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My Boss Who Laid Me Off Keeps Sending Me Memes

My Boss Who Laid Me Off Keeps Sending Me Memes by Brian Francis O’Dea

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I get Chinese food at the mall to doodle on the receipt

I get Chinese food at the mall to doodle on the receipt by Tessa McHattie

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Running a literary magazine means occasionally opening your email to something like this…

Beating Each Other to Death With Shovels From: Sergeant Major Esposito To: Colonel Palmer Subj: After Actions Report For Operation ‘Dig It’   Summary: At 13:37, Soldier One crept over the great lawn armed with his standard issue folding shov...

BEATING EACH OTHER TO DEATH WITH SHOVELS by Quinn Adikes

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Did you catch the clip of Jim Carrey receiving an honorary award yesterday in Paris?

Did you catch the clip of Jim Carrey receiving an honorary award yesterday in Paris? by Victoria Nordlund

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HAUNTED SPACE: PARADISE FOR EXTINCTION. A short sci-fi/horror novel pitched as The Expanse meets Lovecraft Country. Set in a universe filled with werewolves, space pirates, vampires, faeries, and doomsday cults. Penny Dreadful in outer space. November '26 from @maudlinhouse.bsky.social.

THE BIG GREEN LIE by Sabine Mayor

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"The heart that gets drawn into the story is the same heart that knows right from wrong." Holy cow. Oof. Take a minute to read this story.

When we h(a)unted We stalked the halls of dead malls, ghosts before our time. We lived by sense, taste and smell and sight, by instinct, lust and desire and rage. We were not quiet. We were not neat. The world is a hun...

“The world is a hunter of the monsters of girls, bent on filing sharp edges and shattering teeth and silencing wants and stifling impulses.” @maudlinhouse.bsky.social maudlinhouse.net/when-we-haun...

I start my day by reading an article about climate change, and then I apply sunscreen, SPF 120, and get in my boat to row to work. The sun shines harshly, the former shifting of seasons done, leaves permanently burnt on twisted limbs, green growth relegated t...

“… I sleep a fevered sleep of nightmares, jaw clenched, muscles tight, skin slick, body tense against the horrors of my mind reflecting the days unfolding in front of me, without my approval, change barreling forward without stop.” @maudlinhouse.bsky.social maudlinhouse.net/i-start-my-d...

BAD HAIRCUT

BAD HAIRCUT by Dalton Day

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How to Shoplift: A Guide My name is Lawrence. I’m sixteen years old, and I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I go to school and get stoned and skate with my friends. I have a girlfriend and a family. But you don’t need to kno...

Just discovered that if you Google “how to shoplift,” the top result is Nathan Pensky’s short story on Maudlin House.

The comments are people earnestly debating the morality of shoplifting. Literature is so back.

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The Deep End The first time Aly said she couldn’t be killed, I thought nothing of it. She was filing her nails on the edge of the bed. I was sleeping over. Her hair smelled like chlorine and cherries. We had just ...

We return with two new pieces tomorrow, but before then, give a read to The Bulb Region writer Wilson Koewing's (@wilsonkoewing.bsky.social) gut-punch of a story, "The Deep End," published in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social.

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Wade Harris knew exactly what he was doing with this one.

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Not everything survives the scroll.
We keep an eye on what does.

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY by Robert John Miller

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Scream XXL by Joey Grossman

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The Algorithm Is Very Spiritual Today by Camellia Peebles

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Maudlin House was built on the idea that the internet is a physical weight we carry.

Emoji Death Mask understood the static and sadness of the 21st century better than most. It remains a cornerstone of what we do.

We aren’t looking for content. We’re looking for the permanent.

The Shortlist for February 20 - Turn & Work Fiction from

The Shortlist, Feb 20:
Five lights-out flash fiction stories.

Lila-Rose Beckford in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social
@amykdebellis.bsky.social in Root Smoke
@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social‬
E Ce Miller in @hfr.bsky.social
@cbwell.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

Links:

Photo Booth on Mars by Melissa Feuerstein

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Smoke Break by Jason Schwartz

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Twenty Questions by Jayrold Trasporte

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Landscape with the Drowning of Jason Voorhees by John Sara

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Maudlin House exists for the weird, tender books that believe surviving the present is possible…

DISCO AND THE INFERNAL CITY: AN INTERVIEW WITH CALEB BETHEA by Rebecca Gransden The city lights up after nightfall, and Caleb Bethea knows the way. With Disco Murder City (Maudlin House, 2025) Bethea takes the lead, chasing fear along emptied alleys, into pulsating nightclubs fil...

Spoke with Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social about the pulsating novel Disco Murder City. Out now at @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. Check the conversation at @xraylitmag.bsky.social! xraylitmag.com/disco-and-th...

I Want to Be Tabitha Stephens Half mortal, half witch, a twitch of my pert freckled nose will bring tuxedoed warlock minions bearing strawberry ice cream with rainbow sprinkles, Malibu Barbie dolls and the head of nosy neighbor Gl...

I Want to Be Tabitha Stephens by Susan Cossette

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Maladaptive Daydreaming I am 170lbs and hitting a dab pen in the parking lot of a Jewel-Osco. Home is the hospital in Naperville and the one in Lake County and another one in Racine. I live on a friend’s couch and in a motel...

Maladaptive Daydreaming by Ian Liptak

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Valentine’s Day at Tangible Books talking about Winesburg, Ohio.

Bleak Midwestern loneliness, but make it romantic…

Your Ex-Girlfriend by Wayne McMahon

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