New from our very own @brokenzipper.bsky.social! Each copy is beautifully handbound by Sara Lefsyk at Ethel Press, a fragile assemblage made with care.

New issue drops Tuesday. Clear your calendars, people!

Thank you Keith at @yourimpossiblevoice.com - great to be part of the YIV vibrancy!

It's a convoy of the dead in today's Tuesday #flashfiction, courtesy of @victordavid.com! Check it out! bit.ly/47oRV0U

Tremendously proud of this #FlashFiction piece in Your Impossible Voice: #Writing #AmWriting

"The bus driver brakes hard and I stumble, my 37 weeks pregnant belly stumbles, my whole big self stumbles into a woman in a baseball hat who mutters fat bitch and I open my mouth to say I’m pregnant, as if she’s right to say it." New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social

New Kelly Krumrie forthcoming, from Crop Circle Press. Excerpt from Concentric Macroscope first appeared in @yourimpossiblevoice.com: yourimpossiblevoice.com/concentric-m...

"The article’s author makes reference to a broad series of books, films, and humans that I haven’t the vaguest familiarity with, and I become intimidated. I start freaking out because who the fuck am I?" Find out why certain writers make @painhub.substack.com want to die!

This is a lovely, poignant flash. @sarlynh.bsky.social

Available for sale now. I love how it felt in my hand. Many more stories to come. @yourimpossiblevoice.com @marinerbooks.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi

I'm afraid I can't help myself with a weepy coming-of-age girlhood lament from time to time <3 Huge thank you to Keith and Your Impossible Voice for giving this one a home!

We're back with new Tuesday #flashfiction from @sarlynh.bsky.social! (Check it out: bit.ly/48Cls8l)

Hello, hello, hello, how low? Tuesday's #FlashFiction smells like (pre)teen spirit. Tune into "The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died" by @ashdoeswords.bsky.social!

Over the years, we’ve been fortunate to publish many essays on poetry and translation by Wally Swist. Today I’m pleased to share the introduction to his forthcoming collection, "If You’re the Dreamer, I’m the Dream: Selected Translations from Rilke’s Book of Hours" (Finishing Line Press)! #poetry

We’re delighted to have Carla Bessa return to YIV with a new translation by Elton Uliana. Keep your eyes on the prize for Tuesday #flashfiction “don’t ask what any of this means.” “all I know is that I have to run. that’s the premise of my being-in-the-world: running, that’s how I’m programmed.”

Please join me at Stories on Stage Davis for a performance of my story "Overview Effect" (originally published in @yourimpossiblevoice.com) on October 12. Full event info here: storiesonstagedavis.com/authors/10-1...

ICYMI: I had a flash in @yourimpossiblevoice.com

“Jeff Weddle is a poet who reads other poets. Jeff Weddle is a philosopher whose ideas come not out of books but out of lived lives, of friends of now and then, of family, and of people met along the way.” Peter Mladinic reviews "Letter to Xhevdet Bajraj" by Jeff Weddle

Tuesday #FlashFiction: "We’re All Bananas" by @chelseastickle.bsky.social! “After my mother’s skin cancer diagnosis, I was bullied by my older sister Sally into scheduling a ‘skin test,’ which is what they call it when you strip in a cold room and show a stranger every part of your body.”

Tuesday #flashfiction: Subjective Condition by Rebecca Tiger "The neurologist says I could be like this for two to three years. I am in my doctor’s office, crying because of dizziness, and he looks at me as if I’m an alien. 'Well, the scans show you are okay.'"

Tuesday #flashfiction: The Things You Will Do—a breathless moment of grief and guilt by @andreamarcusa.bsky.social!

"We passed one plastic cup after another back and forth through the bars, then she smashed the bottles into a trash can, came back inside, and we all toasted quick thinking and said fuck these fragile assholes as we gulped instead of sipped." Tuesday #flashfiction: with @mattjakubowski.bsky.social!

Boom. Congratulations, all, and best of luck! @sundresspub.bsky.social

Tuesday #flashfiction: Rage, wreckage, and rumination take flight in @karenschauber.bsky.social's Sparrowhawk!

August Spec Flash Roundup! With @smallwondersmag.com @flashfictiononline.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social @flashpointsf.bsky.social @factorfourmagazine.com @naturefutures.bsky.social @hexliterary.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @escapepod.org @molotovlitzine.bsky.social @yourimpossiblevoice.com 1/3

"It starts with a tearing—quiet at first, like silk splitting in the dark—and then the howl builds in your spine, in your teeth, in the wet hinge of your jaw. You bite your pillow, your tongue, your lover’s shoulder. You bleed without knowing where from." New #flashfiction from Mathieu Parsy!

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

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"She stretches out one long wing, almost as if she is waving at me. I wave back. I tell her my name. She speaks in a language that I don’t understand. Well, at least we aren’t strangers anymore. Does that make us friends?" Tuesday #flashfiction from Sophie Isham!

Thrilled to receive an acceptance from @yourimpossiblevoice.com for a story I started in a @francinewitte.bsky.social prompt session! Thank to @jekwriter.bsky.social and Tammy Evans for their feedback! And thanks to @keithjpowell.com for the acceptance!

Tuesday #flashfiction: A one-night stand tangled in perfume, politics, and leftover shakshuka in The Lemon Trees Don’t Care You’re Sexy (But I Do) by L.F. Khouri.

"Sometimes I imagine her—your wife. Her body gone small under the machines." My little strange story of longing is out at @yourimpossiblevoice.com today. Thank you to Keith and the editorial team for giving this a home 🙏🏻

We were captivated by the thoughtful sensory details in this new #flashfiction from @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social, and you will be too! Don't miss "A Weekly Arrangement."

If you're not sick of me yet, here's the second of my micros published by the great people at @yourimpossiblevoice.com. It's a love story between a polar bear and a cow. yourimpossiblevoice.com/today-at-the...

Ready for the second of today's #flashfiction from @thedrevlow.bsky.social? “Today at the zoo, someone has posted a video of a polar bear playing with a cow out swimming.”

Honored to have this little ditty about The Big Lebowski and spreading my brother's ashes in the great great @yourimpossiblevoice.com yourimpossiblevoice.com/that-scene-f...

We're back with not one but two new flashes from @thedrevlow.bsky.social! Our first has one of those classic titles that can't help but make you excited to read. #flashfiction

ICYMI!!! Proud of this one!!!

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Novel Excerpts feat. @narrativemag.bsky.social @gonelawn.bsky.social @yourimpossiblevoice.com et al. https://duotrope.com...

We had planned to have some new flash for you today, but unfortunately your editor is traveling and has extremely poor access to internet. We will be back next week and it will have been worth the wait!

Missing that July 4th buzz already? @brettbbl.bsky.social's new #flashfiction "Anthem" has you covered.

Our very own feature editor @brokenzipper.bsky.social has a new collection out that blends queer mythologies, speculative vision, and poetic experimentation. Check out In Green Carnations today!

“The detective scans the tree. Jacaranda sticks to her sandals. Yes, you guessed it. It’s that time. The time of flowers. The fiesta of flowers.” This week's #flashfiction is "Chalk Talk" by @postpran.bsky.social!

new on our mainpage: THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 (selecting editor @samanito.bsky.social )

Excellent new flash by Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Check it out.

New #flashfiction from @writesofkathryn.bsky.social! "It’s August, Saturday, and we’re tired of summer. Watching Creature Double Feature on Channel 56. Me and Danny and Angie. Seeking refuge from the heat in my downstairs den, crowded on the couch my dad calls The Indomitable Couch."

Great interview by Charles Mudede in @thestranger.com with Stacey Levine, on "market thoughts", work-writing balance, and everything that went into Mice 1961. "Lots of time helps cure a novel and makes it better."