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Founded in 2009, BULL is a literary magazine dedicated to rewriting modern masculinity.
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Check out BULL 11: Fragile like a Bomb feature stories from such kickass writers as Mikki Aronoff,
@CameronDarc
@sfreligh
@Jamey_Gallagher
@DelGeo14
@MarchingFourth
@CharlotteHam504
@tharv
@vickihendricks
@HightowerLaurel
@tara_zambrano
(1/2)
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Just your daily reminder to make lists of writers and mags you like and plug the work of other writers and lit mags whenever possible to try to break through this new Musky algorithm. Spread the word.
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Need some more stories about complicated women who do bad things and don't take sh*t from men (or do take sh*t up until they don't take sh*t.... Trying to do a thing here. Help spread the word.
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Who out there feels like Twitter has become yelling into the void? Let's find you some eyes and ears. Starting with
@doylejacq
... one of our fav writers out there.
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Y’all put these brilliant peoples on your to-read lists:
@KarenCrawford_
@sfreligh
@joey_hedger
@okaydonkeymag
@janstinchcomb
@bronwenwriter
@luntz_david
@kathyhoyle1
@CourtlandAvenue
@SuperHeavy666
@lacouvee
@PatriciaBidar
... Keep the names a coming, y'all.
Who out there feels like Twitter has become yelling into the void? Let's find you some eyes and ears. Starting with
@doylejacq
... one of our fav writers out there.
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People always have this idea of what BULL publishes. Just look at the stuff we've published in the last two weeks. You'll have no clue what our aesthetic is.
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At long last, get your hands on BULL
#11
: FRAGILE LIKE A BOMB, exploring masculinity from the perspective of some tough, kickass female protagonists.
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Never really wanted to do a lit mag, never really read lit mags, all the college print ones that seemed so self-serious. didn’t know there were alternatives. I wouldn’t say ‘dream come true’ but we did just publish this story with this first line, which made 21-yr-old me happy:
"I fractured my penis driving the Zamboni. Before that, my mother disowned me. Before that, I sat shaving my legs like floating dreams above the blue line where hockey players shouted prayers to toothless gods." -
@matthewbdexter
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Just to get us started:
@CowboyJamboree
,
@BendingGenres
,
@havehadhavehad
,
@PitheadChapel
,
@MalarkeyBooks
,
@713Books
,
@GorkoThe
,
@moonrabbitcandy
,
@slicesofanxiety
,
@xraylitmag
,
@publishedbyJAKE
,
@rejectionletters
,
@HouseofVlad
,
@trampset
,
@WhiskeyTitBooks
... NOW YOU
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Have decided that everytime mr masculine fiction pops up with another hot take, we're just going to thank our most supportive readers of any gender:
@mgnlcs
@kimmagowan
@ShelCompton
@maud_lavin
@gritvanwinkle
@frank21274
@LMariHarris
@MauraYzmore
@jeffhillwriter
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All right everybody, til we figure out how to break Elon's new crappy algorithm, we want to hear from you. What are you publishing? What are you reading? What are your thoughts on the sex appeal of couches?
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Keep it going, y'all. We're bringing worlds together...
@okaydonkeymag
,
@HooghlyReview
,
@PassagesNorth
,
@SmokeLong
,
@CottonXenomorph
,
@FracturedLit
,
@pocketsmag
,
@TBQuarterly
,
@GooseberryPie99
, ....?
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"Rita’s got one eye on her toddler & the other on her order screen, makes a face at her boss who likes to say, the customer is right, usually. She’s okay for a boss, even semi-okay with Rita bringing her kid to work now and then. Like today."
@sfreligh
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Consider this a "submission call": we don't get enough stories about women who have masculine (or even toxically masculine) characteristics. Exploring masculinity doesn't mean only exploring humans with testicles. Gender is a construct and all that. Consider yourself "called."
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Seems like the Elon's algorithm has made it harder to see stuff, so if you would, please consider putting us on your "to-read" list to make sure you don't miss any of the good stuff.
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just gonna go ahead and put this right here:
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Really excited to be able to put this interview out there with the great Cathy Ulrich (
@loki_writes
). She is one of the most talented writers out there and at the same time one of the most supportive readers out there. Hope we did her justice:
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"It’s 1991 so the boy, Noah, sits in the front passenger seat. Back when that was still okay. He hears but the thing is he doesn’t know his father. Not really. A day and half every fourth or fifth weekend goes fast."
@gritvanwinkle
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"My American girlfriend holds my hand loudly, like she’s giving fuck you, cishets because she thinks we’re way behind in Australia."
@pleomorphic2
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If you like [x], you should buy [B]:
@amanda_bales
@followthatgoose
@BarlowAdams
@jippensen
@sjohnb9
@mgnlcs
@megtuite
@megpillow
@amanda_bales
@kurtbaumeister
@gow_robin_frank
@harsimranwrites
@atkoranda
@TalktoMeMeMe
@JoeCary5150
@jameson_pat
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Got a long long way to go, but feel like we've been doing a little better job repping female, LGBTQ & POC, but still get almost no Black authors. Feel weird singling this out, but don't know how else to break the barrier besides just asking, give us a shot maybe?
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Well lookee lookee lookee what we did between playing hooky. Or also: A Lil' bit of grit and lgbtq for y'all:
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Happy BULL DAY, y'all. Just remember: New Year's resolutions are for suckers who can't accept that yearly failure is what makes us all less obnoxious. Here's some stories to remind you that life is one broken resolution after another and that's where art comes from:
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All your favorite authors coming out with books from your favorite press. If you don't know CJP, you better aks some body.
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Interior of BULL
#11
FRAGILE LIKE A BOMB is done. Now just waiting on a cover. Hoping to have it available for purchase by the end of next week. Stay tuned. The heroines in here kick much ass.
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Help me out, y'all. Doing a themed print issue around gritty tough complicated women who don't take sh*t from men (or do for a while but then get their revenge, a la Goodbye Earl). But having trouble coming up with a name that is gritty but not sexist. Holler at me with ideas.
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Hey Elon, Free Literary Twitter! (In the meantime, everybody out there plug/tag some story, poem, essay, or writey-thingy you read recently and loved... as our middle finger to Elon's new algorithm. We shall not be silenced a man with that much forehead.
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"If my uncles hadn’t carried their father into the backseat against his wishes & driven all the way to the city my grandfather avoided & insisted that everything that could be done be done because they needed him to be okay..."
@amybookwhisper1
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For those of you sane, less masochistic people who are not going to AWP, here you go. BULL no. 10.
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Happy BULL DAY. Remember when summer started & vaccines were here & the whole world was in front of you & now it's the end of July & you haven't accomplished anything and you've already retreated back to self-exile? Here's some stories to make you feel better about feeling worse.
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we made it through the holidays, y'all. now it's just riding out the regular ol winter malaise of the soul. here's some stories for you that may make you feel things:
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Keep saying we and our and us, when it's just I, my, and me, and yet it sounds narcissistic to me to say "my magazine," so I will continue to say our magazine, and besides, I have like four personalities anyway.
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"Randall didn’t think that 53 was so old, and surely it was the other guy who f***ed up his car by passing Randall and cutting in front of him, but before he could raise an objection, the guy had reached into his car and pulled out a gun." -
@doylejacq
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Just accepted a story with the following line: "If my butt were a mouth, I could’ve modeled for Juvéderm." Now you're stuck waiting 3 months to read the rest of its brilliance.
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"Her hand grazes something at the bottom of her brother’s tin box of farm toys, something she’s overlooked, but recognizes now. She drops the piglet, falls silent, her nine-year-old heart galloping a fury."
@KSilverHajo
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Hey all, it's November. Time to give thanks that the world isn't a bigger dumpster fire than it already is.... And for stories that make it seem almost worth it--or at least that we can get some GD art out of this flaming pile anyway.
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"I remember the day our parents brought him bundled home during a historic cold snap. He was shriveled and small like the sundried tomatoes Mom snuck into all our food. I promised to look after him." -
@Chelsea_Stickle
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Don't get many Christmas stories & when we do, we can't ever seem to schedule it right. Well Christmas Miracle! Best Christmas story you'll read this year. So take a minute away from the fam to hide in the bathroom & read "Small Victories" by
@brettpribble
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Hey y'all happy BULL DAY. It's Friday, it's getting hotter, sounds about a good time to have an emotional meltdown, curl up back in bed, and read some weird, ugly, dark funny, gut punch stories to make you feel better about how much you love/hate life:
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Not sure what happened yesterday, but we went from zero new submissions to 21. So something's gotta be getting through. Bring it on.
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Support
@CowboyJamboree
. Support their badass EIC
@gritvanwinkle
. Hopefully dig the stories about a redneck farm kid wannabe baller/shot caller from Northernass Wisconsin.
It's out today, y'all. Would be eternally grateful if you'd check her out. Plus support
@cowboyjamboree
which is a badass press with a badass editor
@gritvanwinkle
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Me: Jesus, our to-publish slush pile keeps growing.
Also me: But I can't reject this story. The world needs this story.
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Hey y'all, happy BULL DAY. Here's some stories to distract you from all the projects you are listing in your head that you'll never actually accomplish this summer:
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actual readers/supporters of "bull" fiction continued:
@BenTanzer
@miketchin
@ChrisDnns
@Ahmed2Mehreen
@doylejacq
@TalktoMeMeMe
@rgvaughan
@PatriciaBidar
@jadedwriter_
@NathanBorn2010
@loki_writes
@RevolutionJohnM
@laughingyeti
@FBereaud
@PintsNCupcakes
@tcboudreau
& 100 others
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If you're wondering if we're the type of lit mag that would lower ourselves to publishing a story about truck nuts and then post it with a big picture of bull testicles, then this is a resounding yes. Check out "Perfect Pair" & "Echo" by
@richiezabo
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Comin’ atcha with some more badasses:
@poetJohnCompton
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@mrmandell8
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@pimpledrose
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@sclly21
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@maurayzmore
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@jaimegill
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@dmdavanti
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@mooninabucket
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@abbiembarker
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@100onbooks
,
@immanentflux
,
@kazbarwrites
,
@KelliBorges2
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Happy BULL DAY, y'all. It's October already. Time flies when you're world's on fire. Here's some stories to add to the kindling.
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"When I was in my 20s I’d think: I can snort coke every day; I can date a psychotic nymphomaniac. In my 30s I’d think: I can survive on unemployment; I can sleep in my car. Now, a year feels like darkness where there will never be light."
@bond_jamy
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Help us spread the word, y'all: We're doing a special print issue with a little grit and LGBTQ.
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"The last time I saw you, I didn’t know I’d miss who I was before the last time I saw you." -
@happymil_
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Featuring stories by Mikki Aronoff, Cameron Darc, Sarah Freligh, Jamey Gallagher, Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos, Katie Goforth, Charlotte Hamrick, Tom Harvey, Vicki Hendricks, Laurel Hightower, Tara Isabel Zambrano, Bob Johnson 1/2
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Thanks to all y’all who came over to get books or just talk. Honestly if I can make a couple new friends every AWP and see all my old friends, I’m happy happy.
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"To confront your suspicions, go to paragraph 4. To trust this is just paranoia and finish breakfast with your family, go to paragraph 5."
@CRobertsWriter
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Hey it's almost Christmas, which means most of us are either miserable because: family. Or miserable because: alone. Or just: miserable because. Here's some new stuff to commiserate with. Love: BULL.
