“But we’re ready, we folks who have died/passed away/expired/kicked the bucket. (We ghosts have strong opinions about how we refer to our end. On good days, we love croaked. On bad days—well, fuck bad days.)” @claudiamonpere.bsky.social | @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/10/19/s...

Show and Tell by Claudia Monpere

Only three minutes to peer through windows of our former homes. Only four minutes to enter and grab something precious. But we’re ready, we folks who have died/passed away/expired/kicked the bucket…

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“In my country, people called those balmy autumn days "old women's summer." The word we used in my language was not the nicest word for women, but some said it was close to the word for weavers…” @erincalabria.bsky.social | @wigleaf.bsky.social 📷: alpay tonga wigleaf.com?fbclid=IwdGR...

“You can feel them chipping off pieces of you, like they’re collecting them in a jar for display. At night, as Death bones another rando, you wonder how your life came to this point and where it all went so wrong.” @chelseastickle.bsky.social | @anmlymag.bsky.social anmly.org/ap43/chelsea...

GUESS WHAT!!!! AND WHO!!!! AND WHERE!!!! ✍🏾 @the-vcca.bsky.social

“Therapy has gotten too expensive or always was but there was a time I thought a professional’s advice or guidance was needed but now it’s not that I seek answers so much as someone to listen without judgment…” @anniejowrites.bsky.social | @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

“Ben’s rubbing a dryer sheet over the Markus’s fur, and over his own face and forearms. There’s a certain way things feel, Ben says. It has to do with the barometric pressure. I feel my gases expanding.” @kathyfish.bsky.social | Journal of Compressed Creative Arts matterpress.com/journal/2026...

“After a few weeks of non-stop Lootie, I guess he figured he knew me well enough to tell me I needed a real table. Something to permanent up the place.” @francinewitte.bsky.social | @newworldwriting.bsky.social newworldwriting.net/francine-wit...

Francine Witte ~ Who Among Us Doesn’t Need a Table? - New World Writing Quarterly

I get us a booth at Gracie’s Diner. Fourth one from the back. Our favorite, mine and Lootie’s. It’s ten o’clock on a Wednesday, one of those weatherless days,

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IT’S BANNED BOOK WEEK 📚 @veronicaklash.bsky.social & and I are spilling all the ☕️ with Tonya Todd on why we love this week’s banned book, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel García Márquez. youtu.be/igEy9AlQPtk

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)-Banned Books Conversations (Season 5)

YouTube video by Tonya Todd

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'My neighbor, Rooster, is sling-shotting baby doll heads into our backyard the morning my husband says, “we need to talk".' Stonkingly good first sentence from the wonderful @avitusbcarle.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute. ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

Something Worth Saving — Ghost Parachute

My neighbor, Rooster, is sling-shotting baby doll heads into our backyard the morning my husband says, “we need to talk,” while hunched over the divorce papers scattered across the table. I didn’t bel...

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“I used to love the sound of his voice. Now he sounds like a weatherman shouting into a hurricane.” @avitusbcarle.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

Something Worth Saving — Ghost Parachute

My neighbor, Rooster, is sling-shotting baby doll heads into our backyard the morning my husband says, “we need to talk,” while hunched over the divorce papers scattered across the table. I didn’t bel...

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We Real Cool: Flash Storytelling in the Collective Voice artofflashfiction.substack.com/p/we-real-co...

We Real Cool: Flash Storytelling in the Collective Voice

...with PROMPT and So. Many. Examples.

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With brilliant examples by @amygcb.bsky.social @karaoakleaf.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social @megpillow.bsky.social @tcboudreau.bsky.social @drobnik.co @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @pdforan.bsky.social and more! 💙

Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · 3w ago

We Real Cool: Flash Storytelling in the Collective Voice artofflashfiction.substack.com/p/we-real-co...

"Rooster moved in 5 months ago. Back when I could’ve sworn I was still in love with Jackson. When I [...] wrote in the journal I kept under my bed that this is something worth saving." Great opening sentence and great progression of story from there from @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

Brett Pribble@brettpribble.bsky.social · 3w ago

Read "Something Worth Saving" written by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "My neighbor, Rooster, is sling-shotting baby doll heads into our backyard the morning my husband says, 'we need to talk,' while hunched over the divorce papers scattered..." tinyurl.com/5n97kp6t

Welp missed the submission window for one of my favorite litmags soooooo guess who set a reminder for their next sub window?????

Read "Something Worth Saving" written by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "My neighbor, Rooster, is sling-shotting baby doll heads into our backyard the morning my husband says, 'we need to talk,' while hunched over the divorce papers scattered..." tinyurl.com/5n97kp6t

Something Worth Saving — Ghost Parachute

My neighbor, Rooster, is sling-shotting baby doll heads into our backyard the morning my husband says, “we need to talk,” while hunched over the divorce papers scattered across the table. I didn’t bel...

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Still pinching myself that one of my stories is included not only in the 10 year anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE LINE UP OF WRITERS??? Here’s my latest, Something Worth Saving, filled with broken hearts and baby doll heads 🤪 ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

Something Worth Saving — Ghost Parachute

My neighbor, Rooster, is sling-shotting baby doll heads into our backyard the morning my husband says, “we need to talk,” while hunched over the divorce papers scattered across the table. I didn’t bel...

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Just went on a mini-submission spree and it feels good to be back in the game! Don‘t miss the waiting though. Gonna be up all night thinking about any and all those typos

Marcy Wu Can't Sleep

ALT: Marcy Wu Can't Sleep

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“Painted in 1887, a portrait of a young girl who, yes, looked just like her cat. And it’s beautiful, the idea that you can grow to look like someone or something you love.” @writesloud.bsky.social | @trampset.bsky.social www.trampset.org/post/four-fr...

Four French Cats & a Monster

by Hannah Grieco...It isn’t normal, the way you smell. The way your body responds to fear...

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The hour is fast approaching! Join us in launching @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social’s flash collection, STITCH, into the world!

Avitus B. Carle@avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 4w ago

LAUNCH PARTY!!! @chestnutreview.bsky.social and @marioaliberto3.bsky.social host @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social’s launch of STITCH When: 9/27 at 5PM EST Readers: @sfreligh.bsky.social, @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social, @ericscottryon.bsky.social and me! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

LAUNCH PARTY!!! @chestnutreview.bsky.social and @marioaliberto3.bsky.social host @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social’s launch of STITCH When: 9/27 at 5PM EST Readers: @sfreligh.bsky.social, @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social, @ericscottryon.bsky.social and me! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“His Uncle Derek ran an ID scam years ago at State. He’d photograph a dude standing in front of sign that said Motor Vehicle Department of UTAH. Beehive State. Names and birth dates changed.” @pamelapainter.bsky.social | Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

In Line — Ghost Parachute

He leaves the dorm, a beer in each hand, heads down the hill, and now his hands are empty. He’s in line at Moogie’s, a grungy bar where mostly college guys in frayed jeans, and untied shoes hang out. ...

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Drafted a story that includes math equations and part of me feels like this is a moment of crisis for my pure creative self And part of me is really proud that I dipped my toes into any kind of math willingly for the hopefully good of the draft Annnnnd here come the anxious thoughts

“Peak time for seagull chorus, Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom. And she eagle screeched back at them, shut up shut up can you all just shut the fuck up! Their bodies froze. Like fawns in tall grass.” @dawnsteffler.bsky.social | Literary Namjooning literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Of all the landscapes her life has led her through by Dawn Tasaka Steffler

this is her favorite; there’s something about the windsweptness of this coastline. Scruffy trees bent from wind the sharp smell of cold. On a cliff overlooking the ocean she has created a sort of nest...

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“The puzzle gave me a reason to linger without having to say it too baldly, too awkwardly—we don’t know how much time you’ll have, I’d like to be with you while I can. Even more awkwardly: the sickroom is boring.” Amalia Gladhart | Literary Namjooning literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Hourglass by Amalia Gladhart

When Sadie was sick, I used to do puzzles with her. Not with her, exactly. She was too tired to sit up or concentrate much, and the chemo gave her brain fog. But I’d do a puzzle on a card table beside...

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“…as the stranger turned, the light caught his face, illuminating a golden mustache and fogged eyeglasses, cheeks streaked with dry, rusty blood, not a stranger at all but their father…” @marioaliberto3.bsky.social | @reckonreview.bsky.social 📷 : Xie Lipton reckonreview.com/coldest-day-...

““When things started to get serious with us, the guy bought me a toe ring, a cheap one, from the county fair. I knew it was cheap because in my hand it had no heft.” @kathyfish.bsky.social | The Menu www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish?f...

OH HEY ITS ME AGAIN! This time joining a flash fiction panel all about POV with the incredible talents of @sbgriffiths.bsky.social, @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social, @gwenekirby.bsky.social, and @sfreligh.bsky.social!!! Can’t wait to say all the things with my fellow flash writers at #AWP27!

Thank you @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social for giving a shoutout to my micro, HERE IN THE HOW WE WERE, @vestalreview.bsky.social!!!! Looking for flash recs??? Always make sure you check out the Myna’s microverse lists and Flash roundups!

Myna Chang@mynachang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New MicroVerse flash rec list, curated by Patricia Q. Bidar! @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social

ICYMI THESE WORN BODIES and I are headed to Chicago next year for #AWP! So excited to be taking about publicity with @writesloud.bsky.social, @poeticmoni.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social, Michelle Malonzo working with an indie press (shout out @mooncitypress.bsky.social )!

See you in Chicago next year! @poeticmoni.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @zachpowers.bsky.social