New Interview of @tcboudreau by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social about Timothy's new collection, published by @StanchionZine next week! "...flash fiction is freedom; it encourages us to play, to make something short, strange, and intense..." fracturedlit.com/flash-fictio...

"Your body quiets in a strange relief, grateful for a kind stranger, too anxious to still make it on time" Wow, this is such powerful writing from @christinaberke.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social: fracturedlit.com/what-were-yo...

"Once the arrack had done its thing, he collapsed onto the broken chair and slept, snoring like a lorry belching smoke down the ghat road" Such rich, evocative writing from @savzac.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Loved this prize-winning flash fiction set in San Francisco’s Chinatown not long after the Great Fire of 1906. Well done Deborah J. Chinn! (via @fracturedlit.bsky.social)

it’s a strange time to share anything right now but I do have a new flash up @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/sometimes-gr...

'They are standing on the woman’s porch. The woman and her friend. They stare at the road in front of them. Empty. And beyond the road, an apple orchard. And beyond that: sky. Night sky. Stars, and a hint of moonrise.' A beautiful piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

"The woman is alone on the porch. The apple orchard dips into darkness, and she hears the owl, imagines her flapping her wings." I love the way @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social writes. This remarkable piece in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Thanks for a Wonderful Welkin this year again Matt! For more flashy stuff try the new @thin-skin.bsky.social issue. Also @fracturedlit.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social @gonelawn.bsky.social Is that enough to keep you going? 😊

Hi Laura, @gonelawn.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social - Ghosts, Fables, Fairytales opens Feb 16th @natflashfictionday.bsky.social - various @flash500.bsky.social Get writing! xx

I coil her name between my fist. What do you know about stars? I ask her, our lips both bloodied by Arby’s burger sauce. Enough, she says. Enough to understand why you hate them. Why you can’t look up. "Kismet," by Claire Guo in @fracturedlit.bsky.social !!

The Shortlist for February 13 (2/2): Links to brilliant work by: Alyson Floyd in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com Eliza Gilbert in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Links here:

flash fiction Friday review of "Sometimes Grief is a Moonrise" by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. The piece is a heartache of complicated emotional processing. Read my brief review here: read-short-stories.com

weekly talk story about @fracturedlit.bsky.social's contest... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

The Shortlist, Feb 20: Five lights-out flash fiction stories. Lila-Rose Beckford in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social @amykdebellis.bsky.social in Root Smoke @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social‬ E Ce Miller in @hfr.bsky.social @cbwell.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social Links:

This wonderful list! Honored to have my @fracturedlit.bsky.social story here! Thank you @turnandwork.com 💕

So happy to join the team of readers at the brilliant @fracturedlit.bsky.social. Submit your "fiction that lingers long after the flash" micros and flash stories. I've admired this journal for a long time, and read every issue. Hope to read your words! fracturedlit.submittable.com/submit

Today's listing of the day is: Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fractured Fairy Tales Prize @fracturedlit.bsky.social (fee-based) #WritingCommunity

So excited to share “dead Mother Card,” up at @fracturedlit.bsky.social today! fracturedlit.com/dead-mother-...

Can always count on @emilyrinkema.bsky.social to tell me a good story. This one in @fracturedlit.bsky.social . fracturedlit.com/dead-mother-...

It was an honor to have "DMC" chosen as a finalist for the @fracturedlit.bsky.social Flash Fiction Open, particularly to know it was read by the incredible @gwenekirby.bsky.social! And thanks, of course, to @smokelong.bsky.social where the story began last summer. fracturedlit.com/dead-mother-...

excited to have a new flash forthcoming in @fracturedlit.bsky.social later this spring! keep an eye out 👀

DREAM LITMAG REALIZED! This is the VERY exciting acceptance I got in November, I've been sending my work in to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for FIVE YEARS! This piece starts, "You are a billionaire’s new, about-to-turn-19 wife..." fracturedlit.com/the-billiona... #FlashFiction #FlashLit

I am so excited to see this piece from @sagetyrtle.bsky.social out today. It’s a good one and gives me Inside Number 9 or Black Mirror shivers in a good way.

Oh WOW! A stunning piece by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social You need to read this today. 🤩

This really is excellent. Thanks for sharing, June and wow, @sagetyrtle.bsky.social and @fracturedlit.bsky.social Wow.

Wee bit late with this, but I just wanted to express my undying gratitude to the competitions and publications that accepted, published and/or long- and short-listed my work in 2025: @welkinprize.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social 1/2

Haven't been Blueskying enough lately but was inspired to pop in to say I just read an incredibly brilliant piece on @fracturedlit.bsky.social by Sage Tyrtle. The use of surreal combined with all-too-frightening reality is uncanny and stunning. fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...

Read @sagetyrtle.bsky.social's latest in @fracturedlit.bsky.social about the billionaires: "The after-dinner entertainment starts, a comedy set consisting of real New York City residents reading their real medical bills out loud." What a way to make your fiction sear 🔥 *chef's kiss*

“You are the youngest person at the Mint Green Party, which is being held in Central Park. Everything is mint green. Even the earrings.” This is brilliant! @fracturedlit.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social

"Inside, you run your fingers over the real marble counter and the soap, which a little card tells you was made by children, but in a good way." Stop, drop, and read this one, pronto.

Big thanks to Timothy and to @fracturedlit.bsky.social!

Ooof!! This is a fantastic read! Chugging along on a simple storyline when BAM! The derailment is sublime! Give this story by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social a read on your next coffee break! #shortstories #flashfiction #literary

My mailing list message for January has just gone out and you can read it on my site. I talk about how many times I submitted to @fracturedlit.bsky.social before I was successful, show you my latest pants, and talk about the #WritingWorkshop I have coming up: tyrtle.com/it-only-took...

Wow, what a chilling and immersive #flashfiction #story by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social up at @fracturedlit.bsky.social "The after-dinner entertainment starts, a comedy set consisting of real New York City residents reading their real medical bills out loud..."

This one by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social is a banger to start off a new year's worth of flash.

my heart needed to read this today. the latest from @sagetyrtle.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

The Shortlist for January 9, 2026: Back after a hiatus with great short fiction from around the web. Links to: Brendan Gillen @beegillen.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social (...cont'd) #shortstories #flashfiction

“In the ensuing silence a billionaire at a different table says, ‘Is it really human rights violations if the *victims* can’t afford lawyers?’ and then …” @sagetyrtle.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...

Foxes, cats, baubles and bones -- here's some of our community favs today 🖤 Featuring: @blackfoxlit.bsky.social @claudineliterary.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social @diodeeditions.bsky.social @bfbzine.bsky.social @theampersandreview.bsky.social #writing

Thrilled to be a finalist in Fractured Lit's 2025 Flash Fiction Open contest. Thanks @fracturedlit.bsky.social for this honour. fracturedlit.com/body-count/

st story of 2026 by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social ! "You are a billionaire’s new, about-to-turn-19 wife. You are the youngest person at the Mint Green Party, which is being held in Central Park." fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...

A pleasure & privilege to interview the brilliant @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social about her dazzling @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social collection

Fabulous interview of @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social by @tcboudreau.bsky.social Always something for me to think about in Patricia’s answers. And another book for my Happy Christmas To Me list! 🎅🏽

Fantastic interview! @tcboudreau.bsky.social talks to @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social about her new collection Pardon me for Moonwalking for @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/the-idea-tha...

#FF It’s Faux Fur Friday! To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “F”! @forestpathbooks.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social @frombeyondpress.bsky.social @frostzonestories.bsky.social @fuguejournal.bsky.social

"Her voice is a rasp, a grinding gear, a scudding tire. She leaves the water running and yanks the shower curtain aside" Fab micro from @mynachang.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social, so full of sensory details and wonderfully vivid as a result

“*C’mon, Johnny, it’ll be easy*, her own voice, an echo in the slap of the water, hanging in the air like steam as the tap finally runs hot. She breathes in the memory. Tastes the edge of her words.” @mynachang.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/borderland/

A chilling story of magic, tradition, and power. A curse might bring some people to their knees, but fate had other plans for the three women in the story. @aishatuado.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Honored & delighted that my story is on the shortlist for the Elsewhere Prize of the wonderful @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Congratulations to @janewords.bsky.social for being shortlisted for @fracturedlit.bsky.social's Elsewhere Prize!