Christine Chen @csquareh.bsky.social is such a natural at the fragmented form, and this one's a stunner. Read "Raise the Red Lantern" in the inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary. hotflashliterary.com/raise-the-re...

"“It just reacts a little late,” he says, wiping away steam. “Like someone getting old.” A strange and fascinating read by Huina Zheng in Hot Flash Literary hotflashliterary.com/the-mirror-h...

"You press your lips against the moist paper heart of my mask." Beautiful piece by @Nancy Stohlman in Hot Flash Literary hotflashliterary.com/fever/

"They stuck their fists inside people and twisted things." Such as fabulous piece by @chelseastickle.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary hotflashliterary.com/a-good-sign/

"I probably should have spent less energy on changing my shape and more on changing my mindset." by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary hotflashliterary.com/my-body-my-c...

"My insides resemble a well-marbled steak." by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary - gut wrenching piece, I could relate so much! hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/

Check out inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary founded by @jekwriter.bsky.social & Tina Carlson: "One thing remained clear, though: that women-identifying people needed a place where their voices wouldn’t get lost in an icy gale. Where they could, instead, be hot like lava." hotflashliterary.com

This piece blew my mind. Leave it to @Mikki Aronoff to retell a fairy tale afresh "When his fervent claws tore at my breasts, I clutched his furry ears, whispered how even my daughter would not visit." in Hot Flash Literary hotflashliterary.com/what-big-eyes/

The first issue of Hot Flash Literary is live--featuring phenomenal work by Mikki Aronoff, @csquareh.bsky.social Christine H. Chen, @kathyfish.bsky.social, @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, Stella Reed, @chelseastickle.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, and Huina Zheng! hotflashliterary.com/current-issue/

I'm so honored and thrilled to have a work published in @theforge.bsky.social - many thanks and gratitude to Editors Jacky Taylor and Yosh Haggerty 🙏🙏 forgelitmag.com/2025/08/11/w...

"Imagine my surprise when a young man shows up at the doorstep during Qingming Festival, saying he’s my older brother." I love this gem by @csquareh.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"I slip out of the club into a fog of smokers...and wonder if Mom knew the only way to be free was to run, run, run and never look back." Held my breath as I read this story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

"Forty, and where could they move? What other place would take them?" A fabulous and timely piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

"All Rita has to do is step out and follow the path of light to the waiting spaceship, happy as hell to live among them and not smell like a cigarette." by @sfreligh.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

"...just let us shove this camera thingy down your throat don’t let your hands reach up to stop it..." a one-sentence gem by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute, illustrated by the marvelous @amymarques.bsky.social ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

Read "Tomb Sweeping Day" written by @csquareh.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Ah Ma says, because I’m the only child, I have to live with her and care for her till her death." tinyurl.com/2jyb828v

I'm thrilled to share "A Tale of Fairies", shortlisted in WestWord Folktales contest - Many thanks to Amanda Saint, and @megpokrass.bsky.social and @lorettec.bsky.social in whose ekphrastic workshop this was written: westword.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

"...after Bass Rock we didn’t talk, we didn’t even make babies." Wow, what a great story by @quickasaflash.bsky.social in @retreatwest.bsky.social

Amazing new litmag with extremely cool editors just dropped @flightlit.bsky.social

Thrilled to have a visual narrative "Triptych–Pescatarian Tribulations" in The Scalar Comet. Drawings in markers, gel pens, coloring pencils on discarded cardboard trays. Huge thanks to EiC Akin Aguda! Check out this stellar magazine www.scalarcomet.com/triptych-pes...

On Raw Lit - Issue 7 Where Have You Been by Amy Marques @amymarques.bsky.social & Portrait of a Sleepy Girl by Oliver Kleyer @funnyfrogget.bsky.social 'When you look into her eyes, they will tell you of the nights, when she couldn’t close them,' rawlit.weebly.com/7_2.html

Thanks @bendinggenres.bsky.social fiction editors @amymarques.bsky.social and David O'Connor. We have no less than 7 selected stories on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50/ LongList annual series. Truly honored. wigleaf.com

Just read this piece by @brettpribble.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social and I am laughing and tearing up at the same time "That night he poured her words over in his head. Not the most traditional girl. Had he messed up? Was he generic? A normie?..." bendinggenres.com/marvin-shoul...

Two tiny, unique micros from @csquareh.bsky.social, new in July #fiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/chri... Art by @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"How she wishes now she had loved it more, uncrossed by sutures, undotted by small scars from laparoscopies, bones hidden under young flesh, not Halloween skeleton ribs jutting under gray skin." by Sherri Alms in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sher...

