I’ve just finished reading this @travisflatt.bsky.social chapbook from @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social and my only complaint is that there are ONLY FIVE STORIES AND I WANT MORE!!!

Hey, come hear some readings tomorrow!! @travisflatt.bsky.social has a chapbook out and he will be reading along with friends (including me) to launch it!! 📚📚📚

I also loved this piece by @fionamckay.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social for reasons below. That, and it nails that (unfortunately familiar) high alert feeling. Great ending (I'd be more specific, but spoiler). ❤️

www.sandandgravelpress.com/interviews Interview with @travisflatt.bsky.social up! November 2nd release party over zoom (link on website) featuring @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @cbigs.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social and Lucas Flatt.

Thank you so much to the lovely lionesses @theprideroars.bsky.social for nominating this piece of mine, In Your Orbit, for a pushcart ❤️❤️❤️

I’m so grateful to @claudiamonpere.bsky.social for her generous and kind words about my Novella, The Lives of the Dead ❤️❤️❤️

Delighted to have assisted at the birth of this wonderful piece by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️ My role was to boil water and bring towels - all the brilliance was Roz’s 🎉🎉🎉

I’m catching up with social media, and this lovely spotlight on my piece The Good People in @trashcatlit.bsky.social 😍

Thank you for asking! I’ve just finished The Lives of the Dead by @fionamckay.bsky.social and it’s absolutely stunning! Loved the fairy tale references threaded throughout.

@dilyswt.bsky.social look what I got as a souvenir!! (Avoided the Biscoff!!)

This was WONDERFUL Fiona. ❤️ I‘m just about to start Lives of the Dead which I‘m looking forward to immensely. @fionamckay.bsky.social

A very beautiful ghost story from @lauralnagle.bsky.social ❤️

Our first spotlight from our current issue 🦝 We loved Del's apocalypse, the humour in an unexpected interaction, the certainty of the MC. A clever interpretation of prompts - Underground, Enhanced Human and Infectious Agent 🦠 Read here: trashcatlit.com/the-first-ra...

Our second spotlight from the prompted stories issue 🦝 We loved the voice Joe gave the MC in this quirky crytozoological romp, the almost gleeful positivity. A fantastic take on the prompts - Forest, Cryptid and Strange Photos 📸 Read here: trashcatlit.com/flash/

"Kate, looking in the boot of the car, is startled, her heart a flock of sparrows. The empty country road, her flat tyre. Where had he even come from?" Something wonderfully unsettlingly about this gem from @fionamckay.bsky.social, a piece with hidden depths

Great piece. And so topical. Bravo @fionamckay.bsky.social

"‘The world is gone crazy,’ he says." Mmm-mmm good

Absolutely a master at holdign the tension until the very last second is @fionamckay.bsky.social. In @trashcatlit.bsky.social "Kate, conscious of how close he is, how he’s breaching the unwritten boundary." 🔥

This is a must read from @fionamckay.bsky.social The end gave me shivers.

This gave me shivers down my spine. What a touching story, Fiona, congrats

It’s lovely to be in the bin with all these trash cats @trashcatlit.bsky.social ❤️ Many thanks to Group 8 @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness who gave feedback on this 😘

Thank you so much for the lovely review @madeleinewrite.bsky.social ❤️😍❤️ The final line is just gorgeous - ‘I devoured it with tears in my eyes’ 🥹🥹🥹

🛑 Stop everything and read this stunner from @sagreene1.bsky.social 🛑 Brilliant and surreal!

Thank you so much to @smokelong.bsky.social reviews editor @erinvachon.bsky.social and reviewer Emily Webber for this thoughtful review of my novella-in-flash, The Lives of the Dead (available from @adhocfiction.bsky.social and also Amazon) ❤️

Thank you so much to @smokelong.bsky.social reviews editor @erinvachon.bsky.social and reviewer Emily Webber for this thoughtful review of my novella-in-flash, The Lives of the Dead (available from @adhocfiction.bsky.social and also Amazon) ❤️

Beautiful new words from @aniking.bsky.social 😍😍😍

Back in the bin with the lovely Trash Cats!! Many thanks to my @smokelong.bsky.social summer Group 8 friends who gave me feedback on this one!

Delighted to be joining @laurabesley.bsky.social and the NIFTY book club for a Q&A on The Lives of the Dead 😍❤️😍

📚Three lovely reviews for The Lives of the Dead on Amazon and in Goodreads - thanks so much to @anchalastudio.bsky.social @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social and @lmbayley.bsky.social 📚

Thank you, @aniking.bsky.social for the lovely words ❤️😍❤️

Thank you so much to @lmbayley.bsky.social 🤩🤩🤩

Great @liarsleague.bsky.social performances last night & lovely to enjoy them with @tomwrote.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @sagreene1.bsky.social & Bridget, @fionamckay.bsky.social & Co, @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social & @fabwrites.bsky.social & Co! 🥰

Many thanks to @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social for the lovely review of The Lives of the Dead over on Goodreads ❤️❤️❤️

Currently reading this gorgeous book by @fionamckay.bsky.social!!!!

My review of 'The Lives of the Dead' by @fionamckay.bsky.social published by AdHoc Fiction www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Thanks again to @gearoidinc.bsky.social for being the first reader when this was a draft, and for her generous words for the cover too ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you so much @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social for the kind words about The Lives of the Dead ❤️

📘 It’s here!! 😁 The Lives of the Dead is available through your regional Amazon!! So excited to see this 😍📘 amzn.eu/d/3B3fvFe

There might not be a book tour, but my book is on tour, getting to accompany some lovely people on their holidays!! Thank you, @yallaalia.bsky.social for taking Kate to Italy!!

Now open for pre-orders! I loved this book!! Don't miss this inventive and moving novella-in-flash written by @fionamckay.bsky.social.😍🌟 @adhocfiction.bsky.social, @bathflashaward.bsky.social

Pre-Order Alert!! OMG 🤩 Here it is!! The cover of my new NiF, The Lives of the Dead 😍 Thanks to Jane Ryan for the cover art! And thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and all at @adhocfiction.bsky.social (Coming to Amazon soon for those outside UK)

@trashcatlit.bsky.social is the best family 😍😍😍 Thank you for your support!!

Just finished @fionamckay.bsky.social's #NovellaInFlash 'The Top Road' @adhocfiction.bsky.social . Beautifully written. Gripping as any top thriller - this kept me reading to the end. I cried for so many of the characters here, all believable and aching with humanity. #AmReading #WritingCommunity

Brilliant, @pleomorphic2.bsky.social I love this! flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/on-f...

Gorgeous, @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/but-...

‘When my mother turned jay she screeched from the treetops, waking the neighbors, scaring the toddler next door.’ Gorgeous writing from @bsherm36.bsky.social 🪽 flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

‘we birthed them all sleek as eels, our girls untethered by waves’ a great breathless paragraph by @aniking.bsky.social 🎣 flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/our-...

Brilliant, and a little filthy - just like @sagreene1.bsky.social herself 😉 flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/iced...

Delighted to see my aquarium story is up on @natflashfictionday.bsky.social - I mean, who DOESN’T have a favourite octopus??? 🐙 Thanks to @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and all the team for their amazing work every year ❤️😍❤️