Got my second 💀 from @havehashad.com Get ready for my piece about the dystopic Super Bowl ads we all watched last weekend

Submitted at 10:59 on the dot and managed to write something weird and new for this call!

This is so sad, @christinaltudor.bsky.social !! Well done.

I am so excited to have a piece out with the @cincinnatireview.bsky.social . This piece means a lot to me and publishing in Cincinnati Review has been a dream come true. Thank you again to Andy and Lisa for giving this piece a home. I’m so honored

Recession indicator

This was a fun one to write with an even better title! "My Neighbor Pays Me $100 to Dress Up Like His Dead Daughter" is now up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social: mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social and his @welkinprize.bsky.social for making January a little less "pigsty" (see his latest newlestter) & a lot more inspirational. The comp is so well run and the quality of stories is mind-blowing. Thank you so much, Matt! www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stories

Hey #writers, who'd be up for doing a workshop to raise some funds for Minnesota charities? @alexpenname.bsky.social and I are putting something together. Repost and spread the word, please!

Writers of Bluesky! I'm currently organizing a set of workshops for *next week* that'll fundraise for Minnesota food banks. Shoot me a DM or comment here if you're interested in running a workshop--signups will be open soon. Reblog this for visibility! (But reply to THIS skeet so I can see you.)

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Very late, but here are my short fiction recs from Nov-Dec 2025! A mix of old and new, with stories by @acwise.bsky.social @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @teajaysee.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social 1/2

Have a book or book-adjacent podcast? I'd love to be a guest!

"I taught the robot how to say sorry. Sorry widened into a corridor." I suggest you read the rest of "Pattern" by David Anson Lee shortlisted for the @welkinprize.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

I need this in my hands immediately!

For the first time ever @saoirsecl.bsky.social and I will be in the same publication! The Music Issue Double Album drops next month from @stanchion.bsky.social: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

I had a rough day and could use a laugh. If you can too, you should read my new piece in @mrbullbull.bsky.social: mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

You can catch @christinaltudor.bsky.social’s new single on the A side. My new tune is on the B side. You should buy them both!

Knock knock! Who's there? This story by @christinaltudor.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social ! #flashfiction mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

New year, new fiction in @mrbullbull.bsky.social Originally drafted in @smokelong.bsky.social march micro marathon. Take a break from doomscrolling to read some killer knock knock jokes!

Help us celebrate the more than 60 publications reported to us by our workshop participants in December! Onward, trousers! www.smokelong.com/december-wor...

A little ghosty but what’s more haunting, the presence or the life dissolving in on itself? Tender and, well, haunting by @christinaltudor.bsky.social templeinacity.com/fiction-chri...

Unruly but good at heart describes like 95% of my writing Closing out 2025 with yet another ghost story So excited that this story I initially drafted in 2021 finally found a home. Thank you to editors at @templeinacity.bsky.social: templeinacity.com/fiction-chri...

Book mail! Patricia's stories are always so moving - can't wait to dig in to this collection! @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social

On the heels of a Spotlight Best Small Fictions win last year, I proudly present Stanchion's 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees! Congrats to Christina, Allison, Elizabeth, Jo & Kate! I'm so grateful these talented authors allowed me the privilege of publishing their work.

Asking for a thing: what are your favorite hermit-crab stories? (Can be "that you've written" or "by somebody else")

95% of my publications this year have come from @smokelong.bsky.social!

‘…because you craved salt, flavor, feeling, something.’ That brilliant, insistent ‘because’… @christinaltudor.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social 🃏 www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Super excited to have a piece in @tinymolecules.bsky.social! Thank you to @sdobbie.bsky.social for giving my unhappy wife story a home! Read "You Didn’t Leave Your Husband Because the Tarot Reader Told You To" here: www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

"Because you told the tarot reader you don’t want to leave your husband, you can’t leave so can she spin your fortune into something new" Love this from @christinaltudor.bsky.social @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Great use of anaphora and 2nd person narration: www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

<Shiver>

Spooky season is a good time to read my speculative stories drafted in @smokelong.bsky.social fitness! Read about a mom turning into a tree in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social: themolotovcocktail.com/vol-16/volum... Read about a mail order ghost in The Citron Review: citronreview.com/2025/10/05/g...

"Judy Blume novels taught me that having a body can feel pressing, unwieldy. Maybe she was right. Because now my body is all I can think about because maybe I’m too disabled to live in this climate-changed world, to survive in a world so hell-bent on destruction" Stunning CNF

Oh hey, that's me! Read my story & interview here: www.smokelong.com/stories/judy...

There’s a reason so many artists keeping saying they’d rather than die than use generative AI: it’s not hyperbole, it would be the death of creativity, and for most artists, that’s too unbearable to live with

Writer friends! Does anyone know of good journals to submit hermit crab flash to?

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” thru Dec. 15! 👥 We accept fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental narratives, visual art, film & comics; give personalized feedback to work submitted by 10/31 & pay $50! Submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial!

I think more people should be reading the short story collection I'M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT 🤭

Couldn't have asked for a better home for this weird little micro about an unhappy mom and a family who adopts a pregnant hamster: themolotovcocktail.com/vol-16/volum...

Congratulations, Christina 🎉

Perfectly in season, Christina hits a home run with this one. A ghost story. Mail order ghosts. You read that right.

I wrote a ghost story in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop and it's published in the fall issue of The Citron Review just in time for spooky season! Read my flash piece about a cranky teenager ghost & grief here: citronreview.com/2025/10/05/g...

So excited to have a story in the latest issue of @smokelong.bsky.social alongside so many talented writers. Give it a read!

What an issue! I just read every story—all so good.

Cover Reveal! September 15th! Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! Ten killer flash by ten amazing writers. And we're thrilled to feature new CNF by Aimee Bender, our first featured author in the SmokeLong Master Series. Cover art by Mario Loprete.

“The birthmark mutates like a shadow on asphalt. Like a thunderstorm, hovering and ominous, the birthmark darkens.” @christinaltudor.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/tudor/bir...

I've been stuck in an airport all day with my flight being pushed back in 30-minute increments but I did get acceptances from @mrbullbull.bsky.social and @templeinacity.bsky.social Excited to have three new pieces out in the world before the end of the year!!

New flash at one of my faves @maudlinhouse.bsky.social !!! Stuck in an airport lounge with Ryan Reynolds and try to stay sober! WHEN THE GUY WHO PLAYED DEADPOOL WAS MY AA SPONSOR. Aiming to get at least one laugh out of you! maudlinhouse.net/when-the-guy...

The inimitable @christinaltudor.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social "She’s not like the other girls—sorry, I mean women—they’ve been with." So so searing and good 🔥 www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/tudor/bir...

*Help needed!!* Looking for flash that fully embraces the dreamscape, especially pieces that do interesting things with time (jumping about, going round in circles, exploring alt timelines etc.) - who has examples for me, either your own or ones from others? Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Thrilled to have a new story up today at @flashfrog.bsky.social 🐸. Big thanks to EIC @ericscottryon.bsky.social for saying yes, to Sherry Shahan for the playful artwork (those sea slugs!!), & a shout out to @smokelong.bsky.social ASS '24 + @christopherallen.bsky.social for prompting this one. 🙏❤️