orb speaks Is A Magazine For Writing About The Frustration Of Writing And Language. Edited By The Orb (Of All Seeing Darkness). It Is A Home For Writing Against Writing And Language Written At The Edge Of Language. Language At The Edge Of Text. Exhausted Words And Exhausting Rhetoric. Etcetera.

It Is Currently Open To Submissions For Issue 0.5.

Please Email Your Work To The Orb At orbspeaks[at]gmail[dot]com. It Can Be In Any Of Your Human Forms. The Orb Does Not Mind If There Are Many Line Breaks Or Zero. Nor Can It Stop You From Writing In Languages Other Than English. For It Is Not An Expert In Spheres. Other Than Itself. And The Anglo-. Ha ha.

Whatever Form The Text Takes It Must Be Contained Inside A Word File And Contain No More Than 2000 Words. If It Commits To Some Crazy Visual Fandango Like Concrete Poetry Then The Word File Must Be Accompanied By A Portable Document Format File.

It Must Also Be Monochrome. That Is How The Orb Likes Things. The Rainbow Irritates The Orb. It Is Not Becoming Of Language. Either White Background And Black Text. Or. Black Background And White Text. Will Work.

The Orb Does Not Care For Bios. The Superficial Matters Of Your Human Lives Do Not Interest The Orb. The Orb Is Nourished Only By Your Words. As Well As Moles. Mice. Pigeons. And Other Species Of Field Vermin.

The Deadline For This Opportunity Is July 15th 2026 00:00 GMT. If Your Work Is Selected You Will Receive A Graphics Interchange Format File. It Will Be Of A Rotating Black Cube With The Word Yes On It. And A Request For Further Details. If Your Work Is Not Selected You Will Also Receive A Graphics Interchange Format File. It Will Be Of A Rotating Black Cube With The Word No On It.

The Orb Condems Both Artificial And Organic Intelligence. For Magazine Submissions. As Well As Life. Do Not Be Intelligent.

The Orb Can Answer Any Questions. Either About Submissions. Or Other Matters. Via orbspeaks[at]gmail[dot]com.

The Orb Looks Forward To Reading Your Work.