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Kim Magowan

@kimmagowan.bsky.social

Fiction writer, EIC/ Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel, adjunct professor www.kimmagowan.com

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Barbara McVeigh@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · last mo.

“The Sex Appeal of the Blues” by @deirdredanklin.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social The attraction of a great title…and long-fingered musicians. Oof - the last line of the second paragraph 🫣 Absolutely love the husband’s invented story. pitheadchapel.com/the-sex-appe...

The Sex Appeal of the Blues

Deirdre Danklin Seeking shelter from political podcasts, I started listening to the blues. I got kind of obsessed with watching a long-fingered musician play his guitar. My husband asked me what I …

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Patricia Q. Bidar@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 4w ago

...her hand lifts, two fingers separating as if they remember the path: forehead, chest. The small private choreography that once meant: keep us safe. Her hand drops to her side. She sees me watching and her face closes, polite and empty. READ @ausiastsel.com in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

The Bread

Ausiàs Tsel   My son leaves the bread upside down because he is six and the world is a surface you can rearrange. It’s a barra—too long for the plate, too warm for patience—resting on the tab…

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Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · 3w ago

"The ‘it’s Gary’ wave, quickly supplanted by ‘of course it’s not Gary.’ What Joan Didion calls, in the book on Linda’s nightstand, ‘magical thinking.’" "*A good engineer*, she’d thought; not other nouns." @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/07/17/o...

On Her Way to the Corner Store To Buy Another Bottle of Wine

by Kim Magowan WAITING TO CROSS THE STREET, Linda watches a man drive through the intersection, and for a fraction of a second thinks he is Gary. His shock of graying hair, the crane-like way he hu…

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Dan Crawley@danbillyc.bsky.social · 3w ago

"The sensation reminds her of standing in the ocean as a kid, being buffeted by waves." This extraordinary piece of writing by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social · 3w ago

"...Linda watches a man drive through the intersection, and for a fraction of a second thinks he is Gary." On Her Way to the Corner Store To Buy Another Bottle of Wine by @kimmagowan.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity. Please follow the link below and enjoy

Kim Magowan@kimmagowan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Delighted to have a new story in @fictivedream.bsky.social ! Many thanks to Laura Black for publishing this one, and to my @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness workshop crew and @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social for reading drafts.

Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social · 3w ago

"...Linda watches a man drive through the intersection, and for a fraction of a second thinks he is Gary." On Her Way to the Corner Store To Buy Another Bottle of Wine by @kimmagowan.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity. Please follow the link below and enjoy

Frances Orrok@francesorrok.bsky.social · last mo.

Thank you @sudhab.bsky.social and @andrewporter01.bsky.social for your Wigleaf top 50 longlist. So much reading, so much joy! For anyone whose peak overwhelm happens invisibly pre-9am, this one's for you: pitheadchapel.com/have-you-see... @kimmagowan.bsky.social ♥️

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Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · last mo.

Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷

Kim Magowan@kimmagowan.bsky.social · last mo.

Thrilled to have my weird martyrs story "Ontkommer" in @wigleaf.bsky.social's Top 50! Many thanks to the Wigleaf team, guest judge @andrewporter01.bsky.social, and @djpoissant.bsky.social for publishing this in @theflreview.bsky.social! cah.ucf.edu/floridarevie...

Ontkommer - The Florida Review

Kim Magowan   My husband is Catholic and more devoted than I like, though it didn’t stop Matt from marrying me. In September, our ten-year-old son Ethan will be confirmed—a strange verb. As babies, bo...

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Laura Besley@laurabesley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'...still when Jake calls I feel a lurch in my chest that makes me understand why apothecaries and poets once believed that emotions reside in the heart.' Stunner by @kimmagowan.bsky.social @passagesnorth.bsky.social #fiction #microfiction #writingcommunity www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

A Handbook for Identifying Bird Calls by Kim Magowan — Passages North

Associate fiction editor Zoa Coudret on today’s bonus story: The aftermath of a marriage is difficult to capture succinctly, but Kim Magowan illuminates a range of emotions and makes the characters p...

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Jaime Gill@jaimegill.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thank you Pithead Chapel, for publishing NO OBITS, inspired by a 1998 headline from the Bay Area Reporter to mark the first week since 1981 without new AIDS deaths. The new meds WORKED. Not a cure, but a reprieve. I try to capture that bittersweet moment in this tiny story bsky.app/profile/baya...

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Pithead Chapel@pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our May Issue is live!!! pitheadchapel.com/2026/05/01/v... cover art DEEMS ORTEGA fiction REBECCA TIGER JAIME GILL SOPHIA HYLAND-WOLZAK MICHAEL ANTHONY RANFONE nonfiction HOLLIE WARREN prose poetry AMANDA CHIADO

Kim Magowan@kimmagowan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

LOVE this book review for my new story collection, THE LAST DAY. Many thanks to @erinvachon.bsky.social and @smokelong.bsky.social ! www.smokelong.com/obscure-shap...

“Obscure Shapes Crouch in the Dark”: Review of Kim Magowan’s The Last Day: Stories - SmokeLong Quarterly

Reviewed by Erin Vachon In the titular story to Kim Magowan’s The Last Day [Moon City Press, March 2026], a narrator finds a High Voltage dahlia that looks like a crimson loofah. She texts her husband...

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