Jenny Stalter
@jennystalter.bsky.social
2024 Best Small Fictions | 2023 Smokelong Fellow. Nom: Pushcart, BotN, Best Microfiction, Best American Short Stories. I love your cat. Are you gonna eat your pickle?
Hey y'all, my weird little story "Still Life with Brass Section and Sea Creatures as Mixed Metaphors" is live @mrbullbull.bsky.social !! Please check it out. Huge thanks to the editors! 🎺 ❤️
"Your body is a dead and rusty brass section. French-horn shoulders and cornet forearms, tuba torso, your head a trumpet that cannot sing of how you’ve come to be this funky metal. When you speak, it’s all screeching off-pitch." @jennystalter.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Hey y'all, my weird little story "Still Life with Brass Section and Sea Creatures as Mixed Metaphors" is live @mrbullbull.bsky.social !! Please check it out. Huge thanks to the editors! 🎺 ❤️
Where I live. Often fraught with ill weather, be it political or the elements, but there is always beauty.
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Where I live. Often fraught with ill weather, be it political or the elements, but there is always beauty.
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There's still time to register for the BITTER OVER SWEET release party over Zoom with @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social TOMORROW NIGHT at 7pm EST!
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November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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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 5:16 PM
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Read "Crushed or, Lust" written by @jennystalter.bsky.social and illustrated by @kaystedmanfriedman.bsky.social.
"I call in to work with a case of limerence, it’s debilitating, you can look it up, and the boss tells me that isn’t a good excuse..."
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"I call in to work with a case of limerence, it’s debilitating, you can look it up, and the boss tells me that isn’t a good excuse..."
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Crushed or, Lust — Ghost Parachute
I call in to work with a case of limerence, it’s debilitating, you can look it up, and the boss tells me that isn’t a good excuse; he obviously didn’t look it up, so I tell him I’m murdering someone, ...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Read "Crushed or, Lust" written by @jennystalter.bsky.social and illustrated by @kaystedmanfriedman.bsky.social.
"I call in to work with a case of limerence, it’s debilitating, you can look it up, and the boss tells me that isn’t a good excuse..."
tinyurl.com/38knf7uj
"I call in to work with a case of limerence, it’s debilitating, you can look it up, and the boss tells me that isn’t a good excuse..."
tinyurl.com/38knf7uj
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FIVE MORE DAYS!!
Happy Halloween ❤️❤️❤️
Happy Halloween ❤️❤️❤️
October 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
FIVE MORE DAYS!!
Happy Halloween ❤️❤️❤️
Happy Halloween ❤️❤️❤️
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Friends, I have a piece that isn’t entirely fictional in this issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Thanks for reading 🙏🏾
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
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“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
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October 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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"One of the benefits of getting older is the perspective it brings. I have many things I want to express, hopefully in a way that touches or changes others in some way." Terrific interview b/w @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social & @swethaamit.bsky.social
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Interview with Patricia Q. Bidar about her forthcoming book, Pardon Me for Moonwalking
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October 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"One of the benefits of getting older is the perspective it brings. I have many things I want to express, hopefully in a way that touches or changes others in some way." Terrific interview b/w @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social & @swethaamit.bsky.social
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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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October 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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Delighted to be featuring The Almost today, Kelli. Thank you for sending it our way @kdiannerule.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity #readingcommunity
New flash fiction, "The Almost." Romance, no regrets, and early morning bus routes.
"Heather’s Rake. A romance, picked it up from the dime store. The title, a herald, strewn across the top in ribbons." The Almost by Kelli Dianne Rule @kdiannerule.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity #readingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/10/10/t...
October 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Delighted to be featuring The Almost today, Kelli. Thank you for sending it our way @kdiannerule.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity #readingcommunity
Read this nostalgic little gut punch of a CNF by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social !!
Chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social with my CNF “Friday Night Is”. Thanks to @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the beta (if we’d been at uni together you would totally have been Shell or Kez, babe)
Thanks @dehardy.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡
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Thanks @dehardy.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡
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October 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Read this nostalgic little gut punch of a CNF by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social !!
So excited to share my new story out today in @fictivedream.bsky.social !! Thanks to editor Laura Black for selecting this story, and thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for their workshop where this was born!🍂 🍁 🍂
"So, this lady’s looking at me with more desperation than I’ve ever seen in someone’s eyes..." Divine Intervention by Jenny Stalter @jennystalter.bsky.social #flashfiction #shortstory #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/10/05/d...
October 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
So excited to share my new story out today in @fictivedream.bsky.social !! Thanks to editor Laura Black for selecting this story, and thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for their workshop where this was born!🍂 🍁 🍂
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New flash by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in the brand-new Ghost Parachute!
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Making Love Is A New Subject — Ghost Parachute
I haven’t made love in ages, which isn’t true. But I often say, well, many things. I often say that the truth isn’t in the truth but in what feels like the truth. I haven’t made love in ages, so I fli...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
New flash by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in the brand-new Ghost Parachute!
