Jennifer Lesh Fleck
@jennifleck.bsky.social
pnw~spec fic~old houses~coffee~dogs~marfan~weirdo~full of metal + mettle
new! www.jenniferleshfleck.com
new! www.jenniferleshfleck.com
Wild horses and wild young girls convene and merge, a sun-drenched tale that sprang fully-fleshed to run roughshod through my imagination. Really can't quite call this one fiction...
Thank you to @smallwondersmag.com for having "The Horses and Ponies of 8th Avenue" aboard. I hope you enjoy!
Thank you to @smallwondersmag.com for having "The Horses and Ponies of 8th Avenue" aboard. I hope you enjoy!
Come thundering through a transformational summer in today's story, "The Horses and Ponies of 8th Avenue" by @jennifleck.bsky.social :
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The Horses and Ponies of 8th Avenue - Small Wonders
One June we became ponies and horses, all of us aged nine to twelve years old, most of us girls.
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August 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Wild horses and wild young girls convene and merge, a sun-drenched tale that sprang fully-fleshed to run roughshod through my imagination. Really can't quite call this one fiction...
Thank you to @smallwondersmag.com for having "The Horses and Ponies of 8th Avenue" aboard. I hope you enjoy!
Thank you to @smallwondersmag.com for having "The Horses and Ponies of 8th Avenue" aboard. I hope you enjoy!
Contract signed, so I can announce happily that my horror story "The Foundling" will be appearing in the Spring 2026 issue of Chthonic Matter Quarterly!
Let me tease in advance: just because something's cute and free doesn't mean you should take it home. 😉😱
Let me tease in advance: just because something's cute and free doesn't mean you should take it home. 😉😱
August 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Contract signed, so I can announce happily that my horror story "The Foundling" will be appearing in the Spring 2026 issue of Chthonic Matter Quarterly!
Let me tease in advance: just because something's cute and free doesn't mean you should take it home. 😉😱
Let me tease in advance: just because something's cute and free doesn't mean you should take it home. 😉😱
Preorders are now open for Modern Mummies from Cat Eye Press. Fresh, new horror tales, including one by yours truly that's sure to create a "buzz"... *wink-wink*
It'll be just the book to tuck into cozily as summer breathes its last gasp! 🐝🍯
Grab your copy today from @cateyepress.bsky.social
It'll be just the book to tuck into cozily as summer breathes its last gasp! 🐝🍯
Grab your copy today from @cateyepress.bsky.social
The mummies are coming... To a new horror anthology from Cat Eye Press!
We're so excited to share the full cover of our latest anthology, Modern Mummies, by the one and only @valhal.bsky.social. You can also now preorder your copy through our website: cateyepress.com/store
We're so excited to share the full cover of our latest anthology, Modern Mummies, by the one and only @valhal.bsky.social. You can also now preorder your copy through our website: cateyepress.com/store
June 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Preorders are now open for Modern Mummies from Cat Eye Press. Fresh, new horror tales, including one by yours truly that's sure to create a "buzz"... *wink-wink*
It'll be just the book to tuck into cozily as summer breathes its last gasp! 🐝🍯
Grab your copy today from @cateyepress.bsky.social
It'll be just the book to tuck into cozily as summer breathes its last gasp! 🐝🍯
Grab your copy today from @cateyepress.bsky.social
Special thanks goes to @heartlines-spec.com for first launching my story "Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs" into the world. So great to see it rise to ride again in Hexagon's Best of anthology. 🕷️🕸️🛸
Thrilled to see Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jennifleck.bsky.social from Issue 6 included in this anthro antho
Check for creepy crawlies and then read these stories 🪳🕷️🐞
Check for creepy crawlies and then read these stories 🪳🕷️🐞
Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 2 is now available on our Patreon! Featuring arthropod stories from @eclosionk2.bsky.social, @mmschreier.bsky.social, @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social, @dianadima.com, @akatherineblack.bsky.social, @jennifleck.bsky.social, and Pauline Jérémie! 🪲🐛🐞🦀
June 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Special thanks goes to @heartlines-spec.com for first launching my story "Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs" into the world. So great to see it rise to ride again in Hexagon's Best of anthology. 🕷️🕸️🛸
Yay! Year's Best Arthropod Short Fiction is here, with a quickly-skittering tale from yours truly nestled among other great authors (and their things-with-many-legs). Thanks for having me aboard, @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social!
Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 2 is now available on our Patreon! Featuring arthropod stories from @eclosionk2.bsky.social, @mmschreier.bsky.social, @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social, @dianadima.com, @akatherineblack.bsky.social, @jennifleck.bsky.social, and Pauline Jérémie! 🪲🐛🐞🦀
June 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Yay! Year's Best Arthropod Short Fiction is here, with a quickly-skittering tale from yours truly nestled among other great authors (and their things-with-many-legs). Thanks for having me aboard, @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social!
Reposted by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
"I don’t have a terminal illness. I have an interminable one. Decades still ahead, predictable ones in which my body fights with itself, breaks itself down"
This piece from @jennifleck.bsky.social spoke to me so deeply. Not enough flash being published about the reality of long-term illness.
This piece from @jennifleck.bsky.social spoke to me so deeply. Not enough flash being published about the reality of long-term illness.
Kicking off June with Jennifer Lesh Fleck’s “The Island Toward Which I Row and Row, Yet Cannot Reach Alone,” a piece about tech-enabled living for a young woman with a disability
@jennifleck.bsky.social
#writingcommunity #ownvoices #scifi #technology
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
@jennifleck.bsky.social
#writingcommunity #ownvoices #scifi #technology
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
This Island Toward Which I Row and Row, Yet Cannot Reach Alone
Friday night. My older sister points a beam at my bedroom ceiling so the sky appears: charcoal edging to violet, clouds in layered bruises, starlight peeping through the gaps. Claretta then directs…
www.flashfictiononline.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"I don’t have a terminal illness. I have an interminable one. Decades still ahead, predictable ones in which my body fights with itself, breaks itself down"
This piece from @jennifleck.bsky.social spoke to me so deeply. Not enough flash being published about the reality of long-term illness.
This piece from @jennifleck.bsky.social spoke to me so deeply. Not enough flash being published about the reality of long-term illness.
This was a nice surprise! "Vestigial" is in this latest fiction round-up, as is my TOC-buddy from the same issue of Inner Worlds, @hannahgreer.bsky.social!
Give us a read! (After perusing content warnings, ahem. :))))
Give us a read! (After perusing content warnings, ahem. :))))
The Shortlist for June 6:
Turns out I'm a huge fan of Abbie Barker.
Three of her stories in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social, Gordon Square, and Berkeley Review.
All the links here:
(...cont'd)
Turns out I'm a huge fan of Abbie Barker.
Three of her stories in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social, Gordon Square, and Berkeley Review.
All the links here:
(...cont'd)
The Shortlist for June 6, 2025 - turn and work
Three stories by Abbie Barker, plus Mike McHone, Jennifer Lesh Fleck, and Hannah Greer
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June 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This was a nice surprise! "Vestigial" is in this latest fiction round-up, as is my TOC-buddy from the same issue of Inner Worlds, @hannahgreer.bsky.social!
Give us a read! (After perusing content warnings, ahem. :))))
Give us a read! (After perusing content warnings, ahem. :))))
People are totally weirded-out and also enjoying* my horror story that just dropped in Inner Worlds! Give it a read, if you dare.
*I don't know if that's the correct word...maybe appreciating? Enduring, mind and soul remaining mostly intact??
*I don't know if that's the correct word...maybe appreciating? Enduring, mind and soul remaining mostly intact??
"Now, as the moon rose at last in all its fullness and my pain reached a zenith and edged past it, I arranged all the small mirrors so I could see deeply into myself."
Read "Vestigial" by @jennifleck.bsky.social (note those CWs):
inner-worlds.ghost.io/vestigial-je...
#horror #horrorfam
Read "Vestigial" by @jennifleck.bsky.social (note those CWs):
inner-worlds.ghost.io/vestigial-je...
#horror #horrorfam
Vestigial by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
Such messes my spouse left behind. Our finances in tricky tangles. Closets, drawers, cupboards sloppily stripped. All the good LPs: gone.
inner-worlds.ghost.io
June 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
People are totally weirded-out and also enjoying* my horror story that just dropped in Inner Worlds! Give it a read, if you dare.
*I don't know if that's the correct word...maybe appreciating? Enduring, mind and soul remaining mostly intact??
*I don't know if that's the correct word...maybe appreciating? Enduring, mind and soul remaining mostly intact??
Honored to help launch the June 2025 issue of Flash Fiction Online! My story is now available to read for free (direct link in comments).
Thanks again for having my tale aboard, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!
Thanks again for having my tale aboard, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!
Kicking off June with Jennifer Lesh Fleck’s “The Island Toward Which I Row and Row, Yet Cannot Reach Alone,” a piece about tech-enabled living for a young woman with a disability
@jennifleck.bsky.social
#writingcommunity #ownvoices #scifi #technology
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
@jennifleck.bsky.social
#writingcommunity #ownvoices #scifi #technology
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
This Island Toward Which I Row and Row, Yet Cannot Reach Alone
Friday night. My older sister points a beam at my bedroom ceiling so the sky appears: charcoal edging to violet, clouds in layered bruises, starlight peeping through the gaps. Claretta then directs…
www.flashfictiononline.com
June 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Honored to help launch the June 2025 issue of Flash Fiction Online! My story is now available to read for free (direct link in comments).
Thanks again for having my tale aboard, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!
Thanks again for having my tale aboard, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!
Yay! It's pub day!
Check out my creepy little heartbreaker "Vestigial" and 11 other fine tales in this brand-spanking new edition of Inner Worlds, issue #7. (Gorgeous cover, too.)
Check out my creepy little heartbreaker "Vestigial" and 11 other fine tales in this brand-spanking new edition of Inner Worlds, issue #7. (Gorgeous cover, too.)
🌸💀✨️ Issue 7 is out now! ✨️💀🌸
12 stories ready to break your heart, make you wince, fill you with bittersweet longing, or just make you kind of uneasy. You will feel things.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-seven-...
#SFF #Horror #SpecFic #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #FlashFiction
12 stories ready to break your heart, make you wince, fill you with bittersweet longing, or just make you kind of uneasy. You will feel things.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-seven-...
#SFF #Horror #SpecFic #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #FlashFiction
May 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Yay! It's pub day!
Check out my creepy little heartbreaker "Vestigial" and 11 other fine tales in this brand-spanking new edition of Inner Worlds, issue #7. (Gorgeous cover, too.)
Check out my creepy little heartbreaker "Vestigial" and 11 other fine tales in this brand-spanking new edition of Inner Worlds, issue #7. (Gorgeous cover, too.)
"Mums the word" no longer, lulz.
Super thrilled to announce I've got a creepy tale dropping soon in this exciting new anthology...check out the TOC!
More to come... 🍯🐝☠️
Super thrilled to announce I've got a creepy tale dropping soon in this exciting new anthology...check out the TOC!
More to come... 🍯🐝☠️
We’ll be revealing more information about Modern Mummies (including the cover and preorders!!!) in the coming weeks! In the meantime, check out some of our authors below! @uteorgassa.bsky.social
@byronwk.bsky.social
@chrislavigna.bsky.social
@ccskeleton.bsky.social
@byronwk.bsky.social
@chrislavigna.bsky.social
@ccskeleton.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Mums the word" no longer, lulz.
Super thrilled to announce I've got a creepy tale dropping soon in this exciting new anthology...check out the TOC!
More to come... 🍯🐝☠️
Super thrilled to announce I've got a creepy tale dropping soon in this exciting new anthology...check out the TOC!
More to come... 🍯🐝☠️
Yay! It's nearly here...you won't want to miss this issue, with a great TOC that includes a little wicked tale full of heart by yours truly.
🎉 TOC time! 🎉
Issue 7 is almost here, featuring stories by
@safiyacherfi.bsky.social
@cjsubko.bsky.social
@cheysectoplasm.bsky.social
@trailofleaves.bsky.social
@chadgayle.bsky.social
@sylvie-althoff.bsky.social
@nicholeon.bsky.social
@jennifleck.bsky.social
@hannahgreer.bsky.social & more!
Issue 7 is almost here, featuring stories by
@safiyacherfi.bsky.social
@cjsubko.bsky.social
@cheysectoplasm.bsky.social
@trailofleaves.bsky.social
@chadgayle.bsky.social
@sylvie-althoff.bsky.social
@nicholeon.bsky.social
@jennifleck.bsky.social
@hannahgreer.bsky.social & more!
May 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Yay! It's nearly here...you won't want to miss this issue, with a great TOC that includes a little wicked tale full of heart by yours truly.
Super stoked to join this Year's Best anthology full of great authors.
I may have been teased for "playing with bugs" as a kid. Well, well...wouldja look at me now! 🕷️🕸️🛸
I may have been teased for "playing with bugs" as a kid. Well, well...wouldja look at me now! 🕷️🕸️🛸
I’m incredibly excited to announce the authors for Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 2! 🦋🐞🐜🪲🦗🪰🕷️🦀
@akatherineblack.bsky.social
@dianadima.com
Joshua Green
Pauline Jérémie
@eclosionk2.bsky.social
@jennifleck.bsky.social
@mmschreier.bsky.social
@kswalkerwrites.bsky.social
#invertefest
@akatherineblack.bsky.social
@dianadima.com
Joshua Green
Pauline Jérémie
@eclosionk2.bsky.social
@jennifleck.bsky.social
@mmschreier.bsky.social
@kswalkerwrites.bsky.social
#invertefest
May 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Super stoked to join this Year's Best anthology full of great authors.
