Kyle Isamu Weik
@kyleisamu.bsky.social
a queer writer without a plan | Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Variant Literature, Emerge Literary Journal, Vestal Review, Peatsmoke Journal
Ahhh such an honor to be a part of the Wigleaf Top 50! And thank you @flashfrog.bsky.social for first publishing and championing this story 🫶
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · last mo.Huge congrats to @kyleisamu.bsky.social for his Frog story "Materials Needed" landing on the Wigleaf Top 50! And a big congrats to all the Frog longlisters!! @thehagsoup.bsky.social, @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social, Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez, and @nschriefer.bsky.social!!
Wow, first story I’ve written in over a year. Thank you @psmokejournal.bsky.social for giving this a home and giving me some hope 🌱
I’ll Never Forget — Peatsmoke
Kyle Weik The clouds storming in faster. My heart racing as you climbed higher and higher and higher. Your backpack slipping and falling back to earth.
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Massive congrats to these writers! I can’t wait to read these award-winning stories 🐸
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · 5mo ago🎉Huge congrats to the winners of our 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction contest!! 🎉 Wasima Khan @jekwriter.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social And another big thank you to our Guest Judge, @camilleuadams.bsky.social
“Bats roost upside down in the hollows of ancient olive trees like black cloaked philosophers.” Another beauty by @belindarowe.bsky.social ✨
Belinda Rowe@belindarowe.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe latest issue of @centaurlit.bsky.social is here! THANKS to @lynnmundell.bsky.social for publishing my piece! Honoured to be in incredible company. Thanks @sagetyrtle.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece began. Congrats @damicandrea.bsky.social — stunning artwork! centaurlit.com
“…chanting Mary’s bloody name three times, fuck she’ll say it a hundred times, she’s not afraid to sway near boneless in the candle light.” 🖤🕯️ @aniking.bsky.social
Ani King (they/them)@aniking.bsky.social · 6mo agoWas I obsessed with The Craft as 90s teen and former Pentecostal preacher’s kid? Yes. Can you tell when you read this story? Also yes. Drafted and workshopped in @smokelong.bsky.social fitness, please enjoy Nancy :) www.virgovenuspress.com/press/nancy-...
“But some nights, hearing about cozy cottages and glistening fairies, I turn to warm, silvery liquid.”
Claudia Monpere@claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 6mo agoI'm thrilled to have my micro, "The Periodic Family" in the beautiful @centaurlit.bsky.social. Thanks so much @lynnmundell.bsky.social centaurlit.com/the-periodic...
I’ll admit, I submitted mine last year during the FINAL HOURS. Get in those lovely stories, you never know what will happen! 🐸
Emily Rinkema@emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt's the final day! Get those subs in!
“when nothing wears a tourniquet and a stocking cap in the rain, the kind of rain adaptive reuse guys with lit candles for eyes turn into little houses with little willows and little windsocks that don’t sock so much as sing songs about nothing.” Will always read @pdforan.bsky.social 🕯️
Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · 6mo agoI have a tiny thing in Issue 4 of Poems for Tomorrow (scrolling required). Thanks, editors, for giving it a place to live. poems4tomorrow.wixsite.com/poems-for-to...
“We step over marble limbs, the torso of a bare-chested woman carrying a blue, white, and red flag, then slip through a storm drain into the catacombs...” What can’t @belindarowe.bsky.social do? Read this piece of art, now!
“The day they bomb the art gallery” by Belinda Rowe
“The day they bomb the art gallery” by Belinda Rowe is a flash fiction with the beating heart of a prose poem. Note certain poetic techniques, such as the well-placed repetition of the “enigmatic s…
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Only $5 to enter, with a chance to bring home the coveted Blue Frog Prize. Imagine how proud of you your family will be (unless, of course, your family themed story hits a little too close to home...). Let's go Blue Sky fam!
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · 7mo agoHalfway there!! Just two weeks remain!! 🐸💙 flash-frog.com/contest/
Rewatching the Xmas episode of The Bear just to feel something.
Some of my favorites are in this gorgeous issue @elissafield.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social. Do give it a read!
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖@nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 7mo agoDelighted to have 2 stories in this amazing issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social What a treat to appear with so many stellar writers incl @elissafield.bsky.social @delgeo14.bsky.social @barbarabyar.bsky.social Letting go www.frazzledlit.com/p/letting-go Marie Kondo www.frazzledlit.com/p/and-now-i-...
“And I wish I was a sea slug so I could expel all the parts of me I carry around even though I don’t want them. And I would watch them float away with the current.” Have you read this beauty by @esmepromise.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social? 🪼
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 7mo agoA new year brings us new work to admire 💫 Help us welcome our JANUARY ISSUE: buff.ly/xnuvf6J Major thanks to our contributors! WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass ART Audrey Holmes PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
“Hooves cracking the ice-glazed early season snow in the yard, and on the other side of the grass there is a huddling confluence of doe, softly rendered into watercolor smudges of brown by frost on the window.” In love with this piece by @aniking.bsky.social in @broadripplereview.bsky.social
Ani King (they/them)@aniking.bsky.social · 7mo agoSo happy to have one of my favorite stories up at @broadripplereview.bsky.social today - absolutely gorgeous issue all around!! www.broadripplereview.com/post/deer-run
Damn amazed to be part of this bumper issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social. They are exceptional humans and editors and champions of barmy minds. Thank you!
There's still life
Flash fiction by Kik Lodge
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Needed an escape today and @pleomorphic2.bsky.social didn’t disappoint 🦘
The Third Less-Hot Hemsworth | MrBullBull
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“Up goes my arm and whoosh go my boots. Treacherous path. Treacherous husband.” Clever as it is poignant, must read by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social!
Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe have a great new piece today by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social! Check out “Rewind.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/07/r...
What an absolute honor, thank you @variantlit.bsky.social and @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social for including me in this spectacular lineup!
Best Microfiction@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · 7mo agoHey everyone. Best Microfiction 2026 winners have been posted! We congratulate all the winners. Thank you so much to our brilliant Guest Editor for 2026, @dseuss.bsky.social ! www.bestmicrofiction.com? #FlashFiction #Microfiction #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork
“I try not to look in the mirror. To see my face, barely peeking out from the ooze. I am myself melted, left out for years and years in the scorching heat.” I mean come onnn, this beauty by @skyskkyy.bsky.social
Melnick: 'The Rot'
Fiction by Skyler Melnick
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Love seeing these numbers continue to go up! Flash fiction is as strong as ever! 💙🙏🏼
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · 7mo agoHuge thank you to everyone who read, submitted, shared, and supported the Frog in 2025!
“At the tables, the billionaires are spooning custard out of hollow elephant tusks, making little coos that you don’t understand until you see the custard sparkling in the candlelight.” Brilliant gem by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social!
The Billionaires Are Having a Party | Fractured
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Matt is a gem! A sharp writer,a keen editor and overall lovely person. Please consider supporting him if you are able to. Details here: prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/starting-t...
Starting the year from the bottom of the slope
I like to think I’m quite a positive person, and the start of the year, for me, usually feels like it amplifies that sense of positivity through its inherent newness, the multiple possibilities lying ...
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Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · 7mo agoI've been in a funk recently, really worried about the weeks / months ahead; so today, I sent out a newsletter that felt quite vulnerable, & the way the writing community have jumped to my support has as always far exceeded anything I deserve ❤️❤️❤️ prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/starting-t...
What a wonderful way to start 2026. Honoured to be included in @mynachang.bsky.social's roundup of recommended scfi, fantasy and horror with my @thecitronreview.bsky.social story ❤️ citronreview.com/2025/12/22/e...
Efficiency measures
by Matt Kendrick It’s [sunrise through mist] and I’m sitting with [old woman] in the [kitchen]. My [laptop] is open on the [table] in front of me. [Old woman] is scratching the yellowing [na…
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Myna Chang@mynachang.bsky.social · 7mo agoDecember Speculative Flash Roundup! Some truly phenomenal stories this month, and a bonus craft article!
The good folks over at @smokelong.bsky.social started a new community for us: The Village! I'm so excited about it that I contributed the very first Lit Mag interview where I talk about Split Lip's submissions & editing process & gush about @rpmirabella.bsky.social & K-Ming Chang! Join to read!
The Village with All of the Flash Writers@heyflashvillage.bsky.social · 7mo agoRead our interview with @maureenlangloss.bsky.social of Split Lip in The Village!
Returning after a writing hiatus, but my stories feel farther than ever. I’m trying to call them back but it’s like they don’t remember my voice and I don’t either. How do you all reconnect to your writing practice? Your inspiration? Would genuinely love to know.
“We’d found the antlers, polished them, and kept them safe all winter as we mucked reindeer shit…” How does @kplumhoff.bsky.social do it? No clue but I enjoyed every second and you will too.
Good Sign of Future Happiness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Let’s agree that it was an accident, what happened when the tourist interrupted us choosing our king. All 12 of us boys were climbing on each other’s shoulders, turning our forearms into lances, charg...
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“Should I call the vet? Maybe I should text my sister. Maybe I should Google “talking cats.” Maybe I should hide the knives.” Love this @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Emily Rinkema@emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 7mo agoSo excited to have “Indoor Cat” included in this fun issue! trashcatlit.com/indoor-cat/
“A life is looped yarn and slipped knots, chains and accidents.” A real treat by @melostrom.bsky.social
Melissa Ostrom@melostrom.bsky.social · 7mo agoExcited to start the new year with a CNF flash in the latest issue of the wonderful Prime Number Magazine. Happy 2026, friends.♥️ www.press53.com/issue-281-fl...
“Exhaustion rolls in like the tide. We beg for sleep and prostrate ourselves before the deities of the dark.” @chelseastickle.bsky.social
In the Dark by Chelsea Stickle
There are things that are easier to say in the dark. Things that bubble and ferment inside until we’re drunk with distended stomachs. Exhaustion rolls in like the tide. We beg for sleep and prostra…
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