Posts in support of the Unlikely Stories on-line magazine of art & literature and Unlikely Books. Unlikely Stories was founded July 1, 1998. https://www.unlikelystories.org/ Posts by Jonathan Penton #TNRThttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mj5sxaicxs2cMeet Unlikely newcomer Yucheng Tao, who brings us three poems on the Skull-God’s body, the darkness of the center, and why peace is always absent at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/after-the-pantheon-the-final-moment-and-skull-god-1914 #poetry #litmag #smallpress10 Apr 2026 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5sxaicxs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3miyumqdw3c2xThe New Orleans Poetry Festival is coming up fast! Be sure to check out the many excellent readings and events, along with the Unlikely Stories event, with Sheila E. Murphy, Joani Reese, Kayla Rodney, and Joel Chace! Can't wait to see you there!08 Apr 2026 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyumqdw3c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3miymuut67225IN THREE WEEKS! Come see Ching-In Chen, along with locals Bill Lavender, Rachel Zavecz, & the late Belle Brock Adelman-Cannon as read by C.W. Cannon. Wednesday, April 29, 8pm. 801 Poland Ave., New Orleans. There will be cupcakes! https://www.facebook.com/events/962518876253080/ #nola #poetry #neworleans08 Apr 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3miymuut67225https://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3miwedpsbgs2lJames Penha is back after a long absence with “Angel Bestowed,” a short story on quiet consent, fledgling capitalism, and what angels will or will not tolerate at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/angel-bestowed #fiction #smallpress #litmag07 Apr 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwedpsbgs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mittli5mmk2rUnlikely peep Jon Wesick is back, with a stylishly murderous tribute to Marc Vincenz: the flash fiction “More Assassin Bugs, Lady Beetles, and Lanternflies than Humans” at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/more-assassin-bugs-lady-beetles-and-lanternflies-than-humans #fiction #smallpress #litmag06 Apr 2026 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mittli5mmk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mir7cl7cp22yUnlikely Staff Reviewer dan raphael is here with “Much Ado About Everything,” which considers “There Is No Antimemetics Division” (by qntm) in the context of Frijof Capra’s 1975 “The Tao of Physics” at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/much-ado-about-everything #bookreview #books #taoofphysics #smallpress #litmag05 Apr 2026 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mir7cl7cp22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mipjqcs4us2bI mean I like my publisher just fine but still https://lavenderink.org/site/shop/a-limited-number-of-miracles [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Apr 2026 00:49 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mipjqcs4us2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mion7o7bu22fFor April’s art gallery, Unlikely Stories Six proudly presents nine intricate body collages by Bill Wolak! Thanks to Leona Strassberg Steiner for assembling this exhibit, which can be seen at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/nine-collages-april-2026 #art #visualart #collage #litmag #smallpress04 Apr 2026 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mion7o7bu22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mimcptuhls25Unlikely stalwart henry 7. reneau, jr. is back, with three wild poems on the alchemical machinations of desire, fact and opinion fused in contradiction, and a medulla oblongata rhyming at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/temperance-the-city-and-illume-8-this-is-the-story-of-how-she-began-to-remember #poetry #litmag #smallpress03 Apr 2026 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimcptuhls25https://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mijx4ihgws2hTwo weeks to the New Orleans Poetry Festival!02 Apr 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijx4ihgws2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mijv4ub2lc2rMeet Unlikely newcomer Deepa Rajan, who brings us three poems on beauty standards, GIlette jingles, and the colorism of choice feminism at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/unholy-matrimony-bigger-fish-to-fry-and-fuck-choice-feminism #poetry #smallpress #litmag02 Apr 2026 18:57 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijv4ub2lc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3miet3y6aec2kWelcome back Drew Pisarra, who brings us three poems on flowerpots that resemble urns, writing to our teenage selves, and the matter of Vincent Price at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/apocalypse-laptop-and-on-the-matter-of-vincent-price #poetry #litmag #smallpress31 Mar 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3miet3y6aec2khttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3miel4xndis2iIT'S TIME!31 Mar 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3miel4xndis2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3micalgomms24Tilden Culver is back with his new short story, “The God Scam,” on how we seize power and what we will do to become beautiful at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/the-god-sham #fiction #smallpress #litmag30 Mar 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3micalgomms24https://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mi4tgeqmx222Check out the "Honeybee," the novella by Esosa Zuwa out now at www.UnlikelyStories.org ! [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Mar 2026 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi4tgeqmx222https://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mi2sukemac2oUnlikely newcomer Esosa Zuwa brings us “Honeybee,” a novella on seeking older men, arranged marriages, and lying to would-be lovers at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/honeybee #fiction #smallpress #litmag27 Mar 2026 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2sukemac2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mhybbmxw7c25Sigh. jonathanpenton.com https://jonathanpenton.com/26 Mar 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhybbmxw7c25https://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mhy6llnmtk2dCheck out “Dog BIte,” a new short story by Unlikely newcomer Jimy Valenti on the children of divorce, violent tempers, and facing 16 years in prison at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/dog-bite #fiction #litmag #smallpress26 Mar 2026 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhy6llnmtk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mhxvvyfbu22uIt’s time for fun with Roz’s insurance company. Her doctors have ordered her not to return to work until April 13, and her insurance doesn’t believe them. There are questionnaires, arguments, and forms. So we have almost no money coming in. Thank you so much for your time. gofund.me/3df658166 https://gofund.me/3df65816626 Mar 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxvvyfbu22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mhxv6vumqc2gOn Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend of 2026, Larissa Shmailo and some of the regulars at Writing Resilience organized a two-day virtual poetry reading in protest of America's growing fascism. The video footage is now available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSZghIu5u8QIWhVe_kpBGvlmcqZsa_LSH26 Mar 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxv6vumqc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mht7ntzn5s2lMeet Unlikely newcomer David Anson Lee, who brings us three poems of what numbers used to mean, pamphlets deemed subversive, and folding shirts with the map inside at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/city-of-small-admissions-brocawernicke-love-song-and-instructions-for-mourning #poetry #smallpress #litmag24 Mar 2026 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mht7ntzn5s2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/unlikely-stories.bsky.social/post/3mhqp6axrwc27Unlikely OG Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal is back, with three poems on forgetting how to swim, screams from any country, and biting the bullet out of thin air at https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/forging-on-the-future-and-without-days-or-nights #poetry #litmag #smallpress23 Mar 2026 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:c75j47cyqtodhvv4gnuk467g/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqp6axrwc27