Thanks to @bloominonionlit.bsky.social for featuring A More Favorable Part of Nothing Read the full story on their site
Ben Brindise
@benbrindise.bsky.social
Writer, Flash Fiction Editor: Variety Pack / Issue 12 Out Now / Author of Secret Anniversaries (Ghost City Press, 2019) & Rotten Kid (Ghost City Press, 2017) / benjaminbrindise.com
Featured fiction returns this Saturday. Starting off, we’ve got a fun little flash by Ben Brindise.
if rejection gets you down, try editing for a lit mag and you’ll quickly realize how many great stories you have to pass on for things like space, voice, fit, aesthetic, etc, and then you get to be down x2
The Bills won and it’s a publication week 🎉 Check out the new story Saturday in @bloominonionlit.bsky.social
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN**@bloominonionlit.bsky.social · 4w agoLots of good work coming out in October! The Lil’ Onions mini issue drops Oct 10, then features return starting Oct 13. You won’t want to miss it!
I'm excited to share that I'll be part of Buffalo Speaks on July 16 at Buffalo Iron Works. Seven poets. New work. One unforgettable night. Tickets: buffaloironworks.com/event/buffal...
Last night was incredible. What a sendoff. We had, like, 30 readers. Big thx to our featured poet @kevinbertolero.bsky.social and everyone else for their powerful words
If you’re in Buffalo, join us tonight at Caffe Aroma for poetry. The fun starts at 9. It’s the last time @benbrindise.bsky.social and I will host. We’ll have @kevinbertolero.bsky.social as a feature and then the open mic. Kevin will also be running a poetry workshop at Amy's Place at 6:30. Let’s goo
This Wednesday in Buffalo, Kevin Bertolero will be reading some poems at Caffe Aroma. It is also the last open mic @benbrindise.bsky.social & I will host
Thanks to Brilliant Flash Fiction for publishing Year of the Goblin in their first quarterly of 2026 Find the full story on their site (🔗⬇️)
WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE feat multidisciplinary writer & performer Megan Kemple (1/21/26)
Opening up 2026 with stories in Brilliant Flash Fiction and Hawkeye Mag Find Year of the Goblin 1/31 in BFF & Rabbits 2/23 in HM
I’ll have a story in Brilliant Flash Fiction’s quarterly this January. It’s about losing things and having a really bad year. Your next uplifting read for sure.
Congratulations to Ghost Parachute's Pushcart Prize Nominees: @djpoissant.bsky.social, @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, @saralippmann.bsky.social, @megpokrass.bsky.social, @dawnsteffler.bsky.social, and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE’s feature series has one more showing before the holiday season takes over. We’ll be back 12/10 for Deia Elwadi’s headlining performance. Shots from Bianca L. McGraw’s feature 11/26
A new story of mine went up yesterday in Ghost Parachute. Thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social for finding a spot for it. Check it out if you like stories about living, dying, and Reese’s Peanut Butter cups in the freezer. ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
Amber Running in the Family — Ghost Parachute
His mother’s knees locked up and he could hear the amber in them crystalizing. Over the years, his ear honed to it. It crackled in her cartilage, growing and reaching to weave into more of her. Sink i...
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Thanks to @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for publishing my flash fiction story Bonus Land in their Fall 2025 issue today. If you like dark comedy about the absurdities of modern economic life, find the full story in the issue.
Wild Roof Journal@wildroofjournal.bsky.social · last yr.It's pub day for our new issue! Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-31 #poetry #creativecommunity #litmag
Looking forward to checking out the Fall issue of @wildroofjournal.bsky.social later this month It includes my flash fiction story Bonus Land which follows a guy working in collections I appreciate them taking a chance on this one that gets a little weird
Thinking of one of the best rejections I ever got over a decade ago: they severely complimented the first story despite not taking it and then said the second story was so bad they couldn’t believe they were both written by the same person
It's almost sweater season... What's up your sleeve? We are OPEN for submissions for ALL genres!
“We were happy people, and we made the people we passed happy, smiles rippling behind us like wakes. I thought, Why not?” - Epithalamium, Bill Roorbach
Next Week: WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE feat Ten Thousand Just Buffalo Teaching Artist Ten Thousand, known for his freestyle features, is a five time national poetry slam representative and Buffalo team coach. Catch his feature at 9pm with an open mic to follow
yesterday we celebrated a friends birthday playing mush ball & today I’m doing back stretches on the living room rug
My story "The Black Window" was published by Roi Fainéant Press: @rfpress.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/2wyr5ckp
"The Black Window" by Brett Pribble
It hovers in the sky like a baby killer whale. I avoid day light because at night it’s harder to make out, but it’s still unmistakable. Starless and shiny, an obsidian square. It calls to me as I trai...
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A new story of mine went up yesterday in Ghost Parachute. Thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social for finding a spot for it. Check it out if you like stories about living, dying, and Reese’s Peanut Butter cups in the freezer. ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
Amber Running in the Family — Ghost Parachute
His mother’s knees locked up and he could hear the amber in them crystalizing. Over the years, his ear honed to it. It crackled in her cartilage, growing and reaching to weave into more of her. Sink i...
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“There are fewer and fewer kids, and they move farther and farther away. Or they take too many trips without ever leaving home.”
Brett Pribble@brettpribble.bsky.social · last yr.Read "Mr. Fixit" written by @maeganpoland.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "He wasn’t much of a computer guy, but he could find a blueprint or diagram and tinker well enough that he got things where they needed to be. Now, he can’t even fix a car radio..." tinyurl.com/5b748tkn