Charlotte Hamrick
@charhamrick.bsky.social
Writer, reader, observer, New Orleanian ⚜️🇺🇸✝️
Managing Editor: @reckonreview.bsky.social
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Managing Editor: @reckonreview.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/charlottehamrick
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“… shuddering like a ghost rain in the leaves, like something lost and searching.”
“If something similar happened to her, Nate — unlike Mr. Haskell — wouldn’t even try to protect Anna and her. Couldn’t. He was in Chicago.”
@melostrom.bsky.social in Stone Canoe Journal
“If something similar happened to her, Nate — unlike Mr. Haskell — wouldn’t even try to protect Anna and her. Couldn’t. He was in Chicago.”
@melostrom.bsky.social in Stone Canoe Journal
Mocha & I are spending our morning with the latest issue of Stone Canoe Journal. I’m excited it includes my short story, “Away.” Happy Monday, friends.📚🐶💚
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
“… shuddering like a ghost rain in the leaves, like something lost and searching.”
“If something similar happened to her, Nate — unlike Mr. Haskell — wouldn’t even try to protect Anna and her. Couldn’t. He was in Chicago.”
@melostrom.bsky.social in Stone Canoe Journal
“If something similar happened to her, Nate — unlike Mr. Haskell — wouldn’t even try to protect Anna and her. Couldn’t. He was in Chicago.”
@melostrom.bsky.social in Stone Canoe Journal
“…everybody shook their heads and tut-tutted and agreed she had always been trouble or a narcissist or too much of a goody-two-shoes…”
Wow, so good - Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos in ghost parachute
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Wow, so good - Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos in ghost parachute
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When She Left — Ghost Parachute
her kids were all grown up—she’d cared and cooked and cleaned and cajoled and consoled and done the best she humanly/womanly/motherly could until night sweat wept through her pores, until her body scr...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“…everybody shook their heads and tut-tutted and agreed she had always been trouble or a narcissist or too much of a goody-two-shoes…”
Wow, so good - Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos in ghost parachute
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Wow, so good - Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos in ghost parachute
ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...
“I dance like all of the cowards in cowboy movies. Caro Kennedy cries like all of the women who listen, from behind drawn curtains, to the gunfire from a duel in a dusty street.”
🙌 Gary Fincke in Ghost Parachute
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🙌 Gary Fincke in Ghost Parachute
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Foreshadowing — Ghost Parachute
In 1963, a week after I begin third grade, three men with rifles rob the savings and loan four blocks from my parents’ house in a small town just outside of Pittsburgh. A minute later, the police aler...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“I dance like all of the cowards in cowboy movies. Caro Kennedy cries like all of the women who listen, from behind drawn curtains, to the gunfire from a duel in a dusty street.”
🙌 Gary Fincke in Ghost Parachute
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🙌 Gary Fincke in Ghost Parachute
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Today's new fiction, from Amelia Franz, will have your heart pounding.
October 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today's new fiction, from Amelia Franz, will have your heart pounding.
An Extraordinary heart tug. Truly wonderful, Jen! @jenwithwords.bsky.social
✨ The first episode has arrived! ✨
Very excited to introduce the first episode in my new flash fiction film series ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’! 🕰️
If you have a minute and a half to spare, I’d love for you to check it out!
youtu.be/scAoxNryyVA
Very excited to introduce the first episode in my new flash fiction film series ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’! 🕰️
If you have a minute and a half to spare, I’d love for you to check it out!
youtu.be/scAoxNryyVA
The Time Pirate | Episode 1: The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore
YouTube video by jenwithwords
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
An Extraordinary heart tug. Truly wonderful, Jen! @jenwithwords.bsky.social
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New Wind & Root over at Reckon today from our columnist Brandy Renee McCann.
I needed this one today.
I needed this one today.
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
New Wind & Root over at Reckon today from our columnist Brandy Renee McCann.
I needed this one today.
I needed this one today.
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New creative nonfiction at Reckon today from Cindy Sams. Come see!
October 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
New creative nonfiction at Reckon today from Cindy Sams. Come see!
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“Writing has always been a way of understanding myself…”
Check out @charhamrick.bsky.social’s wonderful interview with @ronita.bsky.social!📚💚
Check out @charhamrick.bsky.social’s wonderful interview with @ronita.bsky.social!📚💚
October 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Writing has always been a way of understanding myself…”
Check out @charhamrick.bsky.social’s wonderful interview with @ronita.bsky.social!📚💚
Check out @charhamrick.bsky.social’s wonderful interview with @ronita.bsky.social!📚💚
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October 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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We are so honored that Eileen, Holly, Mary Ann, and Summer trusted us with their incredible work, and SO very proud to nominate them for the Best of the Net this year.
Read their stories here:
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Read their stories here:
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October 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We are so honored that Eileen, Holly, Mary Ann, and Summer trusted us with their incredible work, and SO very proud to nominate them for the Best of the Net this year.
Read their stories here:
reckonreview.com/award-nomina...
Read their stories here:
reckonreview.com/award-nomina...
This issue is a treasure trove for flash fiction lovers. I’m savoring it!
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October 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
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October 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This issue is a treasure trove for flash fiction lovers. I’m savoring it!
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We have new creative nonfiction from Katrina Ralbag over at Reckon. Come see.
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We have new creative nonfiction from Katrina Ralbag over at Reckon. Come see.
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“because everyone knows pigtails and pinafores belong in Kansas (said The Man.)”
A fresh take on Glinda and the Wizard of Oz all in six sentences by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
A fresh take on Glinda and the Wizard of Oz all in six sentences by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
Thrilled to have another microfiction in the exciting @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 🙏🥧
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Glinda Was Never a Witch - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
pexels.com photo by froken-frokus by Charlotte Hamrick She was wishful fluff conjured up by The Man who, like some men, see women as either Good or Bad, Madonna or Slut. Glinda was a fantastical idea...
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September 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“because everyone knows pigtails and pinafores belong in Kansas (said The Man.)”
A fresh take on Glinda and the Wizard of Oz all in six sentences by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
A fresh take on Glinda and the Wizard of Oz all in six sentences by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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Taking a break from short poetry films to try something a little different…
‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ is a brand new flash fiction film series starting Fall 2025.
First episode drops October 15th!
But in the meantime, a little teaser…
youtu.be/aDKdo-sjrIs
‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ is a brand new flash fiction film series starting Fall 2025.
First episode drops October 15th!
But in the meantime, a little teaser…
youtu.be/aDKdo-sjrIs
The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore | Teaser/Trailer
YouTube video by jenwithwords
youtu.be
September 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Taking a break from short poetry films to try something a little different…
‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ is a brand new flash fiction film series starting Fall 2025.
First episode drops October 15th!
But in the meantime, a little teaser…
youtu.be/aDKdo-sjrIs
‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ is a brand new flash fiction film series starting Fall 2025.
First episode drops October 15th!
But in the meantime, a little teaser…
youtu.be/aDKdo-sjrIs
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It’s the weekend & we’re reading submissions in between cook-outs & zoo visits. Do we have your CNF or Fiction? 🤓
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reckonreview.com/submissions/
Submissions – Reckon Review
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September 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It’s the weekend & we’re reading submissions in between cook-outs & zoo visits. Do we have your CNF or Fiction? 🤓
reckonreview.com/submissions/
reckonreview.com/submissions/
“And maybe the last day on earth,
before we go back to earth, either
buried or ash, we wonder if anyone
ever truly knew us.“ 🩷
before we go back to earth, either
buried or ash, we wonder if anyone
ever truly knew us.“ 🩷
September 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“And maybe the last day on earth,
before we go back to earth, either
buried or ash, we wonder if anyone
ever truly knew us.“ 🩷
before we go back to earth, either
buried or ash, we wonder if anyone
ever truly knew us.“ 🩷
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If you ever have an opportunity to work with editor @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, jump.
Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks.
dianegottlieb.com/conversation...
Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks.
dianegottlieb.com/conversation...
Conversations on Grieving Hope - Diane Gottlieb
Hi all! I am so very excited to bring to you this month not one interview but five!! Earlier this year, ELJ Editions published a GORGEOUS volume of five micro-chapbooks (for those not ensconced in the...
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September 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
If you ever have an opportunity to work with editor @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, jump.
Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks.
dianegottlieb.com/conversation...
Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks.
dianegottlieb.com/conversation...
““We eat in the dim, dancing light of a taper candle placed in an empty wine bottle. The amethyst of your wedding ring glimmers.”
🙌❤️
🙌❤️
“I don’t tell you you’re my muse; that will come later, after we’ve left this adobe house in the New Mexico mountains, where you’re gracious to let me stay.”
-from “Letter from the Same Room,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Lauren Fath
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
-from “Letter from the Same Room,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Lauren Fath
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
September 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
““We eat in the dim, dancing light of a taper candle placed in an empty wine bottle. The amethyst of your wedding ring glimmers.”
🙌❤️
🙌❤️
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“Angela’s mom suggests that I make a list of the things I am responsible for. It should be present tense.”
"This was the last person to leave her, but I was still the last to fail her."
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"This was the last person to leave her, but I was still the last to fail her."
@nathanwillis.bsky.social @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/working-titl...
WORKING TITLE NO.6 | Fiction by Nathan Willis – Reckon Review
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September 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“Angela’s mom suggests that I make a list of the things I am responsible for. It should be present tense.”
"This was the last person to leave her, but I was still the last to fail her."
@nathanwillis.bsky.social @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/working-titl...
"This was the last person to leave her, but I was still the last to fail her."
@nathanwillis.bsky.social @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/working-titl...
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ICYMI: my micro in @claudineliterary.bsky.social!
Celebrating our September microfiction today!! 👏🏼🙌🏼👏🏼
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/melissallane...
@aniking.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/aniking
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@lumchanmfa.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/melissallane...
@aniking.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/aniking
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September 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
ICYMI: my micro in @claudineliterary.bsky.social!
“…I buried my face in your neck, asking, how will our story end? So damn happily, you said, tugging at the sheet dividing us…”
❤️
Kate Horsley in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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Kate Horsley in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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Red Olivetti - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Dcps Chloé on Unsplash by Kate Horsley Every time I move, I take the typewriter with me – Olivetti Lettera 35, kitsch relic of the 1970s, the keys like raked auditorium seats climbing towards...
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September 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“…I buried my face in your neck, asking, how will our story end? So damn happily, you said, tugging at the sheet dividing us…”
❤️
Kate Horsley in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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Kate Horsley in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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An exceptional piece. 🙌
New fiction at Reckon this morning. Check out "Resurrection Drive" by Abigail Myers.
@abigailmyers.bsky.social
@abigailmyers.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
An exceptional piece. 🙌
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ICYMI today we're feat. Bog Body by Imogen Rae #MicroMonday #microfiction. Please just click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/15/m...
September 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ICYMI today we're feat. Bog Body by Imogen Rae #MicroMonday #microfiction. Please just click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/15/m...
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Check out what's happening at The Sunlight Press and find out who is judging our Fall Flash Fiction contest!
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September 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Check out what's happening at The Sunlight Press and find out who is judging our Fall Flash Fiction contest!
bit.ly/3JE7Ejb
bit.ly/3JE7Ejb