Emily Rinkema
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
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Dawn Tasaka Steffler@dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 2d agoI listed a half dozen things he might choose: money, politics, cold plunging, the way he looked at Kyle’s teacher during conferences last week, why he won’t get a colonoscopy, his salmon-colored shorts. And the hits keep coming... @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in Hawkeye
I am in love with this story about a tiny cheerleader who tries so hard! So good, @claudiamonpere.bsky.social. That ending is gorgeous.
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...
"The Mongols don’t notice me right away. I’m wearing sweatpants, wool socks, and a Dogs are My People hoodie, which I haven’t taken off since I checked in two days ago, alone" How does @emilyrinkema.bsky.social do it every time? Such a consistently brilliant writer. Love this from beginning to end.
trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 5d ago"I’m wearing sweatpants, wool socks, and a Dogs are My People hoodie, which I haven’t taken off since I checked in two days ago, alone." @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's "The Night the Mongols Arrive to Sack the City" www.trampset.org/post/the-nig...
Good morning. Let your coffee cool off, you can reheat it. Read this story by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social right now, courtesy of @trampset.bsky.social. Thank me later.
trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 5d ago"I’m wearing sweatpants, wool socks, and a Dogs are My People hoodie, which I haven’t taken off since I checked in two days ago, alone." @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's "The Night the Mongols Arrive to Sack the City" www.trampset.org/post/the-nig...
Sooooooooo fricking good and a great home!!!
Emily Rinkema@emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 5d agoI have a story in @trampset.bsky.social (I have been wanting to type that for so long)! Thanks to my potatoes for all the feedback. Hope you enjoy “The Night the Mongols Arrive to Sack the City” www.trampset.org/post/the-nig...
I have a story in @trampset.bsky.social (I have been wanting to type that for so long)! Thanks to my potatoes for all the feedback. Hope you enjoy “The Night the Mongols Arrive to Sack the City” www.trampset.org/post/the-nig...
The Night the Mongols Arrive to Sack the City | trampset
by Emily Rinkema...The Mongols don’t notice me right away. I’m wearing sweatpants, wool socks, and a Dogs are My People hoodie, which I haven’t taken off since I checked in two days ago, alone.
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🚨There’s still time to haunt us, but our call for ghost stories closes tomorrow night at midnight pst! 👻⏰
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · last mo.Haunt us! flash-frog.com/submit/
What a huge honor! And I loved reading @glennorgias.bsky.social and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social again and through Elissa’s eyes!
Elissa Field@elissafield.bsky.social · 2w agoEven if you skip my rambling about reading palate/writer's voice in the beginning DO READ the three writers I share whose work knocked me out this week, and why... with links to their work: @glennorgias.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social RT follow subscribe
Loved this @emilyrinkema.bsky.social flash piece this morning. Such tension and wit. I KNOW these guys. dishsoap-quarterly.com/7-14-26
Pull It Together, Wilson | dishsoap quarterly
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Thanks for sharing and glad it made you laugh—it was a really fun one to write!
Claudia Monpere@claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 2w ago"Tonight’s going to be the best fight yet. We ratcheted up the tension all day: Chad left his towel on the bathroom floor; I shaved my legs with his razor; he left his lunch dishes in the sink to soak." Incredibly funny @emilyrinkema.bsky.social hawkeyemag.com/stories/rink...
Hi all--been a long few days and I forgot to post how excited I am to have a story at Hawkeye this week! Check out "Fight Night": hawkeyemag.com/stories/rink...
Fight Night
Chad and I started live-streaming our fights after we found out insurance only covered twenty percent of our daughter’s orthodontic bill. Live-streaming was his idea, said he read about a site where p...
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So excited for all the shortlisters! My little story dropped off and will be cheering you all on from the sidelines!
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2w agoAnnouncing the brilliant shortlists for this year's Welkin Genre Prize. Congratulations to the writers of these wonderful pieces. If you're on the list, please feel free to celebrate wildly, but don't say which title is yours as judging is still ongoing: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
What a gorgeous story by @kimmagowan.bsky.social
Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social · 3w ago"...Linda watches a man drive through the intersection, and for a fraction of a second thinks he is Gary." On Her Way to the Corner Store To Buy Another Bottle of Wine by @kimmagowan.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity. Please follow the link below and enjoy
Thrilled to be in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social today with “Pull It Together, Wilson.” Hope you enjoy!
Dishsoap Quarterly@dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 3w agoLovely piece up this week with wild stakes that, by the end, will have convinced you are absolutely reasonable. Absolutely go tear through "Pull It Together, Wilson" from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social. Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/7-14-26
Oh, Liz--I love this so much! Absurd, but so so moving--the ending is just perfect. ❤️
Liz Rosen@thewritelifeliz.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm becoming a sentimental fool in my old age. This favorite of mine has been given a home by The Los Angeles Review and I'm so grateful. losangelesreview.org/the-aggregat... #carlsagan #wonderstories #shortfiction
"Bite after bite of wrongness. Sip after sip." Beautiful story, @chelseastickle.bsky.social
Chelsea Stickle@chelseastickle.bsky.social · 3w agoToday I've got a new flash in @reckonreview.bsky.social about disappearing fireflies and family. Thank you to the editors for publishing it. This story saw many drafts over the years, but I'm glad this is the one out there. reckonreview.com/life-cycle-o...
Wow! So honored to be nominated by the incredible @flightlit.bsky.social. Thank you Frances and Will! And congrats to @seanennis.bsky.social as well (who was my instructor in one of the first online writing classes I ever took about a decade ago...oh tiny, tiny world).
Flight: A Literary Sampler@flightlit.bsky.social · 4w ago
"Now I sit in my car outside the shop waiting to pick him up, our best boy, the one we chose together just after we got married." I really love this gem by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @100wordstory.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Emily Rinkema@emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 4w agoI am so excited to be back in @100wordstory.bsky.social with "We Chose "Resting Pose" because He Was So Very Tired by the End". Thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social MMM for the seed! 100wordstory.org/we-chose-res...
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Daniel Addercouth@ruralunease.bsky.social · 4w agoYour heartstrings will take months to recover after reading this banger of a micro by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @100wordstory.bsky.social: "I’d warned Tim about buying that squirrel in a tuxedo, that explaining taxidermy to a six-year-old was fraught." 100wordstory.org/we-chose-res...
