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
"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 · 2d 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...
I have a new swampy horror flash in Metastellar today. I’d be honored if you gave it a read. www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
The Vigilance of Birds
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. She would have liked that, your ability to stay focused, to p…
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“We pulled the moon down, tucked the darkness of night into its own box to sleep” New prose poetry from Alexa Brockamp Hoggatt in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-67
VOL. 67: Packing Up the Streetlights — Paranoid Tree Press
Alexa Brockamp Hoggatt | Michayla Grbich
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Hey folks, if you've got some time this weekend why not give blood? #Toronto www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Canadian Blood Services supply drops nearly 20% since June, prompting call for urgent donations | CBC News
Canadian Blood Services is appealing for people across the country to donate blood, saying its supply has dropped significantly in the last several weeks.
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After a shitty work week, I just saw Caroline Rose in an amazing pop up concert, and I’m reminded how transformative and healing the arts are. Keep making art, you weirdos.
sometimes it feels like this book I’m writing wears a pretty green ribbon & if you pull it, its head will fall off
“For eight hours a day, I lop the heads off carp and walleye. That flat blade chopping through flesh and bone could be the work of a machine—or the dead.”
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Alive and Dead in Ohio” by @jimmyfroh.bsky.social is now up! Art by Abel Johnson Thundil flash-frog.com/2026/06/29/a...
🚨 We close our general submission in ONE WEEK! 🚨 Which also means in one week we open up for our annual July call for ghost stories only!!
Dancing Cartoon Ghosts Music
Alt: Four old-timey ghosts playing musical instruments
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“I told Keith to go in there the first day with a fake parrot on his shoulder and an eyepatch and pass out times table worksheets like a goddamn normal summer school math teacher, but no, he had to do the obituary/tombstone idea” You gotta read this amazing flash from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
Michael Czyzniejewski@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 2mo agoThanks to Sarp Sozdinler and @bulbregion.bsky.social for publishing this new story today! Thanks, too, to @kimannjosouth.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.
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“The heads have all been accounted for. The lockers are glued shut. There is a coat rack but no appropriate place to store a hat.” This piece from Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece in @hexliterary.bsky.social will knock your socks off (or maybe your head) hexliterary.com?p=3354
The Museum of Heads by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
The Museum of Heads holds the world’s largest collection of heads. The Museum of Heads opened a long time ago. No one can say when. If they could, they would still have their heads. In front of ...
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“The water in the waiting room is rising, but slowly.” Excellent new work (x2!) from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social
Claudia Monpere@claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 3mo agoThrilled to have 2 stories in the wonderful @bulbregion.bsky.social. Thank you @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving them a lovely home ❤️ bulbregion.com/Two-Stories-...
Another brilliant @jjlofflin.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!!!
Joshua Jones Lofflin@jjlofflin.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy story is live now on @flashfictiononline.bsky.social if anyone wants to read about dates at IKEA. Many thanks to the editors for giving it a home. flashfictiononline.com/issues/june-...
FRESH FICTION FRIDAY! Check out our June issue opener — “FLEKKE” by Joshua Jones Lofflin. Top ten reasons to go on an IKEA date, and the meatballs are 1-9 😄 #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
Joshua Jones Lofflin@jjlofflin.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy story is live now on @flashfictiononline.bsky.social if anyone wants to read about dates at IKEA. Many thanks to the editors for giving it a home. flashfictiononline.com/issues/june-...
My story is live now on @flashfictiononline.bsky.social if anyone wants to read about dates at IKEA. Many thanks to the editors for giving it a home. flashfictiononline.com/issues/june-...
June 2026 - Flash Fiction Online
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“This all started when those loose zebras were frolicking across suburban Maryland.” Stellar flash from @chelseastickle.bsky.social in @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/it-...
It All Happened Before Me by Chelsea Stickle
This all started when those loose zebras were frolicking across suburban Maryland. It was summer, and it seemed they might live out there for the rest of their lives. We imagined them dodging those wh...
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I’m thrilled to be part of this issue.
Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur May 2026 “Reckoning” issue is available for purchase. 🎉 Featuring stories from @jjlofflin.bsky.social Tehnuka, @anniezhsun.bsky.social @christinehanolsy.com @pyramidinu.bsky.social & Sarah Gane Burton #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading flashfictiononline.com/issues/june-...
“So God looks down from heaven and says to Cain, ‘You have to invent murder.’ Cain looks up from the field and says, ‘OK, you got it, God. What’s murder?’” I love this story from @isabel.kim in Strange Pilgrims www.strangepilgrims.com/p/nomenclatu...
Nomenclature by Isabel J. Kim
And Cain says, “God asked me to do some stuff, and I don’t know about it.” And Eve says, “Oh that guy.” | Short Story #5
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Isabel J. Kim@isabel.kim · 3mo agonew story out today in Strange Pilgrims! wow that art that shows up here is NOT representative at all of what the story is about. NOMENCLATURE is about fighting in a war that you never signed up for. also about cain and abel.
“In the movies the silk grows from his fingertips in long strips of soft, caressing tissue.” Fantastic work from @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @villaineralit.bsky.social villaineralit.com/2026/03/24/s...
Silk Fingers by Jan Stinchcomb
Love letters addressed to Silk Fingers no longer arrive at the studio on Culver Boulevard, but his fans are still out there. They find a way to forgive his violent acts, or perhaps the violence is …
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In case you are interested: Submission open May 25 to June 2. Just sayin. www.matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines
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“A changeling in the family is not a tragedy or even a problem for her daughter’s generation, though some parents still take steps to keep the fairies out.” Some perfect Mother’s Day reading from @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/01/c...
Changeling Daycare—Jan Stinchcomb
They’re raising children differently these days, and Diane does not want to be left behind. A changeling in the family is not a tragedy or even a problem for her daughter’s generation, though some …
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Spending the day in DC with this amazing graduate.
“I want to take something that tilts their universe a few more degrees. Something they can’t simply shrug away.” Brilliant flash from @ericscottryon.bsky.social in @passagesnorth.bsky.social www.passagesnorth.com/the-things-w...
The Things We Take by Eric Scot Tryon — Passages North
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A video game you’ve completed more than six times.
Maria Haskins@mariahaskins.com · 4mo agoA video game you've completed more than six times. (I love this game so much.)
“It’s already over once you see the blood.” Fantastic, creepy work from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in Weird Horror Magazine www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/you-were-jus...
You Were Just Here — Weird Horror Magazine
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