Dropped my laptop & damaged the power port. I hate having to config a new computer. But I guess it is a good excuse to buy a lot of cool new stickers... #writerslife

July is almost over and with it goes the 1/2 off ebooks deal at Smashwords. Get your copies of "Monstrosity, Humanity" or "Bruised, Resilient" today! #amwriting #ebook #collections #shortfiction #horror #scifi #fantasy #feministfiction www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

MM Schreier

MM Schreier is a classically trained vocalist who took up writing as therapy for a mid-life crisis. Whether contemporary or speculative fiction, favorite stories are dark and rich in sensory details....

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I have 7 hours in the car tomorrow and a story with a looming deadline. What are the odds I can write the whole thing via voice notes while driving? #amwriting

Funny Cat Driving Car

Alt: Funny Cat Driving Car

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Looking for stories to read at the beach that AREN'T beach reads? There's still time to get both my short story collections at 1/2 price! #horror #feministfiction #shortstories #flashfiction #amwriting #ebooks #booksale

Nerd alert: I’ve said this before—our brains are hardwired to give more weight to negative stimuli. Generally, it benefits survival to remember where the tiger hides to ambush us over where pretty flowers grow. Negatives *instinctively* trump positives even when it’s not life threatening. 1/2

I did a thing! I love this weird little #scifi tale about the generational divide between mothers & daughters. Thank you @foofarawpress.bsky.social for the loving the story, too. And heckin' amazing visuals as well as audio narration! 😍 #amwriting #flashfiction

foofaraw press@foofarawpress.bsky.social · last mo.

New story is live and podcast has returned!

All vibes, no plot is my theme song. Why am I like this? 😂 😭 #amwriting #writerslife

Oh, lookie! I did a thing! #amwriting #flashfiction

Dream Theory Media [Subs Closed]@dreamtheorymedia.bsky.social · last mo.

“In a haze of Cabernet-fueled shame, I shouldn’t have opened a second bottle. I shouldn’t have finished that one too... Then the demon wouldn’t have gotten out.” MM Schreier’s “<gobble>” is now live! www.dreamtheory.media/gobble/

The joys of perimenopause insomnia is midnight writing where the words just sort of pour out in a wild verbose rush. But, also, the story’s weird AF. #amwriting

Elmo I Don't Know Idk

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Pleased to share my teeny tiny PNW-themed story, published by the ever-lovely Foofaraw Press and their microfic imprint.

Quotidian Bagatelle@quotatelle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“🥖” The Ancest—ahhh! https://qb.foofaraw.press/the-ancest-ahhh/

Check out these great story reviews by Maria Haskins out at Locus. (And it's not just because she says nice things about my story "Stairs for Mermaids.") #amwriting #flashfiction

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lightspeed and Flash Fiction Online: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...

I wrote a teeny tiny story. The kind that takes only a minute to read, but stays in your head a lot longer. #amwriting #scifi #readmorewomen #drabbles

Rat Bag@ratbaglit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today's story is "The St@rs Fr0m Here" by MM Schreier. @mmschreier.bsky.social #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #StrangeDearJohn

The thing I love about the #amwriting community is so many of us who were in the trenches with @shelbyvanpelt.bsky.social genuinely celebrating her amazing success. No jealousy, only pride at seeing our girl do the thing, excited the world loves her as much as we do. Go watch. Have tissues. #rbc

It’s a book mail x2 & an acceptance kind of day. Definitely not complaining. #amwriting

Part of the process with prompted flash is the “We hates it, Precious” stage. I might be stuck there. #amwriting #promptedflash #writingcontests

gollum from the lord of the rings is screaming with the words `` we hates it , precious '' .

Alt: gollum from the lord of the rings is screaming with the words `` we hates it , precious '' .

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Spring showers makes for a busy bee! How are your writing goals progressing? #amwritig #submissions #publications

his might be one of my favorite #scifi dystopian pieces of #flashfiction I've ever written. Hope you like it!

NYC Midnight@nycmidnight.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In anticipation of the Flash Fiction Challenge 2026 kicking off May 1, we'll be publishing the top three stories from last year. Today, we're proud to publish the 3rd-place story, ./Human Legacy by @mmschreier.bsky.social at nycmidnight.co/3QaALxG. Original illustration by Yevgenia Nayberg. Enjoy!

Have you ever wondered what could you do if you were able to reverse three seconds at a time and do them over? Find out in my newest story "Three-Second Rewind" in Sally Port Magazine's April Issue! #amwriting #magicalrealism #shortstories #readmorewomen sallyportmagazine.com/2026-april-i...

I’ve just realized that I’m currently sitting, YTD, at the same number of acceptances as I hit for the ENTIRETY of 2025. Wut? #amwriting

a man with a beard is wearing a purple shirt and looking at the camera

Alt: a man with a beard is wearing a purple shirt and looking at the camera and blinking rapidly

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CNF is hard. Especially when it requires being vulnerable. I’m committed to finishing & submitting it (stretch goals and everything) but there is going to be monster horror and dystopian SciFi for DAYS afterwards. #amwriting #ptsd #cnf

Day 84! I read Things I Don’t Tell My Sister by @mmschreier.bsky.social published in @factorfourmagazine.com. Random Accessed Memories in deep space. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/s...

S/D/Y Mar 25 – Things I Don’t Tell My Sister by MM Schreier – Factor Four

This was an interesting one. A multilayered story of memory and survival with a lot of details in such a short story which play with the themes really well. The idea of the protagonist exploring th…

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Excited to learn that my story "Phantom Conversations" will be included in an upcoming issue of @bulletpoints.bsky.social. I don't write a lot of military fiction, but this is a #scifi tale about family, perception, and the cost of war. Glad to see it land at a good home! #amwriting

There’s something kinda satisfying about coming in 13th in an #amwriting #horror comp. 😈 It’s always a privilege to contribute to one of @tldrpress.bsky.social’s charity anthologies. Good humans, good stories, for good causes. Stay tuned for book details.

TL;DR Press@tldrpress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

12th: Flight Delay by Jane Stecyk 13th: Hand-Picked, Hand-Delivered by MM Schreier 14th: Katabasis by Steven Huff 15th: Deals Such as These by Arwyn Sherman

thrilled to be joining the @foofarawpress.bsky.social masthead as their novelette editor! gimme those words!!!

foofaraw press@foofarawpress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Because I can’t keep a secret for shit… as of like three hours ago, @hanmarin.bsky.social has agreed to join us as our Master of Minutiae (aka novelette editor)! This is going to allow is to do so much more fun stuff IN PRINT! Already building a queue of stories for them to edit… muahahahaha

DOUBLE CREATURE FEATURE: Friday the 13th & Valentine's Day! For 2 days only, get 25 monster stories for 99 cents. Nothing says love like chills and thrills, right? (Offer good on ebooks at Smashwords.) #amwriting #horror #shortfiction #monsters #collections #books

Me: <cutting 200 words> snip snip motherfuckers! Also me: <cutting 3 words> Nooooo! I need them all! #amwriting #writerslife

Gah. My inbox is so full of predatory promoters with AI-generated bullshit about how, at the low, low price of $8 billion and my left kidney they can make my books (which they've clearly not read) instant best sellers. It's nauseating. And exhausting. Le'sigh. #amwriting

Hey creatives! Keep writing. Keep painting. Keep making music. Art has always been a form of resistance. #resist

Who has feminist rage & identifies as a woman? Check out this new #nonfiction #CNF #essays call at Dismantling Press. "This call is intentionally activist. We are interested in work that is unapologetic, incisive, and impassioned—essays that treat fury as legitimate, necessary, and political."

Another acceptance. That’s 3 so far for 2026. Here’s hoping it’s the trend for the year! #amwriting