Read Barbie Girls @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/barbie-girls/ “Aggie gathered her hair into a rubber band, flashing us her earrings, which I saw for the first time were silver sequined Barbie heels.”
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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Happy to have a micro in the latest issue of Ghost Parachute! ghostparachute.com/issue/august...
What Wei Boyang Dreamed of When He Invented Gunpowder — Ghost Parachute
I first fell in love with fire when I watched the body of my father burn in the pyre, his flesh transmuting into a fine powder that danced circles in the breeze like a soul set free, so I swallowed my...
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This piece by Rana Bitar in @welkinpress.bsky.social Body Genre Prize SL grabbed me with that unique way of looking at compliance, guilt, and how t h id makes us feel bad for our own pain. Gorgeous work 🧡🧡🧡
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2d agoShortlisted in the Body Prize, "Taking It Home" by Rana Bitar: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
Excited to have a new story in @thin-skin.bsky.social "Where were your family then? Where were they when you needed rent, when he broke your heart, when he broke your ribs, when he took you back and kicked you out over and over, when we begged you to leave him?" thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...
She was One of Us - Thin Skin
We know naked. We've done naked for a living. But tonight we are washing you. Tonight we are saying goodbye.We can’t be there tomorrow, on those hard wooden pews, in the church your family chose. Bu...
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Thin Skin magazine@thin-skin.bsky.social · 5d agoWelcome to Issue 8 - Thin Skin % % share.google/HRasb4ieJnsx...
We need some new heartbreaks for the gallery. Doesn't have to be about someone who broke your heart. Maybe its a song or movie that always makes you tear up, a spot you used to love in your home town that's gone now, a lost family recipe. 50 words or less and one photo is all we need. Sub link ⏬️
Shortlisted in the History Prize, "The things we did not see on Christmas Eve in Calumet, Michigan, 1913" by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
The things we did not see on Christmas Eve in Calumet, Michigan, 1913 | MattKendrick.co.uk
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"A Jar of Dirt" is out now in trampset. some of my fav sentences in this one. go check out the issue! @trampset.bsky.social #cnf #flash www.trampset.org/post/a-jar-o...
A Jar of Dirt | trampset
by Mitchell Ny...We lie on the switchback, you atop my chest, and become immovable—like my nerves had been pulled gently from my navel. I am denervated meat and cooked clay.
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New micro up at Ghost Parachute 🥰🥰🥰 Always grateful to @brettpribble.bsky.social 🥰
Brett Pribble@brettpribble.bsky.social · 4d agoRead "The Guys in the Parked Cars" written by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "One guy from summer school only wanted head. Told me I was pretty but he wasn’t really into me. Had plans to date this other girl." tinyurl.com/5yy9y9wd
Astonishing...but true:) I have a piece in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 🥰 It is very humbling to be here with these incredible artists. Thank you!!! #writingcommunity
Pithead Chapel@pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 4d agoOur August issue is live! JH Lucas Dodge Zelko @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Jacob Schrodt Jeffrey-Michael Kane @liquid-chicken.bsky.social @zaryfekete.bsky.social Matthew Trumbull Kinga Varga-Dobai Andrew Christoforakis @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social Kaylan McCann pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...
“The Sky Is Falling” Dogs look up in wonder while everyone else looks down at their phones in this timely micro by @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social ettereview.com/summer2026/o...
Caitlin O’Halloran | -ette-review
Caitlin O’Halloran in -ette-review Issue 8: Summer 2026
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"In the library’s parking garage, I found a poem / shaped like a woman / slumped over the front seat of her SUV / with gray hair / shrouding death-dull eyes" Tracie Renee (@tracierenee.bsky.social) is in The Bulb Region today with three vivid, weird, wondrous memories from the library archives. 🔗⬇️
I have a story in @trampset.bsky.social (I have been wanting to type that for so long)! Thanks to my potatoes for all the feedback. Hope you enjoy “The Night the Mongols Arrive to Sack the City” www.trampset.org/post/the-nig...
The Night the Mongols Arrive to Sack the City | trampset
by Emily Rinkema...The Mongols don’t notice me right away. I’m wearing sweatpants, wool socks, and a Dogs are My People hoodie, which I haven’t taken off since I checked in two days ago, alone.
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Shortlisted in the Body Prize, "Issue" by Jeffrey-Michael Kane www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
Issue | MattKendrick.co.uk
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New micro at The Sunlight Press today, based on stories my grandparents told me about their life in the Dust Bowl time. Grandma had a lot to say about the jackrabbits. "Kit County Jackrabbit Roundup: A Whopping Success"
Kit County Jackrabbit Roundup: A Whopping Success - The Sunlight Press
I picture its frightened eyes, remember its shiver as I eased the barb from its leg.
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"soon the older men could hear waves / inside the whale’s stomach, the cadences of their mother singing" "What Was Found Inside the Whale" by @readinstead.bsky.social starts off Issue Three of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social: swiftslitmag.com/jared-beloff
jared beloff — s w i f t s: a literary magazine
swifts literary magazine
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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE!@rfpress.bsky.social · last wk.Ready for a ribald poem to set the party in motion? Well put your keys in the basket and let’s read “Septuagenarian Swing Set” by @tomljanovic.bsky.social. It’s in our 98th edition. Check over your shoulder and click this link! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/septuag...
This interview with @ranandatheinkrat.bsky.social talks about the challenges in editing the wonderful anthology of green epiphanies 'The Last Plastic Fork', her favourite authors and why #climate #storytelling is so important habitatpress.com/interview-wi... @habitatpress.bsky.social
Interview with Editor Rananda Rich - Habitat Press
Rananda Rich is the editor of The Last Plastic Fork and Other Green Epiphanies, an anthology of green flash fiction arising from the Green Stories Project 2025 writing competition.
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ICYMI it's a great pleasure to be featuring Things We Threw in the Dumpster by Kathleen McGookey #microfiction #MicroMonday #readingcommunity. Please follow the link below and enjoy
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In today's Sugar Sugar Salt. Thank you, editors! sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/two-micros...
Two Micros by Patricia Q. Bidar
November
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I was very lucky to win the “Care” contest with what was a very difficult-to-write story about my mom. Thank you to @fionamckay.bsky.social for selecting my piece. It took 20 years to understand how to write it. ♥️ #writesky #cnf #writing #writingcontest #creativenonfiction
Five Minutes@fiveminutelit.bsky.social · last wk."Taking Care" by @emhall47.bsky.social whose prose appears/is forthcoming in places such as Passages North, 100 Word Story, FlashFlood Journal, Gooseberry Pie Lit, Bending Genres, The Disappointed Housewife, and more. "Taking Care" won our CARE contest, judged by @fionamckay.bsky.social
A contemplative release this Friday— A sleepy winter seaside has messages from ghosts in the sand for Agnes. Check out “Seastrand Beyond” by Anna Clark, now free to read on FFO ✍️ @annaclark.bsky.social #fantasy #writingcommunity #slipstream #amreading flashfictiononline.com/issues/july-...
July 2026 - Flash Fiction Online
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This banger by J.R. Chapple in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💥💥💥 fracturedlit.com/the-vanishin...
The Vanishing Hitchhiker | Fractured
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Shortlisted in the History Prize, "Having Received His Call-Up Papers, Arthur Jenkins Invites You To The Cinema" by @alisonwassell.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
Having Received His Call-Up Papers, Arthur Jenkins Invites You To The Cinema | MattKendrick.co.uk
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reeeally love this one today from Shweta Katiyar ❤️ "Can you call my mother? Can you lie to her? I cannot lie to her anymore. I am not an actor. She will catch the insincerity in my voice—" https://www.havehashad.com/cft6j
Eldest Daughter Seeks Someone To Lie To her Mother. by Shweta Katiyar
Can you call my mother? Can you lie to her? I would do it myself but she knows me inside out—she could have been a detective in another life, the way she used to catch my lies (sometimes still does)…
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Delighted to be back in Fractured Lit (@fracturedlit.bsky.social) with a new micro. Read “The Golden Ray” at the 🔗 below. Big thanks to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for welcoming me back! fracturedlit.com/the-golden-r...
I have a new piece up at @bulbregion.bsky.social Many thanks to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for having me back! I'd love for you to read, "Dimensions." 💙 bulbregion.com/Dimensions-b...
Dimensions, by Kathy Fish — The Bulb Region
Dimensions — Kathy Fish I WANDER THE ROOMS, THOUGH my house has become outsized and...
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