Beautiful Losers

Beautiful Losers

Divorce is the thing with feathers

sex & god & broken marriages & affairs: true story, man

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Shannan Mann
Oct 15, 2026

dear ones, wrote this in 2022 & got way too many “special rejections” for it to count (from the biggies might i add—god it’s like they just want to make out with my writing a little or at most feel it up but never go to 4th base) . There are still places I’ll submit it to. But, for now, I want it out in the world, and since there’s over 8000 of you subscribed to this newsletter i feel like more folks will read it here than in most literary magazines, though if any editor is subscribed and wants to publish it, lmk so I can send you a special rejection :)

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