Matt Kendrick
@mattkendrick.bsky.social
Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
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My last workshop of the year is a silly safari through humorous techniques. Feels like we all need a bit of levity after the year we've had. We'll look at daffynitions, spoonerisms, comic triples and much more.
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
"“Grockles” they call us here, meaning those of us from another place"
Wonderful sense of place and atmosphere in this little gem from @kerryhp.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social
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Wonderful sense of place and atmosphere in this little gem from @kerryhp.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social
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MicroMonday #16
Grockles by Kerry Hadley-Pryce Katy Perry is now officially an astronaut. The voice on the radio tells us this, and you repeat it and laugh. ‘Put that on your CV, Katy,’ you say. And you laugh agai…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"“Grockles” they call us here, meaning those of us from another place"
Wonderful sense of place and atmosphere in this little gem from @kerryhp.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social
fictivedream.com/2025/07/21/m...
Wonderful sense of place and atmosphere in this little gem from @kerryhp.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social
fictivedream.com/2025/07/21/m...
"She doesn’t sit with the other mums, never takes her eyes from her daughter on the play park."
Love how the title hangs over this piece from @drhannahstevens.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social; and brilliant juxtaposition between present and past
fictivedream.com/2025/10/13/m...
Love how the title hangs over this piece from @drhannahstevens.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social; and brilliant juxtaposition between present and past
fictivedream.com/2025/10/13/m...
MicroMonday #28
A Micro-Second of Silence by Hannah Stevens Fancy Wu watches her daughter head towards the climbing frame. The play park is busy. She watches as her daughter clambers up the metal ladder, run…
fictivedream.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"She doesn’t sit with the other mums, never takes her eyes from her daughter on the play park."
Love how the title hangs over this piece from @drhannahstevens.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social; and brilliant juxtaposition between present and past
fictivedream.com/2025/10/13/m...
Love how the title hangs over this piece from @drhannahstevens.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social; and brilliant juxtaposition between present and past
fictivedream.com/2025/10/13/m...
"Stressed with searching, searching, searching, I eventually pretended I could see the solitary wild thing, just so we could at last drive on"
A real power in the way this story from @olgapoet.bsky.social creeps towards it revelation midway through; so much emotional clout
A real power in the way this story from @olgapoet.bsky.social creeps towards it revelation midway through; so much emotional clout
"How did we ever sleep with just a tender sliver of cloth between our warm sweet breathing and the jaws on the other side?" Hidden Leopard by Olga Dermott-Bond @olgapoet.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/10/m...
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"Stressed with searching, searching, searching, I eventually pretended I could see the solitary wild thing, just so we could at last drive on"
A real power in the way this story from @olgapoet.bsky.social creeps towards it revelation midway through; so much emotional clout
A real power in the way this story from @olgapoet.bsky.social creeps towards it revelation midway through; so much emotional clout
My last workshop of the year is a silly safari through humorous techniques. Feels like we all need a bit of levity after the year we've had. We'll look at daffynitions, spoonerisms, comic triples and much more.
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
My last workshop of the year is a silly safari through humorous techniques. Feels like we all need a bit of levity after the year we've had. We'll look at daffynitions, spoonerisms, comic triples and much more.
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
"It’s a Friday in July when he rolls into town, 40 years gone and now here he is, sex-on-wheels Jimmy Bang"
Fantastic to see this brilliant piece by the always extraordinary @mynachang.bsky.social out in the world:
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-39-nov...
Fantastic to see this brilliant piece by the always extraordinary @mynachang.bsky.social out in the world:
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-39-nov...
Flash #39 Nov '25
SoFloPoJo Contents: Essays * Interviews * Reviews * Special * Video * Visual Arts * Archives * Calendar ...
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
"It’s a Friday in July when he rolls into town, 40 years gone and now here he is, sex-on-wheels Jimmy Bang"
Fantastic to see this brilliant piece by the always extraordinary @mynachang.bsky.social out in the world:
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-39-nov...
Fantastic to see this brilliant piece by the always extraordinary @mynachang.bsky.social out in the world:
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-39-nov...
"Also, she’s going through menopause and is a bit grouchy, so you might want to avoid her"
Brilliantly original piece by @rheatellstales.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social - great use of a hermit-crab form + wonderful humour
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rhea...
Brilliantly original piece by @rheatellstales.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social - great use of a hermit-crab form + wonderful humour
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rhea...
Rhea Thomas — Does It Have Pockets
Have You Seen My Sphinx?
www.doesithavepockets.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"Also, she’s going through menopause and is a bit grouchy, so you might want to avoid her"
Brilliantly original piece by @rheatellstales.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social - great use of a hermit-crab form + wonderful humour
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rhea...
Brilliantly original piece by @rheatellstales.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social - great use of a hermit-crab form + wonderful humour
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rhea...
"Too high to stop, I flew over the swingset, above the roof of the apartment building and the boarded-up pawn shop. I soared over cars and streets"
Two brilliant pieces of flash from @phebej.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Wonderful use of the speculative to explore the real
Two brilliant pieces of flash from @phebej.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Wonderful use of the speculative to explore the real
So excited to have these two stories up at the delightful "Does It Have Pockets?"! Thanks to the editors.
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/pheb...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/pheb...
Phebe Jewell — Does It Have Pockets
Wings | The 16th of Every Month I Check My Mailbox
www.doesithavepockets.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"Too high to stop, I flew over the swingset, above the roof of the apartment building and the boarded-up pawn shop. I soared over cars and streets"
Two brilliant pieces of flash from @phebej.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Wonderful use of the speculative to explore the real
Two brilliant pieces of flash from @phebej.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Wonderful use of the speculative to explore the real
"Once again, I have lost time: hundreds of seconds have slipped away from me while eavesdropping on other people’s lives"
Brilliantly layered storytelling from @kristenhavens.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social - wonderful textural variation at the level of prose
Brilliantly layered storytelling from @kristenhavens.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social - wonderful textural variation at the level of prose
"Each of us is alone, but we’re together in loneliness: isn’t that enough?"
Short story, long title, massive impact. Fabulous new flash #fiction from @kristenhavens.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kris...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Short story, long title, massive impact. Fabulous new flash #fiction from @kristenhavens.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kris...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"Once again, I have lost time: hundreds of seconds have slipped away from me while eavesdropping on other people’s lives"
Brilliantly layered storytelling from @kristenhavens.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social - wonderful textural variation at the level of prose
Brilliantly layered storytelling from @kristenhavens.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social - wonderful textural variation at the level of prose
"It all starts to unravel on the evening of our fifth wedding anniversary (wood). I give Gareth a hammer (he wanted one, honest) and he hands me two large hearts entwined"
A stunner from @laurabesley.bsky.social that fractures time in such a clever, non-linear way
A stunner from @laurabesley.bsky.social that fractures time in such a clever, non-linear way
"After we sign the divorce papers, my soon-to-be ex-husband and I decide to go for lunch." Love (a journey) by Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
fictivedream.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"It all starts to unravel on the evening of our fifth wedding anniversary (wood). I give Gareth a hammer (he wanted one, honest) and he hands me two large hearts entwined"
A stunner from @laurabesley.bsky.social that fractures time in such a clever, non-linear way
A stunner from @laurabesley.bsky.social that fractures time in such a clever, non-linear way
My laptop is currently emitting (metaphorical for now) smoke. This is not a good thing for my life, especially when I'm hosting a big workshop this evening 😱 Please send the technological magic dust my way 😂 (Also, my body is trying to outdo the laptop in a contest of what's more broken 🤪)
November 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My laptop is currently emitting (metaphorical for now) smoke. This is not a good thing for my life, especially when I'm hosting a big workshop this evening 😱 Please send the technological magic dust my way 😂 (Also, my body is trying to outdo the laptop in a contest of what's more broken 🤪)
My #WritingCraftArticle for November is an exploration of the speculative. What it is. Why it's great. What it can teach us. And what to bear in mind:
🪞🌎👽👻🤖🧜🧙♀️🧞🧟
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/holding-a-...
🪞🌎👽👻🤖🧜🧙♀️🧞🧟
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/holding-a-...
Holding a mirror up to the world
I don’t know whether something has shifted inside of me or whether it’s something in the air, something in the shifting sands of the world, but I find myself more and more leaning into the speculative...
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
My #WritingCraftArticle for November is an exploration of the speculative. What it is. Why it's great. What it can teach us. And what to bear in mind:
🪞🌎👽👻🤖🧜🧙♀️🧞🧟
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/holding-a-...
🪞🌎👽👻🤖🧜🧙♀️🧞🧟
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/holding-a-...
"but the nurses were fairly adamant that I not, which took the decision out of my hands—a relief, honestly, after so many decisions, etc."
Wonderful writing by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social, threaded with emotion and such a great tone of voice
Wonderful writing by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social, threaded with emotion and such a great tone of voice
Read "Drive-Thru Cone" written by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"At the McDonald’s window for a soft-serve an hour after you died, I thought of telling the woman who took my three ones that I was motherless now..."
tinyurl.com/5yjrrth2
"At the McDonald’s window for a soft-serve an hour after you died, I thought of telling the woman who took my three ones that I was motherless now..."
tinyurl.com/5yjrrth2
Drive-Thru Cone — Ghost Parachute
At the McDonald’s window for a soft-serve an hour after you died, I thought of telling the woman who took my three ones that I was motherless now, that I wasn’t hungry, not really, but the germicidals...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"but the nurses were fairly adamant that I not, which took the decision out of my hands—a relief, honestly, after so many decisions, etc."
Wonderful writing by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social, threaded with emotion and such a great tone of voice
Wonderful writing by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social, threaded with emotion and such a great tone of voice
"Frustrated and unwilling to fuck with it tonight, he takes a bite from each hand, creating hollows deep enough to cradle the glass"
Always wonderful to discover a new-to-me writer. Love this surrealist gem from @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social
Always wonderful to discover a new-to-me writer. Love this surrealist gem from @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social
Read "A Recipe for Borscht" written by @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"Dale beats his fists against the bathroom stall. They had long ago turned to hardened stone beets, always red, always sweating sweet juice."
tinyurl.com/cycf927z
"Dale beats his fists against the bathroom stall. They had long ago turned to hardened stone beets, always red, always sweating sweet juice."
tinyurl.com/cycf927z
A Recipe for Borscht — Ghost Parachute
Dale beats his fists against the bathroom stall. They had long ago turned to hardened stone beets, always red, always sweating sweet juice. He fondles the scuzzy stall door. What better place to call ...
tinyurl.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"Frustrated and unwilling to fuck with it tonight, he takes a bite from each hand, creating hollows deep enough to cradle the glass"
Always wonderful to discover a new-to-me writer. Love this surrealist gem from @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social
Always wonderful to discover a new-to-me writer. Love this surrealist gem from @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social
"She will never know the meaning of the songs we sing—the joys of harvest they were meant to carry"
Just came across this stunner from @brechtdp.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social from earlier this year. A brilliant cautionary tale:
fracturedlit.com/the-flavours...
Just came across this stunner from @brechtdp.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social from earlier this year. A brilliant cautionary tale:
fracturedlit.com/the-flavours...
The Flavours We’ll Lose | Fractured
fracturedlit.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"She will never know the meaning of the songs we sing—the joys of harvest they were meant to carry"
Just came across this stunner from @brechtdp.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social from earlier this year. A brilliant cautionary tale:
fracturedlit.com/the-flavours...
Just came across this stunner from @brechtdp.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social from earlier this year. A brilliant cautionary tale:
fracturedlit.com/the-flavours...
