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Prompt sessions in poetry and flash. Visit Francinewitte.com for details and to be added to mailing list (or message me here) and say which genre (if not both)
January 21, 2026 at 7:19 PM
One of three in Gooseberry Pie. Written in a Kathy Fish workshop. Thank you, Jeff Harvey, editor.

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Astonishment - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Michelle Rosen on Unsplash by Francine Witte Niagara Falls, and I stand at the place where the river is calm and ripple and swim of fish. I can see the brink, that spot where the water tumble...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Poem in Hobo Camp Review. Thank you, James Duncan, editor.

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Bring Me Back That Horizon   Late night, shore light. Just enough to see. And we stand there, tired of ourselves. We can’t seem to l...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Thank you LN for the nomination❤️
January 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
A great review of Some Distant Pin of Light in Pedestal Magazine

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Pedestal Magazine » Francine Witte’s Some Distant Pin of Light, Reviewed by David E. Poston
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January 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Thank you, VR, for the nomination
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Happy new year and congratulations to our 2026 best small fictions nominations!

@marioaliberto3.bsky.social Anna Schachner J.D. Strunk @francinewitte.bsky.social @eileentomarchio.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Zvi Sesling. Enjoy.

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December 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Thank you, Swetha, Robert Vaughan, and Bending Genres.
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Karen George. Enjoy.

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December 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Flash fiction in Vestal Review. Thank you, David Galef, editor.

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When Jack Loses a Shoe — Vestal Review
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December 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Justin Nicholes. Enjoy.

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December 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Two micros in Does it Have Pockets. Thank you, editors.

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Francine Witte — Does It Have Pockets
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December 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Join us this Friday, December 12, 2025 at 7 pm. Please register for zoom link:

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December 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Flash fiction in Fictive Dream. Thank you, Laura Black, editor

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How Many People Does a Cow Feed?
by Francine Witte You ask this of Milton the butcher, the only one left in town. Milton looks like someone your mother would’ve trusted—pouch-eyed and lab-coated. “For what you need an entire…
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December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Michael Degnan. Enjoy.

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December 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Flash in Ghost Parachute. Thank you, Brett Pribble, editor, and Andrew Bertaina for the great workshop where I wrote this.

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Driving in the CVS — Ghost Parachute
I’m in an Alfa Romeo. Not the fancy kind. Not the Fellini kind, but the kind you might see in a dream. Not a fancy dream. Not a Sleeping Beauty dream. More of a too-much-tequila-and-what- was-I-thinki...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful John Dorroh. Enjoy.

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November 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Benjamin Drevlow. Enjoy.

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November 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Thank you to everyone who came to the zoom launch for my new poetry collection. Here is the video ICYMI.

And if you’d like yo purchase the book

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Cervena Barva Press Book Launch for "Some Distant Pin of Light" by Francine Witte
YouTube video by Červená Barva Press
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Hosted by Meg Pokrass and Francine Witte. Readers: Sumitra Singam, Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Coleman Bigelow, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, and Keith J.Powell. Time stamps in video description.
PROSE GARDEN-November 15, 2025
YouTube video by Francine Witte
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November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Olivia Brochu. Enjoy.

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November 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Please join me for a zoom launch of my poetry collection on Wednesday November 19 at 7 pm EST.

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November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Please join Meg Pokrass and me for the PROSE GARDEN, Sat. November 15, 2 PM EST.

Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg

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November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Susan Israel. Enjoy.

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November 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
ICYMI: Fbomb Flash reading-November 7, 2025

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FBOMB Global Flash Reading-November 7, 2025
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November 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM