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A literary magazine obsessed with revenge. Open for submissions! https://www.villaineralit.com Mastermind: @charlesjensen.bsky.social

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In Thao Vu's flash, a sister's entire life in this town is sprawled out on the narrator's lap, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪 villaineralit.com/2026/02/06/j...
Junk by Thao Vu

“Transfer everything in here for me,” my sister ordered and tossed two identical leather wallets into my lap, one with saddle stitches unravelled around the frayed edges, the other brand-new, still…

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Feb 3
In Sophia Krich-Brinton's story, Jane's got some shocking feedback for her supervisor Chad--today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪
Velvet Gold by Sophia Krich-Brinton

The company had a camera-on policy, so Jane smiled in case someone in the meeting was watching. It wasn’t a great smile, but at least it wasn’t a scream. Chad was probably watching and taking notes so he could announce her mistakes to everyone. ‘Smile, Jane, you don’t look happy to be here.’ She squeezed her stress ball into a pancake.

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In Evan Laughlin's story, a mysterious medic-alert bracelet triggers the creation of your neighborhood's least likely superhero, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪
Geezerman! by Evan Laughlin

When the stranger appeared, I was sitting on a bench at the edge of the beach in Marina del Rey, California, warming my bones like an old lizard. Before me, six athletic young women played volleyball on a court outlined in the sand with blue plastic tape. I did not see the stranger approach. One moment I had the bench to myself.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Jan 27
If Kyle MacLachlan is hiding in your house, car, closet, or woods, Alistair McCartney's poem is for you--today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪
BV2025 Beyond My Comprehension by DL: Treatment by Alistair McCartney

Kyle MacLachlan is hiding [ ] in your houseKyle MacLachlan is hiding [ ] in your carKyle MacLachlan is hiding [ ] in your closetKyle MacLachlan is hiding [ ] in the woods In the dark Kyle MacLachlan is hiding [ ] in plain sightKyle MacLachlan is hiding [ ] in full-screenKyle MacLachlan is hiding [ ] in your closet…

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Jan 23
Maudie Bryant doesn't grieve the blades tucked into lullabies, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪
Two Poems by Maudie Bryant

What I Miss Is Fiction I do not miss her.I miss the certainty that she was good.The mirror I polished every time she smiled.The softness I swaddled with her silence.She never said the cruel things.She let them bloom in the aftermath.The truth came with teeth——blades tucked inside lullabies,inferno dressed as candlelight.Not every ghost deserves an altar.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Jan 22
Team, we need submissions in all categories but especially a) nonfiction and b) poetry.

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In E.A. Mayer's story, Kerry responds to a scam text, setting off an unexpected chain of events that change her life forever, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪
The Grammar of Deception by E. A. Mayer

Kerry was savoring the chocolatey notes of her first espresso shot from the new Italian machine that dominated the kitchen countertop when the first text bonged on her phone. She ignored it, taking another sip of heaven. Whoever was texting could wait. The Titian red Bravissimo model had cost more than she could afford and matched nothing in her studio apartment, but its sleek presence and effortless functionality made her smile as it hummed each tiny cup of caffeinated bliss into existence.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Jan 16
His ex-wives crawl from the glove box like scorpions as Marie Macri and her fiancé drive to Vegas. What could go wrong? Today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪
Two Poems by Marie Macri

With this ring, I see red No A/C, driving from L.A. to Vegas——desert heat, a crimson-coil hairdryer.His ex-wives crawl from the glove boxlike scorpions,fodder for arguments about coins,about air-conditioning.He isn’t my exes. He isn’t.I see red.Courthouse line——long, ragged—almost-newlyweds:show a passport, get a spouse.the DMV of matrimony——take a number, please!

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Jan 13
Izzy and Bex get to enjoy a quiet weekend in the country--but at what cost??--in a story from L. Mack, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪
The Great Indoors by L. Mack

I was drinking a mocha at The Low Ground Cafe, shielding my mug from a bee and wishing it were warmer——the weather, I mean, not the bee——and there I was, taking in Nature and Culture and swatting the one away from the other, when I spotted a familiar face at the next table. It was a triangular sort of face with a trim reddish beard and kind of pointy ears, and it was attached to a boy I’d gone to school with named Rey, who was an absolute genius for pranks.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Jan 9
Panika M. C. Dillon invites you to say "hello" to her little...Kyle, today at Villain Era!
Four Poems by Panika M. C. Dillon

say hello to my little Kyle gulf to the left of us rattlesnakes to the right here we are stuck in the poison ivy with Kyle cryingbecause someone said the p-word this wasn’t the first time Kylelost it the first time was when he saw Bugs Bunny sing Die Walkürein a dress not everyone can be kicked out of the nest with…

