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Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
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Joshua Jones Lofflin
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“Last Thursday, for example, I stuck my head in the oven and waited for death; but instead I grew wings, flew to Heaven, and killed God. It was a whole thing.”
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We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟
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Jeffrey Hermann
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amazing
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new new: "Whalefall," by Kimberly Potthast:
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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
https://wigleaf.com
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Daniel Sylvan Paige
10 days ago
Thrilled for this!
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new new: "Propinquity," by Daniel Sylvan Paige:
wigleaf.com
(first-published story alert!)
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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
https://wigleaf.com
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new new: "Mountain Time, Baby," by Meghan Proulx:
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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
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new new: "The Inherited," by Alula Selassie:
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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
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Maria Robinson
28 days ago
agh this is so good
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Elise Blackwell
28 days ago
Extremely pleased to have a story in Wigleaf.
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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam)
28 days ago
“Even after I quit that job, I had oval red burns on the pale side of my right forearm from reaching into the top oven.”
@eliseblackwell.bsky.social
in
@wigleaf.bsky.social
with this story about the things you don’t understand burning scars into you 🧡
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Mixed Bag
28 days ago
This is stunning!
@eliseblackwell.bsky.social
at
@wigleaf.bsky.social
❤️🩹
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Anne Korkeakivi
28 days ago
Take three minutes to improve your Sunday, with this micro-story from
@eliseblackwell.bsky.social
⬇️
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new new: "Franchise," by Elise Blackwell:
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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
https://wigleaf.com
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new new: TWO MICROS, by Judah Crow:
wigleaf.com
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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
https://wigleaf.com
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Split Lip Magazine
about 1 month ago
We LOVE a story on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🤩 Managing Editor Wendy Olsen published an observant piece in
@wigleaf.bsky.social
we know you'll love too. Catch it here:
buff.ly/mnHO9RK
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Maureen Langloss
about 1 month ago
Oh my heart this story by
@wendyoleson.bsky.social
! The contrast between the child’s gentle, innocent perspective and the violence/danger in the story works so well. Very powerful piece. I don’t want to give too much away. But read it!
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new new: "Kingdom by the Sea," by Zehra Habib:
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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
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TM Upchurch
about 1 month ago
I just read The Boy Waits by Wendy Oleson
@wendyoleson.bsky.social
at
@wigleaf.bsky.social
Good, clever, killer ending:
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An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
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Andrew Porter
about 1 month ago
Honored and excited to be the Selecting Eddie the
@wigleaf.bsky.social
Too 50 2026!
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new new: 2nd of season! "The Boy Waits," by Wendy Oleson:
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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
https://wigleaf.com
about 2 months ago
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September sub window: OPEN 🪟
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new new: first of season! "Lobotomy," by Philip Walker:
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An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
https://wigleaf.com
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Cori
2 months ago
Beautiful story, beautifully written, deeply felt. Well worth the read.
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We’ve hit our submission cap. See you in the last week of September 🌟
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Shannon Sanders
2 months ago
Do you need something satisfying to read that will take you away from this hellhole for about 3 perfect minutes? Here is my recommendation, courtesy of
@danchaon.bsky.social
and
@wigleaf.bsky.social
:
wigleaf.com/201302him.htm
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Chaon: 'That's Him! That's the Guy!'
Fiction by Dan Chaon
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sarah lynn hurd
4 months ago
Big thank you to SmokeLong for challenging us to commit to two weeks of reading and sharing daily flash. Diving into
@wigleaf.bsky.social
's archive has been both inspiring and rewarding. <3
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Stephanie King
4 months ago
Not quite sure if yesterday or today was the last day of the
@smokelong.bsky.social
Archive Challenge, so JUST TO BE SAFE here's a little one from the
@wigleaf.bsky.social
Hint Fiction issue by Ben White
wigleaf.com/201008ied.htm
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Stephanie King
4 months ago
Today's
@smokelong.bsky.social
Archive Challenge story (the last?) from
@wigleaf.bsky.social
is this tiny little one by
@kimchinquee.bsky.social
Maybe it's bc my parents listened to REO Speedwagon or bc of the particular moment it captures, but this one hits hard
wigleaf.com/201002speedw...
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sarah lynn hurd
4 months ago
"Hi, Natalie," I said. "Where's Janine?" "I ate her," Natalie said without looking in my direction. Last day of
@smokelong.bsky.social
's
#ArchiveChallenge
Taking it back to year one at
@wigleaf.bsky.social
with this agile, intricate character study by Tai Dong Huai.
wigleaf.com/200810natali...
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Dong Huai: 'Natalie'
Wigleaf fiction by Tai Dong Huai.
https://wigleaf.com/200810natalie.htm
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Stephanie King
4 months ago
Today's
@smokelong.bsky.social
Archive Challenge story from
@wigleaf.bsky.social
is this one from
@horse-updates.bsky.social
I like the way this one uses little touches to illustrate the edges of the fuller, more complicated live of the characters
wigleaf.com/201902electr...
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sarah lynn hurd
4 months ago
"Five years after that, I cried wildly with a good friend on the floor of a Radisson Blu bathroom." The anaphora here makes the closing line twinkle all the brighter.
@martamaranda.bsky.social
in '18
@wigleaf.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social
#ArchiveChallenge
Day 13
wigleaf.com/201804five.htm
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Evans: 'Five, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty'
Fiction by Marta Evans
https://wigleaf.com/201804five.htm
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sarah lynn hurd
4 months ago
"Pancakes" from
@kristintenor.bsky.social
in '23
@wigleaf.bsky.social
threw me right into the moment and didn't let up once. "She doesn't know why her mother walked barefoot to the neighbor's pond that day..."
