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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

4 months

See you on the dance floor 🔪

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Caleb Bethea

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2 months

@megannn_lynne Meg! I was just telling my wife yesterday how unhinged your followers can be. I’m afraid I summoned them?? (Sorry.)

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Caleb Bethea

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2 years

@mm_kaufman I’ve met zero people who would describe their life as being slammed full of direction after a PHD.

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Caleb Bethea

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2 years

Lit mag where writers only submit concepts for lit mags.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

Punk’s not dead. It’s just Indie Lit now.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 months

@erikhane JD's PR team trying to make him seem human

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

I published a book!!! Words can’t describe the feeling of holding my own work in a Barnes & Noble. Feeling blessed!

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

Whose writing really got inside your skull this year?

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

5 months

New @eric_larocca title just dropped

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

8 months

Well, I was laid off an hour ago. They gave me two more days of health insurance and I have three kids (one of which has been in the hospital this winter). Would appreciate any leads on marketing copy, strategy, SEO, etc. Grateful for any shares. Thanks gang 🫡

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 month

What started as a joke on Twitter became a fucked little story called Clown Shower. And it was lucky enough to get picked up by @andrewcull and @Gabino_Iglesias for the Found2 anthology. Coming at your ass this October 🤡🚿

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

5 months

@megannn_lynne Have you watched Killing Eve? That’s pretty much the premise!

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

3 years

We should all agree to submit -slowly- to @havehadhavehad . The faster we get, the crazier these calls will become.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

Because of @TBQuarterly , my feed now hands me general Taco Bell content. It’s surreal, and it sparks joy.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

3 years

Happy Saturday, folks. @WHOISCONWAY just dropped a TAPE 🔥

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 year

150 slots in under five minutes. For HALLOWEEN WORSHIP. Y’all are all kinds of fucked up and beautiful!

HAD

@havehadhavehad

1 year

Hit me.

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Caleb Bethea

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2 months

@megannn_lynne

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

8 months

Yes, I know there’s a ton of bickering in the indie lit scene, and much of that is total clown behavior. BUT, holy hell, have ever met so many kick ass writers? I can’t name another scene where so many people are crushing it. Cool fucking time to be a writer.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

3 years

Send it all our way! Stoked to read your work 💥

Cola Literary Review

@ColaLitReview

3 years

Our free reading period is now live on Submittable! We'll be open to fiction and poetry submissions through the end of February ✨✨

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 year

HERE TO ANNOUNCE: I’ve been given the keys to @MaudlinHouse for the remainder of the witching season. There will be spooky ass-shaking. There will be spooky writing, curated by @clairehopple . And there will be spooky surprises along the way. Meet me in the basement tomb!

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

5 months

What was the last thing you read that made you say—holy shit, I’ll never write this well?

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

11 months

liking all the tweets of every editor who ever rejected me just so they know i'm not mad at them

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

Goddamn, goddamn, goddamn. This is the piece I never stopped thinking about this year. @megannn_lynne for @havehadhavehad .

Things I Should’ve Outgrown By Now by Megan Williams

Crown braids, nightmares, Barbie dolls, mispronouncing library, soft spot for Austin Powers, talking to old men on Omegle, inability to tell North from South, hating the word ‘moist,’ crying during...

www.havehashad.com

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 months

In one year, we all die at the disco! My debut novel arrives 9/1/25. Glitter and blood await.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

The thesis is defended

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

4 months

I survived a Saturday of constant inbox checking! So stoked it ended with an acceptance. Kate, Danny, and Joe, thanks for doing this wild (and exhausting, I’m sure) call. There’s a glitter demon coming your way this winter!

hex

@hexliterary

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attention! 24 hour express submissions call June 15-June 16! 10am to 10am ET! mark ur calendars! details below!👇🚂👇

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

6 months

A podcast of writers not talking about writing at all—just cryptid discourse.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

💀💀💀💥 @Aaron__Burch just threw me a skull full of cheer! “If Tom Waits Wrote the Titanic Theme” is coming to @havehadhavehad for the holidays.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

9 months

Got a very rad acceptance from @xraylitmag ! My fucked little clown story finally found a home. Thanks @clairehopple and friends for breaking the curse on this one 🤡🔪

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 month

It’s 70 degrees and my kids are fishing in the storm drain. Life’s nice.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

8 months

I have a clown-in-the-bathroom story coming out w @xraylitmag and this pic makes me feel seen

The Museum of Curiosities

@CuriosMuseum

8 months

Clown shower.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

3 months

in my closet twinning w Kyle if you even care

kyle r seibel

@kylerseibel

3 months

at the santa barbara wine festival if you even care

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 months

What's your favorite word based on vibes alone, disregarding any meaning? Mine is BEHOOVE.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 year

Tomorrow night, Friday the 13th, I’m hosting a sub call for @havehadhavehad . HALLOWEEN WORSHIP Ghoul yourselves!

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

8 months

My 5yo is having a birthday party today. The theme… Cockroaches🪳

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

5 months

Had two pieces go live this week. Non-fiction about childhood religious trauma. And some flash about people melting and seeping inside a car engine. (I think) I’m healing. Stories below 🕳️

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

4 months

Not even god or @malsmart can stop me. This is the cover of my novel.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 year

I squirmed and short-circuited my way into this anthology! Preorder and catch my story TELL ME ABOUT YOUR SYMPTOMS. Proceeds support support human artists in the age of AI nonsense.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

4 months

Not even 24 hours since this announcement and I’m already so stoked on the love. I believe in this shit and it means the world that y’all do too. Let’s fucking dance 🪩

Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

4 months

See you on the dance floor 🔪

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

7 months

If you’ve got a thing for clowns with scalpels then boy have I written a story for you 🖤🤡

X-R-A-Y

@xraylitmag

7 months

"I heard my liver slapping onto the tile floor. My pancreas half falling out of me, hanging all the way down into the sink with my old skin." we love "Trail of Small Clowns" by @caleb_bethea_ -- check this one out pronto

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 months

I took my three kids to a park in the shade. They don’t know the idea of sin, don’t feel a need to be saved from themselves. They just know that trees are beautiful, that swings are fun. My healing is far from over. But, it’s mornings like these that do the work. 2/2

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

TBQ is punk as shit and we all need to catch up.

Taco Bell Quarterly

@TBQuarterly

2 years

Noticing the Booker Prize follows us on TikTok 👀👀, then I realize it's because they think we're the Paris Review. Follow the Paris Review on tiktok, lmao, please also feel free to donate to the Paris Review on venmo

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

3 years

My kids’ bandaids are out here making immaculate Murakami bookmarks.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 year

Now that the MFA discourse stepped out for a smoke, it’s a great time to say that I finished my MFA! Lucky I got to write some truly weird shit over the last 3 years and gain a community that understood me and my work. Rare combo for a spooky boi like me. Cheers, I guess!

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

7 months

Who wants me to edit a sub call inspired by your favorite band t-shirt?

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

Launch into the astral plane with seafood! It’s easy. Just read my story out today in @havehadhavehad . And be sure to check the rest of a killer run of literary snacks—edited by @clairehopple !

Gently Mangled by Caleb Bethea

The family reunion’s a perfect time to try astral projection. The ping-pong table, the cracking of crab legs, the foosball table, the way they raise oysters to their mouths and slurp the shells...

www.havehashad.com

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

4 months

damn, The Husband Stitch fucks me up every time 😭

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

3 years

WAVING A KNIFE AT MYSPACE TOM is coming to a @havehadhavehad near you. Massive thanks to @crowjonah for the rad acceptance.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 months

It’s hard to describe the healing I now feel on Sunday mornings. I used to go to church. Sang songs about how deeply sinful I was, took notes on how only a perfect god could begin to make me decent. It made me want to die. This morning… 1/2

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

Monday 9 am

Sentinel Creatives

@Sentinelcreativ

2 years

The Water Sprite by Theodor Kittelsen

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

From Powell’s with Love.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

6 months

Got a v rad CNF acceptance from @emilylauracosta for @frwell_trans ! Stoked to Nü Metal Gospel in Issue 2 👊

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

Post-seafood astral projection goes wrong! Stoked to have my flash accepted in @havehadhavehad ’s foodie call today. Big thanks to @clairehopple for the second skull 💀💀

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

29 days

Sometimes I think about the other literary ecosystems on this site, and how there must be whole ass groups of people that we’ve never met who think THEY are the indie lit scene. And they must really suck at writing.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

5 months

New CNF in @frwell_trans ! World records, nü metal, and surviving christianity. Read NÜ METAL GOSPEL

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

A lit mag for writing about your favorite band shirts

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

5 months

My favorite folks are all ex-Catholic

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

8 months

Was writing a novel, making great progress. Then I got laid off and took a mental health break from a rigid writing routine. Now, I’m haphazardly writing the most godforsaken, unpublishable collection on earth. And I’m really fucking happy.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

19 days

Oh hell yeah, so stoked to see homies @xavier_agarcia and @martinezfjulian on this list. Both such crazy good writers!

hex

@hexliterary

19 days

We are thrilled to announce our Best of the Net nominations. Good luck, everyone! 🛸👽🔥

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

4 months

SUCH murder on the dance floor!

Maudlin House

@MaudlinHouse

4 months

There’s a murder on @caleb_bethea_ ’s dancefloor and you’re invited on September 1st, 2025…🔪🪩

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

9 months

@AlexWoodroe This is basically the band logo’s answer to Rene Magritte’s This is Not a Pipe THIS IS NOT AN ORCHID

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

Ever wondered what it would sound like if Tom Waits wrote the Titanic theme? Find out with my holiday non-fiction on @havehadhavehad .

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 month

Things I wanna read for @twinpieslit 🐙 Not explicitly looking for Lynchian vibes, but never NOT looking for Lynchian vibes, esp Bob energy. Slippery prose. The Queer Agenda. Squelches, squirms, & shapeless things. Things that make my skin hurt. IDK, just FUCK US UP.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

My story, “Copulating While They Float,” was just picked up by THE man @dt_robbins for @twinpieslit ! Who’s doing the copulating, you may ask? Well, it’s weird…

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 year

Gather your knives 🔪🎃🔪

HAD

@havehadhavehad

1 year

This Friday—FRIDAY THE 13TH!!— @caleb_bethea_ is doing a Halloween call! Submission window will open at 8pm EST, 10/13! The door closes after 150 submissions, so don’t get caught outside! (sub call in image, alt text, & replies) link when window opens:

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

For those of you who grew up in a religious setting, what’s the strangest thing you were taught? My sunday school teacher assured us that men had one less rib than women. This was later confirmed by my brother’s high school anatomy text book.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

I have a theory that everyone has a very specific memory involving Dashboard Confessional. Confirm or deny?

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

3 years

What presses are putting out chapbooks that I need to be reading? Bonus points for the weird ones. #WritingCommunity #publishers #weirdreads

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 month

Taught Grami about death metal aesthetics and she told me (for the first time in 31 years) about her party days. Perfect weekend with the Legend 🖤

Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 month

We drinkin!

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 month

PSA that you can raw dog your phone case-less style and it’ll last hella longer than you’d think

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

My 3yo son said I was beautiful today.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

18 days

A reminder that subs are open at @twinpieslit . Fuck us up.

Awful Taste But Great Execution

@AwfulButGreat

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

6 months

@saderotica

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

29 days

Get in loser we’re getting shitfaced at Gumby’s

Rural Indexing Project

@ruralindexing

30 days

Gumby’s Bar Mondovi, WI

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 month

We drinkin!

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

10 months

Had a dream I got a form rejection written on a cake. It began with NO. It ended with NO, but upside down so I could read it from whatever angle.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 month

My 3yo calls ketchup Bleed Sauce and I didn’t even teach her that.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

Woke up with a half-conscious six-o’clock-thought… what if @TenebrousPress released audio books on metal-style vinyls? Hail the cult!

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this but In-Progress means they’re deliberating right now, and you should hear back any second. It’s probably an Acceptance.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

7 months

There’s a special circle in hell for those who back this magazine. (Join me.)

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 year

I’ve gotten to dip behind the curtain for a couple lit mags this month, and believe me when I say that editors are total comrades. Most of us would crumple under that weight, and most of them are doing this shit for free. We’re damn lucky they’re around!

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

6 months

I teamed up with the too-good-at-writing @xavier_agarcia to make this late 90s splatter fest happen. And @icebreakers_lit approved. Read “The Last Yi-Gi-Oh Game Ever Played” before it all burns down!

The Last Game of Yu-Gi-Oh Ever Played — Icebreakers

www.icebreakerslit.com

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

2 years

Add me to the list of bullshitters 💥 “The ghoul’s reasoning is all spelled out” is coming to @bullshitlit ’s second anthology this summer. So stoked to land in their TOC!

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 month

12 follows away from becoming a NYT best selling author

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

8 months

Had a dream I went to AWP. The off-site parties were held on tropical beaches with bonfires and dark cliffs. There were five dead elephants in the sand. I spent the night swimming them out to sea and sinking their bodies for a proper burial. Is this what it’s like?

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

4 months

The bread will be gotten

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

8 months

Today fucking sucked. Getting laid off is the worst. But, I also got to watch sewer fishing videos with my kids while I applied for jobs. And tonight we all painted our nails to prep for my son’s birthday tomorrow. Gonna be all good.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

1 year

Stoked to say that the job search is finally fucking over! Got an offer to start as senior editor at a really great agency. Thanks to everyone who kept an eye out for me! Y’all are my real coworkers.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

14 days

On one hand, I have a lot of work to do. On the other, the girls at the table next to me are navigating bible study drama.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

11 months

I had to give some heartbreaking rejections during my Halloween call for @havehadhavehad . BUT, I've been lucky enough to see at least three of these fuckers find homes elsewhere. Indie lit is pretty rad.

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

8 months

Oh my god, @Aaron__Burch are you going to skull all these @DanTheDadBodGod style pieces? I’m over here crying on the TL and you’re not even skulling!

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

4 months

So much gratitude to @malsmart for championing my work the past two years, and ultimately taking my debut novel. Stoked to join @Joseph_Fasano_ and @jessamynviolet on the Maudlin roster next year! Long live the Disco 🔪

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Caleb Bethea

@caleb_bethea_

6 months

rare photo of Black Philip in his youth