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Michael Czyzniejewski
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
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Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
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So honored to get this nomination from editors I admire, for a journal I admire, alongside friends and writers I admire. Thanks, @djpoissant.bsky.social and @theflreview.bsky.social! And congrats and good luck to @mcagrimm.bsky.social, Glen Pourciau, Siamak Vossoughi, and @kimmagowan.bsky.social!
February 2, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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@shastagrant.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute!

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Cross Your Heart — Ghost Parachute
It’s been six weeks of the baby screaming, while he gobbles up his mother’s overcooked food, saying it’s just how he remembers. Six weeks of her saying Like this dear, swaddling the baby too tightly. ...
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February 2, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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@avitusbcarle.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute!

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Breaking News — Ghost Parachute
Did you hear about the Black man? The Black woman? Black boy? The Black girl gone missing? Kidnapped. From thoughts and prayers. From the news. A child turned memory turned muted turned into a body, f...
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February 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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@christopherallen.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute!
Chrysalis — Ghost Parachute
Mama can’t see me, but I’m watching over her. From the kitchen. She’s on the couch in the den, recumbent, because she’s depressed, which she never says, but I know. I can read her mind. She lays my ni...
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February 2, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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Some pretty amazing flash fiction here by the amazing @karenkay.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute!

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Some Hurt Thing — Ghost Parachute
Haylea is going to freak – I’m sure of that. Whether it will be a good or a bad freak remains to be seen, but I can for sure expect a reaction. I’m a city person – always have been. I was 13 the first...
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February 1, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Rock star.
joelhans.com Joel Hans @joelhans.com · 15d
Here are the acknowledgements from the collection coming out next month. Just unbelievably grateful for every reader and editor at every journal that thought my stories were worth something.

& a friendly preorder link if you're so inclined: www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
In front of a painting of a saguaro cactus, the following text: “A Man, His Oblations” — No Tokens “The Bedtime Emptying of Our World” — Flash Frog “Thirty-One Functions for a Girl Living Inside an Apple” — Fairy Tale Review “The Cirrus Circus” — The Offing “Once, Three Brothers Guided Two Moons Across the Sky” — Fractured Lit “Cardinine, Seafoamyst, Morningite” — West Branch “A Protest of Tortoise” — Gone Lawn “The Times I’ll Trade Time with the Crows” — Atlas and Alice “The Coup of Animal New” — The Masters Review “Once, You Were Asked to Count the Hummingbirds” — New Flash Fiction Review In front of a painting of a desert mountain landscape, the following text: “Mouth, Wormhole, Window” — Fusion Fragment “Sapling by Shingle by Soot” — Passages North “The Aunt of Everything” — West Branch “Once There Was an Upside-Down Daughter” — Booth: A Journal “Does Yours Have a Heart, Too?” — Green Mountains Review “Upon Return from the Land Where One Never Dies” — The Journal “Two Decorated Skulls in the Miramonte Swamp” — Story “The Flamingo” — HAD “When Stars Are Just Stars” — Peatsmoke Journal
January 19, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Preorder alert! Snag your copy of @joelhans.com's The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, winner of @mooncitypress.bsky.social's 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award!

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The Bedtime Emptying of Our World
Short Stories Joel Hans 978-0-913785-69-0 Paper February 2026
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January 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Happy to see three @mooncitypress.bsky.social authors/friends in this new @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social anthology: @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social, and Michelle Ross!

A ton of @mooncityreview.bsky.social contributors, too!

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Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
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January 7, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Congrats to @rachel-weinhaus.bsky.social, whose story that originally appeared in @mooncityreview.bsky.social has been selected for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2026! Thanks to Guest Editor Diane Seuss and series editors @gary79.bsky.social and @megpokrass.bsky.social!

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Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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New @pitheadchapel.bsky.social, the Larry Brown Short Story Award Issue. Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, and their entire staff!

