Jeff Harvey
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This 2nd anniversary issue is a stunner! @jhhwriter.bsky.social
Can't wait to read all these brilliant writers.
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Can't wait to read all these brilliant writers.
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Issue 39 (2nd Anniversary Issue) - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Andrew S on Unsplash This is hard for me to believe but it’s Gooseberry Pie’s 2nd anniversary. I launched in December 2023 with our first issue published on January 18, 2024. I want to thank ...
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January 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
This 2nd anniversary issue is a stunner! @jhhwriter.bsky.social
Can't wait to read all these brilliant writers.
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Can't wait to read all these brilliant writers.
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Happy to have my story in the second anniversary issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social and congrats on your second anniverary. gooseberry-pie.com/pumpkin-cupc...
January 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Happy to have my story in the second anniversary issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social and congrats on your second anniverary. gooseberry-pie.com/pumpkin-cupc...
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I'm thrilled to have my story "Knots" in this knock-your-socks-off 2nd anniversary issue! Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social and @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. Here are links to "Knots" and Issue 39. gooseberry-pie.com/knots/ 🥳
January 9, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I'm thrilled to have my story "Knots" in this knock-your-socks-off 2nd anniversary issue! Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social and @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. Here are links to "Knots" and Issue 39. gooseberry-pie.com/knots/ 🥳
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January 4, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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And our Best Microfiction nominees are...
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December 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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So pleased to be here. Big thanks to EIC @jhhwriter.bsky.social for being a real editor and suggesting amends to enable him to reconsider. Reader, I listened to him.
Dive into Issue 38 Gooseberry Pie with
Wonderful work by @lucindakempe.bsky.social
@madelineanthes.bsky.social
@chriscottom.bsky.social
@sagreene1.bsky.social
@michellewilson.bsky.social
@megancannella.bsky.social
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Cover photo by Guy Biederman
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Wonderful work by @lucindakempe.bsky.social
@madelineanthes.bsky.social
@chriscottom.bsky.social
@sagreene1.bsky.social
@michellewilson.bsky.social
@megancannella.bsky.social
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Cover photo by Guy Biederman
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Issue 38 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
“Santa’s Summer Floating Home Where The Reindeer Come To Visit” Photo by Guy Biederman Stories Updates on our Award Nominations from the past Year
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December 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So pleased to be here. Big thanks to EIC @jhhwriter.bsky.social for being a real editor and suggesting amends to enable him to reconsider. Reader, I listened to him.
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“Mentally, they ranked each other—the yeast of her loaves, the prime cut of his.”
the “back-to-backness” in this by @sfreligh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/Restaurant-A...
the “back-to-backness” in this by @sfreligh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/Restaurant-A...
Restaurant: A Sort Of Love Story - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Getty Images Unsplash+ by Sarah Freligh For months they bumped butts, unavoidable outcome of their back-to-backness and the proximity of their tiny islands in the vast tangerine sea of the cr...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
“Mentally, they ranked each other—the yeast of her loaves, the prime cut of his.”
the “back-to-backness” in this by @sfreligh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/Restaurant-A...
the “back-to-backness” in this by @sfreligh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/Restaurant-A...
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“I unwrap the candy bar my mom sent me for the holidays with its pictures of snow drifts on the wrapper, and think for a moment I’ve seen a glimpse of my family’s Christmas, but …”
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@amygcb.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/prisoner-no-...
Prisoner No 10 At The Hershey County Jail - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Khaled Ossama on Unsplash by Amy Barnes Christmas songs play on the exercise yard loud speakers because it is December, not because we’re allowed to celebrate in our chocolate prison that som...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
“I unwrap the candy bar my mom sent me for the holidays with its pictures of snow drifts on the wrapper, and think for a moment I’ve seen a glimpse of my family’s Christmas, but …”
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@amygcb.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/prisoner-no-...
