I’ve been keeping this secret for MONTHS and now I can finally scream about it: I’VE GOT A FLASH CHAPBOOK COMING OUT!!!! it’s called Lies I Tell My Children and it has an amazing cover!! order it from Bottlecap Press: bottlecap.press/products/lie...
Wigleaf
@wigleaf.bsky.social
Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
Reposted this yesterday without reading the list — and omg omg I have a story on there! Thank you so much, @wigleaf.bsky.social & @andrewporter01.bsky.social! Amazing.
Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · last mo.Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷
thanks to Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social for picking some of our stories ! congrats to the authors ! wigleaf.com
Congratulations to everyone on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50, and on the long list. My timeline has been a gorgeous stream of sharing and celebration - just like the old days! Looking forward to catching up with these powerhouse flashes
Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · last mo.Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷
Thank you @hexliterary.bsky.social for publishing "Volcano People" and thanks so much @wigleaf.bsky.social and @andrewporter01.bsky.social for selecting it for Wigleaf Top 50! 🥰🌋
Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · last mo.Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷
Thrilled to have a story selected for the Wigleaf Top 50! Thank you to the whole @wigleaf.bsky.social team and especially to guest editor @andrewporter01.bsky.social 🥰 Huge thanks to @thesunlightpress.bsky.social ❤️ where my story first appeared! #flashlit #flash #shortstories
Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · last mo.Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷
Honored to have a story selected for The Wigleaf Top 50! 🥰 Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social and @havehashad.com for publishing the story, “Small, Ambiguous Moments,” and thanks to the entire @wigleaf.bsky.social team and Guest Selecting Editor @andrewporter01.bsky.social
Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · last mo.Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷
this is my first time ever being selected for the Wigleaf Top 50! so thrilled & delighted. thank you to @sudhab.bsky.social, Scott Garson + the @wigleaf.bsky.social team, @andrewporter01.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, & @havehashad.com 💀 🪦 🤍
Honored to have a story on this year's @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50. And thanks to Monkeybicycle for giving it a good home. Congrats to everyone on the Top 50 and longlist as well 💙
Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · last mo.Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷
the Wigleaf Top 50 is out! it's always a joy reading for this and always a struggle to pick favorites to nominate when there are so many great stories out there. congratulations to the winners and everyone who made the long list! you don't make it easy, that's for sure
w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
wigleaf.com
Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷
w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
wigleaf.com
“It becomes clear that the police dog is unhappy with his career, although he does not say so directly.” Love these two from Jenna Tyrrell in @wigleaf.bsky.social!
Wigleaf@wigleaf.bsky.social · 2mo agonew new: Last of season! TWO MICROS, first-published fiction by Jenna Tyrrell 🙌 : wigleaf.com
Announcing….. our 2026 Mythic Picnic fiction winner 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟(read this story if you haven’t yet!)
new new: Last of season! TWO MICROS, first-published fiction by Jenna Tyrrell 🙌 : wigleaf.com
w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
wigleaf.com
Tomorrow, our last-of-season goes up. Until then: revisit these top-shelf postcards, all finalists for the 2025/26 Mythic Picnic Postcard Prize 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Here are our Finalists for the 2025/26 Mythic Picnic Prize in Fiction 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Winner ($400 purse) will be announced soon. IN THE MEANTIME: read or revisit these crazy-good fictions, and join us in thanking MP for their generous sponsorship.
‘We can't wait to tell everyone how soft and warm and white it is.’ Three absolute beauties from @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social in @wigleaf.bsky.social - knockout after knockout 🍁
Wigleaf@wigleaf.bsky.social · 2mo agonew new: THREE MICROS, by Jeffrey Hermann: wigleaf.com @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social
“Are we really doing this? I start to wonder.” @jamybond.bsky.social in @wigleaf.bsky.social wigleaf.com/202605owen.htm
Bond: 'Owen'
Work by Jamy Bond
wigleaf.com
new new: "Lovingkindness," by David Lerner Schwartz: wigleaf.com
w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
wigleaf.com
“This story's hair looked nice today, but no one said.” “This story is texting someone it loved in the middle of the night.” “This story is sitting alone in the dark, practicing Japanese…” this story, day for night, night as day, by Cathy Ulrich in @wigleaf.bsky.social wigleaf.com/202603eating...
"A civilization grew out of my eye. Their written language a divine loneliness." When it comes to surrealist microfiction, there's not many doing it like @ezhang77.bsky.social! We are so stoked to have Elena back in hex with another dream, at once brief and vast. Go read "Civilization" on the site!
Civilization by Elena Zhang
A civilization grew out of my eye. Their written language a divine loneliness. And they named constellations from my eyelashes and worshipped gravity, constructing a monument in the constriction of my...
hexliterary.com