The link is a steadfast thing. When you're ready, it will be waiting. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/20/a...

Our favourite words are the ones we've never met before. There's nothing quite like meeting a new word. However, we will never tire of familiar words in the form of stories. Like today's flash... "AFTER-WORDS" by Donna Shanley crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/20/a...

You tap at the link. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/17/t...

We've never been much for the city. We prefer our land wild, giving. We understand, much like today's poem, how much a city can take... "The City Asks for More" by @samaureli.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/17/t...

This story is good. How good? Click the link and find out. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/13/b...

We are very good at identifying dead things here at the tower. Sometimes, though, the dead things disagree with our assessment. It cannot be helped. On the nature of being a dead thing... "Boy & Girl Are Dead" by Bryana Lorenzo crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/13/b...

The link stays stock-still. It knows you want to click it. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/10/b...

There is a nervous energy here in the tower. Like something wondrous might happen at any moment. While we sit in anticipation, why not read today's flash with us? It too is filled with wonder. "Belly" by Colleen Addison crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/10/b...

You don't need to explain. You will go on clicking the link. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/06/s...

There is a god living somewhere in the tower. They crept in while we weren't looking and are insisting on worship. We're not yet convinced. We are, however, convinced by today's poem: "Shrine of Looking Back" by SK Grout crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/06/s...

Frontlit by your screen, you see the link. You click it. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/03/f...

We're divining the future by dropping things from the tower and watching how they spin. It's not very effective. For a more effective manner of divination, today's short story... "Fabled Promises" by Emily Weiskopf-Ball crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/03/f...

Only the link matters. Click it. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/30/m...

We've dedicated today to staying still. Being quiet. Quite the opposite of today's flash. Join us for... "Minotaur" by Myfanwy Williams crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/30/m...

You begin to crave the link. Give in. Click it. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/27/o...

There is something of an overture playing in the tower this evening. It's telling a story, an old one and a long one. For an old story, in the form of a poem, we offer... "Opus Hades" by Kimberly White crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/27/o...

So excited that a piece of mine from a now-defunct publication has found a new home at @crowkeys.bsky.social! Thank you @keychild.bsky.social for your wonderful letter! Just what I needed during this difficult week! 🐦‍⬛🗝️🖤

Pub day! The opening line of this one floated into my head without explanation— therefore none of this is my fault. Thank you @crowkeys.bsky.social :)

The way we see it, you come across a link to a story, you have one option: you click it. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/23/t...

We're always searching for strange things in unlikely places. Things where they shouldn't be. Things a size they cannot be. Things that shouldn't exist in the first place. So, we present... "The Egg" by @schorn.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/23/t...

At a certain point it occurs to you that you should just click the link. Go.on. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/20/t...

We have been migratory today, hence our tardiness, but this flash is worth the wait. Come, contemplate the end with us... "The Last Migration of the Sandhill Crane" by Aubrey Zahn crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/20/t...

After everything, you still click the link. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/16/m...

We've been talking to the birds. They say you should read this poem. Birds are wise, and you should listen to them. "Mimicry" by Taylor Hamann Los crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/16/m...

I read Wyrd-Woman of Bellem by Shay Schmida in @crowkeys.bsky.social a story about magic and weaving and curses nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/08/i-re...

A reader scrolls across the link. They click it. Of course, they do. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/13/i...

A reader walks into the tower, as they so often do, and they find exactly what they are expecting: a wonderful story. Read it with us. "Into the Woods" by Lydia Waites crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/13/i...

Thank you to all the contributors in August's #Penumbric! @andydibble.bsky.social, @spires.bsky.social, EJ Kavounas, Ritiksha Sharma, Richard Magahiz, Carl Scharwath, @tamikathompson.bsky.social, Camellia Paul ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

More thanks! MC Childs, Christina Sng, @culttvmike.bsky.social, Brian D. Hinson, Ashley Abigail Gruezo Resurreccion, @kellybowenarts.bsky.social, Michelle Hartman, @keychild.bsky.social, @hannahgreer.bsky.social ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

Absolutely delighted to announce that my story “Patchwork Boy” will be appearing in an upcoming issue of @crowkeys.bsky.social! 🐦‍⬛🗝️ Extra special thanks to editor-in-chief @keychild.bsky.social for the kind words in my acceptance letter. 🧡

It's a gift, as much as a link. Click it. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/06/d...

There have been some unexpected vanishments here in the tower. Rooms, people, miscellaneous things. We're reading poetry to keep up our nerve. Join us, and read... "Disappearing Road" by Gabriella Ekman crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/06/d...

“The painted woman had skin like eggshell. She was me and not me. You crushed me to you and stroked my hair. —I adore you. Don’t doubt me. Your kisses were fierce. I thought I would die of love.” Hey so this story is gorgeously crafted and giving Grimm and Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber.”

“A crow bursts from the hedge, black punctuation against the sky, its cry a jagged line tearing through the soft-wool hush of the morning.” 🐦‍⬛ Lovely, vivid, inviting trio of poems.

“He says he’s coming—he’s been meaning to see that movie, too. To that, I don’t reply. I read that Surgeon General’s report on the loneliness epidemic a few months back, but it’s like, what can you do?” A quietly relatable story in a surprising setting, with a snippet of hope in other friends.

“Rumor has it that by the time he died, the better-days-past vine had overtaken his house so completely that the funeral director had to come equipped with gardening shears to remove the body from the premises.“ Oh I just know this plant would be the end of me. ✨🌱 🍵

The link appears in your feed. It looks good. You click it. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/02/m...

Here at the tower, we're falling apart. There are bits and pieces of us everywhere—you should watch where you step. We'd be right at home in today's short story... "My Body's a Zombie for You" by Mariya Kurbatova crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/02/m...

Hope yall enjoy this weird little flash of mine. 🖤🪴 @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/30/c...

The link can be difficult to identify at first. Here it is. Right here. Just for you. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/30/c...

We are in a celebratory mood, here at the tower. Today's post is very special, not only because it is in a fun format (we love a fun format), but because it is our 500th post! Please enjoy... "Care Guide for Your Better-Days-Past Vine" by @eleridenham.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/30/c...

The link murmurs, you click it. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/26/t...

We enjoy quiet places, places where no manmade thing can be heard, places where the sound of the world is all there is. Not unlike the subjects of today's trio of poems... "The Quiet Places" by Lysette Cohen crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/26/t...

You gather up the link. You're ready for a story. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/23/f...

We're telling ourselves stories, over and over, but changing them each time. Such is the way of stories. For another retelling... "Feathers" by Lena Fransham crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/23/f...

“There once was a flame, bold and bright and tough to look at straight on. The flame had a soul and the soul was a girl and the girl turned all she touched to ash.” My latest, in @crowkeys.bsky.social. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/19/a...

Took a walk by beautiful Lake Minnewaska today. This was my inspiration for “Nymue Rising” in @crowkeys.bsky.social

New story time! (Technically, a reprint if you’ve read my chapbook, but this is the first time this little haunted house/fairy tale has been available online, thanks to @crowkeys.bsky.social ) Give it a read? crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/19/a...

You see the link. You break the link open. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/19/a...

There are peculiarities with the wiring here in the tower. Look down the hall & you might see a flash of light come from the plug socket. It might look like a person. For more strange sparks, today's flash: "a spark suppressed" by @ramccafferty.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/19/a...