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𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉, a horror anthology with 20 authors, is out. Thanks to David Kuhnlein, Eunika Sot, Julita Nowosad, all the authors, and anyone who reads it.

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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3 years

Porpentine Charity Heartscape’s trippy polygonal fiction “RELATIVE TIME KNIFE” 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕡𝕦𝕟𝕔𝕙 𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕘𝕦𝕪𝕤 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕠𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕗𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕜𝕪 @slimedaughter

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Read Elytron Frass’s revelation “ICHNEUTAE REDUX,” about a troupe of satyrs who breed and mimic their way across ancient Greece and beyond, looking for the source of the cacophony 🕳️ @Elytron_Frass

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Announcing 𝕃𝕀ℤ𝔸ℝ𝔻 𝔹ℝ𝔸𝕀ℕ: a book of 20 horror stories A return to reptile Edited by David Kuhnlein and tragickal Q1 2024

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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Announcing 𝕃𝕀ℤ𝔸ℝ𝔻 𝔹ℝ𝔸𝕀ℕ: a book of 20 horror stories A return to reptile Edited by David Kuhnlein and tragickal Q1 2024

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from the forthcoming novella DEAR§ by Elytron Frass and [x] 𝖜𝖊 𝖕𝖚𝖓𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖚𝖒𝖇𝖗𝖆𝖑 𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 🕳️ @Elytron_Frass @xxvi_xxxviii

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Anna Krivolapova’s “FITZCARRALDO, SEPTYCH SHOCK, AND THE CENTRAL ARTERY FROM BOSTON TO GERASENES” 𝕀 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕛𝕦𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕖 𝕋𝕠 𝕨𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕒𝕡 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕕. @AnaKrivolapova

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Dale Brett reveals ARISU, an ecstatic vision of future love in Mujeongsam 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙤-𝙨𝙚𝙭𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙡𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙙 @_blackzodiac

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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Next we have Anna Krivolapova’s “The Domovoi,” an astonishing revenge story combining Slavic cryptids, NHL trophy wives, cats, disability, trichophobia, Polish grandmas, Pennsylvania, garbage dump meetings, online shopping addiction, penance, Dirt Devil cords, and stalking

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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Many book reviews of bad Franzenesque sagas described these books as capturing "how we live" or "how we talk" But Amygdalatropolis DOES achieve this for bbs/internet culture - in capturing the sublime tan you get at 4am from the LED flicker as you stare into your Computer's face

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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3 years

Matt Lee's ℂℝ𝕀𝕊𝕀𝕊 𝔸ℂ𝕋𝕆ℝ turns 1 this Halloween. We've set the print price to the minimum & the PDF price to 0 for a while. @Gallows_Ticket

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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Book 3: 𝓟𝓾𝓻𝓰𝓪𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 by Ian Townsend ( @nightpainincorp ) "𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮."

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4 years

You don’t need to be alone with your thoughts on plasticbagger’s “CROWDED PLATFORM” 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚?

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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5 years

John Trefry gives us the last sighting of “RECENTLY EXTINCT BIRDS,” a domesday book of birds (👀 these Darkblooms and Vladivostoks) from his forthcoming “MASSIVE,” the text of geometry and exile

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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"CONTROL SUBJECT," from the forthcoming novella THE ARTIFACT (Inside the Castle, 2018), in which Germán Sierra with prose like an ECT scalp massager renders ataraxic a futurist neurohell casino

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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Writing tip: To have more fidelity to world-building, try conceptualizing all politics/current events as a TV show you don’t watch. If someone mentions “AOC” or “GOP,” say, “I don’t have a TV.” If they push it, say, “I haven’t seen those episodes, so this is lost on me.”

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“THE WAITRESS,” from D. Kuhnlein’s 𝒟𝐼𝐸 𝒞𝐿𝒪𝒮𝐸𝑅 𝒯𝒪 𝑀𝐸 (Merigold, 2023) 𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕙𝕖𝕕 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕔𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖, 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕨 𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘, 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕤 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕕. @princessbl00d

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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3 years

three poems by Hayden Church 𝐼 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒹𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓅𝒶𝒸𝓀𝑒𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓃𝓊𝓉𝓈 𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝒾𝓇𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓃𝑒. @hayden__church

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1 year

Excerpt from Derek Fisher’s upcoming novel NIGHT LIFE (Posthuman Magazine, 2023) 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕦𝕚𝕝𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕒 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕗 𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣-𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕦𝕔𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕣, 𝕤𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕠 𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕣 @d4fisher

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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6 months

Schism founder Gary J. Shipley contributes the second piece in 𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉’s Endocrine section: “Hereditary 2,” an imaginary sequel of blunted mania, fractured rhapsody, and spiraling losses

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William Blake's death

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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1 year

Nicholas Clemente’s extrasensory graveyard invocation “DEATH IS A GIANT MACHINE THAT SITS AT THE HEART OF THE UNIVERSE” 𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕦𝕞 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕓𝕠𝕕𝕪 @NickDeForest_

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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just found out about outsider artists. damn that shit sucks 😰

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AMERI[K]A… A SORT OF PSEUDO-REALITY by r.g. vašíček 𝙸 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚊 𝚗𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎. @rg_vasicek

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Matt Lee’s “SLLLLLLMRRRRRRE” probes the blank space between barcodes, brandings, clay tokens, counting bones, and social security numbers: “Does order come naturally to the universe? Or must it be imposed?” 𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉 is out Saturday

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𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉’s Reproductive section ends with Rebecca Gransden’s “Whistling Past the Slaughter House,” a stark and sulphurous story of factory killing, life after jail, anabolic steroids, and gym rats

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The middle section of 𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉 starts with the story that yielded the quote on the back cover: Tade Davis’s “Summertime Dust,” a gothic, bittersweet lament of secluded love, blindness, rotten joys, and synesthesia

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Daniel Ross's "I SEXUALLY IDENTIFY AS A TRASHCAN" 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙝𝙚’𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙡 𝙪𝙥 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙤 𝙞 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙚’𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙.

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𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉 is available on Bookshop: And on Ingram (for booksellers)

Lizard Brain a book by Tragickal and David Kuhnlein

tragickal presents LIZARD BRAIN 20 authors return to reptile in 20 horror stories mapping the musculoskeletal, reproductive, endocrine, prosthetic, and nervous systems. "My husband wants me to kill...

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𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉, a horror anthology with 20 authors, is out. Thanks to David Kuhnlein, Eunika Sot, Julita Nowosad, all the authors, and anyone who reads it.

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Blake Butler’s “DOXXED SCENES FROM ,” the finale of 𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉, brings us to the Complex and a matrix of cameras, embryos, ticker tape, intrafractal time and prismatic visions overclocked with synaptic electricity that will reshape brains

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Schism boss Gary J. Shipley brings us SIMILE, BOUBA AND KIKI, and FOOTNOTES 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙗𝙞𝙧𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙙𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙨, 𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙚, 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙢

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𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉 is out May 4. Opening its musculoskeletal section is David Kuhnlein’s linguistically Much Ado About Nothing-inspired “Born Under Saturn,” a story of rustic wrath and charming superstition

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2 years

2/ Dennis Cooper has featured a tragickal day megapost about 𝓟𝓾𝓻𝓰𝓪𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 by Ian Townsend ( @nightpainincorp ), 𝓓𝓞𝓧 by Alex Beaumais ( @alex_beaumais ), and ℂℝ𝕀𝕊𝕀𝕊 𝔸ℂ𝕋𝕆ℝ by Matt Lee ( @Gallows_Ticket )—including interviews + excerpts

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4 years

Thomasina Eris Thirst’s bratty bewitching LA fairy tale "PETER" 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙥𝙨 𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙖 𝙓𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙭 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙤 𝙩𝙤 𝙋𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙯𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙜𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙩.

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6 months

The first of five sections of 𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉 ends with Matthew Kinlin’s “Oubliette,” a stark and terminal portrait of a dungeon containing a hierophant, a lunatic, and guards—all with the cursed beauty of an hourglass

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3 years

Daniel Beauregard’s “THE COURTYARD & THE CASTLE KEEP” after Julio Cortázar’s Carta a una señorita en París 𝙀𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙪𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙨𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙘, 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩-𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙜𝙤𝙤.

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5 years

3 poems by Ryan Bry 📺🐳🌞 𝙐𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡. 𝙄 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜.

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6 months

In Charlene Elsby’s “The Upstairs Neighbours,” the narrator’s pondering the appearance of mysterious objects near the border between upstairs and downstairs neighbors as due to negligence or psychological operations is answered by a violent break-and-enter.

