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“Her own husband, Mr. Healey, was as wholesome as an astronaut. The word was, if Mr. Healey didn’t like a man, he would address him as ‘pal.’ If he liked him, he’d call him ‘chief.’” @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

The Hippies — Ghost Parachute

I sliced my hand with a steak knife the day after Christmas, sneaking leftover pie. The wound stung and pulsed. I made my way to the sink, rinsed my hand over the piled dishes. It hurt. The water ran ...

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"Do not ever doubt that we are here, reading the queue, cheering for you." Meet our submissions editors. This week, @elissafield.bsky.social Elissa Field. www.smokelong.com/meet-our-sub...

Meet Our Submissions Editors - Elissa Field - SmokeLong Quarterly

Over the next few months, we’ll be introducing our submissions editors so that you, dear writers and readers, might have a clearer idea of who we are, who reads your work first at SmokeLong, and what ...

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Terms & Conditions has arrived and is available in print from me or wherever you order books, and as an e-reader-friendly PDF. Get your copy of this important book today. Print: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... PDF: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/term...

Terms & Conditions: A Memoir | Stanchion

**The terms & conditions you grew up with don't have to determine the rest of your life**   When a 46-year-old hypervigilant anthropologist finds out she has a genetic mutation that means she is at ri...

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Next sessions - Oct 19 & Oct 21 ✍️ Expect werewolves, ex-boyfriends, crazy club nights and a neo-baroque ballroom. #writingprompts #contemporaryart Booking link: www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

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Join me once a month for an hour of art appreciation and writing time, and come away with 3 - 4 new drafts. Sign up here eepurl.com/i1v4GA for reminders, free writing prompts & art-related recommendations. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop #shortstories #flashfiction #poetry

If you live in the Bay Area and are free, I'd love to see you at my live launch-- along with the amazing @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social & @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social

"I don’t see him anymore, not in the flesh, there’s just a cutout of him now." This week on hex, a haunting, lonely tale by @stillsquirrel.bsky.social! Harold Lloyd! A meetcute with a 2d replica! Don't miss this new wonder, up now on the site!

If I Could Talk to Anyone It'd Be George by Anika Carpenter

I don’t see him anymore, not in the flesh, there’s just a cutout of him now. Him and everyone else in the city. Everyone except me. I used to pass real George on my cycle to work. Him and his real dog...

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I have a cnf micro, in the new beautiful issue of @emergejournal.bsky.social A grateful thank you to @dianegotauthor.bsky.social for including it and shout-out to @mattkendrick.bsky.social in whose wonderful "Go With The Flow" workshop it was born. emergeliteraryjournal.com/a-suitcase-f...

A Suitcase Full of Memory

by Karen Crawford You used to say why isn't my son here, and I might have asked the same question if I wasn't married to him, and he wasn't married to his job, but he's here now…

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Psssst… hi… c’mere for a sec… Direct preorders are open for physical copies of Family Night now :D masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

Family Night (Preorder Now!) — MASON JAR PRESS

Now Available for Preorder! FAMILY NIGHT is by turns a lyrical celebration of queerness and an exploration of family and loss, often through a lens of magical realism. Ani King's collected flash fic...

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Congratulations to our nominees for awards! Drumroll please... For Best of the Net: @karaoakleaf.bsky.social “Body as a Single-Family Home“ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social “Thursdays Smell Like You“

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Check out 'Springtime in Happyland' from @nffr.bsky.social This one will stick with you! I can't forget it. It's one of those! I shouldn't be surprised when it's the product of the mind of @sagreene1.bsky.social 🍫

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don't be fooled by the optimism in that title, @sagreene1.bsky.social is about to take you on a dark and splendid journey... "To be fair Miss Kozlowski’s lovely smile had been skillfully preserved by whoever did the head." newflashfiction.com/springtime-i...

Virtual book launch! SPINNING by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social is out Oct 6th from Cowboy Jamboree and she's got an awesome party going to launch it Oct 10th. Get in on it: www.kathrynsilverhajo.com/so/d8OplZ7Px...

Celebration time! Join us for the Zoom launch of Kathryn’s new flash collection, “Spinning: Love, Family, and Other Strange Entanglements”(Cowboy Jamboree Press). Hosted by the one and only Kathy Fish...

Flash * Friendship * Fun * Fabulous giveaways

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ICYMI... gonna share these lovely stories from @nffr.bsky.social Issue 42

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 4w ago

SOOO excited to share Issue 42 - oh the places these writers will take you: Ali McLafferty, @stillsqquirrel.bsky.social @blakepierpoint.bsy.social @jekwriter.bsky.social @karenc.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @sagreene1.bsky.social & Sophie Purchase share.google/UHQWCirfupPP...

Check out this classic @stillsquirrel.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social So worthy of joining the real-live Moxley 'eighty years’ worth of memorabilia kept behind the counter'! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 📰 💌 🖼️

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 4w ago

"I’d sashay in, like I used to when I was fifteen & ask in my huskiest voice for a waterbed repair kit. I’d make sure to look up at the security camera, give a sassy wave." @stillsquirrel.bsky.social deftly weaves in Moxley's Rentals, young love & a runaway bride newflashfiction.com/adam-stuart-...

