Things happen in threes. Good, bad, everything in between. Today's three is solidly in the good category. Join us as we read three very good poems by Devony Hof. "Inkpot" "gretel" "commute" crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/27/t...

A building is in the eye of the beholder. When you look upon the tower, you might see ruins. Others might see spires or treehouses. Today's story, concerns another building, come and see... "The Broken Home" by Colleen Tyler crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/24/t...

Sharing a poem on Equinox. While "golden" doesn't explicitly say it's autumn, I imagined it as such. Memory returning at the turn of seasons, as summer fades. You can read my frog prince inspired poem at @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2023/08/23/g...

Our favourite words are the ones we've never met before. There's nothing quite like meeting a new word. However, we will never tire of familiar words in the form of stories. Like today's flash... "AFTER-WORDS" by Donna Shanley crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/20/a...

We've never been much for the city. We prefer our land wild, giving. We understand, much like today's poem, how much a city can take... "The City Asks for More" by @samaureli.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/17/t...

We are very good at identifying dead things here at the tower. Sometimes, though, the dead things disagree with our assessment. It cannot be helped. On the nature of being a dead thing... "Boy & Girl Are Dead" by Bryana Lorenzo crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/13/b...

2. The Mirror Of Winter by Sarah McPherson in @crowkeys.bsky.social a story of cold in the heart. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/04/26/t...

There is a nervous energy here in the tower. Like something wondrous might happen at any moment. While we sit in anticipation, why not read today's flash with us? It too is filled with wonder. "Belly" by Colleen Addison crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/10/b...

There is a god living somewhere in the tower. They crept in while we weren't looking and are insisting on worship. We're not yet convinced. We are, however, convinced by today's poem: "Shrine of Looking Back" by SK Grout crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/06/s...

We're divining the future by dropping things from the tower and watching how they spin. It's not very effective. For a more effective manner of divination, today's short story... "Fabled Promises" by Emily Weiskopf-Ball crowcrosskeys.com/2025/09/03/f...

We've dedicated today to staying still. Being quiet. Quite the opposite of today's flash. Join us for... "Minotaur" by Myfanwy Williams crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/30/m...

There is something of an overture playing in the tower this evening. It's telling a story, an old one and a long one. For an old story, in the form of a poem, we offer... "Opus Hades" by Kimberly White crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/27/o...

So excited that a piece of mine from a now-defunct publication has found a new home at @crowkeys.bsky.social! Thank you @keychild.bsky.social for your wonderful letter! Just what I needed during this difficult week! 🐦‍⬛🗝️🖤

Pub day! The opening line of this one floated into my head without explanation— therefore none of this is my fault. Thank you @crowkeys.bsky.social :)

We're always searching for strange things in unlikely places. Things where they shouldn't be. Things a size they cannot be. Things that shouldn't exist in the first place. So, we present... "The Egg" by @schorn.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/23/t...

We have been migratory today, hence our tardiness, but this flash is worth the wait. Come, contemplate the end with us... "The Last Migration of the Sandhill Crane" by Aubrey Zahn crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/20/t...

We've been talking to the birds. They say you should read this poem. Birds are wise, and you should listen to them. "Mimicry" by Taylor Hamann Los crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/16/m...

I read Wyrd-Woman of Bellem by Shay Schmida in @crowkeys.bsky.social a story about magic and weaving and curses nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/08/i-re...

A reader walks into the tower, as they so often do, and they find exactly what they are expecting: a wonderful story. Read it with us. "Into the Woods" by Lydia Waites crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/13/i...

Absolutely delighted to announce that my story “Patchwork Boy” will be appearing in an upcoming issue of @crowkeys.bsky.social! 🐦‍⬛🗝️ Extra special thanks to editor-in-chief @keychild.bsky.social for the kind words in my acceptance letter. 🧡

The tower has been sprouting phantom facial features. An ear here, a mouth there. We're not sure where they're coming from, but we like them all the same. Today, we're reading flash to them. This flash... "An Eyeful" by Katharine Luzzatto crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/09/a...

There have been some unexpected vanishments here in the tower. Rooms, people, miscellaneous things. We're reading poetry to keep up our nerve. Join us, and read... "Disappearing Road" by Gabriella Ekman crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/06/d...

“A crow bursts from the hedge, black punctuation against the sky, its cry a jagged line tearing through the soft-wool hush of the morning.” 🐦‍⬛ Lovely, vivid, inviting trio of poems.

“The painted woman had skin like eggshell. She was me and not me. You crushed me to you and stroked my hair. —I adore you. Don’t doubt me. Your kisses were fierce. I thought I would die of love.” Hey so this story is gorgeously crafted and giving Grimm and Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber.”

“Rumor has it that by the time he died, the better-days-past vine had overtaken his house so completely that the funeral director had to come equipped with gardening shears to remove the body from the premises.“ Oh I just know this plant would be the end of me. ✨🌱 🍵

“He says he’s coming—he’s been meaning to see that movie, too. To that, I don’t reply. I read that Surgeon General’s report on the loneliness epidemic a few months back, but it’s like, what can you do?” A quietly relatable story in a surprising setting, with a snippet of hope in other friends.

Here at the tower, we're falling apart. There are bits and pieces of us everywhere—you should watch where you step. We'd be right at home in today's short story... "My Body's a Zombie for You" by Mariya Kurbatova crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/02/m...

Hope yall enjoy this weird little flash of mine. 🖤🪴 @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/30/c...

We are in a celebratory mood, here at the tower. Today's post is very special, not only because it is in a fun format (we love a fun format), but because it is our 500th post! Please enjoy... "Care Guide for Your Better-Days-Past Vine" by @eleridenham.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/30/c...

& earlier this year, i was thrilled to be published by @crowkeys.bsky.social for the second time. they published my flash, "Lungs Paper Plastic," about working a laser tag job after the plastic bag apocalypse. check it out here: crowcrosskeys.com/2025/03/15/l...

We enjoy quiet places, places where no manmade thing can be heard, places where the sound of the world is all there is. Not unlike the subjects of today's trio of poems... "The Quiet Places" by Lysette Cohen crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/26/t...

We're telling ourselves stories, over and over, but changing them each time. Such is the way of stories. For another retelling... "Feathers" by Lena Fransham crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/23/f...

New story time! (Technically, a reprint if you’ve read my chapbook, but this is the first time this little haunted house/fairy tale has been available online, thanks to @crowkeys.bsky.social ) Give it a read? crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/19/a...

Took a walk by beautiful Lake Minnewaska today. This was my inspiration for “Nymue Rising” in @crowkeys.bsky.social

“There once was a flame, bold and bright and tough to look at straight on. The flame had a soul and the soul was a girl and the girl turned all she touched to ash.” My latest, in @crowkeys.bsky.social. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/19/a...

Thank you, @crowkeys.bsky.social, for giving my strange little haunted house/fairy tale a home.

There are peculiarities with the wiring here in the tower. Look down the hall & you might see a flash of light come from the plug socket. It might look like a person. For more strange sparks, today's flash: "a spark suppressed" by @ramccafferty.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/19/a...

If you go down to the woods today, you might find us, racing through the trees like wild things to the beat of deer hooves in the loam. Or, you might not. Perhaps, just read this poem instead: "Maru Mori" by Taylor Hamann Los crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/16/m...

My creepy story is with @crowkeys.bsky.social today. Thank you to @keychild.bsky.social

There are faces sculpted into our walls, and they tell us strange things. Today, they're telling us stories. Today, they're telling us *this* story... "The Skill of the Sculptor" by @joycebingham.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/12/t...

We received a message in a bottle in the puddle outside the tower. It warned of strange comings, and stranger goings. For more than a puddle, today's flash fiction... "In the Flood" by Julia McCoy crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/09/i...

There is a tree outside our window, and all day it has been filled with the rattling call of birds. Unsettling. Listen to talk of another tree in today's poem... "Upland Oak" by Louise McKenna crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/05/u...

My latest short story, up in the tower of @crowkeys.bsky.social - perseverance, loss, and mushrooms. Read it and let me know what you think it's about.

There's subliminal advertising: There's liminal advertising: I think there might be something here. There's superliminal advertising: HEY! YOU! CLICK THIS LINK ALREADY! All have their place.

The wind is barely moving the trees, here at the tower. It is clear they’re sharing secrets; otherwise, they wouldn’t be whispering. The wind brings with it many things, like in today’s short story... "What Comes On the West Wind" by Trevor James Zaple crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/02/w...

I read Wild Violets by Marisa Celeste Montany in @crowkeys.bsky.social a story about a woman whose skeleton decides to leave. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/06/i-re...

Super excited to have one of my favorite stories appearing in @crowkeys.bsky.social later this month! It’s a weird little story about rage and hauntings and fairy tales that appeared in my chapbook a couple years ago but feels more relevant than ever.

Thanks to Crow & Cross Keys for taking this weird baby of mine.

This evening, we're freeing our ghosts. Packing them up in parcels and sending them on their way. Some are shaped like bottles, some like houses... "I Haunt the House: An Exorcism in Three Parts" by @jodymkeene.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/06/28/i...

We're escaping to other worlds this evening. Jumping through picture frames and ending up thoroughly Elsewhere. Not unlike today's trio of poems... "Uncanny" by Sarah Das Gupta crowcrosskeys.com/2025/06/25/u...