Need a story for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor @jjlofflin.bsky.social story “An Abridged Field Guide to Lakhanthropy” was published in Paranoid Tree Press 🤩 Enjoy! buff.ly/rcSP3QD
Joshua Jones Lofflin
@jjlofflin.bsky.social
Writer Work in Best of the Net, The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf… Links to work on my site: jjlofflin.com
I love this story by @jjlofflin.bsky.social in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social Don't turn out the light in your root cellar!
Joshua Jones Lofflin@jjlofflin.bsky.social · 7d agoMy little field guide is live, just in time for Spooky Season. Many thanks to Allison Kolden for the illustration and the @paranoidxtree.bsky.social editors for giving this one a home.
My little field guide is live, just in time for Spooky Season. Many thanks to Allison Kolden for the illustration and the @paranoidxtree.bsky.social editors for giving this one a home.
Paranoid Tree Press@paranoidxtree.bsky.social · 7d agoWere-pumpkins at Waffle House. Benignly delicious were-potatoes. Whiny were-onions. Study up on these mutant veggies and more in @jjlofflin.bsky.social's new story, "An Abridged Field Guide to Lakhanthropy." Happy Halloween & watch out for were-cucumbers! 🥒 🎃 🧅 www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-70
“Odd fauna delivering the catalyst, some mystery sewn into the fabric of reality. A voice memo. A sonnet. A riddle.” New fantastic work from @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Corey Farrenkopf@coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · last wk.NEW STORY DAY!!! Pumped my story “Ignoring The Tides” found an awesome home with @unchartedmag.bsky.social!!! www.unchartedmag.com/stories/igno...
Spending my morning cleaning cat snot off the stairwell walls. How’s your day going?
"I’ll not apologize because what I am saying, what I saw between the black-squiggled lines of that original draft – painful in its occasional struggle to get ink to even leave a mark – was a wish." @elissafield.bsky.social in @necessaryfiction.com necessaryfiction.com/stories/a-no...
A Note from the Translator on This Translation – Necessary Fiction
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An honor to be nominated alongside these amazing writers
matchbook literary magazine@matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · 2w agoexcited to announce matchbook’s Best Small Fictions nominations for 2027!!
“The little ghosts, oh the littles. We ferry those too young to understand, too young to choose.” Wonderful Spooky Season flash from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · 2w agoFLASH FROGTOBER👻🐸 “Show and Tell” by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social is now up! Art by @jaredvarnado.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/10/19/s...
That Bradbury fellow knows his way around a sentence
Teeth Kicker just got nominated for best debut in the Booktopia awards (Australia's online book retailer). It's a public vote to decide the winners. I feel like a jerk for asking, but if you'd like to vote the link is here... www.booktopia.com.au/booktopia-bo...
Want to treat yourself to a workshop for under 10 dollars? All thirty-four of my popular 3-in-90 workshop recordings are now available for purchase! Expect to come away with three fresh flash drafts! Every purchase includes lifetime access in your account. www.artofflashfiction.com/videos
“While you are living on the other side of the world, trying to get away from your miserable broken family, you learn that ghosts can lurk inside walls until the moment they conquer a room.” Fantastic new work from @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social
trampset@trampset.bsky.social · last mo."You’re one of the kids who live in two houses. After the rupture your parents become great storytellers, but they only want to talk about each other." @janstinchcomb.bsky.social's "Something That Happened When You Were a Child" www.trampset.org/post/somethi...
Y’all, I had no idea how charming Albuquerque ils.
"the man rises from the muck. In only his underwear, he is soft, and so pale he seems to reflect the green of the pond scum." the always amazing @angieellis.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/stories/the-...
The Caddisfly - Uncharted
Out at the sisters’ place, in the marsh at the bottom of their land, a man stands neck-deep in the water. It is summer, and the marsh is warm with a thick green sludge on top. The man watches the tiny...
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Name your fav game made before 2000
🪦 Ghoulian Grave 🪦@julianday.ca · last mo.Name your fav game made before 2000 (1992)
A little bit of rereading for my plane ride west.
Baltimore peeps, if you're checking out the Baltimore Book Fest this weekend, I'll be reading with other @baltimorereview.bsky.social contributors. This Saturday, 11-12 , inside the courtyard of Peabody Heights Brewery. Beer plus lit, yay! Come say hi if you're able to make it.
Baltimore Review Contributors: Readings and Conversation
Join moderator Barbara Westwood Diehl, Senior Editor at the Baltimore Review, for an engaging conversation with six Baltimore Review contributors. Hear them read from their work…
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"First, make coffee. The power may be out, the electric grinder useless, but you can crush the beans with your wife’s mortar and pestle." ☕️ Check out contributor @jjlofflin.bsky.social's flash piece THE VIGILANCE OF BIRDS in Metastellar! 👏 buff.ly/DCE7ydi
“I felt compelled to sit, peck at the keys, so many of them missing, yet just enough” Gorgeous, sad work from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social
Michael Czyzniejewski@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew story up at @trampset.bsky.social! Thanks to their editors—Joe Kruft, @lmariharris.bsky.social, et al—for accepting it and @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross for flash-a-thonning it with me.
“This guy though. He was kind of a fool. He was always remarking about my feet.” New fantastic work from @kathyfish.bsky.social
Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · 2mo agoHey friends, there's a new journal in town, called The Menu, and I'm in their debut issue alongside some greats! Wouild love for you to read my weird micro and the whole issue. 💙 www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish
“Humanity stands next to me and only understands magic as a basement. A man-made basement, a recent study suggests, is nothing but a dream falling down a hole. …” slipping by numbers with @neonpajamas.bsky.social in Notre Dame Review
Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪@neonpajamas.bsky.social · 3mo agoI think this is the best poem I've ever written in the latest issue of Notre Dame Review
“Gently, you push my head to safety when someone waves a barrel in my direction. Your voice drops low and sweet, almost a memory.” Amazing new work from @elissafield.bsky.social here.
Elissa Field@elissafield.bsky.social · 2mo agoLove seeing this new story, “At the gun show you say to me, You look good,” go live at trampset. Huge thanks to the editors for spotting it. Congrats to fellow writers in the issue, and thanks to my flash pack peeps who were early readers. www.trampset.org/post/at-the-...
If you get an email that seems to be from Taylor (one of our lovely readers), it's not us! We would never ever ever ask you to pay us to publish your book. #scam #publishingscam #phishing
"Let the coffee mug’s heat radiate up your palm and wrist through the bandages. You should change the dressing. Already it’s weeping. Red flecks spatter the mug’s yellow smiley face you’d gotten last Father’s Day." A chilling heartbreak @jjlofflin.bsky.social
Joshua Jones Lofflin@jjlofflin.bsky.social · 2mo agoI have a new swampy horror flash in Metastellar today. I’d be honored if you gave it a read. www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...