The Bulb Region

An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and anything in-between. | Edited by @sarpsozdinler

[Travis Shosa @travis_shosa]

Today, I have a story in @grammarianmag, which spun out of a tweet typo commenting on @amhcrane87’s stories in @BulbRegion. So while this is a story about freedom, it’s also about community. And fate. And sex leashes. Please read “Uncleash.”

https://t.co/jQc5nsg9FZ

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@James_CallanNZ Only known heir to Bubbs McTubbleman

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"How do you reconcile with this, being spurted out of the cosmic womb, and for what? I’m eating lentil soup on the coldest day of the year. It’s a family recipe. Not my family."

🪳 Spencer Eckart returns to The Bulb Region with three introspective poems.

https://t.co/AXKFdbEhWo

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@amhcrane87 @tlkncrt Seen it at last earlier this year at a midnight student matinee after all these years, and I’ve been thinking about it from time to time since.

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@amhcrane87 @tlkncrt Oh man, I feel so stupid but I had no clue. Good to keep in mind for the future posts. Also, totally unrelated but, is that the incredible Nighshift in your profile pic?

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"The Baby is 5000 years old, she could’ve known almost anyone you’ve ever heard about, met them and their ghosts, but probably didn’t."

🍼 You wouldn't want to watch trash in front of Janice Leadingham's (@thehagsoup) The Baby in The Bulb Region today.

https://t.co/cIPQJHkcUy

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Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, make time to read our contributor Peter DeMarco's (@PDMwriter) darkly comic suburban gothic, "Class of '77," published last month in @HAWKEYE_mag.

https://t.co/fVmqJYN2is

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We return tomorrow with a new combination of prose and poetry, but before then, have a look at these mordantly funny poems by our recent contributor Catherine Weiss (@catherineweiss) in BOMB.

https://t.co/9GK418pdFV

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@PDMwriter @sarpsozdinler Welcome to the region, Peter! ❤️

[Peter DeMarco @PDMwriter]

Thank you to the gracious and supportive @sarpsozdinler and @BulbRegion for sharing a piece of suburban fury.
https://t.co/hs9cAXeJ1a

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"I’ve never seen an airplane / I didn't feel responsible / for holding up. / I was an anxious child. / Now I’m an adult who measures / life in lengths of road."

📺 There's plenty of truth in @catherineweiss's poems in The Bulb Region today.

https://t.co/SRcS56d0jt

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"[I] don’t trust him, she said, he kills things for a living now, got a pest control van, see, he’s still a bully [...]"

🚚 Don't miss Peter DeMarco's (@PDMwriter) breathless, one-sentence story, "The Good Guy," in The Bulb Region today.

https://t.co/PVPrAXtY8K

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Before tomorrow's new edition, make time to read these poems by our recent contributor Robert John Miller, published in @bruisermag.

https://t.co/w4iDLPvGSs

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Tomorrow we return with a new pairing of prose and poetry, but before then, have a look at this amusingly brilliant micro by our returning contributor Matt Rowan, "Dad Fights," published in @xraylitmag.

https://t.co/pcXaJ2uCOM

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Congratulations to our dear contributor Ivy Grimes (@IvyGri) who’s been featured on Turn&Work’s The Shortlist selection this month with her wonderful, enigmatic short story, “Fish Eyes,” in The Bulb Region!

https://t.co/V7M8erXPf0

Ivy’s story in the comments section below. 👇

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“Are you peeing right now she says and I
say ohnonono how can you tell it’s
imperceptible and she says you have
to submarine and I say yes of course […]”

Find Robert John Miller’s edgy, inventive sonnets in The Bulb Region today.

https://t.co/Yz1e5WknlE

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"Ernst began to form reasons for why it was illegal to carry a cabbage concealed in one’s pocket. Maybe people were afraid you might use the cabbage as a weapon."

🥬 Matt Rowan returns to The Bulb Region today with a hilariously brilliant story.

https://t.co/M43CPzxzfW

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Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to have a look at our recent contributor Binh Do's wonderful short story, "(They Long to Be) Close to You," in @SmokeLong

https://t.co/P7cFBdCmmS