Anna Cabe
@annablabs.bsky.social
Writer. Co-Fiction Editor @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. Always hungry. She/her/hers. Header by @shing.bsky.social
ICYMI: Before our June issue hits the archives, check out Miranda Manzano's hypnotic, haunting "Negative Spaces!" @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 6d ago"At the urging of a somewhat trustworthy dentist, I had a tooth pulled from the upper-right side of my mouth." Miranda Manzano's NEGATIVE SPACES is a rollercoaster of four parts. 🦷 🏀 Read it right here! buff.ly/TZBVGZ3
Want to learn more about the making of our JUNE ISSUE fiction? Read about Miranda Manzano’s story NEGATIVE SPACES here! buff.ly/WS3xrPC
September is here, but we're still thinking about our summer reads. ☀️ Fiction Editor @annablabs.bsky.social loved LONDON FALLING!
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
instead of having AI "help" you read, hear me out, what if you just read
Thanks, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social and @consequencef.bsky.social!
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 3w agoNeed a book review for ACCOMPLLISHMENT SUNDAY? Fiction Editor Anna Cabe’s @annablabs.bsky.social's book review of RESIDENTS OF THE DEEP was published in Consequence Forum 🤩 buff.ly/YFxSyM5
I reviewed Residents of the Deep by Marianne Villanueva for @consequencef.bsky.social. Publishing so near the Fourth of July feels apt. consequenceforum.substack.com/p/residents-...
Residents of the Deep: A Review
By Anna Cabe. ". . . the characters in this collection are underwater, figuratively and literally, struggling to survive the undercurrent, to reach each other, for better or for ill."
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Late post because of the arrival of my baby niece 🥰🐣, but get summer started with our gorgeous June issue! It's a good one! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 🌞
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 3mo agoYour summer reading is here. ☀️ WORDS by Miranda Marzano, Audrey Jiggetts, Alexandra Dos Santos, & Nicholas Goodly. ART by Iz Schrader. PLUS A.D. Lauren-Abunassar reviews @summ.bsky.social's THE HUNGERING YEARS. 💛 Enjoy it all right here: buff.ly/nhuVTMs
ICYMI: We loved the summery warmth and tenderness in E. P. Tuazon's story about a girl learning to bike and her father's cycling club rivalry. Check it out! 🚴🏽♀️🌞 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 3mo ago"My father says today is my day, not Father’s Day, even though the sun is shining like it wants to pin a medal on him." 🚲️ Don't miss E. P. Tuazon's CYCLISTS before it hits the archives! buff.ly/rmERU8m
Hello, hello! "Cycle" into summer with our gorgeous, tender-hearted May issue!🚲🌞 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur MAY ISSUE is finally here. 🌼 WORDS by: E.P. Tuazon, Renny Gong, Mary Liza Hartong, & Despy Boutris. ART by: Christopher Dunlap. PLUS: @crsantastic.bsky.social interviews Kate Broad. ✨️ Enjoy it all right here: buff.ly/pUBKe7b
ICYMI: We were awed by @graythebruce.bsky.social's wildly creative and eerie take on predictive text. Be prepared for goosebumps. 👻 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 4mo ago"...I wanted to play along so I asked it who’s there and the reply was you click are click speaking click to click the click congregation..." Check out @graythebruce.bsky.social's I CAN STILL HEAR YOU BREATHING before it hits the archives: buff.ly/VvnvdJj
So proud to have edited this for publication with @dawidmobolaji.bsky.social! I learned a lot! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe're thrilled to share that Dawid Mobolaji has been long-listed for the Best Literary Translations 2027 anthology for his translation of Grzegorz Bogdał's WEIRD THINGS! 🤩 👏 You can find the piece right here: buff.ly/vbXGwik
I do!
a purple dinosaur wearing sunglasses is walking across a white background .
ALT: a purple dinosaur wearing sunglasses is walking across a white background .
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Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe're celebrating National Poetry Month by sharing our team's favorite poems. 💕 Fiction Editor @annablabs.bsky.social loves DINOSAURS IN THE HOOD by Danez Smith! buff.ly/b19m8yH
@graythebruce.bsky.social’s story I CAN STILL HEAR YOU BREATHING examines the risks of typing with predictive text. Here, he shares just one thing about the piece: buff.ly/d83smwv
Somehow I convinced the editors @ @splitlipthemag.bsky.social to publish a 1,300-word story that does not contain a single instance of sentence-level punctuation. Shhh. Don't tell them. (For this ghost story, you may want to move any weapons out of arm's reach.) splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0426...
I Can Still Hear You Breathing — Split Lip Magazine
when the barn in the moonlight shot them down as all around nowhere the twilight cried for clergymen so lethal was the road he spoke before your experiment was your experiment it was my joke you
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☀️ We're up bright and early with new staff announcements☀️ Help us in welcoming out new poetry readers and editorial assistants!! Thank you for joining the team ❤️
Was a bit delayed in sharing but our April issue is here with jelly and creepypasta and architecture and so much more! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 5mo agoApril showers bring: our fresh APRIL ISSUE. 🌼 WORDS by: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen. ART by: Ainaz Alipour. PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social. buff.ly/cyFupU7
ICYMI: We loved (and cringed in sympathy) at Carol M. Quinn's story about the trials and tribulations of contingent faculty during the pandemic. Check it out! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 5mo ago"Connie wasn’t that long ago, in the historical sense, but she was eons ago in terms of language evolution." Don't miss Carol M. Quinn’s fiction piece COGS, HEART AND SOUL before it hits the archives. 🔥 buff.ly/LxsRoC3
"The ChatBot doesn’t have the moral fiber optic cables to make a stand, because it’s an algorithm, its workings a black box, its body a string of numbers. The ChatBot can’t even eat fiber" Such a brilliantly-crafted piece, stranding together different elements through powerful anaphora repetition.
Anna Cabe @annablabs.bsky.social · 6mo agoHello, hello! My prize-winning flash in which I reflect upon AI dropped a few days ago, amidst AWP happenings. Thanks to @fracturedlit.bsky.social and Gwen Kirby for plucking this out! CW: suicide, disordered eating fracturedlit.com/blackboxing/
'The ChatBot tells me I shouldn’t kill myself today.' Congratulations to @annablabs.bsky.social whose story, Blackboxing' is the winner of the @fracturedlit.bsky.social #flashfiction #competition ✨ #fiction #writingcommunity fracturedlit.com/blackboxing/
Blackboxing | Fractured
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"he ChatBot tells me a star is a giant ball of hot gas, but Star would tell me, You’re a giant ball of hot gas, bitch. The ChatBot informs me bitch is a pejorative." Brilliant, unforgettable @annablabs.bsky.social
Anna Cabe @annablabs.bsky.social · 6mo agoHello, hello! My prize-winning flash in which I reflect upon AI dropped a few days ago, amidst AWP happenings. Thanks to @fracturedlit.bsky.social and Gwen Kirby for plucking this out! CW: suicide, disordered eating fracturedlit.com/blackboxing/
I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”
Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"
March 18, 2026
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:
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Thank you, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social and @fracturedlit.bsky.social!
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 6mo ago"The ChatBot is not a 'trusted adult,' but it is the closest I have to one. The ChatBot has only existed as long as a toddler gumming on a laundry pod." Fiction Editor @annablabs.bsky.social's flash “Blackboxing” is in @fracturedlit.bsky.social👍: buff.ly/QZpfXMa
Interrupting my stream of Oscar posts to shout our bloomingly beautiful March issue. Please check it out! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe watered and waited. Now it's ready to share. Our blossoming 🌼 MARCH ISSUE 🌼https://buff.ly/xk6gUgW Love & Thanks to the Contributors! 🥰 WORDS Todd Honeycutt, Carol M. Quinn, @lydia_abedeen, @shannyyy PLUS Jennifer Savran Kelly interviews Jesi Bender ART Scott Radnidge
Y'all, social media taught me that Michael B. Jordan's dad is Michael A. Jordan. Obviously, his future kid's gotta be Michael C. Jordan.
I am generally content with the Oscars. Especially my girl Autumn.
ICYMI: We love Brett Hymel Jr.'s painfully earnest (and wildly hilarious) take on metafiction, grief, and friendship. Read it before it hits the archive! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 7mo ago"Time is a professional driver on a closed track. The car keeps circling, covering the same ground over and over." Don't miss Brett Hymel Jr.'s fiction piece GAFFNEY IS BORN fresh from our FEBRUARY ISSUE. ❤️ (Content warning: suicide). buff.ly/VfEsg2A
I read this yesterday and again this morning and I can’t stop thinking about it.
Anna Cabe @annablabs.bsky.social · 6mo agoHello, hello! My prize-winning flash in which I reflect upon AI dropped a few days ago, amidst AWP happenings. Thanks to @fracturedlit.bsky.social and Gwen Kirby for plucking this out! CW: suicide, disordered eating fracturedlit.com/blackboxing/