Glenn Orgias
@glennorgias.bsky.social
Writer. TEETH KICKER (HarperCollins in 2026), MAN IN A GREY SUIT (Penguin 2012), www.glennorgias.com
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Glenn Orgias
@glennorgias.bsky.social
· Sep 11
Got some news: my debut crime novel Teeth Kicker is being published by HarperCollins (Australia) 🎉
HarperCollins has described it as edgy and thrilling. Out in Sept 2026!
HarperCollins has described it as edgy and thrilling. Out in Sept 2026!
This real life disaster has been on my mind for years, storified here and nominated for a Pushcart?
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This real life disaster has been on my mind for years, storified here and nominated for a Pushcart?
Thrilled
It's our Pushcart Prize nominations! Please help us congratulate Claire Guo, Ulrik Andersen, @glennorgias.bsky.social @mollymemine.bsky.social Oladosu Michael Emerald, & kanda zinguri.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Thrilled
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 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
Could not more highly recommend this book from a brilliant writer.
Thanks @thebookstack.org for the great review of A SNAKE AND A FEATHERED BIRD by @angieellis.bsky.social!!
Pre-order your copy from your favourite indie bookstore!
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Pre-order your copy from your favourite indie bookstore!
More about the book here: thistledownpress.com/product/a-sn...
New book review: Angie Ellis's "A Snake and a Feathered Bird", coming out October 7th!
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October 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Could not more highly recommend this book from a brilliant writer.
Creepy in the best possible way!!!!
I have a little Spooky Season piece for everyone up in @flashfrog.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy. A big thanks to @ericscottryon.bsky.social for giving this a home.
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Night is a Mouth with No Shape by Joshua Jones Lofflin
There’s the fog, always, a mist that clings to the girl’s legs. She walks along this darkened highway—not a real highway, but a narrow stretch of pitted asphalt with hardly any shoulder. Cars sweep…
flash-frog.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Creepy in the best possible way!!!!
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"What if time itself is a kind of wound?" Joshua Jones Lofflin is our featured author this week. Read @jjlofflin.bsky.social's interview that accompanies his award-winning story. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Joshua Jones Lofflin - SmokeLong Quarterly
This story won the SmokeLong Summer Standalone Flash competition—congratulations! I know you (like me) are a SmokeLong Fitness groupie. What prompt did you write this story for (if any)? What feedback...
www.smokelong.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"What if time itself is a kind of wound?" Joshua Jones Lofflin is our featured author this week. Read @jjlofflin.bsky.social's interview that accompanies his award-winning story. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Always love Josh's stories, this one is great! Kinda creepy, vaguely naughty, altogether unsettling and clever.
I have a small piece up at trampset today about cutaneous horns. A big thanks to the editors for giving it a home.
"you don’t like to say what it resembles, but you can tell what your boyfriend is thinking, the way he simpers and leers."
@jjlofflin.bsky.social's "Portrait of Mary Davis the Horned Woman — oil on canvas 1668"
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@jjlofflin.bsky.social's "Portrait of Mary Davis the Horned Woman — oil on canvas 1668"
trampset.org/portrait-of-...
September 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Always love Josh's stories, this one is great! Kinda creepy, vaguely naughty, altogether unsettling and clever.
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this is gonna rip and what a title !!!
Got some news: my debut crime novel Teeth Kicker is being published by HarperCollins (Australia) 🎉
HarperCollins has described it as edgy and thrilling. Out in Sept 2026!
HarperCollins has described it as edgy and thrilling. Out in Sept 2026!
September 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
this is gonna rip and what a title !!!
Got some news: my debut crime novel Teeth Kicker is being published by HarperCollins (Australia) 🎉
HarperCollins has described it as edgy and thrilling. Out in Sept 2026!
HarperCollins has described it as edgy and thrilling. Out in Sept 2026!
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Got some news: my debut crime novel Teeth Kicker is being published by HarperCollins (Australia) 🎉
HarperCollins has described it as edgy and thrilling. Out in Sept 2026!
HarperCollins has described it as edgy and thrilling. Out in Sept 2026!
