We've got a beauty from SaraS in Milk Candy today! 💖💖💖

'Aunty shows me her golden-haired, blue-eyed doll. When I pull on the string attached to her back, the doll blinks her dark lashes and sings, “I love you.” I pull-pull on the string.'
Sudha Balagopal in vastchasmmag:
vastliterarypress.org/2024/04/14/24q…

'I ask her whether she thinks Schrodinger is alive in his block of ice. Whether he will breathe again come Spring.'
Lisa Alletson in Atticus Review:
atticusreview.org/the-inn-of-fro…

'He believes in her invention even though she's dying.'
Parth Shah in Wigleaf:
wigleaf.com/202404defpotec…

'They would never be happy unless they could talk to the moon as though it were a foolish baby.'
Dara Yen Elerath in Wigleaf:
wigleaf.com/202404mother.h…

'And just like that we started talking. The context of blood—backdrop for easy intimacy.'
Svetlana Turetskaya in Wigleaf:
wigleaf.com/202404beach.htm

'You're throwing your lives away for nothing! For nothing!'
Z.H. in Wigleaf:
wigleaf.com/202403face.htm

'I wanted to say she had implied something, but she had not.'
Three from Stephen D. Gibson in Wigleaf:
wigleaf.com/202403kissing1…

'We need the Stones, we need Tom Petty, we need The Who. Something with a guitar riff that will carry us to the next state and a chorus that will let us scream until our lungs catch fire.'
Eric Scot Tryon in Juked Magazine:
juked.com/2024/04/eric-s…

**Mark your calendars**

We'll be open for submissions May 1!!

(We'll be open until May 8 or when our submission count reaches 1,000).

Our guidelines can be found here:
matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

'Alberto had so many girlfriends that I, his niece, thought I saw them everywhere.'
Rina Palumbo in BULL:
mrbullbull.com/newbull/creati…

'She has one hand curved to my skull, her palm a constant heat seeping into my ears.'
Ruth Joffre in Fractured Lit:
fracturedlit.com/softening/

'It’s hard to say whether this is tranquility or torpor.'
A heartbreaking, powerful essay from Jacqueline Doyle:

'I could start talking about fossil fuels and how we always burn what we need most, but you know how that would go.'
Amorak Huey in Okay Donkey Mag/Press:
okaydonkeymag.com/2024/04/05/poe…

'No one knows when the baby crawled back to the door and started putting footwear in his mouth again. He’s teething, someone said, they have an urge to do that.'
Tara Isabel Zambrano in The Disappointed Housewife-SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN:
thedisappointedhousewife.com/2024/04/09/che…

'One Wednesday morning my husband Jerry brushed his teeth and then disappeared. He is still gone.'
Nicole Hart in Okay Donkey Mag/Press:
okaydonkeymag.com/2024/04/12/duc…

We've got a wonderful story from the lovely Melissa Fitzpatrick in Atlas and Alice! 💖💖💖

'The dragon is huge and scary and rational, but we have caged him, because we know how to fight
dragons and monsters and logic and truth, we have weapons and superpowers and magical thinking.'
Mileva Anastasiadou 🎄 in Cotton Xenomorph:
cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024/4…

'If you want a reminder of how short a life can be, they’re out there waiting for you.'
Corey Farrenkopf in Nightmare Magazine:
nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the…

'Agnes likes to say, the customer is right, usually.'
Sarah Freligh in BULL:
mrbullbull.com/newbull/fictio…