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Roi Fainéant Press @rfpress.bsky.social · 19d
Good afternoon!

Welp. Looks like it's onward to 100.

Our 90th issue is live right now. Tell your favorite 90s baby.

www.roifaineantpress.com/blog

#WritingCommunity
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What’s that? A surprise “A Word?”! KSR and Chuck Hobbes, an award winning essayist and attorney, sit down and talk about writing and a those red pen wielding moms who shape who we are. Click here!

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November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Time to take the last spin around the floor at our 90s Dance Party rewind. We're closing it out with this touching story by Lucas Flatt. This is "It was plainly there. Love." and you can find it now right here. 👇
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Paul had reached, we hoped, the final leg of his dissertation on La-Z-Boy recliners.
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Never judge a book by its cover. Or in this case, a piece of writing by the age of its author. This beautiful work of microfiction is "Earth’s Response" by Celia Johnson, one of our youngest authors yet. It's live now in issue 90.

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I am sorry that I can’t explain to you my dear why the earth does its magical things.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The sense of smell is linked very closely to memory and emotion. Sometimes the connection is obvious. Other times, not so much. Check out "Peppermint" by J.S. O’Keefe. It's live now in our 90th edition!

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The first thing I notice the ammo room smells peppermint; normally a soothing scent but now I find it offensive.
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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This nonfiction piece by Julie Allyn Johnson makes me very happy to be out of the dating pool. It also makes me laugh, and you probably will too! This is "Spermy" and you can read it now in our 90s Dance Party!

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A huge portrait of himself hanging above the sofa, ornate brass candle sconces on either side. OMG. Who does that? The creep factor with this guy just ratcheted up more than a few notches.
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Let's add a poetry party to our 90s Dance Party! Here's a taste of a 5-pack of poems from KG Miles. This is from "Work Party," and you can read it and its 4 mates in issue 90, right now!

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Every other day or so, a delicious new flavour of cope
October 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Even though it's morning right now, this essay from @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social is actually all about the night. And diners. And personal "saints". But mostly the night. This is "Coffee and Cigarettes with St. John of the Cross and Jack Kerouac" and it's live now.
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For all the strangeness of these invitations, we three intersect—minds and souls, now embodied—at the night.
October 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I said it before & I'll say it again, our 90s Dance Party has some real hits when it comes to flash fiction. Take this piece that explores quiet grief through ritual and memory. This beauty is "Where the Light Paused" by Nehal & it's live now!

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She doesn't believe in ghosts. Only habits. Only warmth that lingers too long.
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Humans don't have the best relationship with technology. Especially with fictional machines, like the Terminator or the android in Alien. Meet another questionable bit of tech in "The Apology Machine" by @RyanWrites.bsky.social Look for it now in our latest issue!

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It didn’t speak out loud. The words appeared on a small strip of paper, like a receipt printing itself in reverse. The font was old, serifed, a little uneven. The first message said: Do you want to hear it or say it back?
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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What happens if you meet your own ghost and you really can't stand the guy? Find out in "My Ghost" by @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social‬, a work of fabulism featured in our 90th edition. It's live now, unlike the title character.

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“Any of you could have a near-death experience,” my ghost grimly whispers. “Or a séance gone wrong, or bad credit even. The end of the world is nigh, all it takes is one little curse, and you’ll only wish you had been kinder to those of us from the other side.”
October 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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This next bit of flash feels like sci-fi that takes place in a distant future. But let's face it, with AI and robotics all over the news, it could become a reality sooner than you'd think! Check out "Replicants" by @immcarvalho.bsky.social , live in our latest edition!

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They got to Carter a couple nights ago—when I woke up, I knew it wasn’t my fiancé lying beside me, even though it looked just like him.
October 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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So excited that my flash piece "Replicants" is included in this issue!
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Good afternoon!

Welp. Looks like it's onward to 100.

Our 90th issue is live right now. Tell your favorite 90s baby.

www.roifaineantpress.com/blog

#WritingCommunity
October 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Our 90th edition includes some amazing flash fiction, like this fantastic story of self-discovery. This is "The Girl Who Swallowed Coins" by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and it's live now!

