Melissa Fitzpatrick
@melissafitz.bsky.social
Words in Five South, Flash Fiction Online, Atlas + Alice, Lunch Ticket, Flash Fiction Magazine, Roi Faineant, and elsewhere. Website: https://melissa-fitzpatrick.com/ Substack: https://melissafitz.substack.com
So happy to have new work up at literary namjooning literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
Deciphering by Andrew Bertaina
At night, we search for the darkness. We stumble around inside of ourselves. Someone says they can still see the fireflies, and I think, perhaps, I can still see my lover—pale pink lips.We cannot make...
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Friends, our submission inbox is completely empty. If you'd be so kind as to help us spread the word among your communities it would be so greatly appreciated. heroinchic.weebly.com
Really loved this story! ❤️
Sarp Sozdinler@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social · last mo.Working with @aaronburch.bsky.social is always a big cheer and I'm stoked to be able to do that again with this new story of mine in his wonderful SSL project. I’d be really happy if you read & shared "Bad Samaritans," a story about…exploding spouses and grief counseling at Applebee's. 🔗 below.
“What you see before you is what’s left, a mean soil that grows little but grief, my sadness, as wide as a cattail crop.” A terrific story from @melostrom.bsky.social 🌾💛
Melissa Ostrom@melostrom.bsky.social · last mo.Delighted to have a new flash in the excellent @bluestemmag.bsky.social. Thank you, Editor Mike McClelland, for picking this one.💙
The space we make for each other … just the most beautiful comic by @allisoncole.bsky.social Please read it! @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2026/08/18/t...
The Space We Make for Each Other - The Rumpus
My son taught me that the way someone moves through the world isn't a problem to solve. It’s a measure of how much room we are willing to make.
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We are now more than halfway through our sub period but you still have plenty of time to get your writing and art in!
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now!@epistemiclit.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo you believe in destiny? Agency vs. Determinism Subs open through August 31! Art (we need more! CNF (need more here too!) Fiction Poetry Sub link in our pinned post!
Our Summer Issue is live! 10 stunning new pieces of fiction from some very talented writers. Enjoy!! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/issue...
Shortlisted in the Body Prize, "Taking It Home" by Rana Bitar: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
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Issue 9 Submissions are now open! Details: epistemiclit.com/submissions/ Submission form: forms.gle/tycBEc2GhxuY...
August Submissions Open Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.
August Submissions Open
Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.
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Oh, this one got me right in the ❤️
Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Moldy tuxedo, Kodak slide projector and six spare carousels of slides, boxed-up love letters from his second wife, dated 1979." Things We Threw in the Dumpster by Kathleen McGookey #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please follow the link below and enjoy
My goodness, this is so beautiful ❤️
MUTHA Magazine@muthamagazine.bsky.social · 3mo ago“Birth was never presented to me as easy, or even without fear. It was sacred because it was real. Worthy of respect because it included both the miracle and the danger.” New from Aleka Thorvalson. #birthstories www.muthamagazine.com/2026/07/the-...
“[...] I tell her sometimes people don’t understand they are standing in the middle of a miracle until all that’s left of it is an afterthought.” “Case of Missing Animals” by Sarp Sozdinler, new poetry out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/07/17/c...
Beautiful story ✨
Chelsea Stickle@chelseastickle.bsky.social · 3mo 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...
Haven’t written much lately, but enjoying chasing bees around with my new macro lens
Just beautiful
Laura Besley@laurabesley.bsky.social · 3mo agoHuge thanks to Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social for publishing my story, 'In those final days'. Occasionally, as writers, we are gifted a story that falls almost fully-formed onto paper. This was one of them. #fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity fictivedream.com/2026/06/29/m...
Open until July 15, are you ready? Micro flash poetry, your name here, maybe. New writer friendly, don’t second guess your way out of a chance. Open to many styles. Send us what you love but no generative AI please, and no hate. Otherwise, hi!
Duotrope@duotrope.com · 4mo agoTemple in a City @templeinacity.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Thank you so much, @the-engine-idling.bsky.social 💕💕💕
the engine(idling lit@the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 4mo agoCheck out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/yytUFIm! The curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects. Today our #spotlight is on Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social ! #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #writers #authors #artists #writerslife
Subs open for flash micro poetry letters or a mix of all that, your tiny manifestos or whispered graffiti, a word we never remember how to spell but you might and we’re impressed, your shouts into wind and ocean, your grave concerns or vaulting triumphs etc. ETC! templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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