Amanda Anderson
@magicetc.bsky.social
Former librarian currently writing. Los Angeles native.
I think “I am the protagonist of life” is the main psychological appeal of this kind of conspiracism. You risked nothing, you did nothing, and other real people are suffering the things you’re pretending to think are bad, but in the end you’re the great hero for surviving your imagination.
Hey #flashlit and #flashfiction people! @lostballoon.bsky.social is open through August 7! Submit here: lost-balloon.com/submit/ (cc @chillsubs.bsky.social)
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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Happy dancing to see my flash "If Mother's Grief Had Been a Dog" published in Thin Skin Magazine alongside one of my favorite flash writers @nomad-sw18.bsky.social . Check out Issue 8! My story was written in @smokelong.bsky.social (where else?) thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...
If Mother’s Grief Had Been a Dog - Thin Skin
Mother’s grief unfurled slowly, like paint blistering and peeling from the shed out back. For months after the sirens, she locked herself inside with our photo albums. She taped pink-stickered pages o...
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In recent weeks, congressmen like Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) have leveled racist attacks against immigrant communities in their districts. As I note in CAMPAIGN TRAILS, a century ago those same racist attacks were being made against people named Emmer and Rulli.
Pulling Up the Ladder
In recent weeks, Republican representatives in Congress have repeatedly insisted that specific groups of immigrants in their communities will never be assimilated into American life, that they pose a ...
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Who's hungry? We are! Submissions are open for Gone Lawn 67. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
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what he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him
Submissions open August 1! Agency vs. Determinism Poetry - Micro and flash fiction - CNF - Visual Art epistemiclit.com/submissions/
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"
💫🌟We made it to a year! 🌟💫 What an incredible journey this has been...and we're not anywhere near done! What are you waiting for? Submissions are only open for 2 more weeks! July 30th! #poetry #fiction #essay #art #submisionsopen #lamplitmag
subs will be open tomorrow, July 1st, at 7pm central time ! subs usually fill up very quickly, often within the hour send us something weird or cool or beautiful, or all three <3 thank u
OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.
🌞🌊SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 31 ARE NOW OPEN🌞🌊 Our editors are standing by! ✨ Guidelines on our website! www.theshorepoetry.org
📣 It's July 1 and you know what that means! (It means we're open for flash fiction 1000 words or less without identifying info on the document until July 15 or we reach our cap ✏️⌨️)
JMWW Journal@jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 2y agoSubmit your work here! jmww.submittable.com/Submit
Word on the street is that we'll reopen for submissions in about a month! 🚨 July 6 through 10, open for five days. Fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and everything in between. Save the date. Spread the word.
Closing for Short Story Submissions on the 30th of June. Not long left to submit!
You. Have. Less. Than. TWENTY-FOUR hours. Entries close at 3pm BST tomorrow 30th June. That's 3PM BST 30th JUNE. If I could underline and bold 3PM, I would!!! Those of you still scribbling, pruning, polishing, you might want to switch your settings to turbo mode.
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2mo agoI may have jumped the gun a little bit, but what are guns for if not for jumping... Anyway, entries are now OPEN for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!! Micros up to 100 words Free to enter Send UP TO TWO micros across FIVE categories Deadline 30th June www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
You have LESS THAN five days left!!! Entries close at THREE PM BST on Tuesday 30th June. That's NEXT Tuesday. So... get your skates on if you haven't yet sent in your entries.
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2mo agoI may have jumped the gun a little bit, but what are guns for if not for jumping... Anyway, entries are now OPEN for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!! Micros up to 100 words Free to enter Send UP TO TWO micros across FIVE categories Deadline 30th June www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
Doggone it, I almost forgot 🐶🧠𖡎 There's just ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your flash fiction! The theme for June is SUN DOGS & MOON DOGS. You have until the end of the month to submit! www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...
Sleepy Puppy Naps by a Warm Lantern
Alt: A puppy lays down to sleep beside a warm lantern.
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🚨 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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