Benjamin Brindise

Writer, Flash Fiction Editor: @VarietyPack2 / Issue 13 Out Now / Author of Secret Anniversaries (Ghost City Press, 2019) & Rotten Kid (Ghost City Press, 2017)

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our poetry night got a noise complaint

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in three weeks we’re heading to a land of non-existence in @bloominonionlit — see you there

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got an acceptance from @bloominonionlit

it’s a story about gratitude & how we misunderstand the value of life while we’re living

find it this October

[The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit]

Y’ALL!

Our inbox is a little light at the moment. Want to submit something? We’re open to everything, but spooky stories are especially welcome. 🎃👻

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
https://t.co/EzfU9CMkJD

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regal movie theaters carrying source material books in-theater

would love to know what their expected and actual sell-through-rates end up being

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we’re currently open for flash fiction submissions at @VarietyPack2 — theme this issue is cosmic horror

my first publications were horror/speculative stories back in 07, 08 & 09 — I love this shit

send me a scare

[serious-lit @seriouslitmag]

Did you hear? They shot that poet.

@WilliamTaylorJr

https://t.co/cAkJpwZ6kH

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ah, the first groan at collinsworth of the season

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Rotten Kid is on sale on the @GhostCityPress website so I’m
nostalgia dumpster diving

Will always be surprised my little spoken word / fiction hybrid still finds new readers every year

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- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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“But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess—that there is always a reaction, on the part of the affected organism or individual, to restore, to replace, to compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.”

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born on the Gulf of Mexico, I have always been called back to the water

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before death, I’m trying to swim in every ocean

today i can cross out the southern pacific

[Benjamin Brindise @BenBrindise]

got an acceptance from @bloominonionlit

it’s a story about gratitude & how we misunderstand the value of life while we’re living

find it this October

[Bill @wjneumire]

Every poet my age that I know learned the carpe diem lesson too well and doesn’t know what to do about the fact that we’re still alive

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humidity is such a double-edged sword

[kat @giordkat]

you’re most likely to see the phrase “it’s not too late” in, like, advertisements and marketing emails, so what does that tell you

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Mojave Desert

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having friends in a community and seeing them in public and hanging for the day is such a top notch experience

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I’ll be at the @VarietyPack2 table at Zinefest from 1-4pm talking about flash fiction and Buffalo Speaks with some fresh, handmade zines for sale to support the mag. Buffalo, come say hi 👋

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In #100 we examine the cyclical & destructive force of addiction—how, in its many forms, it manages to take hold of so many of us, swallowing us whole & spitting us out, over & over again. Read “Ouroboros” by Katie Licari. Cheers, Katie! 🍸
https://t.co/AFc6MNcqYN

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like, get over it west virginia, it’s a dollar

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i find it incredibly strange that i, a person, can owe the state of west virginia a dollar eighty-seven