Queer, shy and anxious. Pigeon-chested, takes frequent naps and seldom goes far. Writes tiny things. 2025: Exposition Review, Pangyrus, Flash the Court, Your Impossible Voice, Fictive Dream, Flash Flood, Winged Moon, Eunoia Review, Switch, Trash Cat Lit
Frances Gapper
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Happy to have a tiny story in Best Microfiction 2026. Thank you to series editors Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, and guest editor Diane Seuss.
This sequence is so delightful. I was in when I saw Leonora Carrington and boy did this story deliver!
Thank you for the repost, @ezhang77.bsky.social !!
“We did consider using a vegan mix of hemlock and wolfsbane, I tell the asp, which plumes itself on being a suave and sophisticated sort of serpent …”
@francesgapper.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/neck-the-neck/
simply thrilled to share this lil’ backwards story of longing & redemption 🥹
🙏 @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving it such a beautiful home
@christopherallen.bsky.social
for the slantwise prompt &
@markabowles.bsky.social for timely words of support
bulbregion.com/Truth-and-Co...
"Afterwards it rained, hard as stones."
This wonderful competition issue of Gooseberry Pie includes my tiny tale about Cleopatra's asp 🐍
My ekphrastic micro sequence inspired by the work of Leonora Carrington has sprouted in The Bulb Region! @bulbregion.bsky.social ! Thank you to the wonderful @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social bulbregion.com/After-Leonor...
This is such a fun story! Bravo @francesgapper.bsky.social
