Marijean Oldham
@marijean.bsky.social
Writer. Entrepreneur. Baker.
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ULI Virginia is hosting Solving Homelessness in Charlottesville on November 19 virginia.uli.org/events/detai...
ULI Virginia: Solving Homelessness in Charlottesville | ULI Virginia
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October 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
ULI Virginia is hosting Solving Homelessness in Charlottesville on November 19 virginia.uli.org/events/detai...
This is what we mean when we talk about the importance of opening lines in flash. "Emmie, my nine year old daughter, knows how to hotwire a Kia." bendinggenres.com/a-normal-kid/ Read this goodness from James Keith Smith: A Normal Kid. #flashfiction
A Normal Kid
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October 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is what we mean when we talk about the importance of opening lines in flash. "Emmie, my nine year old daughter, knows how to hotwire a Kia." bendinggenres.com/a-normal-kid/ Read this goodness from James Keith Smith: A Normal Kid. #flashfiction
Writing in Vermont in the fall (I highly recommend!) open.substack.com/pub/marijean...
Writing in Vermont in the Fall
Ochre and vermillion, maple-flavored, and crunchy
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October 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Writing in Vermont in the fall (I highly recommend!) open.substack.com/pub/marijean...
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new new: "Franchise," by Elise Blackwell: wigleaf.com
w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
new new: "Franchise," by Elise Blackwell: wigleaf.com
I'm looking for a flash fiction piece published in a journal -- I don't remember where, or who, or even the title -- but it's about a mother whose daughter has become a vampire or a zombie and the mother is helping the daughter, at great risk to herself -- does this sound familiar to anyone?
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I'm looking for a flash fiction piece published in a journal -- I don't remember where, or who, or even the title -- but it's about a mother whose daughter has become a vampire or a zombie and the mother is helping the daughter, at great risk to herself -- does this sound familiar to anyone?
Love this by @jekwriter.bsky.social and this whole issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Love this by @jekwriter.bsky.social and this whole issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social
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Two hours for tweaking! So busy at the club. Running out of badges now — closes Midnight GMT. Thanks for entering. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
a group of stuffed animals are standing on a staircase in a room
ALT: a group of stuffed animals are standing on a staircase in a room
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October 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Two hours for tweaking! So busy at the club. Running out of badges now — closes Midnight GMT. Thanks for entering. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
Nothing jolts me out of a writing slump like my 90-year-old dad saying he's finished drafting his Netflix pilot.
October 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Nothing jolts me out of a writing slump like my 90-year-old dad saying he's finished drafting his Netflix pilot.
I always love work by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social This is wonderful.
Haven't been able to stop thinking about this story by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com since I read it a couple days ago. Funny, bizarre, moving, totally unique. So well done.
13.1 Septillion Pounds by Emily Rinkema
To help her sleep, we give the baby a basketball, a full-size regulation ball that my husband, CT, puts in her crib one night. He writes her name on it with a black Sharpie, bold letters like they …
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September 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I always love work by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social This is wonderful.
Seems to me like restaurants and businesses aren't closing due to a decrease in traffic or unhoused people. It must be something else.
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Tourism brought in nearly $1 billion to the area in 2024 - Cville Right Now
With dining leading the way, Albemarle and Charlottesville brought in nearly $1 billion in tourism in 2024.
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September 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Seems to me like restaurants and businesses aren't closing due to a decrease in traffic or unhoused people. It must be something else.
cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...
cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...
New on @dipitylitmag.bsky.social my flash Tomato Season www.dipitylitmag.com/post/tomato-... Thank you to the editors for the love!💕
Tomato Season by Marijean Oldham
To avoid canning, we ate the tomatoes as they ripened, in sandwiches, on pasta, in pie. We ate tomatoes until our tongues ached with the acid, and still we reached for more. The August heat was giving...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New on @dipitylitmag.bsky.social my flash Tomato Season www.dipitylitmag.com/post/tomato-... Thank you to the editors for the love!💕
Downtown? Come to New Dominion Bookshop for the 7pm Friday Night Writes! I’m signing up to read at the open mic. #flashfiction
September 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Downtown? Come to New Dominion Bookshop for the 7pm Friday Night Writes! I’m signing up to read at the open mic. #flashfiction
I made the submission window!
oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇
September 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I made the submission window!
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For anyone who'd like a specific feed of Flash Fiction People, the every wonderful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social has created a really useful list 👇
Hi Diane. I created this list and use it as my main feed. You can use it too - just pin it to your main feed page. It has most of the flashy people on it, and it means you only see their posts. If there’s anyone you want to add just let me know. bsky.app/profile/did:...
