Melissa Ostrom
@melostrom.bsky.social
Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
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Periodic reminder that I also write kissing books
Angsty, spicy contemporary romance featuring heroines who are too much and heroes who can't get enough
SHOOT YOUR SHOT: friends-to-lovers, athlete heroine
SOFT REBOUND: hookup-to-lovers, plus-size rep
Buy online: books2read.com/fionaembers/
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Angsty, spicy contemporary romance featuring heroines who are too much and heroes who can't get enough
SHOOT YOUR SHOT: friends-to-lovers, athlete heroine
SOFT REBOUND: hookup-to-lovers, plus-size rep
Buy online: books2read.com/fionaembers/
📚💙🌶📚
November 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Periodic reminder that I also write kissing books
Angsty, spicy contemporary romance featuring heroines who are too much and heroes who can't get enough
SHOOT YOUR SHOT: friends-to-lovers, athlete heroine
SOFT REBOUND: hookup-to-lovers, plus-size rep
Buy online: books2read.com/fionaembers/
📚💙🌶📚
Angsty, spicy contemporary romance featuring heroines who are too much and heroes who can't get enough
SHOOT YOUR SHOT: friends-to-lovers, athlete heroine
SOFT REBOUND: hookup-to-lovers, plus-size rep
Buy online: books2read.com/fionaembers/
📚💙🌶📚
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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
templeinacity.com
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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🚨 We're thrilled to share that Split Lip is number FOUR this year on Brecht De Poortere's flash ranking! We're honored to share the space with so many amazing lit mags! 🥰 buff.ly/bBTc3dY
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
🚨 We're thrilled to share that Split Lip is number FOUR this year on Brecht De Poortere's flash ranking! We're honored to share the space with so many amazing lit mags! 🥰 buff.ly/bBTc3dY
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"What’s autumn?"
"... her soft white hands, tipped in a tasteful nude, she would later tell my mom."
“Leaves fall?”
Avon Calling You an Autumn When You Know You Are Summer by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in Bitter Over Sweet, from @sfwp.bsky.social
"... her soft white hands, tipped in a tasteful nude, she would later tell my mom."
“Leaves fall?”
Avon Calling You an Autumn When You Know You Are Summer by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in Bitter Over Sweet, from @sfwp.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"What’s autumn?"
"... her soft white hands, tipped in a tasteful nude, she would later tell my mom."
“Leaves fall?”
Avon Calling You an Autumn When You Know You Are Summer by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in Bitter Over Sweet, from @sfwp.bsky.social
"... her soft white hands, tipped in a tasteful nude, she would later tell my mom."
“Leaves fall?”
Avon Calling You an Autumn When You Know You Are Summer by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in Bitter Over Sweet, from @sfwp.bsky.social
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# 15
~11.5 x 6.5. Fude pen and colored pencils.
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#Art #Drawing #FromtheDrawingTable #FudePen #PenandInk #ColoredPencils #Patterns #Peace #Serenity #MotherEarth #Nature #MotherNature #Plants #Leaves #WomenStrength
~11.5 x 6.5. Fude pen and colored pencils.
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#Art #Drawing #FromtheDrawingTable #FudePen #PenandInk #ColoredPencils #Patterns #Peace #Serenity #MotherEarth #Nature #MotherNature #Plants #Leaves #WomenStrength
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
# 15
~11.5 x 6.5. Fude pen and colored pencils.
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#Art #Drawing #FromtheDrawingTable #FudePen #PenandInk #ColoredPencils #Patterns #Peace #Serenity #MotherEarth #Nature #MotherNature #Plants #Leaves #WomenStrength
~11.5 x 6.5. Fude pen and colored pencils.
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#Art #Drawing #FromtheDrawingTable #FudePen #PenandInk #ColoredPencils #Patterns #Peace #Serenity #MotherEarth #Nature #MotherNature #Plants #Leaves #WomenStrength
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-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live!
www.ettereview.com/fall2025/
Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:
Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
www.ettereview.com/fall2025/
Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:
Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live!
www.ettereview.com/fall2025/
Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:
Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
www.ettereview.com/fall2025/
Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:
Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
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we have an amazing 73 word micro by Sarah Chin !
it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
AGES by Sarah Chin
Thirteen was the year I discovered spite. Fourteen, eyeliner. Fifteen, seduction in a slow blink. At sixteen, I mailed seventeen birthday cards to myself, all unsigned. My mother asked who loved me th...
xraylitmag.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
we have an amazing 73 word micro by Sarah Chin !
it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
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Also featuring @kmwriter01.bsky.social @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social @carlottadale.bsky.social @kelkel.bsky.social and curated by @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social
I know a lot of you aren't on that *ahem* other site, but here's a nice, gritty flash fiction/poetry compilation including yours untruly and a couple of mutual. Enjoy. Or don't. I don't care.
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x.com/MythicPicnic...
Mythic Picnic on X: "MICRO MAYHEM v2 Mythic Micros by @KennethMGRAY2 @KMWriter01 @JWenner_Author @carlottadale38 @mike_mchone @fshrum @msladybrute @melissacuisine @KellieScottReed @JohnTures2 @OfferKuban & @jadedwriter_ Curated by @NathanBorn2010 / Nathan Pettigrew #MythicPicnicTweetStory ===" / X
MICRO MAYHEM v2 Mythic Micros by @KennethMGRAY2 @KMWriter01 @JWenner_Author @carlottadale38 @mike_mchone @fshrum @msladybrute @melissacuisine @KellieScottReed @JohnTures2 @OfferKuban & @jadedwriter_ Curated by @NathanBorn2010 / Nathan Pettigrew #MythicPicnicTweetStory ===
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November 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Also featuring @kmwriter01.bsky.social @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social @carlottadale.bsky.social @kelkel.bsky.social and curated by @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social
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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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JMWW Journal is open for poetry, CNF, fiction, and hybrid/beyond genre submissions. Closes 11/15
jmww.submittable.com/submit
jmww.submittable.com/submit
JMWW Submission Manager
jmww is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry, hybrid work, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly. We are happy you found us!We want to see your work, but don't be all stalke...
jmww.submittable.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
JMWW Journal is open for poetry, CNF, fiction, and hybrid/beyond genre submissions. Closes 11/15
jmww.submittable.com/submit
jmww.submittable.com/submit
Your morning Mocha on this first day of snow.🐶❤️❄️
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Your morning Mocha on this first day of snow.🐶❤️❄️
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Subs are open for an unthemed issue! ✉️
Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
No fee
Click thru for full details
ettereview.com/submit/
Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
No fee
Click thru for full details
ettereview.com/submit/
Submit | -ette review
ettereview.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Subs are open for an unthemed issue! ✉️
Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
No fee
Click thru for full details
ettereview.com/submit/
Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
No fee
Click thru for full details
ettereview.com/submit/
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New sugar bowl, creamer, & butter dish in pink shadow & sour apple. Now I just need to make some blueberry scones. Happy Thursday, friends. #pottery 💚☕️🍁💛
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New sugar bowl, creamer, & butter dish in pink shadow & sour apple. Now I just need to make some blueberry scones. Happy Thursday, friends. #pottery 💚☕️🍁💛
“I call my dead cat on the wind phone…”
This beauty by @suzyeynon.bsky.social in @ettereview.bsky.social.❤️
This beauty by @suzyeynon.bsky.social in @ettereview.bsky.social.❤️
The roulette issue of @ettereview.bsky.social is out! I'm in love with ette's design for this issue and Beth's illustration for "Landlines." Huge thanks to Nora and Beth for including my work.
ettereview.com/fall2025/
ettereview.com/fall2025/
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“I call my dead cat on the wind phone…”
This beauty by @suzyeynon.bsky.social in @ettereview.bsky.social.❤️
This beauty by @suzyeynon.bsky.social in @ettereview.bsky.social.❤️
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If you're on the fence about buying my hybrid collection from @diodeeditions.bsky.social, check out @erinvachon.bsky.social 's fabulous review in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
. Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...
. Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
If you're on the fence about buying my hybrid collection from @diodeeditions.bsky.social, check out @erinvachon.bsky.social 's fabulous review in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
. Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...
. Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...
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Thanks for publishing @mrbullbull.bsky.social
"A one-eared beagle with a bleeding wound waited on the porch wagging her tail; another pup a townie had been undoubtedly tossed out on the dirt road."
@jhhwriter.bsky.social
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
@jhhwriter.bsky.social
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Thanks for publishing @mrbullbull.bsky.social
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TIME CORRECTION! Nov.8 #NotJustPretty zoom will be at 5pm pst/ 8pm est this Saturday. Sample ways our features creatively confront stereotypes. Sponsor @thebrokenspine.co.uk Host @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Info: bit.ly/499kkJk #WomenSpeakUp #WomenSpeakOut #CanYouHearUs #Poetry #Art
#NotJustPretty
Meet The Woman Who Lead The Charge #NotJustPretty is an exciting 3-zoom series (90 min. each) that honors artists from around the world wh...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
TIME CORRECTION! Nov.8 #NotJustPretty zoom will be at 5pm pst/ 8pm est this Saturday. Sample ways our features creatively confront stereotypes. Sponsor @thebrokenspine.co.uk Host @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Info: bit.ly/499kkJk #WomenSpeakUp #WomenSpeakOut #CanYouHearUs #Poetry #Art
“You care like a chump.”
This wonderful gem by @woodardwriter.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social.🔥
This wonderful gem by @woodardwriter.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social.🔥
One ray of sunshine: I have a new little story in the latest issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social. My thanks to @sdobbie.bsky.social for accepting it. This piece began at a weeklong @bendinggenres.bsky.social retreat many moons ago:
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
twenty-five — Tiny Molecules
www.tinymolecules.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“You care like a chump.”
This wonderful gem by @woodardwriter.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social.🔥
This wonderful gem by @woodardwriter.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social.🔥
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Tiny Molecules runs on donations. If you are able to support us, email us at tinymoleculespress@gmail.com and we’ll send you our PayPal info. Help us keep our website live and our submissions free!
www.tinymolecules.com
www.tinymolecules.com
Tiny Molecules
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November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Tiny Molecules runs on donations. If you are able to support us, email us at tinymoleculespress@gmail.com and we’ll send you our PayPal info. Help us keep our website live and our submissions free!
www.tinymolecules.com
www.tinymolecules.com
Mocha & I are spending our morning with the latest issue of Stone Canoe Journal. I’m excited it includes my short story, “Away.” Happy Monday, friends.📚🐶💚
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Mocha & I are spending our morning with the latest issue of Stone Canoe Journal. I’m excited it includes my short story, “Away.” Happy Monday, friends.📚🐶💚
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I have a little ghost story in SFPJ today -
"Jimmy. Fucking. Bang."
Thanks to Francine!
"Jimmy. Fucking. Bang."
Thanks to Francine!
November 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I have a little ghost story in SFPJ today -
"Jimmy. Fucking. Bang."
Thanks to Francine!
"Jimmy. Fucking. Bang."
Thanks to Francine!
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Don't forget! The Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Submission guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-...
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Don't forget! The Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Submission guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-...
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag