“The heads have all been accounted for. The lockers are glued shut. There is a coat rack but no appropriate place to store a hat.” This piece from Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece in @hexliterary.bsky.social will knock your socks off (or maybe your head) hexliterary.com?p=3354

“The water in the waiting room is rising, but slowly.” Excellent new work (x2!) from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social

Another brilliant @jjlofflin.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!!!

FRESH FICTION FRIDAY! Check out our June issue opener — “FLEKKE” by Joshua Jones Lofflin. Top ten reasons to go on an IKEA date, and the meatballs are 1-9 😄 #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading

My story is live now on @flashfictiononline.bsky.social if anyone wants to read about dates at IKEA. Many thanks to the editors for giving it a home. flashfictiononline.com/issues/june-...

“This all started when those loose zebras were frolicking across suburban Maryland.” Stellar flash from @chelseastickle.bsky.social in @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/it-...

I’m thrilled to be part of this issue.

“So God looks down from heaven and says to Cain, ‘You have to invent murder.’ Cain looks up from the field and says, ‘OK, you got it, God. What’s murder?’” I love this story from @isabel.kim in Strange Pilgrims www.strangepilgrims.com/p/nomenclatu...

“In the movies the silk grows from his fingertips in long strips of soft, caressing tissue.” Fantastic work from @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @villaineralit.bsky.social villaineralit.com/2026/03/24/s...

These pieces are fantastic

In case you are interested: Submission open May 25 to June 2. Just sayin. www.matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

“A changeling in the family is not a tragedy or even a problem for her daughter’s generation, though some parents still take steps to keep the fairies out.” Some perfect Mother’s Day reading from @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/01/c...

Spending the day in DC with this amazing graduate.

I’ll never understand plagiarists

“I want to take something that tilts their universe a few more degrees. Something they can’t simply shrug away.” Brilliant flash from @ericscottryon.bsky.social in @passagesnorth.bsky.social www.passagesnorth.com/the-things-w...

A video game you’ve completed more than six times.

“It’s already over once you see the blood.” Fantastic, creepy work from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in Weird Horror Magazine www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/you-were-jus...

“The house is a tower. The tower is still finding its feet. It was pulled down. It was put up.” I love the language in this @mattkendrick.bsky.social flash in @nervetowrite.bsky.social www.nervetowrite.com/post/little-...

they should invent a goodreads where cool small press books get thousands and thousands of reviews and big dumb mainstream books get dozens

reader: wow this seems effortless. writer: it took me ten years & 400 drafts to complete this story

So excited to have a weekend not entirely consumed by DIY (it’s only partially consumed).

"The radio man shares the story of the world’s end, at least according to a push notification from his astrology app"

I love seeing @angieellis.bsky.social on this list. Her story is brilliant.

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

“She was obsessed with the devil, so it’s no surprise we ended up here. I heard the police questioned her for twelve hours.” Some hellish fiction (in the best possible way) from @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/38/que...

Finally some useful writing advice.

“Behold this angel now: a crowd of bored tourists watching her chisel a crucifix, a heart, a dog with his leg cocked, a tiny woman who looks like you, each feature perfectly modelled in salt.” This @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social flash in @wigleaf.bsky.social is excellent.

“That summer was all exoskeleton—sunburns peeling from our shoulders, lemonade sweating through the glass, the ache of outgrowing.” Fantastic micro from @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/sozdinler...

I’m completely exhausted from AWP, but am so grateful to have seen so many amazing writers. As usual, I went too crazy in the book fair.

Your writing prompt, AWP edition: this unattended box of doughnuts in the men’s room just off the book fair.

The Split Lip fam is showing👏 up👏 ❤️ Fiction contributor @kaylalightner.bsky.social with @annablabs.bsky.social. ❤️ Contributor Josh Jones with former Asst. Editor @anniejowrites.bsky.social. ❤️ Flash reader Amanda Ellard.

Hanging out with @writesloud.bsky.social this afternoon has been the perfect kickoff to AWP

It’s AWP-eve and I still have no idea which events/panels I’m going to hit.

“The spleen exchange she suggested, I rejected. Too invasive. But teeth—teeth were already so visibly exposed.”

“and we all brought our dogs because we loved them but also because there were bears in the area, grizzly bears, a mum and her cubs for sure we were told and who knew what else once you got onto the trails”

We're open for your submission and your submissions and your missions and your subs, of all sorts.

@outlooksprings.bsky.social is opening soon and they’re brilliant

Oh god. I’d forgotten how terrible (and how long) tv commercials are.

“the seventh girl, Nancy, is the board, Nancy is our favorite, she’s literally begging for a party of demons to come inside” New sizzling witchy flash from @aniking.bsky.social

Absolutely appalling. The ICE thugs responsible for this brutal attack on Alberto Castañeda Mondragón must be held accountable. Please read the whole article.

“She left her job at the armory after giving two weeks’ notice, which puts a wrench in the sudden aspect of the narrative. Suddenness is, perhaps, a subjective attribute.”

“Once, the island beyond the city belonged to wolves.” an apocalyptic banger from @marioaliberto3.bsky.social

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Reminder that Nazi soldiers were tried and convicted of war crimes after World War II. These ICE thugs must be held accountable for the murders they have committed.

“She closed her eyes, hands resting on the egg’s box, and pictured a tiny man curled inside the shell. He resembled Wyatt, in khaki slacks and a pastel button-up” @ellenrhudy.bsky.social does corporate dystopia so well.

“Maybe humans, too, are governed by Newton’s first law. They remain in motion, follow a straight line, keep doing what they’ve always done.” @dinalrelles.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/me...

The most recent: Bishop Allen & Mates of State The Flaming Lips Rilo Kiley Pulp DeVotchKa

Many thanks to the good folks at trampset for nominating my story!