Christine H.
@csquareh.bsky.social
Lover of Science, Art, Words | Best Microfiction | Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50 2023| Stories: CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Vestal Review, Ghost Parachute,Time & Space Magazine +
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Excited to share 3 micros published in the amazing @newworldwriting.bsky.social - Many Thanks to Editor @kimchinquee.bsky.social and team for this acceptance 🙏
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Christine H. Chen ~ Three Micros - New World Writing Quarterly
American Goddess When we returned to Guangzhou for visits, all the aunts and uncles bumbled against each other to lay down their offerings of dried persimmons,
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November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Excited to share 3 micros published in the amazing @newworldwriting.bsky.social - Many Thanks to Editor @kimchinquee.bsky.social and team for this acceptance 🙏
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We are thrilled to congratulate our Pushcart Prize winners!
Dave Newman has won a Pushcart Prize for "The Last Thing That Happened Before I Became a Med Tech."
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Francine Witte has won a Pushcart Prize for "Plate Spinner." newworldwriting.net/francine-wit...
Dave Newman has won a Pushcart Prize for "The Last Thing That Happened Before I Became a Med Tech."
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Francine Witte has won a Pushcart Prize for "Plate Spinner." newworldwriting.net/francine-wit...
April 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We are thrilled to congratulate our Pushcart Prize winners!
Dave Newman has won a Pushcart Prize for "The Last Thing That Happened Before I Became a Med Tech."
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Francine Witte has won a Pushcart Prize for "Plate Spinner." newworldwriting.net/francine-wit...
Dave Newman has won a Pushcart Prize for "The Last Thing That Happened Before I Became a Med Tech."
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Francine Witte has won a Pushcart Prize for "Plate Spinner." newworldwriting.net/francine-wit...
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Excited to share this piece by Francine Witte!
“The truth tells him he is a bird’s nest of hair and cheeks that are pouched with all the lonely years waiting ahead.”
Don’t miss @francinewitte.bsky.social @newworldwriting.bsky.social! ❤️
Don’t miss @francinewitte.bsky.social @newworldwriting.bsky.social! ❤️
October 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Excited to share this piece by Francine Witte!
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Thanks for sharing this new story from Michelle Ross! We love it!
“People in elevators are anxious. This is partly because people in elevators are going somewhere, and the elevators are not that somewhere. But it is also because people in elevators are often alone in these elevators”
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Michelle Ross ~ People in Elevators - New World Writing Quarterly
People in elevators are anxious. This is partly because people in elevators are going somewhere, and the elevators are not that somewhere. But it is also
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October 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for sharing this new story from Michelle Ross! We love it!
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"We tiptoed between our dreams and our duty." Another gorgeous piece from Christine H. Chen @csquareh.bsky.social at @centaurlit.bsky.social
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Yellow by Christine H. Chen | Centaur
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November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"We tiptoed between our dreams and our duty." Another gorgeous piece from Christine H. Chen @csquareh.bsky.social at @centaurlit.bsky.social
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@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social last year’s November issue with terrific work by @lucindakempe.bsky.social @didiwood.bsky.social @luannecastle.bsky.social @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Karen Zlotnik @csquareh.bsky.social
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Issue 23 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Unsplash+ Stories Notes This Kate McKinnon performance always makes me feel hopeful. Jeff Harvey’s debut chapbook, Life Would Be Perfect If (Bottlecap Press, 2024) about a teen coming out in ...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social last year’s November issue with terrific work by @lucindakempe.bsky.social @didiwood.bsky.social @luannecastle.bsky.social @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Karen Zlotnik @csquareh.bsky.social
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Karen Zlotnik @csquareh.bsky.social
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"My mother used to say I had quite the imagination. She didn’t mean it as a compliment." Love this tiny surreal piece by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross in @Ilanot Review:
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October 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"My mother used to say I had quite the imagination. She didn’t mean it as a compliment." Love this tiny surreal piece by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross in @Ilanot Review:
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It's always wonderful to read work by writers I hadn't read before. "Even now, the umbrella carries a faint echo of ceremony, a small shield between human and heaven" by @zaryfekete.bsky.social in @newworldwriting.bsky.social
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Zary Fekete ~ On the Umbrella - New World Writing Quarterly
It is difficult to despair completely while holding an umbrella. A small house of ribs and fabric, sprung open with a click, lifted like a modest crown above
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October 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's always wonderful to read work by writers I hadn't read before. "Even now, the umbrella carries a faint echo of ceremony, a small shield between human and heaven" by @zaryfekete.bsky.social in @newworldwriting.bsky.social
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"Mom fell and got hurt. Or Mom got agitated and hurt someone else, perhaps another stumbling sufferer." by @tracyroyce.bsky.social -omg I can relate! Caregiving is so hard.
