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Press/lit mag in Lexington, KY. Offbeat, mystery, dark humor, southern gothic, literary fiction. Free story each week! We pay authors. Ed: @joshaboldt

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Brown Hound Press is the fastest growing literary magazine in the country.

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Story of the Week!

Contrary to what the current publishing environment would have us believe, sometimes it’s perfectly fine to have a slow burner. In fact, sometimes it’s even better. In Aidan Shousky’s “Sundowning” we don’t immediately know what this father and son are doing in the woods. The story unfolds gradually as we learn about the characters and their pasts. You have to pay attention to subtle cues, glean information from hints. You might not even realize until halfway through what is happening. The slow burn works here because Shousky provides enough context to keep us curious, to give us those moments where we ask wait a second, is this what I think it is?

Read the story at brownhoundpress.com.

Josh Boldt, Editor by @brownhoundpress

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Season 2 submissions are closed. Here is how it all shook out. Authors, if you received a response saying that we enjoyed the story and would like to see more of your work, then you were an "Almost."

Thanks to all who submitted this time around. Had a great time reading your stories! by @brownhoundpress

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We pair every story with a song and call it the Story Track. Here is this week’s:

The Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs” was inspired by the Austrian novel of the same name by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Like the novel, the song explores themes of sadomasochism and female dominance. “Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart.” These themes pair well with Jo Paquette’s “The Bloodthirsty Plant Deserves Her Own Story,” a story that also hints at the narrator’s sadomasochistic sexuality and pursuit of feminine control. And I couldn’t ignore the reference to Venus in the song’s title–both as a nod to romantic desire and to the same-named fly trap featured on this story’s header image. by @brownhoundpress

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4 days ago

Have you read our story of the week yet? #weekendreads

Jo Paquette is the author of the 2024 short fiction collection Stories I Told My Dead Lover, which was hailed by Tom Perrotta as “eerie and enigmatic.” She has published over a dozen books for young readers, which were translated into nine languages and received numerous accolades, including a nomination for the Massachusetts Book Award and a PEN-New England Discovery Award honor. Her work has appeared in various periodicals, including Writer’s Digest and Women’s Writers, Women’s Stories. In her non-writing life, she is a senior literary agent with Aevitas Creative Management. by @brownhoundpress

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Story of the Week!

Jo Paquette’s “The Bloodthirsty Plant Deserves Her Own Story” reads like prose poetry. The paragraphs could be grouped into stanzas. Try it and you’ll see what I mean. Imagine parsing the paragraphs, placing each sentence on its own line, and then read the story like a poem. Even down to the non-rhyming couplets that punctuate sections like: “The bloodthirsty plant deserves her own story / But this is not that story” and “Maudlin, the lot of it. Might as well give over the floor to Chuck / Oh wait.”

Paquette’s language is one reason I was drawn to the piece. Of course, there is also the story itself. The plant acts as a metaphor for the narrator’s sexuality while simultaneously serving as a symbol of her vengeance. The story hyperbolically explores that fine line we’ve all walked in romance between the desire to be authentic and the fear of coming on too strong.

Read the story at brownhoundpress.com.

Josh Boldt, Editor by @brownhoundpress

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8 days ago

We pair every story with a song and call it the Story Track. Here is this week’s:

Imagine you’re Billy in “And the World Was Wide Open” by Willie James Bess, driving down a dark highway, pocket full of hot cash, thinking you’ve got the bull by the horns. Rattlesnake Milk’s “On the Road” fills the car as you drive. You spot a woman on the shoulder with her thumb up. “She was on the road / Mama made her livin’ on the road.” Do you stop? Pick her up? You’ve only got one thing on your mind. Trouble is, so does she. “She gon’ get high, higher than the devil, every time she hear him makin’ noise...” by @brownhoundpress

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Have you read our story of the week yet? #weekendreads

Willie James Bess is a poet, writer, and musician from Orlando, Florida. At Stetson University in DeLand, Florida he studied English literature and poetry. He is co-founder of the Poets Anonymous poetry workshop and independently publishes zines of poetry and fiction, along with releases of cassette tapes, under his imprint Drunken Butterfly. You can follow him on instagram @_will.e. by @brownhoundpress

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13 days ago

Story of the Week!

*This is the author’s first story publication. Our second week in a row with a great debut author.

Willie James Bess’s “And the World Was Wide Open” is the first manuscript we’ve received that was written on a typewriter. I have to say, in this crazy AI world, seeing those typed pages was a refreshing throwback to a simpler past.

This theme of retro nostalgia carries through in Bess’s story. It’s a classic tale of criminal romance. No cell phones, no fancy technology—just a fast car, a hot gun, and a flash of skin. You know, nothing but the essentials.

Read the story at brownhoundpress.com.

Josh Boldt, Editor by @brownhoundpress

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15 days ago

We pair every story with a song and call it the Story Track. Here is this week’s:

If Jennifer Gann’s “Dying For a Burger in the Mostly United States of America, or Possibly, Hell” were a short film I could hear Pomplamoose’s cover of “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” playing as the credits roll. Something about the tongue-in-cheek description of humanity’s breakdown accompanied by the song’s polished melody makes it an apt soundtrack for Gann’s dystopic landscape. Some day soon, when you’re doing sit-ups in a fast food restaurant to earn the right to eat a hamburger, take a second to look around, to wonder how we got here, and then ask yourself do you feel…fine? by @brownhoundpress

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If you've been waiting til the last minute, the time has come. Only three days left to submit your 1,000-3,000 word short story. Get 'em in!

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19 days ago

Have you read our story of the week yet? #weekendreads

Jennifer Gann is a writer and poet from Memphis, Tennessee. She holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and has spent most of her adult life teaching children and raising two of her own. After years of battling her inner critic, Jennifer is finally ready to admit she’s a writer. You can find her on Instagram @jennifer_finally_writes . by @brownhoundpress

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