Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam)
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
BSF 2025 B Microfic 2024
Trauma writing workshops. Yeah Nah Monthly Zoom
Will probably rearrange your dishwasher.
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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CHAPBOOK w Amy Marques: https://bottlecap.press/products/willing
Trauma writing workshops. Yeah Nah Monthly Zoom
Will probably rearrange your dishwasher.
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
🇦🇺🇲🇾🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
sumitrasingam.squarespace.com
CHAPBOOK w Amy Marques: https://bottlecap.press/products/willing
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
us06web.zoom.us
YEAH NAH FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7PM MELBOURNE TIME
Meet, chat, read online w me and other flashy people!
Zoom registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Meet, chat, read online w me and other flashy people!
Zoom registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Chuffed to be reading at the Prose Garden hosted by @francinewitte.bsky.social and @megpokrass.bsky.social with these brilliant names! Sat Nov 15 2pm EST. Rego link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Chuffed to be reading at the Prose Garden hosted by @francinewitte.bsky.social and @megpokrass.bsky.social with these brilliant names! Sat Nov 15 2pm EST. Rego link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Oh this is such a beautiful piece! ❤️Thanks for sharing!
@kathrynreese.bsky.social
@lit-namjooning.bsky.social
@kathrynreese.bsky.social
@lit-namjooning.bsky.social
This piece by @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social makes me want to go for a walk in the forest, in the rain. It’s been nearly two decades since I’ve done such a thing!
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
Storm Season by Kathryn Reese
The girl with a forest in her chest has been without a love so long she has forgotten what it is to hold hands, so tonight she runs a finger round the outline of her own palm: thumbpad, lifeline, wris...
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Oh this is such a beautiful piece! ❤️Thanks for sharing!
@kathrynreese.bsky.social
@lit-namjooning.bsky.social
@kathrynreese.bsky.social
@lit-namjooning.bsky.social
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This piece by @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social makes me want to go for a walk in the forest, in the rain. It’s been nearly two decades since I’ve done such a thing!
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
Storm Season by Kathryn Reese
The girl with a forest in her chest has been without a love so long she has forgotten what it is to hold hands, so tonight she runs a finger round the outline of her own palm: thumbpad, lifeline, wris...
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This piece by @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social makes me want to go for a walk in the forest, in the rain. It’s been nearly two decades since I’ve done such a thing!
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
Thank you all so much for your lovely wishes yesterday. This is 49, and quietly happy on a Sunday making a banging playlist for a cool kid 🧡
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Thank you all so much for your lovely wishes yesterday. This is 49, and quietly happy on a Sunday making a banging playlist for a cool kid 🧡
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Happy Birthday Sumitra!💐💐💐 And thank you for brightening my own year with your glorious writing. Especially this.. flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/on-f...
'On Family Movie Nights We Watch The Video of My Father’s Colonoscopy' by Sumitra Singam
Ma shrugs, it’s how he was – intrusive, shaming . To me, the stippled mucosa telescoping into view is like veined marble, unknowable beauty....
flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Happy Birthday Sumitra!💐💐💐 And thank you for brightening my own year with your glorious writing. Especially this.. flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/on-f...
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It’s our dear Sumitra’s birthday and we love her so! 💜💜💜
It's my birthday today folks. To celebrate, here's a video of my choir performing last year. I hope you will all find some way to give yourself joy today. So much love for this amazing community 🧡
youtu.be/WCvBDH9K1zo?...
youtu.be/WCvBDH9K1zo?...
Kate Miller-Heidke + 500 singers: Little Roots, Little Shoots / Melbourne Indie Voices
YouTube video by Melbourne Indie Voices
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
It’s our dear Sumitra’s birthday and we love her so! 💜💜💜
It's my birthday today folks. To celebrate, here's a video of my choir performing last year. I hope you will all find some way to give yourself joy today. So much love for this amazing community 🧡
youtu.be/WCvBDH9K1zo?...
youtu.be/WCvBDH9K1zo?...
