This is a beautiful piece. Thank you for sharing it, @the-big-quiet.bsky.social.

My new CNF piece is out today with BULL! Thank you to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for giving it a great place to land. Thank you to the wonderful @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness workshop inspiring it. mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 14. Since I have a journalism degree, I couldn’t resist posting this one. “Be hungry, we’re told. Professor Michael’s paces like he’s caged. Chase down leads. Go deeper. . .” “TK” by Sara Lippmann 2013 in Wigleaf. wigleaf.com/201308TK.htm

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 13 This piece sums up years of a relationship in one sentence, and also brings everything full circle. Amazing. “It’s Happened to Everyone” Bezalel Stern 2015 in Wigleaf. wigleaf.com/201502everyo...

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge Day 12 A beautiful and poetic ghost story. “There were ghosts in the woods that lived as birds do.” “There Go Birds” by Peter Markus 2020 in Wigleaf. wigleaf.com/202004birds....

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 11 A beautiful fairytale with hope for a better world. “…and then it’s all just lightness, forever.” “In This World, They’re Married” by Ashlynn Perez in Wigleaf 2024 wigleaf.com/202409world....

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 10. A beautiful disability-focused piece. “Our daughter imagined how the blind read with the touch of a finger. She asked which words were written in the creases of trees’ bark.” “Dusk” by Andrew Siegrist Wigleaf in 2024. wigleaf.com/202401dusk.htm

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge Day 9 The tension in this piece is heartbreaking. “God says happiness is complicated and bad for business.” Uncertain Bodies by Kate Tooley in Wigleaf 2023. wigleaf.com/202301bodies...

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 8. Here’s some more quiet happiness. “We will lie in our bed in the dark gray dawn and listen to the birds sing and swear it is the first time we have heard them.” “Tonight, We Are Awake” by Melissa Goode in Wigleaf in 2018. wigleaf.com/201802tonigh...

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 7. There are so many beautiful lines in this. “Over the four months she had imagined language, it had gained shimmering spires and immense glass floors.” “Noise” by Ellen Ellis in Wigleaf 2019. wigleaf.com/201903noise....

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 6 This is an amazing way to explore desire. “I Did All the Asking” by Emily James from Wigleaf in 2019. wigleaf.com/202301asking...

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 5. I love this quiet moment of happiness in “Soap” from Katrina Denza from 2008 in Wigleaf. wigleaf.com/200804soap.htm

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 4. I love how strange and imaginative this one is. “Miracle Cake” by Ravi Mangla from Wigleaf in 2008. wigleaf.com/200810cake.htm

This story is amazing! Congratulations, Cole! @nomad-sw18.bsky.social

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 3. This one isn’t from long ago, but I love the dreamy time travel. “I’m in Love with the Cave Man” Epiphany Ferrell 2024 in Wigleaf. wigleaf.com/202403cavema...

@smokelong.bsky.social One more for Archive Challenge day 2. I love the language in this one. “It was a shaky morning, infested with car horns…” Howie Good “Hitchhiking Through the Apocalypse” 2016 in Wigleaf wigleaf.com/201612hitch....

I’m honored to have my erasure poem in the beautiful issue 7 of Raw Lit. Thank you to EIC @delgeo14.bsky.social rawlit.weebly.com/issue7.html

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge: I love the quiet interactions between the couple in “Apocalypse Story” by Roxanne Gay from 2012. wigleaf.com/201203as.htm

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge: I love the way Eric Beeny plays with language in this one. From Wigleaf in 2012. wigleaf.com/201204alone....

Coming on Thursday!

@smokelong.bsky.social Here’s one for the archive challenge. Both heartbreaking and beautiful. “The Cure” from Wigleaf in 2024 by @megpokrass.bsky.social. wigleaf.com/202409cure.htm

I’m honored to be among these contributors!

Exciting publication news! Raw Lit accepted my erasure poem!

This spoken word piece about how we we are all teen girls is amazing! youtu.be/MHaCKwYCFZs?...

I’m so excited that my flash CNF piece, “Hands,” was accepted by BULL. Thank you @mrbullbull.bsky.social for giving my piece a great home. Thank you also to @smokelong.bsky.social whose workshop inspired this piece. It’s forthcoming in the next few months.

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An awesome friend brought me S.W.A.G. from AWP! Thanks, @smokelong.bsky.social!

3 more days to bid on my dad’s guitar pick art benefiting an equine assisted counseling program for veterans and first responders. givebutter.com/c/gDzXtW

My dad made this guitar pick art piece to benefit my cousin’s equine-assisted counseling program for veterans and first responders. Please check out the auction here and feel free to share! #art givebutter.com/c/gDzXtW?fbc...

Enjoy “Fracture Lines” by Karen Baumgart. The winner of @micromancemagazine.bsky.social’s Cupid Prize for love literature stories between 101-500 words. open.substack.com/pub/microman...

Here’s my 100-word horror story “The Perfect Shade of Red.” Content warning for domestic violence and body horror. It’s in the drabble section. horrortree.com/trembling-wi...

I’m so proud to have a piece in a journal that was featured on a top 10 list of favorite flash magazines. Congratulations, @micromancemagazine.bsky.social!

This is my very personal piece about dating with a disability. It’s not a flash or micro piece, but it will always be one of my favorites. “The Zoo” was published in Under the Gum Tree in 2018. underthegumtree.com/product/issu...

I’m excited to share that my story, “Perfect in Love,” has been nominated for Best Small Fictions by @micromancemagazine.bsky.social. Read it here! open.substack.com/pub/microman...