MB Valente

Asking only the toughest questions here

Damn guy you're getting good at this

Ugh I love her so much

Brett Pribble — Does It Have Pockets The Anglerfish Hears Dolly Parton

"Lyrics of love lost drift into the sac-like chambers of its long, muscular heart."

A dark, watery ode to Dolly's magic 💙

www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...

Love this recent piece in Flash Fiction Mag: "You are almost five years old, and you have never been smaller—a mouse, a fly, a flea."

Choose your fighter.

do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

The print edition of Quentin Zuttion's All Princesses Die Before Dawn, a graphic novel about a day in the life of a family struggling to care for each other, is also up for an Eisner 💙 (and in incredible company)

List of Eisner Award nominees for Best Digital Comic, which includes The Beauty Salon by Quentin Zuttion and The Spider and the Ivy by Grégoire Carlé

Cover of The Beauty Salon by Quentin Zuttion

Cover of The Spider and the Ivy by Grégoire Carlé

Thrilled to see these incredible authors getting international recognition and proud to be a part of it! Both these books are stunners btw and available from various ebook platforms 🐠💣

I'm sure you were!

Yesss one of my favorites, too

Sounds badass

eat a book to gain its vocabulary

Thank you! 🩵

My favorite illustrator-photographer-human being is now here in the 'Sky 💙

This gorgeous book is already out in French, coming soon in English 🩵

My dear friend Marianne Villière is now sharing her brilliant, fierce and compassionate work on this platform. Check it out, I dare you.

This story emanates atmosphere, like the pink neon lights that flit across the MCs hand in the tattoo parlour. Read it now #writingcommunity #litfic

Thanks!!

Four Words MB Valente   Her tattoo parlor is the only thing like it still open, at least on this side of the lake. A pink neon sign in the window shares its glow with the sidewalk; a sawed-out square in the d…

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A beautiful sad story by MB Valente. And hopefully not as prescient as it feels.

Thanks for sharing! 💙

It's a wonderful story! So tender and delicate. Congratulations again!! ✨

Such a beautiful and moving story; I love how the quantum allegory points to the complicated way we experience connection and loss. Love an intense friendship story!

Thanks so much!

It's been a long, weird road for my speculative story "Four Words" about a society sliding into silence. I'm delighted that it has found a home, with excellent company, in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social Read it here --> pitheadchapel.com/four-words/

Volume 14, Issue 1 PHOTO PROVIDED BY TOM RANKIN THE 2024 LARRY BROWN SHORT STORY AWARD ISSUE AWARD WINNER: UNIDENTIFIABLE CELLS BY REEMA RAO SECOND PRIZE: AND ONLY I REMAIN BY MICHAEL PEARSON THIRD PRIZE: A TIME TO C…

Happy New Year from Pithead Chapel! Kick off the year by reading incredible writing selected by Danielle Lazarin for the Larry Brown Short Story Award contest issue. Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/01/01/v...

@reemarp.bsky.social @mbvalente.bsky.social

We are excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions of the 2024 Larry Brown Short Story Award! Please join us in congratulating these incredible writers: @reemarp.bsky.social @mbvalente.bsky.social

You can read their stories in the forthcoming January issue!

New flash story about alien mind games out from AntipodeanSF --> www.antisf.com/the-stories/...

The Violet Ladder to Heaven I read the whole Bible after she dumped me: Old and New Testament. Why the Bible? It’s probably not most people’s first choice of break-up read. But she’d been going on a lot about God and angels late...

Breaking into this hitherto unknown social medium with a story about a sad anarchist in the "punkest little shit" mag, JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social

jakethemag.com/the-violet-l...