It’s easy, when we’re bombarded incessantly with bad writing that mainly promotes nazis, grifters, and grifting nazis, to forget that the internet is still home to a lot of badass writing. It used to be home to even more badass writing. When online litmags shut down, sometimes their websites, and the work published therein, shut down, too. The goal of Derelict Lit is to bring some of that lost work back. Every story and poem published on this website has been published before in a now defunct litmag. Enjoy or whatever.
All stories and poems in Derelict Lit are republished with the permission of the authors. All rights belong to the authors.
Note: this project is on indefinite hiatus, but as long as Malarkey is operational the work will stay online.
Fiction
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January 2021
- Jan 17, 2021 "Rituals" by Brucie Jacobs Jan 17, 2021
- Jan 2, 2021 "Chihuahua" by Krista Diamond Jan 2, 2021
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October 2020
- Oct 29, 2020 "The Auditor" by Joe Giordano Oct 29, 2020
- Oct 29, 2020 "My Hollywood Story" by Patrick E. Nevins Oct 29, 2020
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September 2020
- Sep 11, 2020 "the best american deaths of the last year" by Kevin Richard White Sep 11, 2020
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August 2020
- Aug 4, 2020 Paris, the Summer of ‘68 by Gary Beck Aug 4, 2020
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June 2020
- Jun 26, 2020 "Triptych" by Eric Williams Jun 26, 2020
- Jun 18, 2020 "Breakfast With Dad" by Paul Lewellan Jun 18, 2020
- Jun 18, 2020 "Odyssey of Tears" by Titus Green Jun 18, 2020
- Jun 18, 2020 "Death in Trickling Springs" by Joe Giordano Jun 18, 2020
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May 2020
- May 28, 2020 "Destabilized" by Laurence Klavan May 28, 2020
- May 19, 2020 "Black Faux Fur Coat at Caffé Trieste" by Dylan Brie Ducey May 19, 2020
- May 19, 2020 "The Last Lottery at Uniontown" by Joe Giordano May 19, 2020
- May 15, 2020 "Never Salute a Bare Head" by Cate McGowan May 15, 2020
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March 2020
- Mar 19, 2020 "An Evening's Run" by Shannon Frost Greenstein Mar 19, 2020
- Mar 2, 2020 "Her Paris" by Katherine Gleason Mar 2, 2020
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January 2020
- Jan 7, 2020 "The In-School Suspension Supervisor" by Zac Smith Jan 7, 2020
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October 2019
- Oct 7, 2019 Terrible Shoes by Katherine Gleason Oct 7, 2019
- Oct 7, 2019 "Stained" by Mark F. Oct 7, 2019
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September 2019
- Sep 26, 2019 "The Villain and the Saint" by Benjamin Smith Sep 26, 2019
- Sep 26, 2019 "Mexican Folktale" by Benjamin Smith Sep 26, 2019
- Sep 26, 2019 "Travel" by Benjamin Smith Sep 26, 2019
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August 2019
- Aug 5, 2019 "Mother Love" by Nolcha Fox Aug 5, 2019
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July 2019
- Jul 5, 2019 "What You Catch a Glimpse of, Forget as Soon" by Robert Detman Jul 5, 2019
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June 2019
- Jun 14, 2019 "Metastatic Soliloquy" by Jonathan Freeman-Coppadge Jun 14, 2019
- Jun 13, 2019 "Where the Eighth Should Be" by Stacy Trautwein Burns Jun 13, 2019
- Jun 12, 2019 "String" by Ty Hall Jun 12, 2019
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May 2019
- May 29, 2019 "Duende" by Eneida P. Alcalde May 29, 2019
- May 28, 2019 "PigSkin" by Rebecca Gransden May 28, 2019
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March 2019
- Mar 22, 2019 Those Horrible Hungry Things, Benjamin Smith Mar 22, 2019
- Mar 22, 2019 Cooked Cookies, Sheree Shatsky Mar 22, 2019
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February 2019
- Feb 25, 2019 Tomatoes and Mangoes, Monica Wang Feb 25, 2019
- Feb 22, 2019 Crowd of Teeth, Chris Milam Feb 22, 2019
- Feb 20, 2019 Highly Sensitive People, Daniel Hand Feb 20, 2019
- Feb 20, 2019 Mikey, Daniel Hand Feb 20, 2019
- Feb 13, 2019 Subduction, Merridawn Duckler Feb 13, 2019
- Feb 6, 2019 Guy Debord, Chas Carey Feb 6, 2019
- Feb 4, 2019 The Projection, Scott Garson Feb 4, 2019
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January 2019
- Jan 29, 2019 Hair, Tara Isabel Zambrano Jan 29, 2019
- Jan 28, 2019 Judgment Day, Dan Crawley Jan 28, 2019
- Jan 25, 2019 Now As It Is Forever, Mark F. Jan 25, 2019
- Jan 24, 2019 The Darkness That Has a Name, Evan Anderson Jan 24, 2019
- Jan 24, 2019 Time to Leave, Raima Larter Jan 24, 2019
- Jan 22, 2019 Step Right Up, Jacqueline Doyle Jan 22, 2019
- Jan 21, 2019 The Negotiation of Space, DeMisty D. Bellinger Jan 21, 2019
- Jan 18, 2019 Units, C.C. Russell Jan 18, 2019
- Jan 16, 2019 Pain of Possibility, Benjamin Smith Jan 16, 2019
- Jan 14, 2019 Home Recipe, Emma Sloley Jan 14, 2019
- Jan 8, 2019 A Story Told Over Dinner, Jacquelyn Bengfort Jan 8, 2019
- Jan 4, 2019 Trail of Sawdust, Dave K. Jan 4, 2019
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November 2018
- Nov 30, 2018 Gnashing of Teeth, Ryan Napier Nov 30, 2018
- Nov 27, 2018 Small Atoms, Brian Mihok Nov 27, 2018
- Nov 21, 2018 11/10/09 – Minneapolis airport, 12:30 local time, C.C. Russell Nov 21, 2018
Poetry
- March 2022
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October 2020
- Oct 23, 2020 Three Poems by Linda Umans Oct 23, 2020
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September 2020
- Sep 22, 2020 Dictionary of Eros by Diana Raab Sep 22, 2020
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August 2020
- Aug 31, 2020 After a Storm in the Subway Station by Sean Lynch Aug 31, 2020
- Aug 17, 2020 Two Poems by Colin James Aug 17, 2020
- Aug 3, 2020 Conservation by Rae Rozman Aug 3, 2020
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July 2020
- Jul 26, 2020 Five Poems by R. A. Allen Jul 26, 2020
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June 2020
- Jun 5, 2020 Six Poems by Jeffrey Zable Jun 5, 2020
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May 2020
- May 20, 2020 Old Girlfriends from Across the Ocean by John Grey May 20, 2020
- May 8, 2020 Three Poems by Eve Lyons May 8, 2020
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March 2020
- Mar 13, 2020 Two Poems by kerry rawlinson Mar 13, 2020
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December 2019
- Dec 20, 2019 Four Poems by Sanjeev Sethi Dec 20, 2019
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August 2019
- Aug 23, 2019 Profile, Cheryl Pappas Aug 23, 2019
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July 2019
- Jul 11, 2019 Avoirdupois, Sanjeev Sethi Jul 11, 2019
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May 2019
- May 30, 2019 deception, Jonah Howell May 30, 2019
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April 2019
- Apr 8, 2019 Summer Beasts, Dylan Angell Apr 8, 2019
- Apr 8, 2019 Garbage Mountain, Dylan Angell Apr 8, 2019
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March 2019
- Mar 12, 2019 Tranesque, Gregory Luce Mar 12, 2019
- Mar 2, 2019 Girl With Wolf Head, Trinity Herr Mar 2, 2019
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February 2019
- Feb 20, 2019 Some Spirits Have Been Around Longer Than Other Spirits, Daniel Hand Feb 20, 2019
- Feb 14, 2019 Don't Walk, Jeremy Nathan Marks Feb 14, 2019
- Feb 14, 2019 Torrent, Jeremy Nathan Marks Feb 14, 2019
- Feb 13, 2019 Seven Poems by Mike Andrelczyk Feb 13, 2019
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January 2019
- Jan 23, 2019 Two Poems by Karlo Sevilla Jan 23, 2019
- Jan 2, 2019 A Love Letter to My Grandma, Jenna Vélez Jan 2, 2019
- Jan 2, 2019 Dinner With My Parents, Jenna Vélez Jan 2, 2019
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December 2018
- Dec 27, 2018 Three Poems by Linda Umans Dec 27, 2018
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November 2018
- Nov 20, 2018 Six Poems by Josh Olsen Nov 20, 2018
Nonfiction
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June 2020
- Jun 18, 2020 "The Funeral of a Nation" by Lynne Schmidt Jun 18, 2020
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December 2019
- Dec 9, 2019 "Failing Thoreau in the Year 2000" by Benjamin Lawrance Miller Dec 9, 2019
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April 2019
- Apr 22, 2019 A Night Inside, Kathryn Hummel Apr 22, 2019
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March 2019
- Mar 12, 2019 Laxatives, Daniel Garcia Mar 12, 2019
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January 2019
- Jan 31, 2019 Marriage, Patricia Bidar Jan 31, 2019
- Jan 30, 2019 We Changed Our Names, Dylan Angell Jan 30, 2019
- Jan 28, 2019 Across the Years, Tony Press Jan 28, 2019