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"Mother-Love Certificate" by Martha Witt
The certificate, once bestowed, applies to all children in a household, even those not yet born at the time of test-taking. Please find the definition of “household” on the DOE’s website.
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The certificate, once bestowed, applies to all children in a household, even those not yet born at the time of test-taking. Please find the definition of “household” on the DOE’s website.
Issue 3.14 is live!
"Mother-Love Certificate" by Martha Witt
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Issue 3.14 is live!
"Mother-Love Certificate" by Martha Witt
www.wallstrait.com/post/mother-...
The certificate, once bestowed, applies to all children in a household, even those not yet born at the time of test-taking. Please find the definition of “household” on the DOE’s website.
Issue 3.14 is live!
"Mother-Love Certificate" by Martha Witt
www.wallstrait.com/post/mother-...
Issue 3.14 is live!
"Mother-Love Certificate" by Martha Witt
www.wallstrait.com/post/mother-...
"Mother-Love Certificate" by Martha Witt
The certificate, once bestowed, applies to all children in a household, even those not yet born at the time of test-taking. Please find the definition of “household” on the DOE’s website.
www.wallstrait.com
October 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
The certificate, once bestowed, applies to all children in a household, even those not yet born at the time of test-taking. Please find the definition of “household” on the DOE’s website.
Issue 3.14 is live!
"Mother-Love Certificate" by Martha Witt
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Issue 3.14 is live!
"Mother-Love Certificate" by Martha Witt
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Today's listing of the day is: Wallstrait: A Literary Journal of Hard-to-Define Fiction @wallstrait.bsky.social (some fees) #WritingCommunity
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September 19, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Today's listing of the day is: Wallstrait: A Literary Journal of Hard-to-Define Fiction @wallstrait.bsky.social (some fees) #WritingCommunity
I feel like water through a colander. That’s what I’m trying to tell him.
The doctor sighs.
New Fiction: "It’s a Real Condition" by Marcella Senti
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The doctor sighs.
New Fiction: "It’s a Real Condition" by Marcella Senti
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"It’s a Real Condition" by Marcella Senti
I feel like water through a colander. That’s what I’m trying to tell him.
The doctor sighs.
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September 12, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I feel like water through a colander. That’s what I’m trying to tell him.
The doctor sighs.
New Fiction: "It’s a Real Condition" by Marcella Senti
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The doctor sighs.
New Fiction: "It’s a Real Condition" by Marcella Senti
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We are officially OPEN for submissions through December 1! Send us your boldest, hardest-to-define fiction!
We pay $100 and make every effort to respond quickly. If you're waiting, we're likely discussing.
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We pay $100 and make every effort to respond quickly. If you're waiting, we're likely discussing.
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We welcome flash fiction, longer stories, and hybrid experimental stuff you can't quite define. We publish a new story every three weeks.
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September 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM
We are officially OPEN for submissions through December 1! Send us your boldest, hardest-to-define fiction!
We pay $100 and make every effort to respond quickly. If you're waiting, we're likely discussing.
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We pay $100 and make every effort to respond quickly. If you're waiting, we're likely discussing.
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Helene Sharawi uses words like quadriller. She is mysteriously beige. Inscrutable.
"Florida Fine" by Michael Murphy. Issue 3.12 is live!
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"Florida Fine" by Michael Murphy. Issue 3.12 is live!
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"Florida Fine" by Michael Murphy
Helene Sharawi uses words like quadriller. She is mysteriously beige. Inscrutable. Stares at readers from her byline through cat eye specs and with deific certainty. Unreproachable. Isinglass. Macedoi...
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August 22, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Helene Sharawi uses words like quadriller. She is mysteriously beige. Inscrutable.
"Florida Fine" by Michael Murphy. Issue 3.12 is live!
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"Florida Fine" by Michael Murphy. Issue 3.12 is live!
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It’s story about a 🐐, a chef, and overreach…
at an NGO compound in Haiti
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It’s story about a 🐐, a chef, and overreach…
at an NGO compound in Haiti
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"Heifer, Milk & Mango" by Stan J Wild
In hot Haiti sun, on the NGO compound at rue Pelican, Boy scrambles up the bark. Through mango tree leaves, illuminated lime green, in his fluorescent cocoon for one, he lays pressed to timber slats o...
