Eileen Frankel Tomarchio
@eileentomarchio.bsky.social
Writer, Librarian ✍🏻: Baltimore Review, Hunger Mountain, The Forge, Lost Balloon, Passages North, Milk Candy Review, jmww, Okay Donkey, X-R-A-Y, trampset, Pithead Chapel +++/ BSF 2023
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Our 2025 Summer Editor's Prize Contest has come to an end! We'd like to thank everyone for their submissions- it made our job so hard! Without further ado, here are our winners!
An honor to be a finalist! Thank you so much, @psmokejournal.bsky.social 🙏💚💜💙❤️
A feast for the ears and heart. Listen to this engaging podcast featuring Kik’s incredible story. 🥰
Only gone and bagged 3rd in this brilliant comp 🙌🫡😚. 2nd and 1st were obvious wowers, naturellement. And I think it’s something akin to squishy having your story read by pros. Classy people, you @failingwriters.bsky.social
The Failing Writers Podcast - S5 Ep20: 2025 Flash Fiction Contest FINAL!
YouTube video by Failing Writers
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November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A feast for the ears and heart. Listen to this engaging podcast featuring Kik’s incredible story. 🥰
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Only gone and bagged 3rd in this brilliant comp 🙌🫡😚. 2nd and 1st were obvious wowers, naturellement. And I think it’s something akin to squishy having your story read by pros. Classy people, you @failingwriters.bsky.social
The Failing Writers Podcast - S5 Ep20: 2025 Flash Fiction Contest FINAL!
YouTube video by Failing Writers
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November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Only gone and bagged 3rd in this brilliant comp 🙌🫡😚. 2nd and 1st were obvious wowers, naturellement. And I think it’s something akin to squishy having your story read by pros. Classy people, you @failingwriters.bsky.social
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Coming at you in May 👀@tortoisebooks.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Coming at you in May 👀@tortoisebooks.bsky.social
In 2022, I was so proud to see my story included in Volume 04: Field Notes of The Bureau Dispatch. It’s inspired by my dad, a marine vet. Missing him this Veterans Day. ❤️🙏🇺🇸
www.bureaudispatch.com/volume-04/ei...
www.bureaudispatch.com/volume-04/ei...
Eileen Frankel Tomarchio: Window Water Baby Moving: A Film by Stan Brakhage — The Bureau Dispatch
Only months before my father will forget my name, he tells me a story about his time in the Marines, just after high school, before he met my mother. One I’ve never heard before, from when he was stat...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
In 2022, I was so proud to see my story included in Volume 04: Field Notes of The Bureau Dispatch. It’s inspired by my dad, a marine vet. Missing him this Veterans Day. ❤️🙏🇺🇸
www.bureaudispatch.com/volume-04/ei...
www.bureaudispatch.com/volume-04/ei...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"He explained that the fountain was about transformation. Water is motion. Life is motion. The flap of the wing, the angel, the bird. The carrying of each from one world to the next."
Oh my... this gorgeous and funny story about angels and hauntings by @bybethhahn.bsky.social is a must-read. ❤️⛲⚰️〰️🤯
Oh my... this gorgeous and funny story about angels and hauntings by @bybethhahn.bsky.social is a must-read. ❤️⛲⚰️〰️🤯
"A month before she died, she stripped to her bra and underwear on a July day and climbed into a city fountain."
Flash Fiction: Not What the Living Think by Beth Hahn
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/f...
Flash Fiction: Not What the Living Think by Beth Hahn
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/f...
Flash Fiction: Not What the Living Think by Beth Hahn
A month before she died, she stripped to her bra and underwear on a July day and climbed into a city fountain.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"He explained that the fountain was about transformation. Water is motion. Life is motion. The flap of the wing, the angel, the bird. The carrying of each from one world to the next."
Oh my... this gorgeous and funny story about angels and hauntings by @bybethhahn.bsky.social is a must-read. ❤️⛲⚰️〰️🤯
Oh my... this gorgeous and funny story about angels and hauntings by @bybethhahn.bsky.social is a must-read. ❤️⛲⚰️〰️🤯
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"After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around"--my latest column.
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Socialism, But Make It Trump
After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around"--my latest column.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
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Heads up!
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
gonelawn.net
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Heads up!
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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A reminder about my class Reading Flash for @flashfictioninst.bsky.social, on Sunday, November 23, from 6 to 8pm ET.
