DREAM LITMAG REALIZED! This is the VERY exciting acceptance I got in November, I've been sending my work in to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for FIVE YEARS! This piece starts, "You are a billionaire’s new, about-to-turn-19 wife..." fracturedlit.com/the-billiona... #FlashFiction #FlashLit

Since I’m seeing a lot of Moby-Dick discourse lately, here’s the series I did on MD on my craft podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/1859895/epis...

Our third sneak peek comes from Ben Niespodziany (@neonpajamas.bsky.social) and his stunning prose poem, "The Funeral." We'll publish two more of Ben's poems in the near future, and we are already excited for each of them. Make sure you are there for it on January 13. bulbregion.com

Things are happening behind the scenes. Looking forward to revealing them in 2026!

Things that are bringing me joy this year number 9. #Mondettes! mondettes.substack.com I always love seeing what my story-pickers have picked. Big thanks to @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @lmariharris.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social...

Here they are as promised! A new batch of prompts for 2025 from me to you with love & gratitude. 🎁 Give 15 minutes a day to your writing during this busy season and start 2026 with 15 fresh drafts or at least some glimmers. Use January to polish and send off. ❤ open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Our @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees!

"We crossed the line on Friendship Street. Didn’t see the stop sign. Failed to yield." @writesofkathryn.bsky.social's "Keep Your Visions to Yourself" trampset.org/keep-your-vi...

"People on the subway catch your eye and blow away" Atar Hadari's "Barn" trampset.org/barn-82df0d2...

"Our neighbors near sleepwalk into the snow-bitten night. They want a glimpse of Dad in his Santa suit, the pillow-belly full of ho ho hos, the wayward, white beard." L. Soviero's "Little Helpers" trampset.org/little-helpe...

"We anticipate its arrival. Unquiet steams from the early dark earth. In the rheumy distance, a muzzy landform pulses at the edges." @boocia.bsky.social's "Sangre de Cristo" trampset.org/sangre-de-cr...

"On Friday, the company schedules this “optional” team building thing called SURVIVING THE GRIND: A SLASHER-BASED APPROACH TO CORPORATE COHESION." @mallorysmart.bsky.social's "I'll Be Right Back" trampset.org/ill-be-right...

"Look at these two. Peacocking — angel-strange, hetero as fuck — down the manicured shoulder of the remotest stretch of the commercial strip" Stevie doCarmo's "Land Rover" trampset.org/land-rover-2...

"The kindest thing about my cell is the way the stones, if studied long enough, begin to reveal words, fresh and wise, on their surfaces." Elizabeth Wenger's "Invitation to an Execution" trampset.org/invitation-t...

"If I cared about linear progress, I would’ve never gotten picked up by a plane hitchhiking." Tyler Dempsey's "In Praise of the Non-Linear" trampset.org/in-praise-of...

"It’s two a.m. in a gas station outside Kokomo, and Jim is counting the seconds between the compressor’s kicks." Joseph Randolph's "Inventory Before Prayer" trampset.org/inventory-be...

"Fantasy football gets me nowhere. I try the airports but the windows don’t open. Too many planes want to leave at the same time" @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social's "You Can Be Something Different Today You Say to Yourself Today Again" trampset.org/you-can-be-s...

Our Dec issue is now live! It's our last issue of the year, and it's super sized! trampset.org

Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection! #workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites

O, pale Moon, key to Sun, here you are! Can you see? #62 is here! New writing by 20 writers, and visual art by Andrea Damic. gonelawn.net

Nov was a short submission window month, so here are our stats: 270 received 9 accepted 3.33% acceptance rate Our last issue of the year drops this Friday!

"She says her bones remember. Still won’t drive through a tunnel, still won’t ride an elevator." @writesofkathryn.bsky.social up at Flash the Court 💙 flashthecourt.com/2025/11/28/t...

‘The clock has stopped,’ he says to Mrs White. ‘The sun has forgotten to rise,’ she says in response. ‘I am sure you are wrong,’ he says. @mattkendrick.bsky.social up at Milk Candy Review 💙 milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...

"He hadn’t been divorced, three kids, full custody, ex-wife in the state mental hospital, weekday breakfasts of edge-burnt Eggos and heated-over SpaghettiOs" @writesofkathryn.bsky.social up at @fictivedream.bsky.social 👏

For anyone who's ever taken time out of their day to read 1 of my stories, thank you. 2 absolutely lovely emails this week from people who simply wanted to tell me they enjoyed my work. My gratitude & appreciation to anyone who takes even MORE time out of their day to email a writer. 🙌

We are now closed to subs for the remainder of the year. Everything currently in the queue will be responded to soon. Thank you for another great submissions year!

Our Pushcart Prize announcement is out!

Awesome latest Mondettes. I love reading or rereading these flashes!

Super chuffed to have my flash up at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social featuring an enigmatic storyteller and his doubting ex-wife. This story was much rejected, so thank you @davidestringel.bsky.social for believing in it 🙏🏾 www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...

Haven't submitted in over a year. Have finished 1 story this year. It has been the year of walking away from everything, & I regret none of it. So it's a small year for me & stories out in the wild. If you desire, here are the 3 I pubbed this year >

It's me. I'm the guilty party since I run this account. Slowly feeling myself wanting to become more social & engaged again. I've needed like a solid year to just retreat.

"The swollen traffic comes and goes. The heart roosts where it can." @claudiamonpere.bsky.social up at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙

I just read “A New Kind of Dan” by @kylerseibel.bsky.social in Best Small Fictions 2024 (originally in @trampset.bsky.social), and loved it so much. The ending is perfect. Sorry I’m so late to this one, but if you haven’t read it… trampset.org/a-new-kind-o...

Best Microfiction reopens! Please spread the word!

October submission stats: 375 received 7 accepted 1.87% acceptance rate We're currently reading for the Dec issue. See guidelines & consider subbing. Free to sub; $30/piece accepted. trampset.org/submissions-...

"Normally, disassembling isn’t so dramatic. Tag comes over. We make out, have sex. And sometimes, we remove each other’s limbs and reattach them." Sara Kaplan-Cunningham's "Reassembling" trampset.org/reassembling...

"Endings are as simple as this, cynical, like the full stop after every lavish gasp." Genaro Emiliano Aguilar Saucillo's "Acid" trampset.org/acid-ce08942...

"The skin of time is made of light. And I saw it the day my mother cut my lip in a fit of rage." @abhii106.bsky.social's "Wound" trampset.org/wound-8ae923...

"You had no idea all the ways life can break you, and wouldn’t you give anything to have that ignorance back?" @mmkaufman.bsky.social's "The Carwash Essay" trampset.org/the-carwash-...

"I am a disappointment: to my mother for not cleaning my room, to my ex-husband for not obeying, to my now-husband for being depressed" @sainttangerine.bsky.social's "Outside My Son's Therapist's Office" trampset.org/outside-my-s...

"A boy proposes his love to his lover. Somewhere else, a wife proposes her agony to her husband." Ridwan Fasasi's "Simultaneous Events" trampset.org/simultaneous...

"What we sell here wears itself drop-waisted, accordion-pleated in rust, gradients of blacklisted thrift rubble." @connorharding.bsky.social's "The Curiosity Shop" trampset.org/the-curiosit...

"We held the light at the wrong slant, the cousins and I, like forgetting to floss our teeth or close the faucet. Someone dear to us had gone." @hellbends.bsky.social's "Dear Little Mortuary" trampset.org/dear-little-...

"Pedro and I slipped out through his bedroom window to light a joint, standing on his neighbour’s gable roof." @halfmoonmocha.bsky.social's "Two memories of the city" trampset.org/two-memories...

"I am the cool fizz of prosecco sliding down one’s throat during the golden hour. The chartreuse velvet couch we make out on after eating Vietnamese take-out." @kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green" trampset.org/green-b178ab...

Our 2nd to last issue of 2025 is now live!

Our 2nd to last issue of 2025 drops this Fri. Another stellar issue coming your way!

We'll be closing to subs for the remainder of the year before you know it. Consider subbing!

Our Sept stats: 371 received 7 accepted 1.89% acceptance rate Consider subbing. We pay $30/piece. Free sub option always. Guidelines here > trampset.org/submissions-...

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