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A feral moon, a sweep of the hands to stab you in the heart get on your knees before the godless devil moon open up for @pain___house . Autumn in the Pain House runs up the score, pumps and dumps you in the river of life. PREORDER:

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2 years

Devastated to learn of the passing of one of our angels @eris_rlt . Her father called me to break the news and I’m still in shock. As I learn more, including possible memorial services, I’ll post here. I don’t have any words right now. My heart goes out to anyone who loved her.

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2 years

You owe me a river. During a national mood disorder, you embodied the spirit of our art. Your legacy is colossal. You lived right as a writer, you were my friend & I’ll miss you as long as I live. This is the first picture you sent me. This is the first merciless day without you.

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8 years

If you've spent your whole life in public service but have the net worth of Aerosmith, your career is in power not service #ToneDownForWhat

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1 year

We’ll be publishing Elizabeth V Aldrich’s complete works, stuff published online and stuff nobody’s seen before, painstakingly transcribed by @johnnyh0llywood with assistance by too many to credit right now in a tweet. It’ll be called Speedheart. It deserves a spine. Summer 2024.

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2 years

Our beloved @eris_rlt will be lain to rest on the morning of August 4th in a graveside celebration of her life organized by close family. I’ve been asked to keep it semi-private but if you’re near Santa Barbara on that day and want to go, DM.

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3 years

LOL @maggiecsiebert sold out again. We swear this isn’t a prank or intentional. BONDING has met unprecedented demand, a runaway success, our all time bestseller. Excuse us while we recalibrate to this new paradigm, fast track an MBA & remake the world economy. Give us two weeks.

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2 years

The future is bleak. @Elytron_Frass & @stretchedskin launch you into another orbit, the cosmic fabric tearing at the teeth. Vitiators is expat’s first graphic novel, an 8x11 hellscape in luscious black&white panels. Caustic, majestic, ludicrously obscene.

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3 years

To write is to see words. A febrile concussive statement, a call to arms, a righteous imperative to remake the zone of literature in a new image. A touch of psychotic self-regard. Each contributor was curated to destroy, brought their best. Each delivered.

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4 years

It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. @eris_rlt ’s Ruthless Little Things is a crystalline fever dream, the beginning & end of cyber writing. All preorders will be honored with a personal letter from the clink. Our chipper jailbird has time on her hands. Ships 1/15

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4 years

Summer prolapsed into Fall & the floodgates open as expat snaps back into heavy action w/ the most important book of the year. Get snuffed, this book is a weapon. A viscerally pure of heart world ender, a choleric facewrecker. Only @damien_ark can do this.

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4 years

Announcing expatlitjournal #4 , the fear issue, ‘cos times are aghast. Co-editors @Plexibubble & @dragoneddied . 30 writers: An anarchic showcase of the next gen, the bleeding edge, that nothing-to-lose je ne sais quoi you know us for. A print anthology. Xmas 2020. Talent TBA.

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4 years

Working late on a dream, prophecy.exe. February. Expat 4 drops like an atom bomb. The final 34 who’ll hence be known as The 34. New school blowing up fast, let this be the record. Old school winks. Meantime, spite Big Inc, we’re building something for you.

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3 years

Yield to extrasensory apperception. The paradigm has shifted. BONDING by @maggiecsiebert signals an evolution in fiction. A book not read so much as confronted, interrogating the id like a specter. A new cosmic. Cover art by @VAMPYRDANCECLUB . Preorder now:

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4 years

Momentous. Beautiful and intense. Don’t maim yourself on this one. It goes to pieces in your hands. Happy release day, and here’s to another type of release day for @eris_rlt in the near future. Orders on the way. Thank you. Don’t sleep.

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4 years

No gf, no family, no income, no school = I have literature’s best interests in mind and maximum time to obsess over it.

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2 years

All your names are dead. Too many mags, not enough timelessness. 62 scrawl open secrets, out here saving lives with the good word, going hard as the Bible, expat 5 do unto others, you thought us remiss, we fly by night a strange beast for love enjoyers

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3 years

You were lost but now you’re found. Spring fever say no more, a dark variant has taken hold. This hot stuff is molten bright, the real weird, neurotoxic rave, punk & pith. Wake up & get it while it lasts. Finally en route. You may resume business as usual:

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4 years

I feel both deep kinship & a sense of balance w expat’s newly appointed editors: @dragoneddied & @saderotica . They’re overqualified & will disagree with me when I need them to. I promise more fun & diversity. The future is on fire and we go headlong into the blaze. Honored, MM.

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4 years

Been doing this alone a long time. I couldn’t continue alone. I’m lucky to have gathered people to our cause who feel invested enough in expat to want a stake in it. This is your press now. From 2021 on expat will only get even better. Standby while I lift this damn masthead.

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2 years

400+ submissions. 62 accepted. For that end of the year peace we all deserve, there will be no more personalities in literature. Promos courtesy of @amerikanakia . In design. Christmas.

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3 years

“Altruists are Self-Destructive - An Interview with Dennis Cooper by James Nulick”

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4 years

Many are wondering about @eris_rlt . She’ll be back. I spoke to her father yesterday. She’s in good spirits & I expect to hear from her directly soon. She’s booked on a felony charge which I’m confident her defense will bargain down to time served in exchange for completing rehab.

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3 years

Let’s build the new literary movement & fuck the rest. Expat’s first event of the summer is the crossover event of 2021 on. Join us for a night of anything goes with Elizabeth Ellen @hobartpulp , @saderotica , @maggiecsiebert , @formermissNJ , @zaddy_issues_1 , @sybil_rain & Em Brill.

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3 years

Saturday. Flyer by @cafeviolenza . A party? A dream? In partnership w/ @NPCfest feat. @unbridled_id @mynamezans @textile_ranch @mimpathy @JesusIsVictory_ @personality_grl @EmilyKlondike @negativexp123 & more, we’ve reimagined programming for you. RSVP here:

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3 years

Announcing EXPVT, the ananthropy issue: a print anthology 2022. Now accepting/reviewing submissions. Expat 4 was for the personalities, expat 5 is a barren wasteland. Co-editors @calvwest , @plasticbagger & @cafeviolenza . Prompt/theme by @plasticbagger .

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2 years

Summer is here. Embrace chaos. Become the leisure class citizen you were born to be with @garthmiro ’s gutsy manifesto to mend your unhappiness. It will make you laugh and tenderize those repressed memories of being human. Cover Art by Adrianna Matwiejczuk.

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3 years

“Quantum Diaper Punks” - @stuartmbuck

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3 years

Family Annihilator by @calvwest gives me more hope for the future of literature than anything we’ve put out. A novella that takes you deeper than ought to be possible in 126 pages. It’ll claim your heart. Cover Art by Arturo Herman Medrano. Preorder now:

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3 years

Submissions closed temporarily. If you got yours in before this tweet, you’ll receive a response from one of our fine editors by Friday. We’ve been running a feature a day for almost two years now. If you were a part of it, or have an upcoming feature scheduled, we love you ��.

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Expat Press

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2 years

Announcement re: our long-awaited fifth anthology aka expat 5 this Thursday December 1st

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Expat Press

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4 years

Nothing good stays the same, but Expat Press was built to last. 2020 will be the last year under my sole editorship. Currently phasing myself out in ways that’ll become apparent as we sprint toward 2021. Currently auditing souls for their worthiness to take over. Restructuring.

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1 year

Rejoice. This bombed out beauty hotter than a thousand suns is finally in production. An unprecedented feat, we have personified the known universe. Now and always, everything and nothing, the work justifies all else. The wait almost over, the ink drying.

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2 years

This is what we’re about, this is who we are, chasing an emptiness that never dies. Thieves cloning keys, 3D printing souls— Donald Goines cannot be accessorized. A thermal banger instant classic dressed to the 9s in @sampinkisalive & @amerikanakia art.

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11 months

“Southern California” - @illegalth0t

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4 years

Our beloved @eris_rlt pleaded not guilty. Her next hearing is 1/08. Despite the unfavorable outcome, I can’t help but think she’s still glowing like she was yesterday. She will emerge stronger from this. Her book’s about to drop and she’s excited. She can still receive mail here:

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5 years

“When death won’t solve your problem” - @magdacsiebert

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2 years

Excited to be in @Powells , thanks @kevinsampsell for making it happen.

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4 years

This book breaks my heart. It’s coming at you very soon. Please make temporal allowances for living through an interminable disaster. This book could only have come of impossible times.

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4 years

Ok, here it is: the canon, the mother load, the whole slutty archives, 3 zines + 14 books. Have at it, xerox that shit, plaster it on walls. PayPal ExpatLitJ @gmail .com or better yet, donate directly to the authors, most of them on Twitter. Connect.

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10 months

“Michael” - @G_Y6666

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2 years

“NEMESIS” - @myth_pilot

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4 years

Expat Press will publish 1 more book in 2020: @Plexibubble ’s The Moon Down to Earth. Why? James is my favorite living writer. Reading it, I knew it existed to be discovered by those like me. Proud to bring you this dizzying feat of sentience soon, unadulterated, in print forever.

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2 years

Moonwalk with me, shock troops. We’re bringing joy to you year round. We’re making dreams reality. Each one of mine is worth ten of yours. More soon ~ cc: @cjchr1stine @peeweehermit @stretchedskin @1amCait @diamonddustpaw flyer by @cafeviolenza . We ride.

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3 years

“Swan Necks Like Swords” - @teachrobotslove

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16 days

Thank you Montreal

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2 years

50+ orders for Ruthless Little Things in 72 hours and counting. Also we’re out of envelopes. These 6 are spoken for and ship Monday when envelopes arrive. RLT is on backorder for a week or two and I promise if you ordered it’s more than worth the wait. See you at the wake.

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3 years

“Sam Pink, Sean Thor Conroe, and Institutional Rot” - @cafeviolenza

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3 years

Weekly features will resume every Tuesday beginning next week. The bar is raised. You can’t submit. Do not. Submit. We’re booked through May with hits by our friends. We’ll reopen to the general writing public when the standard of quality improves. Practice, meanwhile. Standby.

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1 year

Tonight and tomorrow

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4 years

Right now this is the expat twitter & I’ve kept personal stuff out of it for a while bc this is not my press, it’s yours. But next year! I’m getting a personal account. I’ll be posting many problematic takes like which Kristen Stewart movie made me cry, &c. I’ve got some opinions

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4 years

“Interview with @eris_rlt ”

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1 year

“Kratom and Eve” - @AnaKrivolapova

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3 years

“Degrassi Made Bipolar Disorder Look So Charming But it Has Actually Just Made Me the Worst” - @purplegodnectar

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4 years

The blue moon hangs low tonight. Don’t miss it. A hunter’s moon. First one on Halloween across timezones since 1944. Fitting for an event even more rare, a novel by @Plexibubble . We’re white knuckling toward 2021 spitting meteorite fragments. It’s how we do. Art by G.P. DeSalvo.

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3 years

A week from today, we get to see the whole thing come down. We burn the 200k advances. This ain’t a reading but a show ft. @carolinecaloway @lindsaylerman @weirdal_andalus @zans_knows_best @teddyburnette @dragoneddied @manwellexists . A coda to cruel summer. You know what to do.

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3 years

Last one of the year, one week from today feat. Nicola Maye Goldberg, @mainely , @RealOldPaul , @GabrielHart77 , @joylesshouse , @cafeviolenza , @diamonddustpaw and @sashadeana . Anything can happen. It’s a show, a party, a celebration, emotions, laughter, reality with or without you.

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4 years

If you advocate for censorship in any way, I’m blocking you. You can have that tautological argument all by yourself. How’s that for a line in the sand.

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3 years

. @maggiecsiebert ’s BONDING is a book of fucked vibes with a heart of gold, I saw myself in it and I wasn’t ready. You’re not ready but when has that stopped you? This is primal scream, elemental magic and trope iconoclasm. Get impaired. As the world turns:

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4 years

Preorders on their way as soon as I buy more tape. If we get to 20% unemployment might add the PDF to the archive, but book is artisanship. Made by hands, and machines. It’s worth your Trumpbux. Have I ever been wrong? @_blackzodiac is a luminary.Givehim $

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4 years

Spoke to @eris_rlt for 45 minutes myself this morning. She’s characteristically ebullient and sends her love to all. If you reached out to me about her, I gave her yours. When I know the outcome of her hearing today, you’ll know. Either way, she’ll be out soon.

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4 years

Alright here. The next book of the 2020 cycle, glitter in your eyes, the era of error begins here. @_blackzodiac issues your license to spite plague austerity and swallow this hefty psychic load. Faceless ushers in the virtual avant bookshop. Preorder now:

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3 years

“Born for a Noose” - @SteveGone58

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2 years

Each story in this will cut you. No other living writer knows this magic trick. The death you’ve longed for is here. @plexibubble ’s Lazy Eyes is dark & strange like you can’t imagine. It is a baptism for oblivion, a love song. Cover Art by @ShmikeShmorrao .

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3 years

“Fiction Reader/Writer” - @mainely

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3 years

Paper shortages be damned, we will now begin accepting preorders for @DurbanMoffer ’s terra-shifting tome of psychological annihilation, American Kashayas. Let it bleed, this is Technicolor cursed multimedia perversion of the literary sort, serene &violent:

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2 years

“I Got a Job in Dada Entry” - @platelet60

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8 months

Epochal. Where the Breastplate Meets the Blade is @gwenergyreigns ’s revelatory assumption of the legend’s mantle. Life demands purity and grace. True love with a life and death energy. Cover art by @transpuanaus , preorder now to be the first to see clearly

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3 years

Coming via Expat Press March 8th 2022, “Feds on Vacation” by Big Bruiser Dope Boy: 13 poems, one LP, the most dangerous verses you’ve read since Revelation. Can’t stop the rebirth. Our first poetry book in forever will make you blush, laugh, cry. We’re committed. We’re complicit.

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3 years

“Robbery” - @melancory666

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1 year

What you see is what you get. Believe it by the five of swords up for Summer. The powerhouse @sampinkisalive , the wizard @mkazepis_ , for the first time since 2021 on 60# cougar cream and buff natural paper, bop to the touch, ubiquitous as a nursery rhyme:

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2 years

Sometimes you need a book to beat stuff up with. This is that book. @peeweehermit writes in a sticky schlocky language saturated in regional affect, surreal imagery, performance, nostalgia. Stories about edge cases from the most air- conditioned nation.

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4 years

Three books in design at once, expat 4 at the door, it’s gonna be an eventful December. No more questions but keep thinking about us. Answers forthcoming.

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4 years

If anyone wants to write @eris_rlt a letter, I’m sure it’d make her day. Thanks @ThinDieselle for thinking to ask. Here’s the address:

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3 years

You thought we couldn’t get any hotter. You were wrong. Please welcome to the gang our newest gatekeeper @maggiecsiebert . She’ll be answering new submissions and fielding your thirstiest queries. We needed a little more *oomph, a lil’ more *ungh. Kneel before your high priestess.

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3 years

. @vagabondswans has nurtured potent flowers to thrive in a cultural climate divorced from nature, famished for tenderness. A spirit world defunct gets the gospel it deserves — a psychedelic joyride, a dream of deep summer cast. Cover art by @noah__dillon .

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2 years

“Interview with @Elytron_Frass & @stretchedskin ”

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3 years

Happiest of birthdays to @plexibubble , our most resilient long distance runner. April, a short story collection volcanic with imagination & rude with abandon. Nulick’s darkest book is a stethoscope to vast interiorities in a time of liminal isolation, rage melting wax sculptures.

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4 years

That’s what they’re working toward. Her court date is scheduled for 12/8. I’m going to proceed with her book and set aside her royalties for when she’s released. She’s resilient and will get through this. Feel free to DM me your number or a message and I’ll get it to her.

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3 years

Who knows how long they’ll let us keep doing this? Last chance to see @JonJonLindsey & @allierowbottom in NYC this summer, maybe the last night on earth. Midwest to Texas, feat. @nameandnoun , @dawtismspeaks , @PhylaSg & @ryanmaleady hosted by @EmilyKlondike . Join us once more1234.

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4 years

Sometimes, hear me out, when something merely exists, I allow it. I think this is healthy, if only to prevent an ontological crisis. Also I like things existing. All kinds of things. I want the world I live in to hurt me, make me grimace, laugh, I want to shake my head dammit ffs

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1 year

Announcing a new novel shortly. Kind of a big deal, kind of the future, etc. watch this space

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1 year

We’re really proud to do cool things. We hope it inspires you to do cool things.

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2 years

You already know. Still doing our thing like we’re too stupid to know better. Arturo with the needle drops, @cafeviolenza with the flyer, feat. @sampinkisalive @calvwest @alishawexlr @DurbanMoffer @cjchr1stine @mellenbe & more. We’re buzzing we could rock you to sleep. Come home.

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1 year

“Review: Film01” - @cafeviolenza

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4 years

“phosphospex” - @SublinguaIgnota

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1 year

We’re back like we never left for the first and last time ‘til the next time ft. @Darth__mall @tepk323 @babybaudrillard & @tennisforever79 , flyer by @cafeviolenza . Yellow Switch Palace in print and in person for a night, come all out have a great summer and see you at the movies.

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7 months

. @himquail ’s beloved first born is back in stock with a smoother finish (goodbye to burst-binding) and natural paper. Nothing ever lasts so get it hot

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3 years

“milk & eggs” - @courtenaywrites

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3 years

“Valentine’s Day” - @personality_grl

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4 years

“Friends after Fifty” - @ThinDieselle

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5 years

Here it is, folks. CONFIDENCE MAN by @dragoneddied is now available for preorder. Read about it, watch the trailer, sample some excerpts and other writing. This book will reconfigure you & make you well. Our glorious return, w/ free shipping (last chance).

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3 years

We’re going through changes lest we stagnate. By July we’ll be newly strange yet familiar. We didn’t get so fresh by spinning a platter around but by heedless impulse and adventurism. What’s next? Who knows. Just enjoy while it lasts. Kicking out hits for the foreseeable future.

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2 years

Before we had it, no one did. Over before it began. It’s the type of joint you know & love, the kind you’ve come to selectively expect. Dreams don’t die, a lullaby starring @allthefrensy , @uunderstudying , @DollPariah , & @watchinw0rldcup , join us for an oneiric evening of splendor

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3 years

We just sold the last copy of Expat 4. Congratulations to *checks notes* a badass mfer. Any new orders from now on will be fulfilled in two weeks. Second run editions will have numerous typos corrected and will be more limited than the first run.

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