September 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
For anyone who'd like a specific feed of Flash Fiction People, the every wonderful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social has created a really useful list 👇
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The first issue of Hot Flash Literary is live--featuring phenomenal work by Mikki Aronoff, @csquareh.bsky.social Christine H. Chen, @kathyfish.bsky.social, @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, Stella Reed, @chelseastickle.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, and Huina Zheng! hotflashliterary.com/current-issue/
Current Issue - Hot Flash Literary
Issue 1 – Summer 2025 My Body, My Choice
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September 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The first issue of Hot Flash Literary is live--featuring phenomenal work by Mikki Aronoff, @csquareh.bsky.social Christine H. Chen, @kathyfish.bsky.social, @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, Stella Reed, @chelseastickle.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, and Huina Zheng! hotflashliterary.com/current-issue/
It's interesting that some of the downtown businesses who believe they don't have shoppers because of unhoused people don't understand that they have lost shoppers (me, and my friends) because those businesses support criminalization of homelessness. We shop and eat at the other places often.
September 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It's interesting that some of the downtown businesses who believe they don't have shoppers because of unhoused people don't understand that they have lost shoppers (me, and my friends) because those businesses support criminalization of homelessness. We shop and eat at the other places often.
Hot Flash Literary is here! Read the whole thing hotflashliterary.com/current-issue/ Some fantastic writers in there. #flashfiction
Current Issue - Hot Flash Literary
Issue 1 – Summer 2025 My Body, My Choice
hotflashliterary.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hot Flash Literary is here! Read the whole thing hotflashliterary.com/current-issue/ Some fantastic writers in there. #flashfiction
"I have never been a great candidate for anything. I have mostly been a really good sport." Oh, man, what a great flash in the inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary, by the incredible, incomparable delight that is @kathyfish.bsky.social
I was thinking recently about how much I missed writing dialogue. This piece I wrote for the "my body, my choice" inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary uses lots of dialogue and is very short. I'd love for you to read it and the whole amazing debut issue! 💙
hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/
hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/
Wyoming - Hot Flash Literary
It’s the time of the Great Evacuation. That’s what my friend Jess calls it. I’ve been bleeding all over the place. My body is emptying itself out. It’s undignified. And painful. Out for coffee with J...
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September 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"I have never been a great candidate for anything. I have mostly been a really good sport." Oh, man, what a great flash in the inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary, by the incredible, incomparable delight that is @kathyfish.bsky.social
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We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
Today I learned that sometimes a hawk with a very full belly will sit and digest and glare at you and your little dog, too. Thanks for the wildlife center for answering my panicked call.
September 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Today I learned that sometimes a hawk with a very full belly will sit and digest and glare at you and your little dog, too. Thanks for the wildlife center for answering my panicked call.
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ACTION ALERT: Tell city council to reject the ordinance to ban camping on city property!
On Tuesday, September 2nd (tomorrow!), City Council will be considering an ordinance that would make it illegal to sleep on city property or to leave personal property unattended on city land. 🧵
On Tuesday, September 2nd (tomorrow!), City Council will be considering an ordinance that would make it illegal to sleep on city property or to leave personal property unattended on city land. 🧵
We strongly object to the proposed ban on camping on public property in the city.
This inhumane policy was condoned by the current right wing Supreme Court in the Grant’s Pass decision, which Chief Kochis sites in his justification for the policy.
Homelessness is solved by housing, not policing.
This inhumane policy was condoned by the current right wing Supreme Court in the Grant’s Pass decision, which Chief Kochis sites in his justification for the policy.
Homelessness is solved by housing, not policing.
awwww the police chief wants a new ordinance 🥺 as a treat 🥺 while unhoused people are under unprecedented, violent attack merely two hours north of us 🥺
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c-ville.com/cpd-chief-wa...
September 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
ACTION ALERT: Tell city council to reject the ordinance to ban camping on city property!
On Tuesday, September 2nd (tomorrow!), City Council will be considering an ordinance that would make it illegal to sleep on city property or to leave personal property unattended on city land. 🧵
On Tuesday, September 2nd (tomorrow!), City Council will be considering an ordinance that would make it illegal to sleep on city property or to leave personal property unattended on city land. 🧵
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We are looking for more submissions: poetry, flash fiction collection shares, and more! Check out our site guidelines. Thanks for your support!
August 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
We are looking for more submissions: poetry, flash fiction collection shares, and more! Check out our site guidelines. Thanks for your support!