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Victor Sandiego, odd time fictionator
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Author of creative fiction outside the designs of our times. https://dynamiccreed.com Founder/editor of Dog Throat Journal, #flash #fiction, @dogthroat.com / https://dogthroat.com

#stay #blessed #WritingCommunity

https://victordavid.com/books
Oh, we have a lovely piece from @bigjosh84.bsky.social - zowza..
@bigjosh84.bsky.social has a beautiful new piece up at DTJ today, a lovely melding of divine and grit, populated by angels and whiskey. Thank you Joshua!

"We drank to the lost, the half-believed, the saints whose miracles gnawed like maggots on the bones of the world."
Basking in the Glory of Self-Defeat by Joshua Walker
Outside Murphy’s on a night that refused to end... Basking in the Glory of Self-Defeat by Joshua Walker
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January 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Okay! Listing of the day. Thanks @duotrope.com !

And subs are open. Come on down with your flash and micro. Looking forward to reading your work!
January 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
They say Florida tides carry grief out to sea and splash your feet with a renewed confidence in the goodness of all things. They say the evening breeze pushes your soiled optimism through the water until all your pain is rinsed. It’s too close to the edge of the country for episodes, they say, but..
Welcome to #SundaySnips! A new once-a-week prompt game for writers hosted by myself and @hookandquillpress.com

This time of year it's out with the old and in with the new. Share a snip that features renewal.

#WritingCommunity #Writingprompt #Writesky #HQpress
January 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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I admit I am a social media stumblebum so if I already posted this one, please forgive and allow me to pull from the archives a piece for your enjoyment, then meet me after work for a whiskeybeer.

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Heart Attack by William Kitcher
The wife slams her coffee cup down and heads for the front door... Heart Attack by William Kitcher
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January 4, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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"It wasn't the rising that got to us. Tall and lanky, he walked with a lurch even before he died the first time."

New work by @tachment.bsky.social today. Check it out and enjoy. Thank you Julia!

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Two Micro Fictions by Julia Ross
It wasn't the rising that got to us.... Two Micro Fictions by Julia Ross
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December 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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"She couldn’t send it out the door this way, this mundane thing taken to an extraordinary event."

Lovely new work from Hayley Phillips, @hayleym29.bsky.social

Take a read/see here:

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Delivery by Hayley Phillips
The case had left little to the imagination... Delivery by Hayley Phillips
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December 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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"Words don’t always mean what they say, though: our paperboy, who rides his bike like a bull, says he’s a rebel but he’s not. He comes when he’s called, just like his dog."

- Cheryl Snell, today at DTJ. #flash #fiction #micro #cookies
Two Micro Fictions by Cheryl Snell
Mother a helicopter, sister asleep in the snow... Two Micro Fictions by Cheryl Snell
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December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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"Instead of sitting in my mother’s living room, 31, drunk, & jobless, I would be twenty-one, sober, & doing something responsible and worthwhile & American, like fighting in a war somewhere, & everything would look like a 1940s comic book." @mikemchone.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Read our new poem by Joshua Walker! Follow him over at @bigjosh84.bsky.social! We're really excited to have his work over in our yard!
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Today, Tuesday, fresh off the press:

"You know, like when you rob somebody and they refuse to rob you back." - Time Off by the wonderful Brad Rose @moomoocamus.bsky.social

#flash #fiction #micro #stay #blessed

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Time Off by Brad Rose
At least the dead are optimistic.. Time Off by Brad Rose
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November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Congratulations to @illepitaph.bsky.social, @geoliminal.bsky.social, Elisabeth Sheffield, Peter Grandbois, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, and @molarawood.bsky.social—this year's Pushcart nominees!
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Our latest issue finds us rushing through time and space courtesy of new work from @geoliminal.bsky.social Elisabeth Sheffield, @israelbonilla.bsky.social Roberto Ontiveros, @supernaturalfeat.com @juliaevem.bsky.social Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, @addisonzeller.bsky.social
Issue 33 | Fall 2025 | Your Impossible Voice
Our latest issue includes new work from Eric Williams, Elisabeth Sheffield, Israel Bonilla, Roberto Ontiveros, Dan Weaver, Julia Meinwald, Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, Addison Zelle...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Hey folks. New work from Eliza Souers Valle out today.

"And not for a moment do I consider how many Eves before me spit out the fruit’s tender flesh and skin at the taste of the truth"

#flash #micro #prose #poetry

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Anomiac by Eliza Souers Valle
A forbidden indulgence to my beloved, Anomiac by Eliza Souers Valle
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November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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All three of my dogs tell me subs are open and I agree. #fiction #flash #micro #prose #poetry and hybrid.
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Dog Throat is pleased to announce that we've nominated The Rapture Machine by Joshua Walker for Best Micro Fiction (under 400 words) 2026. Thank you Joshua for sharing this piece with us. @bigjosh84.bsky.social

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The Rapture Machine by Joshua Walker
They buried God in a vending machine behind the old roller rink... The Rapture Machine by Joshua Walker
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November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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According to the weather report and the Mayan calendar, subs are open.

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November 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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"The surgeon palmed the money before he sliced the tissue and scooped out the rot." - Luanne Castle

@luannecastle.bsky.social

It is live! Thank you Luanne!
Two Micro Fictions by Luanne Castle
Of Archibald and the surgeon... Two Micro Fictions by Luanne Castle
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November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thank you Keith at @yourimpossiblevoice.com - great to be part of the YIV vibrancy!
It's a convoy of the dead in today's Tuesday #flashfiction, courtesy of @victordavid.com!

Check it out! bit.ly/47oRV0U
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
When we were young, before #domestic gods sold us to the pacified habit of age, we romped with old fashioned deities who smoked unfiltered cigarettes and injected #vss365 three times a week, mostly for kicks, but also in the quest for enduring fame, or for some, an early passing.
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Here's 3 short pieces for everybody. Thank you Ben at @mrbullbull.bsky.social - I'm very pleased to be on the pages!
"Bodies stayed on the ground for hours that kissed days as one death followed another in the city of hard justice. All part of the deal that cops had made with themselves known by undercover names such as community service & that which must be done." @victordavid.com mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thank you Ben at @mrbullbull.bsky.social for publishing my three short pieces. It's great to be on the pages of Bull!

Confrontation
Sacrifice
Who Buy Tickets To The Resurrection

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Three Stories | MrBullBull
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November 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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It is November 1st in our time zone which means that subs are open for #fiction #micro #prose #poetry - fire your word missiles our way.

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Submission Guidelines
Provides submission guidelines for Dog Throat Journal
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November 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Thanks everybody for your submissions. Now publishing on a rolling basis, subs open 1-21 of each month (except July and December), end of month for production. We get back to you within 3 weeks. #flash #fiction #prose #poetry #micro

Keep fueling. And #stay #blessed

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Dog Throat Journal
Home page for Dog Throat Journal, Flash and micro fiction that howls at that damn trash truck
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October 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM