Big Feelings about this Best Small Fictions nomination. Huge thanks to the wonderfully supportive @eireneeleni.bsky.social 🙏

My Best small fictions nominated story, 'How to make a living coffin' @templeinacity.bsky.social is available to read here, and in great company. Congratulations to all the nominees! ✨🎉

Thank you @templeinacity.bsky.social for believing in “Lou,” my quiet little story about identity and family and butter sculpture…

This will restore something in you. Please read it if you can.

"Now I walk without fanfare or fortitude, just slow and steady. Like a running a marathon on a treadmill, like moving because I can’t think of any other option." In case you need this too. From the archives at @templeinacity.bsky.social . templeinacity.com/creative-non...

May we introduce with pleasure our Best Small Fiction 2026 nominees. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-... @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @mondickson.bsky.social

Sumitra, Happy New year! And you led me to lovely @templeinacity.bsky.social so I will look at this mag too

Temple in a City @templeinacity.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

@templeinacity.bsky.social @maudlinhouse.bsky.social @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social @theoriginalison.bsky.social Hope I didn’t miss anyone but thank you

@fictivedream.bsky.social @havehashad.com @natflashfictionday.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @thin-skin.bsky.social @freeflashfiction.bsky.social (forthcoming) @templeinacity.bsky.social (forthcoming) Huge thanks to all these brilliant editors for believing in my work! 2/2

Quick, read something that isn’t completley dispiriting but full of what humanity can be. templeinacity.com/category/imp...

Thanks to the journals that shared my work this year: @alliumjournal.bsky.social @icefloepress.bsky.social @epistemiclit.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social @stanchion.bsky.social @tcwestminster.bsky.social Here’s a fun one from early in the year: www.bunkersquirrel.com/nola-love.html

Little 2025 publication thread, with thanks to @crowkeys.bsky.social and @templeinacity.bsky.social and @bendinggenres.bsky.social: (And send me your lists!)

Just a thank you at the end of 2025. To @freeflashfiction.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social @thin-skin.bsky.social @underbellypress.bsky.social @paragraphplanet.bsky.social and all @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for being supportive with my work this year.

“I’d assumed he was referring to the aesthetic aspect of my skeletal structure, perhaps complimenting me on high cheekbones or a soft jawline, without directly saying so. But then one day he asked …” @jekwriter.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

A lovely little joy for you to sink into from Huina Zheng. About family, and magic even in the hard places. This is one you want to lean back and read. Shut the world out for a few minutes. Take a rest into someone else’s story. templeinacity.com/fiction-huin...

Our Joy issue has grown again. Three new poems and stories since the solstice. Always open for subs and always there for you. templeinacity.com/category/joy...

Run out of things to talk about? All talked out and in need of recuperation? Struggling with holiday stuff and looking for thoughtful diversion? Not celebrating any holiday? Grieving? Anxious? Happy? Feeling grateful? No matter your situation, this is for you. templeinacity.com/category/imp...

lovely place to share your words, #writer skeeps 👇

Run out of things to talk about? All talked out and in need of recuperation? Struggling with holiday stuff and looking for thoughtful diversion? Not celebrating any holiday? Grieving? Anxious? Happy? Feeling grateful? No matter your situation, this is for you. templeinacity.com/category/imp...

Our Joy issue has grown again. Three new poems and stories since the solstice. Always open for subs and always there for you. templeinacity.com/category/joy...

A lovely little joy for you to sink into from Huina Zheng. About family, and magic even in the hard places. This is one you want to lean back and read. Shut the world out for a few minutes. Take a rest into someone else’s story. templeinacity.com/fiction-huin...

I loved this. Thank you

The 2025 DIAJ Award Winners: The Bee by Emily Molinari Tuulikki Bakes a Cake by September Woods Garland Sweating Like a Mother by Alina Zollfrank Buddy's Picasso by Komal Sharma TOWER TOUR by Brian C. Billings A Review of Larks by Han VanderHart by Eleanor Ball www.doorisajarmagazine.net/diaj-awards

If you haven’t looked in for while there’s new joy in this. Five new micros or poems since first published and still growing. templeinacity.com/category/joy...

Want to be in the holiday spirit? This issue probably won’t do it. But it will make you fall deeply in love with the variety of human experience and for even a brief moment feel the wonder and pain of existence. So there’s that. templeinacity.com/category/imp...

Tell your friends and family this issue is the ghost of Christmas future. If they don’t celebrate Christmas tell them this issue is a reprieve from the tinsel, not a single Christmassy thing in it just haunting, gorgeous brilliant writing. Very restorative. templeinacity.com/category/imp...

Love this. And as a teacher on holiday, so true!

Thanks for keeping my cup half-full, @templeinacity.bsky.social !

A warm sip of joy here from @tracierenee.bsky.social to enjoy on this solstice. The latest addition to our growing joy issue. templeinacity.com/poetry-traci...

We are open to FREE submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and critical book reviews or interviews.

Sugary, bookish joy!

Applaud @robm67.bsky.social’s first published story and welcome him to the sweet bliss of near constant rejection with bursts of sun-shiny love knowing he has other stories coming out in other places soon so Rob is going places. Yay, Rob!

Excited to be published by @templeinacity.bsky.social ! Thanks for all your support lovely TiaC people! templeinacity.com/fiction-rob-...

Look for more joy soon. We know this time of year is tough for many. We hope some slivers of happiness can lighten the load.

Did you think we had forgotten joy on this day of new moon on the solstice cusp? Of course we have not. Here is a micro ray of it from the deliriously brain of Lance Mazmanian templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

Oh hey look! I writed a thingy, and they putted it on the innernet! Can you say ek•phras•tic? (bsky labeled the bronze as sexually suggestive or something i dunno, buncha uptight prudes—just give her a blanket already)

Delighted to feature in the lovely @templeinacity.bsky.social. Big thanks to EIC @eireneeleni.bsky.social for selecting my story and to @raecowie.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social for their help with it.

Oh look! A magic treasure trove! templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

What’s happened to Grandma! @joannatheiss.com with a meaningful, whimsical tale. templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

Constance. Read about Constance. Cover her with the warm blanket of your compassion. Let @crankypacifist.bsky.social show you. templeinacity.com/ekphrastic-j...

A beautiful story of grief, connection and release by @hilary55.bsky.social templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

A different kind of love story by @chriscottom.bsky.social templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

The gentleness in this Lanie Brice story. A beautiful little ache. templeinacity.com/fiction-lani...

Tension and release in this @callasmith.bsky.social story. templeinacity.com/fiction-call...

Sentences too full and brimming to snip a quote from, read the whole thing down to the last syllable and feel the title come up and slam you to the mat. @acadialogue.bsky.social whew. templeinacity.com/fiction-l-ac...

May we celebrate the debut publishing of @robm67.bsky.social right here, right now? What a treat and know he has more stories coming out (elsewhere) soon. 💪🏻🎉, Rob. templeinacity.com/fiction-rob-...

This is true of most lit mags, books and libraries, tell all your friends, amazing.

This issue is a magic amulet warding off callousness, anger and greed, you should try it, amazing. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

May we celebrate the debut publishing of @robm67.bsky.social right here, right now? What a treat and know he has more stories coming out (elsewhere) soon. 💪🏻🎉, Rob. templeinacity.com/fiction-rob-...