Excited to see my name on this list. Big thanks to @alliumjournal.bsky.social for accepting then nominating my work. Best of luck, everybody!

Love this! Gonna to read 'em all!

Just discovered this little slice of the microsphere! Can't wait to dive into @claudineliterary.bsky.social

I'm behind on promoting a rare piece of published nonfiction. A huge thanks to @alliumjournal.bsky.social for publishing this frantic, plaintive experience. tinyurl.com/ya7na9as

“Uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, cervix,” Dr. Doris Day says. “I say we take them all.” “That’s a lot of me,” I say. “Oh, you’d be surprised how little it is!" Awesome story by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary tinyurl.com/3ubv7uv2

"The men are dying . . . beautiful boys ugly-cry too." On-point rendering by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in his story "Boys in Boxes," Published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/boys-in-boxes/

Super excited (and a little proud) to have new micro published with such a preeminent supporter of the super short form. Thanks to everyone @lostballoon.bsky.social !!

A masterclass example of precision dialogue used to reveal the story not told. Admired the subtleties in awareness of marriage, sacrifice, taking and being taken advantage of, rebirth, and failure. A good study of the flash fiction by Gaurav Bhalla, published in Journal of Compressed Creative arts

"I had to wrestle Patricia into isolation again. I’ve never had a senior like her. This is why Gary thinks it’s work causing the miscarriages" Such a fascinating piece that braids together different elements and character focuses, and leaves so much for a reader to discover on second / third reads

Big thanks to @bendinggenres.bsky.social for publishing my braided micro piece that uses Leviticus, the epistolary form, and a little bit Minecraft. Originally drafted in an @sfreligh.bsky.social workshop. Can't wait to read through the issue! bendinggenres.com/prophecy/

Stoked to be a finalist for this contest! Thanks to all the editors @flashfrog.bsky.social and Guest Judge Gina Chung for your time and commitment 🤟

"If Leo Tolstoy could have ten kids and famously forget some of their names, then I could get pregnant and keep creating everyday." Fuck yes. Megan Mizanty's "Hillers" in @bendinggenres.bsky.social tinyurl.com/7edhwaet

Though I'm from the rural Midwest and not South, much of this piece from @raniqualee.bsky.social in @barrenmagazine.bsky.social felt like home. And that ending. C'mon, ya'll. tinyurl.com/2hj3wwmu

Admire the nuance of mother/daughter & mother/son here, as well the promising ending and chance at redemption and growth: Read @rachellaverdiere.bsky.social in @okaydonkey.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4sbpxvhy

This is the first time I've read flash about a serial killer. There's no showing off here. Just the power and precision of a well-told story. "In The Chips" @ tinyurl.com/ye7pd59b

Nearly two years behind on this brilliant piece of flash @flashfrog.bsky.social, but with what just happened in New Orleans and what will undoubtedly happen again soon, the story, sadly, still resonates. tinyurl.com/4pyajt65

We're just thrilled to be recognized this way! Thank you to everyone that voted for us!

The thinning of the animals; the self-alienation of humans; the world returning without them; the hospitals beginning to fill--a vivid display of the Malthusian Cycle, balanced on deft prose. tinyurl.com/4cmmxjcy in @nffr.bsky.social

“I began to have this dream where instead of being signed we just went missing,” says a young model in a state of mental decline, not realizing that her and her friend’s abundant visibility as models is the ultimate invisibility. Beautiful work. tinyurl.com/muzr84p9

I admire the dichotomy in education highlighted by @sammatin.bsky.social in this interview. Best read alongside the story, "People of Color Monologue," which to me is a politically charged piece that suggests that with love there's hope. tinyurl.com/yvddv6dc

The voice of this piece, the sense of place, the staying silent in life and not speaking ill of the dead (just like in the American Midwest), and the way the living stand fragmented around the deceased. Fucking beautiful. Let’s just someone say it already. Hot damn. shorturl.at/Kzi41

Excited to see the new issue out. Check out my story "Obit," written in an @sfreligh.bsky.social workshop, and the accompanying interview with the sagacious Chey Dugan. Can wait to read through it all. Congrats, everyone!🤘

If you can't put on headphones and have an outer body experience listening to the Interstellar soundtrack, then we're made of different star dust.

Congrats to all the longlisters. Best of luck to yinz!

⭐THE FINALISTS OF THE SMOKELONG GRAND MICRO CONTEST⭐ These six micros will appear in the December issue of SmokeLong alongside four stories chosen from 3000 submissions in the general queue. Congratulations to everyone on this list; you’ve done something remarkable. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

I'm floored, shocked, proud--all of it--to know I'm one of the six finalist for this most prestigious writing award. No matter how it pans out, I'm straight chuffed! Best of luck, everyone! Can't wait to read your work and interviews.

It's been a minute since I've lost myself in her work, but with winter break on the horizon, about to dip into @catherinelacey.bsky.social's Biography of X. Favorite Quotes to come.

This from @yourimpossiblevoice.com www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/basket-filler/

Following the lead of many writer friends, I just liberated myself from the cesspool that is X. I'm proud to say that my first post ever on BSKY is that I made the longlist for the Mikey @smokelong.bsky.social. Congrats to the others and for those still in the running for the top spot. Best of luck!