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Reading Flash with Cheryl Pappas | Sunday, Nov. 23 | 3pm PST/6pm EST - Flash Fiction Institute
In this class, we will analyze and appreciate flash fiction by doing a deep study of exemplary flash fiction.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A reminder about my class Reading Flash for @flashfictioninst.bsky.social, on Sunday, November 23, from 6 to 8pm ET.
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flashfictioninstitute.com/product/read...
Mikie! Mamdani! 🇺🇸
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Mikie! Mamdani! 🇺🇸
The work in this new issue of @ettereview.bsky.social is just extraordinary. Cannot recommend it highly enough. 💚💙💜🧡❤️
-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live!
www.ettereview.com/fall2025/
Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:
Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
www.ettereview.com/fall2025/
Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:
Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
The work in this new issue of @ettereview.bsky.social is just extraordinary. Cannot recommend it highly enough. 💚💙💜🧡❤️
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Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
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Looking forward to
reading——
reading——
Subs are now open for our next issue. Send us your best work, now through December 15!
epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
November 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Looking forward to
reading——
reading——
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“And now she was thrusting the cone at me, less gently, the swirl tilting already in the heavy August midnight, requiring me to go right into licking before drips reached my hand”
Stupendously moving piece of flash by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social 🙌
Stupendously moving piece of flash by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social 🙌
Drive-Thru Cone — Ghost Parachute
At the McDonald’s window for a soft-serve an hour after you died, I thought of telling the woman who took my three ones that I was motherless now, that I wasn’t hungry, not really, but the germicidals...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“And now she was thrusting the cone at me, less gently, the swirl tilting already in the heavy August midnight, requiring me to go right into licking before drips reached my hand”
Stupendously moving piece of flash by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social 🙌
Stupendously moving piece of flash by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social 🙌
Thrilled to have a micro up at Ghost Parachute. Thank you, @brettpribble.bsky.social and GP editors/ artists! 🥰🙏
Read "Drive-Thru Cone" written by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"At the McDonald’s window for a soft-serve an hour after you died, I thought of telling the woman who took my three ones that I was motherless now..."
tinyurl.com/5yjrrth2
"At the McDonald’s window for a soft-serve an hour after you died, I thought of telling the woman who took my three ones that I was motherless now..."
tinyurl.com/5yjrrth2
Drive-Thru Cone — Ghost Parachute
At the McDonald’s window for a soft-serve an hour after you died, I thought of telling the woman who took my three ones that I was motherless now, that I wasn’t hungry, not really, but the germicidals...
tinyurl.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thrilled to have a micro up at Ghost Parachute. Thank you, @brettpribble.bsky.social and GP editors/ artists! 🥰🙏
Chilling and beautiful and all-too timely.
Exited to share that my story "Just Another Halloween" was published by @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social today!
tinyurl.com/2jc87hre
tinyurl.com/2jc87hre
just another halloween — Blood+Honey
by Brett Pribble “If only they hadn’t dressed in garments that only Satan would admire, like when they dress as him, or pimps and prostitutes, or in skimpy police uniforms…If only they weren’t just ...
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November 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Chilling and beautiful and all-too timely.
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Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009 - one-off pressing to vinyl and CD - in shops today, featuring performances in London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Dublin.
Limited edition vinyl in red, standard black, cyan, and on CD waste.lnk.to/htttliveBS
Limited edition vinyl in red, standard black, cyan, and on CD waste.lnk.to/htttliveBS
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009 - one-off pressing to vinyl and CD - in shops today, featuring performances in London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Dublin.
Limited edition vinyl in red, standard black, cyan, and on CD waste.lnk.to/htttliveBS
Limited edition vinyl in red, standard black, cyan, and on CD waste.lnk.to/htttliveBS
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October 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
An acceptance from the marvelous Ghost Parachute. Happy happy! ☺️👻🪂
October 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
An acceptance from the marvelous Ghost Parachute. Happy happy! ☺️👻🪂
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Trump’s latest target? The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of America’s last truly wild places. His administration just announced plans to open it up for oil and gas drilling, turning 1.56 million acres of pristine wilderness (home to polar bears, caribou, and migratory birds)
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Trump’s latest target? The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of America’s last truly wild places. His administration just announced plans to open it up for oil and gas drilling, turning 1.56 million acres of pristine wilderness (home to polar bears, caribou, and migratory birds)
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October 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM