“where the fields behind them lie open to the sky, begging for rain.” —Cheryl Pappas gooseberry-pie.com/i-dreamt-of-du…

“At night, Jesus visits my bedroom, not a Middle Eastern Jesus speaking a foreign language, a white Jesus speaking perfect English.” — Brett Pribble gooseberry-pie.com/forgiving-je...

“Downstairs, another husband makes a smoothie, and I ask if he wants to hear my dream.” - Emily Rinkema 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 gooseberry-pie.com/or-was-it-a-ba…

“the fibers might remind you of worms, your first playmates as a child, and the time you ate three of them” -Sarah Lynn Hurd gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you-s…

I’m always honored to have work in Bending Genres LLC. Here’s the opening paragraph of my new story “Monochromatic” that dropped today in Issue 47. Click the link below to read the whole story, as well as the other genre-bending works in this terrific issue. bendinggenres.com/monochromatic/

“But no, fucking Melody, with her green thumb and her horny hands in the fecund earth was the culprit.” Robert Vaughan gooseberry-pie.com/the-roses-we...

“I was just saying a word in real life that I’d only heard in movies, because the fact was I wanted none of this to be real” kim magowan gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-goi…

“The rectangular box I lay at the bottom makes the hole look like a clock, with the top of the box marking twelve and the bottom of the box marking six.” Kip Knott gooseberry-pie.com/by-the-numbers

“washing it down with her first pre-noon beer since college, feeling like she finally belongs when Pipewrench—that’s his name, I’m certain—outfits her with her own leather chaps, a matching fringed vest, and a flaming skull bandana,” Michael Czyzniejewski gooseberry-pie.com/buffalo-buffal…

✨ICYMI✨ “Friday Night Is” — a new micro creative nonfiction by Sumitra Singam! “Friday night is open-toed heels, purpling toes peeping at the beer-soaked floor of the Captain Cook.” Read it here: claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

“I’m getting married again, I tell him, after he sits, after I’ve opened the door to find this bedraggled man standing in pouring rain, holding a newspaper over his head” —Mikki Aronoff gooseberry-pie.com/Pareidolia/

“Before the others swallow him up in their stream, you glower, shout back You can’t direct me ‘cause I’m not in one of your plays, and grind your teeth as you glare at the sinews of his lanky, sandy body,” Mikki Aronoff gooseberry-pie.com/rebound/

Hobart :: Island by Wilson Koewing hobartpulp.com/web_features/i…

We have just over two weeks to pass Prop 50. And when we do, it will send a message of hope across the country, that change is possible if we do the work. So, let’s get to it. linktr.ee/cadem

Untitled, 1938 #artbots #picasso

Head of a man, 1908 #artbots #picasso

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Two Nude Women, 1946 #artbots #picasso

The Louvre has announced arrests in the recent jewel thefts. One of the criminals wore a beret to seem "French" while her accomplice stashed the gems in a baby carriage and a loaf of bread