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4 years

Faceless in Nippon is a lucid dream travelogue of zipless romps with nacre vending machines and kanji instructions told in a dream machine voice ("the disruption of flow is not a detour") that pings through like a pachinko without feeling fleeting like a chocolate frog in the sun

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4 years

dale what do the things over my eyes mean. also y won't u let yourself be tagged in photos T_T

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3 years

Nicholas Clemente’s “BODY AND BLOOD,” a story of Proustian colors and dislocated brothers, homing pigeon instincts and drops of dark blood Iᖴ ᕼE'ᔕ ᑎOT ᗩT ᔕᑕᕼOOᒪ TᕼEᑎ ᗯᕼEᖇE Iᔕ ᕼE

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3 years

The gig economy spawns GigaDorm in John Casey’s Ballardian futurehell “PURPOSE-BUILT” 𝕎𝕖’𝕣𝕖 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕞𝕖𝕒𝕟 𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕕, 𝕨𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝔼𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕖𝕟!

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4 months

David Kuhnlein’s “JACOB’S STOLEN BLESSING” 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕨𝕒𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕚𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕣𝕦𝕟𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕚𝕥𝕤 𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕞 𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕠𝕡 𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕠𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕓𝕖𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕕𝕚𝕘𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕤𝕜𝕦𝕝𝕝 @princessbl00d

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3 years

David Kuhnlein’s “THE BEAR PIT,” spiritual successor to last year’s “THE DISABLED” 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙚, 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙚. @princessbl00d

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4 years

Daniel Beauregard’s psychedelic apocalypse "POOR SOIL" 𝘼 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙜 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚, 𝙖𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙨, 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙛

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3 years

Click ANGEL.EXE, a dialectic of awakenings and captivity by UNITY 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙧.

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6 months

Germán Sierra’s “More Than One” is a sublime cyberpunk treatment of death, DNA, stars, wombs, and gods, of noumenal dreams of reverse eternity, of finding your mother’s clone living as an undocumented refugee on the coast of Spain

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11 months

extracts from THE ARCADIA PROJECT by Kenneth M. Cale and Matthew Kinlin 𝕴 𝖆𝖒 𝖈𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖉 𝖎𝖓 𝖆𝖈𝖎𝖉 𝖗𝖆𝖎𝖓 // 𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖍𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖘 𝖓𝖔𝖜 // 𝕴 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖙𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖊. @garbagemagician @kmcale81

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10 months

Ryan Kelley’s “SCRAPE RUNNER,” a PKD-esque story about a government bounty hunter sanitizing crypto-schizotypals 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝔹𝕦𝕘 𝕄𝕒𝕟, 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕗𝕝𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕙𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪. @CHTHONICHELL

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4 years

Laugh then cry with “PELOTON ETERNAL MODEL” and “SERVER FARMER” by Mark Wilson 𝘼 𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙞𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩.

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2 years

1/ Our third book, the novel 𝓟𝓾𝓻𝓰𝓪𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 by Ian Townsend ( @nightpainincorp ), is out now:

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1 year

Jack Skelley’s “I’M SICK TO MY STOMACH…” excerpted from THE COMPLETE FEAR OF KATHY ACKER (Semiotext[e], 2023) 𝐼 𝒸𝒶𝓃’𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓅 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹. @JackSkelley

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3 years

Sean Sam interviews Matt Lee on ℂ𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕚𝕤 𝔸𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝘿𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚, 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙜𝙞𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙚. @sean_sam_ @Gallows_Ticket

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5 years

Nathaniel Duggan's SUGGESTIONS FOR A MORE PERFECT SINGULARITY, 3 poems 🛸 𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙩? 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙥𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙮.

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4 years

Taste the glitter tears of Ryan Kelley's "ECHELON LOOPS" 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙖 𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙭𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩.

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6 months

Nick Greer’s “She Who Loves Silence” starts at a piano bar with a dudebro running game on a woman in a black dress with absinthe eyes and an untouched martini. They go back to his place but the ritual may or may not take an ultraviolent praying mantis turn.

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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2 months

Some etchings on 𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉

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1 year

Excerpt from “DIONYSUS IN DIGITAL,” the world’s first AI-acted play, by Karina Bush and DeepSNAKES 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙣. 𝙄 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙥𝙪𝙨𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙣.

