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Elizabeth Fletcher
@esfletcher.bsky.social
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writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Pushcart nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope
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Elizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social · May 27
Who’s up for a body-horror love story? If you act fast, you can read it before my husband does.

Many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social & @havehashad.com for giving this cringey cnf a good home.
Love, Distilled by Elizabeth Fletcher
If grand romantic gestures were my measure of true love, I never would’ve married my husband. He is nothing if not practical. He bought me a basic calculator our first Christmas together so I wouldn’t...
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APRICITY - @mishiepoet.bsky.social DAYLIGHT - @opwriter.bsky.social FREQUENCY - Julia Beach
GOSSAMER - @authorlindamcrate.bsky.social HARBINGER - @madelinksi.bsky.social
HEARTSICK - @midwesternskirt.bsky.social KERFUFFLE - @esfletcher.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Bowie wants to remind you to stop and smell the leaves
Tan goldendoodle looks up while standing on a carpet of bright yellow maple leaves
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Writing retreat yielded a new subtitle last night that will help me hew this revision!
Title page in Scrivener reads “HEARTLAND: A Memoir of Wayfinding in the Maya Mundo by Elizabeth Fletcher”
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Progress!
Various colored Post-its stick out of a sheaf of paper. A pen & a mug that reads “let the adventure begin” rest nearby.
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Current status: hiding out in an Airbnb with my manuscript
An open laptop rests on a coffee table, next to it is a thick stack of 8-1/2 x 11 paper & four different colors of Post-It notepads atop it. In the background are a gas fireplace (on) & a potted plant
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
A miniature basset hound stands in front of a miniature bone in the middle of a palm of a hand. A thought bubble with a drawing of a dog reading a book hovers above its head.
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I spy…prime real estate going to @ambersparks.bsky.social at @nextchapterbooksmn.bsky.social
The candy apple red hardcover of Happy People Don’t Live Here sits with other books under a sign that reads “New Fiction Releases”
November 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Bowie delivering you a Happy Halloween!
Tan mini goldendoodle pouting while wearing a UPS dog costume and holding a Coloplast box
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Getting a watercolor tattoo today to redecorate after cancer.
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Gone Lawn is one of those foundational lit mags that’s been around since before I started publishing & consistently puts out interesting work. If you can donate something to keep it viable, now’s the time.
gonelawn.bsky.social Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 13d
Hate this sort of thing.

Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.

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October 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Send us some art, please!!
Black and white image of an empty frame on a wall. Text: “WE HAVE SOME GREAT SUBMISSIONS, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON? NOT ART (circled in red) HELP US FIX THAT!”
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Sunday chin scritches
The face of a tan goldendoodle with soulful eyes getting chin scritches (forearm with script tattoo visible)
October 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Awake well before my 7 am alarm because I’m eager to fly home to my family. This trip for a yoga training was a tiny oasis from my regular responsibilities. An invitation to go deep, with space to sit with gratitude & grief. I return, slightly altered.
October 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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If only @dieworkwear.bsky.social would comment on how this cat is wearing his tux.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17d
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.
October 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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More excellent SF decorations
A winged gargoyle perched in a window is lit with a red light, a caldron nearby cauldron’s contents appears to bubble with red liquid An inflatable, illuminated octopus sticks its head out a window on the second floor of a house. Three separate tentacles emerge from other second floor windows.
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
esfletcher.bsky.social
More excellent SF decorations
A winged gargoyle perched in a window is lit with a red light, a caldron nearby cauldron’s contents appears to bubble with red liquid An inflatable, illuminated octopus sticks its head out a window on the second floor of a house. Three separate tentacles emerge from other second floor windows.
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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My SF neighborhood for the week is bringing the spooky spirit
Skeletons on a bike & hanging off eaves of house Circus-theme: 12 ft skeleton with clown hair & nose, skeleton in a tutu balances on a wall, one with a turban reads a crystal ball, two gram front door wearing flowy dresses, one on balcony in striped suit holding a barbell, another (out of shot) hangs upside down from a trapeze 12 foot skeleton with clown wig & red nose lurks near a tree, another dressed skeleton is attached to spinning wheel, waiting for the knives to be thrown. 12 foot grim reaper stands in front of house while skeleton waves, upside down, from a flagpole, bones and headstones grouped nearby
October 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Morning light through a lemon tree
Shadows of leaves on a grey wall, part of bed & sliding glass door visible on either side
October 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Once upon a time when Twitter was Twitter & the lit community was mostly in one place, @jacgorelick.bsky.social replied to a post about my cancer diagnosis & said I could dm with questions or to vent. Nearly 4 years later, we lived & met IRL. So grateful 💖
Two women in sunglasses smiling as they stand near a rocky shore.
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Stop scrolling & read this powerful @susanbarryschulz.com poem. Especially if you’re a dog person.
susanbarryschulz.com Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com · 27d
My poem, The Physics of Grief, An Abstract”, just published in the recent issue of MockingHeart Review:

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The Physics of Grief, an Abstract The speaker is old. The speaker's dog is also old. On any given day, between them, they have three good knees. Each morning, together, they face the problem of the stairs. The speaker has a penchant for the melancholy; the dog, for cheddar cheese. The speaker proposes a proportional relationship between gravity and grief, although no such formula exists. The speaker has lost. Is lost. The dog, after a bath and a good brushing, lies in the sun, releasing her summer coat to the month of October. The speaker is struggling to understand the point of it all. The dog, stretched out beneath the fluttering swirl of the swamp maple's falling yellow stars, breathes in, breathes out.
October 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Exciting news!
My local indie just called to say my copy of the new novel by @ambersparks.bsky.social has arrived.

This is your reminder that preorders are a little treat for your future self.
October 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Listening to @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social read “Blueberries for Sal” made me cry into my morning tay.
October 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!
Variant Lit logo in black and white with text: "Get ready! We're opening for poetry and prose this month!"
October 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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All clear 🎉
esfletcher.bsky.social Elizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social · Oct 9
Sitting in my car gathering every ounce of courage for semi-annual oncology checkup. The #scanxiety is real.
October 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM