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Beautiful writing about all the feels of being newly in college and independent by Jennifer Galvão in @therumpus.net. therumpus.net/2025/06/26/r...

This chilling story by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social is going to haunt me, I can tell. fracturedlit.com/the-touch-fo...

Reading Nov. 2 at 3pm ET, celebrating my first chapbook "Five Stories" w/: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social , @aniking.bsky.social , @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social , Katherine Plumhoff , @cbigs.bsky.social , @fionamckay.bsky.social , @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social www.sandandgravelpress.com/readings

Yay! @travisflatt.bsky.social has a chapbook coming out, and in celebration, he’s got a line-up of fantastic writers reading their work. It’s a free event on Sunday at 3 EST. It’s free to Zoom in, so come join the fun! www.sandandgravelpress.com/readings

Would you lose all respect for me if I confessed how much I love the Predator movies?

Oof, @jjlofflin.bsky.social What a great story for spooky month in @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com

I can't express how good the reading was for @oysterriverpages.bsky.social 8.1 issue was last night. Not just super talented writers, but super talented readers of their work, as well. You can check it out here: www.oysterriverpages.com/issue-81

Can anyone think of a more euphemistic name than Accurate Energetic Systems?

This story by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in @rejectionlit.bsky.social got at the runaway brain that lives in all of us. rejection-letters.com/2025/03/12/a...

I caught this guy hanging around and he said I should throwback to my story in @fictivedream.bsky.social and since I would definitely lose in a fight with him, here it is: fictivedream.com/2024/10/18/a...

This story by @eteffi.bsky.social in Gulf Coast shows just how good “quiet” stories can be. gulfcoastmag.org/stories/stel...?

Read this beauty by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in @fabulistmag.bsky.social this morning. If only… fabulistmagazine.com/press-me-to-...

Loved this modern cautionary tale by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social in @baltimorereview.bsky.social. baltimorereview.org/winter_2025/...

Whoof. Becky Hagenston’s story “Everything Must Go” in Washington Square Review has one of the most frightening thoughts I’ve never thought of before: what if the sky we are planning our escape to isn’t real. 🫣

Thrilled to have a new story in @xraylitmag.bsky.social!

A poignant space tale from @jaimegill.bsky.social in @oysterriverpages.bsky.social. So good. www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...

“Mrs. K is helping me fill this out because my s’s and b’s and p’s are messy and my h’s and n’s and m’s are lopsided.” Thanks to @oysterriverpages.bsky.social for publishing this little nugget. www.oysterriverpages.com/a-six-year-o...

What a lovely surprise to come home to! The print version of the Baltimore Review that combines the last four digital issues snuck into my mailbox. If you want to read my contribution, you can read it at the link below. baltimorereview.org/winter_2025/...

Get it! @chelseastickle.bsky.social I love this resistance story in Hot Flash Literary. hotflashliterary.com/a-good-sign/

@jenn-rossmann.bsky.social is at it again with her new story in @mrbullbull.bsky.social  mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

@lesliepwriter.bsky.social has got my heart in my throat with this stunner in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/lucky-enough/

The gut punch of this tiny @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social micro. Brimming with the resilience and fragility of living and then, oh. Oh. templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

Book mail! @danbillyc.bsky.social

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My @lascauxreview.bsky.social Prize-winning story! "You used to cook for four, now after the kids have gone to college, and the divorce is finalized, and you and your husband, you keep forgetting to put the ex in front of this yoking title," lascauxreview.com/if-you-didnt...

Starting my morning in tears with this stunner from @tracieadams.bsky.social in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social dishsoap-quarterly.com/7-29-25/must...

“I had a memory of holding his hand as a boy while our daddy told us we’d always be failures.” @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social with this searing little gem 🔥https://templeinacity.com/micro-fiction-elizabeth-rosen/

Did we gasp when we read this Elizabeth Rosen micro? We really did. And oh, the biting ache of it. templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

Jazzed to have a micro-fiction out in the new issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

This stunner by @danbillyc.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social has me in tears this morning: pitheadchapel.com/roar/

Love this hilarious satire by @searchlightsoul.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...

Big applause for the folks at @lemonwoodquarterly.bsky.social So much care for the beautiful product they are gifting the world. Please go support them by stopping by their site to check them out. Grateful to be part of this issue. lemonwoodquarterly.com/summer-2025-...

lemonwoodquarterly.com Announcing the Summer 2025 Lemonwood Quarterly! Hilarious and poignant, thought-provoking and gut-wrenching... these eleven authors bring it all! Treat yourself to some fantastic fiction. It's free! #LitMag #ShortStory #Playwright

This story is so visual, like a surreal short film. I'm so happy to have an original @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social in Issue 19. Buy your copy in print for just $10 or $4 for the PDF. StanchionZine.com/shop

“Now texting her husband, even a brief few words, is like sending her thoughts to an abandoned storage unit. A place for forgotten things. Never to be opened.” This story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @havehashad.com is so adept at depicted the rush of secret desire.

I have a story in the new issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Thanks to EIC @sdobbie.bsky.social for taking this sad little one in. www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

An icepick. A death-defying high. Sex-crazed, loose-moral’d teens in a cabin in the woods. What could possibly go wrong? Find out in our harrowing new issue, @owenegerton.bsky.social’s “Tripping Dead.” To read an interview with the author and buy the issue, visit our website: bit.ly/4531Rux

Wowsa! Look at the leap to color that fabulous indie Stanchion is making with their latest issue. If you’d want to preorder it, you can do it here: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

This story, "All the Lies I Told Today," by @heatherbelladams.bsky.social in Orange Blossom Review. ❤️‍🔥 orangeblossomreview.org/journal/all-...

Stunning piece by @lmbayley.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social . trashcatlit.com/mother-perfe...

So this amazing story by @kimmagowan.bsky.social about the truism that having children is giving hostages to fortune. In the always good @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/what-to-do-i...

New story alert! I’m absolutely thrilled to join the roster of Gargoyle Magazine with my story “Waiting to Take Possession.” gargoylemagazine.com/elizabeth-ro...

(2/3) David Nutt in @xraylitmag.bsky.social Elizabeth Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social in @hfr.bsky.social Amy DeBellis @amykdebellis.bsky.social & Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute

This story! What a winner! @catvalente.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...

For some reason, I love the guy at the center of my new story "Light 'Em Up. I've wondered if he deserve some more written about him. Thanks to the wonderful folks at @hfr.bsky.social for letting him live in their pages. heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/07/01/l...

So happy to join the list of contributors in Ryan Dennis’s The Milk House with this story: www.themilkhouse.org/a-body-in-mo...

This is a wowser from @bdiehl.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/06/22/p...

Jesus. My heart. Check out @aniking.bsky.social in @expositionreview.bsky.social expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x...