Bone Parade

Sorry, ZD! We had two typos in that post (one that affected a story) and had to delete and repost.

Cover art for Issue 18 of Bone Parade featuring a young boy taking flight.

Go read Issue 18 of Bone Parade! You'll find five fabulous short stories about surgically removing interior junk, crushing ladders to the moon, a mother creating a daughter on a farm of sons, a world where time is put in a blender, and bodies and bullying. Enjoy! www.boneparade.com

*You'll find five fabulous short stories... oopsie!

Thanks for sharing, @zddochterman.bsky.social!

Cover art by Mijmark, featuring two glowing white trees in black forest.

Issue 17 is live! This issue explores the a cannibal shop's morality, a man with a rock growing from his forehead, a relationship with a faceless partner, mysterious eclipse mice, and a boy trying to save his brother from La Llorona. Enjoy! And happy New Year! We love you. www.boneparade.com

We received so many stellar submissions during our last open call that we're failing at getting through them in a timely manner. Apologies! We're hoping to finish up and notify everyone by next week.

Bone Parade Issue 16 cover art featuring gray carousel horse with bared teeth and peeling paint, and Bone Parade logo.

Issue #16 of Bone Parade is ready to read! These stories are too fabulous to summarize in 300 characters. Go read them and find out for yourself!

www.boneparade.com

#MagicalRealism #LitMag #GenreBending #Speculative #CrossGenre #WeirdFiction

Bone Parade Issue 15 Cover, featuring Bone Parade logo and photo of a middle-aged white man with dark hair and a bright, genuine smile that lights up his blue eyes. He is wearing an open flannel shirt with a white t-shirt underneath. There is white wallpaper behind him with blue hearts and flowers and a small cross-stitched picture of a goose wearing a floppy hat in a ring frame.

Hi friends! We're delighted to share the 15th issue of Bone Parade with you: www.boneparade.com This issue features five fabulous stories about a woman with bougainvillea in her arms, sneaking moonlight, living with multiple sclerosis, coping with pregnancy and loss, and a curmudgeonly curator.

My story is in this~! It's 1900 words, a 7-minute read.

"The Sound of Falling Water" features a stiff man searching for his wife in a town of people who never stop moving.

It's inspired by magic realism, whose writers are among my favorites. It is my last publication of 2023. 🥹

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I have a new piece up in this lovely issue! Thanks so much, @boneparade.bsky.social!

Cover of Issue 14 of Bone Parade featuring photo of Swedish trees at twilight in snow covered forest with a light shining on them in the darkness. Twilight is seeping through trees in the distance. Cover art by Robin Nyman.

Issue 14 features five fabulous stories: sound killing forests, the magic of new life, partnerships of stone and water, a charming Nordic fairy tale, and a banished human who dreams of becoming an AI. This issue is SO SO GOOD. Give it a read!
www.boneparade.com

Cover of 13th issue of Bone Parade featuring logo and photo of three-year-old boy with light brown skin, curly brown hair, a yellow plaid shirt and blue jeans with a smile and arm stretched over his head in a happy but shy, self-aware pose.

Hi! The 13th issue of Bone Parade is ready to read: www.boneparade.com

This issue features five fabulous stories about fishing for zyps in the universe, miraculous cemetery encounters, ghosts made of memories, deadly chemical spills, and carcinization!

Please let authors know if you like a story!

Hi! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience and advice! I really really appreciate it! Some feedback I’ve gotten has made me realize we probably have more hurdles to jump before we can start crowdfunding, but hopefully we’ll get there. :) Thank you! 😊

Thank you so much! I can’t wait to watch this!

If any lit mags have time to talk to us (lol. We know you don’t have time—neither do we!) about how they took a mag from a labor of love to a paying market, we’d be so grateful. Specifically, do you need to become a 501c3? How do you crowdfund to pay authors in a non sketchy way? And taxes? Ughhh.

We are getting sooo many stellar stories in our inbox! I wish we could accept them all. Thank you for being so creative and full of wonder. We love reading you. #AmEditing #AmReading #LitMag #MagicalRealism

Hi there! Bone Parade is open for submissions through October 15th! We only need one more story for the next issue. Please send us your weird and wonderful genre-bending stories! We're also kind of in the mood for a cozy existential crisis, if that exists?
www.boneparade.com/submit/

Registration: September 23, 2023 Conversations and Connections Conference in Philadelphia, PA — Ba... Registration for the Barrelhouse in-person writers conference, Conversations and Connections: Practical Advice on Writing, in Philadelphia on September 23, 2023. With your registration you’ll get...

On 9/23, our 1-day conference returns to Philly! $75 registration fee gets you a full day conference, 1 featured book, 1 lit mag subscription, 1 speed date w/ editor, and a chance to meet lots of local writers. It is a good and fun day, and over 60% of proceeds go to small presses/authors

Thanks, Alicia! 🥰

The leaves are busier than my mother on a Sunday morning by Niesha Okere And they don’t work. But sometimes the leaves follow Daddy from his car to our front door. They form a ladder to gather around the keyhole. That’s why we never know the hour he returns. As a rewar...

"Before I can say sorry, the leaves make their way to my window. Stupid me opens the window. The leaves climb inside my mouth."

Loving this whimsical & touching prose poem by Niesha Okere, new on hex today!

https://hexliterary.com/?p=1700

Thank you, hex!

two great mags just joined Bluesky! ✨✨✨ follow @coverlit.bsky.social & @boneparade.bsky.social ✨✨✨

Hi Bluesky! Bone Parade is a literary journal publishing quality works of magical realism, fabulism, speculative, weird, and genre-bending fiction. We’re partial to character driven stories that sift through the mucky waters of ethics and existentialism. #SpecLit #WritingCommunity