Denise Bayes
@deniseb.bsky.social
Flash fiction and short story writer. Free Flash. Ellipsis zine. 100 Word Story. Firewords.Roi Faient. NFFD Anthology. Temple in a City. Thin Skin. Flash Amiga.
I understand that need to share a story like this @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Sunderland Victoria Hall was my version growing up. Love the intensity and motion in this. Congratulations
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 4d agoShortlisted in the History Prize, "The things we did not see on Christmas Eve in Calumet, Michigan, 1913" by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
Last weekend, @flashficfestuk.bsky.social This week, Harrogate Crime Writing Festival. Reading. Talking. Thinking. A summer of refresh.
You think you know Jane Austen? Not till you have read this meta version by @sagreene1.bsky.social A deserving highly Commended in @freeflashfiction.bsky.social this time
Free Flash Fiction@freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 2w agoAs Chosen by Judge Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social FFF Competition Thirty-Four Highly Commended: Pemberley Parkrun by S.A. Greene @sagreene1.bsky.social #writingcompetitions #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Thanks to the editors for including my story in @bdglit.bsky.social beautiful summer issue. Link to story in comments
Feel like a child high on jelly babies. Bath Flash Fiction Festival beyond my WILDEST. Meeting my heroes. Brilliant workshops from @fionamckay.bsky.social @kathyfish.bsky.social @mariegethins.bsky.social SO inspired. @bathflashaward.bsky.social
Good times at the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social Flash 🥔s @hanakhalique.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @kateaxeford.bsky.social & @pleomorphic2.bsky.social's book MOTHER KARMA Hanging out w @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social (cont'd)
Love this from @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social That sapphire blue bra turns the story into something special. gooseberry-pie.com/midsummer-re...
Midsummer Reverie - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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Thank you @wildfirewords.bsky.social for the Highly Commended in your recent competition. Thank you @megpokrass.bsky.social for the inspiration!
This is lovely. A love song to a city and another person.
Ink Sweat & Tears@inksweatandtears.co.uk · last mo.What moves Stephen Keeler's speaker in 'How to get here' is writing the cityscape and how maps can forge connections of friendship and love. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/stephen-keel... #InkSweatandTears #Poem #Submissions #Cityscape #Cartography
I was working on @natflashfictionday.bsky.social so feel like it passed me by this year. But catching up stories now!
Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and Ghost Parachute for including my boars. They trotted out into the world!
Brett Pribble@brettpribble.bsky.social · 2mo agoRead "Inside The Boar’s Head" written by @deniseb.bsky.social and illustrated Brett J Barr. "We sniff out our old trails, scents lingering from before they arrived, before they destroyed our homeland to build their own." tinyurl.com/3dmmp23x
So pleased to be published in Ghost Parachute at long last. Thank you to my flash Amigas @fionamckay.bsky.social @sagreene1.bsky.social @sgscarso.bsky.social and @itssonoemi.bsky.social ghostparachute.com/issue/june-2...
Inside The Boar’s Head — Ghost Parachute
We watch them from the forest undergrowth. They park their hulking metal machines on top of the ancient pathways our ancestors trod. We sniff out our old trails, scents lingering from before they arri...
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“The Librarian” by @sagreene1.bsky.social Shortlist – 2026 Gooseberry Pie Writing Comp gooseberry-pie.com/the-librarian/
The Librarian - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Shortlist – 2026 Gooseberry Pie Writing Competition by S A Greene The Librarian wakens to find himself spreadeagled naked on the centre page of a book, with his modesty, such as it is, preserved only ...
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A chilling tale of the future. But so believable that it made me shiver. Counting Down The Days - Thin Skin share.google/nZjjiLmbikcA...
Counting Down The Days - Thin Skin
Someone’s banging on the front door, but that’s not what’s woken me. There’s a high-pitched whining that surely only dogs should be able to hear. Ben, lying next to me, doesn’t stir, which isn’t surpr...
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How did I miss this wonderful story from @sandraarnold.bsky.social at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social ? One Day One Time - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine share.google/JiDzUgqAjQWU...
One Day One Time - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Laura Rivera on Unsplash by Sandra Arnold Lift the unconnected from the gaps, let the words stream down the page, watch three girls drawing chalk squares in the schoolyard, watch them sliding...
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Welkin me up!
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 4mo ago**WIN A FREE PLACE** on one of the Welkin workshops!! Quote post with "Welkin me up!" to put your name in the hat 5 names picked on Friday at noon BST 6 workshops to choose from. Sessions recorded if you can't make it live: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-workshops
Beautiful moments captured in this writing by Alice Ahearn.
Does It Have Pockets@doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 2y ago"The second-last time you two will ever meet is in an overheated, underpopulated café." With the clarity of a crisp morning & expertly deft shifts in tense, a new CNF from Alice Ahearn: www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/alice-ah... Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
'If you can’t find love, there is always parchment.' Beautiful poetic writing by @kathrynreese.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
Storm Season by Kathryn Reese
The girl with a forest in her chest has been without a love so long she has forgotten what it is to hold hands, so tonight she runs a finger round the outline of her own palm: thumbpad, lifeline, wris...
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You have to read this amazing piece by @uksherka.bsky.social Start your day with this fabulous piece of writing
James Montgomery@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 6mo ago‘We met in the Algarve. He sunned on decorative rocks. I sipped Love on the Rocks by the pool.’ Great humour and such vibrant imagery in this story from @uksherka.bsky.social in Shooter Lit Mag 🦎 shooterlitmag.com/2026/02/16/l...
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The Pride Roars@theprideroars.bsky.social · 6mo agoOur free flash fiction competition is open! Introducing our last judge 🥁🥁🥁 Judge: @TLTomljanovic Read the full interview: theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/02/judge-… Find out more: theprideroars.blogspot.com/p/flash-compet���
Thanks for publishing my medieval inspired story Flash the Court. I appreciate it! “Precious Alchemy in the Margins” by Denise Bayes – Flash the Court share.google/OaVGSeyIIwux...
“Precious Alchemy in the Margins” by Denise Bayes
In her new flash fiction, “Precious Alchemy in the Margins,” Denise Bayes offers the reader a feast for the senses: the warmth of “the fox’s fur,” the slime and slither of the “molluscs,” and the m…
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A great example of @jaimegill.bsky.social writing. Fast becoming one of my favourite authors.
Free Flash Fiction@freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 7mo agoFFF Competition Thirty-One As chosen by Judge Caroline McKenzie Shortlisted: Wet Brain by Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social #FlashFiction #flashfiction #shortfiction #fiction #writingcompetitions freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
' I know I could have done more, should have been more. ' Beautiful piece by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/authorjm...
And now I feel the benevolent light of Marie Kondo upon me
Flash fiction by Cole Beauchamp
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Delighted to be part of @doesithavepockets.bsky.social latest publication. Beautiful images with it too. Thank you!
Does It Have Pockets@doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 7mo ago"Fingers stretched wide, he checks the precise proportions of crown, of brim." We've been excited to share this quietly magical piece from the day we read it ... beautiful new #flashfiction from @deniseb.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/deni... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
'The dusk-lit lights of New York City are sea foam meringues, and you hope the nanny is remembering to sing the peacock song for Molly' Beautiful and terrifying story from @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
Sage Tyrtle@sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 7mo agoDREAM LITMAG REALIZED! This is the VERY exciting acceptance I got in November, I've been sending my work in to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for FIVE YEARS! This piece starts, "You are a billionaire’s new, about-to-turn-19 wife..." fracturedlit.com/the-billiona... #FlashFiction #FlashLit
