Anna Cabe

consequenceforum.substack.comResidents of the Deep: A ReviewBy Anna Cabe. ". . . the characters in this collection are underwater, figuratively and literally, struggling to survive the undercurrent, to reach each other, for better or for ill."

1 July

I reviewed Residents of the Deep by Marianne Villanueva for @consequencef.bsky.social. Publishing so near the Fourth of July feels apt. consequenceforum.substack.com/p/residents-...

It's that time of year again: #HalloweenHorror GIFFest!

9.) Perfect Blue dir. by Satoshi Kon (1997)

10.) The Blackcoat's Daughter dir. and writ. by Osgood Perkins (2015)

It's that time of year again: #HalloweenHorror GIFFest!

7.) House on Eden dir. by Kris Collins (2025)

8.) Coraline dir. by Henry Selick (2009)

It's gloomy where I am, but that just means it's the perfect night to stay in and read our October issue. 🍁🎃🌧️ @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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🍂 Get your favorite fall beverage and cozy up with our new OCTOBER ISSUE 🍂 buff.ly/hJmnbBm Love & gratitude to our contributors 🧡 WORDS: @trentlewin.bsky.social, Kelly Luce, @janehammons.bsky.social & Thia Bian ART: Yezi Lou PLUS: @leeches.bsky.social interviews @eshanisurya.bsky.social

It's that time of year again: #HalloweenHorror GIFFest!

5.) The Tag-Along dir. by Cheng Wei-hao (2015)

6.) Hellraiser dir. and writ. by Clive Barker (1987)

ICYMI: We loved Sarah Chin's hilarious, heartbreaking, tender peek at a day in Labor & Delivery. Don't forget your coffee. ☕️👶 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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"7:13am. Patient has seemingly been in early labor since she was born." 🩺 Don’t miss Sarah Chin's fiction piece 24 HOURS ON LABOR & DELIVERY before it hits the archives: buff.ly/qtGf0RY

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🎶 Sure, our September 2026 Now Playing will get you a little distracted, a little sweaty. But it’ll keep your algos from pulling you into democracy’s downfall. Check out what our contributors are listening to! buff.ly/57I8Vwm

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Sarah Chin’s story “24 Hours on Labor & Delivery” drops readers into the chaotic, heartbreaking, sleep-deprived world of a hospital resident. Here, she shares just one thing about the piece: buff.ly/OvhjOvK

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Need some listening recs as we head into the weekend? 🎶 Check out what our contributors are listening to! buff.ly/ms4hC8r

It's that time of year again: #HalloweenHorror GIFFest!

3.) Blood and Black Lace dir. by Mario Bava (1964)

4.) Haunted Hotel (Season 2) creat. by Matt Roller (2026)

It's that time of year again: #HalloweenHorror GIFFest!

1.) A Bucket of Blood dir. by Roger Corman (1959)

2.) Shelby Oaks dir. by Chris Stuckmann (2024)

It's that time of year again: #HalloweenHorror GIFFest!

This time, you can read any longer thoughts I may have on my Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/acabe/reviews/

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14 Sept

Our Split Lip team hit the books this summer, and we've got plenty of reading recs for you all. 😎 ☀️ 📚️

15 Sept

School's back in session! 🚌 Curl up with our September issue when you need a break! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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🍂 Let's fall into the cozy season with our new SEPTEMBER ISSUE 🍂 buff.ly/JmXKHQ1 All the love to our Contributors⬇️ WORDS: Sarah Chin, Alice Markham-Cantor, Chen Chen, & Lisa K. Harris ART: Joe Karlovec PLUS: Jood AlThukair interviews leena aboutaleb

9 Sept

ICYMI: Before our June issue hits the archives, check out Miranda Manzano's hypnotic, haunting "Negative Spaces!" @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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"At the urging of a somewhat trustworthy dentist, I had a tooth pulled from the upper-right side of my mouth." Miranda Manzano's NEGATIVE SPACES is a rollercoaster of four parts. 🦷 🏀 Read it right here! buff.ly/TZBVGZ3

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4 Sept

Want to learn more about the making of our JUNE ISSUE fiction? Read about Miranda Manzano’s story NEGATIVE SPACES here! buff.ly/WS3xrPC

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@stevenspoints.bsky.social

2 Sept

September is here, but we're still thinking about our summer reads. ☀️ Fiction Editor @annablabs.bsky.social loved LONDON FALLING!

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Toss

26 Aug

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

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Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉

@erinvachon.bsky.social

11 Aug

instead of having AI "help" you read, hear me out, what if you just read

17 Aug

Thanks, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social and @consequencef.bsky.social!

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Need a book review for ACCOMPLLISHMENT SUNDAY? Fiction Editor Anna Cabe’s @annablabs.bsky.social's book review of RESIDENTS OF THE DEEP was published in Consequence Forum 🤩 buff.ly/YFxSyM5

18 June

Late post because of the arrival of my baby niece 🥰🐣, but get summer started with our gorgeous June issue! It's a good one! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 🌞

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Your summer reading is here. ☀️ WORDS by Miranda Marzano, Audrey Jiggetts, Alexandra Dos Santos, & Nicholas Goodly. ART by Iz Schrader. PLUS A.D. Lauren-Abunassar reviews @summ.bsky.social's THE HUNGERING YEARS. 💛 Enjoy it all right here: buff.ly/nhuVTMs

11 June

ICYMI: We loved the summery warmth and tenderness in E. P. Tuazon's story about a girl learning to bike and her father's cycling club rivalry. Check it out! 🚴🏽‍♀️🌞 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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"My father says today is my day, not Father’s Day, even though the sun is shining like it wants to pin a medal on him." 🚲️ Don't miss E. P. Tuazon's CYCLISTS before it hits the archives! buff.ly/rmERU8m

15 May

Hello, hello! "Cycle" into summer with our gorgeous, tender-hearted May issue!🚲🌞 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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Our MAY ISSUE is finally here. 🌼 WORDS by: E.P. Tuazon, Renny Gong, Mary Liza Hartong, & Despy Boutris. ART by: Christopher Dunlap. PLUS: @crsantastic.bsky.social interviews Kate Broad. ✨️ Enjoy it all right here: buff.ly/pUBKe7b

12 May

ICYMI: We were awed by @graythebruce.bsky.social's wildly creative and eerie take on predictive text. Be prepared for goosebumps. 👻 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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"...I wanted to play along so I asked it who’s there and the reply was you click are click speaking click to click the click congregation..." Check out @graythebruce.bsky.social's I CAN STILL HEAR YOU BREATHING before it hits the archives: buff.ly/VvnvdJj

27 Apr

So proud to have edited this for publication with @dawidmobolaji.bsky.social! I learned a lot! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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We're thrilled to share that Dawid Mobolaji has been long-listed for the Best Literary Translations 2027 anthology for his translation of Grzegorz Bogdał's WEIRD THINGS! 🤩 👏 You can find the piece right here: buff.ly/vbXGwik

25 Apr

I do!

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We're celebrating National Poetry Month by sharing our team's favorite poems. 💕 Fiction Editor @annablabs.bsky.social loves DINOSAURS IN THE HOOD by Danez Smith! buff.ly/b19m8yH

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23 Apr

@graythebruce.bsky.social’s story I CAN STILL HEAR YOU BREATHING examines the risks of typing with predictive text. Here, he shares just one thing about the piece: buff.ly/d83smwv

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21 Apr

☀️ We're up bright and early with new staff announcements☀️ Help us in welcoming out new poetry readers and editorial assistants!! Thank you for joining the team ❤️

17 Apr

Was a bit delayed in sharing but our April issue is here with jelly and creepypasta and architecture and so much more! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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April showers bring: our fresh APRIL ISSUE. 🌼 WORDS by: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen. ART by: Ainaz Alipour. PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social. buff.ly/cyFupU7

14 Apr

ICYMI: We loved (and cringed in sympathy) at Carol M. Quinn's story about the trials and tribulations of contingent faculty during the pandemic. Check it out! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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"Connie wasn’t that long ago, in the historical sense, but she was eons ago in terms of language evolution." Don't miss Carol M. Quinn’s fiction piece COGS, HEART AND SOUL before it hits the archives. 🔥 buff.ly/LxsRoC3

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Polis Loizou 🐺🎃

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25 Mar

Love this.

Anna Cabe @annablabs.bsky.social

Hello, hello! My prize-winning flash in which I reflect upon AI dropped a few days ago, amidst AWP happenings. Thanks to @fracturedlit.bsky.social and Gwen Kirby for plucking this out! CW: suicide, disordered eating fracturedlit.com/blackboxing/

@mattkendrick.bsky.social

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Matt Kendrick

25 Mar

"The ChatBot doesn’t have the moral fiber optic cables to make a stand, because it’s an algorithm, its workings a black box, its body a string of numbers. The ChatBot can’t even eat fiber" Such a brilliantly-crafted piece, stranding together different elements through powerful anaphora repetition.

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Laura Besley

@laurabesley.bsky.social

20 Mar

'The ChatBot tells me I shouldn’t kill myself today.' Congratulations to @annablabs.bsky.social whose story, Blackboxing' is the winner of the @fracturedlit.bsky.social #flashfiction #competition ✨ #fiction #writingcommunity fracturedlit.com/blackboxing/

@claudiamonpere.bsky.social

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Claudia Monpere

19 Mar

"he ChatBot tells me a star is a giant ball of hot gas, but Star would tell me, You’re a giant ball of hot gas, bitch. The ChatBot informs me bitch is a pejorative." Brilliant, unforgettable @annablabs.bsky.social

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Puff the Magic Hater

18 Mar

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

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Ruth Delgado

@heylookitsruth.bsky.social

18 Mar

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

medium.comMarch 18, 2026Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

17 Mar

Thank you, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social and @fracturedlit.bsky.social!

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"The ChatBot is not a 'trusted adult,' but it is the closest I have to one. The ChatBot has only existed as long as a toddler gumming on a laundry pod." Fiction Editor @annablabs.bsky.social's flash “Blackboxing” is in @fracturedlit.bsky.social👍: buff.ly/QZpfXMa

17 Mar

Interrupting my stream of Oscar posts to shout our bloomingly beautiful March issue. Please check it out! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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We watered and waited. Now it's ready to share. Our blossoming 🌼 MARCH ISSUE 🌼https://buff.ly/xk6gUgW Love & Thanks to the Contributors! 🥰 WORDS Todd Honeycutt, Carol M. Quinn, @lydia_abedeen, @shannyyy PLUS Jennifer Savran Kelly interviews Jesi Bender ART Scott Radnidge