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"I tell my daughter chocolate ice cream is full of E-numbers that are nasty chemicals. I go on a tirade about the bloody Europeans who’ve foisted us with rules for the correct number of toothbrush bristles & the acceptable curvature of bananas."
@MkenWrites
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Hey y'all. The July issue of BULL will be out next Monday, but in the meantime, check out a new series we're doing of writers on writing.
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Hey y'all all sales of our LGBTQ issue will go to the Trevor Project supporting LGBTQ youth and mental health. Please help us spread the word:
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Happy BULL DAY y'all. Here's some stories to give you an excuse to put off that summer project you've been putting off for another day:
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"The downtown lights blazed in the evening air. Slouched behind the wheel, Ismael watched as Loretta’s staff—the few whose physical presence was deemed “essential”—hunched to their cars. Loretta, gone for 15 cold days." -
@PatriciaBidar
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He’d kept a full head of hair. Switched from Brylcreem to mousse, Granbitching about him staining pillowcases but in his Burning Down the House suit you could tell from the slickness & pungency he was going heavy with it for his big day out.
@Prof_AN_Smith
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"I suspect I won’t show my girlfriend this story or essay or whatever it is. I know this is wrong, but the “process” is what’s keeping me alive, I think." - Z.H. Gill
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Hey y'all BULL. Heads up we have an embarrassment of riches with all the great stuff we've accepted. Downside: we have a bit of a backlog in our "to publish" list, which is looking at 6-7 months from acceptance. Sorry for the delay, but thanks for your patience.
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Hey all, did you hear? Summer's over! Summer's over! Yay. Yay. What's even the point of anything? Bring on the Fall of our lives and death looming. Here are some stories that'll help you celebrate that we're all gonna die sometime, for some of us, it might be a month from now.
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There's that saying: Writers are people who agree to do homework for the rest of their lives. Happy Labor Day. Here are a bunch of masochists who deserve your attention:
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"I fractured my penis driving the Zamboni. Before that, my mother disowned me. Before that, I sat shaving my legs like floating dreams above the blue line where hockey players shouted prayers to toothless gods." -
@matthewbdexter
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Hey y'all it's November, tis the season for seasonal affective disorder, here's some stories to remind you that you're not alone in your misery
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"When she first started working at McDonald's, she'd tried to tell her father what it was really like, but her father, bitter after her mother, sick of his misery, had left him, said, When you got my problems, then you can complain, understand?"
@sclly21
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Hey all, please check out this little interviewy conversation I had with one of my heroes
@ShelCompton
about his memoir/biography of Breece Pancake
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"The bench is old, not well built. The wood it’s made from hasn’t smoothed over time, has instead splintered. He wonders if it'll be replaced when it's worn through past use. He looks at his hands, arthritis gnarled, & decides he doesn’t care." - Alex Rost
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Also featuring: Sandra K. Barnidge, Laura Leigh Morris, Meagan Lucas, David Luntz, Jennifer Martiza McCauley, Rebekah Morgan, Melissa Ostrom, Holly Peleski, Keith Powell, Frank Reardon, T. L. Sherwood, Cheryl Snell, Archer Sullivan, Booz Ullrey, Adam Van Winkle, & Ilyn Welch 2/2
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Hey after a month off, here you go. We've got your July covered for quarantine reading:
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It was embarrassing, sprinting in his shiny funeral suit, trailing the kite over the hillocks. & from this he sensed the ridiculous & the infantile fathers persevered through for ones too young to recognise it as anything other than wondrous.
@glennorgias
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Baby George was 6 years old @ always riding his one-speed around, staring at people, offering unsolicited advice. If there'd been a hobo circle around a barrel at midnight, he'd have been there telling stories about his babysitter Esmeralda. -
@ColinMGee
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Who are your favorite female writers out there who do gritty, thorny, complicated stories?