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"You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth"
Love this beautiful micro @jennystalter.bsky.social Wonderful artwork from @amymarques.bsky.social as well:
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Love this beautiful micro @jennystalter.bsky.social Wonderful artwork from @amymarques.bsky.social as well:
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Lark Song — Ghost Parachute
I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth. I take flight under pink spring sunris...
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September 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth"
Love this beautiful micro @jennystalter.bsky.social Wonderful artwork from @amymarques.bsky.social as well:
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Love this beautiful micro @jennystalter.bsky.social Wonderful artwork from @amymarques.bsky.social as well:
ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
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“Wow,” says the shorter man. “Amazing, really,” he says, taking a deep breath. He points at the wall under the crib. “She starts by calculating the weight of the earth,” he says.
“She’s a baby,” says CT.
Absolutely brilliant story by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com
“She’s a baby,” says CT.
Absolutely brilliant story by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com
I’m so proud of this story and to have it in the amazing @okaydonkeymag.com! It’s about parental expectations and a baby with a Sharpie—I hope you like it!
"'She starts by calculating the weight of the earth,' he says.
'She’s a baby,' says CT."
"13.1 Septillion Pounds" by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
'She’s a baby,' says CT."
"13.1 Septillion Pounds" by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
September 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“Wow,” says the shorter man. “Amazing, really,” he says, taking a deep breath. He points at the wall under the crib. “She starts by calculating the weight of the earth,” he says.
“She’s a baby,” says CT.
Absolutely brilliant story by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com
“She’s a baby,” says CT.
Absolutely brilliant story by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com
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“and I don’t tell her I know why all I got for my birthday was pants from the church drive so small they pinched tight around the middle because her bottles and cigarettes cost us her whole paycheck.”
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“and I don’t tell her I know why all I got for my birthday was pants from the church drive so small they pinched tight around the middle because her bottles and cigarettes cost us her whole paycheck.”
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Superpower - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Bradley Allweil on Unsplash by Jenny Stalter Mom says love is the most powerful thing on earth, and that’s how she’ll quit drinking, which is called self-love, and that’s how she found me a n...
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September 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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“and I don’t tell her I know why all I got for my birthday was pants from the church drive so small they pinched tight around the middle because her bottles and cigarettes cost us her whole paycheck.”
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“and I don’t tell her I know why all I got for my birthday was pants from the church drive so small they pinched tight around the middle because her bottles and cigarettes cost us her whole paycheck.”
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Read new issue of Gooseberry Pie
Beth Konkoski Chad Foret @charhamrick.bsky.social Jane Yager @jennystalter.bsky.social
Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social
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Beth Konkoski Chad Foret @charhamrick.bsky.social Jane Yager @jennystalter.bsky.social
Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social
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Issue 35 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Jeff Harvey Stories Gooseberry Pie’s nominations for Best of the Net 2026: Check out Flash Fiction Institute a new flash fiction educational and community hub offering virtual classes, craft ...
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September 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Read this ridiculously cool and totally hilarious story by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social !!
Thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social and Benjamin Drevlow for publishing this karate story of mine today! Grateful!
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Karate Obligations | MrBullBull
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September 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Read this ridiculously cool and totally hilarious story by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social !!
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@nffr.bsky.social had a call on the theme “Ten”. I was a teen in the 90s. Only one thing came to mind. Thanks for reading 🙏🏾 newflashfiction.com/i-know-somed...
September 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Some new @kimmagowan.bsky.social in the new @literaryruby.bsky.social! Great issue, with @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social ,
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, @tcboudreau.bsky.social, @sudhab.bsky.social, and others, too. Congrats to the whole Ruby crew!
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@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, @tcboudreau.bsky.social, @sudhab.bsky.social, and others, too. Congrats to the whole Ruby crew!
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ISSUE SIX
September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…
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September 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Some new @kimmagowan.bsky.social in the new @literaryruby.bsky.social! Great issue, with @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social ,
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, @tcboudreau.bsky.social, @sudhab.bsky.social, and others, too. Congrats to the whole Ruby crew!
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@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, @tcboudreau.bsky.social, @sudhab.bsky.social, and others, too. Congrats to the whole Ruby crew!
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Read "Lark Song" written by @jennystalter.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth."
tinyurl.com/45maxd3c
"I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth."
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Lark Song — Ghost Parachute
I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth. I take flight under pink spring sunris...
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September 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Read "Lark Song" written by @jennystalter.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth."
tinyurl.com/45maxd3c
"I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth."
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So happy to receive an acceptance from @flaremagazine.bsky.social!! I love the space this magazine is creating for disabled and chronically ill people to tell their stories. I look forward to sharing their new issue with y'all on August 28th. 🔥❤️🙏
August 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
So happy to receive an acceptance from @flaremagazine.bsky.social!! I love the space this magazine is creating for disabled and chronically ill people to tell their stories. I look forward to sharing their new issue with y'all on August 28th. 🔥❤️🙏
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July 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.