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Jan 6
Kerri Brady Long takes cues from Teen Vogue articles like "Can You Tell If a Guy Is Into You, or if He's Just Looking for His Next Victim?" today at Villain Era!
True Crime by Kerri Brady Long

It’s harder to get murdered than Goldie thought it would be. Based on the hundreds of true crime podcasts she has listened to, documentaries she has watched, and books she has read, if a woman is out alone after dark (or alone in a park, alone on a train, alone in the rain; the options become Seussical quickly) she’s practically obligated to get murdered.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Jan 3
Marianne Villanueva reveals why the blacksmith’s son was never heard from again—or was he?—today at Villain Era! villaineralit.com/2026/01/02/h...
Hunger by Marianne Villanueva

The blacksmith was called Black Johannes because of the dirt that seemed to have worked its way permanently into the creases of his cheeks. His eldest son was called Black Ardan, and he was expecte…

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Dec 30, 2025
In Laura I. Miller's story, the disappearances of dozens of women coincided with horrible fires, and two residents are about to find out why, today at Villain Era!
Jorinda and Joringel by Laura I. Miller

The woman’s name wasn’t Broomhilda or Griselda or Minerva. She never revealed her real name to strangers, but a long time ago, they used to call her the Collector because she collected moths in jars and kept them in her room. She still thought of herself that way when she was alone: a Collector of precious things, of transient beauty. Over the years, the Collector had become almost entirely self-sufficient.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Dec 26, 2025
The soft chime of the bell over the shop door feels too gentle for what she came to do in Bethany Bruno's story, today at Villain Era!
Return Policy by Bethany Bruno

The bell above the jewelry store door gives a soft chime as I step inside. The sound feels too gentle for what I have come to do. Rain slides down the glass behind me, distorting the lights of the parking lot. The air smells of polish and metal. Under the bright display cases, diamonds gleam like trapped lightning, each one waiting for someone to believe in it.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Dec 23, 2025
Francesco Levato had planned to kick the door down, today at Villain Era!
A Shotgun Named Regret by Francesco Levato

I’d planned to kick the door down, start firing at first sight of daddy, or anything that looked like him—but the house was abandoned, front door swaying in the breeze. Wasn’t easy to leave, hurt like being thrown from the saddle. Annie’d been curled on the floor, trying to be small as possible. I’d promised I’d come back for her. They say daddy’s one of them, the dead come home, or one of those nightmares that fell from the stars, but he ain’t.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Dec 19, 2025
Ben Kline enjoyed it under his pillow, focused on transcendence instead of a smile for cash, today at Villain Era!
Three Poems by Ben Kline

I liked to come quietly, the whole house asleep. I enjoyed it under my pillow, the fan and the cricket choir, focused on transcendence instead of a smile for cash, another grin in tractor trailer shade, cut grass at the rest stop staining my jeans we laundered in Monday Wash, the roomies enjoying shiraz, fancy crackers, a night free from bad tippers and the shame of men too horny to fake their names, wedding bands still on, slipping inside if they paid extra upfront.

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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 7: Integrity now! epistemiclit.bsky.social · Dec 16, 2025
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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Dec 16, 2025
Zary Fakete wonders if it will hurt them--but that isn't really the point, today at Villain Era!
Révülés by Zary Fekete

The road up to the village wasn’t marked. Just tire grooves in the mud and a weathered sign half-covered in moss. The driver let me out where the trees cleared. He said if I followed the utility poles, I’d find the house.He also said, “If she offers tea, don’t drink it.”I didn’t ask why.The air was thin, and the wind came sharp through the trees.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Dec 12, 2025
Sharon Hoffman knows age thirteen is when she has to have "the talk" with her son--and she doesn't mean sex--today at Villain Era!
Two Poems by Sharon Hoffmann

The Talk 1. Thirteen is the year I have to teach him things I don’t want for him to know. You think I mean sex, but that is easy next to the raw lessons every boy with dark skin has to learn. Wear your baseball cap face-forward at the mall. No, you’re not imagining that when you look at clothes, salesclerks shadow you.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Dec 9, 2025
Maggie's thought of 16 ways to kill her managers (and making the workplace better) in Lynne Curry's short story, today at Villain Era!
16 Ways to Kill Your Managers (Metaphorically, Mostly) by Lynne Curry

Maggie carried herself like the model professional—pressed blazer, polished nod, expression set to neutral. Her pen sketched blood. On the legal pad half hidden by her keyboard tray, she wrote in small script, Sixteen Ways to Kill Your Managers. Number one: staple gun to jugular. Efficient. No mess. No evidence trail. Number two: office chair ejector seat, fifth-floor window. Add parachute?

