"When you kill a dude, you can either spend your life wishing it didn’t happen or take a piece of him. People think it’s sick. But sometimes sick is the only way out." - Shelby Raebeck mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
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dedicated to rewriting modern masculinity since 2009 @thedrevlow.bsky.social EIC
"The air hung on her like a hot fog. Maybe he would come back, but she doubted it. He wasn’t to blame. It was like a flood or blight: nobody could be blamed for those things. They happened: they just happened." - Richard Hague mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
"Ever since he was a teenager, Marcus hid his pistols in the dead space behind a dresser drawer. That’s why he didn’t expect to find a thick wad of cash taped behind his wife’s underwear drawer." - Jeremiah Root mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"I’m a seeker, a constant observer. Any tiny interaction I witness could become a story. If I can mentally embody the setting to a successful degree, the reader will trust the setting & their reading experience will be richer for it." @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...
"I thought maybe this is the moment you are supposed to cry? Something human like a wall of pain, or a sense of being lost at sea. I imagined Pirates with scurvy had more fun." @luckycreature.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"We only got the large boxes, says the dude at the new pizza place & as your two tiny slices of Margherita slide into the comically large pizza box you feel a flicker of jealousy at their illusion of freedom before they, like all of us, get devoured." - Jan Hassmann mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"My homeroom teacher made me write an essay called 'I Am Not Michael Jackson. Then she made me go up to the blackboard & write 'I Am Not Michael Jackson' fifteen times. On the seventh 'I'm Not Michael Jackson,' I started to hum Billie Jean." @seriouslitmag.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"To get revenge on my goat for butting my backside, I wrangled her up and shaved her flanks. I gave her a sedative that was meant for a cow, then tattooed a map into her flesh." - James Callan mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"Maybe it was the resentment for him dating my high school ex-girlfriend. Or maybe it’s because we were in too deep, thinking we were cowboys when it took the two of us together 75 minutes to change a flat." - Carter Phillips mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"Whatever I learned about my father that day, did not bring us closer. He and his Chevy vanished during the night, along with his clothes and golf clubs." - David Gregory mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"The gun seems to gain confidence in its role in the world. Straightening and steadying." Holy moly, this AMAZING story by @shiramusicant.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social arrives (unfortunately) exactly on time. mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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"Had Mr. Ant seen the kid coming? Did he have a loving ant wife? A happy ant kid? Some ant mom or dad that had to live with him? Maybe the kid’s dismayed face would be hung up in the anthill, a bounty of breadcrumbs mounting against him." - James Koehler Jr. mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"The men sniff the air, shuffle & grunt when I enter the room. There’s a moment of confusion, the shiver of a question passing through the herd. They don’t know why I'm here or what I think when I look at them, steaming like bison after a run." - Iris 'Lou' Verne mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
"Girls are the easiest to hit, but hitting a boy is more fun." - Steve Wong mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"No one wanted this slaughter, but no one could find in themselves the button to decline their roles in it." - Ed Komenda mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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'The clouds looked like bruises, the air smelled like used saxophones, and something in PJ wanted to drive straight through.' Great story by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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"She’d been prepping for tomorrow's lesson on the presidents, writing on the whiteboard Lincoln’s words, if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. She’d wondered what her students would do with those words. She’d been thinking about that." - Shira Musicant mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
Tainted love, hitchhiking ghosts, & bad weather at the Waffle House. Thanks, @mrbullbull.bsky.social !
MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2w ago"PJ pulled into the Waffle House because he needed a biscuit fix, not because he was afraid to drive into the storm." - Kathryn Kulpa mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"PJ pulled into the Waffle House because he needed a biscuit fix, not because he was afraid to drive into the storm." - Kathryn Kulpa mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
Stories in (respectively): @westtradereview.bsky.social @elsewheremag.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social Jet Fuel Review and @yourimpossiblevoice.com Read 'em all. Links here:
The Shortlist for October 8, 2026 - Turn and Work
Fiction from Blake HC Mihm, Iain Grinbergs, Neil Campbell, Andrea Marcusa, Jeffrey Hermann, Hannah Nathanson, and Claire Salvato
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"Let’s say, hypothetically, for the sake of the argument, that I’m one of those cone-tittied fifties housewives, complete with cornflower apron and coke addiction." @raniyachowdhury.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
"Through our whispers we argued that the internet might do some good: think of the ease with which you could communicate; think of the ease with which you could learn something, better yourself. Of course, we used it for porn." - Joseph Conrad Payne mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"What caused that first detonation? It was an event (which isn’t the right word) which didn’t prove fatal, not quite, but which made Willem aware that his sense of himself, of the inside, outside, could disintegrate in a flash." - Simon Firth mrbullbull.com/newbull/micr...
“To the prostitutes,’ a drunken voice gave a toast. ‘May their hoohas forever be welcoming and may they never grow teeth like my wife’s.'” Tony W. Njoroge mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
New work up in @mrbullbull.bsky.social today! Bull has been a mag that I've read for years and been submitting to forever. I love the work they put out and I'm very grateful to have this story on their site. mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
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"I’m not a loser; my greatness has been in hibernation." - Robert Sumner mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"There was talk about how the corpse, back when it was a man named Steve, wasn’t particularly full of life. How he didn’t particularly light up a room when he entered it. In fact, no one ever noticed when he was in the room." - Joseph Linscott mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
New how to story from my “Strange Instructions” series up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social. Thanks to @thedrevlow.bsky.social
MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 3w ago"You could willfully misread the assignment & become a butter man: sit patiently & hold your head still while your sculpted likeness is brought to pale unpasteurized life at the Minnesota State Fair. But... is that who you really want to be?" @mattleibel.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/micr...