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August 1, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Grateful to @smokelong.bsky.social friends, @marioaliberto3.bsky.social and @graythebruce.bsky.social
It’s story about a 🐐, a chef, and overreach…
at an NGO compound in Haiti
www.wallstrait.com/post/heifer-...
Grateful to @smokelong.bsky.social friends, @marioaliberto3.bsky.social and @graythebruce.bsky.social
It’s story about a 🐐, a chef, and overreach…
at an NGO compound in Haiti
www.wallstrait.com/post/heifer-...
Lizards appear along branches—flank Boy, their chins undulating, and eyes askance at him—but he remains flat and still, the new goat forever in his sight: she will not die.
"Heifer, Milk & Mango" by @stanjwild.bsky.social
Issue 3.11 is live!
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"Heifer, Milk & Mango" by @stanjwild.bsky.social
Issue 3.11 is live!
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"Heifer, Milk & Mango" by Stan J Wild
In hot Haiti sun, on the NGO compound at rue Pelican, Boy scrambles up the bark. Through mango tree leaves, illuminated lime green, in his fluorescent cocoon for one, he lays pressed to timber slats o...
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August 1, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Lizards appear along branches—flank Boy, their chins undulating, and eyes askance at him—but he remains flat and still, the new goat forever in his sight: she will not die.
"Heifer, Milk & Mango" by @stanjwild.bsky.social
Issue 3.11 is live!
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"Heifer, Milk & Mango" by @stanjwild.bsky.social
Issue 3.11 is live!
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Recently I found a rain-stained, love-sick poem I wrote in a Haiti treehouse.
This great feature by @falenciajfwrites.bsky.social took me back to post-earthquake Haiti.
The poem is now a story about comeuppance for tradition and commerce meddling, due out in @wallstrait.bsky.social next month.
This great feature by @falenciajfwrites.bsky.social took me back to post-earthquake Haiti.
The poem is now a story about comeuppance for tradition and commerce meddling, due out in @wallstrait.bsky.social next month.
These nine characters insist trans and queer lives belong in all walks of Haitian life.
Queerness Is an Essential Part of Haiti's Story - Electric Literature
These nine characters insist trans and queer lives belong in all walks of Haitian life
buff.ly
July 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Recently I found a rain-stained, love-sick poem I wrote in a Haiti treehouse.
This great feature by @falenciajfwrites.bsky.social took me back to post-earthquake Haiti.
The poem is now a story about comeuppance for tradition and commerce meddling, due out in @wallstrait.bsky.social next month.
This great feature by @falenciajfwrites.bsky.social took me back to post-earthquake Haiti.
The poem is now a story about comeuppance for tradition and commerce meddling, due out in @wallstrait.bsky.social next month.
Lucky me, I got a green configuration in the trunk. The one with stars.
Green with Stars it is.
Issue 3.10 is live! "To Be Green With Stars" by Bill Gusky.
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Green with Stars it is.
Issue 3.10 is live! "To Be Green With Stars" by Bill Gusky.
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"To Be Green with Stars" by Bill Gusky
Standing in line at the Food Dragon with Froot Loops and PBR when my dang phone goes off. It’s Davis, my boss.
“What.”
“Get your ass down to Weenus Chrysler-Chicken-Cadillac, out on the Senator Ken...
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July 11, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Lucky me, I got a green configuration in the trunk. The one with stars.
Green with Stars it is.
Issue 3.10 is live! "To Be Green With Stars" by Bill Gusky.
www.wallstrait.com/post/to-be-g... #amreading #fiction
Green with Stars it is.
Issue 3.10 is live! "To Be Green With Stars" by Bill Gusky.
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"The tips of his ears burn bright, and he feels the flush rising up his neck into his cheeks. He opens his eyes and speedwalks to the bathroom."
Fiction by Owen Corrigan: "Look at Naked Mole-Rats on Your Lunch Break"
Issue 3.9 is live!
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Fiction by Owen Corrigan: "Look at Naked Mole-Rats on Your Lunch Break"
Issue 3.9 is live!
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"Look at Naked Mole-Rats on Your Lunch Break" by Owen Corrigan
—Yes, I can explain. Yes, the fact that I’m going to explain implies that there is an explanation. Yes, it is a fact. Right now it’s an assertion but… Hello?
Erik hangs up the phone, closes his eyes ...
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June 20, 2026 at 6:52 AM
"The tips of his ears burn bright, and he feels the flush rising up his neck into his cheeks. He opens his eyes and speedwalks to the bathroom."
Fiction by Owen Corrigan: "Look at Naked Mole-Rats on Your Lunch Break"
Issue 3.9 is live!
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Fiction by Owen Corrigan: "Look at Naked Mole-Rats on Your Lunch Break"
Issue 3.9 is live!
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"What it must have meant, to my father, to bring his daughter to the ballet. After his childhood. After finding his parents drunk-dead on the kitchen floor."
"Pas de Deux" — Nonfiction by Jamie Cattanach
Issue 3.8 is live!
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"Pas de Deux" — Nonfiction by Jamie Cattanach
Issue 3.8 is live!
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"Pas de Deux" by Jamie Cattanach
What it must have meant, to my father, to bring his daughter to the ballet. After his childhood. After finding his parents drunk-dead on the kitchen floor. After the pedestrian white-trash poverty he ...
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May 30, 2026 at 5:15 PM
"What it must have meant, to my father, to bring his daughter to the ballet. After his childhood. After finding his parents drunk-dead on the kitchen floor."
"Pas de Deux" — Nonfiction by Jamie Cattanach
Issue 3.8 is live!
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"Pas de Deux" — Nonfiction by Jamie Cattanach
Issue 3.8 is live!
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"Rule number one with Rosie Cailean O’Brien was to never get stinkin’ falling-down drunk..."
"Rosie’s Righteous Rules" by BV Lawson
Issue 3.7 is live!
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"Rosie’s Righteous Rules" by BV Lawson
Issue 3.7 is live!
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"Rosie’s Righteous Rules" by BV Lawson
Rule number one with Rosie Cailean O’Brien was to never get stinkin’ falling-down drunk, because that was a stripper’s ticket to assault or worse, and she’d been careful about it until a week ago when...
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May 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
"Rule number one with Rosie Cailean O’Brien was to never get stinkin’ falling-down drunk..."
"Rosie’s Righteous Rules" by BV Lawson
Issue 3.7 is live!
www.wallstrait.com/post/rosies-... #amreading #fiction
"Rosie’s Righteous Rules" by BV Lawson
Issue 3.7 is live!
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We're hiring volunteer Fiction Readers!
We're accepting applications through May 8th.
Learn more about the role and apply through Submittable: wallstrait.submittable.com/submit
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We're accepting applications through May 8th.
Learn more about the role and apply through Submittable: wallstrait.submittable.com/submit
#hiringreaders #readers #litmag
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Reading Periods: September 1 – December 1. March 1 - June 1.What We Pay: $100 via PayPal upon publication.What We Publish: Fiction NonfictionNo limitations on genre, style, etc. Just send us your be...
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April 29, 2026 at 12:22 AM
We're hiring volunteer Fiction Readers!
We're accepting applications through May 8th.
Learn more about the role and apply through Submittable: wallstrait.submittable.com/submit
#hiringreaders #readers #litmag
We're accepting applications through May 8th.
Learn more about the role and apply through Submittable: wallstrait.submittable.com/submit
#hiringreaders #readers #litmag
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"it’s tru that this month i have 16 crushes & only one of them knows my name."
New Fiction: "Does the Desiring Unbecome Me?" by Elizabeth J. Wenger
Issue 3.6 is live!
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New Fiction: "Does the Desiring Unbecome Me?" by Elizabeth J. Wenger
Issue 3.6 is live!
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"Does the Desiring Unbecome Me?" by Elizabeth J. Wenger
scrolling thru the usual pit of despair & i find myself again, a pile of imperfections & ardor. lulu is like ‘okie hun, u have GOT to get off that shit’ but i am like ‘i love them all, i love them all...
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April 18, 2026 at 6:05 PM
"it’s tru that this month i have 16 crushes & only one of them knows my name."
New Fiction: "Does the Desiring Unbecome Me?" by Elizabeth J. Wenger
Issue 3.6 is live!
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New Fiction: "Does the Desiring Unbecome Me?" by Elizabeth J. Wenger
Issue 3.6 is live!
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"Six days before It Happens, he holds a candle up to your face until the heat wakes you. His face is thin and glowing orange."