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"Know your audience. Play Willie. Play Hank. Play Patsy. Play Springsteen & hum along. Cry into your drink. Try to feel happy. Drink until you can’t feel the pain in your lower back. Try not to look at yourself in the mirror. I love you." -
@colin_ism
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Going to start a series of interview'y things ripping off Studs Terkel. Who are your favorite writers who have interesting day jobs (not academic)? Thinking of people like
@Bud_Smith
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@frankreardon
,
@ghostoffinch
.
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Hey y'all, happy BULL day. Celebrating all the damaged people who didn't get their valentine and probably never will.
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Hey y'all do yourselves a favor and check out one of our favorites
@kimmagowan
's latest BULL story "Bonnie McCorkle"
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So, hey, yeah, it's 2021 and turns out there's still a pandemic going on, and yeah, life's still pretty much a dumpster fire for most of us, so, yeah, hey, here's some stories to make you feel less alone in your own private dumpster
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Hey y'all, we'll be doing AWP DIY renegade style this year. No official table, but we'll be there with books to sell. Stay tuned for updates of places we've found to squat and in the meantime just look out for BIG UGLY (eic/mascot)
#AWP19
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So there's a million things sure, but if there's one thing when it comes down to publishing decisions, it's sentences. Weird, zany, zig-zagy, herky-jerky, circular, lyrical, short, long, fugly sentences that have a beating heart to them. 1 of 2
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Before we head off to AWP to spend way to much money, let's all just remember that most of the good shit is online for free (except when we publish our print issue, of course, then you need to buy the issue, but also enjoy the free):
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Always in awe of the hugely talented people we get to work with at Bull. So much congrats to
@kimmagowan
, Hun Ohm,
@AndrewBertaina
,
@GhostWithAJob
,
@vrflash
,
@ShelCompton
, Michelle Ross for getting long-listed and top-fiftied from the fine folks
@Wigleaf
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Honestly, we're gonna go into business and sell some merch with this, whadya say? Shirts, hats, cravats?
Here’s the cover I did for the new print issue of
@BULL_magazine_
, you should pick this beast up. 🤘🤘
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Yo, hey, here are some stories to take your mind off the fact that the country is literally covered in disease and on fire.
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"Stripe-tailed with downy head plumage, amphibian up to ankles—truncated by Reorganized Latter Day Saint knicker flannel, she claw-writes ambidextrous each time the thunder comes." -
@Koss51209969
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Happy BULL DAY, y'all. Summer's almost over. You didn't get less than half the crap done you wanted to get done. Take a chill pill. Crack a beverage of your choice. Read about some people who got bigger issues than you. Here you go:
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"Pop-Pop never talked about how the person you are when you ship off isn’t the person you are when you ship back. How a war story is only a story if it didn’t happen to you." -
@MarioAliberto3
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Hey y’all, we’ll be at table T1109 with 7.13 Books & the Legend
@kurtbaumeister
. Come holler.
#AWP2024
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"Every night I go to bed, I ask her what If I die in my sleep from a heart attack & all she does is groan & roll over & tell me to stop being so dramatic. Sometimes I wish that’s exactly what would happen so she could feel stabbing guilt."
@NikiGjoni
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Happy BULL day. Take a moment away from the looming Pandemic Part II to read some stories, most of which written during Pandemic Part I, so hey, silver lining & all that sh*t we tell ourselves to get through the day:
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Happy BULL DAY. Is it really the end of April? southerners/northerners ask for very different reasons. Here's some stories that won't help you find the answers.
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Hey y'all heading to AWP: tattoo this on your forehead: The BULL/COWBOY JAMBOREE table is 1611 with
@miketchin
signing books from 11-1 on Thursday and
@DarenDean1
from 11 to 12 on Thursday as well. TBA for Drevlow and
@amanda_bales
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Happy mid-October. Eat some Halloween candy for no reason. Read some great prose:
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Well, well, well, would you lookee here, the old site's back up and running with a new url: .
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"Outside, the sky is island blue. No clouds. No wind. No hint of the dormant volcano below."
@KarenCrawford_
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