ICYMI - I've got a flash up in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social this week. Just in case you want to read about mimes, sax solos, & incontinent goats, among other plagues. www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/lofflin/t...

“Last Thursday, for example, I stuck my head in the oven and waited for death; but instead I grew wings, flew to Heaven, and killed God. It was a whole thing.”

"The castle sways more and more, and the father says they must remain diligent. No cutting corners. Each floor must be stronger than the last."

I have a little piece up at one of my favorite journals today. Many thanks to the good folks at matchbook for giving it a home.

Holy fuck this book delivers

“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

“Sometimes he dreamed he was the prey and sometimes he dreamed he was the predator, hungry and quiet in the dark, and what he wanted to be was a secret third thing that was neither hunter nor hunted.”

NY friends, check out the launch for ECO24!

A remake of Streetcar Named Desire set in outerspace would be called Interstella.

“Creature arrived at the farm this morning with the sky waking in wounded red, and all the cows were lying down in the field and the hairs on his arm, soft and spare as a woman’s, were standing on end.” I love this flash by @thehagsoup.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social

No Kings.

“Bits of shell are your only tenants, though even these are few, as if everything living or that once grew life was swallowed by the night.”

I keep obsessing over the khachapuri I ate last December in Prague. I so need a Georgian restaurant to open near me.

Creepy in the best possible way!!!!

"What if time itself is a kind of wound?" Joshua Jones Lofflin is our featured author this week. Read @jjlofflin.bsky.social's interview that accompanies his award-winning story. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

FLASH FROGTOBER 👻🐸 “Night is a Mouth with No Shape” by @jjlofflin.bsky.social is now up! Art by @olaal-fateh.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/10/13/n...

I have a little Spooky Season piece for everyone up in @flashfrog.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy. A big thanks to @ericscottryon.bsky.social for giving this a home. flash-frog.com/2025/10/13/n...

“But what did I know? I was just saying a word in real life that I’d only heard in movies” New micro from @kimmagowan.bsky.social !

Y’all, it actually has veins 😬

Nothing like the sounds of strange scrapes and scratchings coming from the attic to usher in Spooky Season. 😱

Happy pub day to the brilliant @angieellis.bsky.social ! thistledownpress.com/product/a-sn...

"I loved a man I would have to leave. (Or: I loved a man because I would have to leave.) (Or: Because I had to leave this man, I would always love him.)" the longing in this excellent piece from @dinalrelles.bsky.social

“Every ghost caves. Maybe it’s boredom. Perhaps curiosity. But it starts with nudity, with peeping.” I always love reading @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social & doubly so during Flash Frogtober

Watching Japanese otters on YouTube is the palette cleanser I need

FLASH FROGTOBER is just around the corner! 👻🐸👻 And you all aren’t ready… These aren’t your grandparents’ ghost stories! 👀

Always love Josh's stories, this one is great! Kinda creepy, vaguely naughty, altogether unsettling and clever.

I love a story that touches on the unsettling and strange, and @jjlofflin.bsky.social does that so well!

“People know they need something that always tastes the same and people know they need something that will make their eyes water and people know they need cheese in a color that did not exist in Eden.” Angela Townsend’s “The People Persevere” in @trampset.bsky.social trampset.org/the-people-p...

“She could see the fork at the side of his head, a small rod connecting with the lightning inside. A broad flash, or that thin spine of light, both of them quick and then gone.” trampset.org/flash-18d88f...

Our Sept issue is now live, featuring @juliastrayer.bsky.social @catemcgowan.com Nathaniel Julien Brame, Litong Nie, Jane Wageman, Seth Hagen, Sacha Bissonnette, & @jjlofflin.bsky.social trampset.org

I have a small piece up at trampset today about cutaneous horns. A big thanks to the editors for giving it a home.

Was busy getting raptured* today, did I miss anything? *hanging out at the beach

I’ll now think of this every time I hear the Thompson Twins sing Doctor Doctor

“In another life, Cassie lives. She wakes up in the hospital, a slow blinking to consciousness, and the doctors say miracle.” More stellar work from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social

“The day of my funeral your mother looks at your hangdog face and asks what's the matter with you, as if the dissipated matter of me is not obvious enough.” Excellent new work from @jmgatford.bsky.social

Amazing new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social! With new flash narratives by @aimee-bender.bsky.social, @jjlofflin.bsky.social, Nora Esme Wagner, Colette Love Hilliard, Sagar Nair, L.F. Khouri, Vaibhavi Kerkar, Christina Tudor, Mary Ann McGuigan, and AJ O’Reilly! www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

#3 followed by three full minutes of howling laughter because your cat is staring at you with such undisguised contempt

I’m thrilled to have my flash in this issue alongside so many brilliant writers.

It was great chatting with @bookbent.bsky.social at my local bookstore ( @curiousiguana.com rocks) and picking up this beauty

this is gonna rip and what a title !!!

Pulp @ The Anthem

Waiting for Pulp to come on stage. Can’t wait to hear Common People live.

THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮 @marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿 Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design

I’m so excited for this book

“when I saw a job ad looking for a “big guy” who was willing to “become anonymous” and to live in a “dungeon”, I said: Bingo.” Fantastic new work from @glennorgias.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...

“one Nike in front of the other, left then right then left, a blur, bending, blending, as if she has one shoe one sock one foot at one ankle leading up to one long, sweaty leg” @dianegotauthor.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/gottlieb/...

Early morning acceptance dance

“The birthmark mutates like a shadow on asphalt. Like a thunderstorm, hovering and ominous, the birthmark darkens.” @christinaltudor.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/tudor/bir...

“Sisyphean was my first, unkind thought. Mother was my second, and it became an exhale.”