@bsherm36.bsky.social can’t believe you don’t have a cat you have captured their understanding of the uncanny oh so well! trashcatlit.com/the-night-vi...

More than half my acceptances this year were stories inspired by prompts, tasks or webinars in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. I'm so happy to be part of such a generative, kind, supportive writing community!

Teasing our cat-themed issue - coming 2nd Jan 🦝 @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social gives us a love triangle with an intimate POV @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's MC is at a low ebb when Dirk delivers another blow In @bsherm36.bsky.social's spooky piece, a beloved cat must save her Dave

Can’t wait to read everyone’s purr-fect stories!

Just submitted a micro to @welkinprize.bsky.social and got this great badge!

I'm reading this Thursday, with @bsherm36.bsky.social @alisonwassell.bsky.social @jankaneen1.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social and more - hope you can join us. Thanks @dublinwriter.bsky.social!

In great company here! Thank you @dianegotauthor.bsky.social for the nomination. emergeliteraryjournal.com/trolls/

Fictive Dream is one of my favorite journals, so this nomination means a lot! Thank you, EIC Laura Black.

So excited to be nominated by @soflopojo.bsky.social. Congrats to my fellow nominees and thank you @francinewitte.bsky.social

Matt's workshops are insanely good and have helped my writing immensely. As for writers who inspire me, among the many are @sarahillswrites.bsky.social, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social.

Excited to be on the list. Love some of these titles!

Read "Alchemy" written by @bsherm36.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Rianne turned a pen into a teacup last month. It wasn’t presto-change-o. The whole thing took about three hours." tinyurl.com/eyc2psau

“Words play hide and seek in my head. I want to tell her *I need to go back*. What comes out is *tseet teelwit*.” @bsherm36.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/sherman/w...

Congratulations to our amazing authors - cheering you all on for this year's Pushcart Prize! @juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social inkfishmag.com/awards/

Thrilled to get this nomination! Thank you @hotchpotchliterary.bsky.social. drive.google.com/file/d/1pDnM...

Thrilled to have my first story in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social. www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/sherman/w...

speaking of flight issues, check out this sly banger from the always amazing @bsherm36.bsky.social, just in time for your own Thanksgiving drama 😜🦃🍗

Happy to be in such stellar company!! Thank you @fictivedream.bsky.social

ICYMI we're feat. a gem today in #MicroMonday, Sylvia, Before and After the Sun Collapsed by Beth Sherman @bsherm36.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday #readingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/10/27/m...

A frog-felt thank you to the editors at @croaklit.bsky.social for the Best of the Net nomination. croaklit.com/fiction/2-sh...

We're late this month due to subs stuffs but here's the August newsletter 🦝 News, subs, prompts and Quick Reads, and we celebrate Trash Family @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social @charliekondek.bsky.social & @francesgapper.bsky.social 💜 trashcatlit.com/2025/08/22/h...

Happy to have my micro, "Fish Tale," in the Summer issue of Soul Poetry. Thanks @stillsquirrel.bsky.social and her wonderful ekphrastic workshops for inspiring the story. soulpoetry7.com/wp-content/u...

✨New at THN: Our Favourites (searchable tag) First up: “Moonlight Becomes You” by Beth Sherman @bsherm36.bsky.social Darkly elegant, with a hint of #gothic. 🦇🌕🖤 Read it here: www.thehooletsnook.com/stories--poe... More to come soon. #microfiction #haunting #readersofbsky #eerie #shortreads

Mythic Picnic: a beacon in the darkness at that other place. My selection of micros w/authors from around the world: @cliftongachagua.bsky.social @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social @ivygrimes.bsky.social @wunderkind100.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social @zaryfekete.bsky.social x.com/MythicPicnic...

From our latest issue 🦝 We loved how Beth @bsherm36.bsky.social used the surrealness of the zebra to write about the craft of writing. The voice is dry and witty and keeps us immersed until the fabulous freedom of the end. Read Beth's fun flash here: trashcatlit.com/the-prompt-s...

Love Throwback Thursday. Thanks @underbellypress.bsky.social

Fantastic flash and micros in the @trashcatlit.bsky.social fun first anniversary issue. So excited that my story is included. trashcatlit.com/the-prompt-s...

A woman on Thanksgiving brings the latest guy over for scrutiny. Read "Turkey," by Beth Sherman @bsherm36.bsky.social vestalreview.net/turkey

I love the structure and repetition in @bsherm36.bsky.social flash in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social! I keep finding gems in this incredible list! Beth's piece is definitely one that invites re-reading, it's so beautiful and layered. flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... #WritingSky

Love being part of the Trash Cat fam!! Thanks, JP.

So happy to be part of this year's Flood! Thank you @natflashfictionday.bsky.social editors.

"How she got here —this fuzzy, all-mistake place with its doctor visits and tests, this drumbeat of I-know-what-it’s-called-just-give-me-a-minute" Brilliant list piece from @bsherm36.bsky.social - so much attention to rhythm and image to underpin emotion: www.whaleroadreview.com/sherman/

So happy to have two flash stories in the eco-writing issue of @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social, which features a must-read interview with @kathyfish.bsky.social. I 💚 Inkfish! inkfishmag.com/two-flash-pi...

"The taxidermist liked to position her mother near the kitchen table while she made dinner, describing how her day had gone" @bsherm36.bsky.social up at Milk Candy Review with a stunner x.com/moonrabbitca...

So excited to have my story, "Natural," in Milk Candy Review, a dream journal for me! milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/06/05/n...

Thanks 1922 Review, for publishing my story, "Groundhog Day." 1922review.com/Issue2Vol1__...

So excited to be joining @smokelong.bsky.social as a Submissions Editor. Can't wait to read your stories!

Thanks @januaryhouselit.bsky.social for publishing my micro, "At Laurel Lake," a tiny ghost story. januaryhouselit.com/2025/05/23/a...

Excited to be part of @molotovlitzine.bsky.social's Flash Villains issue with "Catwoman ponders the intangibles while drinking a whisky sour at McDevitt's Ale House in Gotham City." themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/flash...

So, to my utter delight and surprise this story made it into the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology. Huge thanks to @tinymolecules.bsky.social and @sdobbie.bsky.social for the nomination & to the BSF editors. My first time in the anthology, I'm in stellar company!

Excited to be part of the 2025 edition of the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology -- Monsoon. Can't wait to read everyone's work . . .

"Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors..." You're a winner in every section of this delightful & brilliant new flash from @bsherm36.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/beth... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction #dihpturns2

"My grandmother once dressed up as a bowl of spaghetti for Let’s Make a Deal. A man who was not my grandfather wore a matching meatball costume." Wonderful segmented storytelling from @bsherm36.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

Eco-prose and family dynamics intersect in "Sailing Paper Boats & other stories" a new collection by the always-interesting-to-read @swethaamit.bsky.social. I enjoyed this one!

Thanks @doesithavepockets.bsky.social, for publishing my story, "Zonk!" www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/beth...

Check out my micro, "Try cotton balls dipped in buttermilk," in @paragraphplanet.bsky.social. www.paragraphplanet.com

Delighted to have my story, "All Toads are Frogs" in @croaklit.bsky.social, a journal devoted to froggy themes. croaklit.com/fiction/2-sh...

I'm part of the Flood for the very first time. So excited!!

Excited to have my micro, "Them, Sam-I-Am" in The Phare. www.thephare.com/themsamiam

Thanks @themerseyreview.bsky.social for publishing my story, "Hope Hippo," which was born in a Flash Cabin workshop run by the wonderful @stillsquirrel.bsky.social www.themerseyreview.com/issues/6/hop...