Arlaina Tibensky

Issue 40 | New Flash Fiction Review Featuring new work by Nadia Born, Bethany Bruno, Sherry Duggal, Rachel Hollis, Tess Kelly, Rosaleen Lynch, Patience Mackarness, Mandira Pattnaik, Tarmo Rajasaari, and Rob Walton.

It's here 🎉 Welcome to Issue 40, with brilliant stories from:

@nadiaborn.com, Bethany Bruno, Sherry Duggal,
@rachelmhollis.bsky.social Tess Kelly, @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social
@patiencemackarness.bsky.social @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social Tarmo Rajasaari & Rob Walton

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Two out of three Black Americans do not have a valid passport and passport ownership rises with income and age. So document demands hit young, Black and poor voters first. That is what SAVE is built to do. Tell your senators to keep SAVE off the floor and vote no on it #SaveActTaxesVoters

Trump can appoint Mullins as "acting" secretary of DHS, therefore getting around Democratic obstruction.

That said, the Democrats should stand united against confirming ANYONE to lead DHS, as part of a general shutdown of Senate business, as my senator suggests here.

running in this weekend's NYT book review: The Man Nobody Killed highlighted in 'paperback row'

This war isn’t an emergency that requires us to give the president more latitude. It’s a monstrosity that requires that judges, lawmakers and above all citizens work to preserve the integrity of elections and the republic.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

So much wonderful work in one booth. Visit Stanchion at AWP! #awp #indielit

Professor Samuel Moyn to give Cyril Foster Lecture 2026

Wow www.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...

Just gonna leave this here.

Human Authored Usage Guidelines - The Authors Guild Human Authored is a certification mark owned by the Authors Guild that may be used to indicate that a book was written by a human and not generated by AI. The mark, illustrated below, consists of the ...

The Authors Guild is now offering "Human Authored" certification marks for literary works in which "the text itself was fully authored by one or more human beings and not generated by AI." What a time to be alive!

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I have killed
the senior leadership candidates
that were in
Iran

and which
you were probably
saving
for post-regime change

Forgive me
they were irresistible
so right there
and so bombable

a poster that says " hold them accountable at the polls " with people holding up their votes ALT: a poster that says " hold them accountable at the polls " with people holding up their votes

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birthright/bloodline Kathryn Reese   When you were born, I was sent away to the witchdoctor/my grandma’s house/the place where they teach babies to sleep. You, a bundle in my arms/a portacot/still in my belly. Me, a pr…

“What would I know of bones? Mine exchanged every night for incense/gold leaf/fur.” @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social (no less) with this mothering stunner 🧡🧡🧡
pitheadchapel.com/birthright-b...

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

Pennsylvania Reminder‼️

If you live in HD 79 or HD 193 TODAY is the Last Day to register to vote in the Special Election on March 17.
vote.pa/register

Fairy Tales - The Forge Literary Magazine Fairy Tales, a flash fiction by Amelia Borawski

Our story of the week is Fairy Tales by Amelia Borawski.

For the many Platner fans here, Peters is a white supremacist, Holocast denying / antisemetic, virulently anti-trans anti-gay right-wing influencer. There's no lack of people making similar points that Platner could be reading and promoting who are not nazis.

Call of the Isles Call of the Isles – A Scottish anthology

Do you want to preorder the awesome Scottish Anthology I have a piece in with Scottish Publisher Tantallon Tìr?!

Hell yeah you do! Here is the link to preorder the book:

tantallontir.com/product/call...

“We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

Getting bagels. Gathering friends to write postcards to register voters. The antidote to despair is action. LFG.

It's a Republican tradition.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

“As far as I can tell, not a single Republican lawmaker has informed the public that the Save America Act would compel all 50 states to send their voter registration rolls to the DHS or that the DHS would then run the rolls through its ‘SAVE’ voter purge system.” 2/26/26 …1/

Chicago.
Today.
5pm.