The Muleskinner Journal

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Journal Sixteen
Sabotage

So fun to say.
It thumps like a shoe dropped into the gears. It smolders like a slow fuse lit under the floorboards.

Coming soon:
your beautiful wreckage, your quiet detonations, your elaborate ruses, and your betrayals of self.
Listen for the sound of gears grinding, the machinery silenced.

Muleskinner Journal Sixteen will open for submissions on October 15 and close on December 15.
Our submission guidelines are here. Do your worst.

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