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Click through to see the #photograph, "Earth Cradle," by Coriander Focus

it tells quite a story (or three or four)

https://existotherwise.com/earth-cradle/

Earth Cradle

photography by Coriander Focus

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#Submissions were supposed to close last night, but I've been so busy the last week that I haven't send out the usual reminder to get your last minute submissions in.

I'll keep the submission form live until midnight on Wednesday.

https://existotherwise.com/submit/

Submission Form

This page was last updated on May 13, 2026. Submissions Close on May 31, 2026 Make sure you're familiar with our Submission Guidelines. We accept the following types of written work: poetry, prose, essays, creative non-fiction, hybrid, or experimental writing. Short works (under 100 words): You may submit up to

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Why Bother? is a photograph by #DeannaFaye in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal...

This is not it. To see the photograph, click through.

As a disabled artist who struggles with mental health issues, art is her way of navigating both the joy and despair of the human condition. Deanna is on instagram.

https://existotherwise.com/why-bother/

Why Bother?

photography by Deanna Faye

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#poetry by Adam K. Bechtold

“Oh star of Bethlehem or Manhattan or San Francisco,
take my hand and lead me home…”
https://existotherwise.com/angel/

Angel

poetry by Adam K. Bechtold

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existotherwise.com/villain/

art by #MikeDressel in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

#CaudeCahun used masks often in her art and writing

gender extremist
betokening megalomania
vectofascism

#haiQu #senryu #haiku #flarf #FoundPoetry

"You should be nominated for Cannes or the Oscars this year; no one has ever died as realistically as you did. The way you screamed, the way you played your part, the way you died and were torn apart... "

prose poetry by Zar Mohseni

https://existotherwise.com/a-requiem-for-the-fallen-apart/

A Requiem for the Fallen/Apart

prose poetry by Zar Mohseni

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iOS 26.3.1 (a)

“why do anything with one click when you can do it in three?”

"Revolutionary love is, as Christ insisted, a threat to the established order. To rebuild love in the future, it might be necessary to save love now..."
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/apostles-of-golden-love
Apostles of Golden Love — Parapraxis

Were the Surrealists the First Freudo-Marxists? Kevin Duong

Parapraxis
"Love was an alchemical reagent that transformed pessimism into revolutionary action, Georges Bataille concluded in a 1938 essay, “L’Apprenti sorcier”: you can’t start a revolution without it. Love was a treasure from childhood, René Menil wrote three years later in “Introduction au merveilleux.” It is “the most valuable of all, the cause and effect of all desires,” and that which made “the intolerable limits of everyday life” fall away like lace..."
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/apostles-of-golden-love
Apostles of Golden Love — Parapraxis

Were the Surrealists the First Freudo-Marxists? Kevin Duong

Parapraxis