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Are certain subjects too taboo for lit mags?

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Mar 22, 2025
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Welcome to our weekend conversation!


We probably know the answer to the question in this weekend’s title. Yes, some subjects are taboo. Nearly all literary (non-genre) magazines do not wish to see graphic violence. They do not want gore. No blood splattering the walls as people eat the brains of their farm animals. No bone chips floating in open wounds. No cannibalism. (Alas!)

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