November 24 — The new Issue 32 is live today. Read stories 1 & 2 online, or buy the full ebook.
October 29 — 3LBE print anthologies are returning! Volume VI (issues 21–24) now available in the store.
June 23, 2020 — Issue 31 Stories 5 & 6 are live today.
June 16, 2020 — Issue 31 Stories 3 & 4 are live today.
June 9, 2020 — Issue 31 is live today. Read the first two stories online, or buy the full ebook.
June 5, 2020 — Visit our store. Half of all this year’s sales will be donated to Black Lives Matter.
June 1, 2020 — Writers: we are always interested in seeing more Black voices, voices of color, Indigenous voices, LGBTQIA+ voices, and voices from around the world. And we are always open for submissions.
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3LBE Volume VI print anthology now available in the store
I fell pregnant three months after my sixteenth birthday. The fifth girl in my class, because with the coal running out and mines running down the town’s gone along with it, and there’s not much else to do round here but fuck, so we do. The results speak for themselves. […]
It’s been twenty-three days since she lost her daughter. For twenty-three days, Mariska searched, trawling ruin and wreckage, sifting through bone and ash, picking apart carcass and corpse in case her daughter’s atoms[…]
The first thing they do when he starts working at the Office on Persons Yet To Be Missing is to give him the code name Nuu and to tell him to forget who he was before. They hand him a name tag with that single elongated syllable on it, ණූ, which Nuu thinks looks like a hornet on skates, or […] available Dec. 1
We weren’t going to torture the spy. But we did threaten to. And now he’s dead. Cyanide capsule. We weren’t fast enough to stop him. All we have to go on are the papers we found in his apartment in the cinquième arrondissement. We know from the dead spy’s documents that […] available Dec. 1
Democracy shades black-brown-yellow, is iridescent, buoyed up on reflective cells: guanophores and leucophores. Democracy is in warm shallow waters, and among the glass towers that poke the surface into the hostile dry-world. Democracy is a consensus told in chromatophores […] available Dec. 8
The girl who carried plums was not a princess but dreamed of jewels against her throat. With stained fingers, she plucked the stones from the center of the fruit and peeled back the skins to lay dripping pieces on her mother’s tongue. Her mother stared past her— […] available Dec. 8