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“When the days tick off the calendar and the anniversary inevitably rolls around, what I really want is …’
@kimsrogers.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/august/
@kimsrogers.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/august/
August - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo Getty Images/Unsplash+ by Kim Steutermann Rogers When box turtles seek the muck of ponds and skunks the undersides of back porches. When late summer scorches squirrels and bird baths desiccate, ...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
“When the days tick off the calendar and the anniversary inevitably rolls around, what I really want is …’
@kimsrogers.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/august/
@kimsrogers.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/august/
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“… and I let him steal me from his friend, the nice one, because I wasn’t nice and neither was he. The sex was at-the-beach-and-in-the-McDonald’s-bathroom-and-behind-the-bleachers fun.”
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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The Guy I Dumped In The Iowa Cornfields On The Way To His Grandparents’ House - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Amr Taha™ on Unsplash by Melissa Llanes Brownlee The guy I dumped in the Iowa cornfields became my boyfriend in my senior year of high school and I let him steal me from his friend, the nice...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“… and I let him steal me from his friend, the nice one, because I wasn’t nice and neither was he. The sex was at-the-beach-and-in-the-McDonald’s-bathroom-and-behind-the-bleachers fun.”
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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“… some said Selena Apple had spoken to them in her distinctive monotone, a few, probably liars, even saying she had offered advice on how to heal their maladies, including non-issues like skin tags.”
@lynnmundell.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/selena-apple/
@lynnmundell.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/selena-apple/
Selena Apple - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Amr Taha™ on Unsplash by Lynn Mundell It was Gran’s 80th birthday, but that was before Little Charles ate the Gravenstein, his teeth in their green braces going at the fruit like a toy combin...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
“… some said Selena Apple had spoken to them in her distinctive monotone, a few, probably liars, even saying she had offered advice on how to heal their maladies, including non-issues like skin tags.”
@lynnmundell.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/selena-apple/
@lynnmundell.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/selena-apple/
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“… yet isn’t it the ultimate dream to sit with the one who knows you best, who knows the deepest parts of you and stays?”
@dawnwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/housewarming/
@dawnwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/housewarming/
Housewarming - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by James Garcia on Unsplash by Dawn Miller We slip through wall studs, step over chalk outlines of counters, vanities, that over-sized quartz kitchen island we’ve always wanted in this, our firs...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:22 AM
“… yet isn’t it the ultimate dream to sit with the one who knows you best, who knows the deepest parts of you and stays?”
@dawnwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/housewarming/
@dawnwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/housewarming/
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“… until I breathe-squint-breathe-squint into the darkness …”
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@sudhab.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/diwali-firew...
Diwali Fireworks - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Harsh Gupta on Unsplash by Sudha Balagopal Three days after she returns from her holiday-wedding-honeymoon, Ma invites us for Diwali, like it’s just another year of celebration, when Pa’s bee...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
“… until I breathe-squint-breathe-squint into the darkness …”
@sudhab.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/diwali-firew...
@sudhab.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/diwali-firew...
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“I wake from these dreams with a panicky fluttering in my throat, like wings beating in a too-small space or some small rodent throwing a thin layer of dirt over itself.”
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@dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/triple-digit...
Triple-Digit Fire Weather - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Lawrence Crayton on Unsplash by Dawn Tasaka Steffler When we exchanged our wedding vows, my husband said I was the only woman who ever tamed the rabid wolverine in his soul; in my presence, h...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
“I wake from these dreams with a panicky fluttering in my throat, like wings beating in a too-small space or some small rodent throwing a thin layer of dirt over itself.”
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@dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/triple-digit...
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“… and I poke Ralph ’s ribs, say, *what if they killed each other* and he whines, *or ran off and left us all alone with no extra-ricotta lasagna or almond cake for our Yuletide dinner*.”
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@kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/god-jul/
God Jul! - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Unsplash+ by Kathryn Silver-Hajo Our parents argue about everything—like mom’s a vegetarian, but dad insists on bringing home a brisket or chicken livers from his butcher shop every night and...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
“… and I poke Ralph ’s ribs, say, *what if they killed each other* and he whines, *or ran off and left us all alone with no extra-ricotta lasagna or almond cake for our Yuletide dinner*.”
@kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/god-jul/
@kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/god-jul/
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“… I explained to her that it was simply a celebration of the day, twenty years back, when I’d gone missing, just up and left my previous life and drove my Ford straight off the edge of the world …”
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@jekwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-day-i-we...
The Day I Went Missing - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Unsplash+ by Jessica Klimesh There were no gifts last year (or any previous year)—no tiered cake or pink champagne, no celebratory pomp at all—so this year I asked the mayor if the town might...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
“… I explained to her that it was simply a celebration of the day, twenty years back, when I’d gone missing, just up and left my previous life and drove my Ford straight off the edge of the world …”
@jekwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-day-i-we...
@jekwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-day-i-we...
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“My world may be vast, my friend, but it is not deep, not close, not my own, for I have not grown large enough to learn how to make myself small.”
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@amymarques.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/solstice-won...
Solstice Wonder - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Harm Weustink on Unsplash By Amy Marques ~After Kafka’s A Little Fable: “Alas,” said the mouse, “the world is growing smaller every day.” Ah, little one, says the owl whose orange eyes are t...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
“My world may be vast, my friend, but it is not deep, not close, not my own, for I have not grown large enough to learn how to make myself small.”
@amymarques.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/solstice-won...
@amymarques.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/solstice-won...
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Honored to celebrate our BMF nominees!
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December 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Read "I Think I Love You" written by @jhhwriter.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"It was East Memphis High’s fiftieth class reunion, and David Cassidy appeared at my front door in a powder-blue tux with his feathered hair..."
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"It was East Memphis High’s fiftieth class reunion, and David Cassidy appeared at my front door in a powder-blue tux with his feathered hair..."
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I Think I Love You — Ghost Parachute
It was East Memphis High’s fiftieth class reunion, and David Cassidy appeared at my front door in a powder-blue tux with his feathered hair looking the same as in 1975 when his pictures from Tiger Bea...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Read "I Think I Love You" written by @jhhwriter.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"It was East Memphis High’s fiftieth class reunion, and David Cassidy appeared at my front door in a powder-blue tux with his feathered hair..."
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"It was East Memphis High’s fiftieth class reunion, and David Cassidy appeared at my front door in a powder-blue tux with his feathered hair..."
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Thank you Brett Pribble and Ghost Parachute for publishing my 70s love story
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I Think I Love You — Ghost Parachute
It was East Memphis High’s fiftieth class reunion, and David Cassidy appeared at my front door in a powder-blue tux with his feathered hair looking the same as in 1975 when his pictures from Tiger Bea...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Thank you Brett Pribble and Ghost Parachute for publishing my 70s love story
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“My father meant “invincible,” of course, but for once I failed to correct his imprecise English because I believed he had, entirely by chance, stumbled across a hidden truth of my childhood.”
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Susan L. Lin | When We Are Young, We Think We Are Invisible
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December 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“My father meant “invincible,” of course, but for once I failed to correct his imprecise English because I believed he had, entirely by chance, stumbled across a hidden truth of my childhood.”
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with @sherrieflick.bsky.social @mfcfeeley.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @francinewitte.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @jhhwriter.bsky.social and @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social, if you can believe it! ghostparachute.com/issue/decemb...
December 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
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December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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“My ex-boyfriend Jack (Jack from Buffalo, not Jack from Encino) swiped three cases of poppers from Eddie’s Porn Emporium on Hollywood Boulevard and I started selling them out of the trunk of my Pinto”
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Jeff Harvey | They Come and Go
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December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“My ex-boyfriend Jack (Jack from Buffalo, not Jack from Encino) swiped three cases of poppers from Eddie’s Porn Emporium on Hollywood Boulevard and I started selling them out of the trunk of my Pinto”
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