"Here we were in the same dingy bar, just 3,000 miles away, where people spoke Spanish & Catalan & German & other foreign babble that mixed under the thump-thump of the speakers, sounded like a heartbeat pulsing & meant one thing: let’s fuck." Jerry Portwood mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

"and the whole thing will feel florid and alive despite being functionally incoherent..." For today's #archivechallenge we have three entirely coherent pieces by @brettbbl.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social ! Each one as satisfying as the next. mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"There was the way he locked things behind his passwords and safe-codes..." Today's #archivechallenge piece from @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social is all about grief, betrayal, and what we don't know about the person we know best @mrbullbull.bsky.social #FlashInTheFeed mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"He’s only on page forty & he’s had enough. He grips the pen in his fist. He can use a gun. Writes that. He knows how to get one. Writes that too. He would love to pull a trigger again, see men go down. That’ll give the bastards something to think about." -Lindy Newns mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"My father was peeling an orange with the patience of someone who believes fruit deserves ceremony. The peel came off in a long spiral. I remember thinking that if it did not break, something important would happen. It didn't break. Nothing happened." - Timothy Ngome mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

This is the line that always sticks out in this story: "Pop-Pop never talked about how the person you are when you ship off isn’t the person you are when you ship back." @marioaliberto3.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social for the #archivechallenge mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"When I speak of murder, I best not be thinking of sending anyone to anywhere other than the land of clouds in the sky. There’s a nice place called heaven where you stop agonizing and sweating all the time. I appreciate it." - Henry Markowitz mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

A new short from yours truly, inspired by all the times my grandpa told me to smile and that other time a boy took me on a date to a sub shop in college and I watched him wax poetic with mayo on his mouth. Thanks, BULL Lit Mag!

MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · last wk.

"Mama never forgot the smear of mayonnaise on his upper lip, how it hung there even while he drove her home, and her smiling but thinking, Can’t you feel that, don’t you know something’s off? That man became my daddy." - Marissa Dechant mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

The Devil says, “Ask him what he does with the other sock.” I laughed all the way through this story by @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social ! It has a kind of logic that you just can't ignore. #archivechallenge mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"Hadn’t Marion seen the commercials on television? Dope fried your brain, like an egg. President Bush called marijuana a gateway drug. A “little weed” today, a little heroin tomorrow?" - AlecCizak mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"although I don't really like any of my family members, I certainly pity my sisters enough to lie to them from time to time." Holy cow, this piece in @mrbullbull.bsky.social by Chris Negri!

MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 5d ago

"I just couldn’t stifle the overwhelming urge to tell my dad, even as he was expiring, that he was just the most useless person I’d ever met in my life & that, when he was dead, I would remember him infrequently & without fondness." - Chris Negri mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

“You say you put a pencil up Jimmy Patrick’s butt?” I said, and Morgan nodded. Before Kevin Wilson was famous, he was in @mrbullbull.bsky.social . The last line of this story will knock you over. #archivechallenge mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"I just couldn’t stifle the overwhelming urge to tell my dad, even as he was expiring, that he was just the most useless person I’d ever met in my life & that, when he was dead, I would remember him infrequently & without fondness." - Chris Negri mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"My mom didn’t like it, but who can say no to a goddess who at any slight could destroy our whole neighborhood." No, really, could you say no? #FlashInTheFeed from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social for the #archivechallenge mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Don’t they know the sex of it all is an animal thing? It’s the dirt under the fingernails that’s the precursor to holiness. I mean, if the baby is all Buddha then what was the crying and the pants shitting for?" @ericmcwrites.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"He said he’d been forced to piss in a beer bottle. Of course the beer bottle'd rapidly filled & his attempt to pinch his dick off failed. A concentrated shot of urine made a direct hit with his car’s CD player. He said the CD player stopped working." - Bud Smith mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

"There were only two things louder in our house than my father’s laugh." For today's #archivechallenge I bring you #FlashInTheFeed by @cbigs.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social ! The way Coleman sets it up and knocks it down is masterful. mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"There’s something liberating about how war suspends everything. Everything stops, all little worries get drowned out by sirens and explosions and the pulsating fear of death; the possibility we’ll lose it all." - Alexei Raymond mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Mom never knew I was designed to defy gravity. So, I jumped." For today's #archivechallenge, a super-satisfying tale of letting your dreams take off. #FlashInTheFeed by @ninamiller.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social ! mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Folks who look to belief as the conclusion, comparison, or framework for classification lose my interest. I have not observed beliefs that hold. At best, such feelings remain a function of cadence-based renewal, at worst, a function of self-hypnosis." - David Koehn mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I didn’t know that you lived your whole life like an accountant and had done your sums and filed me in the deficit column." Today's #archivechallenge piece brings us pain and realization from @jaimegill.bsky.social. #FlashInTheFeed from @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Mama never forgot the smear of mayonnaise on his upper lip, how it hung there even while he drove her home, and her smiling but thinking, Can’t you feel that, don’t you know something’s off? That man became my daddy." - Marissa Dechant mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Does Frenchie hate me? Has he hated me this entire time? What about my father? Did he hate me? Or was he just living the way his father taught him? What about grandpa? Did he hate my dad? Etc. Etc. Etc. When does this cycle break?" - Kellan Jansen mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Banished to the edges of society’s parking lot, snow drips and drips well into spring when everyone is May and buying sandals." Today for the #archivechallenge, my fellow Canadian, @kawalker.bsky.social , with this #FlashInTheFeed from @mrbullbull.bsky.social ! mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"Everyone says Jake’s head is like a bowling ball. Whatever. He’s used to the banter. The way he sees it, his head is packed with truth. He’s seen it on X, heard it on podcasts & read it in the Daily Mail. Jake only wants to share it." @neiljameswriter.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

So happy to have a flash out today in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2w ago

"They ricochet dares across the tracks. They roam in gangs; they hunt in packs. With their bleached jeans, shaved heads and Union Jacks, they sniff out prey. And tonight, it’s you." - Kate Axeford mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"The rain is your bully. It will piss in your Cheerios." Today for the #archivechallenge I bring you pretty much the sweariest piece of CNF I've ever read. The swearing is warranted, I promise. #FlashInTheFeed by @johannah.bsky.social from @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"They ricochet dares across the tracks. They roam in gangs; they hunt in packs. With their bleached jeans, shaved heads and Union Jacks, they sniff out prey. And tonight, it’s you." - Kate Axeford mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

The Shortlist is up! Eight stories about people barely holding it together, selected by @kdiannerule.bsky.social Flash fiction from: Miranda Manzano in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social in @susurrusmag.bsky.social Steve Lambert in @mrbullbull.bsky.social (...1/2)

The Shortlist for August 6, 2026 - Turn and Work

Fiction from Miranda Manzano, Amy Barnes, Steve Lambert, Cheyanne Mann, Mandy Lange, CL Glanzing, Anyu Ching and Leslie Pietrzyk

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I remember @kiklodge.bsky.social posting the acceptance note @thedrevlow.bsky.social sent her for this piece in @mrbullbull.bsky.social ... Now in Kik's book "The Bully in my Pillow", out soon from @stanchion.bsky.social !! #archivechallenge #FlashInTheFeed mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...