I remember going to a Gaugin exhibition in London a few years ago knowing nothing about him and feeling the horror creep in as I started to learn. This flash fiction will stay with you:

So glad you did Sumitra! It’s fantastic 🩷🩷🩷

Love this perfect micro from @karenc.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social “I just cling to him, my arms around his neck, breathing in the Vicks and lemony sweat of his skin.” 🧡🧡🧡

"my brother says, “We cannot judge by today’s standards.” I think of her. Fourteen. Fourteen. And which standard she would have wanted us to use, and I am speechless with rage. I am as pinned to the wall as she is." Incredibly powerful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

This exquisite piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social is so visceral and well deserving of its Pushcart Nom!!

Read first, then listen. An experience. [via/by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social]

Seriously, everyone — shoot your shot!

I almost didn’t sub this piece (fear, shame). Thank you so much @epistemiclit.bsky.social for being such amazing supporters of me and the writing community. Humbled by this Pushcart nom 🧡 epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social - CNF - My Brother Lectures Me About Gauguin epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...

This was depressing and painful and so well written.

Thank you so much, @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for this nom. This piece was written in a @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social workshop and is forthcoming on 14 Dec 🧡🧡🥰

This piece is objectively the best crazy queer (from the best)

Huge congratulations, Sumitra!

I have had the privilege of reading some of this and it is 🔥 Do yourself a favour and pre-order MOTHER KARMA by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

Massive thanks @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for this mom! And thanks @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for picking this crazy queer arthropod piece for the comp! Co breaths fellow nominees 🧡. Here’s my weird-ass story: gooseberry-pie.com/the-undulati...

A wonderful tale, both beautiful and dark.

This is SO GOOD.

Such a brilliant evocation of projection. And the turn when it comes 💔. Brilliant as always @mattkendrick.bsky.social in Milk Candy 🧡🧡🧡 “She has been this way since that wintered Tuesday in the long shadow of the war, the one they never talk about.”

Her middle name is “oof” and she’s gonna make you feel all the things. Congratulations, wonderful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - ordered and can’t wait to read!!! ❤️🪷🫂

Who is she? @pleomorphic2.bsky.social 😂 …Sumitra Singam happens to be the most wonderful vibrant flash writer & human I know. I’ve been lucky enough to have a sneak preview of this book and absolutely you should preorder it right now.

Preorder link for physical and ebook for Mother Karma by Sumitra Singam (who is she?) @publishedbyjake.bsky.social

Psst. Preorder link for @pleomorphic2.bsky.social's Mother Karma is live. Dropping 12/1: jakethemag.square.site/product/moth...

OOPS SORRY TRY THIS LINK FOR MY NiF MOTHER KARMA PREORDER FROM @publishedbyjake.bsky.social checkout.square.site/merchant/MLH...

"Friday night is a halter top in the Dunedin winter. Friday night is open-toed heels, purpling toes peeping at the beer-soaked floor of the Captain Cook" Brilliant use of anaphora in this fab CNF from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

PREORDER LINK FOR MY NiF MOTHER KARMA OUT IN DECEMBER ALL YOU KANKUTTIS!! jakethemag.square.site/product/moth...

"She tried to knit the strands of her mind together, but the storyteller’s magic was too powerful. She could remember an ache of feeling, like a pressed bruise, but nothing else." Love this!

“She alone looked at the storyteller with something other than adoration.” The dangers of slippery words and the storytellers that weave them. A stunner by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social

Super chuffed to have this feminist piece nominated. Thanks @templeinacity.bsky.social 🙏🏾. And super chuffed to be in the company of such amazing writers including my love @kathrynreese.bsky.social and my bestie @nomad-sw18.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡

A story within a story told by a brilliant storyteller. Magical work.

“I…I’m sorry! I don’t know!” she faltered. “Are you a witch to claim such knowledge?” the storyteller silked. The villagers muttered and shifted, their voices gathering momentum. It was never clear who hurled the first stone. Damn… @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social

Super chuffed to have my flash up at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social featuring an enigmatic storyteller and his doubting ex-wife. This story was much rejected, so thank you @davidestringel.bsky.social for believing in it 🙏🏾 www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...

“She’d love you if you were a thirty-five-year-old IT professional named Rajiv.” Cackled and then cried but then again I’ve been doing a lot of both these days 🤠

If this is what I think it is, it’s going to be AWESOME. Please sign up to @the-engine-idling.bsky.social’s newsletter for a chance to learn about this secret opportunity 🧡🧡🧡

“I have three mud crabs from the Maroochy River rattling about in the freezer, undergoing euthanasia.” Thus begins this stunning collab between @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @manyworlds.place!

I want tamarind-soaked flesh, briny and sour. Isn’t that what you want too? Maybe I want a salad. Maybe I want you to savour me down to my empty shell. Maybe I want to keep hiding inside this recipe. GORGEOUS 😍😍😍 @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @manyworlds.place ❤️❤️❤️

Thank *you* for always bringing the poetry to the story, @kathrynreese.bsky.social. 🧡🧡🧡Love our crab curry in @manyworlds.place manyworlds.place/issue-10/sum...

The prawn heads are the best bit! 🦐🍤🦐

Hermit crabs about crab curry? Metaphor for queer love? Collabs? @kathrynreese.bsky.social and I have another one in @manyworlds.place and are pumped for you to read it (beware the prawn heads) 🦀 🍤 🏳️‍🌈 manyworlds.place/issue-10/sum...

“You and Kate are you-and-Kate with no interruption and that is how you love me.” @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

“I am capable of nothing at all–the world is a confusing mess of sounds that I cannot separate out, itchy clothing that I am not allowed to take off, and everything about me–my skin, hair, name is wrong.” @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

We've just opened submissions on a brief call for short solstice writing. Let's see what happens!

ICYMI I have a wee piece, featuring Vegemite, in this wonderful Joy issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social inspired by @jackmmorris.bsky.social @kateaxeford.bsky.social @juliaruthsmith.bsky.social @kiklodge.bsky.social @stillsquirrel.bsky.social. templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

write a story in the voice of a ghost. Make sure to give the ghost a vibrant personality. Tell us a story they feel close to. Words: words: pill, lips, cough, pocketbook, glasses, embarrassing, thick

Such fantastic readings! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and her kick ass recipe story, rollicking recitation of movie endings by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, menopausal sisters from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social, not to mention the witches in Costco from @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social 😆 What a night!

Thank you so much for this wonderful burst of joy in an otherwise bleak November landscape 😁🌼🐦

This piece makes me smile every time I think of it 💛

A tiny story of the warm, sweet shock of being loved by the indefatigable and lion-hearted @pleomorphic2.bsky.social There’s joy in the words and in the sureness of the writing. Let your heart skip along just a little with this one templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

“You-and-Kate found me, a mouse hiding in a hole and enticed me out with bits of cheese and memes of wet cats.” 🐭 Oh, this is such a sweet story for a Saturday morning by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social

Some lovely, lovely stuff in here! ❤️

What a fun joyful diversion on a Saturday morning!