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Dec 5, 2025
In Samantha Szumloz's story, the men of Marseille get much more than they bargained for on their visit to Madame Lucie's, today at Villain Era!
Sirens by Samantha Szumloz

The old priest in my hometown, Père Français, used to say in his sermons that sin is all around us, that we must gouge out our eyes and cut off our hands if we fall into temptation. He also used to proclaim that devils slither across the earth like serpents, pretending to be God’s children. “We must choke them with our rosaries,” said he, raising his meaty fist, his eyes a cloudy blue, “and cut off their heads with our swords.” He was a soldier in Christ’s militia, that Français, and I wanted to fight alongside him.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Dec 2, 2025
Steven C. Wright is gunning for the Queerty Award for Most Embarrassing Homosexual (among other lauds), today at Villain Era!
To cope with you cutting me off, I daydream that you called me by Steven C. Wright

back, and my apology wins you back, wins you over, wins the NOBEL PRIZE IN PEACE, the PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION, the TONY AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION, the PRIMETIME EMMY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE, the GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE (MALE, CRYING), the ACADEMY AWARD FOR MOST PATHETIC MONOLOGUE, the GOLDEN GLOBE FOR BIGGEST REACH, the OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL IN BIGGEST LEAP IN LOGIC, the DRAMA DESK AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LYRICS, the QUEERTY AWARD FOR MOST EMBARRASSING HOMOSEXUAL, the SMALL DICK ENERGY PRIZE FOR WEAKEST MAN, the PLATITUDE PISSER AWARD FOR MOST PISSED OUT PLATITUDES, the RIPLEY CAN’T EVEN BELIEVE IT AWARD FOR MOST PISS OUT OF A MOUTH, the AMERIHEALTH OF NEW JERSEY AWARD FOR NEEDING MORE THERAPY, the ACCOUNTABILITY PRIZE FOR MOST LIKELY TO SAY THEY WILL CHANGE, AND THEN NOT, the 2025 THANK GOD YOU DIDN’T DO THIS IN REAL LIFE PRIZE, the FACT THAT YOU’RE STILL IN MY CONTACT LIST IS CRIMINAL, the TRUTH IS NO ONE HAS EVER GONE NO CONTACT WITH ME BEFORE; THOUGH I LEARNED HOW TO FUCK OFF I HAVE NOT LEARNED HOW TO FUCK -ING LET GO, the SOUND OF YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD IS STILL SO CLEAR, the QUIVERS IN MY SPEECH ARE STILL SO REAL THAT MY PREFRONTAL CORTEX wins the GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL, wins the BACKSLIDE AWARD FOR EMOTIONAL RELAPSER, wins the BACK OF YOUR HEAD, wins the BACK OF YOUR HEAD, wins the BACK OF YOUR HEAD …

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Nov 28, 2025
Revenge is seeping into every aspect of Meg Leonard's life (picking up kids from school, apartment hunting, laundry), today at Villain Era!
Three Micro-Memoirs by Megan Leonard

Revenge Picking Up the Kids from School // And It's Raining and It's Cold // By 2:30 each day I feel like hell like a truck dragged me down the road and my skin is bleeding and sore. My muscles feel like they’ve been crushed and now the bruises are trying to save my life. My rheumatologist suggests a walker or at very least a cane and I don’t even consider it—I would rather my neighbors think my unbridled gait is because I am lazy and fat, and not because my leg is losing its ability to hold me up.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Nov 25, 2025
A reporter, a doctor with questionable ethics, and two billionaires locked in an epic feud form the points of the mystery in Evan Deign's story, today at Villain Era!
Returning by Evan Deign

I can’t remember who set up our last meeting, whether Doctor Kylan Merrick had reached out to me or I had chased him on some pretext or other. But I do recall he requested a video call instead of a face-to-face. He was unusually reserved when we spoke. I got him on the record for an industry trend feature I was writing, but when I asked about his company he spoke strictly on background.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Nov 21, 2025
Francesca Leader is (still) trying to teach her (soon-to-be-ex-) husband about two-way streets, today at Villain Era!
Four Poems by Francesca Leader

Goodbye, John Not the Jesus to my child——you were the child, I the second coming——or first, or last, depending whether we countthe wife who resented your paintings,the mother who called you golden, or neither,since I alone stayed. No number of melted-downwedding bands could heal your cracks——you were, to hold another, too broken. But when you…

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Nov 18, 2025
Jen Jabaily-Blackburn meditates on a bumper sticker that reads "Keep Honking! I'm sitting in my car crying to the Cranberries' 1993 hit single 'Linger'," today at Villain Era!
Two Poems by Jen Jabaily-Blackburn

Bumper Sticker that Reads Keep Honking! I’m sitting in my car crying to the Cranberries' 1993 hit single “Linger” Good one, but for me it’s “Dreams”& I tried to tell my daughter “this is an all-time banger” though it came out like [high whine] because these days verbally admitting to liking anything makes me cry& it’s particularly bad with pop songs, which feels like a non-problem to bring to a therapist so I have not brought it to a therapist (or myself to a therapist) …

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Nov 16, 2025
Marianne Villanueva reveals why the blacksmiths's son was never heard from again--or was he?--today at Villain Era!
Hunger by Marianne Villanueva

The blacksmith was called Black Johannes because of the dirt that seemed to have worked its way permanently into the creases of his cheeks. His eldest son was called Black Ardan, and he was expected to follow his father into the trade. But there was nothing Black Ardan loved more than to feel the springy heather underfoot. He wandered far, eating the oat-cakes and cheese he kept in his pockets.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Nov 14, 2025
Joe Hilliard's story peels back the mystery on EL CHIMOSO VALIENTE--the comic you should be reading, if only...
The Comic You Should Be Reading (El Destino Extraño del Chimoso Valiente) by Joe Hilliard

Not much has been written in the comic press about El Chismoso Valiente, a self-published comic written and drawn by Ignacio "Nacho" Chazin in the early 90s. He eschewed the glossy full-sized comic book form for the 4.25" x 5.5" zine. Given his constant crossing the Mexicali border, this more properly could be noted as the size of Mexican comics such as…

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Nov 11, 2025
Jason Davidson has noted the wings don't fit--they never fit--today at Villain Era!
Nesting by Jason Davidson

we always showered at the beach. this was a power move, a way to be supple. my skin will never look that way again. I had been on my feet for hours when a man who looked exactly like a bald eagle carved a nest of ice in the midst of our infestation. I was restless. I said: you have the most unusually shaped penis I’ve ever seen!

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Nov 7, 2025
Shaina Nanavati whispers that the revolution will not be funded, today at Villain Era!
Keeps the Score by Shaina Nanavati

The body’stally countsays elevenyears.Rememberbut shhhhh.Learn how tofight back,how to maintaina chokehold.We’re on offense,not defense,now.I count the dollarsI earnedwhen I learnedhow to comfortcrying menfor a living.“The revolution willnot be funded,” I whisper into thesavings box thatholds folded20’s.We love war…

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Nov 4, 2025
Luanne Castle thinks the average person doesn't realize how revenge works, today at Villain Era!
Eternal Flame by Luanne Castle

after “The Fallen Angel” by Alexandre Cabanel What the average person doesn’t realize is how revenge works. It doesn’t come into being after the initial rage and disappointment and frustration cool. It’s not the logical mind rising from the gray ashes of emotion. Revenge is an emotion born at that first moment. Imagine Lucifer’s fall from the heavens. As he lands far below the docile and dovelike celestial beings a desire for revenge flames in his breast.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Oct 31, 2025
Casey Reiland explains how the man the river witch had been fantasizing killing for days arrives at her door, setting of a series of unstoppable events, today at Villain Era!
The Hex Hollow Murders as Told by the River Witch of Marietta, Pennsylvania, 1928 by Casey Reiland

Warlocks and the black arts, hexes and pow-wows have been neglected by a race of modern rustics who, when their crops are bad or their pigs perish, appeal to the U.S. government. City people, who supposed that the last U.S. beldame had long since ridden up the wind and that the rattle of wild laughter in the autumn air had never been heard since Salem, were surprised to learn of the York witches.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Oct 28, 2025
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco wonders if you knew about her phone calls late in the night, today at Villain Era!
Three Poems by Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco

Patio It wasn’t summertill the cheese began to sweat. My kneesgrew ridged: the outlines of pleistocene lakes on a school map,in the wrong place. We lay in indoor sleeping bagsright on the lawn. Dew soaking through. Our bodies lumped like swallowed seeds in too——hot cloth. Just shapes of things. Once we sang folk songswith my uncle, rattling…

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Oct 26, 2025
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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Oct 25, 2025
Launching a new, sporadic Weekend Reads feature: Triumphant returning villain Kelly Foster Lundquist gets the Villain Era Third Degree in today's interview about her new book BEARD: A MEMOIR OF A MARRIAGE!
If Past Is Precedent: An Interview with Kelly Foster Lundquist

Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2025) recounts how Kelly Foster Lundquist met Devin at church camp when she was nineteen in the late ’90s. Immediately inseparable, the two bonded over bootleg Tori Amos recordings and a sense of disconnection from the spiritual fervor of their fellow camp counselors. Devin was classically handsome and Kelly on the plain side of pretty, but they matched.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Oct 24, 2025
Cat Dixon came to a halt in the pasture at the stone bearing your name, today at Villain Era!
Two Poems by Cat Dixon

Prayer of Petition After Kate Patridge's "Petition for Reintroduction" I don’t want to get mail from the Jesus people anymore, but they have my address and miraculously spelledmy first name correctly. How did they find me? It’s been 22 years since I’ve dipped my hand into a holy water font, crossed myself, and sat in a pew. I know…

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Oct 21, 2025
Karen Loeb has eaten the crab legs, but at what cost? Today at Villain Era!
Confession #23 by Karen Loeb

Crustacean Dilemma When we moved to FloridaI ate stone crab legs as if itwere o.k. I declared themdelicious one night to the server. “Yeah,” he said. “Noguilt either. They snap off the legs and toss the crabs back in the water, and miracle of miracles the legs re-grow.” I remember my stomachrevolving. In the last twenty…

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Oct 17, 2025
An abusive small-town priest gets what's coming to him in Mike McClelland's celestially supernatural short story, today at Villain Era!
Father Dick by Mike McClelland

CW: CSA Father Richard, the Pithole’s “dial-a-deacon” for any weddings, christenings, baptisms, or other events that took place out of the grounds of an official church, was based in Pithole’s Oil County Courthouse. He’d shown his genitals to so many altar boys over the years that he was known throughout Pithole as Father Dick. The kids themselves all knew to give the big door to the right of the magistrate’s office——its brassy letters spelling out DEACON——a wide berth.

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Keli Osborn has some choice words we can't repeat here for the driver running a red light, today at Villain Era!
Curses by Keli Osborn

Yesterday’s crumbs on the counter annoyed me. I swore under my breath, swept them into a pile with the back of my hand. Tonight, muddy boot prints sneered by the back door. I gave as good as I got. Tomorrow? Another driver will run a red light, and I’ll mutter profanities before stepping into the crosswalk. When my mother grew testier with age, I blamed menopause…

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Oct 10, 2025
Melanie Dusseau warns that handlers of redheads may find these poems difficult to hear, today at Villain Era!
Two Poems by Melanie Dusseau

Eve Takes One for the Team “Some paradise,” Eve sighed, mind zigzaggingbetween hangry and horny. No snake slithered but the sun struck a tree bushy with ruby baubles: pomegranates. She smashed one open with a rock, mouth agape at the red spill. Juice ran down her chin——a delighted smile lit her faceas she inspected seeds in her palm, mind on fire.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Oct 7, 2025
A visiting lecturer's past mistakes come back in like the tide in Emily Alice Katz's short story, today at Villain Era!
The One Who Takes by Emily Alice Katz

I disembarked at Yfor Bay well after dark, met by the swish and suck of great water. Nowhere else in the world, I had read, did the tide recede as far as at Yfor Bay, exposing vast, muddy flats, derelict tangles of kelp, mussels squirting gently in the barren expanse. And nowhere else did the tide return so swiftly, kissing the upper shore-grass in the space of a quarter-hour.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Oct 3, 2025
In Ewen Glass's flash piece, two men's lives intersect irrevocably after a train accident aligns their lives--today, at Villain Era!
Timetable by Ewen Glass

When the stationmaster explained why the 06.43 wasn’t running, I put the outrage genie back in the bottle; a man had fallen in front of the train at the previous station. Someone on the platform must’ve seen my initial annoyance as, days later, the father of the man who died on the tracks found me online and made it his mission to tell everyone what sort of man I Really Was.

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 villaineralit.bsky.social · Sep 30, 2025
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