"When someone drifts far from shore on a bright yellow or orange float—a shark attractor for sure? The lifeguard tower remains mum. I hold my tongue, too. Not my business." @marciayudkin.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Dad was in Da Nang when I was born, so he wasn’t there pacing, wearing holes in the maternity ward carpeting, making funny faces at the bassinet just beyond his reach. He was loading an M16. He named it after me." @susanisrael.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Venezuela was bombed. We bombed them, I mean. These things don’t just go & happen. I had the feeling because of later events, important events to the story, but no more or less important than that I bombed them, Venezuela I mean." - Fran Kursztejn mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

The number of times I muttered FOR FUCK'S SAKE while reading this... 🤯 #FlashInTheFeed in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

"'Where are our darlings?' we ask, on our knees, patting the ground, groping around in the dark. We’ve eaten your bagels with shmear!" - Mikki Aronoff mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Was Paula part of God’s plan? Or were you following your dick’s plan? Either way, one of you is a massive asshole." - Jeff Burd mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I see a billboard from the church across the street & it says God Will Wash Away All Tears, but between the dusty glass & the little girl in the window, the last word is covered, so it reads all scary-like: no tears, no tears, no tears." - Oliver Cubillos mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"When we both caught the flu (him from his recent trip to Japan, and I from tonguing him for two hours on Sunday night), I found myself on my knees. 'Please, Doc,' I said at the clinic, desperate, 'Tell us we shouldn’t chew these pills.'" - Amanda Lee mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Jug wine never pretends to be something it isn’t, and if you’re drinking it you’re probably past the pretense too. Jug wine is the definition of punk rock." - Samantha Hund mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"They’ll find each other in the dairy aisle & she’ll say, Oh I was looking for you! & he’ll go pull out his massive credit card & massive dick & maybe they’ll have sex right there, in front of the probiotic yogurt & alternative butter." - Audrey Jiggetts mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social Chris Girman in @mrbullbull.bsky.social Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social Christopher Lee Chilton @grnpointer.bsky.social in @susurrusmag.bsky.social ...and one of her own in @hfr.bsky.social

"I was old enough to know shit was going on that my folks wanted to hide from me, but young enough not to care. I had my own secrets." @jdclappwrites.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

"Turning to his patient, and grinning, the paramedic asked: “Perdóneme, un pregunta, Señor: Dañó su cabeza?” (Excuse me, one question, Sir: Did you hurt your head?)" - Dion Dennis @geriscape.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Excited to have a new flash piece in BULL!

"At six, still raining, he walked along the shipyards. Stacks of rusty pots, boats up on stands, messy gravel parking lots. He passed puddles but none big enough to demand his attention. None could hold a crab, much less a ship." @rossmcmeekin.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Big time baseball pitchers pose in mirrors, thinking they’re all sporting fairly large & attractive balls. But baseball is silly. My daddy has a pair of dried-out bull dangles on his truck hitch & I’m not talking stupid rubber impostors." Scott T. Hutchison mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"We had been together for six years before I semi ended things and moved up north. I used the semi because I rarely truly close a chapter. I usually leave a hope, a possibility, a kindle before I am never seen again." - Andre mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"You can kill everything in the game, an entire universe of things to murder & the few things that you can’t kill, you can bring to life with cheat codes & then kill. Intense violence, blood & gore, Graphic Depictions of Harm has it all." - Charley Paxos mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"A man shouldn’t have to apologize for the smell of his own equipment or for what he tried to do to stay in shape." - Gary James Erwin mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"It’s not the light that causes me pain. It’s the darkness. I can hardly step out in the sun at all anymore, let alone stare at it. Cancer. The sun hates us, you know." @kploughrin.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

The next interview in my interview series with @mrbullbull.bsky.social is with the super talented, @richlange.bsky.social If you never read Richard GET on that!! Link below mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

New piece up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social. "Dog" Thanks to @thedrevlow.bsky.social and Co. for the opportunity!

(...2/2) Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in Cutleaf Journal David Scott Hay in @xraylitmag.bsky.social Hugh Behm-Steinberg @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social in BULL @mrbullbull.bsky.social Christina Tudor @christinaltudor.bsky.social in CRAFT

New BULL interview from @frank212.bsky.social

"If you’re going to be a serious writer, you MUST read widely outside your genre. Classics, the ancient Greeks, poetry, experimental stuff. Everything, all the time. That way you’re not just regurgitating what other writers in your lane are doing." -Richard Lange mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

"If you’re going to be a serious writer, you MUST read widely outside your genre. Classics, the ancient Greeks, poetry, experimental stuff. Everything, all the time. That way you’re not just regurgitating what other writers in your lane are doing." -Richard Lange mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

New BULL Interview from @frank212.bsky.social

"Easier to be chosen than to choose. Jenni knows this. She pulls us through the day on an invisible leash—her grandmother’s birthday, a trailer park, a couch that looks like an orange muppet—until there’s no edges left." - Chris Dodds @liquid-chicken.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"My life involves precision. Observation. Balance. Not everyone can keep it up. That’s why they falter. Because they glimpse the truth. That everything they call leisure is, in fact, duty. To live well is to work without end." - Caroline Giudice mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"Like my first public memory, which is probably of The Challenger exploding and not of the time that I saw Lindsay Farr’s vagina in eighth grade, which was public but not the sort of thing that probably qualifies as 'public writ large'" - Andrew Bertaina mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

"At your second one-year cake, you lamented the suffering you had put everyone through, but boy, had you not even started yet." - Jade McGregor mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"It’s none of her damn business, but it’s nice she’s acting like a mother. Annoying but normal-annoying. Better than her crying alone on the couch, like a decaying potato, oozing in the darkness." - Liz deBeer mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"If life had a reset button, I wish my father had beat the hell out of me." @edmond-pang.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I was ready to negotiate with terrorists. Or at least my boyfriend." @tlkncrt.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Her face glowing the ruby of the cabernet and with shame—the shame of asking, worrying about her seam, but too afraid to touch it. What if it has dried up? With a few more lessons on seduction, could it be a desert gulch in a flash flood?" - Kristen Reece mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I held my violet fingernails up to my stubble and rhinestone stud earrings and said, I’m not exactly what most people have in mind when they hear positive male role model." - Brooks Egerton mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Hey all, please consider helping out @frank212.bsky.social as he's going through a lot of health stuff without insurance. And please spread the word. www.gofundme.com/f/help-frank...

“We weren’t right together,” he said. “She was always telling me I should be with a man, instead.” “She thought you weren’t into women?’ “She thought no man could feel real love for a woman.” - Devika Kaul mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

John Brantingham may no longer be with us, but his #microfiction will stay with us forever. #FlashInTheFeed from @mrbullbull.bsky.social

"When Craig dies he's sentenced to come back to earth as a roll of toilet paper. Plenty of time to review his previous acts, searching for the one shameful moment that placed him on the shelf packed tightly with his seven siblings." @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

For today's story: this one about basketball and what we owe our siblings from @mrbullbull.bsky.social

"Clare watches a man on YouTube play guitar and sing to animals, and they come to him and cuddle him, and her mother tells her it’s a bunch of AI nonsense, and her brother tells her she’s being a girl again, which to him is an insult." - John Brantingham mrbullbull.com/newbull/micr...

"I was skint, sometimes stole the pigeons’ bread, but always a crumb for me, a crumb for them. Whatever else my mum got wrong, she taught me to share." #FlashInTheFeed by @quickasaflash.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Here I am tonight on the Mexican side of town full now with Hondurans and Salvadorans, shabby streets and houses bursting with Latin American men who for some reason, sometimes, notice me." - Chris Girman mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

“'Dad says that if PSOs catch ya, they’ll kick your head in,'” says Shauny. I don’t want my head kicked in. I run." - Ester Reato mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I sit & listen to the sounds of lives clinging to the last bit of dignity they have to offer before they end up little shoe boxes full of ashes no one claims. In life alone. In death, the fading ink on a piece of tape stuck on a frayed box." @frank212.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...

In today's Friday Five Q&A, I talk with @thedrevlow.bsky.social about his new book, "Trash Poems for Trash People," his role as @mrbullbull.bsky.social EIC, and the writers who most influence him. andrewcareaga.com/2026/05/08/f... #WritingCommunity

"Andy hides in the igloo the kids had built from snow up to their waists. He sees cars sliding, parents picking up children. But not his. He hears excited voices. 20 inches already! Traffic jammed… phone lines down. Now everyone’s gone." @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Have you ever noticed when someone wants to sound smart, they’ll start out with, it’s worth noting…? Well, it’s worth noting that my door’s always open, by which I mean it’s never closed, leaving me vulnerable to all manner of incursion." - Kevin Chesser mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...