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Angela James
@olangela.bsky.social
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Lover and writer of flash fiction. Obsessor over comedy and Americana music. Lawyer in the midst of a midlife (or late-life, if being honest) crisis.
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fbereaud.bsky.social
Writer friends! My novel from the amazing @stanchion.bsky.social is out in Feb. I’d love to plan some events. If you have friendly book stores, dive bars, breweries, festivals, or street corner gatherings in your area that might welcome a visiting author, send them my way! 💙
October 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
olangela.bsky.social
Yea @caseystegman.com !!!
ikeyouguys.bsky.social ike @ikeyouguys.bsky.social · 25d
HOLY SHIT LOOK AT @caseystegman.com GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
triadaus.bsky.social Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · 25d
Congratulations to @caseystegman.com on the sale of KILL CURRENT! #TeamTriada #BookSky
October 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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sfwp.bsky.social
If you loved reading NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ, & prefer the original LILO AND STITCH over the remake, then you're going to love @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's upcoming collection BITTER OVER SWEET!

BITTER OVER SWEET will be available in 16 DAYS! Preorder a copy right here: bit.ly/3PuHbEn
October 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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vanwinkle.bsky.social
Don't Rock the Inbox & @natalieweiner.bsky.social nailed this one. Great year for country music. The Terry Allen, Jerry Jeff, Willie, Emmylou, Guy, Bobby Bare, Gary Stewart & Waylon titles are all personal favorites. Crazy they all came out the same year: www.dontrocktheinbox.com/14-essential...
14 Essential 1975 Country Albums
'70s country is the source of plenty of current nostalgia despite being made (gulp) a half century ago. There are so many great albums that hit the 50 mark this year, though, and it only seemed right ...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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jessicavalenti.bsky.social
To single out abortion as the place for compromise is to ignore the political reality of the last three years.

And in a moment when the stakes are so high—as women are literally dying—being both confidently wrong and hugely influential is straight up dangerous. jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...
Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion
Abortion *is* a big tent issue
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September 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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ambersparks.bsky.social
Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!
September 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
I have a new tiny story in @havehashad.com today about fleeting connections. thanks as always to @aaronburch.bsky.social, one of the best editors around, & to all of you who read this one ♡ 💀 🪦 ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...
At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is today’s date: September 4, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic by Anna Vangala Jones. Below that is the text of the story: —we thought we were funny when we suggested meeting at the laundromat because we bonded on the first date about putting it off so long we'd almost reached the bathing suits as underwear stage. But when he called to cancel, I worried I should have held onto my mystique a bit longer and not revealed the lazy mess lurking beneath my put together surface yet. "It's not that," he said. "I have to go to a funeral." After I told him how sorry I was, he said, "Want to come?" I joked, "It's too soon but take me to the next one." I appreciated the earnest vulnerability of his response that he could use the company so I said yes. My friends teased me that we'd only been on one date so maybe he was a serial killer and we would be going to my funeral. Weird how we cope with the possibility of being murdered every time we meet someone new by laughing about how hilarious it'll be if it happens, but it's preferable to being paralyzed by it. "He loves Bruce Springsteen, so he can't be that bad," I told them. The funeral was for his lifelong friend—they had first met at only five years old—so it was of course sad. We held hands as they lowered the casket. After everyone else left, we wandered the cemetery chatting about everything and nothing like we were at a coffee shop and he kissed me in front of a tombstone that read, "Beloved and remembered. Until we meet again." He ghosted me after that. When I listen to Bruce at the laundromat, I wonder why our first and last kiss happened amidst graves and death and almost write him to ask. But maybe it's better not to know.
September 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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jonathanin2k.bsky.social
Very happy with the work @danrussell.bsky.social and I get to share with this! Get it while it’s hot, people! Yum yum yum yum
August 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
olangela.bsky.social
Thank you so much @offbeatlit.bsky.social for the Best of the Net nomination! I am over the moon!
August 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
olangela.bsky.social
Guess who has a story shouted out in Myna Chang’s always fantastic Spec Flash Roundup!
August 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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flashfictiononline.bsky.social
📣 Tuesday release: “The Body, Electric” by Lauren Kardos is free to read on FFO today. Content warning: immortality that’s as crumbling & inconsistent as the world we live in!
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction
@lkardos.bsky.social
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The Body, Electric
My body is a body in which I mean it eats, sleeps, pisses, and shits, all thanks to the 200 jolt-a-roos the ruffian at the corner gives me once per week. I am ageless, I am boundless, but I can no …
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August 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
A tough one to write and "have out there," but I'm proud of this hybrid micro. Many thanks to Court Harler, Flash the Court journal, and @sfreligh.bsky.social, whose prompt spurred the piece.
dawnsteffler.bsky.social Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · Aug 15
Safe at the hotel where I worked, I answered their dark blue queries. Behind their eyes I discerned that I wasn’t the kind of victim they had to care about.

Hybrid piece that is a powerful example of what flash can do. Love the ending. @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in new lit mag Flash the Court
“Bullet List for My Aged Kidnapper” by Patricia Q. Bidar
“Bullet List for My Aged Kidnapper” begins with a gun and ends with a song. With a list form, Patricia Q. Bidar leads us down the long dark alleyway of time, where traumatic recollections ricochet …
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August 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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pleomorphic2.bsky.social
So a couple of years ago I feverishly wrote this thing about mothers and kids, pretending it had nothing whatsoever to do with my own mothering or childhood (hahahahahaha) and @publishedbyjake.bsky.social want to publish it (WHAT?). Coming towards the end of the year!!!
publishedbyjake.bsky.social JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · Aug 16
ICYMI, yes, Sumitra's book Mother Karma, is coming soon!
beansbaker5.bsky.social Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · Aug 16
Re-reading @pleomorphic2.bsky.social's upcoming JAKE chapbook for edits, and damn, this is really a good one.
August 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Today, we have a historical, satirical, fantastical story from Angela James. “I Was Made for Loving You” imagines Gene Simmons from KISS as a Peter Pan figure. It’s wacky and fabulous!

#writingcommunity #flashfiction #satire #historical #literary #KISS

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I Was Made for Loving You
The boys are staying overnight at their dad’s apartment for the first time. A perfect opportunity, I’m sure, for my ex to introduce them to his twenty-five-year-old tart.Flopped on my bed upstairs …
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August 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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beckyhalsey.bsky.social
New story out today with Ghost Parachute’s August 2025 issue. Check out my slipstream clump of mischief—“Dermoid.”

#flashfiction #writingcommunity #slipstream #lightbodyhorror #hysteria #ladytroubles

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Dermoid — Ghost Parachute
When hunger gnaws at Kima, the dermoid gnaws back until she has no appetite at all. Since her last gyno exam, it has amassed germ cells, their weight warping the balance of her insides. She plods to t...
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August 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
olangela.bsky.social
My 70s Gene Simmons story just dropped! Thank you @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and thanks to my @smokelong.bsky.social , @jdclappwrites.bsky.social and @kmelkes.bsky.social for earlier feedback and for generally enabling my foolishness! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/i-wa...
I Was Made for Loving You
The boys are staying overnight at their dad’s apartment for the first time. A perfect opportunity, I’m sure, for my ex to introduce them to his twenty-five-year-old tart.Flopped on my bed upstairs …
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
olangela.bsky.social
How am I just seeing this now? What a wonderful pieces, Sumitra!!
pleomorphic2.bsky.social Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · Jul 17
Friends I have a piece up in a dream journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social today about the relentlessness of motherhood (and a public toilet sign). Hope you’ll read. Thanks @kbonilla.bsky.social for seeing something in it 🧡🧡🧡
jmwwjournal.bsky.social JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · Jul 16
"I walk down the stairs – concrete, the edges smoothed away by time and the march of many mothers."

Flash Fiction: Baby Change by Sumitra Singam

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July 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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avalaugh.bsky.social
I love you… 🥰
July 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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kathyfish.bsky.social
Love this new one by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social in the new issue of Milk Candy Review!
July 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
olangela.bsky.social
The piece in here by @danbillyc.bsky.social will destroy you (but that’s why we’re here, right?).
July 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants
May 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
olangela.bsky.social
It’s time, everyone! You can now have JD’s collection in your paws!
May 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
olangela.bsky.social
The old saying is “behind every successful man is a woman.” What I am seeing is also behind every thwarted woman is an abusive piece of garbage.
kathbarbadoro.bsky.social Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · May 13
in honor of cassie testifying i implore you to go listen to her self titled album, one of the most slept on rnb albums from that era. justice for cassie not only in the diddy case but also in her thwarted musical career
Cassie - Long Way 2 Go (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Bad Boy Entertainment
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May 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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caseystegman.com
Happy Pub Day, @danrussell.bsky.social!!!
Poor Birds by Dan Russell
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
olangela.bsky.social
Glad to see this pub on here! And… if you feel like taking a look…it’s my little Joan Crawford piece that ran April 1!
May 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM