This story I dedicate to my beautiful Rio, I miss you so much, you were a beautiful friend.

He looked at the dead dog, Cherry. She was off the road, on a pile of leaves that were composting against the fence. She was stretched out, mouth open. There was nothing wrong with her, except she was dead. Every story @glennorgias.bsky.social writes is a stunner... @necessaryfiction.com

This real life disaster has been on my mind for years, storified here and nominated for a Pushcart?

Thrilled

Love @smokelong.bsky.social

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

Could not more highly recommend this book from a brilliant writer.

Creepy in the best possible way!!!!

"What if time itself is a kind of wound?" Joshua Jones Lofflin is our featured author this week. Read @jjlofflin.bsky.social's interview that accompanies his award-winning story. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Always love Josh's stories, this one is great! Kinda creepy, vaguely naughty, altogether unsettling and clever.

this is gonna rip and what a title !!!

Got some news: my debut crime novel Teeth Kicker is being published by HarperCollins (Australia) 🎉 HarperCollins has described it as edgy and thrilling. Out in Sept 2026!

www.smokelong.com/stories/wild... @glennorgias.bsky.social

Cannot recommend this story enough. Funny, dark, tender. @glennorgias.bsky.social is one of the absolute best doing it

“when I saw a job ad looking for a “big guy” who was willing to “become anonymous” and to live in a “dungeon”, I said: Bingo.” Fantastic new work from @glennorgias.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...

Yessssss, outstanding, Glenn!

Love X-R-A-Y, and they made the move to publish my gimp story!

EVERYONE FREAK OUT! My latest story is out @okaydonkey.bsky.social And it’s good! And you should read it!

Few more hours until we close for submissions. Deadline’s midnight EST. Don’t be late.

Stoked to have my story 'Irreconcilable Differences' on this list. Thank you @wigleaf.bsky.social and Lunch Ticket

Hi Hi! Just gonna...leave this here. Bye! 💜https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit

Congratulations @aniking.bsky.social and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social !!! And everyone on the list.

“Surely it were a well-appointed abode once but it’s now been restyled with a minimal, heroin-chic, post pawn-shop vibe in mind.” This masterpiece of pace and voice by @glennorgias.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social

The younger’n meets me eye and it’s like he thinks I’m the one who’s gonna save him from Macca, and ain’t the innocent of a child a frightening an terrifying thing. ‘He ain’t so bad,’ I says. ‘Wile E. Coyote, he ain’t got no luck but he’s a fuckin tryer.’ Masterfully done. Awed.

My story, "Wild Gazelle" is at @smokelong.bsky.social today. Thanks to The Smokey Award judges for selecting it as a finalist. I hope you'll take a look at it... www.smokelong.com/stories/wild...

@smokelong.bsky.social asked us to record our stories for this issue, so I asked the wonderful @dilking2002.bsky.social to help, because what a voice...

Love this cover.

All these years later I still really like the surfing video that Penguin made for my memoir (even though the music is slightly ott). All shot at Bondi beach. youtu.be/-sxwbIBPADw?...

Wild Gazelle is a finalist! Cool, cool, very thrilling. The story was originally a scene in my novel (currently on sub) so it feels good that it will have a public life at this beautiful place. Thanks to all the editors at @smokelong.bsky.social, and congrats to all the finalists and winners.

Been sending my crime novel, Teeth Kicker, around. Really pleased to announce I'm now represented by Jeanne Rcykmans at Key People. www.keypeoplelm.com/glenn-orgias

I have a story in this issue #37, somewhere around the middle. It's about religion and regret.

Friends, i have a ragy cnf micro featuring Gauguin in @epistemiclit.bsky.social. Hope you’ll read. Thanks @kristinwrites.bsky.social @melruthwrites.bsky.social @gcbwrites.bsky.social for being the most awesome, supportive editorial team 🧡🧡🧡 epistemiclit.com/current-issu...

Love this meditation on fear and fearlessness.

Where are the flash lit people? Post some of your recent pieces, I'd love to read 'em.

Our April issue is now live. Featuring Amrita Noor, JR Kangas, @glennorgias.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @squeakypig.bsky.social Eric Pankey, @robinwilder.bsky.social & @apotee.bsky.social trampset.org

Excited to have a story out in the magical Trampset today! Please take a look.

Next issue drops this Friday, including new work from Paula Gil-Ordonez Gomez, Noor Bedi, JR Kangas, @glennorgias.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @squeakypig.bsky.social Eric Pankey, @robinwilder.bsky.social & @apotee.bsky.social

@aniking.bsky.social has been releasing such great stories. I'm also stoked to see this in @wigleaf.bsky.social.

Glenn Orgias' brilliant story "Axolotl" (Pithead Chapel) was long-listed for the SmokeLong Workshop Prize. Glenn has lots to say about workshop feedback and community. www.smokelong.com/an-interview...

Sometimes I wonder if dogs love you so much because they know they only have a short time here.

Really pleased to have a story on the longlist. I've really loved the SmokeLong Workshops, they have helped my flash writing tremendously.

Making sure the literary community over here sees this news on Twitter from Pidgeonholes, a lit mag I have always admired & enjoyed. 🧡

What is the minimum number of words you'd expect to see in a short story collection?

Our first starter pack of SmokeLong contributors: Issue 63-85. If we've missed you, please tag us so we can add you! go.bsky.app/2BsZebW

Thank you @pitheadchapel.bsky.social and @kimmagowan.bsky.social ! Thrilled to be nominated.

Where was your fist submission? I was brave (naive) and subbed a just completed first draft to the Paris Review by post back in 2012, lol.

A new story for your weekend. I hope you’ll give it a read. Many thanks to the good folks at Four Way Review for giving my little oddball a home. fourwayreview.com/south-oats-b...

Our August issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2024/08/01/v... Words: MICHAEL DON DIDI WOOD GLENN ORGIAS JESS GOLDEN KASEY BUTCHER SANTANA JACKIE CRAVEN CARLA PANCIERA SARAH FAWN MONTGOMERY Cover art: MIA BROECKE

It was embarrassing, sprinting in his shiny funeral suit, trailing the kite over the hillocks. & from this he sensed the ridiculous & the infantile fathers persevered through for ones too young to recognise it as anything other than wondrous. @glennorgias.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Your rating in the post-apocalypse is very much determined by your changing fortunes in the pre-apocalypse, just ask Sue Ellen. She made the mistake of being a little too kind in this world, and now she’s fucked in the apocalypse." —Glenn Orgias 💀💀!!! https://www.havehashad.com/2nbpc