This comes out July 7. Cool to be included, insane lineup of good writers here. www.bestmicrofiction.com/books/2026.h...
New totally normal story about a robot in a marching band. Thanks to @flashfrog.bsky.social and @lindamayhawkins.bsky.social
The 13th issue of Socrates on the Beach is up. Thank you to the writers and translators. socratesonthebeach.com
You can read it here:
Pleased to have a new story about life in a very odd small town in @leanmag.bsky.social the magazine for “non-protagonist-centered fiction”
Excited for this nomination from the excellent (and awesomely-named) @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
New story about a time-trapped cowboy in @bulbregion.bsky.social! Big thanks to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
I wrote about Garrett Caples’ “Proses” for this list of fave story collections 2025. A lot of good ones here. Two more I snuck in in the last few weeks: “Farthest South” by Ethan Rutherford and “The Woman Dies” by Aoko Matsuda.
new story "How to Go Through the Drive-Thru Car Wash Without Your Car"
Really excited to have my story, "How to Buy a Snowglobe", published in @ettereview.bsky.social, chosen for Best Microfiction 2026!
NEW STORY⚡️🐸
“The Robot Trombonist” by @mattleibel.bsky.social is now up!
Art by @lindamayhawkins.bsky.social
flash-frog.com/2026/05/25/t...
We are officially LEANing into spring over here with issue #11!
Matt Leibel's "Town" describes a sort of place that's bigger and smaller than the sum of its parts.
Meanwhile Selen Ozturk's story "Aurora" is all about the push-and-pull between a story and its writer.
www.lean-mag.com
One afternoon at band practice, the robot picked up one of Billy’s bones and brought it to his metal polymer lips. Billy was our first trombonist—but Billy had ears. And after hearing the robot blo…
