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Charlie released his palm from the ice and heard a crack.

“Fallout” by @brandonclarkson.com is closing out our 87 issue and the perfect story to do such a thing. We are all, at this point in history, on thin ice.
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She walks you around the benches and cages of a bondage room labeled a confessional

Make sure you have a safe word before reading this piece by @extrasauce.bsky.social “Lifestyle” is in the 87th edition of the press. We’ll make it easy for you, click here!👇
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The girl with thick glasses reached out to get the door, but a gangly kid with a wild mop of black hair held it open. “Hi,” he said with a voice cracking. “I’m Guy Hopkins. Welcome to our only interlude from dying today.”

This story is about the ones who get killed in horror movies, who never stand a chance against the monster or villain. “Revenge of the Slasher Film Archetypes” by John Tures is here-all at once a jock, popular, nerdy, and a virgin.

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Was Katherine really better at everything she did, or was it just that their mother had budgeted for one daughter and had decided that the one who’d had the decency to show up on the ultrascan monitors, and to be born first should be the recipient of the funds intended to be applied to piano lessons, tennis coaches, ballet recitals and private academic tutors for one?

Sibling rivalry with a dark twist is what “Katherine Rose Conner” by @theiaretical.bsky.social delivers. Read the dramatic piece in our 87th edition out right this moment and not a moment too soon.

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You put tiny teardrops of glue in my eyes so I could no longer see

We got some very cool work in the 87th edition. Take “Milk Call” by Tom Busillo for example. In this case the work speaks for itself, so give yourself the gift of a free press and partake.

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when i was eleven and living for the sweet burst of albany peaches in my uncle’s backyard.

As sweet and ripe as fruit in the summertime, this piece by Sirjana Kauri “After That Last Golden Summer” settles over you like a sunrise. A perfect moment in poetry. It is in the 87th edition right here!

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I want so desperately to make the break up funny.

“Text I Actually Did Send” by @marissapadilla.bsky.social is one of two prose poems in the 87th edition and is the answer to the first poem in this duo. A reality check, as it were. Read it now!

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An occasional principal, Gary acted like he was slumming, being an extra.

You are gonna love to hate this guy! “Let’s All Kill Gary” is a fiction piece by Johnny is about jealousy on a TV commercial shoot that leads to murder plots. Right here in our 87th!

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At the sound of the 9:00 AM buzzer, German Helmut Kriegsmesser is out the door with a compass, topographic map and guidebook.

I can’t believe how lucky I am to read & highlight such unique pieces. “Men’s Freestyle Flâneur Semifinals“ by @wesickjon.bsky.social is a literary piece exploring what would happen if dilettante travel was treated like a sporting event. I mean, COME ON!
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under grass is a basement room closing the sun ‘s eyes

Well, folks, I have the vapors. Remember those? Oh, enough about my hypochondria centered around old-timey diseases. “a small flood can stop the moonlight” by Livio Farallo has the stunning language you’re looking for plus relief from whatever ails you.
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But all I want is someone to want to save me.

Happy Tuesday everyone! RF is here to save the day with a poetry party that has a start time and an end time, as the middle agers demand these days. “Savior fantasies” by @ewenglass.bsky.social flies in like a caped crusader in the 87th edition. Right here!
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Yes they are! Everybody, go check them out!! 💙

I forgot my notebook

Has this happened to you? You’re struck by inspiration nary a pen or pencil to be had. Will an eyeliner or lip pen do? “I’d like I’d like to write about Jamaica but” by Jason Melvin is a series of three poems inspired by a wild and natural place. Here: www.roifaineantpress.com/post/i-d-lik...

and we all gossiped about whose carcass looked the best at the latest big Hollywood soiree

And you thought you were all poetried out from the weekend! Read the poem “important” from the collection “Things that no one remembers” by @malformed-poetry.bsky.social in the 87th edition. Start your week with the cleverest words arranged in magical ways!
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Thank you for sharing your work with us! 💙

The cosmos and cesium, the nebulae and nitric acid— yes, they will kill you, and yes, you have no say, and yes,

Ever read a poem you wish you’d written? We have four examples of this from the same writer, and you can feel the little green monster for yourself. Read “Cavities” by @andyetpoetry.bsky.social in our 87th edition of the press.