I may have been teased for "playing with bugs" as a kid. Well, well...wouldja look at me now! 🕷️🕸️🛸
I may have been teased for "playing with bugs" as a kid. Well, well...wouldja look at me now! 🕷️🕸️🛸
Happy to share that my short story “The Beating Room” is this month’s featured fiction selection on Neon Dystopia! What if today’s “smash rooms” are taken a few steps further by the wellness industry?
cw: consensual physical violence
Link below! 💥🥊
cw: consensual physical violence
Link below! 💥🥊
April 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Happy to share that my short story “The Beating Room” is this month’s featured fiction selection on Neon Dystopia! What if today’s “smash rooms” are taken a few steps further by the wellness industry?
cw: consensual physical violence
Link below! 💥🥊
cw: consensual physical violence
Link below! 💥🥊
Super nice words about one of my recent tales...always a treat to encounter! Check my story out in this month's Cosmic Horror Monthly.
@jennifleck.bsky.social's enchanting prose breathes fresh life into ancient mythology in "Venus Looks Coldly over Her Shoulder" in February's @chmmagazine.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Super nice words about one of my recent tales...always a treat to encounter! Check my story out in this month's Cosmic Horror Monthly.
Back working again with Cosmic Horror Monthly. And if you subscribe to their newsletter, my story is one of the free selections this month. Monstrous romance meets artistic ambitions gone mad!
Thank you, CHM! 🖤
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Thank you, CHM! 🖤
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February 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Back working again with Cosmic Horror Monthly. And if you subscribe to their newsletter, my story is one of the free selections this month. Monstrous romance meets artistic ambitions gone mad!
Thank you, CHM! 🖤
cosmichorrormonthly.com/subscribe/
Thank you, CHM! 🖤
cosmichorrormonthly.com/subscribe/
The long-leggity beasties have breached the paywall -- check it out:
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jennifleck.bsky.social is now free-to-read!
Venture deep into the forest, don't get lost, don't trust the spiders.
www.heartlines-spec.com/legs-scopula...
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jennifleck.bsky.social is now free-to-read!
Venture deep into the forest, don't get lost, don't trust the spiders.
www.heartlines-spec.com/legs-scopula...
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
www.heartlines-spec.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The long-leggity beasties have breached the paywall -- check it out:
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jennifleck.bsky.social is now free-to-read!
Venture deep into the forest, don't get lost, don't trust the spiders.
www.heartlines-spec.com/legs-scopula...
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jennifleck.bsky.social is now free-to-read!
Venture deep into the forest, don't get lost, don't trust the spiders.
www.heartlines-spec.com/legs-scopula...
Reposted by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jennifleck.bsky.social is now free-to-read!
Venture deep into the forest, don't get lost, don't trust the spiders.
www.heartlines-spec.com/legs-scopula...
Venture deep into the forest, don't get lost, don't trust the spiders.
www.heartlines-spec.com/legs-scopula...
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
www.heartlines-spec.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jennifleck.bsky.social is now free-to-read!
Venture deep into the forest, don't get lost, don't trust the spiders.
www.heartlines-spec.com/legs-scopula...
Venture deep into the forest, don't get lost, don't trust the spiders.
www.heartlines-spec.com/legs-scopula...
It's my second year writing and submitting weird fiction! I'm new to this place and I made this thing!
Everything linked on website. Please read and nominate as the spirit moves you.
Everything linked on website. Please read and nominate as the spirit moves you.
December 5, 2024 at 10:54 PM
It's my second year writing and submitting weird fiction! I'm new to this place and I made this thing!
Everything linked on website. Please read and nominate as the spirit moves you.
Everything linked on website. Please read and nominate as the spirit moves you.
This next issue is going live in two days. Can't wait!
Thanks @heartlines-spec.com for having me aboard.
Thanks @heartlines-spec.com for having me aboard.
Hold our hand when we walk through the spooky spidery forest please 😨🕸️🌳
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jennifleck.bsky.social is part horror, part cozy family, part teenage disdain
Coming to subscribers November 30!
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jennifleck.bsky.social is part horror, part cozy family, part teenage disdain
Coming to subscribers November 30!
November 28, 2024 at 11:19 PM
This next issue is going live in two days. Can't wait!
Thanks @heartlines-spec.com for having me aboard.
Thanks @heartlines-spec.com for having me aboard.