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We’re having a super proud mom moment for @aniking.bsky.social being selected for the 2026 Best Microfiction anthology! 🎉 And huge thanks to the editors of @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social & @dseuss.bsky.social for your hard work and care in selecting these pieces. Congrats to all the winners!

Holy crap! Congrats everyone and so incredible to be on this list!!

It's impossible to isolate just one gorgeous, pithy line from this new story by @aniking.bsky.social. So, here, have them all. Read the full story and more at paranoidtree.com/read/vol-60. Wishing you all a warm, dry & well-fed holiday season. 🍊

I fricking love a zine, so @paranoidxtree.bsky.social has been on my dream list for such a long time. Guess how excited I am to have this story in digital and print? GUESS?? And Kelly Emmrich’s art brings a whole new layer, I love it so much. www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-60

My first Pushcart nomination! I am beyond grateful and honored. Thank you so much @paranoidxtree.bsky.social for loving my story as much as I did 💚

“Rage in Retail” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! Thank you so much, @paranoidxtree.bsky.social, and congratulations to all of my fellow nominees! ⚡️💚

Announcing our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees. ⚡ 💚 Congrats & thanks to you all for sharing your talents with us at Paranoid Tree!

A subscription to Paranoid Tree is the perfect gift for: - Your cool artsy cousin - Brave readers with eclectic taste - Your biggest crush Treat someone to a new short story in the mail every month. 💌 Get 2 free issues with each subscription—for a limited time! paranoidtree.com/subscriptions

Make sure you read this today, Black Friday: @jennymliu.bsky.social @paranoidxtree.bsky.social

New CNF (my first!) is out now at @paranoidxtree.bsky.social 🛍️ I wrote it almost exactly a month before I quit this job and didn't think I would ever send it out. Grateful to the editors for picking this up and Ruth Baccam for grasping the crux of this story when they created the accompanying art 💞

"I spend too much on supportive shoes. There is a mound of black on the back of my door, hanging ghouls perfumed with company-gifted By Kilian—it is a wardrobe for a funeral, the mourning of." New CNF by Jenny M. Liu. Sending solidarity to retail workers this season! paranoidtree.com/read/vol-59

“You would never guess our power from the occasional King Cake cameo.” @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58

“You know us. We are the original gang of tiny plastic babies.” What a delight to wake up to @janstinchcomb.bsky.social’s gang in my inbox

Once more for the night crowd:

Because everything is terrible, allow me to share these little creeps with you. Always a pleasure to work with @paranoidxtree.bsky.social & thank you to Kate Voronina for the illustration. www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58

Our October issue is here and ready to CREEP. YOU. OUT. Many thanks to @janstinchcomb.bsky.social for setting the atmosphere with this story & to Kate Voronina for putting such a delightfully horrific face on it. 💚 🖤 Read the full story ➡️ www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58

Heading back to the Midwest for my book tour in November. Catch me at Dual Citizen in St Paul for a Twin Cities Book Festival after party with a kickass lineup of readers. Hosted by @paranoidxtree.bsky.social and @conium.bsky.social dcbc.com/event/shapes...

Excited to be sharing our 2025 Best of the Net nominees! Thank you to all the writers and artists who make our pages look so pretty. Savor each story at paranoidtree.com 💌 ⚡

🎉🎉🎉 Party Alert! In partnership with @conium.bsky.social, we will be hosting Shapes & Sound, a reading event & book/zine party. Come hang with us at Dual Citizen Brewery on 11/8. Beverages will be available for purchase and we’ll have some snacks for y’all to enjoy! No RSVP and totally free. ❤️

Had a book published before mid-2021? Take 5 minutes to see if it's listed here and if so another 5 to enter info. And look up your grandma's book, the book of your friend, etc. and let them know

We're still trying to raise $246 this year to cover expenses, if you're feeling generous. We'll never charge a submission fee, and we pay our writers. Your help will also ensure that we can bring on a guest editor in the new year, to avoid that whole 'monolithic voice' business 💛🖤 Thank you. 🐝

Read my little story online here! I'm still so happy this found such a perfect home. One of the few stories that I wrote without prompts and/or a deadline, just a growing appreciation of nature coupled with a growing heartbreak over how we treat it. Go hug a tree today 💚

New issue alert! It has multiple sets of wings and eyes and creepy crawlies. Just in time for fall. Full story here: www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-57

Always a good mail day when a new issue of @paranoidxtree.bsky.social shows up! Love this evocative little ticket to defying gravity (if briefly)...

