Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖
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'real boys are rough and tumble, they thump and dump, you want her, you take her,' Do go read this wonderfully inventive flash by Cole.
‘She shushes like breeze over wheat, rising, carrying the bird to the kitchen lest it wake her husband…’
A gorgeous new 100-word micro from @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social in @100wordstory.bsky.social - and who could resist that title? 🐓
100wordstory.org/past-midnigh...
A girl, a boy, her mother, and the cat.
Read “Reciprocation,” by Meg Pokrass. @megpokrass.bsky.social
vestalreview.net/reciprocation
"You will watch as I shrink my flesh and frame, carving myself smaller and smaller as you grow." Stunning CNF @tracieadams.bsky.social
"The lungs, memory chests for held breaths. Joints, for connecting, that connect, the smoky texture where they almost touch"
Stunning list piece from @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social; the way each item knits together like a mosaic
"In a different world, his is not the only face I think of when I think of family." Fiction reader @kplumhoff.bsky.social's flash, titled IN A DIFFERENT WORLD, I AM NOT A STRANGER TO THIS RANCH, was published in Variant Literature ✨ Find it here: buff.ly/dR0qOZ1
Two amazing #flash from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in Bulb Region.
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"One texts their parents: I don’t think we can come back from this. Their mother responds with a frowny face, saying: Thanks, Debbie Downer. Just what I need today."
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
bulbregion.com/Two-Stories-...
To mark #TenYears of Fictive Dream this month, we're thrilled to be featuring Going Central by Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction #readingcommunity #TenYears. Please click on the link below and enjoy
Gill O'Halloran
James Montgomery
What happens when Pinoccio meets toxic masculinity?
New flash out with WestWord - great to be in this issue with Stephanie Percival, Richard Garcka & Bonnie Meekums. Special thanks to Amanda Saint for believing in this story @retreatwest.bsky.social
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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖
Vestal Review
Claudia Monpere
Matt Kendrick
Split Lip Magazine
“Want to know how they euthanize mass amounts of chickens?” I ask him.
“Is this one of those things you wish you could un-know?” he asks.
Love the dialogue in this @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social. Oh, where she sends herself. And the steadying presence of John ❤️
2/ Lemons
"What a sweet mother she thought she’d be after her own fucked-up childhood. But every living thing has thorns. Hers were longer and sharper than she could have imagined."
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social gives a voice to the marginalised with this story of reconnection.
Special pub day for me. This CNF was workshopped in @smokelong.bsky.social (thanks peeps) and written in honor of my youngest daughter— we recovered from our eating disorders together. Thanks to Bright Flash Literary Review for publishing Rebirth.
brightflash1000.com/2026/06/05/r...
A joy to have a new flash in the brightest new litmag around, @bulbregion.bsky.social. 🩻 I’ve been wanting to write a list story for ages, and @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social has been the kindest editor to deal with. Send them something good when it next opens for subs! 💡
bulbregion.com/What-Maisie-...
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖
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Creative Non-fiction by Tracie Adams I will lift you from embryonic waters, my heart a purring engine against your buttery skin. I will kiss your rosebud lips, feed you from my own body. You will w…
