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Travis Flatt
@travisflatt.bsky.social
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Writer.
Recent Words in HAD, Disappointed Housewife, Tiny Molecules, New Flash Fiction Review, others… see—>

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New story up at @dishsoapquart.bsky.social 🎉🥳🧴🚗🌕
dishsoapquart.bsky.social Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 7d
Incredible shortie up today about love and space and Cadillacs! Make sure you don't miss "Cadillacs on the Moon" from @travisflatt.bsky.social

Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/11-4-25
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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sandandgravelpress.bsky.social
Thanks for everyone who came to @travisflatt.bsky.social chapbook release! Great turnout, so many talented readers!
November 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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thewritelifeliz.bsky.social
Yay! @travisflatt.bsky.social has a chapbook coming out, and in celebration, he’s got a line-up of fantastic writers reading their work. It’s a free event on Sunday at 3 EST. It’s free to Zoom in, so come join the fun!

www.sandandgravelpress.com/readings
Travis Flatt Chapbook Release 11/2 — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS
www.sandandgravelpress.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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variantlit.bsky.social
Keep sending us your poems and prose! We'd love to see more weird stuff in the poetry queue. If you're not sure it makes sense, but couldn't imagine it any other way, our submissions are open!

variantlit.com/submit/
Screenshot of open categories for Variant submissions: flash prose or micro series, literary fiction, speculative fiction, or poetry.
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Reading Nov. 2 at 3pm ET, celebrating my first chapbook "Five Stories" w/: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social , @aniking.bsky.social , @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social , Katherine Plumhoff , @cbigs.bsky.social , @fionamckay.bsky.social , @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social www.sandandgravelpress.com/readings
Travis Flatt Chapbook Release 11/2 — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS
www.sandandgravelpress.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Come hang out and celebrate @travisflatt.bsky.social!
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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www.sandandgravelpress.com/interviews Interview with @travisflatt.bsky.social up! November 2nd release party over zoom (link on website) featuring @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @cbigs.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social and Lucas Flatt.
Interviews — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS
www.sandandgravelpress.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
travisflatt.bsky.social
Reading and launch party for Five Stories by Travis Flatt

We've got: Kleopatra Olympiou, Fiona McKay, Ani King, Katherine Plumhoff, Coleman Bigelow, Lucas Flatt, Mario Aliberto, and Liz Rosen
(NOV.2, at 3PM NYC time)
www.sandandgravelpress.com/readings
Travis Flatt Chapbook Release 11/2 — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS
www.sandandgravelpress.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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sandandgravelpress.bsky.social
It's incredible how much @travisflatt.bsky.social can pack into this 360 word story, creating a little miniature world of fully-fleshed characters and seasonally appropriate strangeness.
October 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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This is happening! Has already happened, actually. Check it out! 👀
October 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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New CNF up at Aesterion Lit.

www.aesterion.com/fall-2025-1
General 2 — aesterion
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September 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Very happy this bonkers little guy found a good home at @templeinacity.bsky.social ! 🗡️🐉👖
templeinacity.bsky.social Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · Sep 11
A joy from start to finish complete with cardboard swords, horrified teachers, excruciated adults, puppy love and other love and our favourite new exclamation, ‘Die, Pants!’ @travisflatt.bsky.social
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Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal, Travis Flatt, fiction
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September 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Haven’t been on here in a minute. Here’s a thing I wrote about werewolves. And epilepsy.
September 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge

Sizzling wordplay in @danbillyc.bsky.social "Hotline" from @gonelawn iss. 50

"Rotary phones (filched from the Radio Shack on the corner) jangle their urgent bells, so leisure time takes a break."

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Gone Lawn 50 : Dan Crawley
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July 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge

Adventurous, fun, bombastic micro from Myna Chang. "Empire" in @gonelawn.bsky.social

"The mice show me their feet. Look, they say. We have clever mice feet. We will build temples for you."

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Gone Lawn 40 : Myna Chang
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July 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Many folks have a favorite color. Some even wear that color every day. But what do you do when your child develops a strange affinity for the color blue? An almost disturbing affinity? Go read "Amy's Blue Period" by @travisflatt.bsky.social to find out! 👇
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Today, her class finger paints, but Amy refuses to touch white paper and tantrums so severely over the shortage of blue paint that I have to come pick her up.
July 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Thank you @travisflatt.bsky.social , Casey Jo Graham Welmers, @thaddevassie.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, @donmexlar.bsky.social for your work

Their tunes are up on the M7 playlist, give it a follow! open.spotify.com/playlist/3kU...
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June 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge

Is writing creating imaginary images in the reader’s mind? “What if All the Oceans” by @christopherallen.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social iss.34.
“Are rocks alive? I’m ashamed to say I had to look that last one up.”

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Gone Lawn 34 : Christopher Allen
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July 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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It’s gorgeous, y’all. Check it out. A new @aniking.bsky.social story in the @expositionreview.bsky.social Spring issue!

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This Is Milkweed - Exposition Review
by Ani King Flash Fiction   And this is Queen Anne’s lace. Daucus carota, I think. Your mom had a horse named Queen Anne when we were kids. And these are bull thistle. I used to confuse them with nett...
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June 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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I took a risk on this weird short, and I’m kinda in love with him. Thanks @thetemzreview.bsky.social !! 🛸🚀👽
thetemzreview.bsky.social thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · Jun 16
Read @travisflatt.bsky.social's amazing mournful-yet-unhinged story "'Good Job on the Test, Son,' a Boy Genius Adventure" in Issue 31!

Boy Genius catches shoplifters with his X-Ray specs...

www.thetemzreview.com/flatt.html
Headshot of Travis Flatt, outside in front of a brown field and fir trees behind him. Beyond the trees, a huge expanse of water is visible
June 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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thetemzreview.bsky.social
ISSUE 31 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

www.thetemzreview.com/issue-thirty...
A photo taken from the shallow edge of the Thames River in London, Ontario in early summer. The sun is bright, and both banks have many green plants and bushes. There are rocks in front of the viewer that lead into the water, and the water reflects the trees and the blue sky
June 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Belated thanks to the folks over at @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for helping me bring this little weirdo to the world.
paragraphplanet.bsky.social Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social · May 8
“Grandson” by Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet www.paragraphplanet.com #flashfiction #writingcommunity
May 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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See! I’ve been slacking. Here’s one to make you laugh (and possibly wince) by the fantastic @olangela.bsky.social
Over at the fantastic @mrbullbull.bsky.social
olangela.bsky.social Angela James @olangela.bsky.social · Apr 28
This one has everything— hooker boots! Crickets! Strap-op dildos! Thank you to @mrbullbull.bsky.social and to my @smokelong.bsky.social fitness buddies for earlier feedback!
May 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Funny and sad and wonderful new story by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social up today at @fracturedlit.bsky.social

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I Regret to Inform You I Made These Plans When I Gave a Shit and Things Have Changed - Fractured
Willow doesn’t even get the satisfaction of saying Brandon broke up with her. They were never a couple, not officially, their relationship undefined after six months of perfunctory orgasm-less sex (fo...
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May 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Damn. Give this a look.
hexliterary.bsky.social hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Apr 22
"I go, 'Please.'

And you say, 'No chance.'"

So stoked to feature Sam Berman on hex this week with an incredibly well crafted story, every line distilled into knife-sharp perfection. This one is so strange and compelling and just an absolute wonder at the sentence level. Don't miss it! 👇
War Paint by Sam Berman
I go, “Please.” And you say, “No chance.” So, “Please. Please. Please,” I plead. “No. No. No.” Twilit. Almost all dark, outside, on our lawn is the stack of pallets your brother hasn’t com...
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April 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM