FameShameSchwarzeneggercan get you a Tesla 3But Twitter won’t turbochargeyour trumped-up monopolyDon’t blame the kings, Gretahot lava bombs and heresyGo make some friends, GretaQuit tallying-dallying[…]
variations of a burden (J.L. Seaton)
STRANGER. It is eight in the morning, and I have already caused a scene with my carelessness. Lack of sleep makes me stupid, or perhaps that’s just me. The reason doesn’t matter (not now, at […]
Curse-Form-Rejection-Template.docx (Renee Agatep)
Subject: Poetry Rejection and Death by Bloody Mary Hey There [NAME], Don’t remember your name. Never heard of you. Saw the poem. Hard pass. Also – THIS EMAIL HAS BEEN CURSED ONCE OPENED YOU MUST SEND IT. […]
Black Velvet & Coke (Sage Ravenwood)
Two people, one birthday, Me and my father. Real dads are a myth. Birthdays will never Be memorable. You left a nine-year-old Little girl; she found you I found you, remember? I remember Black Velvet […]
Mr. Big Shit (D.T. Robbins)
A quick note from M.M. Carrigan (Editor Grande Supreme of TBQ): Sometimes we tell a collective story. Rejection Letters tells a story of outsiderness, rejection. These stories exist outside TBQ, outside RL, outside any journal. […]
If I Am A Fool (Sean Ennis)
I was watching the Impeachment when the dog walked through the room and it occurred to me that golden retrievers are supposed to be nice. That dogs understand and appreciate they’ve been rescued is not […]
The Xi Movement (Karen Steiger)
So I talked to Alan last night,for the first time in a long time.You heard that his wife left him, right?She joined a cult.Which is kind of hilarious.I mean, it’s very serious and sadand a […]
Write About Race (Gauraa Shekhar)
What they want me to write about: how, like every Indian family, mine harbored hope for a fair-skinned daughter. How, they thought of the names in preparation: Arjuni, Divyatha, Gauri. Names, that, in God-fearing Sanskrit, […]
The Haunted Omentum (Katie Piper)
My abdomen is haunted; riddled with girl corpses, none of them fully developed. They gaggle around in my omentum – the slippery curtain that hangs like an apron, sailing over my intestines. They cackle and […]
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