My essay "Two Towns Over" is in the inaugural issue of the journal Thin Places. Check out the entire issue here: thin-places.org/2026/05/13/i...

Had me at “dangle of danger.”

The Shortlist: Back at it after a couple weeks of guest posts. It's a big list, with links to stories by eleven authors: Jon Fain @jonfain.bsky.social , Marcia Yudkin @marciayudkin.bsky.social and Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in Turn & Work (1/3)

NEW SHORT STORY: The Professor doesn’t believe in curses. He’s a reasonable man. He’s also very, very angry at Evan the Asshole. Read "Devil in the Drawer" by Jon Fain @jonfain.bsky.social now:

My 100 word micro published here by a discerning rat pack. Cheers, mates!

Happy to be part of the June Flood again after a few years away on higher ground. Have a micro accepted, "Gone, and All Forgotten," that will be bobbing on the chop.

My micro fiction “Late Show” is part of this issue. Thanks Betty to you and others for including me.

This is the third time my story "From the Deep" has been published (previously 2003, 2020). A timeless tale perhaps about what may or may not be love... thebookendsreview.com/2026/04/03/f...

Here you go then: theairgonautblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/d...

Here's my story in Issue #42 of the excellent journal The Airgonaut. Pleased to be a part of it. heairgonautblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/daddy-larry-bear-has-left-the-building/

"He...wakened almost daily to the fear that time was a dry wind brushing away his youth and his strength, and slept through as many nightmares there were nights to dream." Somehow never knew about Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling until chancing upon a post by @frank212.bsky.social Thanks!

New Story jonahmagazine.com/category/jon...

Federal immigration agents in camo chase landscapers, students, and day laborers through U.S. cities in a deportation campaign, treating neighborhoods like war zones. Ashley Gilbertson for @hammerandhope.bsky.social documents the courage of communities who resist.

My micro fiction "Wisdom Out," is up on the new(ish) site Hawkeye. A 250-worder featuring humor, heartache and family dynamics. Check it out: hawkeyemag.com/stories/wisd...

Many thanks to Cindy Rosmus for taking on my flash piece "White Goods" in Yellow Mama #113: blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/id3

Doesn't look like I'll get any noms this year...so might as well milk last year's Best of the Net one. www.feignlit.com/deck1/theone...

A remembrance of my parents, who later in life decided to buy and attempt to run a country inn in Maine. Thanks to Matt at Atlantic Northeast for taking it on. atlanticnortheastmag.com/wp-content/u...

My flash piece “Doomsday Rock (Three Minutes to Midnight)” has risen from the ashes, reprinted here. Inspired by my “helping” my grandfather as a kid way back when, when he built a fallout shelter on his farm. Many thanks to @bulbculture.bsky.social for the showcase!

My small contribution to Atomic Bomb Literature, "Doomsday Rock (Three Minutes to Midnight)," will explode (again/reborn) tomorrow thanks to @bulbculture.bsky.social !

The words of the prophets were written on the subway walls Tenement halls

Happy birthday to Jack Kirby.

New flash fiction in Reverie Magazine Issue #4, just out: #FlashFiction #ShortStory www.reveriemag.org/issue-4-1/jo...

A Hollywood location manager goes to a place he thought he'd never see again - his hometown - to deal with unpleasant memories and the complex needs of his estranged family. My story "Uprooted," out today in this story collection. www.amazon.com/Running-Pres...

“Indivisible,” a short memoir piece, is part of the new anthology from Universal Table and Wising Up Press, “Living Our Blessings: Aging, Mortality & Gratitude.” The beginning of “Indivisible” is included in the LOOK INSIDE sample. universaltable.org/blank-2/livi...

This is what happens when editors take your shit seriously.

“Indivisible,” a short memoir piece, is part of the new anthology from Universal Table and Wising Up Press, “Living Our Blessings: Aging, Mortality & Gratitude.” The beginning of “Indivisible” is included in the LOOK INSIDE sample. universaltable.org/blank-2/livi...

A matter-of-fact dystopia piece that I can't get out of my head since reading it a few hours ago. Really nice craft from @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social And in one of the best of the OG lit sites still out there doing it.

"You balance loving people and hating people in a really nice way." Good story, Jeff. Nice to see Mr. ChonChon and Mr. BullBull joining forces.

Happy to have brought "Heavily Ever After" to this potluck, a story about a honeymoon meal gone awry in the Italian West Indies, and to host @dryan.bsky.social for giving it a place "at table."

Happy to have brought "Heavily Ever After" to this potluck, a story about a honeymoon meal gone awry in the Italian West Indies, and to host @dryan.bsky.social for giving it a place "at table."

A Hollywood location manager goes to a place he thought he'd never see again - his hometown - to deal with unpleasant memories and the complex needs of his estranged family. My story "Uprooted," out today in this story collection. www.amazon.com/Running-Pres...

New flash fiction in Reverie Magazine Issue #4, just out: #FlashFiction #ShortStory www.reveriemag.org/issue-4-1/jo...

Big thanks to @suddenflash.bsky.social for posting this new 100-worder of mine: #Flashfiction #Microfiction yoursuddenflash.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

A new 100-worder that no one else would touch, thanks to @lowlifelitpress.bsky.social

Yet Another Tiny Tale in Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag, Issue 12. Scroll down to page 12 because it's "Harvest Time" #microfiction #flashfiction moleculetinylitmag.art.blog

A new micro fiction: fiftywordstories.com/2025/03/11/j...

I didn't take a crack at this theme. Here's someone who did and nailed it. Sumptuous Atrocities by Eric Richer punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/s... via @punk_magazine

New Micro Fiction a second appearance in recent months in Suddenly, and Without Warning @sawwflashfiction.bsky.social #flashfiction #microfiction www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com/ripe-old-age/

For the weekenders... a story of a Last Chance Guy. #flashfiction #shortstory www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/tem...

New Story, "Tempus Skewered" #flashfiction #shortstory Check it out: www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/tem...

Have been reading some Joy Williams short stories in "The Visiting Privilege,"; enjoying the skill and craft and brilliance. #shortstory Here's an interview with her from when the collection came out (2015): www.vogue.com/article/joy-...

Many members of the animation community have suffered unimaginable losses due to the LA wildfires – here is how to help displaced individuals in the animation industry. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY SO WE CAN HELP EVERYONE OUT!

"B and E," in Punk Noir Magazine, in a series edited by meproctor.bsky.social. Early readers: "weirdly creepy," "didn't know whether to laugh or cry," and "uplifting!" (a tad tongue-in-cheek, that). Check it out, lovers... #flashfiction #shortfiction punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/b...

Today's Punk Noir Magazine "Break-Up" is called, appropriately "B. and E." and comes courtesy of @jonfain.bsky.social ... punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/b...

Earlier this year, as part of a centenary celebration of William Gaddis's birthday, my short reminiscence of being a writing student of his at Bard College in the late 70s: electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-stud...

And like I always say, I'm a sucker for anyone who publishes my work. Check it out...

Story Contest Winner (May Flash Contest). shooterlitmag.com/2024/05/13/s...

My story, "They Who Stay" made the Best of the Bests list for 2023. All the stories from this year and years previous here: tylerdempseywriting.com/best-of-the-...

The TALES OF THE APOCALYPSE anthology from Three Ravens Press, including my story "All the World Was a Stage" is now available in e-book and paperback. Festive! Also includes a story by sci-fi legend Robert Silverberg. www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-W...

My chapbook of short fiction, "Pass the Panpharmacon! (Five Fictions of Delusion)" is now out from Greying Ghost Press: greyingghost.bigcartel.com/product/fain #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction