I desperately want an owl in my backyard. Tell me your secret, Megan.
Bizarre and sensual and kind of gross—read @jackmmorris.bsky.social micro in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
Thrilled to win this competition. Blown away by the stunning performance of Danielle Farrow in reading my story at @cymerafestival.co.uk Huge thanks to Noel and Pippa and of course the judges.
The flood is coming! My story will be published at 8:30 pm (PST) June 12 @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Shout out to @mattkendrick.bsky.social
writing workshops where this micro was born.
ICYMI “The bruise on his forearm looks like a grape tomato, the one on his thigh looks like a bloody steak.”
Subs now open @templeinacity.bsky.social
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"Margo is tired of doctors and tests and surgeries. So she compensates by doing more: cigarettes, coffee, food, drinks."
Read more of this wonderful flash up now at Ghost Parachute by @delgeo14.bsky.social !!
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6 authors, 8 minutes each - come find your next favorite #speculativefiction read by #womenauthors and #nonbinaryauthors with us! #books, #sciencefiction, #Fantasy, #Horror, #EnbyAuthors #AuthorReading **FREE* #SWSWQR
It's Wednesday so the latest heartbreak is up @brokenheartslit.bsky.social. @jayhonstetter.bsky.social has a truly sad one for us:
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Subs are open now, so send me your heartaches, too.
Submissions OPEN! Until July 15. Send us what you love, as long as it's flash, micro or poetry. No theme, no AI, no hate. We like lots of different things so don't prejudge yourself out of consideration. Submit! Writing is happy and also changes the world. Win-win.
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Micro fiction It don't mean a thing by T.L. Tomljanovic. Published in Temple in a City literary journal
Margo tucks her belly in, flattens her butt, and throws her shoulders back, hoping to lift her boobs in the process to relieve her lower back pressure. But then she can’t breathe, and gets a shooting ...
Adam, Remember Fashion Class? by Jay Honstetter @friendstergram It’s the mid 90s. Laughing at the noise on our faces, flannels draping our bones.It’s the 2000s. We’re at Cavestomp! Fred Perry…
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Written in a Meg Pokgrass workshop called ‘Messy Love’ - not sure there’s another kind?
Here are the winning writers and the longlist for the Cymera Festival/ Shoreline of Infinity Scottish SFF&H short story competition.
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"The great horned owl is depressed. Those dark feathers over his amber eyes may give him an aura of stern anger, but I know his double-whoos are thick with sadness."
Sad wildlife is in the archives at @rfpress.bsky.social
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The great horned owl is depressed. Those dark feathers over his amber eyes may give him an aura of stern anger, but I know his double-whoos are thick with sadness. Sitting high on an abandoned limb, b...
