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"I could navigate this world without thinking. Anyone could. That’s how it was built."
New fiction by Kara Panzer: "Spinning" identitytheory.com/spinning/
This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.
ALT Cartoon: Spike never should have ordered the Cubist Pizza
Our 2027 Nominees for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions identitytheory.substack.com/…
"voices echo between emptying aisles,
shelves barren as before a typhoon"
Read "Parting Gift," a new poem by L. Acadia identitytheory.com/parting-g…
Poets: For this submission call, we are searching for poetry on the theme of Nostos: Roots and Roads. We exist in an age of ephemerality and uncertainty. How can we find permanence in a world of constant movement?identitytheory.substack.com/…
This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.
ALT Cartoon drawing of person on bench with thought bubbles in different colors. Caption: "sleeping in the museum"
Free Submittable submissions are open for October. identitytheory.submittable.c…
Submitted our nominations for this year's Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net anthologies tonight. You can see/read the winners here while we work on a fancy graphic announcement: identitytheory.com/about/awa…
"The crowd
merged our lanes, but you didn’t shy from the pull
and turn of our arms’ slow collision."
—Riley Richards, "I Thought I Saw You in Buenos Aires"
identitytheory.com/i-thought…
"I take out my phone and try to post 'Hey guys, I think there’s been a misunderstanding here,' but my signal has dropped again, and so there’s nothing left to do except review all these very nice notes about me from people who think I’m dead."
identitytheory.com/i-died/
"As I worked through the long process of revision, I found white space increasingly necessary for brief rest. For breath. To open a life that had closed in on me. To see silence in a new way—sustaining, rather than disconnecting..."
—Kristina Moriconi identitytheory.com/interview…
This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.
ALT Cartoon of person with oversized fried egg as hat. Caption: It's so hot you can fry an egg.
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Thanks to @vicnogaywrites & everyone at @IdentityTheory for including my microfiction “Mark Rothko’s Suicide Note” in the new Fall micro issue. Just when I think I’ve gotten out of the gravitational pull of Rothko, he pulls me back in. identitytheory.com/mark-roth…. #microfiction
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Many thanks! to @IdentityTheory for publishing my micro identitytheory.com/jars-of-e…
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Featuring my brand new CNF piece “Death of a Bartender”! You can read it here:
identitytheory.com/death-of-…
New fall micro issue just went live for the equinox. identitytheory.com/section/m…
New fall micro issue just went live for the equinox. identitytheory.com/section/m…
"When we decided to move in together after only a few months of dating, Gavin was nervous."
New essay by Laura Mullen.
identitytheory.com/devout/
Our poetry editor is offering same-day poetry submission responses today while he drinks his Diet Dr. Pepper. identitytheory.com/about/poe…
This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.
ALT Cartoon (giraffe with light and dark spots). Caption: Half giraffe calf, half decalf