Bulb Culture Collective
The Well Man - TJ Butler
Three weeks after the well ran dry, I fed a man to the hogs. The kitchen faucet drip had stopped. It had been a metronome companion,...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Aug 1, 2023
- 4 min
The Flying Wanderer by Sreelekha Chatterjee
A fluttering noise interrupted Vishal’s deep slumber. His half-closed, sleepy eyes followed the sound from where it originated and was...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Jul 28, 2023
- 3 min
The Secret History Of Fritz Lang* by David Luntz
I. Death in Venice (Hollywood), August 2, 1976 Fritz Lang is dying in Los Angeles. But outside his window, he hears from all of...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Jul 11, 2023
- 8 min
Rock a Bye Baby - Pam Plumb
Alanah started life on the cold blue-black slate of the kitchen floor. She lay in the wet slithering mess of childbirth, content. Curled...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Jul 4, 2023
- 6 min
Coup de Grâce by Fiona J. Mackintosh
I’d never have done this, made the trip all the way across the city on this draughty bus, if she hadn’t had the nerve to send me that...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Jun 30, 2023
- 2 min
I Am A Mongolian Death Worm by Lindz McLeod
In the arid dunes of the Gobi desert, I burrow under the surface to wait out the heat of the midday sun. I have no head or legs; my body...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Jun 23, 2023
- 3 min
Pathology by Teresa Tumminello Brader
A thump nudged James into consciousness. Resting on the empire sofa inherited from Brenda’s grandma, he’d tried to stay awake, but it’d...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Jun 20, 2023
- 4 min
Becoming a Ghost by Melissa Flores Anderson
Oscar picked the castle for our last night of a 10-day trip to Ireland. We’d worn on each other, like the ragged curtains that adorned...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Jun 9, 2023
- 4 min
A Life in a Night by Todd Sullivan
The night is an old woman. She is not so old that she cannot remember her birth yesterday at 6:45 p.m. She remembers the questions of her...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- May 26, 2023
- 7 min
Resurrectionists by William Woolfitt
You secure a research grant, you fly to Newfoundland and invite me to fly there too, join you at the airport. You say that you’ve missed...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- May 9, 2023
- 3 min
To Hold Water by Cecilia Kennedy
When I cup my hands under the faucet, the water finds the cracks between my fingers and slowly pushes through. No matter how tightly I...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Apr 18, 2023
- 2 min
The Feast of Fabian According to Theobald The Pious by Karen Walker
I explained it to the abbot in this way. The goose is a watchman. More than any other creature of Almighty God, it discerns the character...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Apr 14, 2023
- 2 min
Blind Love by Atlas Booth
Drew sighed tiredly. It was the middle of summer. Everywhere in the city smelled of hot grease and chemical attempts at flowers. People...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Mar 28, 2023
- 5 min
Natural Bodies by Gemma Elliott
I had never been particularly interested in my period until three events occurred in the same week: I got dumped, I lost my job, and I...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Mar 24, 2023
- 4 min
Blue Moon, Bright Mars by William Cass
Very rare: blue moon, bright Mars. Both rose just after sunset that late May evening. I stayed out in the backyard gazing up into the...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Mar 14, 2023
- 3 min
Waterbugs by Brendan Gillen
Awoke to a lonely cockroach, felt him skitter on my soul. Caught me home alone. The drapes hung open, radiator waited its turn. Prime...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Mar 7, 2023
- 4 min
Bounce by Kerry Langan
Well, what could I do? The guy's ears were so elegant, as small as a girl's and close to his head. Plus, when he pulled his clothes out...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Feb 28, 2023
- 6 min
The Living Mannequin by Sreelekha Chatterjee
Whenever I touched my body, I experienced the warmth of life—throbbing of veins indicated its existence, fingers pressed against the skin...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Feb 24, 2023
- 9 min
Bird of Paradise by Laura Pike
She almost missed it. It lay hidden beneath a crimson oak leaf, a brittle casualty of the approaching winter. A person less observant...
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Bulb Culture Collective
- Feb 17, 2023
- 4 min
Parral by Charles Haddox
My grandfather, Don Arcadio, has been telling me about growing up in an orphanage in Parral, Chihuahua after the revolution. We’ve been...
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