Patricia Q. Bidar
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ). Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton) Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
Delighted to be part of the Friday reading!
Claudine: A Literary Magazine@claudineliterary.bsky.social · 10h agoJoin us as we revel in the work of our year-one contributors. Sept 4th & 6th! Fiction. CNF. New Writers. Chapbook authors. Hear them live on Zoom reading their own words. www.claudineliterary.com/yearonereadi...
"I’m not going to make it, Mavi told Celal just the night before they were supposed to leave Istanbul together. They had been squatting at an old olive factory for the past three days, subsisting on muddy tap water and canned peaches." A STUNNER! @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute.
"Someone will pass going too fast but catch sight of us and be struck at how we resemble a pair of old people, bent and dry, touching." READ @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social in @brettpribble.bsky.social 's Ghost Parachute!
"My cheerleader, in pink sequined leotard, follows on a float, sitting on a high trapeze. The band stops, drums beating. She hangs from the bar swinging, faster, faster, flipping to a second trapeze. No net below." Wow! A potent double dose of brilliance.
Claudia Monpere@claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 3d agoThrilled to have two stories in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social. Read about a six inch cheerleader-- and another story about what the stars want. Thank you Camille Griep and team for giving these stories a lovely home. www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/clau...
"Your mom let me know there’d be televisions looping your favorite sitcoms, so I skipped the memorial. 'A series finale,' she called it." A moving and utterly original micro by @willmusgrove.bsky.social
The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 3d ago👇👇👇 Listen to Will reading his story: www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/micro...
"I knew you were capable of giving love. But I thought receiving it might be out of reach for you, for people like you. But maybe that’s on me. Maybe I need a greater understanding of all this." Breathtaking turn by Sacha Bissonette.
Reckon Review@reckonreview.bsky.social · 3d agoNew Fiction from Sacha Bissonnette today! Come see!
"The bees have come here to rest their wings on my pillowcase, to circle my neck like a collar of sadness. The ocean has come here to spin yarn from henbit, to spit purple into the sky." Gorgeous!
Mr. Bear@mrbearstumpy.bsky.social · 4d agoOver the moon to have a piece in the new issue of @centaurlit.bsky.social !! Thank you, @lynnmundell.bsky.social !! centaurlit.com/i-have-a-pic...
"Outside, jackrabbits fight in the darkness. Their cries raise the hair on my neck. I knock once on the glass. Hundreds of eyes turn toward me, glowing like scattered embers." Tough and well-wrought flash.
Myna Chang@mynachang.bsky.social · last wk.New micro at The Sunlight Press today, based on stories my grandparents told me about their life in the Dust Bowl time. Grandma had a lot to say about the jackrabbits. "Kit County Jackrabbit Roundup: A Whopping Success"
"In San Pedro, there was a particular pipe-smoking man whose tobacco was flavored with apple. His voice was layered like moist leaves" Love this from @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social. Great author's note too.
matchbook literary magazine@matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · last wk.new story day!! “C’est Une Pipe” by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social is out now on mb! have a read: www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/bidar/ces...
A little firecracker of inspo and learning. Words nerds make it fun!
Claudine: A Literary Magazine@claudineliterary.bsky.social · last wk.Humans, it’s that time again. Yaaas! 🔥 Spoiler: we’re going to tackle the 100 word story and VOICE! 💚🤓💚 DM us to join!
"In a karate-themed advertisement of the 1970s, an average guy pats cologne to his jaw, and then is besieged by crazed females." Patricia's work always cuts to the quick. Read this, and don't skip the author's note at the end! @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
matchbook literary magazine@matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · last wk.new story day!! “C’est Une Pipe” by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social is out now on mb! have a read: www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/bidar/ces...
“His theme was fall, you might say.” Love this gem by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social! 🔥
matchbook literary magazine@matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · last wk.new story day!! “C’est Une Pipe” by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social is out now on mb! have a read: www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/bidar/ces...
