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Vol. 2 - UNDER - OCTOBER 7TH
@blowoutmag.bsky.socialHow absurd can a return-to-office get after receiving an anonymous note?
Read Spencer Goble‘s new fiction, “Subordinate,” in The Blowout’s latest issue UNDER.
🖋️The night was black and empty except for us. A headlight gently painted the coral of a sneaker out of the grayscale before it slid past our position. We dared anyone to say something. We had all the comebacks, and tonight we had magic eggs.✒️ New story out in the Blowout Mag's second issue, UNDER:
@blowoutmag.bsky.social"There isn’t an open street cut or sidewalk ripped up that doesn’t cause me to stop to observe. I invite you to take a look. You’ll be met with a maze crossed with a puzzle and it’s an absolute mess. Yet each part functions as part of a system that keeps the city moving in silent, reliable fashion."
@blowoutmag.bsky.social"The underworld is not a physical place. It’s the bottom of the ocean, the basement in a blackout, the void in space that scientists study. It’s the absence of light that’s fled, that’s been swallowed wholly by grief."
Read take 2 by Danielle de Granville in the UNDER issue:
@blowoutmag.bsky.socialwisdom spreads easiest when it’s very dark
in silence, when our chests are gently strained by dreams
debris of ships are valuable landmarks
when the sunshine wakes us on the higher seas
—from Dario Cvencek's DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
@blowoutmag.bsky.socialProud to present the Blowout's second issue, UNDER. Twenty contributors. Thirty pieces of writing, art, and photography. Available now for your reading and perusal.
It's out! Thank you to all of the artists who have trusted us to buoy their work with care and to the readers who descend with us.
Happy release day!
@louisevans.bsky.socialReposted by @blowoutmag.bsky.social“Humans: A Stratigraphic History” just dropped in @blowoutmag.bsky.social , check that shit out!
@blowoutmag.bsky.social🐋 UNDER - The 2nd issue of The Blowout
👉 blowoutmag.substack.com/p/under
🧑🎨 20 contributors across:
* Fiction
* Art
* Nonfiction
* Poetry
* Photography
@blowoutmag.bsky.socialWe hope you stay a while. As always, art is on the walls and writers have the floor.
@blowoutmag.bsky.socialAfter we surface for air, time and history will fold in on themselves, leaving you to determine what fossils remain in the soil. The night will end with eggs and ample mischief.
@blowoutmag.bsky.socialThen, water guides a descent into the depths of grief and deceit, only for the pull of family ties to break us.
@blowoutmag.bsky.socialThe night opens with curiosity, an openness toward a nonuniform aesthetic appreciation. Once the table’s set, the puddles, trains, bedroom doors and concrete walls, that specific special energy of the city, awaits.
@blowoutmag.bsky.socialWe design each issue of The Blowout to feel like a long night at a good friend’s apartment, mingling with new minds, listening to voices filled with pride. Go ahead, lose track of time.
@blowoutmag.bsky.socialWelcome in. Let me grab your coat. You can pull up a seat and get comfortable. Inside, a journey through the minds and hearts of our contributors has been curated for your, yes, your attention. Visual art and photography will set and reset the mood among the prose and poetry.
@blowoutmag.bsky.socialTOMORROW - 11 AM ET
Finally, we can reveal the full slate for The Blowout’s second issue — UNDER
20 contributors across prose, poetry, and visual art.
Subscribe here to read it 👉 blowoutmag.substack.com
Here is an excerpt from my upcoming short story, "Because of the Colors. It's a favorite story of mine about youthful rebellion and magic. I hope you'll enjoy reading it as much as I did crafting it🎨✒️
@blowoutmag.bsky.social✒️Brutal summer temperatures aside, humans love heat: warmth, radiance, glow. Like gravity, it’s a fundamental yet invisible force. Heat is a sort of everyday magic.🖋️
Hold on to that feeling a brief moment this autumn.
Brian Russell's A Primer on Heat:
@blowoutmag.bsky.socialWaiting on our next issue? Check out prose from our last release, HEAT.
🖋️I have been brooding for six cycles and will stay that way until you take me. On the day of our date, please have all of your exposed surfaces autoclaved.🖋️
Hey friends! I have been working on a new literary and art magazine, the Blowout, and a short story of mine comes out in their second issue, UNDER, on Oct 7! Please subscribe to the Substack to receive the issue, featuring new fiction from me, on release day.
