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...

Congrats to our nominee @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social, who will appear in the anthology!!!

We’ll have new work tomorrow! Don’t forget to read this piece!

wow, truly stunned to be on this list! congrats everyone! thank you @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social @dseuss.bsky.social and @lostballoon.bsky.social 🤍

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Holy fuck @chelseastickle.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social with this 🔥🔥🔥"We brush our fingertips across each other’s collarbones as our secrets spill into the moonlight where they are seen but not exposed because neither of us could handle that."

“Secrets wisp into ears and out the windows into the fresh air where, weightless and powerless, they can finally dissipate. ‘You’re my best friend,’ we say.” @chelseastickle.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social lost-balloon.com/2025/12/31/i...

“Exhaustion rolls in like the tide. We beg for sleep and prostrate ourselves before the deities of the dark.” Oh, the things whispered between two people. Gorgeous new prose poem by @chelseastickle.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social

"We brush our fingertips across each other’s collarbones as our secrets spill into the moonlight where they are seen but not exposed" So beautiful @chelseastickle.bsky.social

My first-ever prose poem is up at @lostballoon.bsky.social! Thank you to editor @chelsvoulgares.bsky.social for publishing it!

'Secrets wisp into ears and out the windows into the fresh air where, weightless and powerless, they can finally dissipate.' Sharing this quiet, lovely piece from @chelseastickle.bsky.social to end the year ❤️

Our last piece of 2025 is by @chelseastickle.bsky.social! You are going to love “In The Dark.” lost-balloon.com/2025/12/31/i... (photo credit: Flashlight by Katie Tegtmeyer)

Ending the year with a good surprise. Thank you @lostballoon.bsky.social

so honored and thrilled 🫶 thank you!

We are happy to announce our nominees for this year’s Best Microfiction anthology!!!! Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social, Carol M. Quinn, Titi Kusumandari, Michael Nickels-Wisdom, and Nicole Desjardins Gowdy!

We are happy to announce our nominees for this year’s Best Microfiction anthology!!!! Vic Nogay: @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social, Carol M. Quinn, Titi Kusumandari, Michael Nickels-Wisdom, and Nicole Desjardins Gowdy!

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"Beyond their outstretched hands is the beginning of everything else that has ever and will have ever existed, bodies pleading." Blown away by this frantic piece of writing from @mizuki-yama.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social lost-balloon.com/2025/12/17/s...

And yet another amazing story by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social, this one breathless and perfectly crafted to raise your heart rate. So much depth and emotion in so few words.

I have a new prose poetry piece, "Subway Surfing," out today at the lovely @lostballoon.bsky.social. Thank you to Chelsea and the editors for giving this one a home.

I love that @lostballoon.bsky.social was # 4 on "Where to publish that piece you wrote crying in your car" on @chillsubs.bsky.social because tbh that's where I'm reading your submissions, too! (and sometimes while crying!!) www.chillsubs.com/lists/crying...

You are going to love our new piece by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social! Check out “Subway Surfing.” lost-balloon.com/2025/12/17/s...

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It’s Wednesday! Which means we have a great new piece today from Stephen J. Bush! Check out “The Sunken Kingdom of Atlantis Starts to Make Some Waves.” lost-balloon.com/2025/12/10/s...

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Wrote a #shortstory abt sneaking smokes & pills, taking photos, & setting a doll on fire. Huge thanks to @lostballoon.bsky.social for giving Double Image a home 🌿 tinyurl.com/mtsn5yha

"For a hot moment, I wanted to smash her. No, I wanted to be her." @linedealer.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social

We have a great new piece today from @linedealer.bsky.social! Check out “Double Image.” lost-balloon.com/2025/11/19/d...

You are going to love today’s new piece by Carol M. Quinn! Check out “Clean.” lost-balloon.com/2025/11/12/c...

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