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Let’s say the coin girl correlated the greater percentage of copper, nickel and steel in her insides to a greater strength of character.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Another Monday, another poetry party! Please enjoy this taste of "Tourist Spot" by Choiselle Joseph as we revisit every inch of issue 90. Keep your hands and feet inside the tour bus at all times. Thank you and enjoy!

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coconut ice cream melting down our fingers, we threw our heads back with laughter and fuck-you’s that meant Never change. A table from us a guy in a cliché Hawaiian shirt scorned
October 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Good afternoon!

Welp. Looks like it's onward to 100.

Our 90th issue is live right now. Tell your favorite 90s baby.

www.roifaineantpress.com/blog

#WritingCommunity
October 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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I know we said the previous bite was the last bite for issue 90. Welp, we were wrong! Here is one more taste of what's in store for you on Sunday. This is "It was plainly there. Love." by Lucas Flatt. Is it a love story? A detective story? You be the judge. 10/26
“Babe, help your mother,” Gracie said. She was a good one. Megan, Paul’s mother, looked to be in no particular need of help, but Gracie tried to push Paul always in the right direction. He needed it. Megan couldn’t do it anymore. She’d passed the torch. “Hold on,” Paul said, “I’m mansplaining simultaneous recline and rock.” He said things like that, but I guess we still loved him.
October 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Closing out the 90th edition dance party w/ a bit of “Coffee and Cigarettes with St. John of the Cross and Jack Kerouac” by Aarik Danielsen @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social A diner conversation with two of the author’s personal "saints”, St. John of the Cross and Jack Kerouac is out Sunday! Be there.
Set me down inside a diner scene—in a film, a novel, on TV—and I’m bound to settle into whatever story you’re telling.
October 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Anyone like a mystery? Though not necessarily in the strictest definition, this true story leaves you hanging in the most delightful way. “Spermy” by Julie Allyn Johnson is a ‘strong swimmer’. Read it in the 90th edition out 10/26.
He was a decent dancer and I guess I was too.
October 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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There are times when the emotion of a piece hits a tad harder. “Where the Light Paused” by Nehal is a flash piece about quiet ritual and grief and is one you won’t forget. This is a deep one, have your tissue handy! 10/26! Sunday!
It started a year ago. After the accident. After the quiet ambulance. After the unlit candle at the funeral.
October 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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What happens when you can’t deal with the day in day out of this horrible reality we all find ourselves in? One word; Fabulism. “My Ghost”by Hugh Behm-Steinberg @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social‬ is piece that lives up to its genre in the 90th edition of the press out on Sunday 10/26.
I’m waiting in line at the corner store when I see my ghost four people ahead of me, trying to buy a pack of cigarettes.
October 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Remember the old expression “Out of the mouths of babes” ? Case in point we have Celia Johnson’s micro fiction piece “Earth’s Response” in the 90th edition of the press. Don’t let the age of this writer fool you, her wisdom and skill is well beyond her years. Sunday 10/26.
A child steps into an orange grove.
October 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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We’ll show you ours if you show us yours, and bring our poetry party to a roiling boil with this tease of a 5-pack of poems from KG Miles! This work is wonderfully anguished and hard to ignore. Read “Her Soviet” in the 90th edition out 10/26. Sunday
Her Soviet composed of packets of meat offcuts imprudently piled.
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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What a coincidence! I heard Elton John singing “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word” this morning just in time for a bite of “The Apology Machine” by Ryan T. Pozzi @RyanWrites.bsky.social This future predicting flash awaits Sunday 10/26 in the 90th edition.
The first time I plugged it in, nothing happened. No hum. No light. Just the bite of ozone, like air after lightning.
October 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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With all the AI ridiculousness floating around out there, you can’t even believe your own eyes anymore. What is real, what is imagined, and is it the same thing? “Replicants” by Maria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social is a short trip down a long worm hole. Read it in our 90th out Sunday 10/26.
The government is replacing people with Replicants.
October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Our strongest memory trigger is said to be smell, like red sauce on a Sunday, or a loved one’s perfume. And some smells we’d just as soon forget. “Peppermint” by J.S. O'Keefe is a tale told through the olfactory lens. It’s in the 90th edition, Sunday 10/26.
I’ve been imagining myself snorting cocaine, cursing at a colonel or higher rank in front of others, cutting off my right index finger to become a tuco
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM