"As writers, I think it’s those pauses that we want to lean into and excavate what lies beneath." @jaichakrabarti.bsky.social with @theburninghearth.bsky.social

MICROFICTION WRITERS: Have any of you received a recent email from an Iranian translator wanting permission to include your story in a collection?

This is worth every penny. Matt is such a careful and perceptive reader—he asked questions I hadn’t considered and helped me figure out what my story was really about…which made revising so much easier. He made me a better writer!

I dearly love the writing of @chris-offutt.bsky.social. But I had no idea until last year that his eye was as sharp as his pen. Overjoyed to have his photographs (and words!) in @salvationsouth.com today.

Unexpectedly, my mother passed away on 7/22. But more than just my mother passed away. ❤️ I've written a memorial to both of my parents and their marriage. I believe they are now in a place where they finally feel safe to open their hearts and let love in. constancemalloy.com/2025/07/26/t...

"....how can a piece of writing be like a painting? How can it be like dancing? How can it be like a muted trumpet solo?" Allen Kratz with @theburninghearth.bsky.social 👇👇👇👇👇 constancemalloy.com/2025/07/15/a...

“He gentles the blanket they’d brought from home around her matchstick frame, swipes cherry Chapstick along her fissured lips.” This is a beautiful one by @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. Have a tissue standing by if you read it.

So excited that Lisa made the Wigleaf Top 50 list! Loved this story when she brought it to our writing group. So glad to see it getting attention!!

"I try to keep myself in the dark about the story’s secret for as long as possible. I try to stretch it out and milk the tension for as long as I can..." @andrewporter01.bsky.social with @theburninghearth.bsky.social constancemalloy.com/2025/06/23/a...

FLASH FICTION writers! Do you need help? For $25, I will look over your story and give you my thoughts. I have a passion for flashin', I've been lucky to have my work honored in great anthologies/top lists, and I'm willing to share my knowledge with you! Shall we dance? Chat me up!

"The liminal space that exists between loss and what remains is where empathy and compassion reside, and so often we seem to forget that—myself, included." 👇👇👇

Congrats to @audrakerrbrown.bsky.social , whose story "How to Bake a Cake in Outer Space" from @mooncityreview.bsky.social 2025, has been selected for Best Small Fictions 2025! Thanks to RobertShapard, Nathan Leslie, and MichelleElvy for this honor!

Thank you so so much to each and every one of you who shared this post, responded with kindness, boosted your books we're carrying and in general supported the store 🖤

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Oh hey what’s this?!? A “Carrie” inspired prom revenge story “Ben Wiley Burns in Hell” by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social up today at Pool Party? Hell yeah!!! 🩸🐷🔥 poolpartymag.com/ben-wiley-bu...

Whatever happened to Fairy Tale Review?

Thank you, Moon City Review!

Such a great series. Now all-in-one!

This awesome group is reading & reviewing small press books this year to raise the visibility of great, often overlooked presses & authors. Follow them all! go.bsky.app/E6oomtn #100smallpress

Sharing this story again because I'm obsessed with it www.themerseyreview.com/issues/3/con...

love these micros!

Love this advice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwLd...

"Confessions" from Frigg Magazine. ✌️💜

Yes!!! And what a lovely pic!

Hello @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2025 nominees!! A round of applause for these talented writers: Sara Cappell Thomason @timcraig.bsky.social @kathyhoyle.bsky.social @lucindakempe.bsky.social and Guy Biederman You can read their memorable stories here: newflashfiction.com/best-small-f...

Look at this lineup!!

This is a free prompt session. Register here for zoom link tinyurl.com/Promptalooza...

Annual reminder to donate your kids’ toys books clothes now instead of after the holidays so other kids can enjoy them as gifts! 🎁

Yay! I have a story out today ! flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2024/12/14/a...

What an honor !

Are there any tax write offs/incentives for people who might gift me a writing space? There’s an office building in my town and I would love to have space there for FREE. Are there any tax breaks for the owners if they would donate the space to me?

One of the best flashes, ever www.themerseyreview.com/issues/3/con...

Exciting news!

Shameless Self-Promotion Saturday! ICYMI I have a flash fiction chapbook www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/hu...

The bread bird is done!

Always a fab compilation from MYNA CHANG #flashfictionpeeps #flash&shortfiction @mynachang.bsky.social

Sometimes you get all the things done you are supposed to do and sometimes you write a weird little story about a dead body instead.

For my own reading pleasure (and research) I’m compiling a list of short stories (and flash fictions) about road trips. Of course there’s Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man…” but what else is out there?

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I pass this barn almost weekly. I call it the Andrew Wyeth barn and today I finally stopped to take a pic

Born of Water is live and available for order at Amazon. www.amazon.com/Born-Water-C...

Got these in the mail today. I’m excited to dive in! @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @audrakerrbrown.bsky.social

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “The Turkeys” by Travis Flatt is now up! Art by @audrakerrbrown.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2023/11/27/t...

I am not much of a cook, but I managed to bake this BREAD TURKEY yesterday

What are the writerly gifts you are asking for (or giving) this holiday season?

Lovely review of my chapbook, hush hush hush, at Mom Egg Review! Many thanks to Emily Ann Webber! 😄 emilyannwebber.com/2023/11/03/h...

Bookmail!

Please tell me again which FLASH FICTION podcasts you listen to.

Neil Diamond, Rabelais, The Mahabharata, Bjork, Matthew Salesses, Veronika Fuchs, and much more in this thought-provoking installation of "Circling Saturn with David Naimon" at The Burning Hearth Blog! @theburninghearth.bsky.social constancemalloy.com/2023/09/15/c...