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notable, Best American Essays. distinguished, Best American Mystery and Suspense // books JADED, QUASI and ROLLING ON THE BOTTOM // editor of Bottle Rocket Literary Magazine
For our 77th feature we've got Isabelle B. L with one of the most quietly beautiful pieces we've ever had the privilege of publishing. Do take a few minutes out of your day to give her exceptional work a look. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/the...
the sink by Isabelle B.L — Bottle Rocket
My grandma rolled up my pyjama sleeves. I climbed on the chair. She finger tested the water before it gushed down my arms. A brick of rose-scented soap cartwheeled in her hands. The drain slurped it a...
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For our 75th feature we've got Jeff Klebauskas taking us back to Scranton, PA circa 1998. A time where one era was ending and another was set to plug firmly into the mainstream. 🛹 www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/chi...
Chimesy’s by Jeff Klebauskas — Bottle Rocket
This wasn’t Wallenberg or Love Park or FDR or EMB. It was Chimesy’s beneath the Nabi where Nelson Kopko donates plasma for chicken and broccoli money, dirt weed money, truck money if one of his Grind...
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Today over @bottlerocketlit.bsky.social we've got @alicelichtenstein.bsky.social. Do Check out her work.
Bottle Rocket@bottlerocketlit.bsky.social · last mo.For our 74th feature we've got @alicelichtenstein.bsky.social with a story about marriage and horses. Do give her excellent work a look. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/cho...
@thank you @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social for publishing and @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for their excellent edits.
Bottle Rocket@bottlerocketlit.bsky.social · last mo.For our 73rd feature we've got Jeff Harvey taking us back to high school with a tale of unrequited love. Do give his excellent work a look. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/tha...
For our 73rd feature we've got Jeff Harvey taking us back to high school with a tale of unrequited love. Do give his excellent work a look. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/tha...
THat Hitchhiker by Jeff Harvey — Bottle Rocket
My best friend Sam and I usually drove his Pinto when we went out, but he hadn’t paid his insurance, so Momma let me borrow her Buick if I promised to have it back by midnight. Our hometown theater wo...
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New story in @therazormag.bsky.social The literary magazine of The Gotham Writer's Workshop. There is an accompanying reading by a voice actor named Benjamin Holtz, which is a real treat for me. Whether you read or listen, I hope you enjoy. therazormag.com/articles/gra...
Grayton Beach - The Razor — Literary Magazine — Gotham Writers Workshop
We flew out of SFO for Fort Walton Beach, Florida, my wife, my young daughter and me. I stepped out of the airport holding my daughter in my arms and my wife’s hand in mine. The humidity was so thick ...
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Thanks @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social for publishing this one. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/fla...
flamingos in fedoras by gill o’halloran — Bottle Rocket
Strasbourg 5 am. A heron’s heavy row across a blue July sky, over green gravel lakes beside the motorway. We’re sixteen. Hungover French drizzles from our English tongues as we waste away with the was...
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Today over @bottlerocketlit.bsky.social we've got @quickasaflash.bsky.social. Do check out her work. 👇🏻
Bottle Rocket@bottlerocketlit.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor our 71st feature we've got @quickasaflash.bsky.social with a delectable tale of misspent youth. Do give her excellent work a look. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/fla...
“No gator had tried Joe, but he kept going out there hoping that one might.” My story “Florida Joe” is up over City Wide Lunch citywidelunch.wordpress.com/florida-joe-...
“Florida Joe” by Wilson Koewing.
Florida Joe jerked awake. His Army field jacket slid to the ground. He’d nodded off in the rusted beach chair again, by the swampy irrigation ditch that formed his property line. Ringlets in the wa…
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❤️ thank you, Cole. What a fantastic theme.
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖@nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 3mo agoFlash 405 has a sub call right now & I'll be damned if this story by @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social isn't the most perfect expression of it. Saudade is a Portuguese word best translated as a “profoundly bittersweet nostalgia” for what has happened, what is yet to occur, and what may never transpire.
Lads, I have a piece I love dearly out at Bottle Rocket today. Give it a read if you were ever a horny teenager and you’d like to know how teenagers were horny in a Malaysian girls’ school: www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/seq...
sequeira by Sumitra Singam — Bottle Rocket
The new teacher arrived like a prince, his legs scissored in his trousers, and all we could think of, us fifteen-year-olds caged in our pinafores with our chests bursting out of them, was that dangle ...
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One in a Million by Wilson Koewing. This is the last entry in our Tightrope series at Punk Noir Magazine - a fitting ending!
One in a Million by Wilson Koewing
from TIGHTROPE: a PUNK NOIR Magazine series
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New fiction from Wilson Koewing. Head over to Reckon to read "Bolinas."
“I chose to work on the ferry because it created the illusion that I was going somewhere. […] Not stuck inside a place, not stuck inside a life.” Read Wilson Koewing‘s (@wilsonkoewing.bsky.social) fun and tender “S. Pellegrino” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/S-Pellegrino...
S. Pellegrino, by Wilson Koewing — The Bulb Region
S. Pellegrino — Wilson Koewing I NEVER GOT HIS NAME, BUT I’D see him on the first...
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We're finishing up our Winter 2026 issue! Here's a new piece we love from Wilson Koewing @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social: newworldwriting.net/wilson-koewi...
Wilson Koewing ~ Mill Valley - New World Writing Quarterly
They drove from San Anselmo to Mill Valley for a Christmas celebration in the town center. Both towns were in Marin County, just north of San Francisco,
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Im always drawn to a strong sense of place, which to me means that the setting of story is so integral to the characters and events that it couldn't happen anywhere else. Today's story by @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social is an excellent example of that. 📚 #litfic
Reckon Review@reckonreview.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew fiction from Wilson Koewing. Head over to Reckon to read "Bolinas."
Enjoy this story by @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social from our July 2025 issue! newworldwriting.net/wilson-koewi...
Wilson Koewing ~ Lounging by the Pool - New World Writing Quarterly
I sat melting into a lounge chair by the community pool watching my wife and young daughter splash around in the shallow end. We didn’t live in Swaying Pines,
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New story up over @newworldwriting.bsky.social about the summer doldrums. I hope you will check it out. 🕶️ newworldwriting.net/wilson-koewi...
Wilson Koewing ~ Lounging by the Pool
I sat melting into a lounge chair by the community pool watching my wife and young daughter splash around in the shallow end. We didn’t live in Swaying Pines, but we’d joined the pool as friends of…
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An excerpt from my novel-in-progress is up today Hobart. It is exciting to share a glimpse into what I’ve been working on. I hope you enjoy it, and I hope it makes you want to read www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
Excerpt from 'Wedding Crasher, Marin County' by Wilson Koewing
It was late July in Marin County and the weather had been perfect for months. I’d spent the afternoon in Fairfax drinking beer at the Gestalt Haus with my hound Odie. When I returned home to San Ansel...
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I haven’t been publishing a lot lately but here are a few recent ones that reflect the place-based (Northern California) writing I’ve been focusing on: www.houseofarcanum.org/issuetwo/mou... ricjournal.com/2024/09/28/o... citywidelunch.wordpress.com/kids-by-wils...