15 shows gut instincts The Wonder Years Jem and the Holograms The Dollhouse Veronica Mars Twin Peaks Friends Macgyver The Young Riders (I knew Josh Brolin when you mofos) Little House on the Prairie The Twilight Zone The X-Files Pinky and the Brain The End of the F’ing World Buffy

@sightlined.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social with this immediately recognisable scene. That last line 🔥🔥🔥”the windows fogged, the car a geode cave of sweat and hope and silver” (a bomadore, Jane???) centaurlit.com/car-thieves-...

“of the anvil of his body//within a nightmare//about the unbearable reality of living” oh this heartbreaking wish fulfilment piece. All the good vibes @mattkendrick.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social 💔💔💔

Pi Gu! “Goin on 20 years now I ain’t had nothin twixt my nethers weren’t run on batteries!” (Only thing is how are they going to bring Wash back from the dead?) #BringBackFirefly

This is How You Lose The Time War x Minority Report. More brilliance from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in WestWord “My insides are like plasma before ignition: hot, charged.” 🚀🚀🪜🪜🧡🧡

Love discovering new-to-me writers and litmags @nickiswonderlist.bsky.social in @gravityofthething.bsky.social with this 🔥CNF "what mercy makes flower petals soft and cool to the touch, like a sacred balm?" 🧡🧡💔

Another endorsement for the amazing @jmgatford.bsky.social !! She's the dog's cojones (and agree, a bloody lovely human too) 😍 Smart, brilliant writer/editor and knows the industry.

Heartily second this endorsement of @jmgatford.bsky.social who is the best human being, writer, supporter, guru and mentor (aside from @mattkendrick.bsky.social himself obvsly). Hire her for mentoring and editing, or do one of her workshops!

If one is a true writer, than one will not let the sun set before singing AT LEAST two praise songs to the cat(s), one of which involves the rhyming of the words "snoodgle" and "woodgle". @lindzmcleod.bsky.social What's your True Writer rule?

If one is a true writer, then one will not let the sun set on their nine (9) daily word games even if one’s eyes cannot stay open 🫩 (bardle, quordle, quardle, word in one, waffle, one word search, stackdown, wordle, connections)

“let them be tender as overripe fruit” oh my own overripe queer heart 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🧡🧡🧡🧡 @aniking.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social

Want to play a round of guess the source? Are these notes from a poetry workshop or a counselling degree? (Stupid degree is the reason I’m hanging here way less 😵‍💫 Bring on end of semester…)

FlashFlood is now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted & to our amazing editors for all their hard work. You can read more about our editors here: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/the-editor...

“Cried (“manipulative,” he said)” @rachelmhollis.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 (I think I’ve found my new writing crush)

I’M COMING TO THE UK!! See you at the Bath Flash Fiction Festival and East Bristol Bookshop with my friends @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social & @kazbarwrites.bsky.social July 16 - 19!! 🙏 to the West Australian Dept of Creative Industries Tourism & Sport for supporting W.A. stories

I’m so chuffed to see so many flashy friends in the flood this year!! Entries close tonight BST, so get your flashes in! There’s reserved spots for debut authors. The team are amazingly supportive @natflashfictionday.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡

Congratulations to the authors on Gooseberry Pie’s longlist for our annual writing competition. Ok to celebrate but please don’t identify the title of your story online. Shortlist will be posted by end of April. gooseberry-pie.com/gooseberry-p...

“da Vienna Sausages, da kine your//fada like eat raw after filling his one hundred pound coffee bags on da Tamura’s farm” this amazing lyric essay by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in @adroitjournal.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

Quote skeet with the album that is your villain origin story

@mattkendrick.bsky.social’s workshops are legendary! Do go along. So excited to be judging the Welkin Genre Prize for “body” themed stories later this year. Hope you’ll go along and write a wondrous piece for me to read 🧡🧡🧡

The 1st Welkin Press workshop is a fortnight today: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho... Join me for an hour of fun where you'll plant 2 new story seedlings & hopefully learn stuff as well! 7th May 7pm BST All sessions recorded if you can't make it live.

Quote skeet with the album that is your villain origin story

Quote skeet with the album that is your villain origin story

What can I say, I was a weird fifth grader.

Quote skeet with the album that is your villain origin story

Quote skeet with the album that is your villain origin story

Thrilled to be accepted into the flood with my story “It was a time,” that will spear at 5:50 a.m. (BST) on Saturday, the 13th of June 2026 (National Flash Fiction Day 2026). Do check out mine and all the other pieces that float in the flood.

Thrilled to be part of the flood on 13th June. Watch out for my flash - It's Time and You Know It. Can't wait to read the flood of stories.

I’m on this amazing anthology curated by @fbereaud.bsky.social who is such an amazing supporter of artists everywhere!! Please do consider getting a copy. It looks beautiful 🤩

Ohmigod! This one is fabulous! ❤️

God this story. The white space. The voice. @rachelmhollis.bsky.social in Midway “My dad would have hated him. Sensitive, bookish. Alive.” 🔥🔥🔥

Yuss!! In the deluge again this year. Seriously my favourite flashy day! Thanks @natflashfictionday.bsky.social editors for all your hard (unpaid) work. I appreciate you so much! Look out for “All the Ways We Died” at 2am BST on 13/6!!

Our editors love reading all your flashes, but would particularly appreciate reading more stories that make them smile 😊😊

“Your hand, a zebra against the setting sun and the venetians, stampeding as always.” @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/game-night/

“I hear my cousins whispering, their anger, a cloud around me.” The tension in this 🐗🏹🧡🧡🧡 @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in Flash the Court

Oh this is so good! Read @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @eunoiareview.bsky.social ❤️

Oh! Read this! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @eunoiareview.bsky.social

Ooooh! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @eunoiareview.bsky.social

Poem 3/3 in @eunoiareview.bsky.social - about the patriarchy I guess? Thanks so much, Ian for picking these (sub to them they’re super fast!)

Poem 2/3 in @eunoiareview.bsky.social - this is about that liminal time when you first wake up 🙏🏾

Such an honour to be in @eunoiareview.bsky.social with the first of 3 poems. This one is about my struggles with fertility 🧡

"Your hand, a zebra against the setting sun and the venetians, stampeding as always." Love this lyrical, chilling micro @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/game-night/

“I/must guard you with my life—as if/ I, collector of frog calls and memory/ have ever kept anything safe.” This perfect poem by @kathrynreese.bsky.social in Stirring Lit 🧡🧡🧡

OMG! Thank you so very much for this kanna! And thank you @patricia-caspers.bsky.social ! I remember how I did one of my first reading with WestTrestle many years ago! And thank you for all the encouragement all of you! We are what we are because of the people who care. Lots of warmth from the UAE!

@sudhasubraman.bsky.social is my cross-tie in West Trestle Review: www.westtrestlereview.com/west_trestle... @patricia-caspers.bsky.social runs such a great litmag! Thank you for the opportunity to boost my pal’s work. (My poem in this issue: www.westtrestlereview.com/spring_2026_...)

There’s this thing I run in Adelaide with my friend Jazz. We call it Ellipsis Poetry. We have a newsletter. This is the April issue for those interested. Subscribe to get it direct. ellipsis-poetry.beehiiv.com/p/just-keep-...

FlashFlood opens for submissions on 19 April till 25 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Stories will be published on NFFD. Pre 2023 previously published considered. Reserved slots for unpublished writers. For more details see our submission guidelines: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

So no one wants my flash collection, so what? (Does anyone want my flash collection? Who’s open?)

Tomorrow we will have our first post of 2026 up at @brokenheartslit.bsky.social. Always open for submissions because heart breaks don't take a break: brokenheartsliterary.com Send something my way.