Emily Rinkema
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://emilyrinkema.wixsite.com/my-site
Everything about this story is exactly right. Wow, Matt!
Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read:
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Nothing certain ~ by Matt Kendrick
The day the sun forgets to rise, Mr White sits down for breakfast at precisely twelve minutes past seven. This is in the dining room. It is Tuesday. His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opene…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Everything about this story is exactly right. Wow, Matt!
Ahhh! (That’s supposed to be a happy scream) So excited for this nomination and congratulations to the amazing writers on this list! Let’s go team!
Nominations nominations nominations with a corrected typo because we are having a very mercury retrograde day just like cloudflare
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With apologies. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-...
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Ahhh! (That’s supposed to be a happy scream) So excited for this nomination and congratulations to the amazing writers on this list! Let’s go team!
What an incredible honor! Can’t wait for this story to come out in December. Thank you @vestalreview.bsky.social for believing in this one!
It's that time of year again—here are Vestal Review's 2025 Pushcart nominees, from our summer issue and our forthcoming one.
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
What an incredible honor! Can’t wait for this story to come out in December. Thank you @vestalreview.bsky.social for believing in this one!
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Read "Live from St. Joseph’s, Room 232" written by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"On the ninth day after the accident, John called his wife from his daughter Cece’s hospital room to tell her to come quick, there are llamas on the roof..."
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"On the ninth day after the accident, John called his wife from his daughter Cece’s hospital room to tell her to come quick, there are llamas on the roof..."
tinyurl.com/mryzzxkf
Live from St. Joseph’s, Room 232 — Ghost Parachute
On the ninth day after the accident, John called his wife from his daughter Cece’s hospital room to tell her to come quick, there are llamas on the roof outside the window. Kate, John’s wife, after he...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Read "Live from St. Joseph’s, Room 232" written by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"On the ninth day after the accident, John called his wife from his daughter Cece’s hospital room to tell her to come quick, there are llamas on the roof..."
tinyurl.com/mryzzxkf
"On the ninth day after the accident, John called his wife from his daughter Cece’s hospital room to tell her to come quick, there are llamas on the roof..."
tinyurl.com/mryzzxkf
Happy Friday from Chet!
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Happy Friday from Chet!
Gorgeous story!
Very proud that my story about deep cleaners is out in Gooseberry Pie today 😁 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/
Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories
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November 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Gorgeous story!
I just read “A New Kind of Dan” by @kylerseibel.bsky.social in Best Small Fictions 2024 (originally in @trampset.bsky.social), and loved it so much. The ending is perfect. Sorry I’m so late to this one, but if you haven’t read it… trampset.org/a-new-kind-o...
A New Kind of Dan
by Kyle Seibel
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November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I just read “A New Kind of Dan” by @kylerseibel.bsky.social in Best Small Fictions 2024 (originally in @trampset.bsky.social), and loved it so much. The ending is perfect. Sorry I’m so late to this one, but if you haven’t read it… trampset.org/a-new-kind-o...
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Subs open for flash, micro, poetry art and letters until November 15. All welcome.
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Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Subs open for flash, micro, poetry art and letters until November 15. All welcome.
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I love this story by @travisflatt.bsky.social so much!
New story up at @dishsoapquart.bsky.social 🎉🥳🧴🚗🌕
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
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/11-4-25
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I love this story by @travisflatt.bsky.social so much!
For those who don't know, I have a small business called (ho-dee-ay). We make a "game" without rules for people living with dementia and those who love and care for them. If you have a loved one with dementia, check it out (coupon code DementiaLove for discount!). hodeeay.com ❤️
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
For those who don't know, I have a small business called (ho-dee-ay). We make a "game" without rules for people living with dementia and those who love and care for them. If you have a loved one with dementia, check it out (coupon code DementiaLove for discount!). hodeeay.com ❤️
SmokeLong has given this community so much! And now, holiday money? I promise to buy flash collections for everyone!
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
SmokeLong has given this community so much! And now, holiday money? I promise to buy flash collections for everyone!
"...[T]he ghost voices sharpen, become distinct, the voices of fathers departed, the voices of mothers’ broken boyfriends." I love this story by @tomwellerstories.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/10/27/w...
Wrestling by Tom Weller
They all hear the crowd, a whooshing roar, a sound like a train entering a tunnel. But there is no crowd, just a weed-choked backyard, a chain-link fence chattering when the wind blows, the whooshi…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
"...[T]he ghost voices sharpen, become distinct, the voices of fathers departed, the voices of mothers’ broken boyfriends." I love this story by @tomwellerstories.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/10/27/w...
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Okay so every year we fight about how countdowns work, so this time we're just doing a choose-your-own-countdown countdown where you do the math, because we can't. The comp ends the Saturday after this one. You're more likely to know how many days that is than us.
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Okay so every year we fight about how countdowns work, so this time we're just doing a choose-your-own-countdown countdown where you do the math, because we can't. The comp ends the Saturday after this one. You're more likely to know how many days that is than us.
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
Looking for a story about llamas today? Thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social for giving this herd a home. ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...
Live from St. Joseph’s, Room 232 — Ghost Parachute
On the ninth day after the accident, John called his wife from his daughter Cece’s hospital room to tell her to come quick, there are llamas on the roof outside the window. Kate, John’s wife, after he...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Looking for a story about llamas today? Thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social for giving this herd a home. ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...
