Mitch James
@mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social
First-gen PhD, professor of writing, author of the novel Seldom Seen, a Miner's Tale. Writer of tales short and shorter, poems, CNF, scholarship. Facilitator of therapeutic and expressive writing workshops. Crafter and consumer of cocktails.
Yes! Another banger from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Damn... www.whaleroadreview.com/rinkema/
A Story about God
I tell John I’m tired of writing what I know, of writing about grief and loss. I want to write a story about something I know nothing about, I tell him. He brings me coffee in bed every morning, an…
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I have a new piece out at the venerable Flash Fiction Magazine *crowd goes wild*. Thanks to everyone at FFM, who spends their time and energy for the love of the form. Respect.
Laura Besley@laurabesley.bsky.social · 6mo ago'Our son Brody admired his father for the ships when he was little. He never learned how Leon got them into the bottles.' #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity Phenomenal piece: Ships by @mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2026/04...
'Our son Brody admired his father for the ships when he was little. He never learned how Leon got them into the bottles.' #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity Phenomenal piece: Ships by @mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2026/04...
Ships
Our son Brody admired his father for the ships when he was little. He never learned how Leon got them into the bottles. It wasn’t like everybody else, who folded the masts then tugged the stays onc…
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A big thanks to Amy Mitchell and her crew at @thetemzreview.bsky.social for publishing "The Mighty." Prepare to feel real weird reading it. I hope you'll join me in experiencing the issue. Share with those who read and those who might and, especially, those who should. shorturl.at/KTp4L
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Have you read @sfreligh.bsky.social short story collection Other Emergencies? If not, let me tell you why you should! shorturl.at/dh04I
Such Madness. Such Damage. A Review of Sarah Freligh’s Other Emergencies
This collection follows the hardscrabble lives of the working class and working poor as they lumber through the bleak, unending grit and wet gray ash of their lives. Even though some rise above the…
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Excited to see my name on this list. Big thanks to @alliumjournal.bsky.social for accepting then nominating my work. Best of luck, everybody!
Allium, a Journal of Poetry & Prose@alliumjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago🪻Congratulations to our Pushcart Nominees🪻 Poetry “Fog Over Frisco” -David Trinidad “Recording This to Remember” -Hoa Nguyen Fiction “Sweet Maddy” -Matthew Hernandez “A Stroke of Genius” -Yance Wyatt Nonfiction “At Risk” by Mitchell James “The Thing About My Hair” -Steve Weed #pushcart
Love this! Gonna to read 'em all!
Myna Chang@mynachang.bsky.social · last yr.September MicroVerse roundup is out!
Just discovered this little slice of the microsphere! Can't wait to dive into @claudineliterary.bsky.social
I'm behind on promoting a rare piece of published nonfiction. A huge thanks to @alliumjournal.bsky.social for publishing this frantic, plaintive experience. tinyurl.com/ya7na9as
Mitch James — Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose
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“Uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, cervix,” Dr. Doris Day says. “I say we take them all.” “That’s a lot of me,” I say. “Oh, you’d be surprised how little it is!" Awesome story by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary tinyurl.com/3ubv7uv2
Wyoming - Hot Flash Literary
It’s the time of the Great Evacuation. That’s what my friend Jess calls it. I’ve been bleeding all over the place. My body is emptying itself out. It’s undignified. And painful. Out for coffee with J...
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"The men are dying . . . beautiful boys ugly-cry too." On-point rendering by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in his story "Boys in Boxes," Published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/boys-in-boxes/
Boys in Boxes - Fractured
The men are dying. We’re the boys who see them. In tabloids, on news bulletins. Faces pocked with purple lesions, bodies ravaged by weight loss. Their abandoned eyes, their hollowed-out stares, hold u...
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Super excited (and a little proud) to have new micro published with such a preeminent supporter of the super short form. Thanks to everyone @lostballoon.bsky.social !!
Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social · last yr.It’s Wednesday, and that means we have a great new piece today from @mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social! Check out “Why I Stopped Tying My Shoes.” lost-balloon.com/2025/07/30/w...
A masterclass example of precision dialogue used to reveal the story not told. Admired the subtleties in awareness of marriage, sacrifice, taking and being taken advantage of, rebirth, and failure. A good study of the flash fiction by Gaurav Bhalla, published in Journal of Compressed Creative arts
"I had to wrestle Patricia into isolation again. I’ve never had a senior like her. This is why Gary thinks it’s work causing the miscarriages" Such a fascinating piece that braids together different elements and character focuses, and leaves so much for a reader to discover on second / third reads
Mitch James@mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social · 2y agoBig thanks to @bendinggenres.bsky.social for publishing my braided micro piece that uses Leviticus, the epistolary form, and a little bit Minecraft. Originally drafted in an @sfreligh.bsky.social workshop. Can't wait to read through the issue! bendinggenres.com/prophecy/
Big thanks to @bendinggenres.bsky.social for publishing my braided micro piece that uses Leviticus, the epistolary form, and a little bit Minecraft. Originally drafted in an @sfreligh.bsky.social workshop. Can't wait to read through the issue! bendinggenres.com/prophecy/
Prophecy
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Stoked to be a finalist for this contest! Thanks to all the editors @flashfrog.bsky.social and Guest Judge Gina Chung for your time and commitment 🤟
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · 2y agoThe 2025 Blue Frog Finalists are here! 🐸💙
"If Leo Tolstoy could have ten kids and famously forget some of their names, then I could get pregnant and keep creating everyday." Fuck yes. Megan Mizanty's "Hillers" in @bendinggenres.bsky.social tinyurl.com/7edhwaet
Hillers
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Though I'm from the rural Midwest and not South, much of this piece from @raniqualee.bsky.social in @barrenmagazine.bsky.social felt like home. And that ending. C'mon, ya'll. tinyurl.com/2hj3wwmu
F-150, Carry Me Over
Barren Magazine - F-150, Carry Me Over -
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Admire the nuance of mother/daughter & mother/son here, as well the promising ending and chance at redemption and growth: Read @rachellaverdiere.bsky.social in @okaydonkey.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4sbpxvhy
Almost Plea to My Ex-Therapist by Rachel Laverdiere
Things may have gotten too serious too quickly, but I gather up the long skirt of my dress and step out of Steve’s vintage yellow bug—a car I’ve dreamed of owning since I was little— one of Steve’s…
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This is the first time I've read flash about a serial killer. There's no showing off here. Just the power and precision of a well-told story. "In The Chips" @ tinyurl.com/ye7pd59b
In The Chips – Free Flash Fiction
Aunt Gertie was stronger than she looked. As we would learn. Surviving alone all those years after Uncle Dan just up and left. Actually, she had buried Dan in the backyard herself long ago after his...
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Nearly two years behind on this brilliant piece of flash @flashfrog.bsky.social, but with what just happened in New Orleans and what will undoubtedly happen again soon, the story, sadly, still resonates. tinyurl.com/4pyajt65
No Dead Bodies in the Dining Room by Kathryn LeMon
*THE BLUE FROG 1st PLACE WINNER* Introduction by Guest Judge AIMEE BENDER: Last year I was so taken by Elisa Gabbert’s close reading of Auden’s poem “Musee des Beaux Arts” and how she considered th…
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We're just thrilled to be recognized this way! Thank you to everyone that voted for us!
Chill Subs@chillsubs.bsky.social · 2y agoYOUR FAVORITE FICTION LITMAGS OF 2024 From 1827 nominations for 257 magazines, here is who our community has named the Best FICTION Lit Mags of 2024!!! ⬇️ Their details & how to send them your work www.chillsubs.com/lists/commun...
The thinning of the animals; the self-alienation of humans; the world returning without them; the hospitals beginning to fill--a vivid display of the Malthusian Cycle, balanced on deft prose. tinyurl.com/4cmmxjcy in @nffr.bsky.social
The End of Mammals by Erin Ruble | Issue #35
It began with the pigs. As one factory farm after another succumbed, animal rights activists proclaimed it proof of the system’s failure.
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“I began to have this dream where instead of being signed we just went missing,” says a young model in a state of mental decline, not realizing that her and her friend’s abundant visibility as models is the ultimate invisibility. Beautiful work. tinyurl.com/muzr84p9
As a 90s Supermodel - SmokeLong Quarterly
Karina and I didn’t like the work. And we didn’t like our bosses. And we didn’t like to talk about love unless there was pain involved, otherwise we found it so uninteresting. She liked to say things ...
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I admire the dichotomy in education highlighted by @sammatin.bsky.social in this interview. Best read alongside the story, "People of Color Monologue," which to me is a politically charged piece that suggests that with love there's hope. tinyurl.com/yvddv6dc
Smoke & Mirrors with Sam Matin - SmokeLong Quarterly
Nadiya is from Detroit while Ali is Arab and Persian and Areeba is Bangladeshi. How important was it for you to choose characters who might not come from the same geographic area or ethnicity but shar...
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The voice of this piece, the sense of place, the staying silent in life and not speaking ill of the dead (just like in the American Midwest), and the way the living stand fragmented around the deceased. Fucking beautiful. Let’s just someone say it already. Hot damn. shorturl.at/Kzi41
These Things We Not Saying - SmokeLong Quarterly
At the church’s gate, until the town people surrounded them, the women not spoke the horrible truth. They not talked about the man’s wives who, when they saw him, dropped on the ground at his feet lik...
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Excited to see the new issue out. Check out my story "Obit," written in an @sfreligh.bsky.social workshop, and the accompanying interview with the sagacious Chey Dugan. Can wait to read through it all. Congrats, everyone!🤘
SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 2y agoSmokeLong Quarterly Issue 86 is live. Featuring the six finalists of the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) and four stories from this quarter's general submissions. It's wonderful. www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...
