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Our Sept stats:

371 received
7 accepted
1.89% acceptance rate

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Portrait of Mary Davis the Horned Woman — oil on canvas 1668 by Joshua Jones Lofflin

"you don’t like to say what it resembles, but you can tell what your boyfriend is thinking, the way he simpers and leers."

@jjlofflin.bsky.social's "Portrait of Mary Davis the Horned Woman — oil on canvas 1668"

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Glass Birds Annex by Sacha Bissonnette

"I saw your little brother at Canadian Tire. He never really got any taller. He just grew into his face."

Sacha Bissonnette's "Glass Birds Annex"

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Darling (I come to you in the garden still wearing my robe) by Seth Hagen

"At night in our sheets, I tap the air with my tongue"

Seth Hagen's "Darling (I come to you in the garden still wearing my robe)"

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Flash by Jane Wageman

"When lightning cut the sky on the first day of school, in a perfect nerve extending from one end of the large classroom window to the other, Nora Stevens, grade 3, grabbed a fork"

Jane Wageman's "Flash"

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drift by Litong Nie

"my mother named me
in a smoke stack, in sordid
puffs that meander"

Litong Nie's "drift"

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Memory of a Quaternary Mammal by Nathaniel Julien Brame

"In that stretch of time I kept only my whiskers.
Domestication: I wanted to be changed"

Nathaniel Julien Brame's "Memory of a Quaternary Mammal"

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Water Witching by Cate McGowan

"It’s been seven years since I left the sea, and still the salt crusts my knees."

@catemcgowan.com's "Water Witching"

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Mama Wanted by Julia Strayer

"Mama wanted a house, so she stole one she found abandoned on the corner of Sycamore and Grant"

@juliastrayer.bsky.social's "Mama Wanted"

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trampset We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Explore the site sections and our Medium archive for more.

Our Sept issue is now live, featuring @juliastrayer.bsky.social @catemcgowan.com Nathaniel Julien Brame, Litong Nie, Jane Wageman, Seth Hagen, Sacha Bissonnette, & @jjlofflin.bsky.social

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Anatomies by Rowan Tate

Rowan Tate's "Anatomies"

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A Note from Mom’s Hospital to Excuse My Absence by LC Gutierrez

LC Gutierrez's "A Note From Mom's Hospital to Excuse My Absence"

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God Online by Suze Kay

@suzchef.bsky.social's "God Online"

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if i were to be a patron saint of anything by B. Montemayor

B. Montemayor's "if i were to be the patron saint of anything"

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Like Adam, hiding among the trees by Gbolahan Badmus

Gbolahan Badmus's "Like Adam, hiding among the trees"

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Drinking the Gender Fluid: a Zuihitsu by Quinn Rennerfeldt

Quinn Rennerfeldt's "Drinking the Gender Fluid: a Zuihitsu"

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Our poetry nominees for Best of Net: Quinn Rennerfeldt, Gbolahan Badmus, B. Montemayor, @suzchef.bsky.social LC Gutierrez, & Rowan Tate

Ten Seconds by Sarah Lynn Hurd

@sarlynh.bsky.social's "Ten Seconds"

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Spill by Nancy Connors

Nancy Connor's "Spill"

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Our fiction nominees for Best of Net: Nancy Connors & @sarlynh.bsky.social

The People Persevere by Angela Townsend

Angela Townsend's "The People Persevere"

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Rebecca Tiger's "Dissection"

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Our Best of Net CNF nominees Rebecca Tiger & Angela Townsend!

Please help us congratulate our nominees for the 2026 Best of Net!

What a month we had! We're still furiously reading through subs, so thank you for trusting us!

Our August stats:
741 subs received
7 accepted
0.94% acceptance rate

Strange Like Me by Avra Elliott

"I remember a story he wrote about seaglass, followed by the words of Dybek whispered as foreplay. It isn’t easy to fall in love. There has to be strangeness."

Avra Elliott's "Strange Like Me"

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China Dog by Lisobel Tang

"Do not let them into your heart, she tells me, a single child hoping for a friend, a teenager dreaming of her first boyfriend. Their love is like poison."

@lisobeltang.bsky.social's "China Dog"

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Dreambreak (Stanza Means Room) by Theodore Heil

"I reach for it —
the hand, the bloom, she

disappears — fucile is a gun,
a letter away from futile."

Theodore Heil's "Dreambreak (Stanza Means Room)"

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The Ghost of Johnny Cash Sings of Fire by Benjamin Drevlow

"I pretended Johnny Cash was my father and my father, like Johnny Cash, was finally dead so I could finally forgive him all the ways that he’d been mean and dismissive to me"

@thedrevlow.bsky.social's "The Ghost of Johnny Cash Sings of Fire"

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Reasons to Stay Alive When the World Burns by Oladosu Michael Emerald

"Because the sky still hangs its blue between the bombs. Because your mother’s voice is a compass needle trembling north."

Oladosu Michael Emerald's "Reasons to Stay Alive When the World Burns"

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