"At first they were blind little hand warmers piling on us mothers, all warm, cozy bodies and colored furs, their sloe-eyed faces, exquisite with whiskers." Amazing work from @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social in @fishbarrelreview.bsky.social fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/n...

NICOLE BROGDON

Our Children Have Turned to Kittens At first they were blind little hand warmers piling on us mothers, all warm, cozy bodies and colored furs, their sloe-eyed faces, exquisite with whiskers. We wer…

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"Someone passed around the red coffee jug full of bright cherry Kool-Aid. It tasted like metal and childhood and everything else that disappears before it should." Love this! #archivechallenge @zaryfekete.bsky.social ghostparachute.com/issue/januar...

Humidity — Ghost Parachute

In July the air was thick enough to push back. You and I stood in it, early, before the sun arrived like a loud, brash fire. At dawn the corn leaves were still wet and sharp at the edges. Our shirts s...

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Such a purrrrrfect 'happy' ending! #archivechallenge @lumchanmfa.bsky.social ghostparachute.com/issue/januar...

There’s a Dead Cat in the Installation — Ghost Parachute

I want to scream at you but I know you don’t want to hear it as you wander around the abandoned drug store turned found art showcase, old boxes of meds, the kanji, hiragana, katakana in red, blue, whi...

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So many excuses! @sherrieflick.bsky.social #archivechallenge ghostparachute.com/issue/march-...

Because — Ghost Parachute

Because she couldn’t see the model completely and because she was shy and because her pen had leaked all over her bag and because she’d had that crush on Ned and because Ned modeled sometimes, like to...

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Amazing! The tension of a Dorito! #archivechallenge ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

Sacred Geometry — Ghost Parachute

“Are you still seeing that guy,” Sloane asks from her bed while rubbing sunscreen into the dip beneath her collarbone, “Mall Mike?” Zoe laughs with her mouth full, with orange dust clinging to her lip...

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"Star Shine had eyes like water bottle caps, a body like a gallon of milk." Love this. The deep sadness and longing of the adult, and the inability of the child to put into words what's wrong. #archivechallenge ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

Star Shine — Ghost Parachute

It wasn’t a bad baby, she just liked to make it cry. They called the baby Star Shine because that was its name and Lesly thought that was a joke—her older brother not known for his humor but for his s...

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Beautiful use of an object to hold a story of motherhood and loss @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social #archivechallenge ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

Ship in a Bottle — Ghost Parachute

Dahlia peers out to the horizon where a tiny sailboat hovers. Her throat tightens when she imagines it speeding away and disappearing from sight, wishes she could pluck it from the sea, cradle it in h...

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So happy and grateful to be nominated for Best of the Net 2027. Thanks to Court Harler & Flash The Court: flashthecourt.com/2025/12/05/l...

“Ladies Prefer Blonds: Fragments of an Undoing” by Ali McKenzie-Murdoch

“Ladies Prefer Blonds: Fragments of an Undoing” by Ali McKenzie-Murdoch is a prose poem that fixates on one deceptive word: rubio, which means blond but with bloodred roots. But it’s also a flash f…

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Incredible how a story can be told through a few lines of Google searches... @kimmagowan.bsky.social #archivechallenge ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

How Do I Clear a Search History — Ghost Parachute

How do I assess if someone is lying What are somatic “cues” Most unobtrusive GPS tracking devices How do I install a GPS tracking device Can a phone detect a hidden tracker How much does average divor...

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Amazing micro by Sarah Freligh. It earns its final line completely...inevitable and devastating. @sfreligh.bsky.social #archivechallenge ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

Jumpers — Ghost Parachute

I’ve tried for years to forget them, tried not to imagine how it was to step away from those fingers of fire into the cool air of a September morning. I used to dream I was one of them, on a window le...

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So proud to be on this list!

Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just updated my wall of #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb stories (www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-stories) & marvelling at the 17 #WBTL pieces published by @natflashfictionday.bsky.social in the last few years from @yallaalia.bsky.social @karenc.bsky.social @tomljanovic.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social...

So delighted to be longlisted for the @bathflashaward.bsky.social 🎉

Very excited and grateful to be nominated by Flash the Court for Best Small Fictions 2026 flashthecourt.com/noms/?fbclid...

Noms

Each year, Flash the Court will endeavor to nominate as many pieces as possible to the various venues who seek anthology nominations. Find the ongoing list below: 2026 Nominations Best of the Net“T…

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Amazing human beings? @kelliborges2.bsky.social @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social @cariwriting.bsky.social 💖💖💖

Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Who wants something nice for a weary Wednesday? Quote post this post & tag 1, 2 or 3 other writers who inspire you / support you / are amazing human beings. I'll pick a winner at random. Poster + nominees win a free recording of one one of my workshops: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/workshop-rec...