"So sudden you didn’t have time to put your hair on. So loud your eardrums hurt"
What a piece from @drobnik.co - so much intensity in this @fracturedlit.bsky.social micro
What a piece from @drobnik.co - so much intensity in this @fracturedlit.bsky.social micro
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"So sudden you didn’t have time to put your hair on. So loud your eardrums hurt"
What a piece from @drobnik.co - so much intensity in this @fracturedlit.bsky.social micro
What a piece from @drobnik.co - so much intensity in this @fracturedlit.bsky.social micro
"Your sister used to be the tilt-a-whirl, or maybe the teacups, careening you in circles, breathless with laughter, falling on your knees, dizzy"
Brilliant extended metaphor from @gsmithgoodin.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Love the way the metaphor shifts from paragraph to paragraph
Brilliant extended metaphor from @gsmithgoodin.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Love the way the metaphor shifts from paragraph to paragraph
I was traveling last week and completely missed that my story went up @fracturedlit.bsky.social.
fracturedlit.com/out-of-season/
This was crafted in the wonderful summer workshop run by @smokelong.bsky.social. Thank you SO much to all my groupmates who helped me get this into shape!
#flashfiction
fracturedlit.com/out-of-season/
This was crafted in the wonderful summer workshop run by @smokelong.bsky.social. Thank you SO much to all my groupmates who helped me get this into shape!
#flashfiction
Out of Season | Fractured
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November 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"Your sister used to be the tilt-a-whirl, or maybe the teacups, careening you in circles, breathless with laughter, falling on your knees, dizzy"
Brilliant extended metaphor from @gsmithgoodin.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Love the way the metaphor shifts from paragraph to paragraph
Brilliant extended metaphor from @gsmithgoodin.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Love the way the metaphor shifts from paragraph to paragraph
"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, and trapped animals, hiding their young"
A stunner from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social So much story unspooling from the anaphora repetition
A stunner from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social So much story unspooling from the anaphora repetition
Thanks #MilkCandyReview for getting 'The Suitcase of Lost Belongings' out there! And thanks @corrineleith.bsky.social for the prompt and @fionamckay.bsky.social for the feedback to get there!
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The Suitcase of Lost Belongings ~ by Rosaleen Lynch
She can’t take her children in the suitcase. They would fit if she emptied it. They could top and tail in the folds of the quilt she made of their clothes, but there’s not even enough room for thei…
milkcandyreview.home.blog
November 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, and trapped animals, hiding their young"
A stunner from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social So much story unspooling from the anaphora repetition
A stunner from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social So much story unspooling from the anaphora repetition
"three instincts that would feasibly help a person survive something like this, two net-neutral instincts, one genuinely detrimental instinct"
This is such a brilliant list piece by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social Love the way the numbers track up & down + the rhythmic intensity of it all
This is such a brilliant list piece by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social Love the way the numbers track up & down + the rhythmic intensity of it all
I have some new very short prose in the always-amazing Milk Candy Review today. For anyone who enjoys a good list.
Go Bag ~ by Chris Scott
One gallon of water, one first-aid kit, one pocket knife, two boxes of granola bars, three pouches of pre-cooked rice and beans, two hundred dollars in cash, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, hand sani…
milkcandyreview.home.blog
November 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"three instincts that would feasibly help a person survive something like this, two net-neutral instincts, one genuinely detrimental instinct"
This is such a brilliant list piece by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social Love the way the numbers track up & down + the rhythmic intensity of it all
This is such a brilliant list piece by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social Love the way the numbers track up & down + the rhythmic intensity of it all
"Her fingers are grandmothers. They forget where home is"
Beautiful writing from @ezhang77.bsky.social
Beautiful writing from @ezhang77.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Her fingers are grandmothers. They forget where home is"
Beautiful writing from @ezhang77.bsky.social
Beautiful writing from @ezhang77.bsky.social
"you might realize, rolling the fibers between your thirty-five-year-old fingers, how lucky you were to have a mother open to such friendships"
Love the way this piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social shifts about in time. Rich, layered writing.
