I always love work by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social This is wonderful.

Thank you so much, Chris! 🩷🩷🩷

Fantastic story—what’s not written here is as important as what is. So good, @ajmillernow.bsky.social

"'I just want her to be happy,' I say. 'I just want her to write poetry,' I say. CT pulls me into a hug. 'Or play basketball,' I say into his neck." Read @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com.

Oh Emily I feel so seen! Yikes. “I just want her to be happy,” I say. “I just want her to write poetry,” I say.

I'm a big fan of @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's writing and am always excited to see she has a new story published. This is another banger, great title too!

“Wow,” says the shorter man. “Amazing, really,” he says, taking a deep breath. He points at the wall under the crib. “She starts by calculating the weight of the earth,” he says. “She’s a baby,” says CT. Absolutely brilliant story by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com

Thanks so much for sharing, James! 🩷

Butter busts sashes expectation and identity, parenting and being you, so much in this beautiful @emilyrinkema.bsky.social story. She has a new story out in @okaydonkeymag.com, read that too. It’s a glorious day to read. templeinacity.com/fiction-emil...

I’m so proud of this story and to have it in the amazing @okaydonkeymag.com! It’s about parental expectations and a baby with a Sharpie—I hope you like it!

I have a new story in @okaydonkeymag.com and I am so excited about it! I hope you like it as much as I do! okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/19/1...

"I have fallen in love with the flash community. These writers are some of the most talented, funniest, kindest, supportive people I know. We all raise each other up and commiserate over rejections and push each other to keep getting better." 💯 agree @emilyrinkema.bsky.social !!! #FlashWriters ❤️💙💜

What an honor to have a story selected by the amazing @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social! And thanks to @identitytheory.bsky.social for publishing “Egg, Five Ways”!

What an issue! I just read every story—all so good.

I’ve never been so happy to come in last!

An entire issue about cake?! Exactly what the world needs right now. Thanks @neitherfishnorfoul.com for including my slice! www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issues/issue...

I love this story!

Thank you @andrewcareaga.bsky.social for this incredible opportunity and for such great questions!

Thank you so much for including me @turnandwork.com! And what amazing stories to be included among!

I’ve never seen Sarah cry, not even when her dad left, and she says, “I don’t want my mom to die,” and Chrissy keeps pulling her socks up and pushing them down, and I realize it’s going to be on me to pull our shit together. just fabulous voices @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social

She remembers running her finger over the tattoo and laughing, which pissed him off. He grabbed her, hard, and for the first time, she thought maybe she’d made a mistake. the tension just oozes in this one @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social

Three friends struggle to figure out how they'll cope with loss and the fears it provokes. Amidst the teenage banter, @emilyrinkema employs her trademark delicate touch to show us the mother's essential role in giving these girls the safety they lack. Love Emily's work!

Got 3 minutes? There’s lots of ways to spend them in this little treasure chest. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

The Shortlist for September 5, 2025: Featuring haunting nonfiction from Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social and fiction from: Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in Women on Writing Jess Dolan in @frazzledlit.bsky.social (...cont'd)

Thank you so much, Hugh, for including “Huff and Puff” on your list! 🩷🩷🩷

What a incredible rendering of teenage characters, emotions, and interiority in this piece by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social. The voice captured me and didn't let me go til the end! I walk away from each of Emily's stories feeling like I personally knew the characters. Bravo.

Delighted to highlight the work of Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema and Jess Dolan our second and third place winners in the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award with their stories "Silfra" and "Amy's Mom" open.substack.com/pub/authorjm... open.substack.com/pub/authorjm... @emilyrinkema.bsky.social

I could read @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social’s words all day and still want more. Her writing is rich and full and musical and fresh. This story in @frazzledlit.bsky.social is just gorgeous. www.frazzledlit.com/p/invisible-...

Incredible story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social today. Haunting and gritty and so real. I will be paying much more attention to my surroundings today…

I've just read Amy's Mom - brilliant, from the incredible opening par to the final scab! Amazing to get so much of these distinctive characters (and their moms!) in a short piece, as they cope with the unthinkable, growing up too fast Also well worth a listen www.frazzledlit.com/p/amys-mom

We've had another month of first-rate #shortstories. Our thanks to @kerryhp.bsky.social @georgiagabrielle.bsky.social Chris Farrington Ann Kammerer Scott Ragland @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @grahammort.bsky.social #microfiction #flashfiction. Pls. click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/

"Chrissy would just be there, not talking because she never talks, but she’d be looking so, safe, I guess, because that’s what Amy’s mom made us all feel." My lord, this extraordinary award-winning story by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

We should have said very cool friends, the best.

Wow, Dan. Thanks for such kind words and for sharing this story!

"He said, ‘It’s about how nothing matters if it happens only once.’" Ooh, when I finished this one I had to read it again because it was entirely different.

Wow, @finnegag.bsky.social, what an incredible winning story in @frazzledlit.bsky.social! The voice and the building tension and the way you let us realize what has happened before the narrator...so good. www.frazzledlit.com/p/limbo-nights

It’s here! My 3rd place story “Amy’s Mom” in @frazzledlit.bsky.social! www.frazzledlit.com/p/amys-mom

"The defendant turns and she thinks he’s going to look right at her, and her ears get hot and she looks away, straight at the witness who is saying something about the bottle of wine" Stunning @emilyrinkema.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/08/29/j...

Great little story. Love it. Will only take you a few minutes, so there's no reason to not go read it. Go!

What an amazing story. So many layers. And the way @thedrevlow.bsky.social weaves them together is masterful. So much truth about grief and anger and forgiveness and love. I loved this (in case that wasn’t clear…).

Looking for some gorgeous, powerful reads to stretch the lingering days of August and remember all the layers of you? 8 authors, 11 flash, micro or poems to choose from, like picking pebbles and sea shells on a beach. Little, accessible wonders. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

Today's #FlashFictionFamily shout-out is @emilyrinkema.bsky.social who's a writer who always blows me away with her writing. This is a new gem in @fictivedream.bsky.social

So excited for this issue!!!

Thrilled to be feat. your #shortstory today, Emily. An absolute gem, and thank you for sending it our way @emilyrinkema.bsky.social‬ #flashfiction #writingcommunity

ICYMI please enjoy today's gem Juror Number Eight by Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity. Just click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/29/j...

What a thrill to be back in @fictivedream.bsky.social! Check out “Juror Number Eight” (started in @smokelong.bsky.social fitness…of course).

If you want to read stories in which the writer so tenderly and simply brings the most vivid characters to life on the page, read @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's! This one in @templeinacity.bsky.social with a <🧈 butter bust 👤> does not disappoint!

The sculptor had left off the scar on her forehead. The inch-long half moon above her right eyebrow is her favorite thing about her face. With her thumbnail, she cuts the scar into the butter wow, the subtext of this story took my breath away @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social

It's a great pleasure to welcome back Emily Rinkema with her #shortstory Juror Number Eight, out tomorrow @emilyrinkema.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity

Great story. It starts like this: "The day before the Dairy Princess finals at the State Fair, Lou sits in a refrigerated room for six hours while a sculptor carves her shoulders, her neck, her chin, her cheeks, her ears, her hair out of a 90 pound block of Grade A Minnesota butter. "