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Joined December 2025
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I wrote this for Elizabeth, inspired by a song she shared with me youtu.be/nZzAHSU8jXo?si=W-Tn…
"Strange to fictionalize a life whose veracity isn’t yet solidified, as if its goodness prevents it from crossing the threshold into confirmed reality. A danger, once mythologized, it will never be true." Don't miss @BSkergio's wonderful new story in The Bulb Region today.
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Sergio Saturday 🤠
"Strange to fictionalize a life whose veracity isn’t yet solidified, as if its goodness prevents it from crossing the threshold into confirmed reality. A danger, once mythologized, it will never be true." Don't miss @BSkergio's wonderful new story in The Bulb Region today.
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"A man in a Pink Floyd shirt pissed on a wall. It was a wall built by a rambling beast. The beast was scared and bigoted. It was afraid of its own shadow. That’s why it built the wall." Jose Hernandez Diaz (@JoseHernandezDz) is in The Bulb Region with three genre-bending poems.
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"Strange to fictionalize a life whose veracity isn’t yet solidified, as if its goodness prevents it from crossing the threshold into confirmed reality. A danger, once mythologized, it will never be true." Don't miss @BSkergio's wonderful new story in The Bulb Region today.
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These are wonderful.
"when you died I thought, 'something real to be sad about.' at the funeral home I was the only one wearing black. baby’s first dead body." Don't miss Kat Giordano's (@giordkat) deeply intimate, tender poems in The Bulb Region today.
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much has been said (esp. by me) about my two poems in @BulbRegion today but before it’s all over, i want to talk about the second poem which is not about my dead grandfather but some ineffable bullshit about the origins of my sexuality. here’s a stanza i like. see ya.
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Both of Kat's poems are very good, but the second (which you need to open the website to read!) is an all-timer, for me.
two poems in @BulbRegion today, the first of which is about my grandfather, who was cool as fuck and would have loved the “pimped-out” coffin referenced in the poem.
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You don't want to miss this kicker by @anniejowrites
"I waited for her to ask the question, had we been having an affair, but she never did and if she had, I would’ve told her no, you were my faraway friend." The one and only Anna Vangala Jones (@anniejowrites) returns to The Bulb Region with one of her trademark gut-punch micros.
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In case you missed @giordkat's gorgeous poems 👀
"when you died I thought, 'something real to be sad about.' at the funeral home I was the only one wearing black. baby’s first dead body." Don't miss Kat Giordano's (@giordkat) deeply intimate, tender poems in The Bulb Region today.
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KAT GIORDANO? MOTION!
"when you died I thought, 'something real to be sad about.' at the funeral home I was the only one wearing black. baby’s first dead body." Don't miss Kat Giordano's (@giordkat) deeply intimate, tender poems in The Bulb Region today.
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two poems in @BulbRegion today, the first of which is about my grandfather, who was cool as fuck and would have loved the “pimped-out” coffin referenced in the poem.
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Killed em dead, total heaters
"when you died I thought, 'something real to be sad about.' at the funeral home I was the only one wearing black. baby’s first dead body." Don't miss Kat Giordano's (@giordkat) deeply intimate, tender poems in The Bulb Region today.
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I have a new micro in the beautiful @BulbRegion today! grateful to @sarpsozdinler & any of you who read my fiction 🤍 bulbregion.com/But-She-Didn-…
"I waited for her to ask the question, had we been having an affair, but she never did and if she had, I would’ve told her no, you were my faraway friend." The one and only Anna Vangala Jones (@anniejowrites) returns to The Bulb Region with one of her trademark gut-punch micros.
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about to go into a horrible meeting at work but i WILL be annoying about this later. get it in u and thanks @sarpsozdinler 💕
"when you died I thought, 'something real to be sad about.' at the funeral home I was the only one wearing black. baby’s first dead body." Don't miss Kat Giordano's (@giordkat) deeply intimate, tender poems in The Bulb Region today.
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