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Poetry, prose, and other peculiarities. | est. 2017 | 👁 🖤 🤍 SUBMISSIONS CLOSED 👁️‍🗨️ IG: @occulumjournal

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Not unlikely, not unlucky - it’s Issue 13! With a lustrous lineup of 13 souls! Read to your heart’s content, tell your neighbors, tell your friends, wake up the demons under your bed - it’s HERE! 👁️ occulum.net/issue-13

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01 – central texas seance | Cloud Delfina 02 – Two Poems | ​Julián David Bañuelos 03 – october to do list | Lily Kesten 04 – molasses traps | Alysa Levi-D’Ancona 05 – …

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EYE HAVE NEWS: Submissions for Issue 14 open from August 1st-14th. Please note that our Instagram will gradually become our main form of social media (@occulumjournal) 👁️‍🗨️
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A gradual, slightly painless shift in content, but Eye am slowly moving out of the Twittersphere and having Instagram as the sole social around these parts. 👁️‍🗨️ instagram.com/occulumjournal…
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The few, but essential, poems in the book bring order to the abstraction. Not only that, they facilitate vital transitions. And, @OcculumJournal shared my appreciation of this play on form: occulum.net/2022/11/05/nice-…
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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: This is just a little message of apology. I’m sorry I haven’t been engaging with the journal and its social media accounts lately. I’m sorting out a few personal things and Occulum has been on the back burner for the past few months. 1/2
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I’m deeply appreciative and grateful for the people who continue to read, submit to, and support this journal. But I’m kind of lost with where it’s going. But I’m hopeful. I’m figuring it out. Thank you. x Arielle
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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: Hello! I know the journal’s social media activity has been on the DL lately, but this is due to some issues regarding health I have been dealing with at home. I apologize if I have not been responding to emails and submissions, despite the window not (1/2)
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being open, but I’m going to try to engage with everyone as much as I possibly can, with emails as well as Twitter and Instagram. Thank you to whoever is reading this. I appreciate it a lot! 🖤
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#WritingCommunity I'm particularly excited about this piece. It was born of a writing frenzy. One of those fits where you race to catch up with your brain to organize the chaos and wrangle it onto the page. That new poem, "Nice, Clean Margins," is out today in @OcculumJournal.
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Two poems up in the new issue of @OcculumJournal 💜
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"It feels like being touched gently by cold hands." YOU, REMOVED @poetryofny @OcculumJournal occulum.net/2022/11/05/you-r… #SundaySentence

You, Removed | Santiago Márquez Ramos

I wake up to a pounding heart that spells out fear in the rhythm of its beats. I’m curled up beneath the blankets on my bed, clutching myself, protecting my body from what’s soon to come. My eyes f…

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I am so in this with Shrieking Human Tumbleweed, the most romantic story I have ever written.
Occulum@OcculumJournal6 Nov 2022
Not unlikely, not unlucky - it’s Issue 13! With a lustrous lineup of 13 souls! Read to your heart’s content, tell your neighbors, tell your friends, wake up the demons under your bed - it’s HERE! 👁️ occulum.net/issue-13

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01 – central texas seance | Cloud Delfina 02 – Two Poems | ​Julián David Bañuelos 03 – october to do list | Lily Kesten 04 – molasses traps | Alysa Levi-D’Ancona 05 – …

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DUDE THE 13TH THING IS TONIGHT!!!!
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An absolute deluge of work coming this month in @ekphrasticrev, @PineCone_Review, @OcculumJournal, & @UnfortunatelyLM. The most I’ve ever seen released in such a window. And, while I know the acceptances can dry up in a blink, I want to take this moment to be grateful. #writing
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Then move on to dentist horror(?) in @OcculumJournal: occulum.net/2018/04/30/open-…

Open Wide | by Becky Robison 

     A stranger inside your mouth with needles, pliers, a bone saw. Buzzzzz. Turn your head this way, please. Nose in the belly of his scrubs, blood oozing from your lips. We’ve struck oil! You lau…

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The story I wrote in this is the most twisted and also the most romantic story I ever wrote.
Occulum@OcculumJournal30 Oct 2022
NEWS FROM THE DARKROOM: One week until Issue 13! Eye present to you….THE LINEUP. 👁️
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Super excited for this release! 11/6!
Occulum@OcculumJournal30 Oct 2022
NEWS FROM THE DARKROOM: One week until Issue 13! Eye present to you….THE LINEUP. 👁️
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NEWS FROM THE DARKROOM: One week until Issue 13! Eye present to you….THE LINEUP. 👁️
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I am in this shizz and I am so friggin excited about it! #WritingCommunity
Occulum@OcculumJournal4 Oct 2022
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