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"Go ahead and tell me I’m thinking too narrowly, that I’m asking too much. That my questions miss the mark."
Read "Graydough" by Adina Leschinsky Levine
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Huge congratulations Ben Kline! It Was Never Supposed To Be is the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Poetry!! @benkline.bsky.social
Read this poem! "At the National Gallery" by Paul Potts
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Empathy is at the heart of this devastating flash from N. D. Stone.
🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Poetry: It Was Never Supposed To Be by Ben Kline! @benkline.bsky.social @variantlit.bsky.social 🎉🎉
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Can’t say enough about this gorgeous story!
Lessons in how to love another, rendered exquisitely by Joseph Randolph.
"In a different world, his is not the only face I think of when I think of family." Fiction reader @kplumhoff.bsky.social's flash, titled IN A DIFFERENT WORLD, I AM NOT A STRANGER TO THIS RANCH, was published in Variant Literature ✨ Find it here: buff.ly/dR0qOZ1
🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Poetry: It Was Never Supposed To Be by Ben Kline! @benkline.bsky.social @variantlit.bsky.social 🎉🎉
#Lammys2026 #LammyAwards
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"Truth is, I don’t go outside anymore. Don’t open my door. My mother’s wallet lies empty on the table like a gutted fish. I found it on our welcome mat, still warm from her hand when they took her."
Read "The Hollow" by N.D. Stone
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Read "In a different world, I am not a stranger to this ranch," by @kplumhoff.bsky.social from Variant issue 23
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"Around town, they called the factory Mother. Mother had a hundred divisions. Sometimes, when Yvette came home after a shift, her breath smelled like metal. Smelled like the opaque white plumes from the incinerators and the agitating spaces."
Read "Exposure" by David Ryan
variantlit.com/exposure/
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“A bottle slides just enough to break the pattern when his sleeve catches it, and he stills it with two fingers like it is fragile, like it contains the part of his brother that might still be reachable."
from Micro Series by Joseph Randolph
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