“It’s weird, isn’t it?” she says. “Squaring who you are with who you might have been…” Love this gem of a story from @h0lc0mb.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. So good! 🌟🌟🌟

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“Gil and I watch TV like we’re each just a brain in a jar, sitting side by side. Except instead of brains we’re hearts. And by hearts, I mean sex organs.” Amazing new work from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social - a perfect match

Love love love this collection too (and, well, anything @sarahillswrites.bsky.social writes)!

I love Gillian's video reviews! Thoughtful and kind ❤️ Sara's book is indeed filled with gorgeous, poignant flash! Also, the cover sings! Cheers for the artist! @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @adhocfiction.bsky.social @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social

When a reviewer truly gets what you're trying to do with your work... what a gift! ❤️🙏 A million thanks, @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social. I feel so seen, I am crying. And I cannot wait to buy your collection in 2026. 🎉

"Here, it’s always November. Wet earth on her back, arms pinned, his tongue that tastes of smoked fish." Oof. Absolutely incredible gem from @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social. I feel this one in my bones. 🔥🔥🔥

I cannot wait for this one!! Love everything @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social writes. 🔥🔥🔥

One of my favorite stories in one of my favorite places, I feel lucky I got to read an earlier draft. This is 🔥 “Like in the movies, we sit on the hood of the car, propped against the bug-crusted windscreen, watching for fire in the sky, waiting for something to warm between us.”

I read this the other day and am still thinking about it. Sara is really the best at flash fiction. Read this and learn how it's done:

I mean. @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. She’s so amazing 🤩 “we fuck on the sofa like we’re trying to make something, turn straw into gold, or power the grid single-handedly.”

Just reread this. @sarahillswrites.bsky.social is such a master at the flash form. If you haven't already read this story, check it out. And cheers to @flashfrog.bsky.social for continuing to bring the best stories to us!

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‘I remember cancer is a constellation, so I squint at the stars some more, but all I see is a mess of white dots, blinking and unblinking…’ I love all the recurring elements and motifs in this story and how they all work together so perfectly. Sara Hills does it again!! 🤩

A new Sara Hills story makes today a great day!!!

A stunner from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/07/28/t...

I say, Yeah, but cancer, because that’s all I can think to add. Then I remember cancer is a constellation, so I squint at the stars some more, but all I see is a mess of white dots, blinking and unblinking. Gorgeous @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/07/28/t...

"...we fuck on the sofa like we’re trying to make something, turn straw into gold, or power the grid single-handedly. And by single-handed, I mean the one I use to help me get off while Gil pounds away, lost in his moment, lighting up the jar of his body..." @sarahillswrites.bsky.social

‘…the way my mother stair-stepped onto my father’s toes to reach his face.’ Love how all the elements of this flash come together so beautifully in that heart-stopping ending… @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social ☄️

‘…Gil shrugs and drives us out into the desert…’ @sarahillswrites.bsky.social mixing sex and TV and wide open skies and deep yearning and making your heart just ache 💔👌#flashfiction

Loving this @sarahillswrites.bsky.social story in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🌌 Check out 'The Bright Jars of our Bodies' and listen to that oh so wonderfully particular voice of Sara Hills! flash-frog.com/2025/07/28/t...

“I keep picturing my mother stepping up and my father whirling her around, kissing like nothing else mattered, two hearts inside the same jar, lit from the inside” Just BEAUTIFUL. @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social ❤️

Phew! @sarahillswrites.bsky.social is on fire with her latest up at @flashfrog.bsky.social!

“I keep picturing my mother stepping up and my father whirling her around, kissing like nothing else mattered, two hearts inside the same jar.” Another unmissable story from the brilliant @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🐸

Oh, wow, wow, wow!! @sarahillswrites.bsky.social you are on 🔥🧨🔥

Just wow to this story from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social! There's a stillness to the desert scene under the stars but with a car crash of emotions going on inside the narrator...💫😍

Wow, as always. New story by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social at @flashfrog.bsky.social Read it. ❤️

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ This story from Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥, unmissable. #flashfiction #amreading

"Gil and I watch TV like we’re each just a brain in a jar, sitting side by side. Except instead of brains we’re hearts. And by hearts, I mean sex organs. And by sex organs, I mean all we ever do anymore is fuck." So much pain in this story by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social

"When we run out of nice things to say to each other, Gil and I watch TV like we’re each just a brain in a jar, sitting side by side." The brilliant @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in the likewise brilliant @flashfrog.bsky.social ⚡⚡

Thrilled to have a new story up today at @flashfrog.bsky.social 🐸. Big thanks to EIC @ericscottryon.bsky.social for saying yes, to Sherry Shahan for the playful artwork (those sea slugs!!), & a shout out to @smokelong.bsky.social ASS '24 + @christopherallen.bsky.social for prompting this one. 🙏❤️

1. Nearly recovered from the fantastic UK @flashficfestuk.bsky.social. Hands down my favorite weekend of the year! I can count workshops, book haul & bruises from moving furniture, but I cannot put a number to the hugs received/given, great chats, friends made, songs sung, or story inspiration. 😍🙏❤️

Big love and congratulations to Trash Family peeps, Gill @quickasaflash.bsky.social and Joyce @joycebingham.bsky.social 💜💜

Congratulations to @quickasaflash.bsky.social and Charlie Swailes. Of course special thank you to @sarahillswrites.bsky.social for selecting my story for second prize.

“…‘sometimes you’ve just got to take it on the chin.’” @stillsquirrel.bsky.social & @sarahillswrites.bsky.social & @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social & @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

Day Three: dropping the first lines of a story featured in An Honour and a Privilege, my collaborative anthology coming in December: "Sometimes Ms. Ramirez longs for an empty classroom. No buzzing phones, no chittering, no backtalk flap from the Jenkins twins, Ellie J., or that Smith kid who's

"‘Look, darling,’ I say, stirring a spoon of his mother’s ashes into the gravy, ‘sometimes you’ve just got to take it on the chin.’" This from @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social & @sarahillswrites.bsky.social is wonderfully weird & weirdly wonderful!

"... I use our second-best dinner set instead and put my mother on his left with his mother’s urn on the right" Weird & wonderful collaboration @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

Congratulations to WestWord Prize 2025 winners @quickasaflash.bsky.social, @joycebingham.bsky.social, Charlie Swailes and everyone on the shortlist. Thank you for trusting me with your work — what a fantastic selection of stories! 🌟🌟🌟 westword.substack.com/p/westword-p...

Great to be @flashficfestuk.bsky.social when my WestWord2025 1st prize ' Love In The Time of Bird Flu' appears. Thanks to Amanda Saint @retreatwest.bsky.social to judge @sarahillswrites.bsky.social for her lovely words, + to @smokelong.bsky.social for the workshop that started it.

What a gorgeously surreal yet believable collaborative story in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social, such weird and delicious details! 💫😍 @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social #flashfiction

This is gloriously weird! Rockstars of flash writing together in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social “If she is not present, he must go and find another one.” @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social

How did this happen? Amazing to have 'The Third Best Dinner Set', a collaborative flash, in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social with the lovelies @stillsquirrel.bsky.social (who tricked me into this) & @sarahillswrites.bsky.social & @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social 🥰

Thrilled to have a collaborative story out in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social with some of my most favorite people in the world: @stillsquirrel.bsky.social, @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social and @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social. Extra thanks to Anika for corralling us together on this one! ❤️🙏

Fancy something strange? New collaborative flash with @stillsquirrel.bsky.social, @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social up at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Thanks, @jhhwriter.bsky.social, for letting us lay out the third best dinner set 🍽️ gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social, @sarahillswrites.bsky.social & @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social and I set a flashy table together. Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for publishing The Third Best Dinner Set 🙏 gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

I think I miscounted what day it is for the @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge so I'm doing a bonus round to be safe! "Trip-trapping" by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social Every line of this story does heavy lifting. Read it here: newflashfiction.com/trip-trappin...

@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge Love this from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @nffr.bsky.social and all its specific details. Man, you can smell that diaper air! newflashfiction.com/trip-trappin... This great sentence will haunt me: "a swirling mist of urine and meatballs."