Centaur Lit

Quarterly online literary journal dedicated to hybrid writing. November 2024: See you at

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The fall issue of Centaur is live!
Art by Ewerton Lua, writing by @JackieGoyette78, @LinforthC, @d_marcusa, @ClaudiaMonpere, Michelle Ross, and Francine Witte.

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Wrapping up our writer spotlights with a letter of love to a sister in "Spring Bouquet," by Meg Pokrass

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On astrology TikTok, they warn against Saturn tattoos. Negative energy. Limited. The planet of rigid boundaries. Consumed by karma and lessons from the past.

Read "My Brother Died, and All I Got Was This Stupid Tattoo," by Brittany Micka-Foos

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@andrea_jurjevic @tara_zambrano @authorsudha @AimeeKeeble @JoseHernandezDz Gary Fincke Frankie McMillan

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When the music stops we’re mid-twerk—legs bent, hands on knees, booties popping out—our faux leather jeggings and hip-hugging denim flares gaining purchase above the low-lying fog ...

Read "Stayin’ Alive" by Jennifer Lai
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Read "Red Mother in Midday," by Erica Kitch.

Mother, in the midday sun, smelled of Big Red and Red Door and dyed her crown box red; splattered with freckles and five feet tall, cheeks dented with a gentle nature belying bonfire smoke.

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"My curls will be bursting their gel casts and expanding, expanding. No one coifs a lion’s mane or flattens a cockatoo’s crest." Read "Morning Ablutions" by @carlaedash

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@andrea_jurjevic @tara_zambrano @authorsudha @AimeeKeeble @JoseHernandezDz

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"The kind of night you might curl like tobacco smoke, etch yourself into the grooves of a record that can be played somewhere else, anywhere else."

Read "Crossroads Diner Blues, 1937," by @MynaChang

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"The parties were over, and we found a praying mantis in the basement. It was green enough to be a miracle."

Celebrate summer by reading "Conspicuous Consumption," by @bbl_brett.

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It's the summer issue, loaded with great work by @bbl_brett , @MynaChang, @carlaedash, Erica Kitch, Jennifer Lai, Brittany Micka-Foos, and Meg Pokrass, with art by Frega + DiPerri.
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"I stopped trying to get rid of them, since nobody was left to tell me otherwise."

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"A Single Ladybug, Lying Dead on the Windowsill," by Elena Zhang @EZhang77

In honor of our spring issue❤️💐 (More sensational work hosted by @centaurlit next week)

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"According to mythology, the tree is a home to shapeshifters—if you are (un)lucky, one may fall hard for you and follow you around for the rest of your sweet life."

Read "Manual for an American Novice in a Small Indian Town," by @tara_zambrano

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Celebrating the spring issue with "The Archipelago," by @lclmixedupmedia.

"Now, scrying the shimmery surface of the mirror lake, the wives turn toward the one anointed by the moon."

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Congratulations, all. Shout out to @doylejacq for inclusion of "(Parenthetical Asides)" published in Centaur's first issue. Thanks to the whole hard-working @Wigleaf team for bringing us this treasure trove of stories every year! We love you, Wigleaf!

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Celebrating the spring issue with "Mushrooms," by @KathrynKulpa.

"... ashes forming shapes like when we used to watch clouds—It’s an elephant! It’s a sea serpent!—but these were the shapes of everyone we knew..."

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Celebrating the spring issue with "Drones," by Ulrica Hume @uhume.

"Casket. Inside: a flower-print dress. And over that, a blue London Fog raincoat. Safety pins holding a swath of sky together."
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Congratulations, @andrea_jurjevic, for inclusion of "Uncle Soul," originally published in Centaur's Fall 2023 issue, in Best Small Fictions 2024!
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@garson_scott's micro is big on longing in our spring issue.

"We bought two lottery tickets and didn’t scratch them. It was a game. Like: do yours first. No, you, the other said. A game we played by not playing."
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Celebrating the summer issue with writer @laughingyeti

"... we entered the radio like ghosts to their forgotten homes and twirled around the reels with our mouths opened, becoming magnetic—dizzied and mesmerized—into the echoes we lost ourselves..."

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