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[lifeinpoetry]

Then sleeping alone started to feel like a victory because I could pass out with wine in my mouth a lump of gleaming brie on my nightstand and for all my social inclinations, my time

in bed alone increased.

— Rita Mookerjee, from “I Took Nighttime to Hide in My Hair And,” published in Flapperhouse

[bostonpoetryslam]

I come from a long line of women who luxuriate in pain adorn themselves in velvet trauma, spend their days in coffin-dark rooms using wine and longing to summon dead loved ones.

Sarah Bridgins, “Summer Water,” published in Flapperhouse

[lifeinpoetry]

we will gather            to empty ourselves           of what rots inside us. So grateful

to break open           in a way that does not bleed.

— Brandon Melendez, from “Self-Portrait as Pokémon #568 or Trubbish,” published in FLAPPERHOUSE

[iankappos]

Poem in Flapperhouse #14

Issue 14 of Flapperhouse hit the stands this month. It contains my poem “When I Die Someone Just Fuck My Body Please.” As always, Flapperhouse rules, and it’s a pleasure to again be published alongside more of my writer-friends. Purchase a copy here.

[deirdrecoyle]

I wrote a story in Flapperhouse’s Winter 2016 issue following the archetypal narrative structure of girl eats cookie, girl vomits cat, cat eats lox.

[deirdrecoyle]

Reading with FLAPPERHOUSE tomorrow night~

[emilylinstrom]

“Doodlebug” – Fiction by Emily Linstrom

Our Spring 2016 issue is our most invincible issue yet, its pages resounding with time-slaying stories of immortality, reincarnation, and eternal recurrence. And setting the table for this otherwor…

[emilylinstrom]

#9 – Spring 2016

Monstrous immortality, reincarnation, eternal recurrence, never-ending gender, virtual sex, multiple organisms, reclusive regiments: FLAPPERHOUSE #9. DIGITAL (PDF) copies available for $3US ~PRINT …

I wrote a bloody little tale about a thousand year old family in London so bored with being cooped up with one another and their immortality that they eagerly await the apocalypse. Issue #9 is officially on sale at Amazon and the Flapperhouse site; please show your love and support for this kickass press & contributors!