Your Impossible Voice
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Publishing brash and velvety prose, poetry, CNF, translations, reviews, art, and more. Tweets by Keith (mostly). https://t.co/PqkbgXqDDz
Joined February 2013
Issue #31 finds the doomsday clock ticking down twenty days from the apocalypse. It’s full of liars, the lost, and the lonely, floating in fog and hungry for cake, eggs, and kink. All that plus Ginsberg, Khalo, and a magnificent tower of giraffes.
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Your Impossible Voice #31 finds the doomsday clock ticking twenty days from the apocalypse. It's chock-full of liars, the lost, and the lonely floating in fog and hungry for cake, eggs, and kink. All...
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Hey everyone, this is likely our last post on this site. You know why. You can find us at the other place.
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"Now, sex is boring. No, sex is something more complicated; it’s neutral. It‘s not stimulating, disgusting, or even a euphoric rush. It’s just something people do. It just exists.". Who is ready for "Risky Sex" by Taro Williams?.
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By Taro Williams — Now, sex is boring. No, sex is something more complicated; it’s neutral. It’s not stimulating, disgusting, or even a euphoric rush. It’s just something people do. It just exists.
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"The day after Heinrich Scheimann discovered the ancient city of Troy, all the she-goats came down from the mountain and stated quite matter-of-factly that they refused to ever be inseminated again.". from: The Oyster by Ann Pedone.
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By Ann Pedone — The day after Heinrich Scheimann discovered the ancient city of Troy, all the she-goats came down from the mountain and stated quite matter-of-factly that they refused to ever be...
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RT @stephen_beachy: The books I'll be teaching in the spring:.Beauty Salon, Mario Bellatin.Senselessness, Horacio Castellanos Moya.And Afte….
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"I didn’t know when I would make my father mad. I’d tell him I liked a song on the radio or repeat a joke from school, and he’d go off. I never saw it coming.". Visit Omaha by Jane Snyder in our latest issue!.
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By Jane Snyder — I didn’t know when I would make my father mad. I’d tell him I liked a song on the radio or repeat a joke from school, and he’d go off. I never saw it coming.
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Make yourself new! Start your week with The Weight of Drowned Calla Lilies by Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer.
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"When you met, Dave’s eye contact was endearing, or creepy, or both. Why did he stare? Were you attractive or the brightest object in the room enclosed by the rule of thirds?".
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By Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer — Amy Seltzer, you are leaking.Snap. Filter. Delete. Make yourself new. You can see it all from your screen.
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Rubric is just one of three amazing new poems from Linda Wojtowick in our latest issue!.
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It’s an old story: everything was coming new. Layers on layers of new. New neighborhoods gridding out like dead stars. At new airports tequila was green, snacks vacuum-packed. The clouds pearl-piled. Stores were new; registers silent, smooth as eggs.
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By Linda Wojtowick — It’s an old story: everything was coming new. Layers on layers of new. New neighborhoods gridding out like dead stars. At new airports tequila was green, snacks vacuum-packed.
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RT @doughboywrites: Just found out one of my favorite flash fiction writers has never read Das Kapital and doesn’t even know who Foucault i….
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Congratulations to Our Best Small Fictions Nominees: You Ain’t No Fuckin’ Warren by JWGoll.Such Good Care by Ani King.Elegy of an Eating Disorder by Lindsey.If You Must Know by @bdiggswrites .When I Finally Eat the Cake by @pleomorphic2
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"It’s like when someone fills a basket. It looks.good. It looks like the right thing. But that’s.how it happens. You won’t know the road. Sometimes the largest fillers are the emptiest men.". Basket Filler by Linda Wojtowick appears in issue 31!.
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By Linda Wojtowick — It’s like when someone fills a basket. It looks / good. It looks like the right thing. But that’s / how it happens. You won’t know the road. / Sometimes the largest fillers are...
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A Short Bob by Mehdi M. Kashani appears in our latest issue. Hope you'll take the time to check it out!.
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"Nearly a million people died in the Iran-Iraq war, my dad one of them. The Iraqis fired tank shells at him, and, in a split second, he vanished from the earth. Of him remained only a nameplate, a bag of memories, and a seed in my mom’s belly.".
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By Mehdi M. Kashani — Fresh snow carpets the road and glitters under the faint streetlights. Neighbors snuggle up in their homes, leaving the quiet roads a haven for strays.
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"It’s not like before. I know who I am. I don’t have doubts. Even asleep, I know who I am. But I hear things. Close or way off. A train rushes by and I wonder: Is it in my head? Is it real? ". Monday Reading: Addison Zeller's EVPs Captured in the Old Fort.
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By Addison Zeller — She says: Some skies just hang up there like cracked ice.
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"A man climbing up a steep mountain wielding a Claymore with a wild boar as a guard dog would not be considered strange during an apocalypse.".Damn that's a good poem. Close out the week with "Damn!" by Steve Castro.
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By Steve Castro — A man climbing up a steep mountain wielding a Claymore with a wild boar as a guard dog would not be considered strange during an apocalypse.
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We are thrilled to nominate the following outstanding writers for this year's Best Microfiction! @TommyDeanWriter @sarpsozdinler @tara_zambrano @ClaudiaMonpere @yallaalia
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