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  • Who We Are Here at Spat

    Who We Are Here at Spat

    Spat.online is a repository of writing that can’t seem to find a home elsewhere on the web. Partly because the authors are lazy, partly because the poor morals and blurry politics embodied in most of these pieces don’t make sense to the limited worldview of the wealthy, bored 20somethings who read slush piles for most…

  • I FOUND HEALING WITH A FAMED SPIRITUALIST: Testimony # 2

    I FOUND HEALING WITH A FAMED SPIRITUALIST: Testimony # 2

    People were shocked by what happened to me. They didn’t believe it could be real. I was studied by doctors, I was on TV, I was even abducted by the government for a short time and put in a underground lab. But I was healed all the same and it was all thanks to the…

  • I FOUND HEALING WITH A FAMED SPIRITUALIST: Testimony 1.

    I FOUND HEALING WITH A FAMED SPIRITUALIST: Testimony 1.

    Then their two shining souls, both finally free of their earthly pain, linked hands and drifted up out of the prison and into the cosmos as I sat in the plastic prison chair and wept, watching.

  • I Hid My Devastating Skin Disease Because Of Shame. Here’s Why I’m Speaking Out Now.

    I Hid My Devastating Skin Disease Because Of Shame. Here’s Why I’m Speaking Out Now.

    In a manner of two weeks I went from being a woman tending to a network of drainage stents much like a Vermonter tending maple syrup taps to being pretty much a macrobiotic chef whose only client was herself, but whose care and feeding was still a full time job.

  • i’m exhausted from the fear of existing while black

    i’m exhausted from the fear of existing while black

    Ibram X Kendi, Ijeoma Oluo, W.E. Dubois, James Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, Tony Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Chinua Achebe, Trevor Noah, Ta Nehisi Coates, ?uestlove, Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Dr. Wayne Dyer. I carry their words everywhere I go, in hardcover. I want the weight of their life experience to add to the weight of my…

  • A Damnable Peck

    A Damnable Peck

    Cormac McCarthy is the best writer has ever lived a true artist I told him and I won’t stand for no of this race class gender analysis of this story I told the kid. I flicked the tip of his tongue sticking out his eye socket with the tip of my tongue.

  • Submission Guidelines

    Submission Guidelines

    Submissions are never open. To submit you must know someone who has been published. Find them if you can. Bother them instead of us. If they are not sufficiently bothered by your submission, they can then bother us