Love what @jaimegill.bsky.social does here with strike-outs (of the language, not baseball kind). @freeflashfiction.bsky.social freeflashfiction.com/fiction/note...

Notes For A Eulogy - Free Flash Fiction

*****Henry Eric Jameson Rowley: 1955—2024. *****Loved innuendo, so may have died age 69 intentionally. (Pause for laughter). *****Famous actor, famously generous friend, infamously extravagant party h...

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“My name is ancient, like my magic, like the core of the earth, like faith.” How @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social finds these extraordinary Saints to write about so gorgeously. Find a copy of @blackwarriorreview.bsky.social and check this story out.

Oh no! Door Is A Jar @doorisajarmag.bsky.social is shutting its doors. Issue 40 is its final issue. Thank you for all your care and hard work for eleven years!

I held my breath in suspense in this story by @lindamaceri.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social and then she knocked me out with the ending. www.vestalreview.net/my-mother-lo... #flashfiction #archivechallenge

My Mother Loves to Tell the Story about the Time She Almost Lost Me at the Movies — Vestal Review

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"I'm still sorry about the time I slammed the tennis ball so hard that my big sister skidded..." This stunning little piece from @andreamarcusa.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social gets right at the heart of sisterly competitiveness. #flashfiction #archivechallenge

My first ekphrastic story is out in @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social! It’s about a surgeon who has an artist-complex along with his God-complex. www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...

The Constructivist, by Elizabeth Rosen

​The Constructivist   Drifting through the gallery of European avante-guard statues, Wassily thought how, in another life, he might have been an artist instead of a surgeon. It was a matter of...

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“Chad and I started live-streaming our fights after we found out insurance only covered twenty percent of our daughter’s orthodontic bill.” @emilyrinkema.bsky.social does it again in Hawkeye. hawkeyemag.com/stories/rink...

Fight Night

Chad and I started live-streaming our fights after we found out insurance only covered twenty percent of our daughter’s orthodontic bill. Live-streaming was his idea, said he read about a site where p...

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“…she sees that she’s right: Dave Michoybin is making his way slowly and painfully across the field, dragging his dog, Millie, behind him.” Many thanks to Portrait of New England. It’s exactly the right spot for this melancholy story. portraitne.com/wp-content/u...

Thanks to @newworldwriting.bsky.social for giving my chickens a coop!! newworldwriting.net/elizabeth-ro...

Y’all, this gem by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social is so good. Had me in tears. Get you a copy!

I'm becoming a sentimental fool in my old age. This favorite of mine has been given a home by The Los Angeles Review and I'm so grateful. losangelesreview.org/the-aggregat... #carlsagan #wonderstories #shortfiction

The Aggregate of Our Joy by Elizabeth Rosen - The Los Angeles Review

We weren’t surprised when we got the call from the guidance counselor at Avery’s middle school. We’d anticipated it ever since Avery began speaking in Carl Sagan quotes. It didn’t take a fortune telle...

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Second life for this tale of terror. Many thanks to Wayne Spitzer for it.

Youch. Such a good one from @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2026/07/11/h...

Hellcat, They Call You—James Montgomery

Clear your mind. Light the tallow. As your infant mewls from his nest of rags, shrink from his hunger; how the skin has tightened to the skull, its frame as slight as a sparrow’s. Continue reading&…

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Enjoying Shabbat Girl Dinner with @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social

Oh, yeah, baby! This’ll be great to read tonight as the thunderstorm comes through. @travisflatt.bsky.social

Friday’s mail excitement!! Going to read this beautiful little chapbook by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social so fast it won’t know what hit it!

Here’s my beautiful book haul from @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writers Camp last month @tmcallister.bsky.social @housleydave.bsky.social @poeticmoni.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social @danieldifranco.bsky.social Diana Smith Bolton Emily Kiernan

So nice to see my chapbook, Ghost in the Rain, in this chapbook roundup with phenomenal writers @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social and @travisflatt.bsky.social too! ✨✨✨

Philly Chapbook Review@phillychapbook.bsky.social · 4w ago

Check out our round-up of #prose #chapbooks published in June 2026 by @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social, @ikeproject.bsky.social, @yesyesbooks.bsky.social & Bottlecap Press. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/prose-chapbo...

Do you think they know we are secretly making them the coolest coffee shop around? @seanennis.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social

Survival Skills by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social is a perfect little collection, no notes. www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/elizab... — the launch party was was 🔥, @turnandwork.com did a really lovely write up. It was an honor to be included! www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/elizab...

Survival Skills - Elizabeth Rosen 4.25 x 5.5 — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS

In  Survival Skills , Elizabeth Rosen’s richly varied chapbook of flash fiction and short stories, characters push and pull against each other, flee, and do whatever it takes to get by. Two ...

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Head’s up! New blog entry from @mattjakubowski.bsky.social 👇 mattjakubowski.com

And you can see why this story from @marioaliberto3.bsky.social won the Masters Review contest. mastersreview.com/flash-challe...

Love this little emphatic gem by Barbara Krasner in Flash the Court! flashthecourt.com/2026/06/12/w...

“White” by Barbara Krasner

In “White,” an enigmatic microfiction by Barbara Krasner, the mystery of the artwork mirrors the mystery of the narrative. Who is the mystery man, and why does he do what he does? The resolution of…

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"We had been dreaming all night of The Town. Of walking down its unruined lanes and peering into its clean windows." What an absurd and profound story by Lauren Schenkman in Sand Journal. sandjournal.com/the-town-mon...

“If you push the bathmat into exactly the right position everything for the next hour or so should be okay.” Oof, @mattjakubowski.bsky.social What a way to start the week. @claudineliterary.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.com/matthewjakub...

Matthew Jakubowski | Reprieve

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So I did a thing two weekends ago and went to my first @barrelhouse.bsky.social camp. I did not come home empty-handed. @mattjakubowski.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @housleydave.bsky.social #supportfellowwriters

“I lost because I talked too much, followed you everywhere, loved you out loud.” @tracieadams.bsky.social is so good at making me wince. heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/countin...

Counting to Eight and Other Childhood Games By Tracie Adams

Warren LeMay   CC Counting to Eight and Other Childhood Games You held me underwater in a pool at a roadside motel. As I kicked and clawed against your palm, I heard you counting—one, two, three....

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