MB Valente

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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behold!

A masterpiece! Truly boundary pushing in a way few things I've read recently can touch

Mmmmm the cheerful fatalism and funweird of this! "Anti-Capitalism vs the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia @naokan.bsky.social www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/anti...

Haruspice! You have such a stock of amazing words

Screenshot of webpage of Flash Fiction Magazine showing the title and start of the story "A Farewell Letter, Translated from the Felinese" by MB Valente

Delighted to have a short piece in Flash Fiction Magazine, online today: a woman's cat loses patience with her depressive behavior and tells her all the reasons she's pathetic... but in a, you know, violent way. flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...

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 💙

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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!