We are THRILLED to announce our ✨Best Small Fictions Nominations✨ Lots of love to @sashabrown.bsky.social, JR Fenn, John Jodzio, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Neeru Nagarajan buff.ly/2zs2H2a

"We did not mean for this to happen. The boy, bleeding on Marie’s carpet." ✨ Check out @skyskkyy.bsky.social's flash piece MARIE, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL in our new DECEMBER ISSUE: buff.ly/L7ZHC72

Absolutely love the dark, uncanny world that @skyskkyy.bsky.social creates in MARIE, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL. Such an honor and joy to get to edit this piece! splitlipthemag.com/flash/1225/s...

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Cozy up with our DECEMBER ISSUE. 🎁 WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson. ART by Eric Calloway. PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social. buff.ly/xfJzbi6

The smallest girl who ever lived. Read "The Smallest Girl Who Ever Lived," by Skylar Melnick @skyskkyy.bsky.social in issue 67. vestalreview.net/the-smallest-girl-who-ever-lived Art by Jinghong Chen.

“That white ball has bounced into the sky, full as an eye socket. Do you know what a full moon means? my sister asks. Means transformation, she says, like mermaids becoming girls and girls becoming mermaids.” @skyskkyy.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social www.vestalreview.net/the-smallest...

Our winter 2025 issue is here! vestalreview.net/issue-67 We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +

something new - your M7 Friday Five five albums, five stories (one fav!) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

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““Am I dead? I ask her. How should I know?”” Skyler Melnick for @hexliterary.bsky.social hexliterary.com?p=2579

♥️ so very excited to be a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow ♥️

Where we go wrong is Rebecca. She really wants it, to be rabbit with us. She’s someone’s little sister, but no one trusts her, because she has breasts already. And she’s proud of them, which disgusts us. Read this fabulous story by @skyskkyy.bsky.social at bendinggenres.com/when-we-were... 💚

Story in @bendinggenres.bsky.social 🌱 "We prefer being rabbit to being girls. When we’re rabbit, we can do anything." bendinggenres.com/when-we-were...

Story in Epiphany 🌱 epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

Had a magical magical time at Yaddo ✨

💕 @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social @havehashad.com

Story in Fairy Tale Review 💗🌸🔪

this piece by @skyskkyy.bsky.social is rad and it's right in that space between lit fic and spec that I like so much

“i will not be afraid. i will do what i am set to do and nothing else. i will not be afraid. ever again. i will not be afraid. i will not be afraid. i will not.”

who are five writers that made u? Shirley Jackson Leonora Carrington Muriel Spark Edward Gorey Kurt Vonnegut

@skyskkyy.bsky.social is on FIRE

Story in Wigleaf ✨ wigleaf.com/202503teeth....

"Gerta lost her mother in the fifth grade and became a horse for a year." — Skyler Melnick I wanna give you more — the whole thing is so, so good; every sentence perfect and a marvel — but if that doesn't grab you, I don't know what to say. https://www.havehashad.com/88t4b

my favorite genres: 1. Something bad is going to happen 2. This house is falling apart 3. we are sisters with secrets 4. mother do u love me 5. my trauma is following me

"The line takes forever, but finally it’s my turn." This week's story is much-needed! Grief by way of humor, dancing, friendship. This wonderful new @skyskkyy.bsky.social piece strikes at the heart of something so real. "It Smells Like Dead Girls in Here," up now! ⚰️🪩👇

DELIGHTFUL

"Mother is mildewing. She has been for a while now. Ever since I can remember, really. White-gray splotches sliding up her hands like gloves." Hunger Mountain, issue 31 hungermtn.netlify.app/issues/hunge...

shoutout to @skyskkyy.bsky.social for making the list with her amazing story, "Two Girls"! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/two...

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Read "Let Her Out" written by Skyler Melnick and illustrated by Brett J. Barr. "We don’t let the cat out anymore because she kills everything. Piles birds in the kitchen; mice in the cupboards; squirrels in the bathtub." tinyurl.com/3mpmzvur

this Skyler Melnick story was the first I accepted during my big newbie call last month. has the kind of sentences and language that just light me up and make me feel like I'm glowing. I think it will be a new fave for at least a handful of you. https://www.havehashad.com/0nmxl

*OKD Best Small Fictions Nominee* "Dadoo" by Skyler Melnick: