Escape to the circus! Here's a little speculative tale about the trapeze, timing and getting more than you bargained for in a bumper issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social ♥️to editors @jmcm.bsky.social @lozzawriting.bsky.social - a pleasure to work with you www.frazzledlit.com/p/letting-go...

Delighted to have 2 stories in this amazing issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social What a treat to appear with so many stellar writers incl @elissafield.bsky.social @delgeo14.bsky.social @barbarabyar.bsky.social Letting go www.frazzledlit.com/p/letting-go Marie Kondo www.frazzledlit.com/p/and-now-i-...

"She didn’t know it was you who saw the bruises before she covered them up with sleeves and makeup." Great use of anaphora in this hard-hitting tale from @iamagnat.bsky.social - read or listen to it in Issue 4 of @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/she-didnt-...

"I started to crave simplicity, the clean metallic planes of the machine. It calmed me, like the moon used to." Love this poem "The reassurance machine" by @jorigg.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/two-poems-...

One of those stories that grabs you by the shoulder and then by the throat a little, not really letting you go. @eireneeleni.bsky.social writes a belter of a tale. Take a look!

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A little story in @frazzledlit.bsky.social I’d love to know what emotion it leaves you with. www.frazzledlit.com/p/what-doesn...

One of those stories that grabs you by the shoulder and then by the throat a little, not really letting you go. @eireneeleni.bsky.social writes a belter of a tale. Take a look!

Gritty and brave. Just the way we like the stories to be. Listen to @chriscottom.bsky.social and Read this story by @yalanchang.bsky.social before you do another thing.

And just like that, issue 4 is live! We are indebted to all our contributors, our readers, and audience. Thanks to the amazing @jmcm.bsky.social for putting together another terrific and most gorgeous issue. www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha...

Our latest issue dropped last Sunday. If you've not had a chance to look at it yet, you can find it here! www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha... Our writers would love it if you looked!

Set across liminal landscapes, Four Night Seas is a collection of stories from award-winning author Niamh Mac Cabe. The collection is due to be released on March 19th and is available for preorder now at lilliputpress.ie!

After a long period of not writing or submitting, I have 3 stories in the bumper issue of the wonderful @frazzledlit.bsky.social Written about my lovely dad, it's called 'Let's talk about trees' - www.frazzledlit.com/p/lets-talk-... #story

'Do it just once, taxes will go down, dad said. Cat in her white dress disagreed in charades behind him, perched on the table scuffed with coffee rings and knife scars. Eating plums.' www.frazzledlit.com/p/the-house-... Thanks @frazzledlit.bsky.social for publishing this woozy story, it means a lot

Raise a statue to me, reluctant daughter of obedience. The ridiculous make monsters too.... Love this from @eireneeleni.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/authorjm... “Skin”, my flash fiction offering in the jam packed new issue of Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social

"Look how mundane objects turn into dignified subjects, you told me, how time can pass in a leaf fall." Big love for this piece of writing by @kiklodge.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

New @elissafield.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social is absolutely stunning.

“You give me an awkward, oru-second embrace, your stubble grazing my cheek. I hadn’t anticipated the time stamps …” @sudhab.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/before-aft...

"*Not now*, you say. *The vet is waiting*, you say. *When I’m home*, you say. Need the silence of the car, windows up. Drive out to the barn. Flash of copper, flash of star, as if there were maybe still a chance." @elissafield.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/perfect-star

"‘Did you, did you really allow yourself to love and be loved?’ ‘Being in love makes me angry with being me.’" @catherineobrien.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/pretty-is-...

"My routine was designed to be performed to *Highway to Hell* played on a crackly loud speaker. Across the same radio waves, I can still hear my mother praying, but she’s got the wrong idea for what I need." @amygcb.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/the-balanc...

"I remember you saying look properly, doofus ..." "This is just to say it takes time to learn to be the right kind of sister." @kiklodge.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/theres-sti...

"Each day I wove a funeral shroud. Each night I undid the stitches by the light of an uncertain moon." @bsherm36.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/penelope-b...

"I point to abandonment. Isn’t that my whole job, letting go of the trapeze bar, soaring through space toward what will be?" @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/letting-go

‘At last, the dirty water baby has become a queen.’ Wonderfully evocative writing from @bsherm36.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social 🌊 www.frazzledlit.com/p/penelope-b...

'Junwei will be caned later today.' What an opening line in this bad boy story by @yalanchang.bsky.social in Issue 4 of Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social. www.frazzledlit.com/p/they-say-j...

Just listened to this Elissa, it’s a beautifully written piece with emotional resonance. Gorgeous writing. 🤩 @elissafield.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social

Just reread this for the second time. stunning writing! 🌟 @eireneeleni.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social

I’ve just read The Siren, The Tide and the Cicadas. Such a gorgeous piece with a moving ending! ❤️ @delgeo14.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social

Working my way through this. It is gorgeous indeed. I‘m particularly enjoying hearing the authors reading their own work. Tons of stories, hours of pleasure. You have to read these! 🥰

“‘Do you get the screams?’ Hank asked a long time ago and just like that her creeping neon ants got a name.” The voice in this gallop of a story! @eireneeleni.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social

"this time I will not betray myself" My poem in the @frazzledlit.bsky.social 🖤

You wondered why she needed sleeping pills when she was so busy and did so much all day. How tired she must have been already. This is so poignant! @delgeo14.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social

Need to move some things around tomorrow so I can sit down and read THIS. 🥰 @frazzledlit.bsky.social

Thanks @frazzledlit.bsky.social for including my piece! Do check out all the amazing stories in this bumper issue!

“You say, ‘I want to hear you sing…’” This beautiful story by @sudhab.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social!❤️

Would it have been better to stay within the comfort zone instead of venturing out? Beautiful, exploratory CNF by @ashkrish.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social 👏👏 www.frazzledlit.com/p/lost-and-f...

Brilliant flash by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social “Still, regret rings through me like a tuning fork.” Brings a whole new meaning to “spark joy”!

Thank you @frazzledlit.bsky.social for including 3 of my pieces in your fab 4th issue, another wowzer from dream team @jmcm.bsky.social and @lozzawriting.bsky.social. Links in comments.

We are so grateful for all the kind words and views we have had through the door since yesterday! To our staff readers: @valpoet.bsky.social @louloumach.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @kerrybyrne.bsky.social couldn't have done it without you. www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha...

‘You went on about that mural they found in Herculaneum at some guy’s house with dead partridges, agaric mushrooms and eels with dangling tails’. Such a richly detailed flash from @kiklodge.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social (you really must listen to the author’s recording). So, so good.

Thrilled to have two poems titled "Self Factory" and "Girl Factory" in the new issue of the splendid @frazzledlit.bsky.social 💜 #poetry #poetrysky Read and listen on here: www.frazzledlit.com/p/self-facto...

Excited to see the filly story I wrote in August, Perfect Star, has gone live @frazzledlit.bsky.social today. Thanks to Jennifer & Laura, amazing editors. And thanks Flash Pack and @smokelong.bsky.social workshop peeps who were first to read it! tinyurl.com/3cxejzz8 #fiction #shortstory

My first publication of 2026 comes from @frazzledlit.bsky.social. Read "Ars Poetica: Disorientation" here: www.frazzledlit.com/p/ars-poetic...

So excited to be part of Issue 4 with my short story 'Pretty is Pain'. There's a lot of young(er) me in this story that I hope resonates with others. www.frazzledlit.com/p/pretty-is-...

"In the car, you say, 'I want to hear you sing. Paaden?' Long ago, I’d sit behind you on your Bajaj scooter, my voice swirling in the wind." I really love this story (and a perfect last line!) by @sudhab.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

So pleased to have a piece of ‘creative non-fiction’ in the brilliant @frazzledlit.bsky.social issue 4, launched today. My piece is ‘Asylum’, in the “pensive & reflective” section. Find it at Frazzledlit.com Thanks to the fantastic editorial team, Jennifer & Laura!

Thank you to frazzledlit.com @frazzledlit.bsky.social For publishing my essay, "We Want Medals for our Lost Autonomy". Thank you to Jennifer McMahon, @jmcm.bsky.social Congratulations to all the authors of Issue 4!!!