New interview of @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social by @tcboudreau.bsky.social ! Both FL contributors and @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social pressmates! "The vivid details are often all I have in the first draft!" fracturedlit.com/the-idea-tha...

The last 6 weeks have been tough, including a month away from home to care for my mom. She's stable for now & I'm back home - yay! I received some nice writing news while I was away & now I'm going to wallow in it! Starting with acceptances from @fracturedlit.bsky.social & @escapepod.org!

I've officially signed my flash fiction, "The Last Present," with @fracturedlit.bsky.social! It's slated for publication next month!

Ten micros on the war days in Iran. Thanks to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for giving them a home at the dream mag that is @fracturedlit.bsky.social #writingcommunity fracturedlit.com/true-story-1...

Interview is up over at @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💕 Thanks to Albert & @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Shoutouts to @smokelong.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @bridportprize.bsky.social &more fracturedlit.com/we-write-our...

(cont) Melinda Li @aimeeogdenwrites.com @nadiaradovich.bsky.social @supernaturalfeat.com @aerynrudel.bsky.social @swantower.bsky.social @thehagsoup.bsky.social @timothyfox.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social

Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!

Featuring stories in: @smallwondersmag.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social Eye To The Telescope @sfpoetry.bsky.social @hippocampusmag.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social @flashfictiononline.bsky.social @nightmare-magazine.com +

Yay! My story “Triple Body Walking” has won the 2025 @fracturedlit.bsky.social Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize. 🖤

My story “Triple Body Walking” has won the 2025 @fracturedlit.bsky.social Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize. Check out the comment by Guest Judge Dan Chaon 🥹

My micro "Borderland" is out in Fractured Lit today! I'd love for you to check it out! Thanks @fracturedlit.bsky.social!

Great micro writing class tonight with @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social at @fracturedlit.bsky.social. Thank you! 👏

I have a micro in @fracturedlit.bsky.social today! Thank you so much to the editors for picking up "First, They Fall": fracturedlit.com/first-they-f...

Thanks so much @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and @fracturedlit.bsky.social for publishing this interview!!!

Check out my @fracturedlit.bsky.social interview by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

‘…she’d just hung there with her hair sweeping the woodchips and eyes shut tight like she was sleeping.’ What a central image to this fantastic flash from @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 🦇 fracturedlit.com/first-they-f...

"Your sister used to be the tilt-a-whirl, or maybe the teacups, careening you in circles, breathless with laughter, falling on your knees, dizzy" Brilliant extended metaphor from @gsmithgoodin.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Love the way the metaphor shifts from paragraph to paragraph

New flash by @amykdebellis "The word victim is designed to slide right between your ribs. It’s a slender blade of a word, and it excels at gutting you, at hollowing you out." fracturedlit.com/fear/

"So sudden you didn’t have time to put your hair on. So loud your eardrums hurt" What a piece from @drobnik.co - so much intensity in this @fracturedlit.bsky.social micro

"She will never know the meaning of the songs we sing—the joys of harvest they were meant to carry" Just came across this stunner from @brechtdp.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social from earlier this year. A brilliant cautionary tale: fracturedlit.com/the-flavours...

very very excited to announce the publication of my flash story ”China Plate“ in @fracturedlit.bsky.social today! you can read the full thing here: fracturedlit.com/china-plate/

our very own EIC has a new publication in @fracturedlit.bsky.social today! if you’ve ever been curious about his writing style, here’s your chance to get a taste (for free!) 👀 full story here 🖤 fracturedlit.com/china-plate/

👀 🕯️ 👀 🕯️ @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

In @dawnsteffler.bsky.social's interview w/ @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, they tackle how the title BITTER OVER SWEET came to be, how living in Japan influenced Melissa's writing, & more over on @fracturedlit.bsky.social! buff.ly/6xvbIOc Get BITTER OVER SWEET: buff.ly/aVGstGt @susanschulman.bsky.social

