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sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · Oct 9
Thank you @100wordstory.bsky.social for choosing my entry as winner for the photo story for the month of April 🥤 #100words #flashfiction #writingcommunity

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Photo Story: Milkshake - 100Words
The afternoon sun and Lloyd Lovell’s bull-eyed stare were hot on Mandy’s back as she waited for the bus.
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pleomorphic2.bsky.social
Apparently a few of you are, so without further ado, here is the cover of my forthcoming NiF Mother Karma. It’s a wee piece of my heart, and I hope you’ll all love this family as much as I do 🧡🧡🧡. Cover art @nmals.bsky.social Publisher @publishedbyjake.bsky.social Forthcoming in December
Cover of my Novella-in-Flash “Mother Karma” rich, dark yellow background with a line drawing of an Indian mother with black bindi and hair in a bun with flowers in it, holding a baby. Text “Mother Karma A Novella-in-Flash Sumitra Singam”
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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inkinthirds.bsky.social
Celebrating our 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 in 2026!

Subs 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 (Spring/Summer 2026 issue) If subbing seasonal work, keep this in mind.

We love unique, weird, thoughtful writing that stands the test of time!
We need art, too!

inkinthirds.org/submissions/
October 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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pleomorphic2.bsky.social
Thank you so much @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for this BOTN nom! This story went through many iterations, much like my own coming out story, and though it is fiction, it holds a special place in my heart 🌈. Congrats fellow nominees! read it here: haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam
Blue background, text "Hayden's Ferry Review. Fiction. "The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Hand" by Sumitra Singam, "Reputations" by Lauren Barbato" referring to their Best of the Net noms
October 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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stonecirclereview.bsky.social
NEW POEM #273: "After Camping With Jeff in the Dismal Swamp I Consider Companionship" by Dustin King

"But Jeff, I followed you as you followed a heron, flirting with her, / or him, olympian wings beating air as we slid between cyprus knuckles"

stonecirclereview.com/after-camping/

#Poem #Poetry
October 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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emilyrinkema.bsky.social
I have a story in the amazing new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social alongside so many of my flash heroes! gooseberry-pie.com/or-was-it-a-...
Or Was It a Baby? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Diane Picchiottino on Unsplash by Emily Rinkema It’s 5:00 a.m. and I ask my husband if he wants to hear my dream, but he pulls the quilt over his shoulders. I ask my other husband, but he jus...
gooseberry-pie.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
sandrinado.bsky.social
Thank you @100wordstory.bsky.social for choosing my entry as winner for the photo story for the month of April 🥤 #100words #flashfiction #writingcommunity

100wordstory.org/photo-story-...
Photo Story: Milkshake - 100Words
The afternoon sun and Lloyd Lovell’s bull-eyed stare were hot on Mandy’s back as she waited for the bus.
100wordstory.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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jennystalter.bsky.social
So excited to share my new story out today in @fictivedream.bsky.social !! Thanks to editor Laura Black for selecting this story, and thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for their workshop where this was born!🍂 🍁 🍂
fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · Oct 5
"So, this lady’s looking at me with more desperation than I’ve ever seen in someone’s eyes..." Divine Intervention by Jenny Stalter @jennystalter.bsky.social #flashfiction #shortstory #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/10/05/d...
October 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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inkinthirds.bsky.social
2026 will be a big year as we celebrate our 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲! We have some ideas percolating on how to celebrate our 10th anniversary, but we'd love to hear 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮! Leave us a comment or DM.

We are always looking for new art! Subs now open.
inkinthirds.org/submissions/
October 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
sandrinado.bsky.social
Wow 💥
- complex characters
- nuanced storytelling
- harrowing and tender
- delivered by an expert voice all the way

By Her Hand, Marion Taffe
#Writingcommunity
#Auslit
#Books
October 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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inkinthirds.bsky.social
Submissions 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 for our 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 2026 issue!

Why INK?

•No Fees
•All-inclusive
•Paying Market
•We respond to all subs
•Literary Prize Nominations
•Fast turnaround time
•Full-color Print Issues (& digital download)

