Friends, WHAT a day. I have two CNF pieces out today in The Sandy River Review. They’re both about my dear friend Jessica who passed 18 months ago. I’d love it if you gave them a read 🧡🙏🏾💔 sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/h... sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/s...

ICYMI: Not all broken hearts are romantic 💔 @brokenheartslit.bsky.social brokenheartsliterary.com/2026-heartbr...

“the Great Evacuation” is what I will now be calling menstruation and hysterectomies.

Wednesday means the latest heartache is out. Thanks to @tomljanovic.bsky.social for sharing a writer's group breakup. brokenheartsliterary.com/2026-heartbr... We are open for submissions and need more of your broken hearts to share! See sub guidelines below ⬇️

Congrats to this Queen of raw words!

"A few scrapes and a minor case of claustrophobia are better than eating my lunch on the toilet again or streaming Yellowjackets with my parents on a Friday night. " Check out this fabulous tale by @tomljanovic.bsky.social !!

@epistemiclit.bsky.social Thanks for the share 🥰

ICYMI “The Cheese Grater scrapes my bare arms and legs. I squeeze through the limestone crevice and my skin goose pimples.” Read “Cave Party” short-edition.com/en/story/sho...

Your podcast pal and mine @dankmccoy.bsky.social on @mcsweeneys.net She rear-ended his car as he left the wake. She didn’t have insurance because “‘Preparing’ is just another word for closing off possibilities,” but she paid him back with a coupon book, good for a hundred New Experiences.

New micro up in @theprideroars.bsky.social "I lost my patience and vomited words so bitter they cut through you like knives" theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/06/im-s...

My heart ached along with my teeth imagining an ice cream headache—“I want my father to be proud of my social skills, of which I have none. So I am learning to fake them. It’s not going so well.”

The rhythm in this with the stops and starts and urgency is exquisite. Incredible take on dementia through jazz.

“Cave Party” is in short story dispensers in Hong Kong, Seattle, Quebec City, LA, San Diego, Sheffield, Monaghan, Boston, and Williamsburg, and online short-edition.com/en/story/sho...

Got an acceptance from the resurrected @ellipsiszine.bsky.social. Thanks, Steve!

Milk Drunk by T.L. Tomljanovic @tomljanovic.bsky.social rawlit.weebly.com/issue3_7.html Van Diemen’s Land by Oliver Kleyer @funnyfrogget.bsky.social rawlit.weebly.com/6_8.html 🧵2/2

Fear of the dark or confined spaces? Don’t read Cave Party short-edition.com/en/story/sho...

We are live! rawlit.weebly.com/issue9.html Contributors 1/3 Michael Anthony @mj-anthony.bsky.social Linda M Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social Wendy Dossett @wedossett.bsky.social LM Fontanes @lorifontanes.bsky.social Terry Holland @terryholland.bsky.social

How mesmerizing is the new cover of Raw Lit? Reminds me of the type of work I saw in Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.

Excited to be in @mrbullbull.bsky.social with this flash piece. Everyone has an origin story. Everyone has a moment that's marked them forever. This is Stevie's. What's yours? #WritingCommunity #astronaut

What about this slice of heaven?

Had such fun choosing 10 flash for @mattkendrick.bsky.social #Mondettes. In honour of summer & playing hooky, I've chosen #games as my theme. Shout out to @erinvachon.bsky.social for sending me down this theme with their prompts for @smokelong.bsky.social Bonus: 3 witing prompts!

Another beauty by @tomljanovic.bsky.social

I’m a witch too and I cackled at the last line.

Yay! I won Commuter Lit's 2026 flash contest! Nice news to wake up to ☺️ This is a reprint of "To My American Daughter-In-Law" which originally ran in The Sunlight Press a few years ago. (oh yuck, I hate that the preview makes my face so huge!)

All replies have been sent for our prose/poetry submission call. Please remember to check your spam/junk folders if you're expecting a reply from us. Thank you all for sharing your work with us. Our art subs remain open this weekend. rawlit.weebly.com/submissions....

Huge congratulations to our very own @joycebingham.bsky.social Hear her Roar www.shorelineofinfinity.com/cymera-festi...

"Think of cherry smoke curling and crawling in white tendrils from a skinny chimney as a fat trout sizzles and spits—tonight’s dinner" Great evocation of the sensory & wonderful use of anaphora from @tomljanovic.bsky.social Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world

Made the wall!

And that’s a wrap! Happy #NationalFlashFictionDay word nerds and sloppy kisses to the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social team for bringing us together in a glorious and overwhelming deluge of storytelling. #NFFD2026

Dinomums are the best kind of mum 🦖🦕

This story by @judehwriter2.bsky.social makes me want to cry too.

Buttercup is the only name I will accept as a cow protagonist from the funny @sagreene1.bsky.social

'Strain the mixture over rocks, till you’re all poured out. Garnish with a lime wheel - just for you, just because.' Small, but perfectly formed must-read from the awesomely talented @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Delighted to ride the waves of #FlashFlood 🌊 🏄‍♂️ with my story from @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness "Signs it is time for a self-clean cycle: buildup of grease, odors and heavy emotional residue... avoiding special occasions such as wedding anniversaries is recommended."

No one does “voice” quite like @lumchanmfa.bsky.social. And have you heard her play the ukulele?

I’m adding “fat water years” to my lexicon.

Wonst thou loosen my corset before I faint from merriment?

This tiny micro packs a punch

Thanks to the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social editors for publishing “Lifetime.” Psyched to be in the flood! 🙏 🌊

✨A new teaser/trailer has arrived!✨ The final episode of the series is coming soon! Episode 9: Hoisting Anchors from ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ New episodes are released on the 15th of every month. 🕰️ youtube.com/shorts/IZeXe... #thetimepiratewhowaitsashore

Read @lmbayley.bsky.social nostalgic piece

Read @shrutidhora.bsky.social

Love this one by @tomljanovic.bsky.social #nffd2026

Love this sensual piece by @tomljanovic.bsky.social with perfectly placed details!!

@tomljanovic.bsky.social engages the senses in such a palpable way. #nffd2026

“Think of cherry smoke curling and crawling in white tendrils from a skinny chimney” Wonderful sensory details and a relationship to pizza and coffee I never would’ve made by @tomljanovic.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social

Call to artists rawlit.weebly.com/submissions....

"A chicken takes my order. Clucks as she hunts and pecks the right keys. Bock-bock-bock" Wonderful slice of surrealism from @chelseastickle.bsky.social

So excited to read all the stories in this year's flood! Here's mine!