Karen Schauber
@karenschauber.bsky.social
Flash Fiction Obsessed
Dabbles in Abstract Painting
https://KarenSchauberCreative.weebly.com
https://VancouverFlashFiction.weebly.com
“The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings” (Heritage House)
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Dabbles in Abstract Painting
https://KarenSchauberCreative.weebly.com
https://VancouverFlashFiction.weebly.com
“The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings” (Heritage House)
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Delighted to have my #flashfiction “MLS Listing” published today at @fictivedream.bsky.social. Many thanks to Editor, Laura Black.
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#shortfiction #flashlit
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#shortfiction #flashlit
MLS Listing
by Karen Schauber WE WOULD RENDEZVOUS at palatial homes cantilevered high over the Pacific Ocean. Private residences with long rectangular vanishing-edge swimming pools, lagoon-style grottos, each …
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October 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Delighted to have my #flashfiction “MLS Listing” published today at @fictivedream.bsky.social. Many thanks to Editor, Laura Black.
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#shortfiction #flashlit
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#shortfiction #flashlit
Happy to have my #flashfiction “FLANEUR” reprinted in 600 Miles to Leadville. Thank you to Editor, Frank Sikora.
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#shortFiction
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Happy to have my #flashfiction “FLANEUR” reprinted in 600 Miles to Leadville. Thank you to Editor, Frank Sikora.
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#shortFiction
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#shortFiction
Delighted to have my flash fiction “Just Another Monday” published in the inaugural Issue of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Journal. Thank you to Editor-in-Chief, JohnT Leonard .
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#flashfiction #flashlit #microfiction
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#flashfiction #flashlit #microfiction
September 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Delighted to have my flash fiction “Just Another Monday” published in the inaugural Issue of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Journal. Thank you to Editor-in-Chief, JohnT Leonard .
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#flashfiction #flashlit #microfiction
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#flashfiction #flashlit #microfiction
Delighted to have my flash fiction, “Mother, May I” published today at Ultramarine Literary Review. Thank you to Editor, Catalina Bonati.
https:/www.ultramarinereview.com/post/mother-may-i
#flashfiction #microfiction #flashlit
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#flashfiction #microfiction #flashlit
Mother, May I
by Karen SchauberHe's peering up at me all honey-eyed, his stumpy little tail vibrating, waiting for me to pick him up. My eyes welling. Warm sticky puppy breath settles on my cheeks as soft tufts of ...
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September 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Delighted to have my flash fiction, “Mother, May I” published today at Ultramarine Literary Review. Thank you to Editor, Catalina Bonati.
https:/www.ultramarinereview.com/post/mother-may-i
#flashfiction #microfiction #flashlit
https:/www.ultramarinereview.com/post/mother-may-i
#flashfiction #microfiction #flashlit
Delighted to have my #FlashFiction “Sparrowhawk” published, today, at @yourimpossiblevoice.com Thank you to @keithjpowell.com, Managing Editor.
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#FlashLit. #ShortFiction
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#FlashLit. #ShortFiction
Sparrowhawk | Your Impossible Voice
By Karen Schauber — "I ram down hard on the pedal driving the blue metallic mustang around the bend, careening headlong into a future without You. A year of joust and weave, submerge and abandon."
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August 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Delighted to have my #FlashFiction “Sparrowhawk” published, today, at @yourimpossiblevoice.com Thank you to @keithjpowell.com, Managing Editor.
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#FlashLit. #ShortFiction
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#FlashLit. #ShortFiction
Beautiful piece by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social.....lingers!
"Sometimes I imagine her—your wife. Her body gone small under the machines."
My little strange story of longing is out at @yourimpossiblevoice.com today. Thank you to Keith and the editorial team for giving this a home 🙏🏻
My little strange story of longing is out at @yourimpossiblevoice.com today. Thank you to Keith and the editorial team for giving this a home 🙏🏻
We were captivated by the thoughtful sensory details in this new #flashfiction from @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social, and you will be too! Don't miss "A Weekly Arrangement."
August 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Beautiful piece by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social.....lingers!
Delighted to have my tiny flash fiction ‘The Collector’ published at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social, today. Thank you to @davidestringel.bsky.social , Editor-in-Chief.
#flashfiction #microfiction
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#flashfiction #microfiction
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the collector — Blood+Honey
by Karen Schauber “He’d come to collect fees, long overdue fees, fees from a previous generation we didn’t know was owed.”
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July 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Delighted to have my tiny flash fiction ‘The Collector’ published at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social, today. Thank you to @davidestringel.bsky.social , Editor-in-Chief.
#flashfiction #microfiction
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#flashfiction #microfiction
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Love the writing here in Charlie Swailes’ #flashfiction “Delayed”.
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#flashlit #shortfiction
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#flashlit #shortfiction
Delayed
A Flash Fiction by Charlie Swailes
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July 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Love the writing here in Charlie Swailes’ #flashfiction “Delayed”.
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#flashlit #shortfiction
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#flashlit #shortfiction
Love this flash story “Unloading” by Emily Rinkema ❤️❤️❤️
#MustRead
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
#flashfiction #shortfiction #flashlit
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#MustRead
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
#flashfiction #shortfiction #flashlit
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Unloading
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June 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Love this flash story “Unloading” by Emily Rinkema ❤️❤️❤️
#MustRead
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
#flashfiction #shortfiction #flashlit
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#MustRead
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
#flashfiction #shortfiction #flashlit
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Thrilled to receive my contributor copy of Moon City Review with my flash fiction ‘The Dreamer’ (a three-page spread). Many thanks to @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social, Editor-in-Chief. It is an honour to be included with so many fine writers.
#flashlit #flashfiction #shortfiction
#flashlit #flashfiction #shortfiction
June 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Thrilled to receive my contributor copy of Moon City Review with my flash fiction ‘The Dreamer’ (a three-page spread). Many thanks to @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social, Editor-in-Chief. It is an honour to be included with so many fine writers.
#flashlit #flashfiction #shortfiction
#flashlit #flashfiction #shortfiction
This is a stunner!
Must Read!!!! ❤️
Must Read!!!! ❤️
Thrilled down to my 💀 to have a micro at @havehashad.com, thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is a stunner!
Must Read!!!! ❤️
Must Read!!!! ❤️
Love this ‘quiet’ piece by Jad Josey @jadjosey.bsky.social
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#flashfiction #microfiction
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#flashfiction #microfiction
In the One Place Where You Should Tell the Truth by Jad Josey
In the office of your therapist, you will tell her you’ve been just fine on your own, that you are waiting patiently for the one who will protect your heart, your eyes on the Rothko hanging behind her...
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May 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Love this ‘quiet’ piece by Jad Josey @jadjosey.bsky.social
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#flashfiction #microfiction
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#flashfiction #microfiction
Reposted by Karen Schauber
As one of the Assistant Editors for the 2025 Best Small Fictions, I had a great time finding and reading the best of the best! I have some personal favorites but every piece of work selected is amazing!
Is your name on the list?
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Is your name on the list?
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The Best Small Fictions
Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
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May 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
As one of the Assistant Editors for the 2025 Best Small Fictions, I had a great time finding and reading the best of the best! I have some personal favorites but every piece of work selected is amazing!
Is your name on the list?
altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...
Is your name on the list?
altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...
These are Wonderful!!!
Must Read!
Must Read!
Friends, I have a tryptich about mothers in Flash Boulevard! Thanks @francinewitte.bsky.social!
“A Thing In Itself” is from my NiF forthcoming from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social in the northern Autumn!
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“A Thing In Itself” is from my NiF forthcoming from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social in the northern Autumn!
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SUMITRA SINGAM: Skin/ Flesh/ Seed
Flash Fiction by Sumitra Singam Skin/Flesh/Seed Mohini looks for love in all the wrong places, schooled in the filmies which are full of ginger-hipped women in gauzy sarees, kajal eyes flicked outw…
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May 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
These are Wonderful!!!
Must Read!
Must Read!
Love this micro!!!! ❤️
Read it - 2 mins!
Read it - 2 mins!
new tender, strange, pixellated one today from Andrea Cavedo
“I dig a hole. I dig a hole. I dig a hole. I dig a hole.”
https://www.havehashad.com/ar9as
“I dig a hole. I dig a hole. I dig a hole. I dig a hole.”
https://www.havehashad.com/ar9as
Today, in Minecraft by Andrea Cavedo
Today, in Minecraft, I made a pool for my axolotls—so many axolotls, they’re sooo cute—and fed them tropical fish, which I can tell they really liked, because of all the little hearts on screen, but…
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May 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Love this micro!!!! ❤️
Read it - 2 mins!
Read it - 2 mins!
Read these little gems!
I’m in Flash Boulevard! (Been a bit of a dream of mine for a while). Here’s a little Violent Femmes energy for your Saturday morning! #flashfiction flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/e...
EMILY RINKEMA: For Everything, Everything, Everything, Everything
Flash Fiction by Emily Rinkema The Gorge We arrive just before midnight, four of us packed into the back seat, bodies buzzing with alcohol and proximity, limbs entwined like fingers as Jed pulls on…
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May 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Read these little gems!