inkinthirds.org/submissions/
October 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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fiveminutelit.bsky.social
"Kindness" by @emhall47.bsky.social, whose prose has appeared, or is forthcoming, in places such as Portland Review, Passages North, 100 Word Story, Necessary Fiction, and Cherry Tree.
September 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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fiveminutelit.bsky.social
"Sea Lake" by @sandrinado.bsky.social in case you missed it
September 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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pleomorphic2.bsky.social
This story racked up 19 rejections before @yourimpossiblevoice.com took it. This BOTN nomination means a lot to me. Thank you @keithjpowell.com 🙏🏾
Written in a @lumchanmfa.bsky.social workshop. Mahalo, my friend 🧡
Read it here: yourimpossiblevoice.com/when-i-final...
September 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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toddedillard.bsky.social Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 2
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
Present Tense by Todd Dillard My father’s telling me about his dog, how it fell into a well when they were walking down a wooded path. His dog ran across some rotted planks, the planks splintered, “And whoosh!” my father says. “No more dog.” I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M. “I’m not finished,” he says. He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket, how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down, and yelled for the dog to get in. “But all I pulled up was more barking.” “Dad,” I say. “This never happened.” He says he can’t remember how long he tried to get the dog to shimmy into the bucket. Just that at some point when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“ as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“ he decided to give up. “Dad,” I say. “It’s late. I’m tired. And you’re dead.” “Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!” My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt and pouring the dirt into the well. And I know what he’s getting at, I know he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket he filled the well and the dog jumped out. He’s going to say something about how the dog led him home through the dark. I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence. “Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?” I keep lowering the bucket but all I ever pull up are leaves. Red leaves. Lately, some gold.
September 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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lisobeltang.bsky.social
So excited for my piece to be featured in the latest issue of @trampset.bsky.social. Do check it out & the amazing work of fellow writers <3
trampset.bsky.social trampset @trampset.bsky.social · Aug 29
"Do not let them into your heart, she tells me, a single child hoping for a friend, a teenager dreaming of her first boyfriend. Their love is like poison."

@lisobeltang.bsky.social's "China Dog"

trampset.org/china-dog-68...
China Dog
by Lisobel Tang
trampset.org
August 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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fiveminutelit.bsky.social
We’re free, free, free, with overgrown feathered bangs, hand-me-down tees on matchstick frames, sucking down raspberry Slurpees on steaming sidewalks . . . —"Sweet Dreams" by @carlyanderson.bsky.social

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes/sweet-dreams
August 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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100wordstory.bsky.social
Long before language, when moonlight kissed the earth each green and lushy night, there were no words per se or even the mouths to say them.

And then there was the time by Francine Witte
For the full story visit 100wordstory.org
August 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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taracampbell.bsky.social
Thank you, @100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my tiny sugary-but-not-sweet tale
100wordstory.bsky.social 100 Word Story @100wordstory.bsky.social · Aug 14
Despite lick-smack-snap, despite sticky-tacky-sweet, despite red and white spirals on peppermint discs, despite green glinting gumdrops, despite chocolate-glazed fingers sucked just clean enough to grab one more sweet thing, she listened,

Despite by Tara Campbell
Full story at: 100wordstory.org
August 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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jmgatford.bsky.social
Delighted to have my story, Lucille Ascends, take 3rd place in the latest @flash500.bsky.social competition! flash500.com/flash-fictio...

It came from a writing exercise set by the wonderful @noranadj.bsky.social at the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social last year (where so many good things begin) ❤️
Flash Fiction 3rd Place: Lucille Ascends by Jo Gatford - Flash 500
Lucille ascends while the bathwater is still running. The bathwater is still running when Max gets home after a shift that leaves his skin aching. After a shift that leaves his skin aching, Max doesn’...
flash500.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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fiveminutelit.bsky.social
We sat on the balcony, my parents and I. —"Torn Apart" by @vaniadyawrites.bsky.social

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/torn-apart
August 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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mattkendrick.bsky.social
"We wanted to know: if real teeth were traded for real babies, what could we get for false teeth?"

Love this from @marijean.bsky.social - the sense of childhood naivety, and the deeper stories lying underneath
marijean.bsky.social Marijean Oldham @marijean.bsky.social · Aug 6
My story False Teeth is in the summer edition of @tinymolecules.bsky.social Thank you to @sdobbie.bsky.social for believing in this story about girls growing up with grief and misinformation. www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent... #flashfiction
twenty-four — Tiny Molecules
www.tinymolecules.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
sandrinado.bsky.social
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fiveminutelit.bsky.social Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · Aug 4
My family silently bumps along the road toward an African village we’ve never heard of. Neither had Dean. —"Zairian Road" by Andrea Montgomery

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/zairian-road
August 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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pleomorphic2.bsky.social
“Just as an empty shell recounts its swirling sea, there is memory here.” This amazing write by @sandrinado.bsky.social in @fiveminutelit.bsky.social
So poetic and evocative 🌊🧡🧡🧡
fiveminutelit.bsky.social Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · Aug 5
Out on the salt flats, I imagine being at the bottom of whatever sea was once here, megalodon and ribbons of sea grass above.

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/sea-lake
August 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM