Lindsey James
@lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social
Writer. Outdoor adventurer. Once-upon-a-time English teacher. Keeper of foster kittens.
Words in The Adroit Journal, Necessary Fiction, Vast Chasm, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Litmosphere, Penmen Review, Saturday Evening Post.
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Words in The Adroit Journal, Necessary Fiction, Vast Chasm, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Litmosphere, Penmen Review, Saturday Evening Post.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
From the archives: "The Man Who Didn’t Laugh at PG Wodehouse" by Paul Gray. The voice channels Wodehouse in an Orwellian setting. It's so fun and well rendered!
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge
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June 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
From the archives: "The Man Who Didn’t Laugh at PG Wodehouse" by Paul Gray. The voice channels Wodehouse in an Orwellian setting. It's so fun and well rendered!
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge
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@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge
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"They are scarfing down their mother’s love, bowls clinking."
Everything in this micro is so crisp and perfect.
Everything in this micro is so crisp and perfect.
SO HAPPY to be in Milk Candy today! Really really proud of this micro, please take a quick second to read:
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Milk Candy Review
We're here for your beautifully weird flash fiction.
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June 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"They are scarfing down their mother’s love, bowls clinking."
Everything in this micro is so crisp and perfect.
Everything in this micro is so crisp and perfect.
"But can’t I remember so clearly the trees, the night, the sting of a bone in my throat, the safety of embracing the body that carries me?"
Aninna Zh's "Fish Bone" in @theoffingmag.bsky.social
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Aninna Zh's "Fish Bone" in @theoffingmag.bsky.social
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Fish Bone - The Offing
Fiction - The Offing Magazine
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June 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"But can’t I remember so clearly the trees, the night, the sting of a bone in my throat, the safety of embracing the body that carries me?"
Aninna Zh's "Fish Bone" in @theoffingmag.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge
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Aninna Zh's "Fish Bone" in @theoffingmag.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge
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I love "Scenario: One of Those High School Parent/Teacher Conferences Where the Student is Strongly Encouraged to Attend" by Miranda Keskes because of how deftly it captures its subject.
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SEPTEMBER 2024
NOTHING ELSE TO LOVEBy Pamela Painter This room is supposed to assist me in living but it is a sorry sight. Lumpy bed. Lumpy chair. Potty chair. Bed. TV. Hate TV. Dresser with two drawers too hard …
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June 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I love "Scenario: One of Those High School Parent/Teacher Conferences Where the Student is Strongly Encouraged to Attend" by Miranda Keskes because of how deftly it captures its subject.
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge
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@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge
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And we're off! Start a 2-week deep dive TODAY into a favorite online flash journal older than 10 years and get your name in the hat to win $400! Please share at least 1 flash daily (up to 4) and tag SmokeLong so we see you! Get on it! www.smokelong.com/the-archive-...
The Archive Challenge — Win $400! - SmokeLong Quarterly
How often do you read the literary journals you submit your work to? Flash has been around for centuries but as “flash” only for around 23 years, when James Thomas’s wife suggested the term. Lots of o...
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June 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
And we're off! Start a 2-week deep dive TODAY into a favorite online flash journal older than 10 years and get your name in the hat to win $400! Please share at least 1 flash daily (up to 4) and tag SmokeLong so we see you! Get on it! www.smokelong.com/the-archive-...
Absolutely delighted to have a story in the new issue of @adroitjournal.bsky.social alongside so many other stellar pieces.
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Issue Fifty-Three: Lindsey James - The Adroit Journal
A native of the Pacific Northwest and a recovering English teacher, Lindsey James draws inspiration for her writing from the people and landscapes of eastern Washington State. You can read her publish...
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April 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Absolutely delighted to have a story in the new issue of @adroitjournal.bsky.social alongside so many other stellar pieces.
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Thrilled to be launching MicroMonday today and we're kicking off with a stellar lineup. Please enjoy stories by @aniking.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and Sheree Shatsky #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please follow the link and enjoy
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April 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Thrilled to be launching MicroMonday today and we're kicking off with a stellar lineup. Please enjoy stories by @aniking.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and Sheree Shatsky #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please follow the link and enjoy
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Excited to share the Spring 2025 of our online journal, Litmosphere, with beautiful artwork by @abelmont.bsky.social and fiction, poetry, CNF, and flash by so many talented writers. Check it out! litmosphere.charlottelit.org/issues/2025s...
March 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Excited to share the Spring 2025 of our online journal, Litmosphere, with beautiful artwork by @abelmont.bsky.social and fiction, poetry, CNF, and flash by so many talented writers. Check it out! litmosphere.charlottelit.org/issues/2025s...