Thrilled to be back in Ghost Parachute again with another #flashfiction, “Chynoweth”. Many thanks to Editor, @brettpribble.bsky.social and @brettjb.bsky.social for the on the nose illustration.
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#flashlit #flash&shortfiction
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#flashlit #flash&shortfiction
Chynoweth — Ghost Parachute
Chynoweth gobbles marzipan over the bathroom sink then promptly regurgitates like an egret, her long neck rolling and buckling like corrugated cardboard, until every morsel has been extruded. She then...
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May 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Thrilled to be back in Ghost Parachute again with another #flashfiction, “Chynoweth”. Many thanks to Editor, @brettpribble.bsky.social and @brettjb.bsky.social for the on the nose illustration.
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#flashlit #flash&shortfiction
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#flashlit #flash&shortfiction
Love this piece so much! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thrilled to have a new piece out today. Thank you, @lostballoon.bsky.social for giving my flash an excellent home.❤️
You are going to love our new piece by @melostrom.bsky.social! Check out “Krasner.” lost-balloon.com/2025/04/30/k...
May 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Love this piece so much! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Delighted to have my #flashfiction “Don’t Rock the Boat, Babe” published in @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social, today. Thank you to Editor, Melissa Ashley Hernandez.
(scroll down to p.14 to read)
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(scroll down to p.14 to read)
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May 1, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Delighted to have my #flashfiction “Don’t Rock the Boat, Babe” published in @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social, today. Thank you to Editor, Melissa Ashley Hernandez.
(scroll down to p.14 to read)
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(scroll down to p.14 to read)
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Delighted to have my tiny story “Safety in the North” published at @thehooletsnook.bsky.social, today. Thank you to Gisele LeBlanc, Editor.
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#flashfiction #microfiction #drabble #100wordstory
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#flashfiction #microfiction #drabble #100wordstory
Safety in the North
by Karen Schauber We hug the coastline, the water lipping and lapping, squeezing us against the scrub brush and pink granite boulders. Sophie stomps her feet in plops of seafoam eddying in tide...
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March 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Delighted to have my tiny story “Safety in the North” published at @thehooletsnook.bsky.social, today. Thank you to Gisele LeBlanc, Editor.
www.thehooletsnook.com/stories--poe...
#flashfiction #microfiction #drabble #100wordstory
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#flashfiction #microfiction #drabble #100wordstory
Thrilled to have my short fiction "The Scullery Maid" published at Ultramarine Literary Review, today. Thank you to Catalina Bonati, Editor-in-Chief.
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#flashlit #shortfiction
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#flashlit #shortfiction
The Scullery Maid
by Karen SchauberMarthe occupies a squat three-legged stool, her knees splayed wide accommodating a crude weathered pot, peeling, scrubbing, and slicing the morning potatoes; the white-coated Alsatian...
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March 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Thrilled to have my short fiction "The Scullery Maid" published at Ultramarine Literary Review, today. Thank you to Catalina Bonati, Editor-in-Chief.
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#flashlit #shortfiction
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#flashlit #shortfiction
Delighted to have my micro fiction “The Final Sleep” published today at Minyan Magazine. Thank you to Liz Marlow, Editor.
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@minyanmag.bsky.social
#flashfiction #microfiction
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@minyanmag.bsky.social
#flashfiction #microfiction
The Final Sleep by Karen Schauber | MINYAN
The Final Sleep by Karen Schauber from Issue Fourteen
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February 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Delighted to have my micro fiction “The Final Sleep” published today at Minyan Magazine. Thank you to Liz Marlow, Editor.
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@minyanmag.bsky.social
#flashfiction #microfiction
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@minyanmag.bsky.social
#flashfiction #microfiction
Tickled pink to have my micro fiction “Elon, Extraterrestrial” published at Cacti Fur Journal, today. Thank you to Editor, Jim Thompson!
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IMAGE: Mi-Young Choi “Enlightenment”, 2013. Oil on canvas
#flashfiction. #microfiction #100wordstory
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IMAGE: Mi-Young Choi “Enlightenment”, 2013. Oil on canvas
#flashfiction. #microfiction #100wordstory
February 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Tickled pink to have my micro fiction “Elon, Extraterrestrial” published at Cacti Fur Journal, today. Thank you to Editor, Jim Thompson!
cactifur.com/2025/02/21/k...
IMAGE: Mi-Young Choi “Enlightenment”, 2013. Oil on canvas
#flashfiction. #microfiction #100wordstory
cactifur.com/2025/02/21/k...
IMAGE: Mi-Young Choi “Enlightenment”, 2013. Oil on canvas
#flashfiction. #microfiction #100wordstory