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@theoffingmag.bsky.social"Here comes Andile, about to hit thirty days sober, who on our first run asked me what he should be doing to set himself up for time like I have."
From “Quest for the Slappy Man-Hug,” an essay by Lane Michael Stanley
@theoffingmag.bsky.social“I have bent back upon my life.
I have known I won’t survive
the leap from there to here.”
From “PART(UR)ITION,” a poem by Lucy Xiang-fu Wainger.
@theoffingmag.bsky.social"I’m minotaur
vulgar alive"
From “Resplendent,” a micro poem by Kathryn Hargett-Hsu.
@theoffingmag.bsky.socialIt’s the last day to take advantage of our #LitMagWeek offer! 📚 It’s also our EIC Vonetta Young’s birthday! Happy birthday, @vonettawrites!
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@theoffingmag.bsky.social"Uncle John said that throwing a party for Luke would be tacky, so we’re having a Spectacular Barbecue instead. When I asked Dad what made a Spectacular Barbecue different from a regular barbecue, he shrugged."
From “Spectacular Barbecue,” a short story by Madelyn Kye.
@theoffingmag.bsky.social#ThrowbackThursday to one of our favorite publications, now out of print.
Glimmer Train was a literary journal founded by sisters Susan and Linda in 1990 and closed in 2018.
You can still explore their archive of amazing work at www.glimmertrain.com
@theoffingmag.bsky.socialOur team boosted some of their favorite publications for #LitMagWeek! What are some of your favorites? Let us know in the comments below 👇
@theoffingmag.bsky.social"There had to be a way—some surefire solution where I could show up at the office over the next two days to “share weal and woe” with the staff."
From “Genesis,” a short story by Yuan Fei, translated from Chinese by Hai Ning Ng.
@theoffingmag.bsky.social“She is surrounded by these everyday items that, in their scarcity, have become glittery, treasure-like. Because she wants these things but cannot have them.”
From a Q&A with Amanda Rizkalla, author of “Hungered” by Gauri Awasthi.
@theoffingmag.bsky.social“Of The Dog, I write, White, large, fluffy, my fingers orange with afternoon snack dust. Jesus, forgive me. Being angry at The Dog is so unfair.”
From “My Neighbor The Dog,” a Wit Tea humor piece by Noreen Ocampo.
@theoffingmag.bsky.socialFrom “Loop,” a comic by Belle (Bom) Kim.
@theoffingmag.bsky.social"only u kno
all the ways i say yes"
From “virginia dmv” a BOTE a micro poem by Dante Fuoco.
@theoffingmag.bsky.social"What does forty-six billion light years look like to you? I am a palimpsest of everything I’ve ever loved."
From “Orbiting,” Insight essay by El Bentivegna.
@theoffingmag.bsky.social"Dear viewer, I know you want
the granular: all the details,
not just the gist;"
From “Inside the Frame,” a poem by Shara McCallum.
@theoffingmag.bsky.social"We fly so high that the earth is nothing more than a seedling & we are stars & galaxies, dust & waves."
From “Crane Nation,” a BOTE essay by Jen Jihye Shin.
@theoffingmag.bsky.social"We watch you pick at your salad from the salad place no one cool goes to. We silently agree: she’s probably a teacher. That’s why her aura is so…tragic."
From “We Are the Pack of Teenage Girls at the Mall,” a Wit Tea humor piece by Sarah Chin
@theoffingmag.bsky.social"I felt the breeze close as he walked with me, thinking who cares if you almost want to touch him, weaving my arm around his arm as we passed out of earshot of downtown."
From an excerpt from Acid Green Velvet by Grace Krilanovich
@theoffingmag.bsky.social“Sometimes good people do bad things. That doesn’t make them bad.” “Sometimes,” I said, sliding off the seat to my knees, crawling toward him, “bad people do good things.”
From “Recuerdo, Ohio,” a short story by Chelsie Bryant
@theoffingmag.bsky.social"Eight years old, what was I meant to confess? Some falsified test, guilt’s unanswered demands wadded like paper in my desk?"
From “The Panopticon,” a poem by Shara Lessley
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