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Lit mag for flash fiction, poetry, art and letters. Throw it all at us. Reading is punk.
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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 24d
Ok FINE! The wait is over. Please welcome our not quite bouncing new issue into this squalling world. Filled with sharp corners, deep sighs and things that linger long after you’ve read them. Bonkers and beautiful. We named it Imprint. We hope you like it. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Imprint, Temple in a City issue 3
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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Thanks to the journals that shared my work this year: @alliumjournal.bsky.social @icefloepress.bsky.social @epistemiclit.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social @stanchion.bsky.social @tcwestminster.bsky.social

Here’s a fun one from early in the year:

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NOLA Love
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December 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Little 2025 publication thread, with thanks to @crowkeys.bsky.social and @templeinacity.bsky.social and @bendinggenres.bsky.social: (And send me your lists!)
December 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Just a thank you at the end of 2025. To @freeflashfiction.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social @thin-skin.bsky.social @underbellypress.bsky.social @paragraphplanet.bsky.social and all @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for being supportive with my work this year.
December 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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“I’d assumed he was referring to the aesthetic aspect of my skeletal structure, perhaps complimenting me on high cheekbones or a soft jawline, without directly saying so. But then one day he asked …”

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My Ex Ray’s X-Ray Vision | MrBullBull
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December 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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A lovely little joy for you to sink into from
Huina Zheng. About family, and magic even in the hard places. This is one you want to lean back and read. Shut the world out for a few minutes. Take a rest into someone else’s story.
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She also brought home bags of plastic petals, stamens, and leaves. She showed us how to glue petals around a stamen, how to wrap green tape around wire to make a stem, and how to attach the leaves in just the right spot. But we complained about the sharp smell of glue and how plastic flowers lacked the scent of real ones. "Use your imagination," my mother said. "We're conjuring blossoms." She told us we were magicians capable of creating beautiful, fragrant flower fairies, though she opened a window and set the fan facing outward for fresh air.
December 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Our Joy issue has grown again. Three new poems and stories since the solstice. Always open for subs and always there for you.
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A joyful painting, acrylic on canvas, bright yellow backdrop with pressed dahlias and flung paint in blue and green and more.
December 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Run out of things to talk about? All talked out and in need of recuperation? Struggling with holiday stuff and looking for thoughtful diversion? Not celebrating any holiday? Grieving? Anxious? Happy? Feeling grateful? No matter your situation, this is for you.
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A pressed frond on pavement.
December 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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lovely place to share your words, #writer skeeps 👇
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Our Joy issue has grown again. Three new poems and stories since the solstice. Always open for subs and always there for you.
templeinacity.com/category/joy...
A joyful painting, acrylic on canvas, bright yellow backdrop with pressed dahlias and flung paint in blue and green and more.
December 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
templeinacity.bsky.social
Run out of things to talk about? All talked out and in need of recuperation? Struggling with holiday stuff and looking for thoughtful diversion? Not celebrating any holiday? Grieving? Anxious? Happy? Feeling grateful? No matter your situation, this is for you.
templeinacity.com/category/imp...
A pressed frond on pavement.
December 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
templeinacity.bsky.social
Our Joy issue has grown again. Three new poems and stories since the solstice. Always open for subs and always there for you.
templeinacity.com/category/joy...
A joyful painting, acrylic on canvas, bright yellow backdrop with pressed dahlias and flung paint in blue and green and more.
December 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
templeinacity.bsky.social
A lovely little joy for you to sink into from
Huina Zheng. About family, and magic even in the hard places. This is one you want to lean back and read. Shut the world out for a few minutes. Take a rest into someone else’s story.
templeinacity.com/fiction-huin...
She also brought home bags of plastic petals, stamens, and leaves. She showed us how to glue petals around a stamen, how to wrap green tape around wire to make a stem, and how to attach the leaves in just the right spot. But we complained about the sharp smell of glue and how plastic flowers lacked the scent of real ones. "Use your imagination," my mother said. "We're conjuring blossoms." She told us we were magicians capable of creating beautiful, fragrant flower fairies, though she opened a window and set the fan facing outward for fresh air.
December 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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carolyngriffiths.bsky.social
I loved this. Thank you
December 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The 2025 DIAJ Award Winners:
The Bee by Emily Molinari
Tuulikki Bakes a Cake by September Woods Garland
Sweating Like a Mother by Alina Zollfrank
Buddy's Picasso by Komal Sharma
TOWER TOUR by Brian C. Billings
A Review of Larks by Han VanderHart by Eleanor Ball
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DIAJ Awards
Door is a Jar is a print and digital literary magazine of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama and artwork. Our publication focuses on writing that is accessible for all readers.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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If you haven’t looked in for while there’s new joy in this. Five new micros or poems since first published and still growing. templeinacity.com/category/joy...
Abstract painting with a yellow background, pressed dahlias and splashes of colour, one that looks kind of like a snail travelling outside its shell. Very happy. Daring snail. Whee.
December 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Want to be in the holiday spirit? This issue probably won’t do it. But it will make you fall deeply in love with the variety of human experience and for even a brief moment feel the wonder and pain of existence. So there’s that.
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Photo of a frond almost like a fossil imprint on pavement. In brown/sepia kind of tones but not from filters, just the actual process of transition.
December 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Tell your friends and family this issue is the ghost of Christmas future. If they don’t celebrate Christmas tell them this issue is a reprieve from the tinsel, not a single Christmassy thing in it just haunting, gorgeous brilliant writing. Very restorative.
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Image of bay ice and some rips in the ice shaped kind of like a seal or a bird for absolutely no reason except there’s ice with tears in it like a seal or a bird or something and hey, cool.
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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deniseb.bsky.social
Love this. And as a teacher on holiday, so true!
December 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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tracierenee.bsky.social
Thanks for keeping my cup half-full, @templeinacity.bsky.social !
December 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A warm sip of joy here from @tracierenee.bsky.social to enjoy on this solstice. The latest addition to our growing joy issue. templeinacity.com/poetry-traci...
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Poem february date by poet/writer Tracie Renee. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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We are open to FREE submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and critical book reviews or interviews.
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Submit to Broad Ripple Review. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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December 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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epistemiclit.bsky.social
Sugary, bookish joy!
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Did you think we had forgotten joy on this day of new moon on the solstice cusp? Of course we have not. Here is a micro ray of it from the deliriously brain of Lance Mazmanian templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
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Micro fiction Ginger Scotland by Word/visual author Lance Mazmanian. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Applaud @robm67.bsky.social’s first published story and welcome him to the sweet bliss of near constant rejection with bursts of sun-shiny love knowing he has other stories coming out in other places soon so Rob is going places. Yay, Rob!
December 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Excited to be published by @templeinacity.bsky.social !
Thanks for all your support lovely TiaC people!
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Flash fiction The Storm by author Rob Moore. Published in Temple in the City literary journal.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Look for more joy soon. We know this time of year is tough for many. We hope some slivers of happiness can lighten the load.
December 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Did you think we had forgotten joy on this day of new moon on the solstice cusp? Of course we have not. Here is a micro ray of it from the deliriously brain of Lance Mazmanian templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
Micro fiction Ginger Scotland by Word/visual author Lance Mazmanian. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM