An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and anything in-between. | Edited by @sarpsozdinler
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Jun 10
Word on the street is that we'll reopen for submissions in about a month! 🚨 July 6 through 10, open for five days. Fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and everything in between.
Save the date. Spread the word.
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"Soon after I move from the East Coast to San Diego to start a new life, three things happen: a job interview falls through, my car breaks down, and I buy tickets for a Nick Cave show, in that order."
Read Christie Chapman's quirky micro, "Economics," in The Bulb Region.
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"My pulse both slowed and quickened, impossibly at the same time. It felt like a perfect moment, one in which I could tell her I loved her, but she already knew that."
🎸 The inimitable Lacey Cohen (@laceyrco) returns to The Bulb Region with a gut punch of a micro.
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"Then the time passed—or rather the film swallowed the time itself—and I stood up to get something to drink without pausing the film because there was, in the end, nothing to miss."
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"I remember having opened an email draft then and jotted down a note: Not everything in life has to be complicated."
🍚 The first of our National Flash Fiction Day exclusives comes from İpek Şoran. Read her debut fiction, "The Note," in The Bulb Region today.
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Jun 12
As mentioned earlier, we return tomorrow with four new pieces, but in the meantime, make sure to have a look at our contributor LM Fontanes' (@LoriFontanes) beautiful short story, "Judgment Day," in @EmergeJournal.
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Jun 12
Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, make time to read our contributor Frances Gapper's (@biddablesheep) three wonderful micros in @Wigleaf.
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Jun 12
In line with tomorrow's National Flash Fiction Day events, we'll run four new, mostly very short pieces: one from our beloved returning author @laceyrco and three from new authors we are thrilled to welcome to The Bulb Region. Stay tuned! đź‘€
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Jun 11
My ekphrastic micro sequence inspired by the work of Leonora Carrington has sprouted in @BulbRegion The Bulb Region! Thank you to the wonderful @sarpsozdinler bulbregion.com/After-Leonora…
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"A tickle of, yeah, what did her mother used to say about men like that? He can put his shoes under my bed anytime."
Read LM Fontanes' (@LoriFontanes) haunting, fragmentary story of love and longing, "Truth and Consequences," in The Bulb Region today.
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Jun 11
"Drenched in yellow-blue light, we head for a whirlpool. The moon bleeds white stringy stuff. Between planetary fireworks the night is dark like underwater."
Don't miss @biddablesheep's series of ekphrastic micros, "After Leonora Carrington," in The Bulb Region today.
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Jun 10
This story is the reason my father won’t speak to me. It’s good though.
Jun 10
We'll continue our operations tomorrow with a killer combo of prose, but in the meantime, stop what you are doing and go to your sheds to read our contributor @indigojackal's booze-soaked, picaresque story, "Tennis, Anyone? Tennis Mubarak?" in The Southwest Review.
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Jun 10
Before tomorrow's new edition, have a look at these wise poems, worm poems, wise worm poems by our recent contributor Steve Minnich, published last year in @havehadhavehad.
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