🎉 Weekend edition vol.085

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Foofaraw will match up to $300 in donations to DIFFA Dallas, Elevated Access, and Denton Community Food Center through the remainder of 2025.

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Happy, happy Saturday! I’m going to start off by asking for a huge favor. Chill Subs is running their Best Lit Mag Awards and I’d be absolutely honored if you could take 60 seconds of your day to vote for us—no account needed, just enter your e-mail, search for Foofaraw, pick three tags, and you’re done. Maybe tell a friend while you’re at it...

Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs

Welcome to Chill Subs’ 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.

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Anyway, if that wasn’t enough self-promotion and favor asking, The Bodies has been getting some wonderful reviews on Amazon and Goodreads... (hint, hint...) And if you haven't picked up a copy yet, shame on you!

The Bodies by D.H. Parish

a 46-page print novella

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It was a big week for us as we officially announced the winners of our first writing contest. We were able to award over $600 among our three winners and five honorable mentions who wrote some absolutely wonderful and creative stories.

An ordinary contest results

truly extraordinary

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You can read the three winners here:

☕ A cup to save the world

by Andrea Cavedo

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🥧 To make a pie

by Michael Allen Rose

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📝 What’s in a name?

by Zoe Carver

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Last week kicked off with a new entry in the world of Cavendish from Joel:

⚒️ Hello, children of Earth!

by Joel Glover

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Before Fendy unravelled a beautiful story about music and memory:

🎶 Side A for secrets, side B for goodbyes

by Fendy S. Tulodo

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Fendy also talked to us about music, creativity, and vinyl:

🎙️ Fendy S. Tulodo

An interview with the author of Side A for secrets, side B for goodbyes

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This week we published a flash piece from Dudley Stone. It's a very melancholic story, but not for the faint of heart:

🙃 Falling

by Dudley Stone

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In the world of comics, we had the next issue of Abstract Tears from Tony Tran:

😿 Devoured

the tenth comic from Tony Tran’s world of abstract tears

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And #11 of OBSTRUCTION from our friend Matty:

🚧 OBSTRUCTION #11

a webcomic from Matthew Burbridge

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Finally, for our wonderful Friday columns, we had Baron return to talk about paperwork:

🏛️ Paperwork will bring the apocalypse

by Baron Ursin de Paresse

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And then Nick framed things up nicely for us heading into the weekend:

🔭 The framing essay

by Nicholas De Marino

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And of course the last two media guides before it takes a haitus until the new year:

📺 The media guide S6E17

giving up like an elderly democrat

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📺 The media guide S6E18

the last hurrah

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P.S. you can still purchase our S6 Limited Edition design as a t-shirt, sticker, or hoodie.

Foofaraw S6 Limited Edition Tee

Comfort Colors Garment-Dyed Heavyweight T-Shirt. 100% cotton fabric with a relaxed fit, featuring the 1913 abstract painting, Udnie, by Francis Picabia.

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