"When he climbs into his bed on a Friday the boy knows what it is like to be happy" ❤️ by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

"Cicada Song" by @rachel-weinhaus.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social "He took it very hard, his father leaving, but he found solace in the slow transformation of his dirt-crusted possessions turning smooth and luminous in his hands." www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rach...

Just read this lyrical piece by @brettpribble.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social "In the bottom of the ocean, giant squids clutch sunken ships, and the skeletons of mermaids are sprinkled on ancient stones." www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...

Congratulations to the Winners of the 30th @bathflashaward.bsky.social -Many thanks and gratitude to judge Marie Gethins and @judehwriter2.bsky.social for "Awakening" 🙏🥰

2. @csquareh.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/boiling-poin...

Bending Genres had two pieces selected for the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology!!! Thanks season editor, Robert Shapard for taking @arthurmandal.bsky.social and @samrasnake.bsky.social flash pieces from Issue 39!!! And congrats to all of the selected winners: altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

So thrilled to see my micro 'A Cock Among the Bathers' @bathflashaward.bsky.social included in Best Small Fictions 2025. Huge thanks to everyone on the BSF team & congrats to all those included. Such fantastic stories! It's an honor to be alongside you! 😍🌟 altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Got some exciting news this week- Congrats to @ruthjoffre.bsky.social and thank you to Ofelia Montelongo for editing the issue!

So, to my utter delight and surprise this story made it into the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology. Huge thanks to @tinymolecules.bsky.social and @sdobbie.bsky.social for the nomination & to the BSF editors. My first time in the anthology, I'm in stellar company!

My first time in Best Small Fictions! ☺️ Thanks to the team at BSF for selecting “Splinter,” and to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for publishing it in the first place.

Vestal Review is proud to have two of its recent contributors in Best Small Fictions 2025. Our contributing editor Lucy Zhang also has a story there. Congratulations to everyone!

Grateful and blown away 🌬️ My very first time in Best Small Fictions! Thank you so much, @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for accepting, publishing, and nominating my story, "Concrete Worm". Honoured to be included! Congratulations, everyone!

Many congrats to all the writers chosen for the 2024 Best Small Fictions anthology. Delighted to see Judy & Christy's #NFFR stories: “Blue-Naped Parrots See More Than They Say” by Judy Darley “Prudence” by Christy Stillwell Links to the stories in the comments altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Congrats to Tara Isabel Zambrano on making Best Small Fictions 2025 for her Identity Theory story "Nascent"!

Today's Friday Five: selections from @altcurrent.bsky.social's 2025 Best Small Fictions, featuring @fracturedlit.bsky.social, Ghost Parachute, @dishsoapquart.bsky.social, @stanchion.bsky.social & @witcraft.bsky.social andrewcareaga.com/2025/05/30/f... #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #MicroFiction

Reading through Best Small Fictions 2024 and was like, "Oh yeah, I'm in this."

Congratulations to our wonderfully talented contributors Tara Isabel Zambrano, @aniking.bsky.social , and Cathy Ulrich whose work was chosen for Best Small Fictions!

Did you hear the 💫 AMAZING ✨ news? GIRL LOCKS by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social‬ made it into the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology! We are thrilled by this news & hope you revisit this amazing story in our archives: buff.ly/XHntY0C

Just read this fabulous story by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute "This sea nymph has had enough of the male gaze and the bitchery of the gods." I'm feeling so pumped up by this piece 😍 ghostparachute.com/issue/decemb...

Ah, @stillsquirrel.bsky.social’s Art & Flash sessions are so good. I also love this one from @jmgatford.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social’s Flash Flood, which started in one of these… 🧶 flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2024/06/no-n...

"I ease your bones back in, and it’s like threading tent poles." Just came across this hidden gem "I Love the Bones of You, Mum" by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in Splonk splonk.ie/2024/04/04/i...

"He shrugs and slides to my side of the bed like he’s still in the water. It won’t be long before he can’t be human at all, not even at night, and I’ll lose him for good." by @happilander.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute, ghostparachute.com/issue/june-2...

Many thanks to Leah Joseph and Vallie Lynn Watson @McNeeseReview for publishing my very first short story "A Big Red Island" for their Issue "Finding Home: Immigration and Displacement" www.mcneese.edu/thereview/20...

"Our fathers—both Holy and holier-than-thou—say it’s unnatural, say their boxes are wired wrong. We sit to these comments daily..." in @fracturedlit.bsky.social by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social A mighty micro 🙌🙌 fracturedlit.com/boys-in-boxes/

Time for Issue 26 of Gooseberry Pie with new work by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social @suzannehicks.bsky.social Gary Fincke