Melissa Fitzpatrick
@melissafitz.bsky.social
Words in Five South, Flash Fiction Online, Atlas + Alice, Lunch Ticket, Flash Fiction Magazine, Roi Faineant, and elsewhere.
Website: https://melissa-fitzpatrick.com/
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"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 11:21 AM
"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...
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Today it’s easy to be joyful so how about a little pop-up theme call. Joy is the theme. Whatever gives you joy counts unless it’s hate, that won’t count. Poems flash micro art, everyone welcome even if you’ve already submitted. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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November 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Today it’s easy to be joyful so how about a little pop-up theme call. Joy is the theme. Whatever gives you joy counts unless it’s hate, that won’t count. Poems flash micro art, everyone welcome even if you’ve already submitted. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
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Got a new story from David Norling on Short Story, Long today!
I get to excited to get to publish these, to get to share every couple of weeks a story I've fallen in love with and help it find some readers who will hopefully fall in love too.
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I get to excited to get to publish these, to get to share every couple of weeks a story I've fallen in love with and help it find some readers who will hopefully fall in love too.
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“Hands of Wine” by David Norling
"The night I met Harley McGuire, he taught me to play throw golf on the course behind my house. My father and I had just moved out to the desert because he had gotten a job..."
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October 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Got a new story from David Norling on Short Story, Long today!
I get to excited to get to publish these, to get to share every couple of weeks a story I've fallen in love with and help it find some readers who will hopefully fall in love too.
ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/hands-of-w...
I get to excited to get to publish these, to get to share every couple of weeks a story I've fallen in love with and help it find some readers who will hopefully fall in love too.
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Love this! 🦓
Read "The HOA rules don’t apply" written by @amygcb.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"To the zebra who wanders loose in our suburban neighborhood. It ambles up and down the streets like he belongs among their English countryside names."
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"To the zebra who wanders loose in our suburban neighborhood. It ambles up and down the streets like he belongs among their English countryside names."
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The HOA rules don’t apply — Ghost Parachute
To the zebra who wanders loose in our suburban neighborhood. It ambles up and down the streets like he belongs among their English countryside names. He’s not intimidated by Northumberland or Buckingh...
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October 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Love this! 🦓
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Such a beautiful reflection on finding hope in hard times.
What are you doing for hope these days?
If you missed it, a blog post about hope, loss, and breaking from writing: koss-works.com/instead-of-w...
#writing, #hope, #gardening, #breaks, #ageofaquarius
If you missed it, a blog post about hope, loss, and breaking from writing: koss-works.com/instead-of-w...
#writing, #hope, #gardening, #breaks, #ageofaquarius
September 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Such a beautiful reflection on finding hope in hard times.
Reading this lovely piece by @jackiegoyette.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social felt like self care
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Daylight Savings by Jacqueline Goyette
This is springtime. The first day and I am up in town, past medieval walls and old churches, up the ramp of steps to the piazza. Spring is in the small things today: the twitch of flowers peeping up f...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reading this lovely piece by @jackiegoyette.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social felt like self care
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This beautiful and haunting piece
Honored as heck to be included in the second issue of Literary Namjooning. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
Delicious Trees by Miriam Gershow
The thing I don’t remember is leaves. It’s been winter forever, branches bare, limbsnaked. There’s ice on snow on ice. Gray slosh. Needles hold on the fir trees, butneedles aren’t the same as leaves. ...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This beautiful and haunting piece
Loved this piece by @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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Mountain Path, North Wales by Bronwen Griffiths
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” HeraclitusIf the path is steep and stony on the way up the mountain and if, perhaps, it crosses severalstreams or rivulets and, if there are fields ...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Birds of Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a beautiful city because of migration—both human and otherwise.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Oh, this piece 💔
"Because all you have now is paper and pencil." Why You Start Drawing Again by Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/08/m...
September 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Oh, this piece 💔
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@bradymicheller.bsky.social put a lot of editorial love for these stories in the latest House of Arcanum! Check out "Every Day is Halloween" for Mandy's story.
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Every Day is Halloween... — House of Arcanum
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September 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I have a new story out today! Huge thanks to @kimmagowan.bsky.social & @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. And to you, for reading! (No thanks AT ALL to you if you don't read it 😤)
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The Bowling Story
Aaron Burch What happened was, I got divorced. You could take it back further—moving out, separation, sleeping in different rooms, therapy, affairs, fights, resentment, etc.—but none of that really…
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September 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I have a new story out today! Huge thanks to @kimmagowan.bsky.social & @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. And to you, for reading! (No thanks AT ALL to you if you don't read it 😤)
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Beautiful! 💙💙💙
I’m so happy this piece found a home with @claudineliterary.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/aniking
The whole inaugural issue is fantastic!
The whole inaugural issue is fantastic!
Ani King | Family Patterns: Cyanocitta cristata
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September 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Beautiful! 💙💙💙
So good!
ICYMI please enjoy today's gem Juror Number Eight by Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity. Just click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/29/j...
August 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
So good!
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Etiquette for Choking in an Applebee’s by Kristen Rapp in ONE ART: a journal of poetry
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Etiquette for Choking in an Applebee’s by Kristen Rapp
Etiquette for Choking in an Applebee’s I heard somewhere that most women who die from choking in restaurants are found on the bathroom floor presumably because they don’t want to make a scene as th…
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August 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Etiquette for Choking in an Applebee’s by Kristen Rapp in ONE ART: a journal of poetry
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Thanks to @epistemiclit.bsky.social for nominating my artwork for Best of the Net!
Please congratulate our Best of the Net 2026 nominees!
August 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Thanks to @epistemiclit.bsky.social for nominating my artwork for Best of the Net!
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This @emilyrinkema.bsky.social story. Filled with love and ache and unsaid words. Do we love it? We do.
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August 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This @emilyrinkema.bsky.social story. Filled with love and ache and unsaid words. Do we love it? We do.
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The restraint and the arc of this little @mondickson.bsky.social story. Beautifully told.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Evocative and resonant CNF by @sugarpigblog.bsky.social with extended imagery we bet you’ll relate to.
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August 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Evocative and resonant CNF by @sugarpigblog.bsky.social with extended imagery we bet you’ll relate to.
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“Like the air was holding its breath, waiting for something to split.”
Ooh, the atmosphere in this piece by @mallorysmart.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social
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Ooh, the atmosphere in this piece by @mallorysmart.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social
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twenty-four — Tiny Molecules
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August 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Like the air was holding its breath, waiting for something to split.”
Ooh, the atmosphere in this piece by @mallorysmart.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social
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Ooh, the atmosphere in this piece by @mallorysmart.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
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oh. damn. wow. amazing list today from Melissa Fite Johnson!
"2. Later I blacked out each reference to a boy, pages and pages gone.
3. Since this wasn’t for my mother’s benefit, it must’ve been for mine. Strike the evidence, make the memory go away."
https://www.havehashad.com/nntn0
"2. Later I blacked out each reference to a boy, pages and pages gone.
3. Since this wasn’t for my mother’s benefit, it must’ve been for mine. Strike the evidence, make the memory go away."
https://www.havehashad.com/nntn0
Footnotes to My First Diary, Sixth Grade, Lock and Key by Melissa Fite Johnson
Purposefully broken lock. Too much trouble, and who would read. I trusted my mother. Later I blacked out each reference to a boy, pages and pages gone. Since this wasn’t for my mother’s benefit, it…
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August 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
oh. damn. wow. amazing list today from Melissa Fite Johnson!
"2. Later I blacked out each reference to a boy, pages and pages gone.
3. Since this wasn’t for my mother’s benefit, it must’ve been for mine. Strike the evidence, make the memory go away."
https://www.havehashad.com/nntn0
"2. Later I blacked out each reference to a boy, pages and pages gone.
3. Since this wasn’t for my mother’s benefit, it must’ve been for mine. Strike the evidence, make the memory go away."
https://www.havehashad.com/nntn0