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Celebrating 25 Years of Xing the Line in London

July 14, 2026

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Willow Springs Issue 97

May 5, 2026

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Cereal City Review

April 8, 2026

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ROUNDABOUTS

March 22, 2026

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The Organ Grinder

March 16, 2026

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DEER MUSK

March 6, 2026

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RED RIVER

March 1, 2026

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DODO ERASER

February 18, 2026

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“BIG FISH” NOMINATED FOR BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2025

February 10, 2026

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MEAT SWEATS IN DIAGRAM

January 14, 2026

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DREAM DUST IN FAVORITE READS OF 2025

December 31, 2025

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BOMBAY LIT MAG

December 15, 2025

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Absurd Tales: Peas in G&Ts & Ghost Faces

December 4, 2025

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Moat Gravy and Life Confetti

December 1, 2025

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‘Golden Trumpet’: A Microfiction

November 24, 2025

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CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD

November 3, 2025

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Big Fish” — My Surreal Micro Story in Flash Frontier’s Fish Issue

November 2, 2025

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Lit Balm Online Reading

October 17, 2025

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New Surreal Absurd Story in Bending Genres

October 15, 2025

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Mercurius Launch at Backstory Books in Barcelona

October 10, 2025

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Mercurius Launch at Dorothy Circus Gallery in London

October 10, 2025

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New surreal absurd stories in Rawhead

September 24, 2025

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The MERCURIUS Show: Interactive Livestream Event

September 17, 2025

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MERCURIUS SURREAL ABSURD VIRTUAL READING MARATHON

August 29, 2025

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Double Whammy: Two New Micro Fictions

August 18, 2025

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The Judo King – New Microfiction Published at Maudlin House

August 15, 2025

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‘Bunker’: A New Surreal-Absurd Microfiction

July 18, 2025

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Unbroken Journal

July 7, 2025

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Chalk Talk: A Noir Flash Fiction

July 3, 2025

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A Reading of Pickled Herring

June 26, 2025

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Surreal-Absurd Microfiction: The Magic of Pickled Herring

June 18, 2025

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From the Wilds of Poland

May 10, 2025

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Finding the Bone

April 20, 2025

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LAUNCH OF DREAM DUST IN MANCHESTER, ENGLAND

April 17, 2025

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6 BITE SIZED SURREAL-ABSURD STORIES

April 6, 2025

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P3 Annihilation

March 15, 2025

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An Afternoon of absurd surreal poetry

March 9, 2025

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Do you wear socks with your sandals?

February 28, 2025

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Navigating January Blues: the head and the heart

January 13, 2025

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‘Dream Dust’: Surreal-absurd Travel Stories

December 31, 2024

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Winter Poem: Dear Working Man with Tarred Leggings

December 21, 2024

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Letters to Objects: A Memoir of Portadown

December 6, 2024

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Pulse of the Nation: A Prose Poem Inspired by Dreams

October 28, 2024

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Exploring Travel Through Prose Poetry

October 11, 2024

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Poland is for Lovers

August 2, 2024

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Swan Songs

June 21, 2024

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Buffalo ( x8)

May 6, 2024

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talking about strawberries all the time

April 12, 2024

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4 New Prose Poems from Wrocław and Berlin

April 7, 2024

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The Language of Cabbage

March 1, 2024

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HOBART

December 25, 2023

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Bruiser

December 22, 2023

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Granny Winegums

November 25, 2023

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The Magic Unicorn

November 9, 2023

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A Very Thin Crack

November 5, 2023

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BETSEY TROTWOOD

July 20, 2023

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Surreal-Absurd at The Betsey Trotwood

July 6, 2023

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