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Volume 15, Issue 1
PHOTO PROVIDED BY TOM RANKIN THE 2025 LARRY BROWN SHORT STORY AWARD ISSUE AWARD WINNER: SOME PLANTS, A BIRD, AND YOU AND I BY ANJU SHARMA SECOND PRIZE: THE CLARITY OF DISTANCE BY M.C. SCHMIDT THIRD…
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January 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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@flightlit.bsky.social is awesome! Thanks so much!
flightlit.bsky.social Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · Dec 30
Departures 5 takes us to the *almost* end of the world with the @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social story “Polecatz,” from Flight 2: flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-czyz...
Departures 5 "Randy and Gino were arguing about the best place to hold up in an apocalypse," Michael Czyzniejewskis "Polecate" opens. The characters debate if theyd prefer a hardware store, sporting goods store, or strip club. Write a story or a poem about a familiar location in an unfamiliar situation. What does it reveal about this place?
December 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Killer new flash by @courtneyb77.bsky.social at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social!
uffington white horse personal ad — Blood+Honey
by Courtney Burton “I was a tall buxom blonde with a Sagittarius tattoo on my hip and you were a lean, tan silver fox with a cigarette perched between your fingers.”
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December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This month's Ghost Parachute is killer! Kudos to @brettpribble.bsky.social for curating!

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December 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
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December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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This is a fantastic issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and their entire staff, and to all these talented writers.

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Volume 14, Issue 12
COVER ART BY deems ortega   FICTION A Bestiary of Immortal Creatures by J. Condra Smith The Great Miss Valentina Speaks by Rebecca Turkewitz Mr. Palm Beach by Will Willoughby Awe by Nick Rees …
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December 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Congrats and good luck to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 Best Small Fictions nominees!

@mynachang.bsky.social, @claudiamonpere.bsky.social, @kellypedro.bsky.social, @erinvachon.bsky.social, Nora Wagner
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Don't forget to preorder the amazing My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, coming in early January from @mooncitypress.bsky.social!

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My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body
Poems The 2024 Moon City Poetry Award 978-0-913785-71-3 Paper January 2026
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December 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Thanks to Meg Pokrass for featuring me today at her amazing substack, Prompts of Resilience! I had such a blast making this happen. Thanks, Meg, for all you do for flash!

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Response Story: A Collaboration with Author Michael Czyzniejewski
"Quickly, Deeply"- A Prompted Story by Mike Czyzniejewski
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December 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Issue 90 of @smokelong.bsky.social is live! What a lineup of amazing authors and stories, including this years Grand Microfiction Contest winners! I got to interview @ktherr.bsky.social about her mind-blowing micro. Just so much amazing work here!

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Issue Ninety - SmokeLong Quarterly
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December 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Thanks to @ketchiklein.bsky.social and @fklein907.bsky.social at @flightlit.bsky.social for nominating my story "Polecatz" for a @pushcartprize.bsky.social!

Nice company here with @seanennis.bsky.social and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!
December 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Congratulations to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees: @kelliborges2.bsky.social, @courtneyb77.bsky.social, Julia Coursey, @amymarques.bsky.social, and @rachel-weinhaus.bsky.social. Good luck!
December 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Congrats to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees: Mikaela Hagen, @gabrielwelsch.bsky.social, @jstewartmiller.bsky.social, @duffusmatthew.bsky.social, Claire Hero, and @kellypedro.bsky.social.

Good luck!
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Time to preorder My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Poetry Award! Coming in early January—reserve your copy today!

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My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body
Poems The 2024 Moon City Poetry Award 978-0-913785-71-3 Paper January 2026
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December 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Thanks to Brian Mihok, @marcelleheath.bsky.social, Jeannie Hoag, and everyone at @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social for publishing this new camping story, "Happy Birthday." Psyched to be in this journal!
Happy Birthday | matchbook
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December 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Thanks to @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social at @flightlit.bsky.social for publishing my apocalypse story in their new issue!
Michael Czyzniejewski- Fiction
Polecatz Randy and Gino were arguing about the best place to hold up in an apocalypse. Randy was firmly in the hardware superstore camp. Gino insisted on sporting goods. Randy said with hardware, t...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Thanks—on Thanksgiving!—to @lit-namjooning.bsky.social (and Hema Nataraju and Lakshmi Iyer and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social) for nominating me for a Pushcart Prize!
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM