Two more fabulous workshops to whet your festival appetite. Go deep in different ways with @stephaniecarty.bsky.social & @susmitab.bsky.social More details and book at flashfictionfestival.com
Stephanie Carty
@stephaniecarty.bsky.social
Fond of creativity, pyjamas and kindness.
'We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.' -Ursula K. Le Guin 🎨Arthur Rackham #BookWormSat
very surprised and grateful to see this little story win the 2025 new flash fiction review prize! the whole @nffr.bsky.social issue is phenomenal and i’m so glad to be in such good company 🥰 newflashfiction.com/body-as-a-si...
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Books bought with the money I’ve made from selling my first pieces of art ✨
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
Would you like to have a cry? Yes. Yes you would. Read this @trampset.bsky.social piece by Oladosu Michael Emerald. It's 230 words. You will be grateful you took 3 minutes out of your day, I promise. trampset.org/reasons-to-s...
Reasons to Stay Alive When the World Burns
by Oladosu Michael Emerald
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Jus finished @debdanthewriter.bsky.social In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit - winner of @bathflashaward.bsky.social Novella-in Flash award. Wonderful voice. Broke my heart quietly.
So pleased to share my new novella in flash out for pre-order with AdHocFiction. 3 women’s lives intertwine can unscrupulous adoption agency.
bathflashaward.bsky.social@bathflashaward.bsky.social · last yr.Spin of the Triangle by Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social runner-up in our 2025 novella in flash award is now up for preorder at AdHocFiction.com at a 25% discount until publication day on July 6th Another wonderful read! Launched at flashfictionfestival.com
Want to go shadowy with your #flashfiction stories? @stephaniecarty.bsky.social & @susmitab.bsky.social are leading workshops on darker themes at the flashfiction festival 18-20th July! Flashfictionfestival.co
Down the Red Rabbit Hole talking about sleep disorders, the brain and fiction… shows.acast.com/the-red-rabb...
Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬
99p on kindle for 5 days! My slightly creepy suspense novel about a girl who nobody knows exists amzn.eu/d/81PMan9 A SAFE PLACE
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Etymology of the day: in the expression ‘just deserts’, ‘deserts’ is an old past participle of the French ‘deservir’, meaning ‘deserve’. To get your just deserts is to get what you deserve. ‘Desert’ in this sense is obsolete, which is why lexicographers see ‘just desserts’ popping up everywhere.
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‘Rhythm’ has two h’s and no vowels. Just remember: Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move Rhythm is also a dancer and a soul’s companion.
Want to know how to forge a Great Master and get away with it? Then read THE LAST LETTERS OF VILLA CLARA. She’s out today in paperback in all the usual places. @headlinebooks.bsky.social @sheilland.bsky.social #1960s #art #tuscany #london #vermeer #historicalfiction #publicationday
My little sleeping beauty / wolf flash reprint with Trash Cat Lit 🐺
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 2y agoSPRING ISSUE HIGHLIGHT Today's highlight is from @stephaniecarty.bsky.social with the gorgeous reimagining of a classic fairy tale that manages to feel very modern. We loved the powerful imagery here, the tension. Our reader, Sarah simply said "Stunning. Exquisite" 💜 trashcatlit.com/waking-beauty/
Hurray I’m in Issue 3 of Trash Cat Lit with a reprint 🐺 Some bedtime reading…
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 2y agoIT'S BIN DAY! Our Spring Issue is now live with fifteen amazing preloved stories for your reading pleasure 🦝 Audio versions are available for several. We hope you love this packed issue as much as we do. trashcatlit.com/issue-three/ Thank you @sarahkat.bsky.social for reading & contributing 💜 1/3
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For too long, my wheelchair reminded me of what I’d lost. Then I saw it as liberating
When my rheumatoid arthritis became more aggressive, I clung to the idea of still being a ‘walking person’. Letting go of that gave me more freedom than I could have imagined
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A triple tease for Issue 3 🦝 @emilyrinkema.bsky.social delivers a complex, heart-breaking journey of loss in Grace, @markpeters.bsky.social takes us somewhere children’s dreams become all too real in Last Rites of Spring, and @stephaniecarty.bsky.social reimagines a lupine fairytale in Waking Beauty
A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat
Normalize celebrating the official completion of absolutely un-commercially viable novels.
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Final day to submit. You have till 23:59 GMT today (Saturday 15 Feb) to submit to Micro Fiction Comp (100 words, no theme) & our anthology (500 words, theme of SEASONS). Cash prizes! Huge thanks to everyone who has subbed. Good luck! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
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Human: I’ll have two desk chairs in my room so if a cat sits on one I can wheel over the other Cats:
