What fun!! An actual roulette wheel to spin!! Your prize? Fantastic readings!! 😎

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

We are proud to announce the stunners who comprise our 2026 @monarch.gay nomination slate. Read them all once again (or for the 1st time!) at doesithavepockets.com | #literarycommunity Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Never know what someone searches for in a crumbled-sheet bed!! 🤣

Translators! Send in your book length poetry translation! $1500 prize, publication by the University of Wisconsin Press! You can resubmit--different judge every year!

Has anyone got a story regarding your writing on Paragraph Planet? Did you have 75 words featured which were later in a published novel? Did a story inspire you to seek out an author? Forge a friendship online? Would love to hear and share your #stories

You there. Are you the owner of a dog or owned by a dog? This story felt felt like reading my memoir.

Another disappointing broken promise. Maybe next time.

“You don't know yet that you will feel the track-rattling impact in your guts every time you pass through a tunnel for the next ten years.” Prose with power. 💔

Trouble with crafting titles? This workshop is money well spent!! www.press53.com/online-semin...

"A palpable sense of vulnerability, and a brave use of self-disclosure hums throughout from the first page.” -- CRAFT editor's note Angela Kubinec's powerful short story illustrates excellence in writing published today in CRAFT .

Warnock: Clearly you have an agenda. It is a threat to the public health of the American people. It's clear that you are carrying out your extremist beliefs. RFK JR: We’re the sickest people on earth. How am I a threat? Warnock: I think that you ought to resign.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

So, last December my younger brother passed away leaving behind his aging dog Ginger. My other younger brother adopted her and tells me stories about her stubborn antics. When this hybrid piece came into our pocket, I felt compelled to make sure we published it!! Love it so very much!!

*Phenomenal cosmic prose ... itty bitty living space.* In our latest issue, a brand new micro #fiction from the incredible @sfreligh.bsky.social |https://www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sarah-freligh Artwork @anchalastudio.bsky.social

So, it's never easy to take responsibility for something you've done which adversely affected others but this guy, Cooper, owned it all.

Update: It was a sock! Photo to follow (maybe...)

Hey, don't normally do this, but my sister-in-law who has the biggest heart imaginable could use some help. Yesterday, her dog, Cooper, ate -- a sock? a dish towel? -- and needed emergency surgery. If you're able help with vet bill, she'd greatly appreciate it. ❤️ gofund.me/99c9729a

In Maine. Yesterday afternoon. A good omen, I think. 😎

“Ater thirty-nine years, his arches ached. His Superior would not allow him to wear Reeboks, being a Jesuit (unlike some of the more relaxed Orders). This idea of foot penance fostered Fr. X’s shameful but needling resentment.” Mundane priestly work routines exposed!! Fiction by Angela Kubinec

Did someone say NO FEE SUBMISSIONS? Limited time. Get yours in our pocket today (or over the weekend or anytime really before the month ends. No pressure.)

Just love foxes!

Huge thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for including my itty bitty story in issue 34. Can’t wait to read every story. gooseberry-pie.com/issue-34/

Update: 16 of 24 authors and 2 judges have now withdrawn. First Book: Curtis Garner Jason Okundaye Sacha Coward Sanah Ahsan Amy Twigg Mae Diansangu Eleanor Medhurst Hanako Footman Ciara Maguire June Thomas Main: Olumide Popoola Robert Hamberger Dean Atta Andrew McMillan Rhian Elizabeth Jane Traies

There’s an ache in this micro.

This month's #Mondettes picked by @jenwithwords.bsky.social ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Jenny made these brilliant picks 🪴Two fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/july-2025

It’s time we all start talking way more about Peter Thiel and his company, Palantir. He wants to hide in the shadows. We won’t let him.

Monday, July 14, at 9am. Let’s join @planetoverprofit.org in making some good trouble at NYC’s Palantir office (45 W 18th St). Palantir is empowering the Trump regime by building a database that tracks all of us, enabling ICE to target and kidnap people—it’s long overdue we hold them accountable.

NYC. Denver. Palo Alto. TOMORROW, you can protest against the tech billionaire who hides behind the scenes—Peter Thiel—and his surveillance company that empowers ICE’s cruelty: Palantir. This is just the beginning to another Tesla Takedown-like movement. Follow @purgepalantir.bsky.social for more.

The Angel Questions His Faith  by Zachariah Claypole White @zachariahcw.bsky.social "Tell me, can God sing like a katydid; cicada-bellow for the seventeen silent years?" Read the full poem at the link to the latest issue in our bio!

@smokelong.bsky.social's The Archive Challenge made me realize that it's nothing short of a miracle for a publication to last ten years and still be operating. Please do whatever you can to help sustain them: read, share, and donate! Yep, my PSA for this morning!

Day 14 @smokelong.bsky.social The Archive Challenge | More @litromagazine.bsky.social "a bunch of deer hanging around a work boot" Got hooked on this farfetched tale, so there you go! I KNOW IT SOUNDS FARFETCHED by @louellalester.bsky.social | 2022 www.litromagazine.com/usa/2022/01/...

Day 13 @smokelong.bsky.social The Archive Challenge | Litro Magazine This magazine has been in circulation for over ten years, but their Flash Friday Feature seems to have begun in 2016. (Yes, splitting hairs, but I wanted to dig into their archives for treasures.)

Artists and craftspersons have long sold their works through the online platform Etsy. #Etsy is now allowing "Alligator Alcatraz" merchandise to be sold on its site. In response, #artists and #craftspersons are now closing their Etsy stores in protest. Bravo. This is #artsactivism.

Day 12 @smokelong.bsky.social The Archive Challenge — @everydayfiction.bsky.social I liked how this journal allows a reader to search archives in a variety of ways. I chose these two with the search criteria of 'Father's Day' but try any holiday of your choosing.

Day 11 @smokelong.bsky.social's The Archive Challenge — More Cleaver Magazine “Do you remember when you used to draw sunrises all the time?” he asked. When color explodes subtext. 64 SALMON by Becca Borawski Jenkins | Issue 19 www.cleavermagazine.com/64-salmon-by...

Day 10 @smokelong.bsky.social The Archive Challenge — Cleaver Magazine “As often as he tries to touch those hands, she pulls back.” Something about @writesofkathryn.bsky.social stories always give me the willies. Locavore by Kathryn Kulpa | Issue 1 www.cleavermagazine.com/locavore-by-...

Day 9: @smokelong.bsky.social's The Archive Challenge — More SmokeLong Quarterly Today, I’m selecting stories based on 1) the issue’s cover art and 2) by the graphic accompanying the story. Not the title. Not the author. It’s all visual.

Day 8: @smokelong.bsky.social The Archive Challenge — SmokeLong Quarterly “The air is too thin, too skinny to hold those thick words up, can’t do it alone, so they just slip to the floor.” Written by a high school senior! Skinny by Hailey Sowden | Issue 15 www.smokelong.com/stories/skin...

Day 7: @smokelong.bsky.social The Archive Challenge — More from @vestalreview.bsky.social “I held his penis in my hand like a thick rope of sausage.” Relationships are never easy (nor should they be.) Angel by Mary Miller | Issue 25 www.vestalreview.net/angel

Day 6: @smokelong.bsky.social's The Archive Challenge — @vestalreview.bsky.social From Issue 1 of "the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet." “You should get battle pay for those stretch marks.”

Read this one. Thank me later.

Day 5: @smokelong.bsky.social's The Archive Challenge — More The Molotov Cocktail flash “The secretary dry heaves, but swallows most of it back down. I feel a wave of relief. It’s the little things, I guess.” Fans without fame. The Fan Club by Danger Slater. themolotovcocktail.com/about/archiv...

Day 4: @smokelong.bsky.social The Archive Challenge @molotovlitzine.bsky.social “I watched you watch me eat. Hamburger, fries. I didn’t see the blood, but you did.” Sheldon Lee Compton’s flash, Ouroboros, — a disturbing portrait of fathers parenting sons. themolotovcocktail.com/about/archiv...

Day 3: @smokelong.bsky.social's The Archive Challenge — Fiction Attic “Every time Donald saw a UFO, he got an erection.” I mean, how can you not want to read more after reading this stunner of a first sentence by Stephen Graham Jones in his flash Abducted? fictionattic.com/abducted-by-...

Fix for Losing a Mother Swing in a backyard hammock. Let sparrows question your motives. Rock away the ache. A gentle sway, cradling grief in your mother’s arms. The body remembers, if you cannot. My poem published today on @brokenheartsliterary IG. www.instagram.com/brokenhearts...