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‘…and she says no, it’s not a goddamn metaphor, and grabs my Camp TakaWaka tank top from my hands and folds it as if she works at GAP…’
That final image - oof! @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @bathflashaward.bsky.social 🐻
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That final image - oof! @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @bathflashaward.bsky.social 🐻
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2nd Prize, October 2025 Award: Emily Rinkema
Vagina First by Emily Rinkema Two weeks after my twentieth birthday my mother begs me not to move to Montana by myself because she says I will be eaten by a grizzly bear, vagina first, and I laugh …
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November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
‘…and she says no, it’s not a goddamn metaphor, and grabs my Camp TakaWaka tank top from my hands and folds it as if she works at GAP…’
That final image - oof! @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @bathflashaward.bsky.social 🐻
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That final image - oof! @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @bathflashaward.bsky.social 🐻
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Great #fiction from our Oct. authors so our thanks to Lindsay Hill @jennystalter.bsky.social Helen Harradine @kdiannerule.bsky.social @katehollingswrites.bsky.social @drhannahstevens.bsky.social @karenschauber.bsky.social Brian Kirk and @bsherm36.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Great #fiction from our Oct. authors so our thanks to Lindsay Hill @jennystalter.bsky.social Helen Harradine @kdiannerule.bsky.social @katehollingswrites.bsky.social @drhannahstevens.bsky.social @karenschauber.bsky.social Brian Kirk and @bsherm36.bsky.social
What a thrill to be in this issue. Check out my llama story if you have a minute!
Read "Live from St. Joseph’s, Room 232" written by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"On the ninth day after the accident, John called his wife from his daughter Cece’s hospital room to tell her to come quick, there are llamas on the roof..."
tinyurl.com/mryzzxkf
"On the ninth day after the accident, John called his wife from his daughter Cece’s hospital room to tell her to come quick, there are llamas on the roof..."
tinyurl.com/mryzzxkf
Live from St. Joseph’s, Room 232 — Ghost Parachute
On the ninth day after the accident, John called his wife from his daughter Cece’s hospital room to tell her to come quick, there are llamas on the roof outside the window. Kate, John’s wife, after he...
tinyurl.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
What a thrill to be in this issue. Check out my llama story if you have a minute!
Thanks, Claudia! 🩷🩷🩷
"she tells me that it’s a dangerous world out there, says things happen that we can’t plan for, says, for example, grizzly bears can smell menstrual blood from 20 miles away" Stunning @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
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2nd Prize, October 2025 Award: Emily Rinkema
Vagina First by Emily Rinkema Two weeks after my twentieth birthday my mother begs me not to move to Montana by myself because she says I will be eaten by a grizzly bear, vagina first, and I laugh …
www.bathflashfictionaward.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Thanks, Claudia! 🩷🩷🩷
This CNF in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social is incredible. The structure is so perfect for the content--the way @mooninabucket.bsky.social won't let us get too deep in any of the moments before pulling back, how she gives just the right amount of details and then stops...the restraint here is perfect.
Up with the sun this Saturday, and so is the new issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social, including a CNF piece that flowed unbidden into my notes app on a long night at the hospital, but felt so painful to revisit that it took years—YEARS—to revise to its final form. Link in comments ⬇️ 🩵 🙏
November 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This CNF in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social is incredible. The structure is so perfect for the content--the way @mooninabucket.bsky.social won't let us get too deep in any of the moments before pulling back, how she gives just the right amount of details and then stops...the restraint here is perfect.
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she tells me even bear spray and bells, both of which she ordered for me and has already packed in the bottom of my bag, won’t scare them off once they smell me, tromping through the mountains like a bloody dumpling
Oh I love this so much! Congrats, Emily!!
Oh I love this so much! Congrats, Emily!!
What an honor! Check out my story, “Vagina First”
Congratulations Emily Rinkema! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/2nd-...
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
she tells me even bear spray and bells, both of which she ordered for me and has already packed in the bottom of my bag, won’t scare them off once they smell me, tromping through the mountains like a bloody dumpling
Oh I love this so much! Congrats, Emily!!
Oh I love this so much! Congrats, Emily!!
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"says things happen that we can’t plan for, says, for example, grizzly bears can smell menstrual blood from 20 miles away"
This from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social is such a brilliant example of a breathless sentence, the whole thing building and building with so much skill
This from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social is such a brilliant example of a breathless sentence, the whole thing building and building with so much skill
Congratulations Emily Rinkema! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/2nd-...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"says things happen that we can’t plan for, says, for example, grizzly bears can smell menstrual blood from 20 miles away"
This from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social is such a brilliant example of a breathless sentence, the whole thing building and building with so much skill
This from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social is such a brilliant example of a breathless sentence, the whole thing building and building with so much skill
What an honor! Check out my story, “Vagina First”
Congratulations Emily Rinkema! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/2nd-...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What an honor! Check out my story, “Vagina First”
Gone Lawn was one of the first journals that made me want to be a part of this flash community. I remember reading every story in an issue a few years ago and thinking “This is what I want to do!” (And then quietly dreaming of someday being published there…) Let’s help them keep going!
Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
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Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
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Gone Lawn : About
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October 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Gone Lawn was one of the first journals that made me want to be a part of this flash community. I remember reading every story in an issue a few years ago and thinking “This is what I want to do!” (And then quietly dreaming of someday being published there…) Let’s help them keep going!
Hi all—putting this back out this morning—trying to decide whether to go to AWP. Advice? #writing #flashfiction
What’s everyone’s advice about AWP? Is it worth going? Fun? Inspirational?
October 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Hi all—putting this back out this morning—trying to decide whether to go to AWP. Advice? #writing #flashfiction
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What’s everyone’s advice about AWP? Is it worth going? Fun? Inspirational?
October 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
What’s everyone’s advice about AWP? Is it worth going? Fun? Inspirational?