🚨The 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction contest is now open!! flash-frog.com/submit/

“But we all know what Alice means when Alice switches words and Alice meant Monster.” Wonderfully creative story by @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute that teeters on the edge of surreal, but possibly not.

Sharpen those pencils, humans. Claudine opens back up Jan 1! Get ready to send her something curious, clever. . . and quick. 💚🐈‍⬛💚 As always: free to sub, paying market.

HAHAHAHA pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30101594/

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

When Jami gave me a heads-up on Christmas Eve I thought this was a scam. Super thankful for this first review (and for this not being a scam)!

Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (Opening line of ''The Desecration of City Hall,'' which you can read here: medium.com/after-the-st...)

Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family

Small business Saturday, you say? Consider supporting FIYAH as we approach year ten of publishing Black SFF stories and poetry! Back issues, art, gift subscriptions, merch, and more! Tell a friend, you never know who is missing out 🔥🔥🔥 fiyahlitmag.com/shop/

Reached Part 3 in A Brief History of Seven Killings, ran my (trail) 5km record, added a few pages to the novel, made a friend a knife bookmark Productive week!

The mountains are calling — and so are we. Submit your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and translation Nov. 1–30 for Issue 78: Aftercare. Writers & artists, we’re ready for your brilliance. ✨ #literarymagazine #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #shortstory #callforsubmissions #submityourwork

We put a photo of Bula on her cat tree so that people who knew her from the sidewalk would know she's gone. But now the picture frame has become the thing that most frequently catches the corner of my vision when I'm unprepared and briefly makes me think she's there, kicking off realization again.

How should I bring pizza to a potluck? Loose foil? With paper towels to reduce sogginess? Google AI: You should bring it ice cold on a slab of ice filled with marbles

This keeps on getting worse and worse. I am not renewing my print subscriptions to F&SF and Asimov's. (F&SF seems to still be on hiatus, the last issue I got was 1.5 years ago? Summer 2024? So crushing, I really liked it, Sheree's a truly great editor)

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Heads up! We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

Me and Keke have the same vibe today. Chillin in our boxes, I mean house.

Sleepy literary critic

die im Schatten, die im Licht

I always thought if I ever owned a house I’d make us “the book house” each Halloween. Getting all the chapter books, MG reads, and YA (we had a lot of teens last year, and yes, teenagers are kids don’t be jerks to them on Halloween) sorted for tomorrow! 250 giveaway books! But also candy.

Had an idea for a last-minute Halloween costume. Is this anything? #SoRandomHouse

The roulette issue of @ettereview.bsky.social is out! I'm in love with ette's design for this issue and Beth's illustration for "Landlines." Huge thanks to Nora and Beth for including my work. ettereview.com/fall2025/

Made a Zoey (Kpop Demon Hunters) costume for Halloween from a secondhand hoodie & fabric scraps No one recognised it aaa

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"ELEVATED HORROR" DIRECTOR SEEING ANY WOMAN OVER THE AGE OF 45: ahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AIEEEE!!!! AAAuuUGHHHH!H! OUGHGHGHGGHHGHGHGGHHG

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Came home to a brown line drawn through the house. Followed it with disinfectant & cloths til it ended, ominously, by my bed. Changed the linens and cleaned the other rooms but still didn't find cat poop. Does this count as a cozy mystery

Can’t believe this is out there now, but so it goes. Look, do I regret the tattoo? Sure. Especially the spelling errors (lol.) Do I agree with it anymore? Absolutely not In fact I’m getting it covered up with some ink blot work this week

I need a poster for a scripted podcast made, please reply with portfolios!!!!

New poem in Cream City Review alongside the work of so many extraordinary talents! I’m super excited by this one, which is also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with Trio House Press in February 2026! 💙💜 @creamcityreview.bsky.social @triohousepress.org

2025 Press Freedom Rank 1 Norway 2 Estonia 3 Netherlands 4 Sweden 5 Finland 11 Germany 16 NZ 20 UK 21 Canada 25 France 27 S Africa 29 Australia 31 Poland 49 Italy 52 Ghana 57 US 58 Gambia 61 S Korea 63 Brazil 66 Japan 89 Greece 112 Israel 124 Mexico 151 India 171 Russia 178 China rsf.org/en/index

Researching Malcolm Lowry in Oaxaca & discovered this gem from the 1991 Washington Post: “Some of Lowry’s poems from Mexico give one a sense of what sort of trip he was having: “In the Oaxaca Jail;” “Delirium in Veracruz”; “Thirty-Five Mezcals in Cuautla;” “Eye-Opener” & “Sestina in a Cantina”

Trying an Star Wars opening sequence angle for the other @the-ethelzine.bsky.social bookmail Just a beautifully made chapbook

I keep forgetting that English people add a phoenetic 'r' where there's a vowel. That's why I didn't get that name 'Shaun the Sheep' was a pun for a good 10 years.

Sad to hear that the indie bookshop by my aunt's place is going out of business even though the owner's response when asked for novel recommendations is "[incredulous snort] You think I've read all the books here?"

The state of AI explained in one image.

Thank you @100wordstory.bsky.social for choosing my entry as winner for the photo story for the month of April 🥤 #100words #flashfiction #writingcommunity 100wordstory.org/photo-story-...

Bookmail! Reading this beautiful thing from @suzyeynon.bsky.social first 💜🌿 (Re-upload with alt text)

Upcoming submission call! Theme "LUCK" In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th. Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry" guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

Und dein Inhaltsverzeichnis klingt schon wie ein Gedicht 💖 Savouring your poems slowly, loving each.

Lichtspiele, Marienseide und (ganz klein im Hintergrund) eine Niströhre für den Steinkauz

Goldfinches love the forget-me-not seeds.

Three weeks to go!

Was teaching a class the other day about the technical aspects of LLMs when I student said AI understands them more than their boyfriend and oh man did we spend the next hour discussing what the word “understand” means! (Also boyfriend better get it together)

I feel truly honoured to have been chosen to design this year’s Radical Book Fair poster hosted by Edinburgh’s Lighthouse Bookshop 🖤📖 I’m so happy with how this turned out and I can’t wait for the event 📚

Gouda is lovely The punishment for not getting cheese in Gouda is being crammed into a train that smells like armpit cheese

Applications are OPEN! Split Lip Magazine is looking for volunteer Flash & Fiction readers. Apply right here before October 1! buff.ly/X3932x5

Submissions open. From the good folks at @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social submissions.strangepilgrims.com

火護鹿 from Lienchiang (Matsu) — a Formosan sika #deer, an endemic species that was once raised as livestock and now allowed to roam free on Taiwanese islands like Dajiao