Nicole Brogdon
@nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social
Writer, esp flash fiction. Reader.
In-person, w my writing-buddy & friend, Kelli Short Borges, who is visiting & hiking & taco-ing w me this day in my hometown of Austin Texas. Such a talented editor and writer! And a warm wise woman with big ears and big smarts. What would we do w/o our writer friends?
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In-person, w my writing-buddy & friend, Kelli Short Borges, who is visiting & hiking & taco-ing w me this day in my hometown of Austin Texas. Such a talented editor and writer! And a warm wise woman with big ears and big smarts. What would we do w/o our writer friends?
New Halloween story of mine, “To Ms Death”, rests here, in @tangledlockslit.bsky.social Journal.
I’m grateful to editor TeresaBerkowitz!
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I’m grateful to editor TeresaBerkowitz!
tangledlocksjournal.com/2025/10/30/t...
To Ms Death
Short Fiction by Nicole Brogdon
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October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
New Halloween story of mine, “To Ms Death”, rests here, in @tangledlockslit.bsky.social Journal.
I’m grateful to editor TeresaBerkowitz!
tangledlocksjournal.com/2025/10/30/t...
I’m grateful to editor TeresaBerkowitz!
tangledlocksjournal.com/2025/10/30/t...
Thanks to Thin Skin Jrnl, my dark humor abt parenting , “My Growing Boy”, sits in these pages;”:https://thin-skin.com/flash-fiction/my-growing-boy/
My Growing Boy - Thin Skin
Baby’s father slips from bed at seven, dons a clean blue button-down that highlights his eyes. Tangled in sheets in a pale nightgown, I stink of milk, Baby Boy belly-down on me, chests rising and fall...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Thanks to Thin Skin Jrnl, my dark humor abt parenting , “My Growing Boy”, sits in these pages;”:https://thin-skin.com/flash-fiction/my-growing-boy/
Epater Lit, p 29, my story “Maybelle in the Middle”. static1.squarespace.com/static/657a6...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Epater Lit, p 29, my story “Maybelle in the Middle”. static1.squarespace.com/static/657a6...
Thank you, Epater Lit magazine, for publishing my story, “Maybelle in the Middle”. Nice to see it on white-on-black background! I wrote this story to help me process the death of a best friend five years ago.
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Thank you, Epater Lit magazine, for publishing my story, “Maybelle in the Middle”. Nice to see it on white-on-black background! I wrote this story to help me process the death of a best friend five years ago.
No Kings March, Austin Texas. Such good energy!
October 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
No Kings March, Austin Texas. Such good energy!
www.theunjournals.com/unbroken47
Check out my funny prose poem, “The Bad Doctor” in the fine Unbroken Jrnl. Thank you, editors Dale Wisely & Ken Chau. And Thanks again, @josehernandezdz.bsky.social for his generative workshop that prodded this poem to life!
Check out my funny prose poem, “The Bad Doctor” in the fine Unbroken Jrnl. Thank you, editors Dale Wisely & Ken Chau. And Thanks again, @josehernandezdz.bsky.social for his generative workshop that prodded this poem to life!
Unbroken | Issue 46 | Summer 2025
Prose poems for y'all.
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October 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Check out my funny prose poem, “The Bad Doctor” in the fine Unbroken Jrnl. Thank you, editors Dale Wisely & Ken Chau. And Thanks again, @josehernandezdz.bsky.social for his generative workshop that prodded this poem to life!
Check out my funny prose poem, “The Bad Doctor” in the fine Unbroken Jrnl. Thank you, editors Dale Wisely & Ken Chau. And Thanks again, @josehernandezdz.bsky.social for his generative workshop that prodded this poem to life!
My prose poem, “The Bad Doctor”
was accepted by Unbroken, & I’m so tickled. Thanks to generative prose poem
workshops with @josehernandezdz.bsky.social. Love his laid back presence and the class readings and prompts.
was accepted by Unbroken, & I’m so tickled. Thanks to generative prose poem
workshops with @josehernandezdz.bsky.social. Love his laid back presence and the class readings and prompts.
August 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
My prose poem, “The Bad Doctor”
was accepted by Unbroken, & I’m so tickled. Thanks to generative prose poem
workshops with @josehernandezdz.bsky.social. Love his laid back presence and the class readings and prompts.
was accepted by Unbroken, & I’m so tickled. Thanks to generative prose poem
workshops with @josehernandezdz.bsky.social. Love his laid back presence and the class readings and prompts.
Happy Anniversary to me and this guy. 33 years of luck, love, picnics, and adventures.
August 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Happy Anniversary to me and this guy. 33 years of luck, love, picnics, and adventures.
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Old and new friends @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social @chiphouser.bsky.social @tom1walsh.bsky.social at the amazing retreat in the Rockies led by @kathyfish.bsky.social and Nancy Stohlman. Great combo of playing, going deep, and going weird with our writing. Beautiful bonding with everyone.
August 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Old and new friends @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social @chiphouser.bsky.social @tom1walsh.bsky.social at the amazing retreat in the Rockies led by @kathyfish.bsky.social and Nancy Stohlman. Great combo of playing, going deep, and going weird with our writing. Beautiful bonding with everyone.
I took another of @kathyfish.bsky.social enriching 90 mins classes yesterday—fr 3-in-90 flash fic classes—good price point, when u sign up for packet of 3—on creative revision ideas. Surprising, fresh, do-able, write-in-class and leave inspired! I recommend highly!
August 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I took another of @kathyfish.bsky.social enriching 90 mins classes yesterday—fr 3-in-90 flash fic classes—good price point, when u sign up for packet of 3—on creative revision ideas. Surprising, fresh, do-able, write-in-class and leave inspired! I recommend highly!
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TODAY at 1:00 pm Eastern! Thanks to all who signed up! Be sure to locate your email with session link (sometimes they go to spam/promotions). Let me know if you're not seeing it. See you SOON! 💙💙💙
The 3-in-90 workshop is TOMORROW at 1 pm Eastern Time! If you're signed up, please locate the email from Art of Flash / Webex with LINK to the session and come ready to re-animate that troublesome draft! Some spaces still available if you want to join us here: www.fastflashworkshops.com
Art of Flash Fiction
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August 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
TODAY at 1:00 pm Eastern! Thanks to all who signed up! Be sure to locate your email with session link (sometimes they go to spam/promotions). Let me know if you're not seeing it. See you SOON! 💙💙💙
It’s really hard for me to post here, to focus here, on flash fiction, when parts of this country are burning. Kudos to anyone who’s fighting the good fight. And practicing any art form, speaking and expressing truth & soul.
August 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It’s really hard for me to post here, to focus here, on flash fiction, when parts of this country are burning. Kudos to anyone who’s fighting the good fight. And practicing any art form, speaking and expressing truth & soul.
I have a gritty southern story, “Dead Daddies”, in the lovely new issue of @susurrusmag.bsky.social. Thank you to the editors for such good editorial care. I’d be honored if you’d read my story. Thank you! www.susurrusthemagazine.com/dead-daddies
Dead Daddies — Susurrus
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August 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I have a gritty southern story, “Dead Daddies”, in the lovely new issue of @susurrusmag.bsky.social. Thank you to the editors for such good editorial care. I’d be honored if you’d read my story. Thank you! www.susurrusthemagazine.com/dead-daddies
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Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt.
View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve
📸: Malcolm Glass
View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve
📸: Malcolm Glass
August 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt.
View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve
📸: Malcolm Glass
View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve
📸: Malcolm Glass
June 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Thank you @librelit.bsky.social & editor Mart Buchanan, for showcasing my therapy-culture-infused flash, “Self-Help”. x.com/librelitmag/...
June 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Thank you @librelit.bsky.social & editor Mart Buchanan, for showcasing my therapy-culture-infused flash, “Self-Help”. x.com/librelitmag/...
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Check out “GOAT Boy”, 250 w, by moi, @ the lovely, admirable @centaurlit.bsky.social . Based in part on true story of a child who survived in the cold Andes through the care of goats. Thank you editor @lynnmundell.bsky.social
Check out “GOAT Boy”, 250 w, by moi, @ the lovely, admirable @centaurlit.bsky.social . Based in part on true story of a child who survived in the cold Andes through the care of goats. Thank you editor @lynnmundell.bsky.social
Goat Boy by Nicole Brogdon | Centaur
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May 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Check out “GOAT Boy”, 250 w, by moi, @ the lovely, admirable @centaurlit.bsky.social . Based in part on true story of a child who survived in the cold Andes through the care of goats. Thank you editor @lynnmundell.bsky.social
Check out “GOAT Boy”, 250 w, by moi, @ the lovely, admirable @centaurlit.bsky.social . Based in part on true story of a child who survived in the cold Andes through the care of goats. Thank you editor @lynnmundell.bsky.social
Pleased with my Fictive Dream & editor Laura Black for their fine treatment of my recent surreal story, “Some Good News About Jesus”. Thank you! Feels good to take some risks when I write. Please read.
April 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Pleased with my Fictive Dream & editor Laura Black for their fine treatment of my recent surreal story, “Some Good News About Jesus”. Thank you! Feels good to take some risks when I write. Please read.
Austin Texas. Prickly pear cactus.
April 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Austin Texas. Prickly pear cactus.