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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3 years

ℂ𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕚𝕤 𝔸𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 and 𝓓𝓞𝓧 are now available on Gumroad in pdf and pdf/ebook form, respectively. (𝓓𝓞𝓧 is also on Kindle. 𝔸𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 was too hazardous for epub.)

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2 years

Tade Davis’s “The Orphan,” a story of carnal sunbeams and beautiful dead girls adorned with flowers 𝕀𝕥’𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕟’𝕤 𝕗𝕒𝕦𝕝𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕨𝕒𝕪𝕤; 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕟’𝕤 𝕗𝕒𝕦𝕝𝕥 @digital_orb000

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4 years

T.W. Selvey's "FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING" 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚. 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙩.

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2 months

Arzhang Zafar’s “LOWER,” a story of dreams, doctors & strip malls 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙖𝙮 𝙖 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙣, 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙊𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙢𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙖 𝙙𝙤𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧 @vomunculus

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

10 months

A–Z: @tyIerbarney , @666icecream , @blakebutler , @digital_orb000 , @ElsbyCharlene , @d4fisher , @rlgransden , @nickgreergkcin , Jonah Howell, @ChrisKelso5

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

5 years

Jane Judith brings us a winding prose triptych with text art 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙘𝙪𝙚 𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙥 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖 𝙗𝙖𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙟𝙪𝙢𝙥 𝙘𝙪𝙩

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

3 years

"We earn resources from the sky in exchange for our great labor in punching faces and torturing people with the Relative Time Knife."

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

1 year

Peppy Ooze's "BODILY FUNCTIONS AND THE ROOTS OF INTERNATIONAL DREAMWAVE," a stroll through Berlin over the Landwehr canal to the blue neon Prinzenstraße chicken takeaway before riding the U-Bahn to Athenian platz's vaporwavey statues etc. @adidaspoetry

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

6 months

Near the terminus of 𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉 we arrive at John Trefry’s “Divination,” a mortuary how-to manual and funerary codex, a technical drawing and accounting of films and 13th-century personages and the ossification of the sacra around the enlargement of a neural canal

𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

7 months

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

2 years

Excerpt from Heath Ison's forthcoming CINEMA OF CRUELTY 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕠𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕨𝕒𝕤 𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕓𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕟𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕤𝕜𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕠𝕨𝕟. @h33thison

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

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10 months

@tyIerbarney @666icecream @blakebutler @digital_orb000 @ElsbyCharlene @d4fisher @rlgransden @nickgreergkcin @ChrisKelso5 @Sean_Kilpatrick , @garbagemagician , @AnaKrivolapova , @princessbl00d , @Gallows_Ticket , @_gobbet_ , @german_sierra , @eunika_sot , @nightpainincorp , @incastellated

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

6 months

In Ian Townsend’s “Black Mass,” a shuttle has crash-landed among craters and insects the size of dogs on one of Xe’s moons. A cosmonaut loses his hand after diagnostics, needs a prosthetic—if he doesn’t get gulped by the dilating, spinning, maternal black mass

𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

7 months

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

3 years

Paul Bali's prison-bed soliloquy "THERSITES" 𝖆 𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖕, 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖑’𝖘 𝖆𝖎𝖉: 𝖆 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊-𝖔𝖋-𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙, 𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖋𝖜𝖆𝖞 𝖉𝖔𝖜𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖕𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖒 𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖍 𝖇𝖆𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖉𝖊!

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

4 years

Look under the digital mattress at Heath Ison's “THE HOLOGRAPHIC FACELIFT BOTCH” 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕧𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝 𝕒𝕧𝕒𝕥𝕒𝕣 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕓𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕙𝕦𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕓𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕕

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

10 months

Video credit: David Kuhnlein. Song credit: Fabrizio Lapiana, “Collective Chaos” (Berlin: Attic Music, March 6, 2020). Used with permission.

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

5 months

Lizard Brain in Detroit prep got my skin breaking out blue fluorescent scaley, guanine nanocrystals whispering, tongue forking, blood running ectothermic, tail budding and breaking off, casque locking horns with other casque creatures. And my brain? Never had one. No change.

