Online magazine for flash and short fiction.
Chill Subs 2024 Community Favourites Flash Fiction #7
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Editor: JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social
Read Stories: https://trashcatlit.com/treasured-words/
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Can you knock out a story in four days? Our sub call closes at 8pm (UK time) on Sunday 🦝
We're celebrating the Kingdom of Plantae, here are some quick ideas to get you thinking 💚
Our Mood Board:
trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/
Guidelines and sub link:
trashcatlit.com/general-subm...
Delving back into our fab anthology, which is now online to read 🦝
A thread of three tantalising spotlights
In Words That Have Carried Across the Water, Sam Alex worldbuilds a dystopia with beautiful mastery. Gorgeous characters and full of hope.
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A second spotlight from our now-online anthology 🦝
In Mr Crabkowski, Shayla Felix brings snappy humour to her back and forth email-form short. A relatable story about a school pet, that takes such unexpected and joyful turns.
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Spotlight 3 from today's taste of What Comes to Light.
In Objects of Sentimental Value, @joycebingham.bsky.social explores a very relatable experience with powerful emotional resonance. Nostalgia, families, grief. She handles them all beautifully.
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The bin's sad to report that we've not had many submissions to our Kingdom of Plantae call so far. We hope it's because you're all still writing and editing and stuffs before the deadline🤞.
We know June's a busy lit subs month, but we hope to see your words🦝
#litsubmissions #submissioncalls
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Our second teaser of the day from What Comes to Light 🦝
In Dead Water, Jo Clark @thejokelark.bsky.social's young MC traverses ruined landscape in search of something once so taken for granted, and finds something truly unexpected 💜
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ONLY SIX DAYS UNTIL SUBS CLOSE 🦝
Here are some suggestions for how using words to describe a landscape could influence the mood of your piece, the genre, and your character themselves.
More plantae mood 💚:
trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/
Sub guidelines:
trashcatlit.com/general-subm...
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A third spotlight from our now-online anthology of treasures 💜
In Southeast of Soho, @terryholland.bsky.social uses tense, chopped lyrical language to tell a story of love and regret with a wonderful sense of self and place 💜
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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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A week left on Summer subs for your stories celebrating the Kingdom of Plantae 💚
Here's what Guest Reader, Leigh @mrlovelyday.bsky.social would love to see in the binbox.
Think of those spaces less commonly considered, and how genre can influence everything 🦝
trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/
