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Trash Cat Lit
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Online magazine for flash and short fiction.
Chill Subs 2024 Community Favourites Flash Fiction #7
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Editor: JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social

Read Stories: https://trashcatlit.com/treasured-words/
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A new year and we've a new issue of fabulous feline flash for you.
So, go outside and come in again. Demand snacks. Scratch the carpet. Then get your paws on this link:
trashcatlit.com/feline-flash...
Devour, savour, ask for more.
Trash Cat let the cats in the bin and it's smashing 🦝
Feline Flash Pop-Up
For this Pop-Up, writers were asked to make cats the centre of a flash fiction. These twenty contributors really hit the brief with excellent feline POV, great voice and a joyful mixture of humour,…
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Are you looking ahead for submission opportunities? We have THREE this Spring 🦝

February - New Writers, Preloved Words
trashcatlit.com/spring-2026/
March - Microfiction for the Mini Bin
trashcatlit.com/microfiction...
April - Prompted Flash Challenge
trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop...

#submissions
January 3, 2026 at 1:43 PM
A new year and we've a new issue of fabulous feline flash for you.
So, go outside and come in again. Demand snacks. Scratch the carpet. Then get your paws on this link:
trashcatlit.com/feline-flash...
Devour, savour, ask for more.
Trash Cat let the cats in the bin and it's smashing 🦝
Feline Flash Pop-Up
For this Pop-Up, writers were asked to make cats the centre of a flash fiction. These twenty contributors really hit the brief with excellent feline POV, great voice and a joyful mixture of humour,…
trashcatlit.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Our charity anthology authors share the love!

"The Memory of Water stopped me dead in my tracks. Powerful and heartbreaking, but ultimately hopeful. It distils something revelatory about the debasement of the natural world and the nature of time."

Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Get your peepers on our newest peeps 🦝
The Trash Family Portrait Gallery has most of our Feline Flash contributors displayed in all their loveliness.
Portraits are assembled using their spirit animal and the things they covet/collect.

trashcatlit.com/trash-family...
December 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
In lieu of a newsletter, our Ed has done an end of year roundup and teased our Spring sub calls. Please give it a read.

trashcatlit.com/2025/12/31/t...

Happy New Year and thank you for sharing, reading, subbing and loving. We appreciate you 🦝💜

New issue launches 2nd Jan - it's all about cats.
The Last Bin of the Year
A Letter from the Editor It seems no time at all since I was announcing Trash Cat Lit was 1yr old – back in May – yet here we are, about to cross into a new year. This year has been ama…
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December 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our LAST tease!
Issue launches 2nd Jan. Get your paws on 20 cat flash then 🦝

@heatherbooknook.bsky.social shows us a future where the cats get all the tech
@jennyhart2001.bsky.social layers her relationship story with martial arts
@francesgapper.bsky.social gives us a glimpse of something uncanny
December 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Our charity anthology authors share the love!

"This story is a glittering shard of dark urban magic from the king of creepy-trippy-cool. Come scream into the void; you know you want to…"

Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

@sarahkat.bsky.social
@matgost.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Penultimate teases for the cat issue coming 2nd Jan 🦝

@lmbayley.bsky.social's MC feels unseen and craves her cat's freedom
Scott's MC has to do what it takes to secure a comfy future for his friend
In @mrallanmiller.bsky.social's off-kilter flash, bacon starts a strange invasion
December 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Teasing our cat-themed issue - coming 2nd Jan 🦝

@kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social gives us a love triangle with an intimate POV
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social's MC is at a low ebb when Dirk delivers another blow
In @bsherm36.bsky.social's spooky piece, a beloved cat must save her Dave
December 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Our charity anthology authors share the love!

"A Crossing gives us pilgrims almost meeting on the road – but centuries apart. Rich with authenticity and memory, deftly unspooled in under 1000 words. A gem."

Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

@leighloveday.bsky.social
@sarahkat.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We're back with some teases for our January '26 issue.
These titles with tell you the theme 🐈‍⬛

Unfolding with supernatural charm, Clara shows us the extraordinary life of one feline

In @drfionamoore.bsky.social's quiet sci-fi, we get a microbial battle and one very unique saviour
December 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our last pre-Christmas teases for the upcoming Cat Pop-Up Issue 🦝

In Anne's flash, it's all about finding the right match for a tough cat
J.R.s cat is on a mission to save his best friend, but it will take sacrifice
In Athena's flash, Sirius is something more than just a cat
December 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Happy Festives from the bin. May you eat too much and need a big nap 🦝
Thank you to everyone - Trash Family and Friends - who make our little bin what it is: joyful and storyful.
New issue coming 2nd January 💜
Stay Trashy 🗑️
December 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Our charity anthology authors share the love!

"In Thin Place, a reluctant traveller comes to a place where times and memories bleed into one another. Lyrical and evocative."

Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

@lucimcummings.bsky.social
@justine1902.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Coming 2nd January 🦝

Rebecca gives us the life of a rescue cat with authenticity and emotional resonance

@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social's MC channels all things cat to survive her mundane life

@lorifontanes.bsky.social brings us a cat determined to make his owner happy, even after death
December 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
First teases from our cat pop-up - coming out the box 2nd January for a checkover 😺

@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social cat's diabolical friend helps thwart an Intruder
Laura takes us to a cemetery and a visit from a folkloric beast
@shiramusicant.bsky.social MC struggles with troublesome characters
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Our charity anthology authors share the love!

"The Memory of Water is an elegy for a dying pond. Memories of fishing, damp leaves, otters and ducks. Now the farmer poisons the pond with slurry. Little is left but memories. But a small hope remains."

Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
We start teases for our upcoming cat issue tomorrow, but today, we rummaged in bins past and bring you @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social from our winter 2024 pop-up.

trashcatlit.com/atypical-mole/
December 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We're excited to share the amazing lineup for our cat-themed Pop-Up Issue. This 20-story issue will go live on January 2nd 🦝
It's a fabulous mix of feline flash and we can't wait to shove it through your digital catflaps💜
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December 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Our charity anthology authors share the love!

"What Come to Light is a brutally tender vignette on uncoupling and finding new meaning, told with lyrical panache."

Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

@youcanandyouwill.bsky.social
@quickasaflash.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We're sending notifications for our cat-themed pop-up. Thank you for your submissions and, as always, we're sorry to be turning some of you away from the bin 🦝
Huge thanks to @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social for his reading assist - his insight and feedback helped shape the issue to come 💜
a black and white cat is typing on a laptop
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December 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
We're proud to be small - 66 contributors since we launched. 54 of those wonderful folk voted for us in
@chillsubs.bsky.social Best Lit Mags 🦝
We missed out on a listing but we're so grateful for our incredible Trash Family, for they are mighty 💜
Congrats to all mags who were listed 🌟
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Submissions for our last call of 2025 are now closed.
Thank you to everyone who sent us their feline flash - we can't wait to start reading 😺
December 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We encourage you to read this cracking interview by Trash Fam member @quickasaflash.bsky.social. Her first return-to-writing pub was in our inaugural issue. Since she's blazed a trail through Bath, Oxford, Smokelong and many more.
If you're new, or returning, to fiction - this is a must-read.
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December 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
On the 13th of December, your Trash Cat gave to you...
a reduced price on our charity anthology until Christmas Eve 🦝
Grab one, gift one, read one for less of your penny-monies.
All proceeds to The Wildlife Trusts for the badgers and stuffs.
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
December 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM