Liz Rosen
@thewritelifeliz.bsky.social
www.thewritelifeliz.com
Words in North American Review, Baltimore Review, Flash Frog, Pithead Chapel, New Flash Fiction Review, and more.
Words in North American Review, Baltimore Review, Flash Frog, Pithead Chapel, New Flash Fiction Review, and more.
What’s up, Bluesky asks? Just the appearance of one of my Maryland stories in a journal I really admire: @variantlit.bsky.social.
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Beacon
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February 12, 2026 at 1:24 PM
What’s up, Bluesky asks? Just the appearance of one of my Maryland stories in a journal I really admire: @variantlit.bsky.social.
variantlit.com/beacon/
variantlit.com/beacon/
Another wild ride provided by @travisflatt.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social !
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Day Five of the Battle of Publix, by Travis Flatt — The Bulb Region
Day Five of the Battle of Publix — Travis Flatt THE ONCE MIGHTY CAVALRY of Frozen...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Another wild ride provided by @travisflatt.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social !
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My Aunt Tica asked me to break into the church hall to steal a glass ornament from the lobby tree, so I texted my sister and told her to meet me at the Waffle House, that we had a felony to commit.
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social does my heart in again. In @wigleaf.bsky.social
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@emilyrinkema.bsky.social does my heart in again. In @wigleaf.bsky.social
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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
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February 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
My Aunt Tica asked me to break into the church hall to steal a glass ornament from the lobby tree, so I texted my sister and told her to meet me at the Waffle House, that we had a felony to commit.
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social does my heart in again. In @wigleaf.bsky.social
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@emilyrinkema.bsky.social does my heart in again. In @wigleaf.bsky.social
wigleaf.com
This story by @aniking.bsky.social in Virgo Venus Press nails the manic energy of girls driving themselves into a frenzy to stave off boredom.
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nancy is our favorite place to party — virgo venus press
Three floors up and two apartments over there are six girls chanting light as a feather stiff as a board, light as a feather stiff as a board , one of the girls yawns and says you mean flat as a boa...
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February 4, 2026 at 4:04 PM
This story by @aniking.bsky.social in Virgo Venus Press nails the manic energy of girls driving themselves into a frenzy to stave off boredom.
www.virgovenuspress.com/press/nancy-...
www.virgovenuspress.com/press/nancy-...
This piece by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social in @offbeatlit.bsky.social made me giggle.
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Case Notes for Snow White Ref 01812 ~ victim referral form by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is a Bristol-based writer of short fiction and creative nonfiction. Her debut flash fiction collection Cold Toast (Dahlia Books) was listed in “Best Small Press fictio…
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February 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
This piece by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social in @offbeatlit.bsky.social made me giggle.
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@kimmagowan.bsky.social great interview in Flash Fiction Institute today! I love the bouillon cube!
February 3, 2026 at 2:49 PM
@kimmagowan.bsky.social great interview in Flash Fiction Institute today! I love the bouillon cube!
What a thrill to be part of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social comeback issue, and with such colleagues! You can check out my story “I Muse about Six Feet Under as I Wait to Speak at Your Funeral” here:
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I Muse about Six Feet Under as I Wait to Speak at Your Funeral by Elizabeth Rosen
Rob LeBer CC I Muse about Six Feet Under as I Wait to Speak at Your Funeral It’s the blue Toyota Prius that gets me every time. You’d think it’d be the Sia song played over the...
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February 1, 2026 at 4:52 PM
What a thrill to be part of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social comeback issue, and with such colleagues! You can check out my story “I Muse about Six Feet Under as I Wait to Speak at Your Funeral” here:
heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/i-muse-...
heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/i-muse-...
This story by @craig7.bsky.social in @triquarterlymag.bsky.social handles such big things so quietly. It's beautifully done.
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www.triquarterly.org/issue-169/ri...
Right 10, Left 11, Right 12 — TriQuarterly
My first cellmate was a drifter from Lubbock who got eleven years for pushing a goat off an overpass. He was hitching somewhere east of Dallas—“headed to Atlanta or maybe Charleston, who could know”—a...
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February 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM
This story by @craig7.bsky.social in @triquarterlymag.bsky.social handles such big things so quietly. It's beautifully done.
www.triquarterly.org/issue-169/ri...
www.triquarterly.org/issue-169/ri...
Reposted by Liz Rosen
"Art creates empathy. Empathy creates kindness. Kindness creates strength. This is our purpose, and we will not stop. This is our mission, and we will not fail."
So say the inspiring editors of Sky Island Journal.
Read it (and my stories) at:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
So say the inspiring editors of Sky Island Journal.
Read it (and my stories) at:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
Issues — Sky Island Journal
www.skyislandjournal.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:55 PM
"Art creates empathy. Empathy creates kindness. Kindness creates strength. This is our purpose, and we will not stop. This is our mission, and we will not fail."
So say the inspiring editors of Sky Island Journal.
Read it (and my stories) at:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
So say the inspiring editors of Sky Island Journal.
Read it (and my stories) at:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
What a great little piece using objects to draw character! By @parlorspider.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
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She Left Suddenly | matchbook
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January 28, 2026 at 1:50 PM
What a great little piece using objects to draw character! By @parlorspider.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/knapp/she...
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/knapp/she...
"Art creates empathy. Empathy creates kindness. Kindness creates strength. This is our purpose, and we will not stop. This is our mission, and we will not fail."
So say the inspiring editors of Sky Island Journal.
Read it (and my stories) at:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
So say the inspiring editors of Sky Island Journal.
Read it (and my stories) at:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
Issues — Sky Island Journal
www.skyislandjournal.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:55 PM
"Art creates empathy. Empathy creates kindness. Kindness creates strength. This is our purpose, and we will not stop. This is our mission, and we will not fail."
So say the inspiring editors of Sky Island Journal.
Read it (and my stories) at:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
So say the inspiring editors of Sky Island Journal.
Read it (and my stories) at:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
Reposted by Liz Rosen
The SmokeLong Workshop Prize Long List just went live. It has been a mountain of great work. We received just over 400 entries from our workshop participants in 2025. Congratulations to all! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Workshop Prize — The Long List - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each year, SmokeLong hosts The SmokeLong Workshop Prize competition, a free-to-enter competition for anyone who’s participated in a SmokeLong workshop. To date, our workshop participants (past and cur...
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January 24, 2026 at 1:50 AM
The SmokeLong Workshop Prize Long List just went live. It has been a mountain of great work. We received just over 400 entries from our workshop participants in 2025. Congratulations to all! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
Holy moly! What an honor to win Raleigh Review’s flash fiction contest. And look at the cool cover.
@raleighreview.bsky.social
@raleighreview.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Holy moly! What an honor to win Raleigh Review’s flash fiction contest. And look at the cool cover.
@raleighreview.bsky.social
@raleighreview.bsky.social
The hypnotic pattern of this story is perfect.
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Nothing Ever Happens — Peatsmoke
Edith Patterson Stevie is in love with this town. She is in love with its heavy sense of memory and its slow polluted river full of cottonwood cotton. She is a little bit in love with Bria too.
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January 19, 2026 at 7:32 PM
The hypnotic pattern of this story is perfect.
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I just don't understand what has happened to my country, but watching what's going on in Minneapolis/St. Paul, it's clearly time to re-post this one:
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@peabody.bsky.social #gargoylemagazine
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@peabody.bsky.social #gargoylemagazine
Elizabeth Rosen
Elizabeth Rosen Back to Gargoyle Online Waiting to Take Possession Donna wants to show us her collection. She’s extremely proud of it. She has thrown herself into this new hobby wholeheartedly, spe…
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January 18, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I just don't understand what has happened to my country, but watching what's going on in Minneapolis/St. Paul, it's clearly time to re-post this one:
gargoylemagazine.com/elizabeth-ro...
@peabody.bsky.social #gargoylemagazine
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@peabody.bsky.social #gargoylemagazine
What better thing to take your mind off your head cold than flipping through great advice and observations by fantastic flash writers at the top of their games.
@karenschauber.bsky.social #flashfictionwritingtips
@karenschauber.bsky.social #flashfictionwritingtips
January 15, 2026 at 12:57 AM
What better thing to take your mind off your head cold than flipping through great advice and observations by fantastic flash writers at the top of their games.
@karenschauber.bsky.social #flashfictionwritingtips
@karenschauber.bsky.social #flashfictionwritingtips
All I can say is I'm damn impressed with how the guys at Sky Island Journal do business. Two of the kindest, most supportive editors I've worked with.
January 13, 2026 at 10:56 PM
All I can say is I'm damn impressed with how the guys at Sky Island Journal do business. Two of the kindest, most supportive editors I've worked with.
My long-titled, very short story that appeared in @emergejournal.bsky.social has been nominated! Read it here: emergeliteraryjournal.com/that-time-i-...
That Time I Was Almost Hypnotized by the School of Bait Fish Under the Dock as I Told You About the Abortion I Got When I Was Forty-Nine
by Elizabeth Rosen The only sounds as we sat on the dock, mother and daughter, our backs to the rising sun and bare legs dangling over the weathered boards of the pier, were the occasional splashes…
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January 6, 2026 at 6:24 PM
My long-titled, very short story that appeared in @emergejournal.bsky.social has been nominated! Read it here: emergeliteraryjournal.com/that-time-i-...
Reposted by Liz Rosen
This knock-out full of Knock Knock jokes by @christinaltudor.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social
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Dad Jokes | MrBullBull
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January 6, 2026 at 2:45 PM
This knock-out full of Knock Knock jokes by @christinaltudor.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social
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Whoa. This amazing story by @joybaglio.bsky.social in @onestorymag.bsky.social whose curation just seems unerring.
December 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Whoa. This amazing story by @joybaglio.bsky.social in @onestorymag.bsky.social whose curation just seems unerring.
Abso-effing-lutely! @marioaliberto3.bsky.social starting my week off right with a boost of girl-power in the new issue of @vestalreview.bsky.social.
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Last Play of the Game — Vestal Review
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December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Abso-effing-lutely! @marioaliberto3.bsky.social starting my week off right with a boost of girl-power in the new issue of @vestalreview.bsky.social.
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There's always one piece that strikes the holiday melancholy with perfect pitch for me. This year it's this piece by James Keith Smith in @mrbullbull.bsky.social.
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Beer and a Shot | MrBullBull
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December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
There's always one piece that strikes the holiday melancholy with perfect pitch for me. This year it's this piece by James Keith Smith in @mrbullbull.bsky.social.
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mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...