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Stan J Wild

@stanjwild.bsky.social

Short fiction, CNF, lit mags. Sharing writing I like — and some of my own. Stories in Vestal Review, Hinterland, Wallstrait, Neon&Smoke and others

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Stan J Wild@stanjwild.bsky.social · 9h ago

...he believed that the asylum staff were trying to feed him the flesh of his children... @nickholdstock.bsky.social's Porcupine sound fascinating, particularly Kreuzlingen, Warburg & Cassirer Great interview by Curtis Smith in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/s...

Suspicious Minds: An Interview with Nick Holdstock by Curtis Smith

I learnt that you can save yourself a lot of time and trouble later if you actually know what you’re trying to achieve before you start.

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Stan J Wild@stanjwild.bsky.social · last wk.

Away for a week, and back online to this... www.adventitious.net/stories/the-... And: 'The Gorilla Fighters Under Texas' is just about 15% of the title @chrisbaker1337.bsky.social in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social is terrific. Excellent artwork too - not sure who to credit for that though?

The Gorilla Fighters Under Texas by Chris Baker

or: Derek King, Age 8, Shares His Take on the Salvadoran Civil War With Classmates at Sam Houston Elementary Based on a Viewing of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings on January 19, 1988 (Confe...

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Stan J Wild@stanjwild.bsky.social · 3w ago

An epic in flash! Great read: moonparkreview.com/issue-37-fal... By @cbigs.bsky.social Something of Gatsby in this one - Fitzgeraldian... in @moonparkreview.bsky.social A privilege to see you read last week too

The Time Will Come

By Coleman Bigelow The time will come when I’ll find a partner and make partner and partner up, and you’ll be satisfied. “Put her there, partner,” you’ll say, extending your hand to me like I was s…

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

Stan J Wild@stanjwild.bsky.social · 3w ago

Brilliant to see this stellar field in action Thanks @cbigs.bsky.social, @lmbayley.bsky.social, @elissafield.bsky.social, @dawnsteffler.bsky.social, @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social and @bsherm36.bsky.social and @travisflatt.bsky.social - looking forward to reading!

Such Late Night Radio, by Travis Flatt

Prose, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Such Late Night Radio is a collection of flash fiction stories that delve into the odd. The weirdness that drifts somewhere beyond your bedtime. Tha...

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Travis Flatt@travisflatt.bsky.social · last mo.

(pt.1) Online Release Reading for Such Late Night Radio by Travis Flatt (Bottlecap Press) September 19 at 6pm EST feat. Coleman Bigelow Linda M. Bayley Elissa Field Dawn Tasaka Steffler Mario Aliberto Liz Rosen Beth Sherman This will be live on ZOOM . bottlecap.press/products/suc...

Travis Flatt@travisflatt.bsky.social · 4w ago

This Saturday 9/19, we got Dawn Tasaka Steffler , Coleman Bigelow, Elissa Field , Beth Sherman , Mario Aliberto III, James Smith, Linda M Bayley, Liz Rosen , & me reading at 6pm EST for my chapbook release ! DM for the Zoom link ! Such Late Night Radio (Bottlecap Press)

Stan J Wild@stanjwild.bsky.social · 4w ago

Terrific readers on show for Lisa Thornton's (@thorntonforreal.bsky.social) book launch next week with @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, @willmusgrove.bsky.social, @amygcb.bsky.social and more Congratulations Lisa. Looking forward to seeing it in print

Lisa Thornton@thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 4w ago

One week from today! Join me and six amazing readers who’ve supported and inspired me in the years it took to write the seven stories in this book! Thursday, Sept 24, 8pm NYC time 🐦‍⬛ www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornto...

Stan J Wild@stanjwild.bsky.social · 4w ago

Brilliantly moving micro by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. So many great lines... “Come on board,” you said, patting the space beside you, but with an odd rebound, like the hospital bed was an ocean and you didn’t want to splash me too hard.

Eileen Tomarchio@eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 4w ago

Thrilled to share “Burial at Sea,” 2nd place winner for the 2025 Micro Prize. Warm thanks to @fracturedlit.bsky.social, @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social, and judge Steve Almond for the generous words I’m stashing for those inevitable bouts of low-confidence! ☺️🙏🌊🦀 fracturedlit.com/burial-at-sea/

Stan J Wild@stanjwild.bsky.social · last mo.

Just found this micro again - definitely well worth the two minutes; so much said in so few words milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/01/16/m... by @kiklodge.bsky.social I will look up the collection, 'Scream If You Want To'

MONOSYLLABIC ~ by Kik Lodge

This man is fine, not like the man on the moor. The man in his van on the moor. This man you can give him your pound coin and get your cone with the flake, and he’ll hand you one pence change; no f…

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Gone Lawn Journal@gonelawn.bsky.social · last mo.

We apologize about all the calls for donation, I don't like it but I'm disabled & I cannot earn a living through art or through editing, can cannot pay Submittable for the thing that makes us able to accept calls for the senior editor's comments on their work. So we can only survive on donations. ❤️