Rachel Abbey McCafferty
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Ghosts of the Mundane by Rachel Abbey McCafferty
The office bathroom
Picture this: you’re in the bathroom, trying to rinse off your hands, but the automatic faucet won’t acknowledge your existence.
Can you imagine being stuck in a public bathr...
www.havehashad.com
“… when you were young, you were just always bumping up against all the ghosts of people you used to be, and the ghosts of people you wished you were, and what no one tells you is that life is about figuring out just how to live with all those different ghosts.” www.havehashad.com/hadposts/gho...
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We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.
a dog is standing on its hind legs in a room with the words cant wait written on the floor .
ALT: a dog is standing on its hind legs in a room with the words cant wait written on the floor .
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November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.
Liminal season.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Liminal season.
The difference a few days makes.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The difference a few days makes.
You know, if anyone wants to performatively read my chapbook, I could totally hook them up.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
You know, if anyone wants to performatively read my chapbook, I could totally hook them up.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
This is a lovely motto for the internet.
By the way: I am aware of Events, but I have nothing to say that hasn't been said by better-educated experts, and there's nothing about turning my focus to stuff I can control that's going to make the situation worse.
If it seems disrespectful to talk about anything else, I'll be quiet.
If it seems disrespectful to talk about anything else, I'll be quiet.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This is a lovely motto for the internet.
We were unfortunately not lucky.
Today’s millennial dispatch: being bolstered by the idea that the Rock Hall inductions could (maybe, possibly, if we’re lucky) lead to an OutKast and/or White Stripes reunion.
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We were unfortunately not lucky.
So basically everything about AI bothers me, but I think a not-insignificant component is that I grew up at a time when being a “poser” was the most embarrassing thing to be.
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
So basically everything about AI bothers me, but I think a not-insignificant component is that I grew up at a time when being a “poser” was the most embarrassing thing to be.
Oh cool, just tearing up on a random Friday. (Give this a read; it’s gorgeous.)
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Oh cool, just tearing up on a random Friday. (Give this a read; it’s gorgeous.)
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When I wrote REFUSE TO BE DONE, I figured where everyone would throw the book across the room or ask for their money back was when I suggested the total rewrite second draft—which I actually think might be the most important part of my process? It's been so great to see it work for so many people!
Also, I was truly horrified the first time I heard @mdbell79.bsky.social talk about doing the second draft as a total rewrite but I am sorry (?) to report it really really works and I actually enjoy it.
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
When I wrote REFUSE TO BE DONE, I figured where everyone would throw the book across the room or ask for their money back was when I suggested the total rewrite second draft—which I actually think might be the most important part of my process? It's been so great to see it work for so many people!
A cool thing about the second draft of my novel is figuring out the whys of what I did the first time around. As I work through the rewrite, I keep finding myself going “oh, that’s why that secondary character needs to exist” or “that’s why that character acts the way she does.”
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A cool thing about the second draft of my novel is figuring out the whys of what I did the first time around. As I work through the rewrite, I keep finding myself going “oh, that’s why that secondary character needs to exist” or “that’s why that character acts the way she does.”
The internet was both a gift and a mistake.
Fondly remembering the time I tweeted that poets shouldn’t get driver’s licenses because we’re always distracted by birds and the moon and half of Twitter yelled at me that people NEED driver’s licenses to get to their JOBS
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The internet was both a gift and a mistake.
My birthday month is such a great time to reflect on just how many companies have my email address.
November 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My birthday month is such a great time to reflect on just how many companies have my email address.
My favorite genre is scary/sad with a tiny thread of hope, so I really liked this one.
Happy Halloween! If you’re in the mood for some folk-horror sci-fi, check out my story “In Darkness” out today and free to read in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social. #FlashMonster 2025
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The Molotov Cocktail
In Darkness by Eoin Nordman When the Fusion Core failed, Isla taught us to make candles from animal tallow. By then she was old, and we watched her hands gently shake as she dipped the plant fiber …
themolotovcocktail.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
My favorite genre is scary/sad with a tiny thread of hope, so I really liked this one.
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This is Halloween. #FlashMonster themolotovcocktail.com/2025/10/31/f...
Flash Monster 2025
This is Halloween. I We Were Never Afraid of the Spider by Timothy Fox II In Darkness by Eoin Nordman III Toxoplasma Odocoileus by Colin Alexander IV Son of Seanfhocail by Joseph Gilbride V…
themolotovcocktail.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is Halloween. #FlashMonster themolotovcocktail.com/2025/10/31/f...
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Just read your story! I love the strangeness of the atmosphere, and underlying sense of dread at the conclusion.
Here’s one I’ll share, which I am proud of:
trashcatlit.com/last-rites-o...
Here’s one I’ll share, which I am proud of:
trashcatlit.com/last-rites-o...
Last Rites of Spring
Mark Peters Listen to Mark’s story – read by Nefeli Vidali Content Warning murder of parent and a parakeet On the morning of March 19th, dozens of children across the Eastern Seaboard s…
trashcatlit.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Just read your story! I love the strangeness of the atmosphere, and underlying sense of dread at the conclusion.
Here’s one I’ll share, which I am proud of:
trashcatlit.com/last-rites-o...
Here’s one I’ll share, which I am proud of:
trashcatlit.com/last-rites-o...
Celebrating Halloween by reading and writing and watching horror … but today! Today, I do all of that while wearing novelty spider earrings.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Celebrating Halloween by reading and writing and watching horror … but today! Today, I do all of that while wearing novelty spider earrings.
Happy Halloween! Sharing in case anyone else wants to celebrate with a piece of tiny horror.
I want to read (and share!) some horror flash as we get close to Halloween. Share some you’re proud of?
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Happy Halloween! Sharing in case anyone else wants to celebrate with a piece of tiny horror.
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Picking only one of my dark word babies is so hard! But I'll give you this bit of creepy dating flash:
A Taste of Online Dating
Online dating can be predatory, but who exactly is doing the hunting?
www.metastellar.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Picking only one of my dark word babies is so hard! But I'll give you this bit of creepy dating flash:
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not quite sure if this counts as horror but probably the closest of my stories: theaspbulletin.com/echo/
Echo | Anna Vangala Jones - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
Before she was a girl, she’d been an elephant. She wasn’t supposed to remember that, but somewhere in the reincarnation system, there’d been a glitch. Her
theaspbulletin.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
not quite sure if this counts as horror but probably the closest of my stories: theaspbulletin.com/echo/
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This dystopian piece of mine is feeling closer every minute. Published in the wonderful Ghost Parachute.
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Here Be Wolves — Ghost Parachute
Your father loves you, Mama told us every night. He loves all us girls. Including herself among us. That didn’t seem strange. Mama felt like a girl, like an older sister who sewed our clothes and milk...
ghostparachute.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This dystopian piece of mine is feeling closer every minute. Published in the wonderful Ghost Parachute.
ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...
ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...
Perfect little leaf.
October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Perfect little leaf.
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my story combining body horror and that special horror of mother/daughter issues that I’m super proud of published earlier this year! cold-signal.com/the-procedur...
The Procedure – Lauren Kardos
The Procedureby Lauren Kardos In Greek mythology, the Hydra didn’t always regenerate two heads for every one lobbed off. Earlier accounts cite a single, fearsome snake, others a beast with two whip…
cold-signal.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
my story combining body horror and that special horror of mother/daughter issues that I’m super proud of published earlier this year! cold-signal.com/the-procedur...