Thrilled to have my prose poem, "Undead" appear in the new issue of Unbroken. Thanks to Ken Chau and the rest of the editorial team for featuring my work: www.theunjournals.com/unbroken47
Unbroken | Issue 46 | Summer 2025
Prose poems for y'all.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Mom fell and got hurt. Or Mom got agitated and hurt someone else, perhaps another stumbling sufferer." by @tracyroyce.bsky.social -omg I can relate! Caregiving is so hard.
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Big thanks to @fiveminutelit.bsky.social and EIC @susannabaird.bsky.social for featuring my flash CNF!
"Apprehension" by @tracyroyce.bsky.social, whose writing appears in/is forthcoming in Bending Genres, Does It Have Pockets, The Dribble Drabble Review, Scrawl Place, Villain Era, and elsewhere.
October 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Big thanks to @fiveminutelit.bsky.social and EIC @susannabaird.bsky.social for featuring my flash CNF!
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Christine Chen @csquareh.bsky.social is such a natural at the fragmented form, and this one's a stunner. Read "Raise the Red Lantern" in the inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary. hotflashliterary.com/raise-the-re...
Raise the Red Lantern - Hot Flash Literary
A hairpin, a flute, a brave face. Those were the things that Lotus brought with her when she moved into the Chen household as the fourth concubine. Her throat tightened as her bridal palanquin was low...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Christine Chen @csquareh.bsky.social is such a natural at the fragmented form, and this one's a stunner. Read "Raise the Red Lantern" in the inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary. hotflashliterary.com/raise-the-re...
"“It just reacts a little late,” he says, wiping away steam. “Like someone getting old.” A strange and fascinating read by Huina Zheng in Hot Flash Literary
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The Mirror Has Grown Slow - Hot Flash Literary
The bathroom mirror has grown sluggish. When I brush my teeth and stick out my tongue, foam clinging to the corners of my mouth, it takes seven seconds for the girl inside the mirror to do the same. I...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"“It just reacts a little late,” he says, wiping away steam. “Like someone getting old.” A strange and fascinating read by Huina Zheng in Hot Flash Literary
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"You press your lips against the moist paper heart of my mask." Beautiful piece by @Nancy Stohlman in Hot Flash Literary
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Fever - Hot Flash Literary
Asleep in our separate beds for the first time ever on this, the third day of our honeymoon—until now all honey and nougat and sparkling rosé turned swollen noses and crusty eyes. must be jetlag, must...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"You press your lips against the moist paper heart of my mask." Beautiful piece by @Nancy Stohlman in Hot Flash Literary
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"They stuck their fists inside people and twisted things." Such as fabulous piece by @chelseastickle.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary
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A Good Sign - Hot Flash Literary
The woman’s tongue was long, white in the middle and simple for the men to sever at its base. They dipped it in formaldehyde and framed it in a shadow box to hang at town hall as a warning to other wo...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"They stuck their fists inside people and twisted things." Such as fabulous piece by @chelseastickle.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary
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"I probably should have spent less energy on changing my shape and more on changing my mindset." by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary
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My Body, My Choosing - Hot Flash Literary
I’m turning 65 at the very end of December. I wear moisturizer but no makeup, and I don’t color my hair. (My brown has been overtaken by gray streaks and blond—I’ve never been a blond, nor ever wanted...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"I probably should have spent less energy on changing my shape and more on changing my mindset." by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary
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"My insides resemble a well-marbled steak." by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary - gut wrenching piece, I could relate so much!
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Wyoming - Hot Flash Literary
It’s the time of the Great Evacuation. That’s what my friend Jess calls it. I’ve been bleeding all over the place. My body is emptying itself out. It’s undignified. And painful. Out for coffee with J...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"My insides resemble a well-marbled steak." by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary - gut wrenching piece, I could relate so much!