"In Renaissance Venice, women bleached their hair with horse urine and lemon juice, lying on sun-soaked roofs. Blonde, they believed, was closer to the divine. The sting, the smell, the heat." Gripping piece here from @yallaalia.bsky.social

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch@yallaalia.bsky.social · 10mo ago

So excited to publish my first prose poem, part of my WIP novella-in-flash. Many thanks to Flash the Court. Also Julie Irigaray & @saloneurope.bsky.social for helping me dive deeper into this form. Enjoy my obsession with blonds! flashthecourt.com

Congratulations @yallaalia.bsky.social, @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social, @sabinejaccaud.bsky.social, Sheree Shatsky & Mike Wilson, our nominees for the next @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestoftheNet anthology. Fingers crossed! #flashfiction #prosepoetry #creativenonfiction

So excited to publish my first prose poem, part of my WIP novella-in-flash. Many thanks to Flash the Court. Also Julie Irigaray & @saloneurope.bsky.social for helping me dive deeper into this form. Enjoy my obsession with blonds! flashthecourt.com

Flash the Court

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“You belong in a Picasso painting — there, one ear higher than the other, sawhorse for a cheekbone, hatchet marks for lips.” Wonderful prose poem, The Bad Doctor, from my lovely friend @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social www.theunjournals.com/unbroken47

Unbroken | Issue 46 | Summer 2025

Prose poems for y'all.

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So happy to be nominated for my piece “Feeding Time” which I recently had the pleasure of reading in Brussels at the @saloneurope.bsky.social

The Woolf (Official)@thewoolfofficial.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Congratulations @yallaalia.bsky.social, @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social, @sabinejaccaud.bsky.social, Sheree Shatsky & Mike Wilson, our nominees for the next @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestoftheNet anthology. Fingers crossed! #flashfiction #prosepoetry #creativenonfiction

So happy to read at the @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels. “Feeding Time” pub. @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social thewoolfx.com/feeding-time...

Such a great experience, reading at the opening evening of the @saloneurope.bsky.social Big thank you for organizing such an inspiring event,

European Writers Salon@saloneurope.bsky.social · last yr.

Impeccable vibes at #EWSBrussels2025 ✨ Thank you to all our readers, especially to our surprise guest @kitdewaal.com

What truths will unfold as Katerina Zherebtsova reads from her debut poetry collection? I’m excited to interview Katerina on Tuesday, 23rd Sept, from 18.30 at B2 Hotel Zurich All proceeds go to @Action4WomenCH Tickets: Girls left in the woods become archeologists | bossladies

Wonderful, visceral, raw read from @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social

Nicole Brogdon @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social · last yr.

I have a gritty southern story, “Dead Daddies”, in the lovely new issue of @susurrusmag.bsky.social. Thank you to the editors for such good editorial care. I’d be honored if you’d read my story. Thank you! www.susurrusthemagazine.com/dead-daddies

“No one plaits my hair anymore. It streams behind me, and I swim against the tide.” This beauty! 💙💙💙@yallaalia.bsky.social @librelit.bsky.social

Libre@librelit.bsky.social · last yr.

Fictions today by @yallaalia.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/08/16/a...

“I will say my goodbyes to each room. Remember our newborn snuggling on a sheepskin rug, hear the creaking herringbone parquet floors, relive my postpartum vigil at the bedroom window, the slow-motion clouds.” Delighted to see my piece In Between in @librelit.bsky.social

Libre@librelit.bsky.social · last yr.

Fictions today by @yallaalia.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/08/16/a...

Fictions today by @yallaalia.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/08/16/a...

Perfect companion for a holiday in Italia…bravo @fionamckay.bsky.social for your wonderful & deeply moving novella published by @adhocfiction.bsky.social Read The Lives of the Dead now!

"He tells her how he’s never seen any place as beautiful, the ice clear and aquamarine, how it glows as if lit within." So beautiful from @kelliborges2.bsky.social In @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Fractured Lit@fracturedlit.bsky.social · last yr.

New Flash by @kelliborges2.bsky.social "he says, as soon as this is over. She lists the names of towns she’s always wanted to see, foreign and sticky on her tongue, Lauterbrunnen, Lucerne, Zermatt, as they sit abreast at the infusion center in Tucson," fracturedlit.com/well-finally...

Wow such great flash selected by @mariegethins.bsky.social Congratulations to all the winners! Well deserved. 👏👏👏

bathflashaward.bsky.social@bathflashaward.bsky.social · last yr.

Many congratulations to all 5 of our 30th Award winners— 1st Alison Powell, 2nd Joseph Randolph, 3rd Sharon Telfer & highly commended Michelle Wright & Christine H Chen selected by judge Marie Gethins, bathflashfictionaward.com

“Yes, this is how she wants to be. With her friends. Freed of the shellac smothering the rest of her life.” What a flash by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social 😍

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖@nomad-sw18.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you to the editors at @trampset.bsky.social for publishing this story. It's from a @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness prompt where the only requirement was that people get naked... @patiencemackarness.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @pennypriddy.bsky.social trampset.org/the-things-s...