New Fiction: "Our Last Verge" by a.k. barak
Issue 3.5 is live!
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New Fiction: "Our Last Verge" by a.k. barak
Issue 3.5 is live!
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March 28, 2026 at 9:32 AM
"Six days before It Happens, he holds a candle up to your face until the heat wakes you. His face is thin and glowing orange."
New Fiction: "Our Last Verge" by a.k. barak
Issue 3.5 is live!
www.wallstrait.com/post/our-las... #amreading #fiction
New Fiction: "Our Last Verge" by a.k. barak
Issue 3.5 is live!
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Send us your boldest, weirdest, and/or hardest-to-definest prose!
We open for submissions until June 1st!
#HighBrowHashtags #words #PopRocks #PokemonDay #Wallpaper #Whitesnake #bumblebee #words
We open for submissions until June 1st!
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March 7, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Send us your boldest, weirdest, and/or hardest-to-definest prose!
We open for submissions until June 1st!
#HighBrowHashtags #words #PopRocks #PokemonDay #Wallpaper #Whitesnake #bumblebee #words
We open for submissions until June 1st!
#HighBrowHashtags #words #PopRocks #PokemonDay #Wallpaper #Whitesnake #bumblebee #words
Hard-to-define new fiction: "A Brief Look at Competitive Chess Through 3150" by John Leppik
Issue 3.4 is now available!
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Issue 3.4 is now available!
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March 7, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Hard-to-define new fiction: "A Brief Look at Competitive Chess Through 3150" by John Leppik
Issue 3.4 is now available!
www.wallstrait.com/post/a-brief... #fiction #amreading
Issue 3.4 is now available!
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Deceptively layered. Deftly executed stream of consciousness. This piece does a ton with 600 words.
"Draw Shot" by Chey Dugan.
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"Draw Shot" by Chey Dugan.
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"Draw Shot" by Chey Dugan
Pocket Change is a classic hole-in-the-wall bar—dim and slightly smelling of men’s piss. The overhead Budweiser lamp throws off odd shadows of red that mingle with the green carpeted table and I’m rem...
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February 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Deceptively layered. Deftly executed stream of consciousness. This piece does a ton with 600 words.
"Draw Shot" by Chey Dugan.
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"Draw Shot" by Chey Dugan.
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This is one of my favorite stories that I've written and I'm so happy Wallstrait saw something in my little Baba Yaga tale
Brand new fiction now live!
"The Old Customs" by Talia R. BarNoy
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"The Old Customs" by Talia R. BarNoy
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January 24, 2026 at 6:31 PM
This is one of my favorite stories that I've written and I'm so happy Wallstrait saw something in my little Baba Yaga tale
Brand new fiction now live!
"The Old Customs" by Talia R. BarNoy
www.wallstrait.com/post/the-old... #fiction #amreading
"The Old Customs" by Talia R. BarNoy
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January 24, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Brand new fiction now live!
"The Old Customs" by Talia R. BarNoy
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"The Old Customs" by Talia R. BarNoy
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First Issue of the new year is live!
"Our Dad Was a Spy in the Eighties" by Martin Taulbut
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"Our Dad Was a Spy in the Eighties" by Martin Taulbut
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January 6, 2026 at 5:22 PM
First Issue of the new year is live!
"Our Dad Was a Spy in the Eighties" by Martin Taulbut
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"Our Dad Was a Spy in the Eighties" by Martin Taulbut
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These lit mags passed the vibe check this year to be the Boldest & Weirdest!
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December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
These lit mags passed the vibe check this year to be the Boldest & Weirdest!
Submit to them (and our longlist!) here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/bold-a...
#writing #writers #writingcommunity
Submit to them (and our longlist!) here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/bold-a...
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And look whose piece is in the promo pic 👀
The Best Lit Mags of 2025 results are in from Chill Subs!
We scored a Top 10 spot in the “Bold and Weird” category.
That’s right where we belong.
Thanks to all the writers who voted, and thanks to the awesome folks at @chillsubs.bsky.social for doing this!
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We scored a Top 10 spot in the “Bold and Weird” category.
That’s right where we belong.
Thanks to all the writers who voted, and thanks to the awesome folks at @chillsubs.bsky.social for doing this!
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December 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
And look whose piece is in the promo pic 👀