So happy to have a new lil fiction piece up in @flashfrog.bsky.social today, with art by @jaredvarnado.bsky.social! flash-frog.com/2026/11/09/l...

Late for the UFO by Natalie Wallington

I overslept and made the kids late for the UFO. Only after jolting awake did I remember you kissing my cheek as you left for work, saying Don’t forget! And my reply: I won’t, darling. N…

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NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Late for the UFO” by @narwhallington.bsky.social is now up! Art by @jaredvarnado.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/11/09/l...

Late for the UFO by Natalie Wallington

I overslept and made the kids late for the UFO. Only after jolting awake did I remember you kissing my cheek as you left for work, saying Don’t forget! And my reply: I won’t, darling. N…

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FLASH FROGTOBER👻🐸 “Show and Tell” by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social is now up! Art by @jaredvarnado.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/10/19/s...

Show and Tell by Claudia Monpere

Only three minutes to peer through windows of our former homes. Only four minutes to enter and grab something precious. But we’re ready, we folks who have died/passed away/expired/kicked the bucket…

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Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!

Flash Roundup * October-November 2025

A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

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FLASH FROGTOBER👻🐸 “Creatures of the EZ-STOP” by @thehagsoup.bsky.social is now up! Art by Sandy Little flash-frog.com/2025/10/20/c...

Creatures of the EZ-STOP by Janice Leadingham

Creature calls himself Creature because everyone else does and his mama says it’s better to be in on the joke. Creature looks just like his dead daddy but his mama is really beautiful and that has …

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Yay !! I’m so happy and grateful that this story is out in the world thanks to the incredible @flashfrog.bsky.social !!

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FLASH FROGTOBER👻🐸 “Creatures of the EZ-STOP” by @thehagsoup.bsky.social is now up! Art by Sandy Little flash-frog.com/2025/10/20/c...

Til death do us part? Well you girls are dead. And I’m parting.

Cheeky, wonderful prose piece up today. Enjoy "Unexplained Phenomena of Invisible Women" by @thehagsoup.bsky.social Read it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-25-25/unex...

Cosmo’s moon

Think they found that tortoise yet?

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"Sure enough, it began to snow, the fattest flakes Gill had ever seen. Only, this snow fell to the ground with a punch. The thud of muscle, obscene. Oddly juicy." Love this story @thehagsoup.bsky.social

Janice Leadingham@thehagsoup.bsky.social · 2y ago

Gonna howl at the moon because my flash story Hell’s Half Acre, 1876 is out today with @gonelawn.bsky.social ! Thrilled to be a part of this issue !

Gonna howl at the moon because my flash story Hell’s Half Acre, 1876 is out today with @gonelawn.bsky.social ! Thrilled to be a part of this issue !

“Mary knew miracles in Kentucky, in March yet, were rare enough, but at the moment she realized she needed the animal fat from the barn, had, in fact, forgotten to render it down the night before, it began to fall from the sky.” @thehagsoup.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Gone Lawn Journal@gonelawn.bsky.social · 2y ago

The cold moon is here, and would you look at it? Such magical company, a darling of spheres, and it has lots to share with you! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

This one is so good - “Evadine’s lungs and leg bones are buried up in Pensacola under a stone that has both her and Jimmy’s name on it even though he’s not there yet—he’s out looking for a new wife in the Clearwater Mall. “

Janice Leadingham@thehagsoup.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have a new story up today at Crow & Cross Keys ! crowcrosskeys.com/2024/12/04/a...

re: your submission

Last week it felt wrong to celebrate the release of Best Small Fictions that includes my story “Imagining the Woman …” ! I’m so excited & grateful to @meaganlucas.bsky.social & @reckonreview.bsky.social for nominating me, & to the editors & Nathan Leslie ! www.marylandliteraryreview.com/mlr-press/

So excited to have this one up today !!

MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Jimmy had the face of a Labrador Retriever all dogless girls know from childhood that belonged to a friend or a neighbor but of course was never theirs so that when the girls looked in Jimmy’s eyes they saw something like home but better." @thehagsoup.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

So excited to have this fun one up on MemeZineLit !

Jared Varnado@jaredvarnado.bsky.social · 3y ago

New story from @thehagsoup.bsky.social is out now at MemeZineLit tinyurl.com/ybh3xt7v

New story from @thehagsoup.bsky.social is out now at MemeZineLit tinyurl.com/ybh3xt7v

“A Visit from Your Biblically Accurate Guardian Angel at Bedtime” by Janice Leadingham — MEMEZ...

To have a thumb with a sturdy nail to peel oranges, fingers to split its sections, a lover to share it with.

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I’m so excited to have a ghost story up at Maudlin House today ! I wrote this one in the midst of grief, for grievers. maudlinhouse.net/the-heiresss...

The Heiress’s Guide to the Care and Keeping of her Ghost

Welcome to your own little home, dear, what was once mine— the hill it sits on, the grass and the worms, the one good sunny patch in the back that’s fit for growing vegetables, the slight slope to...

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This is the silliest stuff I’ve written and I’m so honored that @publishedbyjake.bsky.social liked it !! 💀

JAKE@publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 3y ago

Grab your Hawaiian shirt, it's time to get some groceries with @thehagsoup.bsky.social! jakethemag.com/death-works-...

Grab your Hawaiian shirt, it's time to get some groceries with @thehagsoup.bsky.social! jakethemag.com/death-works-...

Death Works at Trader Joe's

A triptych of poetry and prose

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I did a podcast/video conversation about not writing with @benjamingorman.bsky.social See my muppet arms, glorious mustache, and human-sized gourd costume in YouTube or listen wherever podcasts are played!

Not a Pipe Publishing Ink-Corporated LLC@notapipe.bsky.social · 3y ago

On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Erik Grove, author of stories in COZY COSMIC and WINDING PATHS, about marathon running, Australian brain worms, and how the most punk rock thing in the world is therapy. bit.ly/WNWHome

So excited my story is up now on @rfpress.bsky.social ! 🐋

Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE!@rfpress.bsky.social · 3y ago

Monday afternoon Finally, and FINALLY you get to read the whole of this flash fiction piece “We Ate and Ate into Extinction" by Janice Leadingham @thehagsoup.bsky.social It lurks disturbingly in the shadows of Expression 47! Read it here! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/we-ate-...

@thehagsoup.bsky.social has another wonderful piece out today! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/we-ate-...

"We Ate and Ate into Extinction" by Janice Leadingham

CW: Reference to indecent exposure/sexual harassment Before the thing with the man on the street, she picks the blue cotton dress because it complements the veins on her neck, and the perfume of viole...

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