Thank you so much @dawnsteffler.bsky.social for your wonderful interview!! @fracturedlit.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social

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

weekly talk story about my book & zoom launch w/@deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social & @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, @msmagazine.com review & my interview with @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social... @sfwp.bsky.social @susanschulman.bsky.social www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

Super thrilled to have a micro up at @fracturedlit.bsky.social - thank you so much to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and editors! Big shout out to the editors at @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece was born and to everyone who gave feedback 🙏💚🙏 fracturedlit.com/green-to-gray/

Ooh hello @fracturedlit.bsky.social

2nd Place winner for our Ghosts contest by Adam Fell! "Overnight, the lake reveals itself. We wake to the sudden beating of its body against our properties." fracturedlit.com/reckoner/

A brilliant, clever, fabulous story! @jaimegill.bsky.social @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social

so honored and delighted to see this older story of mine from @fracturedlit.bsky.social included here 💚🦇

No big deal, I was just somehow shortlisted in this contest judged by the writer who revived my interest in short stories and I am totally not going to have approximately 53 panic attacks in the next 4-5 weeks while judging wraps up. @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for providing this excellent flash resource! And thanks as always to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for publishing the story!

A beautifully-put-together short piece. And the ending Is just the cherry on the top. 🍒

I was traveling last week and completely missed that my story went up @fracturedlit.bsky.social. fracturedlit.com/out-of-season/ This was crafted in the wonderful summer workshop run by @smokelong.bsky.social. Thank you SO much to all my groupmates who helped me get this into shape! #flashfiction

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Fee-Free Literary Fiction feat. @apexmag.bsky.social @therumpus.net @foglifterpress.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social @tirmag.org et al. https://duotrope.com...

Compelling and smartly constructed slice of flash from @jaimegill.bsky.social and @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social on @fracturedlit.bsky.social: fracturedlit.com/before-the-e... #booksky #writingcommunity

Last year my friend Jaime (@jaimegill.bsky.social) and I started collaborating on some short stories. The first of these - which Jaime wants you to know started as my idea, with my initial draft - is out today in Fractured Lit (@fracturedlit.bsky.social). fracturedlit.com/before-the-e...

This story’s a big deal to me for many reasons. It was my first collaboration with my friend @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social who wrote most, making it so intricate & gorgeous. Its in a dream title, @fracturedlit.bsky.social. And I love love love it. Maybe you will too? fracturedlit.com/before-the-e...

Gorgeous story in @fracturedlit.bsky.social by @jaimegill.bsky.social & @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social 💥

3rd Place Winner of our Ghosts contest by Pascha Sotolongo! "Between Abuela’s mobile home and mine, a white sand path interweaves the moonlit scrub pine." fracturedlit.com/owl-fantasma/

(...2/2) More Fiction from: blog fave Kelli Dianne Rule @kdiannerule.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social ‬ Adam Forrester in @mrbullbull.bsky.social Sherry Mayle in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Links to the stories here:

"Zen Lyrics for the Carhartt Guru" by Sherry Mayle is everything. Thanks to @turnandwork.com for bringing it to my attention and to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for publishing it. fracturedlit.com/zen-lyrics-f...

New Micro by Hannah Goss! "Seeking a companion. Need not be romantic; platonic is fine." fracturedlit.com/companion-wa...

A perfect story! ☕️

New Micro by Jay McKenzie! "Capuchin monkeys are named after the monks who are named after the drink or something like that, could be the other way around, so when Sam says that Olivia’s voice is like cappuccino, we nod..." fracturedlit.com/cappuccino/

(3/3) ...plus Claire Gallagher in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Cate McGowan @catemcgowan.com ‬ in @offbeatlit.bsky.social and Ella Mae in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social

“Echoes” in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/echoes/

“That weed is downright stealing the space of what’s ours. You know what I mean.” I did, and she knew it." Beth Cho Little in @fracturedlit.bsky.social