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what is this??? a worm?/???/? wandering by himself along a cold dark walmart adjacent road????//? what is he looking for?????/? whatever will he find???///? ? ?/????

BECAUSE THE KNIGHT It was one of our weekly chess club meet-ups. Thrilling, I know. But this time, there was a new face among the four or five regulars, myself included. He had buzzed hair and piercing blue eyes. His...

"I brandished my cherished chess piece, whose top could be unscrewed to reveal a pen knife, keen and shimmering."
- BECAUSE THE KNIGHT, G.W. McClary
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How You've Grown, Ashley Gilland, @earlgreysnail.bsky.social
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Killing Grace Tortoises crawl into hare’s holes where demons receive communion. And when a child walks on water, priests, bishops, and cardinals wail and weep—they then must bribe the Holy Spirit to make them...

"Tortoises crawl into hare’s holes where demons receive communion"
- Killing Grace, William Teets, @williamteets.bsky.social
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Bed Bugs Bite We give a warning knock and announce our arrival before entering the unlocked house. The aromatic warmth from the kitchen knocks the late October breeze from our bodies. My grandma sits in her...

"Wrinkles from his shirt stretch over his disproportionate body and his head peeks around his creased collar."
- Bed Bugs Bite, Chelsea Kinney, www.wirewormmagazine.com/bed-bugs-bit...

Autopsy of an Angel It was around 10:23 pm and I swear when you looked at me in the eye there was a slicing In this measly curved cone coiled digestive serpent enzymes-kissed and whatnot with a 90° angle that I did not.....

"coiled digestive serpent / enzymes-kissed and whatnot"
- Autopsy of an Angel by Agatha Beatrize www.wirewormmagazine.com/autopsy-of-a...

Self Realization According to the Slime Mold A fungus grows                               by calling...

"AWOOGA!"
Self-Realization According to the Slime Mold by Jamie Manias
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"Peonies" by Rachel Coyne,
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MY WEEK AS A SANDWICH A blue cheese and pastrami Frankenstein (the monster), laced with bitter notes of Marmite. An acquired taste; musky, brackish, just the slightest bit disgusting. Solid. Bordering on stale.

"A blue cheese and pastrami / Frankenstein (the monster)," MY WEEK AS A SANDWICH by Marc Brightside

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an excerpt from BE-STILL-ING by Scott C. Holstad
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Median Opportunities 15 different bar conversations  are struggling to unpack  contentious tech topics, e.g.  “are E-Cousins coming?” on the side shelves,  children’s books are fluttering  men’s room...

"men’s room graffiti promises / remote good times, apparently // stuck in a sepia corner / hiding from neon on a former pew"
- Median Opportunities, Ben Nardolilli
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Two Poems by Devon Webb At night, as I fall asleep I think about pizza bagels & you how on the morrow I will have pizza bagels & you like an endless sunrise I can eat metaphorically or otherwise I want to be very very not...

"I want to be / so / decadent / cheese / on cheese /on sauce" - PIZZA BAGELS & YOU by Devon Webb,
@devonwebbnz.bsky.social

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I have two poems in the latest issue of @wirewormmagazine.bsky.social 🩵

‘SWEET MOTHER’ is a sugar mommy joke about gift-giving being my love language & ‘PIZZA BAGELS & YOU’ is a love poem about a boy & also pizza bagels (very stupid) (thank u Worm)

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#poetry

THE WORM HAS BLESSED U WITH ONE OF MY POEMS

I've got a story in the latest issue of Wireworm. It's about killing Santa and the end of the world.

Analog collage: Underwater, the late Queen of England has a koala head, the Queen of Hearts points accusatorially, and a skeleton arm fishes for a fish skeleton.

Misinformation 🥸 published in @wirewormmagazine.bsky.social (or is it?)

"Split Kiss" by Isabella Pozo,
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Once again, the ever-wonderful @wirewormmagazine.bsky.social has given my words a home! My poem, The Rage of Achilles, is featured in their latest issue!

Go check it out, and let me know what you think!

#PoetryPublication #TheRageOfAchilles #PoetryCommunity #FreelancePoet

I've got a lil story in the current issue of @wirewormmagazine.bsky.social —facing rain and terror all for three damn eggs. 🥚☔

🔗: www.wirewormmagazine.com/the-egg-run....

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so we have a confession to make......

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