Thank you Ben for taking this weird little piece!

Evan James Sheldon's "Were There Darker Provinces of Night" #Fiction #Longreads via BULL mrbullbull.com/newbull/fictio…

“'Even the dead,' his mom warned, 'are hungry.'” - Noah Milligan mrbullbull.com/newbull/fictio…

"Jean jacket layered in pins, anarchy & misfits & sonic youth, red bangs sprayed in a bouffant wave, red lips smacking hubba bubba. Mom didn’t like it but who can say no to a goddess who at any slight could destroy our whole neighborhood." Melissa Llanes Brownlee mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-…

New micros up at BULL!! Thank you so much for giving these a home 🥰❤️

"Our lives were so empty we kept track of how many questions we got right on Jeopardy! Whoever got the most questions right, the winner chose something the loser had to do. It was pathetic. But it was something. We were holding on, trying to." TE Cowell mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-…

Anthony Neil Smith is such a nasty, beautiful writer. I adore him so much. So should you. Check this one out.

"He wriggled the toes of one foot, then the other, making the little eyes that were his toenails blink in the darkness. Each of them a tropical blue, for his daughter had painted them the week before she’d died." - Derek Pfeffer mrbullbull.com/newbull/fictio…

Check out Melissa Llanes Brownlee's latest flash fiction piece, "Singed by Fire," over on BULL! buff.ly/unNUHfZ Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET right here: buff.ly/DM0Wi3K

The next interview in my 2025 interview series with BULL is with kick asz poet William Taylor Jr. If you don't know the man's poems you should.

Including a shout out to one of our other favs Tempest Miller Tempest Miller 🍷

Too kind William Taylor Jr. BULL

"The men liked to talk. Trippi, they’d say, Trippi. What’d he do now? They had families, but what’d the kid do? His latest was always worth laughs, and a sense of who they were. The kid had something loose." - Kent Jacobson mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-…

"Death-times-infinity is a very permanent type of death. Really, there’s no coming back from that." Zach Alan Michael mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-…

"Nate didn’t drink anymore. He told me out front in the driveway the reason he’d gone to jail was for four DUI’s. You do years for that many. 'I was never any good at it,' he told me. 'I had to keep finding that out.'” - XC Atkins mrbullbull.com/newbull/fictio…

"I ran a quick round robin tournament of everything I’d ever loved & started to squeeze the fresh pack of cigs in my hand, a grand/empty gesture to show how much I would destroy just for the opportunity to hold you one more night." Alex Rost mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-…

"When their baby was delivered limp and almost black he hadn’t held his wife’s hand. He scratched his chin thoughtfully as his daughter was resuscitated. Rounded shoulders, arms hanging, he felt guilt." - Gary Moshimer mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-…