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Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2023
After much deliberation, we’re excited to announce our nominations for the Pushcart Prize below. Good luck to these talented writers who...
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805lit
- Oct 1
- 1 min
Best of the Net Nominations in 2023
We’re excited to nominate the following works for the Best of the Net anthology from Sundress Publications. Good luck to our talented...
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805lit
- Mar 31
- 1 min
Volume 9, Issue 1 is Here!
Welcome to our first issue of 2023, just in time for spring to unfurl itself in front of us, much like the gorgeous flowers on our cover...
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805lit
- Mar 29
- 4 min
Five Symbols of Spring to Enhance Your Writing + Five Litmags Open to Subs this Season
Another spring greets us this month with promises of new beginnings. With sunny days lasting longer and nature coming back to life,...
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805lit
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Epiphany Ferrell’s piece selected for Best Microfiction 2023
We’re excited to announce Epiphany Ferrell’s flash fiction “Jack and Jill's Final Adventure” will appear in Best Microfiction 2023!...
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805lit
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Best of Net Finalist Nina Tichava
805 contributor Nina Tichava’s artwork “You Don’t Even Know How Breathtaking You Are” was selected as a finalist for Best of the Net...
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805lit
- Nov 4, 2022
- 2 min
Jack and Jill’s Final Adventure, by Epiphany Ferrell
They hadn’t told anyone about Jack’s cancer. Not officially. Jill had known. Of course. She was there when he got the call, there to see...
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805lit
- Oct 28, 2022
- 2 min
The Girl Who Was Afraid to Die, by Gabrielle Skerpan
There once was a girl who was afraid to die. The fear knotted her stomach and caused her to shake. Her tears ran dry, and she could do...
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805lit
- Oct 14, 2022
- 2 min
Hula, by Heidi Turner
There’s nothing inside my coconut bra but the tourists don’t need to know that. They watch my hips, and the men grab their wives’ hands...
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805lit
- Oct 3, 2022
- 1 min
Best of the Net Nominations in 2022
We’re excited to nominate the following works for the Best of the Net anthology from Sundress Publications. Good luck to our talented...
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805lit
- Sep 24, 2022
- 3 min
Vacation, by Miranda Williams
My husband slips under the waves and never comes back up. I watch the tide claim his balding head from my beach towel. The aquamarine...
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805lit
- Sep 14, 2022
- 3 min
Radio II, by Alexander Eikenberg
From the passenger’s seat you reach over and turn on the radio. With the windows down at sixty-five the sound is stifled out of hearing...
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805lit
- Sep 2, 2022
- 3 min
The Computer's Lament, by Sheldon Kozushko and Nicholas Caleb Kozushko
Cycle 4000 entry 341 My master has not been tending to me as of late. I miss the touch of his fingers. The quick strokes he makes along...
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805lit
- Aug 16, 2022
- 1 min
Absolute Divisions, by William Doreski
A woodpecker razzing a tree rousts me from a dream set in a ruined clubhouse perched at the extremity of Brooklyn. Broken glass and...
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805lit
- Aug 1, 2022
- 1 min
Natalie at the Beach, by Florence Murry
Sunbathers soak in blasted brilliance. Umbrellas on the shore a kaleidoscope canopy. We unpack close to the break feel spray on our...
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805lit
- Jul 24, 2022
- 2 min
Someone's Someone, by Ashley Sgro
Jacket: on. Boots: laced and tight. Sweatshirt and sweatpants: saggy for loose maneuvering. I’m on the midnight prowl. I’ll start on...
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805lit
- Jul 20, 2022
- 2 min
Sunflower, by Lauren Schaumburg
Freckles dappling skin, how long can you lie in the sunshine before the burn comes to lay waste to your flesh? How long can you stand to...
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805lit
- Jul 15, 2022
- 3 min
The Grounding, by Keith ‘Doc’ Raymond
Anchor chains break, and ships drift to shore. Wrecks collect with the tide, rust, and recede. And every hundred years she comes to...
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805lit
- Jul 13, 2022
- 1 min
Caspian Sea, by Leila Farjami
Once, she held me in her rippling arms, soft Mother, breathing her buoyant, murmuring life into my little body. Her shores stretched like...
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805lit
- Jul 6, 2022
- 1 min
cities, by Ritoshree Chatterjee
i have gathered bits of skin and memory and have packed myself in Tupperware to a city whose name only birds have heard at my hometown in...
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