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Embrace your Wednesday morning—check out, "You Should Have Held Her" by Gina Martucci! #flashfiction
You Should Have Held Her | Your Impossible Voice
By Gina Martucci — Everyone knows the first seat on a plane is a throne. Ass space for miles. A footrest to ensure your feet are never dirtied by the floor. The sterility of the whites and grays of th...
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October 7, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Embrace your Wednesday morning—check out, "You Should Have Held Her" by Gina Martucci! #flashfiction
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I didn’t know it was #LitMagWeek until just now.
There are so many litmags I love. Gonna shout out a few each day this week. 1/
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There are so many litmags I love. Gonna shout out a few each day this week. 1/
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September 30, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I didn’t know it was #LitMagWeek until just now.
There are so many litmags I love. Gonna shout out a few each day this week. 1/
@claudineliterary.bsky.social
@gonelawn.bsky.social
@yourimpossiblevoice.com
@jmwwjournal.bsky.social
@alocasiamag.bsky.social
@templeinacity.bsky.social
There are so many litmags I love. Gonna shout out a few each day this week. 1/
@claudineliterary.bsky.social
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"What Wolf has made is not a chronicle but a reckoning—with the country, with motherhood, and with the specific texture of loving someone in a place that keeps failing to protect them"
José Enrique Medina reviews "Parenting in the Age of Columbine" from Elizabeth S. Wolf and Kelsay Books! #poetry
José Enrique Medina reviews "Parenting in the Age of Columbine" from Elizabeth S. Wolf and Kelsay Books! #poetry
Review: Elizabeth S. Wolf's Parenting in the Age of Columbine | Your Impossible Voice
Review by José Enrique Medina — Parenting in the Age of Columbine, by Elizabeth S. Wolf, is strongest not at the level of individual poems but at the level of book design. Many poetry collections feel...
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September 23, 2026 at 12:49 PM
"What Wolf has made is not a chronicle but a reckoning—with the country, with motherhood, and with the specific texture of loving someone in a place that keeps failing to protect them"
José Enrique Medina reviews "Parenting in the Age of Columbine" from Elizabeth S. Wolf and Kelsay Books! #poetry
José Enrique Medina reviews "Parenting in the Age of Columbine" from Elizabeth S. Wolf and Kelsay Books! #poetry
"Marigold and Walter discovered the joys of the flesh together, in a grove of old oaks, the acorns hitting the ground like fireworks. They shed layers of clothing with abandon; desperate, hungry."
The Apple of My Eye by Margaret Camille Berliant #flashfiction Tuesday
The Apple of My Eye by Margaret Camille Berliant #flashfiction Tuesday
The Apple of My Eye | Your Impossible Voice
By Keith Woodruff — Monday dear 9535 hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can't get warm in winter.
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September 22, 2026 at 12:16 PM
"Marigold and Walter discovered the joys of the flesh together, in a grove of old oaks, the acorns hitting the ground like fireworks. They shed layers of clothing with abandon; desperate, hungry."
The Apple of My Eye by Margaret Camille Berliant #flashfiction Tuesday
The Apple of My Eye by Margaret Camille Berliant #flashfiction Tuesday
"I do feel bad for her. I mean, her friends probably shouldn’t have left her here. The room is hot as balls and I want to leave, but there’s no fucking way I try to get by the guys at the door. I don’t even really know these dudes."
#flashfiction Tuesday: "Black Light" by Brigid M. Hughes
#flashfiction Tuesday: "Black Light" by Brigid M. Hughes
Black Light | Your Impossible Voice
By Brigid M. Hughes — This kind of shit really isn’t allowed anymore but we’re loving it. She’s hammered and dancing in the middle of the dorm room, long brown hair, black eyeliner, one tit kinda hang...
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September 15, 2026 at 2:34 PM
"I do feel bad for her. I mean, her friends probably shouldn’t have left her here. The room is hot as balls and I want to leave, but there’s no fucking way I try to get by the guys at the door. I don’t even really know these dudes."
#flashfiction Tuesday: "Black Light" by Brigid M. Hughes
#flashfiction Tuesday: "Black Light" by Brigid M. Hughes
Your voyaging days aren't over.
Art Beck’s “The Insistent Island” is an Odyssey-themed original poetry chapbook, first published by @magrabooks.bsky.social in 2019. Republished by Your Impossible Voice with permission.
Art Beck’s “The Insistent Island” is an Odyssey-themed original poetry chapbook, first published by @magrabooks.bsky.social in 2019. Republished by Your Impossible Voice with permission.
The Insistent Island | Your Impossible Voice
Art Beck — An Odyssey-themed original poetry chapbook, first published by Paul Vangelisti's Magra Books in 2019. Republished here with permission.
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August 25, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Your voyaging days aren't over.
Art Beck’s “The Insistent Island” is an Odyssey-themed original poetry chapbook, first published by @magrabooks.bsky.social in 2019. Republished by Your Impossible Voice with permission.
Art Beck’s “The Insistent Island” is an Odyssey-themed original poetry chapbook, first published by @magrabooks.bsky.social in 2019. Republished by Your Impossible Voice with permission.
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The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free General Literary Short Stories feat. @castofwonders.org @yourimpossiblevoice.com @asteralesjournal.bsky.social @thequasarreview.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free General Literary Short Stories feat. @castofwonders.org @yourimpossiblevoice.com @asteralesjournal.bsky.social @thequasarreview.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/fee-free-general-literary-short-stories-yVDlC93x
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August 21, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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Just over a week left to get your submissions into Your Impossible Voice! yourimpossiblevoice.submittable.com/submit
August 24, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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What might it mean to think like a mountain? Like a prairie? Like a forest? What about like a river? @kelseysquire.bsky.social reviews Open the Floodgates by @ninaschuyler.bsky.social!
Review: Open the Floodgates by Nina Schuyler | Your Impossible Voice
Review by Kelsey Squire — Inspired by recent court cases in New Zealand, Ecuador, and India that affirmed personhood rights on bodies of water, Open the Floodgates imaginatively explores the implicati...
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August 12, 2026 at 12:07 PM
What might it mean to think like a mountain? Like a prairie? Like a forest? What about like a river? @kelseysquire.bsky.social reviews Open the Floodgates by @ninaschuyler.bsky.social!
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Those book nook kits are going to get me one of these days
August 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Those book nook kits are going to get me one of these days
We are delighted to welcome @csquareh.bsky.social to YIV for #flashfiction Tuesday. Don't miss the breathless drip-drip of Everything Gone All At Once!
Everything Gone All At Once | Your Impossible Voice
By Christine H. Chen — It all began with the empty bucket in a corner of the living room that collected the occasional water dripping from the ceiling when Ah Ma was showering on a chair in the bathtub upstairs even though I had suggested that she simply took a bath
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August 11, 2026 at 12:08 PM
We are delighted to welcome @csquareh.bsky.social to YIV for #flashfiction Tuesday. Don't miss the breathless drip-drip of Everything Gone All At Once!
Our Found in Translation series invites writers to share their approaches to the art of translation. In this installment, we talk with frequent YIV contributor Wally Swist about how he fashions language that honors the original’s mode of intention.
Found in Translation: Wally Swist |
Our Found in Translation series invites writers to share their approaches to the art of translation. In this installment, we talk with frequent YIV contributor Wally Swist about how he fashions language that honors the original's mode of intention.
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August 10, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Our Found in Translation series invites writers to share their approaches to the art of translation. In this installment, we talk with frequent YIV contributor Wally Swist about how he fashions language that honors the original’s mode of intention.
What are you waiting for?
August 7, 2026 at 12:09 PM
What are you waiting for?
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#Flashfiction Tuesday (On a Thursday!). Make some space in your reading schedule for Making Room by Elizabeth Ohga
Making Room | Your Impossible Voice
By Elizabeth Ohga — The pair of jeans that’s never fit, too wasteful to toss it even though you know you’ll never wear it, like all those friends you exchange thumbs and hearts with on social...
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August 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Sorry for another repost from something that came out months ago! Thrilled to have words in @yourimpossiblevoice.com such a dream pub.
New from Art Beck: Personal Things — essays and poems! A miscellany of essays, poems, translations, and reminiscences from Shearsman Poetry Book that coalesced around a “rather difficult convalescence” the author now looks back on as the "formal introduction to his 85th year." bit.ly/454ioyK
July 31, 2026 at 3:53 PM
New from Art Beck: Personal Things — essays and poems! A miscellany of essays, poems, translations, and reminiscences from Shearsman Poetry Book that coalesced around a “rather difficult convalescence” the author now looks back on as the "formal introduction to his 85th year." bit.ly/454ioyK
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Sending children through the mail. Chekhov and Bowie. It’s all here. Big happy to appear in @yourimpossiblevoice.com wrote this with the house and mailbox in mind where I lived in my teens in the Michigan countryside. Much thanks to @keithjpowell.com
"hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can’t get warm in winter. You can see me peeking out the window above the flower bed, looking like a nomad in my furred coat hood."
#flashfiction Letters to My Mailbox by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social!
#flashfiction Letters to My Mailbox by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social!
Letters to My Mailbox | Your Impossible Voice
By Keith Woodruff — Monday dear 9535 hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can't get warm in winter.
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July 28, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Sending children through the mail. Chekhov and Bowie. It’s all here. Big happy to appear in @yourimpossiblevoice.com wrote this with the house and mailbox in mind where I lived in my teens in the Michigan countryside. Much thanks to @keithjpowell.com
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"hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can’t get warm in winter. You can see me peeking out the window above the flower bed, looking like a nomad in my furred coat hood."
#flashfiction Letters to My Mailbox by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social!
#flashfiction Letters to My Mailbox by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social!
Letters to My Mailbox | Your Impossible Voice
By Keith Woodruff — Monday dear 9535 hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can't get warm in winter.
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July 29, 2026 at 12:36 PM
"hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can’t get warm in winter. You can see me peeking out the window above the flower bed, looking like a nomad in my furred coat hood."
#flashfiction Letters to My Mailbox by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social!
#flashfiction Letters to My Mailbox by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social!
Letters to My Mailbox | Your Impossible Voice
By Keith Woodruff — Monday dear 9535 hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can't get warm in winter.
yourimpossiblevoice.com
July 28, 2026 at 12:34 PM
"hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can’t get warm in winter. You can see me peeking out the window above the flower bed, looking like a nomad in my furred coat hood."
#flashfiction Letters to My Mailbox by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social!
#flashfiction Letters to My Mailbox by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social!
"I am off kilter, I am out of whack, and any other saying that softly describes a body that will not function as it should. There is an echo of a sound and it could be a cleaver, the slip of bone on bone, a tear in a vertebral artery."
Don't miss To Cleave by @rachelmsmithnz1.bsky.social!
Don't miss To Cleave by @rachelmsmithnz1.bsky.social!
To Cleave | Your Impossible Voice
By Rachel Smith — The C spine snakes upwards; from its mouth lines of blue and red and mustard yellow. Blue for veins, red for arteries, and yellow where the spinal cord merges into brainstem.
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July 22, 2026 at 12:47 PM
"I am off kilter, I am out of whack, and any other saying that softly describes a body that will not function as it should. There is an echo of a sound and it could be a cleaver, the slip of bone on bone, a tear in a vertebral artery."
Don't miss To Cleave by @rachelmsmithnz1.bsky.social!
Don't miss To Cleave by @rachelmsmithnz1.bsky.social!
"I am off kilter, I am out of whack, and any other saying that softly describes a body that will not function as it should. There is an echo of a sound and it could be a cleaver, the slip of bone on bone, a tear in a vertebral artery."
Don't miss To Cleave by Rachel Smith! #flashfiction
Don't miss To Cleave by Rachel Smith! #flashfiction
To Cleave | Your Impossible Voice
By Rachel Smith — The C spine snakes upwards; from its mouth lines of blue and red and mustard yellow. Blue for veins, red for arteries, and yellow where the spinal cord merges into brainstem.
yourimpossiblevoice.com
July 21, 2026 at 12:59 PM
"I am off kilter, I am out of whack, and any other saying that softly describes a body that will not function as it should. There is an echo of a sound and it could be a cleaver, the slip of bone on bone, a tear in a vertebral artery."
Don't miss To Cleave by Rachel Smith! #flashfiction
Don't miss To Cleave by Rachel Smith! #flashfiction
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My debut chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain,” received a lovely review from the literary journal @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Grateful for this thoughtful, close reading of the 12 stories in my collection. yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...
July 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
My debut chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain,” received a lovely review from the literary journal @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Grateful for this thoughtful, close reading of the 12 stories in my collection. yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...
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My debut chapbook got reviewed and it’s a rave. Beautifully written. I’m still processing. So grateful to @yourimpossiblevoice.com for such a close, thoughtful reading of my work.
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Review: Ghost in the Rain by Matthew Jakubowski | Your Impossible Voice
Review by Kelsey Squire — In Matthew Jakubowski’s chapbook Ghost in the Rain, the story titled “Particles of Death” opens with a question: “What is it that keeps us alive?”
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July 2, 2026 at 10:30 PM
My debut chapbook got reviewed and it’s a rave. Beautifully written. I’m still processing. So grateful to @yourimpossiblevoice.com for such a close, thoughtful reading of my work.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...
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Thrilled to have this thoughtful, stellar review in @yourimpossiblevoice.com for my debut story collection, “Ghost in the Rain” (Bottlecap Press).
Review link: yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...
Link to book:
bottlecap.press/collections/...
Review link: yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...
Link to book:
bottlecap.press/collections/...
July 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Thrilled to have this thoughtful, stellar review in @yourimpossiblevoice.com for my debut story collection, “Ghost in the Rain” (Bottlecap Press).
Review link: yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...
Link to book:
bottlecap.press/collections/...
Review link: yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...
Link to book:
bottlecap.press/collections/...
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Our 2025 Doctorow Prize winner Karen An-hwei Lee on MARIMO, MON AMOUR (coming this fall) in @yourimpossiblevoice.com ~ read more: yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
July 7, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Our 2025 Doctorow Prize winner Karen An-hwei Lee on MARIMO, MON AMOUR (coming this fall) in @yourimpossiblevoice.com ~ read more: yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
Hovering exquisitely on the line between flash fiction and prose poem, @mattjakubowski.bsky.social "uses deft twists and turns of language to launch readers into completely unexpected scenes, each grappling with unique takes on this question." #flashfiction
Review: Ghost in the Rain by Matthew Jakubowski | Your Impossible Voice
Review by Kelsey Squire — In Matthew Jakubowski’s chapbook Ghost in the Rain, the story titled “Particles of Death” opens with a question: “What is it that keeps us alive?”
yourimpossiblevoice.com
July 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Hovering exquisitely on the line between flash fiction and prose poem, @mattjakubowski.bsky.social "uses deft twists and turns of language to launch readers into completely unexpected scenes, each grappling with unique takes on this question." #flashfiction