@smokelong.bsky.social
#ArchiveChallenge
Day 12
wigleaf.com/202301pancak...
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Tenor: 'Pancakes'
Fiction by Kristin Tenor
https://wigleaf.com/202301pancakes.htm
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Stephanie Yu
4 months ago
Wrote something while on vacation and got a prize for it 🥲 thank you Wigleaf and thank you jet lag!
wigleaf.com/202409sydw.htm
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Stephanie King
4 months ago
Today for the
@smokelong.bsky.social
Archive Challenge, as we journey through
@wigleaf.bsky.social
: A neat little list story from Ling Ma in 2011. It's fun going back and seeing the stories big names published as they were coming up:
wigleaf.com/201110lifepl...
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sarah lynn hurd
4 months ago
"A strange vibrancy came upon us—the Betta a ruby glint in the corners of our eyes." This story of a drowning marriage by Emma Smith-Stevens in '14
@wigleaf.bsky.social
so effortlessly laces metaphor with meaning.
@smokelong.bsky.social
#ArchiveChallenge
Day 11
wigleaf.com/201409august...
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Smith-Stevens: 'An August in the Early 2000s'
Fiction by Emma Smith-Stevens
https://wigleaf.com/201409august.htm
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BIG CONGRATS 2025 MythicPicnic winners, Sophie Hoss and
@stephanieyu.bsky.social
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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Stephanie King
4 months ago
Still doing the
@smokelong.bsky.social
Archive Challenge bc art doesn't stop for fascism! This one in
@wigleaf.bsky.social
is a classic from
@roxanegay.bsky.social
back in 2012. You know how the best apocalypse movies have that one image that stays with you? This is THAT
wigleaf.com/201203as.htm
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Stephanie King
4 months ago
I've lost track of what day we're on for the
@smokelong.bsky.social
Archive Challenge... This one from
@wigleaf.bsky.social
is a bit more recent, by
@katetooley.bsky.social
. The lyrical language creates a mist of ambiguity, like looking at a streetlamp through fog
wigleaf.com/202301bodies...
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sarah lynn hurd
4 months ago
"I have told her a thousand times that we are not all heading, every second, toward some quiet epiphany." Such a fan of this quiet, introspective, meta, story from
@rebekahbergman.bsky.social
in '21
@wigleaf.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social
#ArchiveChallenge
wigleaf.com/202104everyt...
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Bergman: 'Everything Changes, Everything Is Different'
Fiction by Rebekah Bergman
https://wigleaf.com/202104everything.htm
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sarah lynn hurd
4 months ago
Day 8 of
@smokelong.bsky.social
's
#ArchiveChallenge
Love this glum + grotesque + rather beautiful story from
@aubreyhirsch.bsky.social
in '16
@wigleaf.bsky.social
"...at night it pooled around her like spilled milk that could not be un-spilled."
wigleaf.com/201612place....
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Hirsch: 'No Place to Go'
Fiction by Aubrey Hirsch
https://wigleaf.com/201612place.htm
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sarah lynn hurd
4 months ago
A whole week of
@smokelong.bsky.social
#ArchiveChallenge
! "The air above me illuminates like sections of code I've been working on." This eerie piece by Tara Isabel Zambrano in '17
@wigleaf.bsky.social
reminds me of Severance + the horror of time passing in cubicles.
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ZAMBRANO: 'Cubes'
Fiction by Tara Isabel Zambrano
https://wigleaf.com/201711cubes.htm
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Jo Gatford
4 months ago
Happy Wigleaf Day!
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Jack Morris
4 months ago
Just been reading some of these - top choices from Wigleaf 👏👏👏
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Exodus Oktavia Brownlow
4 months ago
Congratulations, everyone! 💚✨💚
#WigleafTop502025
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new on our mainpage: THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 (selecting editor
@samanito.bsky.social
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sarah lynn hurd
4 months ago
"The lump in my throat tastes like overripe mangoes—the ones that are on the precipice of rotting." Love Hema Nataraju's sensory imagery + young narrator who knows and doesn't know what it all means.
@wigleaf.bsky.social
Day 4
@smokelong.bsky.social
#ArchiveChallenge
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Nataraju: 'Rotting Mangoes'
Fiction by Hema Nataraju
https://wigleaf.com/202103mangoes.htm
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Update on Mythic Picnic prizes! Winners to be announced next week (reason: you know life).
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Stephanie King
5 months ago
For Day 3 of the
@smokelong.bsky.social
Archive Challenge, here's another one from
@wigleaf.bsky.social
, this time from 2021: I love this one from
@nairarw.bsky.social
for the way each segment reveals a new layer of meaning, like an onion
wigleaf.com/202111men.htm
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sarah lynn hurd
5 months ago
Day 3 of the
@smokelong.bsky.social
#ArchiveChallenge
and I'm really into the passage of time and cyclical ending in this surreal story by Renée Jessica Tan in
@wigleaf.bsky.social
"A decade goes by. Toddlers in the sandbox become smoking teenagers on the swings."
wigleaf.com/202209expect...
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Tan: 'I'm Expecting Someone'
Fiction by Renee Jessica Tan
https://wigleaf.com/202209expecting.htm
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