Just saw someone lionizing the use of a bot as a copy editor because it can spell and punctuate and apparently understands grammar, though no evidence was supplied. Cool. That’s about 23 percent of copyediting.
Kleopatra Olympiou
@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, editor, translator | Stories in: swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Claudine, Raw Lit | she/her Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction Best Small Fictions & Best of the Net nominee kleopatraolympiou.com
I 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...
We Chose “Resting Pose” Because He Was So Very Tired by the End - 100Words
Emily RinkemaRusty was in no condition to be taxidermied, but it was too late.
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I am really (really) bad at sharing what we're doing over at The Masters Review, but this morning we published what might be favorite flash of all time. You definitely don't want to miss this one by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social mastersreview.com/flash-challe...
Incredibly excited to share the news "Searching for God in a Mosh Pit" was selected as the winner of The Maters Review inaugural Flash Challenge!!! Such a great publication and a dream pub for me.Thank you @coleameyer.bsky.social and everyone at The Masters Review. mastersreview.com/flash-challe...
Flash Challenge Winner: “Searching for God in a Mosh Pit” by Mario Aliberto III - The Masters Review
Flash has always held a special place in my heart. My very first editing role was at a little flash fiction mag on campus when I was an undergrad. I've been fortunate to edit and publish some terrific...
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Congrats to Ani King for placing on the Wigleaf Longlist 2026!!! Read their piece here!! www.claudineliterary.com/aniking 🎉💚🐈⬛💚🎉
Ani King | Family Patterns: Cyanocitta cristata
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Totally shocked as well as delighted to have made the 2026 Wigleaf Top 50! Thank you, Emerge Literary for publishing 'A Word in Edgeways', and Andrew Porter for selecting it! Thanks also to the lovely @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social, fellow writer and compatriot who messaged to let me know!
Starting this month we’re making a change to how we pay our authors. In some ways it's a process tweak but it's also a really important one: we're paying royalties quarterly rather than twice a year.
‘After she quit her job, Martha slithered out of her skin…’ This uncanny gem from @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social 👩💼
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 2mo agoFlashFlood: 'Readying' by Kleopatra Olympiou #nffd2026
FlashFlood: 'Readying' by Kleopatra Olympiou #nffd2026
'Readying' by Kleopatra Olympiou
After she quit her job, Martha slithered out of her skin, wriggled out of the too-tight pants of herself and stepped out of her tired feet. With some effort, she hauled up this other, scuffed Martha and carefully folded her like a shirt, spreading her heavy arms, then bending them back. She stared at this vacant, limbless mess, then at the blushing skin of her own fingertips, coursing with life. Scissors in hand, she snipped off the other Martha’s head and sealed the body with orderly stitches. Lovely, she thought, and smiled. Ready for the next girl to wear. --- Kleopatra Olympiou is a writer from Cyprus. Her stories have been published in swamp pink, Tiny Molecules, and Flash Flood, among other journals. Her work has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction. Find her at kleopatraolympiou.com.
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When your 2500 yr old ceramics are still fashionable
THANK YOU, Chris Cotonou, for putting into words everything I have been complaining about in the past few weeks
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo agoWhat the Hellenic! Why is Christopher Nolan’s new Greek epic entirely devoid of Greeks?
Just over here doing the final proofread for my book, swimming again in these moments.
A heads up that there are scam emails going around impersonating me seeking author submissions for Charco Press. I do not acquire books for any publishers and the only legit email address from us ends with charcopress.com Please don't reply to any emails that don't feel right!
A sex tape, wolves, the end of the world...check out what @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and I did! My first ever collaboration, "Killing Robby Jenkins," is at Cutleaf today! To write with Dawn was amazing--we laughed, we cried, we howled...Hope you'll give it a read: cutleafjournal.com/content/kill...
Killing Robby Jenkins - Cutleaf Journal
The world as we know it is ending, and I am in a bathroom in Terminal 1 at Chicago O’Hare, huddled in a corner by the hand dryers, hugging my sobbing,
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Queer love, an expanding universe and a collapsing relationship - I've gone all cosmic in my new story, up today with Bottle Rocket 🚀 Thanks @stillsquirrel.bsky.social for the great Art & Flash session on Bhupen Khakhar that sparked this story. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/thi...
This is how a star explodes by cole beauchamp — Bottle Rocket
You bring me plastic flowers, say "They'll never die" with a wry smile that suggests the joke is on everyone else. But it’s a fitting statement on this dying planet. We think we’re standing but we’re ...
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"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
Wow, I love this story by @travisflatt.bsky.social soooo much!!! Might be my favourite Travis story ever, which is saying a lot. Go read it, everyone!
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Parhelion, Hurrah!” by @travisflatt.bsky.social is now up! Art by @aaronburch.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/05/04/p...
Super excited to have joined @fracturedlit.bsky.social's team of readers! Thanks @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and team for this opportunity ☺️
I’m very excited to share that my new flash fiction novella ‘Bereft of Reason’ will be published by V.Press on 1 June. You can pre-order from V.Press or signed copies are available from my website. Set in 1890s northern England, it is inspired by a shocking crime in my family’s history.
#CoverReveal 👀 Ani King's FAMILY NIGHT--a collected flash fiction collection that is by turns a lyrical celebration of queerness and an exploration of family and loss, often through a lens of magical realism--is out October 2026! @aniking.bsky.social #newrelease #flashfiction #fictioncollection
Thrilled to be in the flood for the third time! Catch my story 'Readying' at 7:40 am BST on the 13th of June :) Thanks @natflashfictionday.bsky.social!
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 4mo agoFlashFlood is open! We’d love to receive your subs 😊 Flashes up to 300 words, pre 2023 prev published considered, reserved spots for debut writers. You have until 23:59 on 25 April: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...
"What a crusade, and to have failed so spectacularly at such a simple mission. She who had spent her life in the fields, tending to crops and animals, strong like the earth she cared for, cheeks bronzed by the sun like baked clay." Bittersweet bite by @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social in Swamp Pink!!
Yay! Absolutely thrilled to have a new story in the amazing @100wordstory.bsky.social today. Big thanks to Michelle Ross for taking this one, and @livnorman.bsky.social, @laurabesley.bsky.social and @marthawrites.bsky.social for their eyes on the first draft 🌼🌿🌺 100wordstory.org/where-it-lea...
Where it leads - 100Words
James MontgomeryFor years, doctors shone torches, scientists ordered scans, the child sitting patiently throughout, occasionally lifting his palm from his forehead with a tiny suction-cup pop.
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