Bitter Magazine is an indie literary magazine that seeks out experimental and visceral work.


  • Gnats

    “Today, a nasty type achieved beauty in cotton pants, a birthday hat, and a tubercular sweat.”

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  • Nightmares

    “[…] she looks like a flower girl Sadie saw last summer at her aunt’s wedding; there is something so sombre about her and about that girl at the wedding too, and she wants to reach out and touch her, she doesn’t know why.”

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  • If the Ocean is in Your Mouth

    “If we look close enough, we will see that it is your skin that I am tasting, it is certainly not my own, not on top of everything else I have to hold;”

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