In memory of John Brantingham, one of his stories in @fictivedream.bsky.social. Such a light that has gone out in the world. I'm so lucky I got to meet him, if only online, if only for a few hours.
#FlashInTheFeed
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“a softening in the earth like something exhaling from below…”
This is too fucking good
"“Careful you don’t get a reputation for being a b-i-t-c-h,” spells out Maggie."
This new #fiction from DIHP alum @nomad-sw18.bsky.social is so perfect it's painful in the very best way | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
@maireadwrites.bsky.social
“It’ll take them the rest of the day, so we leave them to it and head to the hospital, to sit at my mother’s bedside and watch her sleep.”
gooseberry-pie.com/when-my-moth...
If you haven't read our charity anthology yet, here's three reasons why you should! 🦝
In Roadkill, Mairead Fagan @maireadwrites.bsky.social gives us gripping and gruesome with a haunting tale of desperation and survival 💜
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Linda M. Bayley
Vic Nogay
My first read of the day and it's a beautiful one
Stories by @kiklodge.bsky.social always make my day, this one no exception, and it’s only quarter to eight.
Trash Cat Lit
Very proud that my story about deep cleaners is out in Gooseberry Pie today 😁 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/
Does It Have Pockets
This takes an unexpected turn and sparks a whole heap of joy!
‘His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opened with a swift beheading’ - the unsettling atmosphere, the almost imperceptible build to an understanding of quiet devastation - magnificent.
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
by John Brantingham IT’S JUST DUSK SOMEWHERE outside Topeka, Kansas, and you’ve been driving all day with Ellen beside you, now silently in her own world when you see what you think are giant…
Photo by Aleksi Partanen on Unsplash by Mairead Robinson They start in the attic with buckets and bleach, their efficient brooms sweeping spiders into tiny binbags as sunlight spills through gaps in t...
“The Librarian”
by @sagreene1.bsky.social
Shortlist – 2026 Gooseberry Pie Writing Comp
gooseberry-pie.com/the-librarian/
Got a story up about a magnet eater in @bendinggenres.bsky.social if anyone is up for a weird one 😬
Brilliant flash by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social “Still, regret rings through me like a tuning fork.” Brings a whole new meaning to “spark joy”!
The year the sinkhole opened behind Marla’s house we were already halfway through the brisket and three handles of vodka, the folding tables bowing under deviled eggs sweating in paprika, the kids …
Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read:
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Shortlist – 2026 Gooseberry Pie Writing Competition by S A Greene The Librarian wakens to find himself spreadeagled naked on the centre page of a book, with his modesty, such as it is, preserved only ...
The day the sun forgets to rise, Mr White sits down for breakfast at precisely twelve minutes past seven. This is in the dining room. It is Tuesday. His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opene…
