I got to read this piece by @lkardos.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review last week, and I'm still thinking about it, so into your #FlashInTheFeed it goes!! milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/08/14/w...

perceiving the moon redux

Listen, I was born poor and rural. My high school mascot was a literal hillbilly. I understand white trash culture. I can say with complete confidence that this is white trash culture. 

The Issue 23 Table of Contents has just entered the chat. What piece of writing, based on its title alone, are you most excited to read?

perceiving the moon

Issue 23 arrives in 2 weeks. Pre-order it to be the first to read new writing from @travisshosa.bsky.social, @katetooley.bsky.social, @lmbayley.bsky.social, @josephlezza.com, @catherineweiss.bsky.social & many more brilliant writers! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/stanchion-magazine-issue-23

Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful @lkardos.bsky.social. Enjoy. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/blog/

There are officially over 400 artists on HireHumanArtists.com🎉 More human artists than you would ever conceivably want to even try to look at all at once! Hire one for your next human project, wouldja?

breathtakingly insane response from granta. we've got to stop acting like the big glossy lit mags are anything but dumping grounds for boring, conservative aesthetics that might just as well be AI

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

one week into nerding out with House of Leaves, dreams filled with labyrinths yet I’m gonna keep going ⬛️

I don't put my foot down a lot, but I will kill any audiobook deal for my work where they try to slap an AI narrator on it. Narrators are artists. The greats have filled my heart with light on countless nights. They will not be replaced with slop.

It's absolutely remarkable to me, and depressing, how quickly so many people have outsourced their brain to AI. It wasn't long ago that you were perfectly capable of writing an email or a resume, of doing a web search, of exercising your intellect. Now so many are trading their minds for pudding.

Look, what are we even doing here? No need to actually have opinions; LLMs will decide what your opinions would be if you could think. No need to actually exist anymore; LLMs will auto/generate the memories would would have if you actually experienced anything.

at the decoding shit in the margins phase and loving every second 😵‍💫

Psssst… hi… c’mere for a sec… Direct preorders are open for physical copies of Family Night now :D masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

"You're wasting your time marketing on Bluesky because it's all authors" my dude nobody reads more than authors. I've read nine books this year and it's only May. One of the authors in my discord has read a whopping 39. Good authors are also good readers, and good readers buy books.

I reactivated the 2EQUALS3 buy 2 get 1 free offer. I really need to sell stuff to pay for the next stuff. Irl, Poems to Stage Dive to, A Question of Family, Issue 22, what's your pleasure? Lots of great books, already great prices, now you can get 3 new things to read for even less!

started House of Leaves a few days ago and quickly realizing it’s a mistake to read before bed

Learning this is a boomer take because some people do write on their phones, but wait until I tell you kids about printing the whole thing out and editing it by hand like you live in the 1800s because that shit works. Grab a candle and a quill if you want to do this right

Our COLOSSAL micro call is open!!! Go submit now— folklorereview.submittable.com/submit

when work and creative lives align: developing an ekphrastic writing undergrad study abroad program in Barcelona for a PA university this summer. the dream!!

“The question, really — is a broken reality fixable?” everything about this Debbie Urbanski flash in @okaydonkeymag.com okaydonkeymag.com/2026/04/17/f...

“Do you want to listen to their other stuff?” I think about this, realizing I’ve always kind of hated Red Hot Chili Peppers. “Not really, no.” new new from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social

I am so sick of people using "DC" as a euphemism for Trump/fascism/etc. No city hates this administration more than DC, and that's coming from a Baltimorean. DC is a city being held hostage and we owe it to our neighbors there not to conflate them with the ones who're holding them at gunpoint

Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, make sure to read this banger by our recent contributor Lauren Kardos (@lkardos.bsky.social), "What we talk about when we want to talk about Fight Club," published in Milk Candy Review. milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/08/14/w...

when human-made art from the 15th century inspires human-made art in the 21st century. thank you @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving this little danse macabre story a home in @bulbregion.bsky.social

What a fantastic piece by @lkardos.bsky.social. When you have a minute, read this one.

“[Dad] brought home a boombox from his construction site, the equipment victim of an errant brick so every few words crackled. It became Big Band at midnight and Hip Hop at dawn and Country at lunch.” 🔥 Lauren Kardos (@lkardos.bsky.social) in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Danse-Macabr...

FlashFlood opens for submissions on 19 April till 25 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Stories will be published on NFFD. Pre 2023 previously published considered. Reserved slots for unpublished writers. For more details see our submission guidelines: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

for all the writing buds who have read all/parts of my NiF manuscript, the feds are FINALLY cleaning up the real life nuclear waste dump in my childhood town that inspired my story and characters. triblive.com/local/valley...

i will take a two personal rejections kinda day!

Welkin me up!

*slides a massive reading list of Palestinian fantasy, sci-fi, and horror across the table* soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

@sagetyrtle.bsky.social has done it again in this gorgeous story in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social. get some tissues ready as you read 😭 "Bees, bees I say, and curious bees make cats cradles in the air in front of me as I talk." www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/tyrtle/be...

another banger from all the excellent work @bulbregion.bsky.social is putting out, loved this sizzling flash from @marioaliberto3.bsky.social “Their guests look from Theo to Malorie. Smiling eyes asking if this is a joke.” bulbregion.com/Key-Party-by...

“When she is one you will pour dark wildflower honey into a bowl and fold in the gooseberries and she will grab the spoon from you and turn her lips and chin purple.” new gorgeous and harrowing @claudiamonpere.bsky.social story in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/04/03/u...

Now that @smokelong.bsky.social March Micro Marathon is all wrapped up, let's get a list going of journals looking for micros! Anyone?

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

"The Frog God’s towering form roared across dry fields, blocking out whole acres of moonlight over Windham." loving @adrianf.bsky.social's latest over in @hexliterary.bsky.social 🐸

friends who have a flash chap, how did you arrive at a collection title for your manuscript? a line drawn from one of the stories? something new capturing the overall vibes? clearly I’m doing something 👀

lucky enough to have a weekend to write in West Virginia in the gorgeous retreat space of @ellenweeren.bsky.social 💕

lucky enough to have a weekend to write in West Virginia in the gorgeous retreat space of @ellenweeren.bsky.social 💕

when a flash makes you go "hot damn." gorgeous piece from Todd Honeycutt in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social "cities rising and cities falling, barbed wire and butterflies stretching for miles, ice ages and the dearth of snow, the great plague and the small goodbye." splitlipthemag.com/flash/0326/t...

what happened to if you have time to lean you have time to clean. or does that only apply to me making $7.25/hr to sell shitty frozen yogurt and not the highly paid murder squad

The floodgates are OPEN! BRING IT!

2100: Nothin' but skulls as far as the eye can see and floating nano chatbots chattering away chattering away chattering away.

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