If you ever have an opportunity to work with editor @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, jump. Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks. dianegottlieb.com/conversation...

weekly talk story about @bambooridge.bsky.social Pop-Up hosted by @mistahdonald.bsky.social and @expositionreview.bsky.social's FLASH 405 announcement coming this Friday... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

Open ‘em. Break ‘em down. Maybe even walk through a door or two into your next story! Nice tip @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!

“No shame auntie.” Oof! New story by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social

Oh, Mandy! New story by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social

“Later, after the officer fishes the red hat out of the lake—adrift like flotsam on surface tension….” New story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social.

This title! And that ending! 😍 New story by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social

Looking forward to this @marioaliberto3.bsky.social!

Really admire how the definitions add depth to this wonderful story by @charhamrick.bsky.social. www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Hamri...

Yes! Yes! Yes! @marioaliberto3.bsky.social and Tampa are a good match. As is your Dad’s poet hat and YOU!

Oh, the thighs in this story! Good one, @marioaliberto3.bsky.social!

Aaaaand we're officially back! And even better: we're open for submissions.✨ We can't wait to dive back into your work!

So glad to have this support @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social. I am (obviously) biased but this book is special with @kimsrogers.bsky.social @charhamrick.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie and Ed @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social

So many great lines to quote from this story, many maybe not appropriate to share here. But this will give you an idea of the story’s tone. “Ah, I’m a teetotaller myself!” Reynolds said sliding off the bar. He tapped a nostril. “Except the odd snoot toot of Columbian booger sugar.” Just read it!

Today is @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social launch day! I’m celebrating with my micro “The Devil You Don’t Know” - originally published in The Ilanot Review.

This! It's so much more fun to celebrate than denigrate. I'll take puppies any day!

Prepare to be Wrecked: Indeed. Congrats @ronita.bsky.social. Your title is spot on, too.

I'm looking forward to reading @snowhydro.bsky.social's new book--MELTDOWN. It's making its way to me now. Meanwhile, I'm reading this excerpt.

Hey #birders. Highly recommend this piece on Florence Merriam Bailey (by @melissasevigny.bsky.social) who recommended the use of binoculars--& not guns--in birding. “The fact of the matter is,” she wrote...“you can identify perhaps 90 percent of the birds you see with an opera-glass and patience.”

Love a layered title and this is definitely one. Congrats @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!

Dogs like books, too! Here’s proof:-) 🐾

“After the men cut our voice boxes out, women began swallowing birds.” Such an inventive hopeful story by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

Oh @claudiamonpere.bsky.social this is heartbreakingly beautiful.

Grieving Hope is now available! Don't miss this five-in-one collection featuring chapbooks by Charlotte Hamrick, @kimsrogers.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, and Janet Murie. #flashfiction #writingcommunity

Look! 👀

This is an absolutely nuts of a story—and I’m here for it. @sarahillswrites.bsky.social is at it again with her usual brilliance!

What a stellar team! 💋

So foreboding and strangely appropriate for the U.S. these days. By @claudiamonpere.bsky.social

Now this is an insightful look into a taxidermist! By @lumchanmfa.bsky.social

Whoa! This is grossly good and revealing!

And I’m kindly in Bath along the River Avon, enjoying the birds and kindness of an old city—and a flood of stories!

Thanks @marioaliberto3.bsky.social. Always appreciate your support and enthusiasm!

Oh, David…. By @dawnsteffler.bsky.social

It was lovely to share and hear @kimsrogers.bsky.social @charlotteham504.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie from our Grieving Hope anthology ed @dianegotauthor.bsky.social from @emergejournal.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who joined in! Words are magic. Words can heal.

Miss the launch party for ALL THE DEAD WE HAVE YET TO BURY? Thanks to @chestnutreview.bsky.social here's a video! Hear me read a couple of stories, but more than that, how about stories from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @amymarques.bsky.social and @kimsrogers.bsky.social? Link 👇❗️ youtu.be/WGI5pv_7_H4

"Halley’s Comet passes, and Moon lets go of Earth’s hands. One finger at a time until they’re connected only by a pinkie, and then not even pinkies." Such a tender story and relationship between Moon and Earth. Love it @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!

Join us for our launch: Sat at 2 p.m. ET. Link in comments. Joining me will be @charlotteham504.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social @ronita.bsky.social and Janet Murie. Five chapbooks nested within the covers of one volume. Big gratitude to editor @dianegotauthor & publisher @elj_editions_ltd.

Lovely recognition for @claudiamonpere.bsky.social, educator, writer, phenomenal human being! So glad you shared this @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social.

What an amazing review of @dawnsteffler.bsky.social's incredible body of work!

It arrived! Thanks @mooncityreview.bsky.social for saying yes to this story. What a lovely chunky book chock full of amazing writers. Got my tea and ready for some Sunday reading!

Launch day nears for DENATURED: STORIES OF CHANGE included in GRIEVING HOPE. Would love to see you in the virtual audience! (Link below.) Mahalo @dianegotauthor.bsky.social. Congrats fellow authors @charlotteham504.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social & Janet Murie.

I'm sure I'll be jet-lagged, so forgive me if I mumble a bit at this NFFD in-person event, but I'll be there! Who else?

So much unsaid. So much understood. So much tension. Ooof. New by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social.

“They say a mother’s love is enough to lift a truck to save her child, but I barely had the strength to shine a phone lantern under the shelf, stick in a rolled-up flyer….” @amymarques.bsky.social captures the small monumental moments in this small momentous story.

Such a cool cover. Excited to be included. Fun. Fun.

Here's @claudiamonpere.bsky.social mathing in @mooncityreview.bsky.social. Congrats, Claudia. Your creativity never fails to amaze me!

Will they or won't they survive? I have my thoughts! A story about sour milk by @amymarques.bsky.social.

I can smell the cherry blossoms from here! Congrats @marioaliberto3.bsky.social. Another good one! I especially like the use of line breaks here; very effective!

Here's @lumchanmfa.bsky.social with a triptych of captivating Hawaii sketches, like a pupu platter of the life in the Islands. Ho! cutleafjournal.com/content/tako... #flash #writing #hawaii

“In an alternate timeline, you wouldn’t be flushing your estrogen and testosterone blockers down the toilet.” Heartfelt and heartbreaking by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social.