"You may be groped. You may be robbed. You may be kicked or punched." Courtney Skaggs (& Alyssa Bluhm!) in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-56

Twin Cities folks!!! @paranoidxtree.bsky.social is looking for an assistant editor!

Join Our Team! 💌 Paranoid Tree is looking for a new Assistant Editor. This paid position will be local to the Twin Cities. More details and our application can be found at the link in our bio! Apply by September 19 🥦⚡️

the @paranoidxtree.bsky.social sale got extended through Monday; add my King Kong zine to your library for $3!

If you could paint the Mona Lisa a new smile, what would it look like? Thanks to Leo Covault, you've got options. We're obsessed with his paper doll illustrations for our latest issue, feat. CNF by Max Fischer. Shoutout to our friend Garrick for giving in to the impulse to assemble this one. 💌

my King Kong zine is just $3 + shipping, y'all; don't miss this great sale from @paranoidxtree.bsky.social! www.paranoidtree.com/issues/p/vol...

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Back Issue Summer Sale!!! We're tired of hoarding all these oldies, but goodies all to ourselves. Become a Paranoid Tree completist! Volumes 1-30 are only $3 apiece! Sale ends Mon, Aug 11. Check it out at the link in our bio. Happy reading!

Another gorgeous story up at @paranoidxtree.bsky.social "When she returns to the tree, she collects the most intact exoskeletons from the bark, pulling gently so they don’t break under her fingers." paranoidtree.com/read/vol-54

new on our mainpage: THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 (selecting editor @samanito.bsky.social )

"The girl’s stained fingers slip the necklace over her grandmother’s neck as she prays to something, everything. She waits for her grandmother to emerge, wings fresh and hungry for flight." Daily reads @heyhaylimay.bsky.social in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social ❤️

Read @heyhaylimay.bsky.social‬ capture the creepy crawl of childhood nostalgia, drenched in deep berry-toned art by Kiki Lana. New issue out now! 💌 🍇 🐜 paranoidtree.com/read/vol-54

It might be Friday the 13th, but we feel like the luckiest alive ⚡️💕

"The radio plays a melody from the past; I’m only half listening. I’d say it makes me think of you, but that is only part true. There’s an 88% chance we exist as a series of unexpressed possibilities—here, now, then, everywhere." A little love poem to wrap up your week: paranoidtree.com/read/vol-53

If you’re looking for a home for a spooky piece of microfiction, today is a great day to send it our way! We’re on the hunt for creepy stories to feature in our fall issues 👻🎃

Volume 53 just landed! Featuring sky-high art by Vivian Steckline and a dreamy double feature of poems by Ana Reisens. Read them online & in print ✈️ paranoidtree.com/read/vol-53

Hey lit mag community! 📖 Has anyone here ever shared their publishing archives with the EBSCO database? They recently sent us a very kind request to post our issues on their platform. Seems legit, but we worry this could be a ploy to train an LLM. Looking for some experienced perspectives. Thanks!

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Fee-Free General Literary Flash Fiction feat. @theoffingmag.bsky.social @paranoidxtree.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @existotherwise.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

I... guess I've been a little busy* the past several months *aka anxious #crochet (and a tiny bit of #knitting)

Sending a hug and a poem to anyone who needs them today. 💕 Read more of "Compassion Fatigue" by Nikita Deshpande, with art by Leah Kehr ➡️ paranoidtree.com/read/vol-52

Holy moly, the new volume of @paranoidxtree.bsky.social is breathtaking: "You walked out of the sea for something. When you had nothing but a cave for a home and dripping stalactites for a roof, you'd scratch rock into the walls by lamplight to say I am here." www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-52

Sending a hug and a poem to anyone who needs them today. 💕 Read more of "Compassion Fatigue" by Nikita Deshpande, with art by Leah Kehr ➡️ paranoidtree.com/read/vol-52

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Dalmatians” by Natalie Warther is now up! Art by Lauren Walke flash-frog.com/2025/04/14/d...

Looking to boost our autistic poet friends on here today—share a poem and we'll 🔄 you! Thank you in advance for making the world more beautiful with your voice 💕⚡

We had so much fun reading the submissions for our Experimenting with Form issue! Here it is in all its glory, featuring Marek Danielewski, Mai Hindawi, Lukas Wood, Jonathan McLelland, and JI Kleinberg. fastflesh.net/issue-10