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Cannot recommend this story enough. Funny, dark, tender. @glennorgias.bsky.social is one of the absolute best doing it
we love this story by Glenn Orgias @glennorgias.bsky.social !! 'Mrs Beatrix' is about a man who decides to become a gimp in an amsterdam dungeon
such a funny story ! the most entertaining thing u'll read this week.
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such a funny story ! the most entertaining thing u'll read this week.
xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...
MRS BEATRIX by Glenn Orgias
The Gimp Box I lay in my apartment worrying about death and worrying that my constant worrying would eventually manifest in my sickness and death. So, when I saw a job ad looking for a “big guy” who w...
xraylitmag.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Cannot recommend this story enough. Funny, dark, tender. @glennorgias.bsky.social is one of the absolute best doing it
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“when I saw a job ad looking for a “big guy” who was willing to “become anonymous” and to live in a “dungeon”, I said: Bingo.”
Fantastic new work from @glennorgias.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social
xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...
Fantastic new work from @glennorgias.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social
xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...
MRS BEATRIX by Glenn Orgias
The Gimp Box I lay in my apartment worrying about death and worrying that my constant worrying would eventually manifest in my sickness and death. So, when I saw a job ad looking for a “big guy” who w...
xraylitmag.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“when I saw a job ad looking for a “big guy” who was willing to “become anonymous” and to live in a “dungeon”, I said: Bingo.”
Fantastic new work from @glennorgias.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social
xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...
Fantastic new work from @glennorgias.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social
xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...
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Yessssss, outstanding, Glenn!
Love X-R-A-Y, and they made the move to publish my gimp story!
we love this story by Glenn Orgias @glennorgias.bsky.social !! 'Mrs Beatrix' is about a man who decides to become a gimp in an amsterdam dungeon
such a funny story ! the most entertaining thing u'll read this week.
xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...
such a funny story ! the most entertaining thing u'll read this week.
xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...
August 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Yessssss, outstanding, Glenn!
Love X-R-A-Y, and they made the move to publish my gimp story!
we love this story by Glenn Orgias @glennorgias.bsky.social !! 'Mrs Beatrix' is about a man who decides to become a gimp in an amsterdam dungeon
such a funny story ! the most entertaining thing u'll read this week.
xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...
such a funny story ! the most entertaining thing u'll read this week.
xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...
MRS BEATRIX by Glenn Orgias
The Gimp Box I lay in my apartment worrying about death and worrying that my constant worrying would eventually manifest in my sickness and death. So, when I saw a job ad looking for a “big guy” who w...
xraylitmag.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Love X-R-A-Y, and they made the move to publish my gimp story!
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EVERYONE FREAK OUT! My latest story is out @okaydonkey.bsky.social And it’s good! And you should read it!
"There are trees all over the world. Gravity too. Wherever my body goes, there my thoughts go as well, even if there is still an ocean between them."
"Divine Creatures and Monsters Alike" by @mmkaufman.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"Divine Creatures and Monsters Alike" by @mmkaufman.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
Divine Creatures and Monsters Alike by M.M. Kaufman
It was a strange time for us all. My mother, always a confident woman, acted odd her whole pregnancy. Was nervous from noon to night. My father, a nonstop talker, was silent. And I had what t…
okaydonkeymag.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
EVERYONE FREAK OUT! My latest story is out @okaydonkey.bsky.social And it’s good! And you should read it!
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Few more hours until we close for submissions. Deadline’s midnight EST. Don’t be late.
a woman sits at a desk in front of two monitors and a telephone
ALT: a woman sits at a desk in front of two monitors and a telephone
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July 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Few more hours until we close for submissions. Deadline’s midnight EST. Don’t be late.
Stoked to have my story 'Irreconcilable Differences' on this list. Thank you @wigleaf.bsky.social and Lunch Ticket
June 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Stoked to have my story 'Irreconcilable Differences' on this list. Thank you @wigleaf.bsky.social and Lunch Ticket
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Hi Hi! Just gonna...leave this here. Bye! 💜https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit
June 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Hi Hi! Just gonna...leave this here. Bye! 💜https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit
Congratulations @aniking.bsky.social and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social !!! And everyone on the list.
Winner to be announced later this week. In the meantime, read/reread these awesome stories!!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
June 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Congratulations @aniking.bsky.social and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social !!! And everyone on the list.
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“Surely it were a well-appointed abode once but it’s now been restyled with a minimal, heroin-chic, post pawn-shop vibe in mind.” This masterpiece of pace and voice by @glennorgias.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social
My story, "Wild Gazelle" is at @smokelong.bsky.social today.
Thanks to The Smokey Award judges for selecting it as a finalist.
I hope you'll take a look at it...
www.smokelong.com/stories/wild...
Thanks to The Smokey Award judges for selecting it as a finalist.
I hope you'll take a look at it...
www.smokelong.com/stories/wild...
Wild Gazelle - SmokeLong Quarterly
The fat man could move. Given he were a fat shite you’d a not picked him for pace, but he had jets like. He leapt the back fence, a big timber job, like a pregnant gazelle. A fucken mystery of the wil...
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June 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
“Surely it were a well-appointed abode once but it’s now been restyled with a minimal, heroin-chic, post pawn-shop vibe in mind.” This masterpiece of pace and voice by @glennorgias.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social
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The younger’n meets me eye and it’s like he thinks I’m the one who’s gonna save him from Macca, and ain’t the innocent of a child a frightening an terrifying thing. ‘He ain’t so bad,’ I says. ‘Wile E. Coyote, he ain’t got no luck but he’s a fuckin tryer.’
Masterfully done. Awed.
Masterfully done. Awed.
My story, "Wild Gazelle" is at @smokelong.bsky.social today.
Thanks to The Smokey Award judges for selecting it as a finalist.
I hope you'll take a look at it...
www.smokelong.com/stories/wild...
Thanks to The Smokey Award judges for selecting it as a finalist.
I hope you'll take a look at it...
www.smokelong.com/stories/wild...
Wild Gazelle - SmokeLong Quarterly
The fat man could move. Given he were a fat shite you’d a not picked him for pace, but he had jets like. He leapt the back fence, a big timber job, like a pregnant gazelle. A fucken mystery of the wil...
www.smokelong.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The younger’n meets me eye and it’s like he thinks I’m the one who’s gonna save him from Macca, and ain’t the innocent of a child a frightening an terrifying thing. ‘He ain’t so bad,’ I says. ‘Wile E. Coyote, he ain’t got no luck but he’s a fuckin tryer.’
Masterfully done. Awed.
Masterfully done. Awed.
My story, "Wild Gazelle" is at @smokelong.bsky.social today.
Thanks to The Smokey Award judges for selecting it as a finalist.
I hope you'll take a look at it...
www.smokelong.com/stories/wild...
Thanks to The Smokey Award judges for selecting it as a finalist.
I hope you'll take a look at it...
www.smokelong.com/stories/wild...
Wild Gazelle - SmokeLong Quarterly
The fat man could move. Given he were a fat shite you’d a not picked him for pace, but he had jets like. He leapt the back fence, a big timber job, like a pregnant gazelle. A fucken mystery of the wil...
www.smokelong.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
My story, "Wild Gazelle" is at @smokelong.bsky.social today.
Thanks to The Smokey Award judges for selecting it as a finalist.
I hope you'll take a look at it...
www.smokelong.com/stories/wild...
Thanks to The Smokey Award judges for selecting it as a finalist.
I hope you'll take a look at it...
www.smokelong.com/stories/wild...
@smokelong.bsky.social asked us to record our stories for this issue, so I asked the wonderful @dilking2002.bsky.social to help, because what a voice...
My first audio narration is LIVE!!!! Thank you, @glennorgias.bsky.social, for the opportunity to read your captivating work!!
www.smokelong.com/stories/wild...
www.smokelong.com/stories/wild...
Wild Gazelle - SmokeLong Quarterly
The fat man could move. Given he were a fat shite you’d a not picked him for pace, but he had jets like. He leapt the back fence, a big timber job, like a pregnant gazelle. A fucken mystery of the wil...
www.smokelong.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
@smokelong.bsky.social asked us to record our stories for this issue, so I asked the wonderful @dilking2002.bsky.social to help, because what a voice...
Love this cover.
COVER REVEAL! Here’s the gorgeous cover for Issue 88, with all the names of The Smokey 2025 winners and finalists whose work will appear in it. Out next Monday. Art by Mia Broecke ⭐️
June 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Love this cover.