"...there’s me thinking let her lick the window, the cold must feel nice on her tongue, she’s licking the trees through the glass, the buildings, the schools, the cyclists, let her lick..." Lik Lodge in the @thecitronreview.bsky.social archive! citronreview.com/2023/06/30/m...
Mother Tongue
by Kik Lodge On the train, a girl licks the window and her mother tells her to stop licking the window, but the girl carries on, and there’s me thinking let her lick the window, the cold mus…
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Gosh, Patricia these pieces are so very emotional. I can feel your grief as you wrote these. Beautiful, sad, and others will identify with your words. 💙
Patricia Q. Bidar@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · last wk.In today's Sugar Sugar Salt. Thank you, editors! sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/two-micros...
In today's Sugar Sugar Salt. Thank you, editors! sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/two-micros...
Two Micros by Patricia Q. Bidar
November
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Behold!
trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 2mo agoSubmissions are open at trampset! Read our guidelines and send us your best work. We pay $30 via PayPal. Anybody can use our free submission category. Tips and quick response revenues pay our writers, editors and site costs ✍️ We've missed you all! www.trampset.org/submissions
Who's hungry? We are! Submissions are open for Gone Lawn 67. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
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"Great-Uncle Merrick ruled that beach once, a silver cocktail shaker his sceptre, tanned body gleaming." Masterfully written.
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2w agoShortlisted in the Body Prize, "Sundowning" by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
Grateful to Claudine and @dehardy.bsky.social for this wonderful review!
Claudine: A Literary Magazine@claudineliterary.bsky.social · 2w agoICYMI ✨ Our review of Wild Plums by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social! “Bidar is a master of using small, careful details to pin her characters.” www.claudineliterary.com/wildplums
Grateful to Claudine and @dehardy.bsky.social for this wonderful review!
Claudine: A Literary Magazine@claudineliterary.bsky.social · 2w agoICYMI ✨ Our review of Wild Plums by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social! “Bidar is a master of using small, careful details to pin her characters.” www.claudineliterary.com/wildplums
"Eventually, I got to swallow Robert Shaw. He tasted like gin and Efferdent. So, that." Do yourself a favor and read "Vanya, Vanity, and Betrayal on the Bay."
The Disappointed Housewife~Submissions always open!@offbeatlit.bsky.social · 2w agoIf, somehow, you missed this "memoir" by the shark in Jaws, circle back and have a look now. 🤣🤣🤣 thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/06/23/v...
"Eventually, I got to swallow Robert Shaw. He tasted like gin and Efferdent. So, that." Do yourself a favor and read "Vanya, Vanity, and Betrayal on the Bay."
The Disappointed Housewife~Submissions always open!@offbeatlit.bsky.social · 2w agoIf, somehow, you missed this "memoir" by the shark in Jaws, circle back and have a look now. 🤣🤣🤣 thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/06/23/v...
My TBR stacks are bananas, but I'm thrilled to hold these terrific releases!
This Sunday July 26, a special 90-minute live interview and reading with Amy Hempel! Included with A SmokeLong Summer/$19 tickets available to anyone via link: www.smokelong.com/product/smok... Proceeds to NYC dog rescue, Every Last One www.everylastonerescue.org. Noon NYC online. Don't miss this.
![Some notes:
[1] Submit your poetry manuscript to the opening in the oldest tree you pass on your walks.
[2] Protest AI by going on walks and writing surreal poems on fallen leaves.
[3] Create more weird novellas, more experimental films, more tiny poems, more nature trails, more loud albums, more fables.
[4] Subscribe to the weekly newsletter written by the witch who lives in a cloud above your home.
[5] Write a poem on the bottom of your shoes then walk for hours until every word is a ghost.
[6] Reach a point in your life where you go to the library twice a week.
[7] Write tiny surrealist poems to combat The Dread.
[8] Understand the creative process: we never know what we’re doing until we do.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fapzml6rxabrqbw3ih36msj/bafkreifxvpuc2aatzksnm7uootkiqt2v47c6dw6dmtjglchzpvnylosrga)
