“I was a waitress before I married. Now I wait again, for the rot to fulfill itself, for my decay to be complete.” “It's tranquil, this completion.” @skyskkyy.bsky.social in @wigleaf.bsky.social wigleaf.com/202601rot.htm

Rot with me 🥩🌱 @wigleaf.bsky.social wigleaf.com/202601rot.htm

new new: "The Rot," by Skyler Melnick: wigleaf.com @skyskkyy.bsky.social

new new: last of '25: "Desert Religions," by Zoe Flavin: wigleaf.com @zoebflavin.bsky.social

new new: "The Doorman," by Michelle Wilson: wigleaf.com

new new: "Fables," by Jane Wageman: wigleaf.com

“We're swapping places. It feels profound. I want to tell her this. To tell her something.” “Television says …” “I say …” “She says …” @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @wigleaf.bsky.social wigleaf.com/202512jeopar...

"My grandmother is 95. She deserves to watch Jeopardy." I really love this amazing piece of writing by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @wigleaf.bsky.social 💙💙💙

This is such a great piece ...

I say, "Grandma, I'm moving away. To the east coast." She says, "What is the Sahara Desert?" Television says, "What is the Sahara Desert?" Gorgeous piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @wigleaf.bsky.social

This story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize!!! Thanks @wigleaf.bsky.social 💕

new new: "Jeopardy," by Allison Field Bell: wigleaf.com

"I have come home. The sea says, The longer you stay away, the less you belong. I say, Is that true? And the sea says, Look at Kansas. So I drive a little while and look." I love all 3 of these pieces by my pal @caylinct.bsky.social for @wigleaf.bsky.social wigleaf.com

new new: THREE MICROS, by Caylin Capra-Thomas: wigleaf.com

new new: "Keeping Time," by Annee Lyons: wigleaf.com

this is really something, “Loitering: sitting around without a purpose. You were without a purpose. Eight hours ago you had one. Will you ever find a new one?”

new new: "The Fourth of July, 2015," by Ruby Huston: wigleaf.com (another first published story!)

We love an issue release day, fam. 🥳 We're so excited to finally share our NOVEMBER ISSUE with you! 🎉 buff.ly/PLKRM5J

new new: "House," by Vincent Perrone: wigleaf.com

This is one of our early bangers — and wild to be seeing it just now, on the release day of Katrina’s debut collection from Cornerstone Books!

“It's so dark that there aren't any shapes dancing on the backs of my eyelids”

“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.”

We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟

amazing

new new: "Whalefall," by Kimberly Potthast: wigleaf.com

Thrilled for this!

new new: "Propinquity," by Daniel Sylvan Paige: wigleaf.com (first-published story alert!)

new new: "Mountain Time, Baby," by Meghan Proulx: wigleaf.com

new new: "The Inherited," by Alula Selassie: wigleaf.com

agh this is so good

Extremely pleased to have a story in Wigleaf.

“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 🧡

This is stunning! @eliseblackwell.bsky.social at @wigleaf.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹

Take three minutes to improve your Sunday, with this micro-story from @eliseblackwell.bsky.social ⬇️

new new: "Franchise," by Elise Blackwell: wigleaf.com

new new: TWO MICROS, by Judah Crow: wigleaf.com

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

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!

new new: "Kingdom by the Sea," by Zehra Habib: wigleaf.com

I just read The Boy Waits by Wendy Oleson @wendyoleson.bsky.social at @wigleaf.bsky.social Good, clever, killer ending: wigleaf.com

Honored and excited to be the Selecting Eddie the @wigleaf.bsky.social Too 50 2026!

new new: 2nd of season! "The Boy Waits," by Wendy Oleson: wigleaf.com

September sub window: OPEN 🪟

new new: first of season! "Lobotomy," by Philip Walker: wigleaf.com

Beautiful story, beautifully written, deeply felt. Well worth the read.

We’ve hit our submission cap. See you in the last week of September 🌟

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

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

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

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...