Love the way this piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social shifts about in time. Rich, layered writing.
“the fibers might remind you of worms, your first playmates as a child, and the time you ate three of them”
@sarlynh.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
@sarlynh.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash by Sarah Lynn Hurd You might be flat on your back, picking at loose fibers in a worn Turkish rug you inherited from your mother, who managed a Pier 1 I...
gooseberry-pie.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"you might realize, rolling the fibers between your thirty-five-year-old fingers, how lucky you were to have a mother open to such friendships"
Love the way this piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social shifts about in time. Rich, layered writing.
Love the way this piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social shifts about in time. Rich, layered writing.
"And probably because she always wore some floral fragrance, lilac or periwinkle, or fucking frangipani"
Brilliant evocation of anger and voice from @rgvaughan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
Brilliant evocation of anger and voice from @rgvaughan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
“But no, fucking Melody, with her green thumb and her horny hands in the fecund earth was the culprit.”
@rgvaughan.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/the-roses-we...
@rgvaughan.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/the-roses-we...
The Roses Were Really Something - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Simon HUMLER on Unsplash by Robert Vaughan I hadn’t noticed them when we arrived, too caught up in running into Melody who’d fucked half of her co-workers and the entire neighboring Waukesha ...
gooseberry-pie.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"And probably because she always wore some floral fragrance, lilac or periwinkle, or fucking frangipani"
Brilliant evocation of anger and voice from @rgvaughan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
Brilliant evocation of anger and voice from @rgvaughan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
"Inside the box is time itself—fifteen years to be precise"
Oh wow, this piece by @kiptain.bsky.social is stunningly powerful. One of the best micros I've read all year 🙌
Oh wow, this piece by @kiptain.bsky.social is stunningly powerful. One of the best micros I've read all year 🙌
“The rectangular box I lay at the bottom makes the hole look like a clock, with the top of the box marking twelve and the bottom of the box marking six.” @kiptain.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/by-the-numbe...
gooseberry-pie.com/by-the-numbe...
By the Numbers - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash by Kip Knott The hole I’ve spent thirty minutes digging is two feet deep and three feet round. The rectangular box I lay at the bottom makes the hole look like a c...
gooseberry-pie.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"Inside the box is time itself—fifteen years to be precise"
Oh wow, this piece by @kiptain.bsky.social is stunningly powerful. One of the best micros I've read all year 🙌
Oh wow, this piece by @kiptain.bsky.social is stunningly powerful. One of the best micros I've read all year 🙌
"Pia, however. Pia would be the prize. Pia would kick and scream because she’s Pia"
Brilliant piece by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social, so evocative and propulsive. And that title!!! 🤩
Brilliant piece by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social, so evocative and propulsive. And that title!!! 🤩
“washing it down with her first pre-noon beer since college, feeling like she finally belongs when Pipewrench—that’s his name, I’m certain—outfits her with her own leather chaps, a matching fringed vest, and a flaming skull bandana,”
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
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@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/buffalo-buff...
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Keyur Jadav on Unsplash by Michael Czyzniejewski Outside Sturgis, I picture him dispatching me with the nonchalance of a wild stallion shooing a fly, a wag of its tail, me left bleeding in a ...
gooseberry-pie.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"Pia, however. Pia would be the prize. Pia would kick and scream because she’s Pia"
Brilliant piece by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social, so evocative and propulsive. And that title!!! 🤩
Brilliant piece by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social, so evocative and propulsive. And that title!!! 🤩
Reposted by Matt Kendrick
Ooh, here it is again! 🎉
Thirty days to write 100 words. Simple!!! Hope lots of you will consider sending in entries 👇
**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Ooh, here it is again! 🎉
Thirty days to write 100 words. Simple!!! Hope lots of you will consider sending in entries 👇
**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Thirty days to write 100 words. Simple!!! Hope lots of you will consider sending in entries 👇