super excited to have found my lucky way onto the @fracturedlit.bsky.social Gods & Monsters Challenge shortlist! 🖤

Anthology 5 winner by Deborah J. Hunter! "I was on our excuse for a back porch, no one ever put in screens, and it smelled like oranges under my finger nails." fracturedlit.com/dog-years/

Still reading this piece from months ago and tasting it in my mouth because it’s just that beautiful

Chiara will never know the weight of their fruit, the juice squeezing between your toes as you squash the grapes ... @brechtdp.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social ! So much sensory beauty against such loss from climate change.

"The searing wind sweeps up the dust as we shut the door behind us." Looove this one by @brechtdp.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/the-flavours...

New Anthology 5 flash by Genevieve Eichammer! “The birds are always watching,” Mama used to say. We had a bird cage in nearly every room of the house. The parakeets in the living room seemed more at home than I did." fracturedlit.com/nest/

Honoured my piece, Bakunawa and the Seven Sisters is on @fracturedlit.bsky.social ‘s shortlist. It mixes Filipino and Chinese mythologies! fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

I am so honored and excited that my story was chosen for this anthology! Thank you, Fractured Lit, for your positivity, support, and enthusiasm throughout the contest (and in general!) ✨ And I am such an admirer of #TaraIsabelZambrano, too!

Aw poor you, Katie. Maybe you could find something on here to read in the next 30 mins while you wait. @fracturedlit.bsky.social has some lovely stuff! And it’s flash so it won’t take long! 😘😘

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying General Flash Fiction feat. @therumpus.net @fracturedlit.bsky.social @flashpointsf.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

"From Clay, God" is a nasty little monster of a story that snuck onto the #shortlist at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Gods & Monsters contest. I have collected over 30 rejections so far in 2025, and this is a wonderful wink of recognition I sorely needed. #amwriting #weirdlit #flashfiction

“… how he’s never seen any place as beautiful, the ice clear and aquamarine, how it glows as if lit within. How you get so cold it hurts, but only for a moment, how quickly the numb kills the pain.” @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/well-finally...

“How the blue never ends.” Oh, wow, this poignant beauty by @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social!❤️💔

Got myself a weird lil’ mixed up fairy tale on the @fracturedlit.bsky.social shortlist! 🐺🌜 fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

New Anthology 5 Winner by Anna Cabreros! "My sister Jane and I make the ideal jigsaw puzzle partnership. She’s more organized than me, the one who categorizes and compartmentalizes, but I have all the patience." fracturedlit.com/jigsaw/

This month's #Mondettes picked by @jenwithwords.bsky.social ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Jenny made these brilliant picks 🪴Two fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/july-2025

Includes links to pieces by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social @kelliborges2.bsky.social @francinewitte.bsky.social @laughingyeti.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @emmapwrites.bsky.social @sylviasays2.bsky.social

A barnburner by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social! fracturedlit.com/what-to-do-i...

A shot of light in the dark: my flash story "From God, Clay" was longlisted for @fracturedlit.bsky.social Gods & Monsters Challenge. This story is about grief, creation, and parenthood. I'm so honored. Let's keep making monsters. #amwriting #horror #weirdfiction fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

"For once, I don’t want to know what you’re thinking." #flashfiction

Metafictional brilliance!

@fracturedlit.bsky.social’s Flash Fiction’s open contest closes today, July 13. Listen to my interview with judge @gwenekirby.bsky.social here: storyaday.org/episode277/

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@baltimorereview.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social @reedmagazine.bsky.social @thesunmagazine.bsky.social @vellichorliterary.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @oneart.bsky.social

Anthology 5 winner by @nancyalvarado.bsky.social "Do you want a bite, Linda?” you call out cheerfully from the living room. You’re settled into your recliner, hunched gleefully over a cinnamon roll." fracturedlit.com/wife-2-0/

So happy to have a story on this list!😊

Congratulation to the writers on our Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Longlist! We're fighting over the shortlist now! fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

…’See, I’m practically glacial. He gentles the blanket they’d brought from home around her matchstick frame…’ So moving. A fabulous rendering without a whiff of melodrama. @kelliborges2.bsky.social

"He tells her how he’s never seen any place as beautiful, the ice clear and aquamarine, how it glows as if lit within." So beautiful from @kelliborges2.bsky.social In @fracturedlit.bsky.social

What a piece

"...the liquid moving through a port placed directly into her chest, below her jutting collarbone and above the place where teardrop breasts used to hang." A gem by @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

a big win for fans of the color blue

"He gentles the blanket they’d brought from home around her matchstick frame, swipes cherry Chapstick along her fissured lips." So moving. 💔 Read this flash by @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Another longlist celebration! We've got 21 stories still in the running for our Gods and Monsters Challenge! fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

“He gentles the blanket they’d brought from home around her matchstick frame, swipes cherry Chapstick along her fissured lips.” Gorgeous, quiet, heartbreaking piece @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

So excited to have a story on this list!

“He gentles the blanket they’d brought from home around her matchstick frame, swipes cherry Chapstick along her fissured lips.” This is a beautiful one by @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. Have a tissue standing by if you read it.

"He tells her how he’s never seen any place as beautiful, the ice clear and aquamarine, how it glows as if lit within." I love this brilliant piece of writing by @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

New story up @fracturedlit.bsky.social! This one means a lot to me.. huge thanks to the wonderful @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for publishing “We’ll Finally Go to Switzerland”🇨🇭 and to @cardewjcardew.bsky.social and @bendinggenres.bsky.social for the workshop that sparked it! 💙💙

New Flash by @kelliborges2.bsky.social "he says, as soon as this is over. She lists the names of towns she’s always wanted to see, foreign and sticky on her tongue, Lauterbrunnen, Lucerne, Zermatt, as they sit abreast at the infusion center in Tucson," fracturedlit.com/well-finally...

Excited to have a story on this list! 👻

Congratulation to the writers on our Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Longlist! We're fighting over the shortlist now! fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

“A cottonmouth swallows me when I am seven.” Love this flash by @scribblermiller.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/cotton-mouth/

“Instead of saying ‘Just tell me,’ swap out the first word and say, ‘Don’t tell me!’Then run. Run as fast as you can.” @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/what-to-do-i...

“I store memories outside my brain. I shove them around my body so they are always moving, so they do not land in corners.” Bones + 2 from @sabrinahicks.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/coyote-bones...

I’m not over here a ton at the moment, but I AM on this list. So thrilled!!!

You *could* lose your mind sifting through a bajillion of writing ops, or you could check out the Writers' HQ purest distilled essence of comps and subs for July. @fracturedlit.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social writershq.co.uk/5-competitio...

New Flash by Wenyi Xue! "Call your mother at 3 am, and when she asks why you are awake so late, tell her you recently learned that drain flies are fuzzier than fruit flies, even though both have made a home out of your sink." fracturedlit.com/housekeeping/