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We have a great new piece today from Soramimi Hanarejima! Check out “Home Economics.” lost-balloon.com/2026/03/25/h...

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POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26752117..., packed with stories first published in Ellipsis Zine, Jellyfish Review, @okaydonkeymag.com, @splonk.bsky.social, @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social, @antiheroinchic.bsky.social, @trampset.bsky.social, @lostballoon.bsky.social AND MORE! #booksky 📚💙

New piece alert! You are going to love this new nonfiction by @samannemoe.bsky.social! Check out “Slam.” lost-balloon.com/2026/03/18/s...

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A heads up for those who want to submit to @lostballoon.bsky.social -- we've tweaked our submission guidelines. We're now accepting stories 750 words or less (used to be 1000). We'll be open the first week of April -- get your stories ready!

We have a great new piece today from Tessa McHattie! Check out “Opening a Door.” lost-balloon.com/2026/03/04/o...

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"Felix is eight years old, and I have no idea how to keep him safe in this world. When a child’s gravity inverts the family has two choices..." So much truth in this inventive piece.

"The growing moonbounce of his walk, his arms slightly levitating off the dinner table when we ate together." Love love love this surreal and yet all too real piece by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social

Chris is a very special writer. I’ve been following him for years, starting when Twitter was fun. My late friend Macy (bossybritches on Twitter) and I would send each other screenshots of his tweets, crying with laughter and marveling at how his brain works. I really miss those days

A new sentimental flash from me at the amazing @lostballoon.bsky.social

"I watch Felix crawl across the ceiling, over the metal brackets keeping his bed suspended and secure, and onto the mattress. It’s heavily reinforced, but I still worry I didn’t do it right. I worry about everything." Read this amazing story by Chris!

Yeah they're right I did love it.

‘I’m still on the waiting list for netting while they prioritize schools, daycare centers, playgrounds.’ Love this gentle, inventive piece from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social 🎈 lost-balloon.com/2026/02/25/f...

You are going to love today’s new piece by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social! Check out “Felix on the Ceiling.” lost-balloon.com/2026/02/25/f...

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I’ve admired @lostballoon.bsky.social for a long time, so I’m especially honored that they gave a home to this piece about the bewildering experience of going to a camp for high-school-age writers weeks after my second laparoscopy for endometriosis. TW: chronic pain, suicidal ideation

Go read this right now. This woman is a pure shit-fire wordsmith.

my will alone was strong enough. I was certain.

We have a great new piece today by @emmabolden.bsky.social! Check out “At Young Writers Camp Six Weeks After My Second Laparoscopy.” lost-balloon.com/2026/02/18/a...

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"I never learned to shake off my shaking, so I fainted instead and sat wordlessly in the doctor’s office less than a week into my new job" Love the repeating anaphora in this piece from @stutisrivastava.bsky.social; and the rich exploration of narrator and family and everything else

Such a tender piece about family

"Rewind" - a story of what-ifs - masterfully spun by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social. Go read! lost-balloon.com/2026/01/07/r...

Excited to share my new piece “Wintering” out today in Lost Balloon! Sweet anecdote: I started writing this story while in college, about seventeen years ago. Recently, I rediscovered that first draft and decided to revise it to life!

You are going to love our new piece by @divyakernan.bsky.social! Check out “Wintering.” lost-balloon.com/2026/02/11/w...

So excited to have my piece nominated for Best Small Fiction! Thank you to the team at @lostballoon.bsky.social for believing in my work!

Thrilled to be nominated and grateful to the @lostballoon.bsky.social team for all their care and work in creating this wonderful magazine.

We are happy to announce our nominees for Best Small Fictions! Please congratulate @catherinebuck.bsky.social, @onmytangent.bsky.social, Alex Juffer, Maggie Maize, and Annabelle Taghinia!

We have a great new piece today from Christopher Scammell. Check out “The Dust Comes.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/28/t...

We have a great new piece today from Christopher Scammell. Check out “The Dust Comes.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/28/t...

" For weeks, Miles has been coming home to the private moat of dirty laundry on my side of the bed. He pretends not to notice." Stunning, heartbreaking.

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You are going to love our new piece by Lee Doyle! Check out “Better Than.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/21/b...

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The very cool folks at @lostballoon.bsky.social published my flash nonfiction and gave me the best start to this year 🥰

We have a great new piece today from @stutisrivastava.bsky.social! Check out “Why I Don’t Have a Tattoo.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/14/w...

“I watch him speak and wonder how long ago he stopped being the man I love.” @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @lostballoon.bsky.social:

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Thanks so much to EIC @chelsvoulgares.bsky.social and the team at @lostballoon.bsky.social - excited to be in your wonderful magazine again. It's a story born on a slippery descent in the Pyrenees, that evolved into a story about second chances and all the mistakes we'd like to turn back time on.

@nomad-sw18.bsky.social has done it again. In @lostballoon.bsky.social “What I feel is as hard and as true as the stone I cannot dislodge.” 🔥🔥🔥

"Up goes my arm and whoosh go my boots. Treacherous path. Treacherous husband. I slide and slide and collide into boulders, sharp edged branches, stinging nettles."

“Treacherous path. Treacherous husband. I slide and slide and collide into boulders, sharp edged branches, stinging nettles.” I love the way this uses time and reads like poetry as the story unwinds.

Love this!

“Up goes my arm and whoosh go my boots. Treacherous path. Treacherous husband.” Clever as it is poignant, must read by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social!

"What I feel is as hard and as true as the stone I cannot dislodge. I raise my arm to shush him, to stem this flow of didn'ts and didn'ts and didn'ts." Read @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social. lost-balloon.com/2026/01/07/r...

We have a great new piece today by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social! Check out “Rewind.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/07/r...