On hiatus | TBD is an ode to the writer’s bureau; a collection of stories accompanied by photographs of writers at their places of work.

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VOLUME 05: WAYFINDING—OUT NOW! 14 extraordinary stories out of 600 submissions that explore our relationships with physical (and metaphorical) spaces and places, and how we find our way. Thank you all for making this the largest call yet! 🙏♥️ READ: BureauDispatch.com
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This has been my go-to place to find the best stories and to find my name in the @wigleaf top 50 feels surreal and unbelievable! Many thanks to @laughingyeti and all editors and to @BureauDispatch 💝Huge congratulations to all writers who made it this year ❤️❤️❤️
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And finally, lit mags. This year, I kept up with @NOONAnnual, @onestorymag, @zyzzyvamag, @nplusonemag, @VQR, @adroitjournal, @SmokeLong, @BureauDispatch, and @Wigleaf. All as stunning as ever. Thank god for literature. Keep reading.
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Find my story “How Your Life Becomes a Reluctant Endorsement for Little Trees Air Fresheners” (maybe my favorite title ever for one of my pieces), originally featured in ⁦@BureauDispatch⁩, inside this lovely collection with some of my favorite folks. altcurrentpress.com/2023/12/…
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new new: The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2023 (Guest Editor: Venita Blackburn): wigleaf.com

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Thrilled and honored to publish 3 @Wigleaf longlisted stories! Congratulations @DemistyB @aubreyhirsch @ambernoelle ❤️
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I was happy to read "remember" (published in @BureauDispatch) at the @Anaheim_Library open mic night tonight alongside other wonderful musical performances and poetry readings. So much creativity out there!
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"“Baloo. Boy, you down here?” "all we’d heard was all that we’d been hearing that long, wet week in September: the bullfrogs in the yellow grass somewhere overhead and hapless snakes winding against the canal floor." Heartbreak from @Taylorbabe411 in @BureauDispatch
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@JiksunCheung at the @BureauDispatch was someone who was very kind to me at @SmokeLong way back when and I will now send him a stories 'till the end of time! (Always be nice to people it will make them want to send you more!) bureaudispatch.com/volume-05…
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Thrilled to have my story “How Your Life Becomes a Reluctant Advertisement For Little Trees Air Fresheners,” originally published with ⁦@BureauDispatch⁩, selected for Best Small Fictions. Thank you so much to the fine folks who worked on this. altcurrentpress.com/best-sma…

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So stoked to announce that @BarlowAdams's story from Vol 04: Field Notes was selected for this year's BEST SMALL FICTIONS! Thank you for trusting your story with TBD, Barlow! 🙏 1/2
Thrilled to have my story “How Your Life Becomes a Reluctant Advertisement For Little Trees Air Fresheners,” originally published with ⁦@BureauDispatch⁩, selected for Best Small Fictions. Thank you so much to the fine folks who worked on this. altcurrentpress.com/best-sma…
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" It had been raining nonstop that spring so everything and everyone had been driven down hard into the mud." @Taylorbabe411 in @BureauDispatch bureaudispatch.com/volume-05…

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"I should have known he'd put on face paint someday, leave when he turned sixteen, but it wasn't until later that I realized he'd stayed for me." @teresa_milbrodt in @BureauDispatch bureaudispatch.com/volume-05…

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"Mom falls asleep before I do. Her snoring sounds like a lullaby, a way for her to tell me, I’m there for you while I sleep, you’re safe." @happymil_ in @BureauDispatch bureaudispatch.com/volume-05…

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