Ra'Niqua Lee, PhD
@raniqualee.bsky.social
she/they 2024 NEA fellow Ex academic, ATL writer of speculative fic, fairy, Southern mama, old soul Best of the Net and Best small fictions 2023 Website: https://muddahlee.com/ insta: @muddahoney
"This sun ride and saltwater daydream across the channel does something to the spirit, a comfort I chase all day and only find here." Love the evocation of character and voice in this piece from @raniqualee.bsky.social @soflopojo.bsky.social www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-42-aug...
Flash #42 Aug '26
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"A clock set to military time reminds that beyond the walls, the moon makes room for the work of wolves" Great use of juxtaposition and tension in this timely micro from @raniqualee.bsky.social 100wordstory.org/what-i-belie...
What I Believe About Work - 100Words
Ra'Niqua LeeI cut bubble wrap in a windowless factory. This is machine work, for metal levers. Human work is me feeding plastic to boxes.
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As the eldest daughter of 10 and an educator for over a decade, I have learned that you can only relay the information you cannot force people to engage with it. I also know that a lot of times when there’s confusion automatically doing the research is not the default for many people.
Teaching a fiction workshop on abolition. (All writing is political. Writers make political arguments whether we want to or not.) Anyway, found an amazing flash piece for the workshop and wanted to share it. Daily reads: Megan Giddons in @theoffingmag.bsky.social theoffingmag.com/fiction/the-...
The Alive Sister - The Offing
Fiction by Megan Giddings
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Drop an old person you’re going to turn into in the future
a woman wearing sunglasses and a red jacket is making a funny face
Alt: Jennifer Lewis looking half her age and fabulous in sunglasses and a red jacket on Rupauls Drag Race.
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Pennsylvania ‘La’Vonte’ Wise 🎈@mrambitious.blacksky.app · last yr.Drop an old person you’re going to turn into in the future
Man...this topic was the last straw that ended my relationship with my twins' father. The fact that he didn't understand why I couldn't work two jobs, breast feed two babies, and finish my degree at the same time.
Aubrey Hirsch@aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · last yr.In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, this comic about the many, many coats of breastfeeding is your reminder that BREASTFEEDING IS LABOR!
really excited about this grant! please apply if you're a queer nature writer who would like $500!
ALOCASIA@alocasiamag.bsky.social · last yr.Only 3 more days to apply! ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! The recipient will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2025. More information: alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...
You're so close! Just a little push and you'll make it! 🚀 Keep going, you’ve got this! 💪✨ #SFFWriters #AlmostThere #KeepWriting
Lysz Flo aka 🇭🇹Bat Yo Ministries🇭🇹@lyszflo.bsky.social · last yr.A little less than $1300 LEFT 😭😭 and 9 hours left !! #sffwriters #sff
Trains approach them like ghosts, the way a husband returning after midnight slips under the covers, keeping his cold feet at a distance. ~from "Small-Town Stations" by Luljeta Lleshanaku (trans. from the Albanian by Ani Gjika) AGNI Online
Small-Town Stations
Translated from the Albanian by Ani Gjika Trains approach them like ghosts, the way a husband returning after midnight slips under the covers, keeping his cold feet at a distance. A post office. A…
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"The sky is deepening into sunset, and a breeze raises goosebumps on Robyn’s arm, as if she’s been touched by a ghost. The whole beach, she feels suddenly, is full of ghosts." Daily reads: Jenny Williamson in @terrainorg.bsky.social ❤️
Terrain.org@terrainorg.bsky.social · last yr.Jenny Williams's "Tidal" is a beautiful, touching short story that follows siblings Robyn and Peter as they grow up among visits to tide pools. https://www.terrain.org/2025/fiction/tidal/ #childhood #family #tides #tidepools #growingup #socal
"Her ex-boyfriend said it would make it easy to pick her out of a lineup, would make it easy for him to track her down if she ever left him, which, of course, she did. " Daily reads @christinaltudor.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social ❤️
matchbook literary magazine@matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · last yr."The birthmark changes shape if you look closely enough." New fiction: "Birthmark" by Christina Tudor aka @christinaltudor.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/tudor/bir...
"For a moment, Eleanor stood quiet, thinking about Moxies I through VII and the curse of living longer than one’s pets. How much love made sorrow worthwhile?" This story is weird, disturbing, delightful! @authorthealiu.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social
Uncharted Mag@unchartedmag.bsky.social · last yr.New SFF story by @authorthealiu.bsky.social "Three weeks after Moxie VII died, Eleanor finally crawled out of bed, tossed her used-up tissues in the fireplace, and went out to the garden." www.unchartedmag.com/stories/a-te...
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Passionfruit" by Jen Feroze (@jenferoze.bsky.social) #tbt stonecirclereview.com/passionfruit/
Passionfruit - Stone Circle Review
by Jen Feroze - Paul has overheard that it’s my birthday. He brings us breakfast on the verandah, dewy and humid. At the centre of my plate is a passionfruit...
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Lightning Response Weekend is BACK! We're reading nonstop for 72 hours—every piece submitted between Friday & Monday gets a response within 24 hours. Get your work ready and submit when the window’s open! 👉 Submit: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit
"Tonight I miss you a vacant lot. Most of all after moonbathing when our shadows blistered and we peeled them off each other like snake skins. The oyster shell moon is no help and I say so. Also wrinkly: our clothes on the shore." @rorty.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social ❤️
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · last yr."I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss." Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶🌫️
"The leviathan is lonely, but only in two of its hearts. It feels the loneliness creep toward the third, and fears how it might change, if it were to reach." Daily reads: Rachel Sudbeck in @smallwondersmag.com ❤️
Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · last yr.Today's story from issue 19 is by Rachel Sudbeck. "Ways of Love for Three-Hearted Creatures" is a beautiful story of the love between a leviathan and the darkness. Take a journey both large and small today: smallwondersmag.com/...
My thing is...if you dated a MAGA cop, why do we have to know about it? Like keep that to yourself...
Sometimes a writer titles a poem so brilliantly and apropos of your feelings, you’re compelled to read it. Then you realize that it’s not just the title but the whole poem that speaks to you. “All the fucks I give (are so, so many)” by Maia Brown-Jackson @andyetpoetry is out Sunday, July 27th!
These are straight-up "Nazi concentration camp back when they were just passively killing the inmates through horrible conditions" conditions.
Trickard@trickard23.bsky.social · last yr.In relevant part in case there’s a paywall:
After some gentle re-wiring and soldering, the website is back! If you missed Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi's poem, now's an excellent time to read it. smallwondersmag.com/piece/i-beg-...
i beg; spare me the music, my people do not have mouths for songs - Small Wonders
outside, the bullet is going round; blood is swallowing / the city. home is closing in on my people like lost poems.
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Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · last yr.We've got some website gremlins chewing on the wires and tubes. We're working on the problem and will be back up soon!
ICYMI today's story is Black-Red by Nora Esme Wagner. Please follow the link and enjoy #flashfiction #shortstory #writingcommunity fictivedream.com/2025/07/18/b...
"For now it was all adventure and discovery. And such a discovery she would make this day. She heard singing by the river and ran to the edge and there she found the head pushed up into the mud." Daily reads: Jennifer Marie Brissett in Vice ❤️ #blackfemmespec www.vice.com/en/article/a...
A Song For You
A tale about the future of love, war, and music, as told by a decapitated android.
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My hope, brittle, shatters as things look dark tonight The black music sings. No one is happy tonight. The last time I saw you was in the market aisle And I’m nostalgic as I think of you tonight. Read more by Ayiyi Joel in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