If you’re looking for a masterclass in last lines, @stillsquirrel.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social gotchu. “The next morning I was sicker from thinking than drinking.” 🧡🔥🧡🔥

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 4w ago

"I’d sashay in, like I used to when I was fifteen & ask in my huskiest voice for a waterbed repair kit. I’d make sure to look up at the security camera, give a sassy wave." @stillsquirrel.bsky.social deftly weaves in Moxley's Rentals, young love & a runaway bride newflashfiction.com/adam-stuart-...

‘The queue was long and I knew it wouldn’t be real chocolate, but I wanted to make Alfie happy.’ A dark and splendid journey indeed from @sagreene1.bsky.social

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don't be fooled by the optimism in that title, @sagreene1.bsky.social is about to take you on a dark and splendid journey... "To be fair Miss Kozlowski’s lovely smile had been skillfully preserved by whoever did the head." newflashfiction.com/springtime-i...

It's me! Thanks so much to @nffr.bsky.social for publishing my little story!

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 3w ago

Moxley's Rentals makes a return with this sharp story by @brentwaggoner.bsky.social in #NFFR Issue 42. "Whetstones, pull-throughs, grinders, diamond rub, angle-grinders, clamps, vices. The workshop of a sharpener is foreboding to outsiders. Not me." newflashfiction.com/thursday-was...

What a gorgeous story. This one hit me hard, @blakepierpoint.bsky.social. Such perfect specificity.

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Choose a table that does not rock. Test each corner with your palm. She cannot steady herself now; the table must do it for her." Read this unique list story from @blakepierpoint.bsky.social in issue 42 of #NFFR newflashfiction.com/instructions...

Moxley's Rentals makes a return with this sharp story by @brentwaggoner.bsky.social in #NFFR Issue 42. "Whetstones, pull-throughs, grinders, diamond rub, angle-grinders, clamps, vices. The workshop of a sharpener is foreboding to outsiders. Not me." newflashfiction.com/thursday-was...

Thursday Was the Sharpest Day by Brent Waggoner | Issue #42

Monday is for vacuum cleaners, tubes clogged with hair and paperclips. Tuesdays (two-days) people remember that they only had one copy of the will.

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Enjoy this little gem by Sophie Purchase in #NFFR issue 42 "We were always too different, I think, me: stubborn, scrapped, dirt under my nails, her: pristine and compliant, ready to be styled and posed." A mutiny in small parts by Sophie Purchase share.google/gv7ULRIHWoZg...

A mutiny in small parts by Sophie Purchase | Issue #42

My first, great crime took place in my grandmother’s living room; all swirling patterns and light thrown through lace curtains like the scatter of a disco ball, it gave the place a certain drama which...

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Final days left to enter! Our international flash fiction competition closes for entries at the end of this month (September). flash500.com/flash-fiction/ Do you have a story up to 500 words ready to submit? Prizes £300/£200/£100

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What? Is it this time already? The deadline for the latest £1400 prize fund BFFA is coming round again Closes Sun 4th Oct. Just under TWO weeks. For up to 300 word micros. All 50 longlisted writers are offered publication in our 2026 anthology. Results end Oct. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

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Loved reading all the different interpretations of Louella Lester's photos this issue - playful, speculative, dark, quirky. Congrats to all the writers featured here 🌟 🎉 🌟 🪅

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 4w ago

SOOO excited to share Issue 42 - oh the places these writers will take you: Ali McLafferty, @stillsqquirrel.bsky.social @blakepierpoint.bsy.social @jekwriter.bsky.social @karenc.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @sagreene1.bsky.social & Sophie Purchase share.google/UHQWCirfupPP...

"Choose a table that does not rock. Test each corner with your palm. She cannot steady herself now; the table must do it for her." Read this unique list story from @blakepierpoint.bsky.social in issue 42 of #NFFR newflashfiction.com/instructions...

Instructions for Leaving a Human Being Outdoors by Blake Pierpoint | Issue #42

Every Sunday my father carried my mother's head to the front porch and set it on the table to enjoy the sunshine.

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So enjoyed reading where our photo prompts took people in issue 42. And Ali McLafferty's story starts as it means to go on: "Every Sunday my father carried my mother’s head to the front porch and set it on the table to enjoy the sunshine." newflashfiction.com/keepsake-by-...

Keepsake by Ali McLafferty | Issue #42

Every Sunday my father carried my mother's head to the front porch and set it on the table to enjoy the sunshine.

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When I met @sagreene1.bsky.social recently, she arranged for a small child to (try to) bite my finger off. Be warned. @nffr.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥”It was neither cocoa nor yummy. It squatted uneasily on my tongue, synthetic and toxic.” 🧡🧡🧡

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don't be fooled by the optimism in that title, @sagreene1.bsky.social is about to take you on a dark and splendid journey... "To be fair Miss Kozlowski’s lovely smile had been skillfully preserved by whoever did the head." newflashfiction.com/springtime-i...

This ⬇️⬇️⬇️ by @stillsquirrel.bsky.social is an absolute cracker.

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 4w ago

"I’d sashay in, like I used to when I was fifteen & ask in my huskiest voice for a waterbed repair kit. I’d make sure to look up at the security camera, give a sassy wave." @stillsquirrel.bsky.social deftly weaves in Moxley's Rentals, young love & a runaway bride newflashfiction.com/adam-stuart-...