Man, oh man, Check this swirly twirly one by Tom Weller in @brettpribble.bsky.social 's Ghost Parachute. You keys might fly out of your pocket. ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...

This is the story. Thank you, esp. to OKD editor @heidimarjamaki.bsky.social ! okaydonkeymag.com/2025/11/28/o...

Can we have statehood please. Pretty please

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So proud and honored. Grateful to @sudhab.bsky.social @andrewporter01.bsky.social, Scott Garson, and the Wigleaf 50 associate editors. Thank you, @okaydonkeymag.com, for working with me!

Behold!

Stirring and bittersweet. A great one by Cole.

“… that the bartender would lean over and hold her face in his rough hands. That James would appear as a silhouette in the doorway. That seeing her cherished would engage James as in the old days.” @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/in-dreams-yo...

@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social, so it's guaranteed ⚡⚡

Absolutely thrilled to have my work included. I was BLOWN AWAY by last week's reading! Get your copy today!

"She took a bite of the chocolate. It really was superb; a small taste was enough to let her know that." I really love this extraordinary piece of writing by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Folx, about a week and change until submissions close. Last date to submit is July 3! Get your submissions in! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

"Michaela engaged in a little dream that the bartender would lean over and hold her face in his rough hands. That James would appear as a silhouette in the doorway." THANK YOU, Fractured Literary team and Tommy Dean!! fracturedlit.com/in-dreams-yo...

🚨 We close our general submission in ONE WEEK! 🚨 Which also means in one week we open up for our annual July call for ghost stories only!!

We are so excited to announce that Issue 49.2 (Spring 2026) of The Florida Review is out now! Link in our bio to purchase. #theflreview

"The two had begun putting things between them. The baby. Their need to work so much in order to afford rent in a safe area. Her focus on her work. His on alcohol; he’d started to hide a bottle behind the towels" Love! @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/in-dreams-yo...

Appreciate the mention!

"She’s alive. The evidence is overwhelming. But hidden. Escaped. Happier with someone else." READ @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social! bulbregion.com/The-Deepest-...

"She’s alive. The evidence is overwhelming. But hidden. Escaped. Happier with someone else." READ @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social! bulbregion.com/The-Deepest-...

Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.

A beautiful gift from a beautiful friend! Thank you, @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social! ❤️

One week left!! Be in quick to send us your ultra short fiction. Nine selected stories will be published in the August issue of Takahē and receive $150 ✨✨✨ Entry is $3 and every dollar goes towards paying writers. www.takahe.org.nz/competitionn...

Non-fiction writers, where y'all at? We don't have nearly enough NF subs. Send us your micros. Subs open until July 3! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

This project is funded via a grant from our fiscal sponsor, Independent Arts & Media: artsandmedia.net @indyartssf.bsky.social There is no reading fee for submissions.

Issue #66 of Gone Lawn is nearly filled, and we'll be closing submissions on Monday morning, so if you have something we should read then send it to us this weekend! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

Creative Nonfiction: Morpheus At The Wheel by Patricia Q. Bidar I was 19, working on the ground floor in a print shop, learning about duotone. Grayscale. Spot tone. The way a full color could be screened down to lighter versions of itself, less and less of itself until it disappeared.

" I was 19, working on the ground floor in a print shop, learning about duotone. Grayscale. Spot tone. The way a full color could be screened down to lighter versions of itself, less and less of itself until it disappeared." CNF in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Means so much to me. TY, editors. 1/2

" I was 19, working on the ground floor in a print shop, learning about duotone. Grayscale. Spot tone. The way a full color could be screened down to lighter versions of itself, less and less of itself until it disappeared." CNF in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Means so much to me. TY, editors. 1/2

Fantastic!

"I had been having what came close to an affair with a fifty-one-year-old doctor who was supposed to help me stop being scared to recite again in Latin class. I couldn’t call him to say good-bye, and none of my friends mattered to me. " @jacqdoyle.bsky.social @thaisafrank.bsky.social.

"The receptionist distributes paper cups and pours out small shots of sugared spinal tap for everyone because even if it’s her birthday, she’s good at reading the room." HALT AND READ this odd, shimmery tale by @angelaliu.bsky.social @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/spinal-tap-b...!

"The receptionist distributes paper cups and pours out small shots of sugared spinal tap for everyone because even if it’s her birthday, she’s good at reading the room." HALT AND READ this odd, shimmery tale by @angelaliu.bsky.social @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/spinal-tap-b...!

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Wonderful news!

Listening to KFJC on the Car Radio She: Hey, Spy Jazz! He: Hmm, I think it's Crime Jazz. Both: *Listen with intensified focus.

Moved and inspired to hear these great micros, read so beautifully by their creators. Thank you to the tireless, generous team behind the anthology!

“My country is a coin pusher machine. Blaring lights, electric cheer. Gold so bright it stings the eyes.” Hypnotic and angry micro by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social 👏😮👏

A new micro in The Palisades Review! Thank you, editors. www.thepalisadesreview.com/new-stories/...

READ THIS! so inventive and funny.

THIS ONE!

This book is straight 🔥🔥

Arrived.

Hot stuff at the backyard retreat today. Love love love @kimmagowan.bsky.social 's collection.

Hot stuff at the backyard retreat today. Love love love @kimmagowan.bsky.social 's collection.

I binged this book. Bonged it, huffed it. Whatever your verb of choice for “devoured it with reckless abandon.” Each story — nay, each word choice! — is so confident and sharp, so distinctive in style, so “only PQB could have written this.” 1/2

Thanks, shoppers! Definitely up for more orders-- hitting the P.O. tomorrow.