The Shortlist is up!
Three recent pieces at Turn & Work plus links to great flash fiction elsewhere.
With
Beetle Holloway @beetleholloway.bsky.social, Paul Radcliffe, and Laura O'Meara in @turnandwork.com
Jacqueline Chou in @mrbullbull.bsky.social
S.H. in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social
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"Rowan's filing a request to contest a restraining order filed by his wife, Ambrosia. “Like the marshmallow salad?” I ask. No, Rowan says, and then he mentions something about immortality and ancient Greek mythology and I snooze on him." - Scott Miles mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
"Last time I took a picture of my uncle just back from the front & my uncle warned me not to allow geolocation to track the photo. Now I am sure that it was me that killed him, me & my fucking Snapchat." - Benedict Pignatelli mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"Princess Butterscotch gave birth to the cutest kid. Cheryl got super jealous. Cheryl'd nip & kick at the kid until Butterscotch kicked her ass goat style. Cheryl was better behaved after that. It was a good life lesson." BULL Interview with Cletus Crow mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...
"'Man' means a set of expectations you inherit like debt with interest that compounds in silence. 'Soft' means breach. 'Crying' means loss of data, irrevocable. 'Fear' means user error, correct immediately. You scroll. You don’t read. Nobody reads." - Kumar Sen mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
"The first thing you should do is admit you will never be full Mexican. You will never do this. The second thing you should do is make good on the threat you made to Oscar at lunch the other day & show him your Dad at Fall Festival coming up." - Nicholas León mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
"There I’d be, their pumpkin coachman with the Johnny Depp glued to my face, passing out business cards. Didn’t get many takers, but I did get some Polaroids of buxom blondes pissing in the alley, steam rising from the pavement. Art!" - @ilynwelch.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
"There’s a moment—there is always a moment—where you can feel yourself about to become the kind of person who does the thing they will later call inevitable."
There's just something about this #FlashInTheFeed by Kumar Sen in @mrbullbull.bsky.social ... I keep finding new truths in it.
"AC conked out a week ago and the fan’s just blowing hot air around. The City is fucking loud and one asshole won’t stop laying on the horn. Thought I’d be inside you tonight. You said. Waited all summer." - Dina Perthakines mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
Turn and Work (Hugh)
"She said you could take a $100 bill & step on it & get it all dirty. You could drop it on the ground & a dog could take a dump on it. But you still wouldn’t throw that Benjamin away. Because it was still worth a $100." - Jacqueline Chou mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
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"'Man' means a set of expectations you inherit like debt with interest that compounds in silence. 'Soft' means breach. 'Crying' means loss of data, irrevocable. 'Fear' means user error, correct immediately. You scroll. You don’t read. Nobody reads." - Kumar Sen mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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Linda M. Bayley
www.turnandwork.com
Short writing from Paul Radcliffe, Laura O'Meara, Beetle Holloway, Jacqueline Chou, S.H., Jennifer Ostopovich, Kate Catinella, and Jessica Klimesh
