issue, #63, is closed to submissions. Thanks to all who submitted! This one is scheduled for January 18.

If we haven't gotten back to you about your submission, yet, we will soon.

Always open to submissions for cover art and other media, by the way!

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Thanks to all who submitted for #64, the issue of the worm moon! It's now filled and we'll be closing submissions for the month of January for prose & fiction. All other categories still open for #65, the strawberry moon issue.

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Don't worry, I'm on the east coast and I'm 3 hours late.

My excuse? This entire week is confusing me with what days are what days.

Also if you have artwork to contend, you have fewer than twenty (20) Suns to submit to us your work for consideration, otherwise . . . well . . . you'll get something and you'll like it or you won't. But if you want to like it, you know what to do!

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Four days to submit your micro-excerpt (≤200 words) from your novel-in-progress or wayside-novel (or novella)!

Yes, it's difficult, yes it's on purpose, na nah!

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Phrase Finder The meanings and origins of thousands of English phrases, sayings, idioms, expressions and proverbs that we use daily.

Don't hit us if this is old to you. It's new to us, and useful.

www.phrases.org.uk

You have until January 1 to submit your novel/novella excerpts
(≤200 words) for the special micro-excerpt issue, #63! Go!

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Just barely avoiding our bottom, this month.

1 . We don’t believe in Giving Tuesday.
2 . Gone Lawn will always be free to submit to.
3 . These are killing times for us in the USA.
4 . Donate only if you can afford it, though we hate asking.

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Higher than Mr. Mars.

BEST MICRO FICTION Merie Kirby’s The Crows Are Invited In, GL 61 Robert McDonald’s Jane Goodall of the Mantid Kingdom, GL 61 Luanne Castle’s New Girl, GL 61 Brittany N Jaekel’s My Osiris, 62 Matthew Jakubowski’s Cut Shapes Cut from Raindrops, GL 62

Our nominations for Best Microfiction!

Dormant, by Andrea Damic, December 2025 issue of Gone Lawn (#62), a terrific fig tree.

Did you miss it? Look! The cold moon is in your sky! Featuring new works by 20 brilliant souls, and artwork by Andrea Damic, read and read!

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Dormant, by Andrea Damic

O, pale Moon, key to Sun, here you are!

Can you see? #62 is here!

New writing by 20 writers, and visual art by Andrea Damic.

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If we had a million dollars, we swear, it would be gone in less than a week, on its way to artists. But we wouldn't be like those stupid 80s Hollywoods turning romance out of being poor, we'd find a way to stay comfortable, in our own way.

Yes, but only wish Amazon would pay the drivers more and not make them rush the package and leave it out in the rain.

Leaving their pay to us is just not humanity.

Word development:

Re-collect
Re-member
Mis-take
Re-volve
De-volve

Kristin Hersh
Helium (before their first record)
Jessica Bailiff
Stereolab
Blonde Redhead

Google was going to shut us out if we didn't meet their new standards, & I was practically having a panic attack trying to figure out what they wanted, & telling Amy that I was telling myself, "All right, think like Google . . . think like Google." So, last resort I blocked their crawler for all 30.