I'm honored to have "How to Free a Caged Heart" in the 10th Anniversary issue in Ghost Parachute - Huge thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social and team who curated this amazing issue and @amymarques.bsky.social for her gorgeous illustration ❤️

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Read "How to Free a Caged Heart" written by @csquareh.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "He insists there’re some unusual murmurs in your mom’s heart, and I’m arguing with him it can’t be the heart. All she does is rant, scream, and swear." tinyurl.com/mr3f92uk

"They said I must be silenced and they took out my vocal chords so that I could no longer utter a word against them, but I still had my hands which meant I could form sentences... " Powerful gem by @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/such-a-weigh...

Such a Weight of Words - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

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So grateful to Cleaver Magazine for this nomination to Best Small Fictions. Congrats to all these talented writers!

Apparently I can write "haibun" - here's my very first haibun "Shreds of Purple" in @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social Many thanks to @lorettec.bsky.social for the publication! Check out the ekphrastic poetry collection if you have a chance! www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...

Heaven Eleven Marathon Finalists and Winner: Poetry

At last, we have the finalists for the Heaven Eleven Annual Ekphrastic Marathon in July. And the results are a wild surprise: the winner of both the poetry and the flash categories this year is the...

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I particularly love "Fruit To Feed An Orphan Tongue" this brilliant poem by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in Jagged Edge is something I'd aspire to write! "the singer’s name is Sally Yeh, but it can’t be Sally, this is a name she has given the kwai lo so they won’t butcher her real name"

Sumitra Singam@pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 3w ago

So apparently I write poems now and here are three that Jagged Edge very kindly took. The line breaks (I’m a bit chuffed with them) work best on desktop. I also like “Where is the slip inside you that allows an ugly man in” hope you do too 🧡 www.jaggededge.org/read/three-p...

I cannot be at this event because of a family obligation, but I swear I almost decided to disown my family in order to go...this line up is amazing, and @travisflatt.bsky.social is such an inspiration to me. Congratulations on the release, Travis, and I can't wait to hold this chapbook in my hands.

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DM/message me for zoom link.

"'And I was waiting for you, ungrateful child!' she snarled." Big love for this tiny story by @csquareh.bsky.social 💙💙💙 hotflashliterary.com/when-i-met-a...

"My mother said these hands would drive away all my luck in love." Just read this killer piece "Hands" in Hot Flash Lit. by Huina Zheng hotflashliterary.com/hands/

Thanks @adelegallogly.bsky.social for sharing this brilliant story by @jekwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social "...she dressed and danced in togas of Kleenex, remembering how, years ago, she’d stuffed her bra with tissues, how all her friends did, too"

Adele Gallogly@adelegallogly.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Next in my @smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallege for @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social: “Fitting in” by @jekwriter.bsky.social, a 6-sentence story about molding/minimizing oneself to fit expectations. Love the magic-realism. “…so she bought a shoebox to live in, and shrunk herself in the dryer.”

Thrilled to have "When I Met Ah Ma in Purgatory" published in Hot Flash lit. Check out work by by Mikki Aronoff, @francesgapper.bsky.social @andreamarcusa.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social et al. Many thanks to EiCs @jekwriter.bsky.social and Tina Carlson hotflashliterary.com/when-i-met-a...

Jessica Klimesh@jekwriter.bsky.social · last mo.

The latest issue of Hot Flash Literary is LIVE and full amazing flash writers!! Hope you'll check it out! hotflashliterary.com/current-issue/

I'm honored and thrilled to have "Everything Gone All At Once" published in @yourimpossiblevoice.com - Many thanks and gratitude to EiC @keithjpowell.com yourimpossiblevoice.com/everything-g...

Everything Gone All At Once | Your Impossible Voice

By Christine H. Chen — It all began with the empty bucket in a corner of the living room that collected the occasional water dripping from the ceiling when Ah Ma was showering on a chair in the bathtub upstairs even though I had suggested that she simply took a bath

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I just read this fabulously imaginative and uplifting piece "Anything" by @tracyroyce.bsky.social in Flash The Court: flashthecourt.com/2026/08/14/a...

“Anything” by Tracy Royce

“Anything” by Tracy Royce is a masterpiece of mood. The speaker of the prose poem begins “gloomy again” but ends, via a city bike ride, in an entirely new and revelatory headspace. Royce integrates…

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New CNF by @csquareh.bsky.social! And afterwards, “I hear Ah Ma’s voice scolding me, if you had kept one of those nice plastic containers I had saved instead of trashing them when you cleaned out my apartment, you’d have a free container to put me inside” www.claudineliterary.com/christinehchen

Christine H. Chen | And afterwards,

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"Cody asks what it feels like to have a dad that is not around. I shrug and say it’s like having a skinned knee, fine at first and sore after you notice all the damage." by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social Love the quiet poignancy www.claudineliterary.com/sarpsozdinler

Sarp Sozdinler | We Only Rest in the Storm

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"she says YOLO so I ask what it means and it can mean anything because the girls live inside their phones" by @noranadj in @claudineliterary.bsky.social - powerful piece www.claudineliterary.com/noranadjarian

Nora Nadjarian | YOLO

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I'm honored to have "And afterwards," published in @claudineliterary.bsky.social - Huge thanks to EiC D.E. Hardy for the acceptance. It was a true delight to work with Diana. www.claudineliterary.com/christinehchen

Christine H. Chen | And afterwards,

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Claudine: A Literary Magazine@claudineliterary.bsky.social · 2mo ago

August Claudine is live! Original microprose by: Christine H. Chen, Jennifer A. Howard, Deirdre Parkes, Nora Nadjarian, and Sarp Sozdinler Claudineliterary.com

Coming to a Monday near you!! 🐈‍⬛✨🐈‍⬛ @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social @noranadj.bsky.social @csquareh.bsky.social

NEON NIGHT MIC ON SEPT. 2! 📚 I’m so stoked for this lineup. Most folks are traveling from out of town to be with us. Hope to see you there! 🎤 @clairehopple.bsky.social 🎤 @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🎤 @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social 🎤 Jonathan Cardew 🎤 @jessicawalsh.bsky.social 🎤 @martinezfjulian.bsky.social

"Whenever my mother asked what I wanted for my birthday, I told her, ‘I want the moon.’ I wanted it the way other children wanted bicycles or dolls." by @swethaamit.bsky.social in @neitherfishnorfoul.com - beautiful, delicate, and dreamy www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-7-amit...

Issue 7 Amit/The Moon Toy — Neither Fish Nor Foul

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"Samantha, wide-eyed and trusting, still young enough to believe her mother can do no wrong" by @andreamarcusa.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/bait/

"Chew and chew until there’s nothing left and we can’t find our way back— all of us changed, all of it gone." by @lathamwithapen.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/he-promised-...

"“Why is it that everything you wrote back then was about all the dead things you’d find in the woods or roadkill on our street whenever you took your evening walks?” she demands. “You don’t mention me at all.” by @kiptain.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social so darkly funny, I enjoyed it

Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congratulations Kip!

"...so you might call her, or you might not, because by that time she might not know who you are..." Such a powerful and poignant story by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social I loved it.

sarah lynn hurd@sarlynh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A lovely surprise to have my story make the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist! Thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social @jhhwriter.bsky.social for publishing it, and of course a big thank you to the @wigleaf.bsky.social team. Congrats to the 50 writers selected this year! gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...

How about a dark humorous sci-fi fantasy drabble? Here's one "Made to Order" in ScribesMICRO—Many thanks to the Editors for selecting my work! Hope you'll have a read: Issue 59's filled with a variety of tiny stories, humor, crime, sci-fi. www.fairfieldscribes.com/issue-59.html

Issue 59

​*   Managing Editor: Edward Ahern    * *   Associate Editor: Alison McBain    * *    Special Features Editor: Matthew P.S. Salinas    * *    Poetry Editor: Mary Keating   * ​ ​...

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Finished reading "We Live Here Now" in 2 evenings by @sarahpinborough.bsky.social - a real page turner, won't say more. You gotta read it if you like dark, gothic, thriller, mystery, genre-bending. I loved it.

"Self-cleaning requires extremely high temperatures, which will trigger an automatic shutdown. During this time, you may experience reruns of bad decisions" Whimsical and imaginative! by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

"You can’t put a baby back once you’ve plucked it off a tree. Why else would you come to a baby orchard?" A deliciously dystopian story by @jekwriter.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/just...

"In life, he was blind. In death, he sees everything, she says." Loved this piece. Brava, @csquareh.bsky.social

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

FlashFlood: 'Thereafter' by Christine H. Chen #nffd2026

"In life, he was blind. In death, he sees everything, she says. She whispers thanks and asks him to make her indoor tomato plant to give her big juicy ones." Don't miss this tender story from @csquareh.bsky.social in #nffd2026 🌊

Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Grateful to have my story "Thereafter" included in FlashFlood - Many thanks to Editors @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/ther...

Wow I love this dystopian piece by @rachelmhollis.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/term...

Tracy Royce@tracyroyce.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Love this, especially the ending, @rachelmhollis.bsky.social