Belinda Rowe
@belindarowe.bsky.social
Flash writer. Teacher. Night gardener Work in: Lost Balloon, Fictive Dream, Literary Namjooning, Unbroken, New Flash Fiction Review, Fractured Lit, Bending Genres, Vestal Review, Flash the Court, Centaur Lit SmokeLong Q. Emerging Writer Fellow 2025
A gorgeous 25 word story by @adelegallogly.bsky.social !
Adele Gallogly@adelegallogly.bsky.social · 4d agoA lil’ bit of microfiction up on Nailpolish Stories. (A 25 word limit is such a good challenge! And I love the idea of titles inspired by the wild, endless world of nail polish names.) nailpolishstories.wordpress.com
When was the last time you submitted your work? Sad Jack hopes you sent it to Okay Donkey… but if not, there’s still time to redeem yourself. Submit at buff.ly/chQ4jpz
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This one hits hard. Beautifully layered. Congratulations @marioaliberto3.bsky.social ! 🙌
Stan J Wild@stanjwild.bsky.social · last wk.Another terrific one from @marioaliberto3.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social this time. About free karate lessons, holding down work, anger management Benny is a great character and a brilliant ending Counting to Ten in Japanese
Who's hungry? We are! Submissions are open for Gone Lawn 67. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
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Tomorrow I'm going to read this poem to my Year 7s as part of our poetry study - it's going to blow their minds. Congrats @eliethewriter.bsky.social, amazing work in @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ska...
skating in 8s: the time i was abducted by Elie Lichtschein
i was trying to land this trick, skating the alley behind the house we rolled, just shy of 2 am, a kickflip with a back toss, the trucks hitting in parallel, and it just wasn't happening but i didn't ...
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'Nico’s arms are full of her neighbor’s dropped clothes. She feels trapped. She leans her forehead against the cool mirrored wall. She’s never understood the relationship people have to their things.' 'Lost and Found' another wonder by @kplumhoff.bsky.social ! pitheadchapel.com/lost-and-fou...
Lost and Found
Katherine Plumhoff Before Nico moved to this apartment She spent two years in a children’s home, where the police sent her after she called them herself, and before that, she spent six years alone …
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Do you ever wake up and make brilliant decisions? Yeah me neither. Except that one time I decided to hire @mattkendrick.bsky.social as my mentor. Now life is frolicking unicorns, bubbling blossoms of foxy foxgloves in verdant meadows, and blackberry jam in five gallon buckets. I want this for you.👇🏼
Glorious Words and Other Glorious Things
In her most recent newsletter, the wonderful Jo Gatford began with a “confession”:
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'My brother lives inside of my ear. In the morning, I set him down on the kitchen table. He gives me a bow, then disappears down the sink drain.' Love this surreal micro by @ezhang77.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social moonparkreview.com/issue-36-sum...
Older and Wiser
By Elena Zhang My brother lives inside of my ear. In the morning, I set him down on the kitchen table. He gives me a bow, then disappears down the sink drain. I never know what he does during the d…
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Excited to have a micro in the latest issue of @moonparkreview.bsky.social! moonparkreview.com/issue-36-sum...
Older and Wiser
By Elena Zhang My brother lives inside of my ear. In the morning, I set him down on the kitchen table. He gives me a bow, then disappears down the sink drain. I never know what he does during the d…
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Running away as #namjooning? Why not? @belindarowe.bsky.social's stunning piece for inspo! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooningbutliterary
Flying the Nest by Belinda Rowe
The mother writes a note for her family giving them her new address: Artemis Hardware Store, South Street. She tells them she’s purchased it. The father goes back to reading the newspaper, the childre...
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A warm welcome to our new followers! We're Literary Namjooning and we're reading fiction and non-fiction (500 words or fewer) for our 3rd issue! More about us here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/about Wondering what #namjooning means? Here you go!
'This televised extravaganza feels like your idea to me, Captain Katie—how you pepper your flair like comet dust through the solar system.' Big congrats @travisflatt.bsky.social ! What a beauty! @smokelong.bsky.social Loved listening to the audio, too. ☄️ www.smokelong.com/stories/cadi...
Cadillacs on the Moon - SmokeLong Quarterly
The Cadillacs are this new Apollo crew’s idea: “Make NASA Fun Again!” They’ve turned their rovers into two Cadillacs, one pink, one powder blue, and now they are racing, driverless ghost cruisers, pul...
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Issue 92 of SmokeLong Quarterly is live! Featuring the winners and finalists of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026 and the winners of the SmokeLong Workshop Prize. All of it is gold. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety...
We've a few weeks until #66, for advent of the buck moon. We have to say we're behind but on top. We have a whole Hel-load of maybes. We accepted a couple yestern. Sometimes it takes a certain freak for something to hit us & say "THIS!" Donate if you can & love the mag. Art in the US is precarious.
Long drives have inspired me to create over the years. With Silver Canyon Review, my literary journal, I hope to see the stories from the missed turns and the backroads. Submissions are open now. silvercanyonreview.com
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OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.
"[I] don’t trust him, she said, he kills things for a living now, got a pest control van, see, he’s still a bully [...]" 🚚 Don't miss Peter DeMarco's breathless, one-sentence story, "The Good Guy," in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/The-Good-Guy...
The Good Guy, by Peter DeMarco — The Bulb Region
The Good Guy — Peter DeMarco HENRY SAT AT HIS GOSSIPY neighbor Mrs. Whitney’s...
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Eugene Levy's Awkward 'Up Here' High Five
Alt: Eugene Levy's Awkward 'Up Here' High Five
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'I spot her exit ahead and tried to ignore it ... But something about the gray sky reminds me of her eyes and it’s as if she’s dropped into the car beside me, pointing to the turning trees' Affecting piece by @andreamarcusa.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/05/29/n...
Not Yet
by Andrea Marcusa I HAVEN’T VISITED my daughter in months. I spot her exit ahead and tried to ignore it. I’ve succeeded the last few times. But something about the gray sky reminds me of her …
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“This story's hair looked nice today, but no one said.” “This story is texting someone it loved in the middle of the night.” “This story is sitting alone in the dark, practicing Japanese…” this story, day for night, night as day, by Cathy Ulrich in @wigleaf.bsky.social wigleaf.com/202603eating...
'We sing hymns and pray for the safe return of our astronaut husbands and our sanity. We place hands across hearts and swear we are proud, happy, and thrilled, even though the veneer wears thin from overuse.' @kristintenor.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💚🎉 fracturedlit.com/still-life-u...
Still Life Under Glass | Fractured
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If I dropped / this name then, who would I be now? A revolutionary November pelting rock / through window in protest, a Crow cawing back at the dark, and every flower in the park Brilliant sestina flash @erinvachon.bsky.social anmly.org/ap40/erin-va...
Erin Vachon – ANMLY
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We resume tomorrow with a new slate of prose and poetry, but before then, make time to read "Good Sign of Future Happiness" by our recent contributor Katherine Plumhoff (@kplumhoff.bsky.social) in SmokeLong Quarterly. www.smokelong.com/stories/good...
Good Sign of Future Happiness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Let’s agree that it was an accident, what happened when the tourist interrupted us choosing our king. All 12 of us boys were climbing on each other’s shoulders, turning our forearms into lances, charg...
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... when Laurie asks me about the strangest thing I saw today and it doesn’t occur to me to lie. “A wedding invite for my first best friend,” I say. More excellence from @kplumhoff.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social . bulbregion.com/Ready-Set-Go...
Ready, Set, Go, by Katherine Plumhoff — The Bulb Region
Ready, Set, Go — Katherine Plumhoff 3. Go We are cheersing to the radiant bride...
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I’m talking about my flash fiction collection Salt City Runaway with Christopher Allen in the Village for SmokeLong Summer soooo yunno, if you were THINKING about signing up anyway then now would be an AWESOME time! @smokelong.bsky.social @christopherallen.bsky.social @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
I think you can all trust that Gone Lawn will never publish a story containing the sentence, "It beats until the roof talks back in a dry moan." That's what stops us, right there. Also, WE trust that a human will never consciously think of writing such a sentence and then send it to us.