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Thank YOU! The honor is all ours! 💙

And, to my team - @kelkel.bsky.social @skybarett.bsky.social @melissacuisine.bsky.social @maybemargot.bsky.social - thanks for seeing how the sausage is made &...making the sausage! Love ya'll!

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@ewenglass.bsky.social @wesickjon.bsky.social @marissapadilla@bsky.social
Sirjana Kaur @extrasauce.bsky.social Johnny Allina, Tom Busillo
@brandonclarkson.bsky.social - we couldn't have done it without you, and we ❤️ you!

As always, RF would like to thank their incredibly talented roster of contributors to this issue - Livio Farallo @malformed-poetry.bsky.social John A. Tures
@Theiaretical.bsky.social @andyetpoetry.bsky.social Jason Melvin…

Bonjour!

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Eighty Seven is live right now. It's heaven. Tell your third closest unconvinced soul.

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Charlie Russell sat cross-legged on the seat of his dad’s F-1 pickup, bundled up in his thick coat, his mittens laid on the dashboard.

Hey, ya’ll, this summer is flying by! Slow it down by going back to a seemingly simpler time when all felt safe and warm but was, in reality, oh so treacherous and fraught with uncertainty. “Fallout” by @brandonclarkson.com is coming for you this Sunday, 7/27!

The taste of chocolate and mushrooms lingers on the back of your tongue like the eucharist; sweet, earthy, and hard to swallow.

This piece by @extrasauce.bsky.social , “Lifestyle,” uses different strokes, literally and figuratively. It is visceral and intense, so try not to struggle too hard against it.
This piece is out on Sunday, 7/27. Repent after reading.

“Hi,” he said with a voice cracking. “I’m Guy Hopkins. Welcome to our only interlude from dying today.”

Leave those old tropes of the horror movie behind with “Revenge of the Slasher Film Archetypes” by John A. Tures. A bit of humor amid this dystopian hellscape is quite refreshing. Read the rest on 7/27.

There were pills beneath the sink; crowding the bathroom countertop, fallen behind the toilet, swept under the rugs.

Take a look through the eyes of an unexpected twin in “Katherine Rose Conner” by @theiaretical.bsky.social This dramatic piece delves deep into our feelings of inadequacy and how they shape our outcomes. The next edition is out 7/27!

You knocked on my door that morning holding an empty gasoline can and asked to borrow some milk.

Is it prose? Is it micro? Does it matter? “Milk Call” by Tom Busillo is a clash of the real and the imagined from the ragged corners of the soul. It lights up our next edition of the press on Sunday, 7/27.

she scrolled facebook while i read oscar wilde: all women become their mothers, & this is their tragedy.

It’s time for more poetry! This fantastic piece about the weight and complexity of grief is coming this Sunday 7/27. “After That Last Golden Summer” by Sirjana Kaur is a tear-brimming beauty, and you don’t want to miss it.

Something strange happened today.

We’ve all had that conversation in our heads, you know the one where you win the argument. “Text I Will Never Send” by Marissa Padilla @marissapadilla.bsky.social is one of two prose poems in the next edition of the press that plays out in your mind like an old shame, or a broken heart. 7/27. Sunday

“Been slow.” Within the TV commercial extra world, Howie’s resemblance to a nursing home resident had been a disadvantage. Eyebrow, nose and ear hair were thickets.

I’m so excited for this one, ya’ll! Have you ever felt that there was one person standing in your way of success? “Let’s All Kill Gary” is a fiction piece by Johnny that awaits you on Sunday 7/27. Dedicated to the ones whose fault it never is.

Welcome to the men’s freestyle flâneur semifinals where two of today’s six competitors will go on to the finals. Flâneur’s tradition goes back to Baudelaire, who coined the term for a dilettante urban wanderer.

Who needs ESPN or TMZ? “Men’s Freestyle Flâneur Semifinals“ by Jon Wesick @wesickjon.bsky.social is a literary piece exploring what would be if dilettante travel was treated like a sporting event. Intrigued?We’ll show up on 7/27 for the rest.