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Check out inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary founded by @jekwriter.bsky.social & Tina Carlson: "One thing remained clear, though: that women-identifying people needed a place where their voices wouldn’t get lost in an icy gale. Where they could, instead, be hot like lava." hotflashliterary.com
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Welcome to Hot Flash Literary Hot Flash Literary is an online journal of flash whose mission is to give women-identifying writers a voice; specifically, it’s a place for women’s voices to ignite. Like...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Check out inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary founded by @jekwriter.bsky.social & Tina Carlson: "One thing remained clear, though: that women-identifying people needed a place where their voices wouldn’t get lost in an icy gale. Where they could, instead, be hot like lava." hotflashliterary.com
This piece blew my mind. Leave it to @Mikki Aronoff to retell a fairy tale afresh "When his fervent claws tore at my breasts, I clutched his furry ears, whispered how even my daughter would not visit." in Hot Flash Literary
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What Big Eyes - Hot Flash Literary
It’s warm here in his belly. When the muscles contract, I feel him embracing me again. To be frank, he was not unwelcome. When he undressed me, he undressed me slowly, his saliva tracking wet on my th...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This piece blew my mind. Leave it to @Mikki Aronoff to retell a fairy tale afresh "When his fervent claws tore at my breasts, I clutched his furry ears, whispered how even my daughter would not visit." in Hot Flash Literary
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The first issue of Hot Flash Literary is live--featuring phenomenal work by Mikki Aronoff, @csquareh.bsky.social Christine H. Chen, @kathyfish.bsky.social, @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, Stella Reed, @chelseastickle.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, and Huina Zheng! hotflashliterary.com/current-issue/
Current Issue - Hot Flash Literary
Issue 1 – Summer 2025 My Body, My Choice
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September 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The first issue of Hot Flash Literary is live--featuring phenomenal work by Mikki Aronoff, @csquareh.bsky.social Christine H. Chen, @kathyfish.bsky.social, @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, Stella Reed, @chelseastickle.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, and Huina Zheng! hotflashliterary.com/current-issue/
I'm so honored and thrilled to have a work published in @theforge.bsky.social - many thanks and gratitude to Editors Jacky Taylor and Yosh Haggerty 🙏🙏
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Our story of the week is Why I Still Wash Used Saran Wraps and Dry Them on the Dish Rack by Christine H. Chen. @csquareh.bsky.social
Why I Still Wash Used Saran Wraps and Dry Them on the Dish Rack - The Forge Literary Magazine
Why I Still Wash Used Saran Wraps and Dry Them on the Dish Rack, a micro fiction by Christine H. Chen
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August 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I'm so honored and thrilled to have a work published in @theforge.bsky.social - many thanks and gratitude to Editors Jacky Taylor and Yosh Haggerty 🙏🙏
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"Imagine my surprise when a young man shows up at the doorstep during Qingming Festival, saying he’s my older brother."
I love this gem by @csquareh.bsky.social 💙💙💙
I love this gem by @csquareh.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Read "Tomb Sweeping Day" written by @csquareh.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"Ah Ma says, because I’m the only child, I have to live with her and care for her till her death."
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"Ah Ma says, because I’m the only child, I have to live with her and care for her till her death."
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Tomb Sweeping Day — Ghost Parachute
Ah Ma says, because I’m the only child, I have to live with her and care for her till her death. If I marry, my husband will also live with her and help file her taxes every year, and other chores too...
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August 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"Imagine my surprise when a young man shows up at the doorstep during Qingming Festival, saying he’s my older brother."
I love this gem by @csquareh.bsky.social 💙💙💙
I love this gem by @csquareh.bsky.social 💙💙💙
"I slip out of the club into a fog of smokers...and wonder if Mom knew the only way to be free was to run, run, run and never look back." Held my breath as I read this story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute
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Ten Years After Mom Left, and It’s Jazz Night at the Hideaway — Ghost Parachute
Under the club’s high-top table scarred with strangers’ initials and circles—like wedding rings—Brent knocks a shoe against my foot, and I shift away. Miles Davis’s “So What” swings low and ripe from ...
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August 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"I slip out of the club into a fog of smokers...and wonder if Mom knew the only way to be free was to run, run, run and never look back." Held my breath as I read this story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute
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"Forty, and where could they move? What other place would take them?" A fabulous and timely piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute
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What Kind of Country — Ghost Parachute
They are eating pasta with too much parmesan. They are waiting for the news. Waiting to see which direction their country will angle next. Right or left. They don’t have much hope, but they still have...
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August 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Forty, and where could they move? What other place would take them?" A fabulous and timely piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute
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"All Rita has to do is step out and follow the path of light to the waiting spaceship, happy as hell to live among them and not smell like a cigarette." by @sfreligh.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute
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Supernova — Ghost Parachute
For Friday show and tell, Rita shares what she found in the gutter on the way to school. She walks head down and finds many things: single mittens, discarded fast food boxes and once a soggy five-doll...
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August 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"All Rita has to do is step out and follow the path of light to the waiting spaceship, happy as hell to live among them and not smell like a cigarette." by @sfreligh.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute
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"...just let us shove this camera thingy down your throat don’t let your hands reach up to stop it..." a one-sentence gem by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute, illustrated by the marvelous @amymarques.bsky.social
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say yes to distress — Ghost Parachute
hey everybody’s doing it just let us shove this camera thingy down your throat don’t let your hands reach up to stop it to grab it to pull it back out don’t move your head don’t vomit and most of all ...
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August 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"...just let us shove this camera thingy down your throat don’t let your hands reach up to stop it..." a one-sentence gem by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute, illustrated by the marvelous @amymarques.bsky.social
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