Kate Miller-Heidke + 500 singers: Little Roots, Little Shoots / Melbourne Indie Voices
YouTube video by Melbourne Indie Voices
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
It's my birthday today folks. To celebrate, here's a video of my choir performing last year. I hope you will all find some way to give yourself joy today. So much love for this amazing community 🧡
youtu.be/WCvBDH9K1zo?...
youtu.be/WCvBDH9K1zo?...
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It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
One of my favourite pieces by my favourite poet (and bae) @kathrynreese.bsky.social in my favourite litmag @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
As we head into the weekend, spend a few moments reading this quiet, musical little piece by @kathrynreese.bsky.social. And if you like it, say "coo-ee!" in the comments! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
One of my favourite pieces by my favourite poet (and bae) @kathrynreese.bsky.social in my favourite litmag @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
Read this heartwrenching piece by @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social about the way mothers are judged 💔 "My daughter, the sort of fighter who hides behind her hair. "
I have a CNF here in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social . Content note for parenting & mental health care (or lack thereof).
CNF "Case Review" by Kathryn Reese
“My ex beside me, blocking my view of my daughter. My daughter, the sort of fighter who hides behind her hair.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/case-rev...
“My ex beside me, blocking my view of my daughter. My daughter, the sort of fighter who hides behind her hair.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/case-rev...
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Read this heartwrenching piece by @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social about the way mothers are judged 💔 "My daughter, the sort of fighter who hides behind her hair. "
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Hilarious and fun little piece about getting a refund on your dating match by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social !!
Give it a read, and beware spitting out your wine as you crack up!!
thehooghlyreview.com/to-the-manuf...
#flashfiction #shortstories #sci-fi #datingapps
Give it a read, and beware spitting out your wine as you crack up!!
thehooghlyreview.com/to-the-manuf...
#flashfiction #shortstories #sci-fi #datingapps
To the Manufacturer of the Tinder-Arsehole Detector (TAD)™ – THE HOOGHLY REVIEW
thehooghlyreview.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Hilarious and fun little piece about getting a refund on your dating match by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social !!
Give it a read, and beware spitting out your wine as you crack up!!
thehooghlyreview.com/to-the-manuf...
#flashfiction #shortstories #sci-fi #datingapps
Give it a read, and beware spitting out your wine as you crack up!!
thehooghlyreview.com/to-the-manuf...
#flashfiction #shortstories #sci-fi #datingapps
I’ve chucked something joyful @templeinacity.bsky.social’s way! Hope you will too. They’re awesome!!
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 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I’ve chucked something joyful @templeinacity.bsky.social’s way! Hope you will too. They’re awesome!!
NIKKIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!! KAWANNNNNNNNN!!!!!! I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!!! 🧡🎉
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
NIKKIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!! KAWANNNNNNNNN!!!!!! I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!!! 🧡🎉
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“You have, through TAD™, deprived me of the irritation, disquiet and complaint that is the real spice of life.”
Ah, I needed this laugh today. Enjoy the humorous stylings of @pleomorphic2.bsky.social on @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
Ah, I needed this laugh today. Enjoy the humorous stylings of @pleomorphic2.bsky.social on @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
Folks, I missed that my humour piece written in a @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social workshop was published by @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social on the weekend! Please check out the plaint of this dissatisfied TAD (TM) dater!
thehooghlyreview.com/to-the-manuf...
thehooghlyreview.com/to-the-manuf...
To the Manufacturer of the Tinder-Arsehole Detector (TAD)™ – THE HOOGHLY REVIEW
thehooghlyreview.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
“You have, through TAD™, deprived me of the irritation, disquiet and complaint that is the real spice of life.”
Ah, I needed this laugh today. Enjoy the humorous stylings of @pleomorphic2.bsky.social on @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
Ah, I needed this laugh today. Enjoy the humorous stylings of @pleomorphic2.bsky.social on @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
Folks, I missed that my humour piece written in a @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social workshop was published by @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social on the weekend! Please check out the plaint of this dissatisfied TAD (TM) dater!
thehooghlyreview.com/to-the-manuf...
thehooghlyreview.com/to-the-manuf...
To the Manufacturer of the Tinder-Arsehole Detector (TAD)™ – THE HOOGHLY REVIEW
thehooghlyreview.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Folks, I missed that my humour piece written in a @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social workshop was published by @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social on the weekend! Please check out the plaint of this dissatisfied TAD (TM) dater!
thehooghlyreview.com/to-the-manuf...
thehooghlyreview.com/to-the-manuf...
Read this amazing heartbreaker by @sudhasubraman.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social - so tightly written you don’t know the turn has happened until you’re crying “for the way her saree crumples in the middle where the pleats line up…”
Gorgeous, Sudha 🧡💔
Gorgeous, Sudha 🧡💔
Thank you @centaurlit.bsky.social for offering this piece of my heart, a home.
centaurlit.com/i-want-to-re...
#publicationday #writingcommunity #flashfictionpeeps
centaurlit.com/i-want-to-re...
#publicationday #writingcommunity #flashfictionpeeps
I Want To Remember Ammai by Sudha Subramanian | Centaur
centaurlit.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Read this amazing heartbreaker by @sudhasubraman.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social - so tightly written you don’t know the turn has happened until you’re crying “for the way her saree crumples in the middle where the pleats line up…”
Gorgeous, Sudha 🧡💔
Gorgeous, Sudha 🧡💔
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““It is the ones who don’t tick you should watch out for.”
This line gave me chills. A stunning hybrid piece by my talented friend Sumitra.
This line gave me chills. A stunning hybrid piece by my talented friend Sumitra.
Friends, I have a piece that isn’t entirely fictional in this issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Thanks for reading 🙏🏾
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
October 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
““It is the ones who don’t tick you should watch out for.”
This line gave me chills. A stunning hybrid piece by my talented friend Sumitra.
This line gave me chills. A stunning hybrid piece by my talented friend Sumitra.
Reposted by Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam)
🔥🔥🔥
Friends, I have a piece that isn’t entirely fictional in this issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Thanks for reading 🙏🏾
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
October 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
🔥🔥🔥
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www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent... Such a powerful piece!! By @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
twenty-five — Tiny Molecules
www.tinymolecules.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent... Such a powerful piece!! By @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
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"Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands"
Wowza, this piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, a writer who always delivers fire! Lyrical, brilliant use of repetition, a piece with so many swirling elements:
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
Wowza, this piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, a writer who always delivers fire! Lyrical, brilliant use of repetition, a piece with so many swirling elements:
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands"
Wowza, this piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, a writer who always delivers fire! Lyrical, brilliant use of repetition, a piece with so many swirling elements:
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
Wowza, this piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, a writer who always delivers fire! Lyrical, brilliant use of repetition, a piece with so many swirling elements:
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
Reposted by Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam)
"this is how I understand the word safe"
So much unsaid but felt in this glorious piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
So much unsaid but felt in this glorious piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
Friends, I have a piece that isn’t entirely fictional in this issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Thanks for reading 🙏🏾
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
October 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"this is how I understand the word safe"
So much unsaid but felt in this glorious piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
So much unsaid but felt in this glorious piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
Reposted by Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam)
Two days left - today and tomorrow!! Get those last minute subs in !!!
October 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Two days left - today and tomorrow!! Get those last minute subs in !!!
Friends, I have a piece that isn’t entirely fictional in this issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Thanks for reading 🙏🏾
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Friends, I have a piece that isn’t entirely fictional in this issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Thanks for reading 🙏🏾
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
See you later X
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
See you later X
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It's the last day to submit for Issue 8! Get your subs in before midnight 🎃
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Submit to The Mersey Review — The Mersey Review
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October 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
It's the last day to submit for Issue 8! Get your subs in before midnight 🎃
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