"Robot Lady’s ready to give birth. We know she’s ready to give birth because she’s doubled over, her spider-leg hands clutch her metallic stomach." Don't miss @christinaltudor.bsky.social's new piece in The Bulb Region, which is in dialogue with Cathy Ulrich's inaugural "Baby Things." 🔗↓

"I ask questions like: Do wishes ever come true? / I’ll throw myself off a bridge if they do." Noah Powers (@noahpowers.bsky.social) is in The Bulb Region today with three ethereal, existential poems. 🔗↓

We return tomorrow with two new pieces but before then, stop what you are doing and make sure to read our recent contributor Clare Kelly's delightfully oneiric poem, "To The Water On Mars," in the one and only @burialmagazine.bsky.social. 🔗 below!

"Do the people closest to us become strangers when we witness the worst of them?" The first-ever film review in The Bulb Region archives is about German filmmaker Sarah Miro Fischer’s debut feature, The Good Sister (2025). There’s an accompanying interview with Sarah, too. 🔗↓

"Slice into eruption The Non-newness. Lava from the gapes of crust, A feldspar expelled from Earth’s sinuses." The inimitable Clare Kelly of Hesse Press is in The Bulb Region today with four new poems from her forthcoming collection. Don't miss them! 🔗↓

“My husband believes the end of the world is coming  and he wants us to be ready for it.” Today we return from our little break with four new pieces, including Billie J. Daniel’s ominously apocalyptic poem, “Until It Feels Safe.” 🔗 ↓

“It neck deep into summertime and the frogs are asking me to commit tax fraud.” Don’t miss Michael Hughes Wesner’s hilarious short story, “The Write-Off,” in The Bulb Region today. 🔗 ↓

"that’s what she / calls me / her cry baby / her dramática / her chillona" Rose Marie Torres has a heartfelt poem in The Bulb Region today. 🔗↓

"I had never thought about the names before, but now each grew in my mind, sprouted heads, arms, and legs and trotted off. I pictured them sitting by the fire, telling stories and roasting corn." Don't miss Quinn Adikes' singular micro, "Names," in The Bulb Region today. 🔗 ↓

“We pass through each other in the rooms and on the staircases. […] I discover a room filled with beds and ornate furniture, scattered and illogical.” The amazing Kathy Fish (@kathyfish.bsky.social) returns to The Bulb Region with a kaleidoscopic, mazelike experience. 🔗 ↓

“sometimes the only thing that differentiates two signs is your facial expression” The brilliant Bobby Vanecko is in The Bulb Region today with a new set of ASL poems 🔗 ↓

"Lorne and I were eating in catering and Lorne was opening up his club sandwich with the delicacy of a surgeon, wiping and dabbing the mayonnaise off with an NBC-branded napkin..." Travis Shosa (@travisshosa.bsky.social) returns to the region with a comedic micro. Read "Jokeman" at the 🔗 below.

"This puzzle was created by one man, and its categories are subjective. [...] Maybe you’ll learn a little too much about him. Maybe you’ll learn something about yourself." Go play Jeremy Mauser’s (@jeremymauser.bsky.social) hybrid trivia game, live at The Bulb Region today. 🫵 🔗↓

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"A woman with a crown of flowers meets a lover behind a planetarium. They walk through a city built on a swamp. One night, they cross a threshold." Kaitlin Roberts is in The Bulb Region today with a lyrical, inventive fable. 🔗 ↓

"i’ve gone through reverse hulking, sulking into a pool of skin, a poem prompt machine with cherry slots, 666s and no poems there are always two ways to death" Sam Alekksandra's confessional poems in The Bulb Region today will legit chew a little hole through you. 🔗 ↓

"As the money splits, the boundaries increase. The book came up because of the flood. I always fall into my own language." Tracy Fuad (@tracyfuad.bsky.social) returns to The Bulb Region with a deeply experimental, experiential poem. 🔗 below!

“My desire rises like the voice of a soprano / in the pitch of an aria, so candied but so sharp and shrill that it almost cuts / the back of my tongue.” The brilliant Özge Lena (@lenaozge.bsky.social) is in The Bulb Region with a pair of poems from Istanbul. 🔗 below!

"Blood rushing into your muscles, like someone blowing air into your pecs. Your pecs squeezing together like butt cheeks." The inimitable Drew Buxton is in The Bulb Region today with a pair of Arnold poems riffing on Pumping Iron (1977). 🔗 below!

"Walking at night with a headlamp in rural England, deer eyes often glinted before they scattered. A pair of eyes, larger and lower than a deer’s, glimmered in the hedgerow. I watched them as I passed." Oliver Land is in The Bulb Region today with a couple of drabbles. 🔗 below!

Be on the lookout for tomorrow's big guns, but before then, we strongly urge you to read this contemporary black comedy by our recent contributor Maximiliano Guzmán, "Free Drugs," published last year in Expat Press. 🔗 below!

"It’s like he plugs in the formula, gets the result, and there’s no more point to analyzing it than asking why people fall in love, stay that way, and top it off by dying within a week of each other." Find @maureenthorson.bsky.social's vivid, inventive prose poems in The Bulb Region today. 🔗 below

"Mohaded built the first elevator in all of Recreo. He installed it in his new store. What he didn’t know was that it would become the town’s most curious public attraction." 👟 Maximiliano Guzmán is in The Bulb Region today with a deeply ominous, transcendental story. 🔗 below!

Before tomorrow's new edition, make time to read our returning contributor Tommy Dean's (@tommydeanwriter.bsky.social) at once tender and hardscrabble short story in Ghost Parachute. 🔗 below!

We resume tomorrow with two new pieces, but until then, stop what you’re doing and check out this absolute rollercoaster of a ride in @icebreakerslit.bsky.social, co-authored by our house favorites Ryan-Ashley Anderson (@femmeintheory.bsky.social) and Kevin Maloney. 🔗 below!

"that you became a stranger hardened like a fossil in my gut, heavy and haunting when I lie in bed darkly, sleepless, wondering if you worried today, what you ate, if you laughed" @femmeintheory.bsky.social is back in The Bulb Region today with a deeply personal, elegiac poem. 🔗 below!

"He sends her outdated email pictures of herself, the ones he took when she wasn’t looking, the sly smile, the crease of her brow, the moon curved of her cheek, the twisted curl of her hair." @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social returns to The Bulb Region with a haunting story. 🔗 below!

"was there the night when wife took the pistol which had been pressed to her temples again and again and turned it against husband." Cayla Garman appears in The Bulb Region with three devastatingly beautiful poems. 🔗 below!

"So, on the first day, Keith gave his summer school kids this assignment to write their obituary, and by four p.m., the summer principal called to tell him he was fired [...]" The brilliant @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social is in The Bulb Region today with a darkly comic hybrid piece. 🔗 below!

Before tomorrow’s new edition, be a good sport and pre-order our returning contributor aka house favorite @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social’s first novel, “Submarines,” coming out through Malarkey Books next month. I mean, look at how beautiful this cover design is! (Pre-order link below)