Dion Dennis

Adaptation or just sheer self-interested institutional marketing to Gen Alpha? degrees.asu.edu/bachelors/ma...

Christian Reconstructionists promote Theonomy (supplanting the U.S. Constitution as the sacred text). Theonomy tosses out centuries of democratic governance with its claim that Biblical Law is the one true legal framework for both civil and criminal matters journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ct...

"The American Dream" has long been the country's unofficial religion. It's been my contention that Christian Dominionists see the end of the American Dream as necessary, a crisis neeed to install a Christian State. Here's one leg of my argument (2021): ausganger.medium.com/dominionists...

We've seen this before, when men with wide & deep resources use their influence to blackball truth and art. Back then, it was William Randolph Hearst and Citizen Kane (1941). Today, it's Elon Musk, Tiktok, and this exhaustive portrait of Musk: www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Four submission windows a year. Playlists that might bring someone back to a story. Names read out with a school-assembly feeling. Plus our Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net nominations. We’re all A students.

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Kyla Scanlon's analysis on the structural dynamics around "The New American Dream." Impressive mapping of the decline: kyla.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

It is amazing how a segment of contemporary literary journals fail to recognize or incorporate how thoroughly the digital world (cultural, economic, social, political) has converged with the material world, as an object to directly engage with, interrogating how these mediated formats shape lives.

Now that Trump has scuttled the USMCA, this predictive piece about the effects on the largest inland port in the U.S. are amplified: www.caveat-lector.org/3602/website...

“I have so little sense of living what I’m living while I live it that I have to relive it to finally live it.” —Annie Ernaux yalereview.org/article/anni...

Hybrid text & photo essay: "Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla: Laredo, TX as America's Macondo." An analysis of the rise and in-progress decline of Laredo, TX, accompanied by 11 mid-90s photos such as "Stevie Wonder Photography," "The Convent Beauty Salon" etc www.caveat-lector.org/3602/website...

Recent piece: thievingmagpie.org/dion-dennis-...

New flash nonfiction piece on a misadventures of a young couple in Northern Mexico: mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

New piece: briefincorrect.substack.com/p/the-preten... (750 words, a narrative on the tenuousness of persona construction during a period of social upheaval).

@heavyweight.bsky.social Listening to the epilogue to the "Tony" episode. At about the last 5:35 marker (46 min in), Tony's words are cut off, and a partially sliced newsletter promo follows. Great episode, but perhaps a bit of re-editing at that point

My mother, a Holocaust survivor, died at 96, in 2023. She suffered a long and brutal marriage & a host of losses from the 1990s onward. I wondered if she ever had a "Jerry," but she was more buttoned-up than Deborah. Kudos to Deborah, who lives in the now through accessing her chemistry with Jerry.

Hello. Today, our season finale: Deborah. omny.fm/shows/heavyw...

Have an hallucinatory lyric essay/prose poem about memory, myth, music, and getting wrecked by love @minorliteratures.bsky.social thanks @roughghosts.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...

"After first writing that story, which I’ve rewritten many times, I spent five years studying literature. I wrote many stories where the narrator comes to a realisation without content, an empty epiphany that leaves him unchanged." Faslane — Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social

From Across the Margin: Gimme Shelter acrossthemargin.com/gimme-shelter/

From The Write Launch: From the Grinchette to Cinderfella: thewritelaunch.com/2025/08/from...

From the The August Drift and Dribble Magazine: Murder Under the Lampposts. augustdriftanddribble.com/dennis.html

"Trauma Porn, where emotional catharsis is conflated with literary worth; performative vulnerability is miscast as authenticity; therapeutic processing services the reader, and confession becomes a public good ..." The Ruse of Trauma Porn & the Fictional “I” minorliteratures.com/2025/10/19/t...

@joeyflash.bsky.social Read your short story, Chewy. Funniest thing I've read in a lit journal. And, there might be an actual market for chorizo gum -- Bucces mega stores, across the US south, if you were only half-jesting.