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

5 months

Lizard Brain

tragickal presents LIZARD BRAIN 20 authors return to r…

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

3 years

Much love to Dennis Cooper for including @Alex_Beaumais 's 𝓓𝓞𝓧 on his end-of-year list

Germán Sierra

@german_sierra

3 years

DC’s annual faves

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

5 years

Brad Liening brings us a fanfare of 5 poems 𝘼 𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙙 𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙩 𝙖 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚, 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧. 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙥.

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

4 years

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

4 years

In ancient Greece you couldn’t buy dissident Phoenician literature but now you can buy CRISIS ACTOR by Matt Lee

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

4 years

Myles Zavelo’s short fiction “A YEAR AGO, I WAS LIVING IN A HOME FOR BOYS SUFFERING FROM BODY DYSMORPHIA” 𝙒𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧. 𝙒𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨. 𝙒𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜.

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

4 years

Alex Beaumais’s 𝓓𝓞𝓧, a flashbang of love in the dance–dox–death cycle. One pill, two pill, red pill, blue pill. Sexual politicking, witchhunts and goodbyes. 225 pgs. ℂ𝕣𝕪 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕕𝕒𝕪, 𝕕𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 @alex_beaumais

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

6 months

𝙇𝙄𝙕𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉’s Prosthesis section brings us to Daniel Beauregard’s “The Flesh Fields” and a planet of yurts and labor camps where wanderers toil in fields at gunpoint to satiate their desperate hunger and meet the quotas of worm-harvesting industrialists

𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

7 months

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

4 years

𝓓𝓞𝓧 back cover

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

1 year

Immense thanks to @ConorHultman and @SouthwestReview for this review of 𝓟𝓾𝓻𝓰𝓪𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂, whose “resonances build up with zero pretension, forming a glorious Fibonacci spiral of meaning that ultimately condenses into a dark star.”

SwR

@SouthwestReview

1 year

“Townsend combines the acidic misanthropy of Bret Easton Ellis with the pop slapstick of Mark Leyner” Read @ConorHultman 's review of PURGATORY, the new novel by Ian Townsend ( @nightpainincorp ), out now via @tragickalbooks 🔥

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

1 year

excerpt from Lee Levinson’s sonnet cycle “MOI BÊTE: A SADISTIC SEQUENCE” 𝒯𝑜 𝒻𝑒𝓇𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓈𝓊𝓃, 𝓅â𝓉é 𝑜𝒻 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓃𝒶 𝒽𝒾𝒹. @schlock_jaw

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

5 years

Read the first five pages from Rauan Klassnik’s A SLOW BOILING BEACH (Schism [2], 2019). 𝘼 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙫𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝.

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

1 month

Michael Borth’s “THE ARCH MNEMOSYNE,” six poems 𝕱𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖎𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖊 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖇𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖜𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕴𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖆𝖈𝖗𝖆𝖑 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 𝖈𝖆𝖛𝖊

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

4 years

Halloween

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

4 years

Evan Isoline returns to the site with the beautiful poem “PARASYMPTOTE” ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀʀᴏᴜꜱᴇʟ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴇɴᴛᴇʀ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜɪꜱ ɢɪᴢᴀ ᴏꜰ ꜱɪʟᴇɴᴄᴇ

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

2 years

Dennis Cooper on 𝓟𝓾𝓻𝓰𝓪𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 by Ian Townsend

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

4 years

First lines are important, but overloading them with sex and death and snark is like having a throbbing erection. It's unsightly. Better to risk being 5% boring than wave that thing around.

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

5 months

Plz RSVP if you’re thinking of coming to the Lizard Brain launch party in Hamtramck, a Detroit enclave (no cover) 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀, 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗗𝗝 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀, 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀, 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗿

Lizard Brain Launch Party · Luma

Help us celebrate the launch of LIZARD BRAIN, a horror anthology featuring 20 authors, co-editing by David Kuhnlein, and illustrations by Julita Nowosad.…

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

4 years

Matt Lee's CRISIS ACTOR - THE FIRST TEST (ch. 1) 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠.

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

4 years

"STEINBERG DEPERSONALIZATION TEST (Q’s 2, 3, 1, 12, 32, 31, 123)" by Derek Maine 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝘃𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. @derekmainelives

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

5 months

Just got a cryptic transmission from one of the musical performers tonight that their set will sample excerpts of Lizard Brain 👍

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𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖆𝖑

@tragickalbooks

3 years

Honored to read this from one of the best stylists in this whole damn scene

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