“when nothing wears a tourniquet and a stocking cap in the rain, the kind of rain adaptive reuse guys with lit candles for eyes turn into little houses with little willows and little windsocks that don’t sock so much as sing songs about nothing.” Will always read @pdforan.bsky.social 🕯️

“We step over marble limbs, the torso of a bare-chested woman carrying a blue, white, and red flag, then slip through a storm drain into the catacombs...” What can’t @belindarowe.bsky.social do? Read this piece of art, now!

Only $5 to enter, with a chance to bring home the coveted Blue Frog Prize. Imagine how proud of you your family will be (unless, of course, your family themed story hits a little too close to home...). Let's go Blue Sky fam!

Rewatching the Xmas episode of The Bear just to feel something.

Some of my favorites are in this gorgeous issue @elissafield.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social. Do give it a read!

“And I wish I was a sea slug so I could expel all the parts of me I carry around even though I don’t want them. And I would watch them float away with the current.” Have you read this beauty by @esmepromise.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social? 🪼

“Hooves cracking the ice-glazed early season snow in the yard, and on the other side of the grass there is a huddling confluence of doe, softly rendered into watercolor smudges of brown by frost on the window.” In love with this piece by @aniking.bsky.social in @broadripplereview.bsky.social

Damn amazed to be part of this bumper issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social. They are exceptional humans and editors and champions of barmy minds. Thank you!

Needed an escape today and @pleomorphic2.bsky.social didn’t disappoint 🦘

Thank you to everyone who gave it a read! And wow, look at @sarahillswrites.bsky.social go! 🎊

“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 an absolute honor, thank you @variantlit.bsky.social and @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social for including me in this spectacular lineup!

“I try not to look in the mirror. To see my face, barely peeking out from the ooze. I am myself melted, left out for years and years in the scorching heat.” I mean come onnn, this beauty by @skyskkyy.bsky.social

Love seeing these numbers continue to go up! Flash fiction is as strong as ever! 💙🙏🏼

“At the tables, the billionaires are spooning custard out of hollow elephant tusks, making little coos that you don’t understand until you see the custard sparkling in the candlelight.” Brilliant gem by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social!

Matt is a gem! A sharp writer,a keen editor and overall lovely person. Please consider supporting him if you are able to. Details here: prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/starting-t...

What a wonderful way to start 2026. Honoured to be included in @mynachang.bsky.social's roundup of recommended scfi, fantasy and horror with my @thecitronreview.bsky.social story ❤️ citronreview.com/2025/12/22/e...

The good folks over at @smokelong.bsky.social started a new community for us: The Village! I'm so excited about it that I contributed the very first Lit Mag interview where I talk about Split Lip's submissions & editing process & gush about @rpmirabella.bsky.social & K-Ming Chang! Join to read!

Returning after a writing hiatus, but my stories feel farther than ever. I’m trying to call them back but it’s like they don’t remember my voice and I don’t either. How do you all reconnect to your writing practice? Your inspiration? Would genuinely love to know.

“We’d found the antlers, polished them, and kept them safe all winter as we mucked reindeer shit…” How does @kplumhoff.bsky.social do it? No clue but I enjoyed every second and you will too.

“Should I call the vet? Maybe I should text my sister. Maybe I should Google “talking cats.” Maybe I should hide the knives.” Love this @emilyrinkema.bsky.social

“A life is looped yarn and slipped knots, chains and accidents.” A real treat by @melostrom.bsky.social

“Exhaustion rolls in like the tide. We beg for sleep and prostrate ourselves before the deities of the dark.” @chelseastickle.bsky.social

New micro up at Ghost Parachute! Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social!! And thank you @amymarques.bsky.social for the amazing art!! ghostparachute.com/issue/januar...

🚨The 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction contest is now open!! flash-frog.com/submit/

I’m so excited, working with Mason Jar has already been amazing!

An immense honor to be nominated alongside such talent. Thank you @flashfrog.bsky.social @ericscottryon.bsky.social for believing in this story!

“Antarctica is for sure a peace-loving guardian, but Mike knows Antarctica’s response to his dad turning up will be blizzards and snowstorms and a total deep freeze.” A treat to always read writing from @belindarowe.bsky.social!

“…I sigh as you segment, slick-fingered, the core of me.” Always love reading @kplumhoff.bsky.social

“…and the holy bird said baby you got a real shitty apartment and the angel fell asleep on my couch and it wouldn’t stop raining.”

What’s not to love about this beauty?! Read it y’all, now!

"But instead, she pulls me into her chest with a gravitational force so strong it crushes my lungs, and I’m back in our backyard." This is a phenomenal piece of writing by @kyleisamu.bsky.social in @emergejournal.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Feeling so lucky to have a new story up in @emergejournal.bsky.social, alongside some incredible writers. Show the new issue some love y’all!

Carved this piece out of me, and I’m excited to finally share it. Thank you @flashfrog.bsky.social @ericscottryon.bsky.social Gina Chung and @jiksuncheung.bsky.social for giving this the home of my dreams!

“Until then, I’ll lick my lips and watch the sugarcane fields burn.” “The air outside burns too. A new color, Sugarcane Ash, coating my hair and every windshield.” @kyleisamu.bsky.social in @variantlit.bsky.social variantlit.com/the-ways-we-...

"I ask him if he can take me driving since Mom is working. Chad doesn’t work and neither do his words, not before noon, and he grunts." Wonderful build of character and emotion in this brilliant #FlashFiction from @kyleisamu.bsky.social

You’re gonna want to read all of these stories!!

‘Chad doesn’t work and neither do his words, not before noon, and he grunts.’ Brilliant storytelling from @kyleisamu.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute. Just love that loaded final line 🛣️ ghostparachute.com/issue/march-...

“I meowed in response. I was five—thirty-seven in cat years, and cats didn’t speak Japanese or need parents. Benji, cats are seen not heard, Grandpa barked.” Stellar micro series by @kyleisamu.bsky.social. Read it here: variantlit.com/the-ways-we-...

I forget there are 15 volcanoes surrounding me, five of them active, one of which destroyed my cousin’s home. Auntie Mel blamed Pele. I told her the gods have better things to do. Damn!! Read these amazing micros from @kyleisamu.bsky.social in @variantlit.bsky.social!!

Thank you @variantlit.bsky.social for giving these three micros a home, alongside some crazy talented writers! Read Issue 20 now! variantlit.com/the-ways-we-...

“They threaten to call Bruce the manager who’s usually doing Roberta the lifer waitress in his office upstairs or is passed out drunk in the wine room.” You gotta give this piece by @sfreligh.bsky.social a read!

"Mom’s new boyfriend is breakfast. Coffee breath, ketchup face, sausage fingers. Diner cheap. This new boyfriend, Chad, is eating Frosted Flakes raw. I butter toast and silence scrapes by." Love this story by @kyleisamu.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute. ghostparachute.com/issue/march-...

"We are frenzied miners, Blue Raspberry Frost vibrating through our veins, hoping our fingernails strike gold." 🔥 Phenomenal story from @kyleisamu.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute. #FlashFiction

Did you read this story by @kyleisamu.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute?!?! Why the hell not? Get on it!!!!

New micro up Ghost Parachute! Check out everyone!! It's an amazing issue!! ghostparachute.com/issue/march-...

We’ve worked hard to bring you these wonderful poems and works of prose. Enjoy and share!

This is one of my favorite stories, you should read it! 🫶 @kyleisamu.bsky.social

"We are frenzied miners, Blue Raspberry Frost vibrating through our veins, hoping our fingernails strike gold." This brilliant piece of writing by @kyleisamu.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute! 💙💙💙

“Chad teaches me how to take man-bites, drive with my knees, and headbang to Metallica all at the same time. I’m pushing 80 mph. Maybe it’s the extra jalapeños but we’re on fire, melting white lines and green signs.” @kyleisamu.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/march-...