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Vast Chasm Magazine - cultivating community and publishing bold work: flash, short fiction, cnf, poetry, and other nonconforming pieces
Joined April 2021
The yearning is over! Launch yourself into the new issue and face the uncertainty with these fantastic contributors.
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Editor’s Note It’s summer in the States, the thick heat of July, and I am yearning for a breeze, a stirring of something better swooping in. We’re sick of the oppressive heat, the oppressive …
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We know you’ve been yearning to join in on the fun so…. Put your own spin on the issue with our Make-A-Micro interactive piece
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In the spirit of jumping into uncertainty and making something new together, we invite you to pick two random numbers between one and eight (or spin our wheel twice) and form a new micro story. Can…
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“I am the center of a seesaw and I keep the balance. I cook, clean, plan, arrange, manage, and listen…I hold the middle. I hold still.”. — Danielle Monroe, “Three Aprils” in 25Q3.
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April 2023 I am still married. My husband is elsewhere. My children sleep in their beds. I ready the house and myself for when they wake. I am the center of a seesaw and I keep th…
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It’s what we all dream of. taking ourselves to the forest to dance naked.away from laundry and picking up.countless old socks and half-full Coke cans—.in other words, away from men. — Harriet Weaver, “To The Girl Working at the Tea Shop in Provincetown”.
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I asked you about the novel you were readingand realized too late I was flirting,despite wearing an oversized nautical sweaterand a fanny pack designed to carrya child around my postpartum fat. You…
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“The first time you saw him, you thought, No one should be that perfect. It was impossible. No one’s lips were that color naturally.”. — Sara Rauch, “December” in 25Q3.
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The first time you saw him, you thought, No one should be that perfect. It was impossible. No one’s lips were that color naturally. After the first time, you saw him everywhere: walking down the si…
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"You asked if I was OK. I didn’t answer. Too busy staring at my phone, rereading that last message. Decent guys are hard to come by nowadays. Would love to chat. I never got the chance to thank you.". “Missed Connections” by Jennifer Lai.
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Seattle, WA Northbound on the Sound Transit Light Rail We sat opposite one another, heading from the U district to my stop at Mountlake Terrace. New Year’s Eve. Around 9:30 p.m. You: Olive-gr…
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"The first time I ask God for a sign, He leaves a dead mouse on the sidewalk.". — Lindy Biller “I Love You, God, But This is the Last Time I’m Asking” in 25Q3.
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The first time I ask God for a sign, He leaves a dead mouse on the sidewalk. I see it, curled up next to Mom’s wilting dahlias, on my way to the school bus. At first I think it’s a gray rock.…
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“so i guess that’s why we’re in.some state where the grass flows like.water and my voice sounds so.out of place”. — Emma Townsend, “my southern bones” 25Q3.
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my mother’s family is fromthe hills of tennessee—or maybebluegrass kentucky, i neverreally knew. she always talked aboutgrandma’s house—another thing ididn’t know—and how the family would gath…
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“Tender cuts on man-sized platters piled high to heaven with heaping sides of disrespect, / they live to be consumed and then discarded”. — M. M. Adjarian “Self-Congratulation” in 25Q3.
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Texas women love and curse with a fatal bless your heart. Sun-burned plains enclose them, their multi-colored bodies corralled in branded jeans. Tender cuts on man-sized platters piled high to heav…
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The tea is brewing in Harriet Weaver’s upcoming Issue 15 poem! You’re going to want to savor it, so whet your appetite for now with “What Occurs to Me This Morning”.
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Emma Townsend is the author of two children’s books, which you can find at Kids at Heart Publishing, but we promise her new poem is not all child’s play. We’re excited to bring it to you soon!.
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New fiction that’s sure to have you feeling all kinds of ways from Sara Rauch coming soon! If you want a glimpse into that future feeling, read her story “Falling Is Like This” @LunchTicket1 .
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“One minute it was road beneath us, and the next was sky.” —Ani DiFranco The hotel lobby is square, all elegant chandeliers and dark leather chairs. Jazz standards float above the concierge. Women...
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We’re excited to bring you heartbreaking and hopeful cnf from Danielle Monroe later this month! Danielle is currently seeking representation for her debut novel, SAMUEL IS RUNNING. See what else she’s up to here:
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Failing in the Right Direction
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Does the word nurdle make you giggle? Check out this heartbreaker of a toothbrushing story in @AtlasAndAlice and get hyped for Jennifer Lai's upcoming missed connections piece in our next issue.
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Photo: William Warby Portrait of a Normal Nuclear Family As with last Sunday, and the Sunday before that, and the Sunday before that, the husband and wife are shopping for toothpaste. It’s one of t…
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First up, there are a million ways to say goodbye, but you should say hello to this lovely, fishy, flash by Lindy Biller. The Welkin Writing Prize | There are a million ways to say goodbye
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The koi are swimming in circles in the hospice fish pond—slow and languid, gleaming like pennies at the bottom of the mall fountain in May of 1999, when you picked me up from school in your orange...
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Issue 15 is almost here (and we're still yearning for it). For now, we'll spend the week hyping up the contributors that made this one worth waiting for.
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No need to stress, this is “The Easy Part”: Revisit cnf from Daniel del Nido in our last issue.
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I cradled the tree in its pot for a coworker over Zoom. It’s just like you, she said. I showed her the swan-necked watering can that held no more than a pint. Don’t overwater it, the lady at the ga…
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Hungry for more of the strong, quiet love and ache in Sam Pisciotta’s “The Visible Death of Stars” from Issue 14? Read his “Transubstantiation” @flashfictionmag .
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I wake to you quietly singing to our daughter, an invocation from mother to child. You fold her to your breast and urge her to drink. Like the moon reflecting sunlight, she is given form by your lo…
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@Garricologist In our last issue @AmyAllenVT had a few things to say about “Meeting Expectations.” Now, get her take on this “Bad Guy” @flashfroglitmag.
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Every town’s got one. He keeps a beat-up grey Oldsmobile parked at an abandoned gas station in the center of town. No one’s ever seen him drive it—he hovers around it like home base. You remember p…
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Since I know you loved @aliciamswain's green apple chapstick poem from Issue 14, you should just go ahead and hop on this preorder for her debut poetry collection:
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In her debut poetry collection, Steel Slides and Yellow Walls, Alicia Swain veraciously portrays the trials women face throughout adulthood.
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