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

"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?" I love this story by @fionamckay.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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 ❤️😍❤️

I’m so delighted to have been chosen for this! Thanks to @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and Fingal Arts Office ❤️❤️❤️ Rolling up my sleeves to work VERY hard this year!!

You guys!!! I'm beyond thrilled to announce that my story "Zombie Duck" is a FINALIST in the Smokey!! ❤️ 🙏 Huge thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social editors for loving it! Mega congrats to the winners & other finalists. I'm honored to be in their company! 🌟🌟🌟

Congratulations to @sarahillswrites.bsky.social for being a finalist!! Zombie Duck forever!! 🎉🎉🎉

Had he really been seen in the next town over, buying an axe? And if that was just a rumour, then why was their cat never found, and whose was the blood on the stairs, because it wasn’t his wife’s? Nothing was ever proven. I remember this! Congrats @fionamckay.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social

we cannot smell her and we cannot taste her: we can only see, but even so we can tell she’s very sweet Just so good @fionamckay.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute

Congratulations to all on the longlist!! It was, as always, a joy to read your words!! Thanks to everyone who entered - as ever, it’s great to be able to support a good cause ❤️

“… and we will look and look and look – we have no choice – and we cannot smell her and we cannot taste her: we can only see, but even so we …” @fionamckay.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/may-20...

“…we can’t look away – and there she is, all alone in her little, lonely bed, and we never blink, so we keep seeing her and it could be any little girl but on this dark night it is this little girl…” @fionamckay.bsky.social | Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/may-20...