About a year ago, I was driving home from the grocery store when I passed a homeless man, his shopping cart parked on the sidewalk, building a cairn out of drainage rock. That image planted the seed that grew into this story.
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Lindsey James – Litmosphere
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March 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
About a year ago, I was driving home from the grocery store when I passed a homeless man, his shopping cart parked on the sidewalk, building a cairn out of drainage rock. That image planted the seed that grew into this story.
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Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
![[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreig3dcwrzxtvuj2hkgj2mg3rgwactm77awp4ygvxjuje5q67yact7m@jpeg)
March 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
Thrilled to have a story among the brilliant pieces in this quarter's issue!
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JANUARY 2025
File a ReportBy H. A. Eugene One warm summer evening a boy had the bejeesus scared out of him by an object hovering in the night sky that was bigger than the mountain it loomed over, and emanated a…
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January 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thrilled to have a story among the brilliant pieces in this quarter's issue!
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New year, new issue coming later this month!
Always a great excuse to revisit the contributors from last issue, so get ready for a trip down memory lane this week
Always a great excuse to revisit the contributors from last issue, so get ready for a trip down memory lane this week
January 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
New year, new issue coming later this month!
Always a great excuse to revisit the contributors from last issue, so get ready for a trip down memory lane this week
Always a great excuse to revisit the contributors from last issue, so get ready for a trip down memory lane this week
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You've just won the lottery (see if you catch the reference) because you've got a chance to read this haunting read from @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social in @necessaryfiction.com
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By Act Three, the Gun Must Go Off – Necessary Fiction
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January 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
You've just won the lottery (see if you catch the reference) because you've got a chance to read this haunting read from @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social in @necessaryfiction.com
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Write because you are going to run out of everything else: time, money, fucks to give. But you will never run out of your own bullshit. You could live forever on this unlimited fuel of emotional damage and charm. Plus people think you're funny. You're such a good writer. Live más.
December 27, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Write because you are going to run out of everything else: time, money, fucks to give. But you will never run out of your own bullshit. You could live forever on this unlimited fuel of emotional damage and charm. Plus people think you're funny. You're such a good writer. Live más.
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If you’re looking for some great flash to read over your holiday break, these are the most popular Commuter pieces of 2024! electricliterature.com/the-commuters-most-popular-posts-of-2024
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December 27, 2024 at 4:00 PM
If you’re looking for some great flash to read over your holiday break, these are the most popular Commuter pieces of 2024! electricliterature.com/the-commuters-most-popular-posts-of-2024
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HI EVERYBODY!
Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce...
Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN!
⬇️ Nominate your favorite lit mags through this form:
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and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are
Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce...
Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN!
⬇️ Nominate your favorite lit mags through this form:
tally.so/r/mKPJ4A
and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are
December 6, 2024 at 4:33 PM
HI EVERYBODY!
Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce...
Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN!
⬇️ Nominate your favorite lit mags through this form:
tally.so/r/mKPJ4A
and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are
Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce...
Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN!
⬇️ Nominate your favorite lit mags through this form:
tally.so/r/mKPJ4A
and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are
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“Crow calls puncture the icy air. In the silences between—our snowshoes punching a trail behind us—we make small talk like we have practiced in class.”
— @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social, “To Make Tracks” in Issue 12
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— @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social, “To Make Tracks” in Issue 12
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To Make Tracks
Crow calls puncture the icy air. In the silences between—our snowshoes punching a trail behind us—we make small talk like we have practiced in class. In my pockets I tuck his facts, the siblings an…
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December 6, 2024 at 2:31 PM
“Crow calls puncture the icy air. In the silences between—our snowshoes punching a trail behind us—we make small talk like we have practiced in class.”
— @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social, “To Make Tracks” in Issue 12
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— @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social, “To Make Tracks” in Issue 12
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"When I ask her how her day was, she doesn’t answer. Or maybe my middle-aged ears have lost her frequency."
— @angelines.bsky.social, “Screentime” in Issue 11.
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— @angelines.bsky.social, “Screentime” in Issue 11.
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Screentime
Beside me on the sofa, my daughter is playing a video game. Only her eyes and fingers move. When I ask her how her day was, she doesn’t answer. Or maybe my middle-aged ears have lost her frequency.…
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November 26, 2024 at 2:47 PM
"When I ask her how her day was, she doesn’t answer. Or maybe my middle-aged ears have lost her frequency."
— @angelines.bsky.social, “Screentime” in Issue 11.
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— @angelines.bsky.social, “Screentime” in Issue 11.
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I adore the way this story plays with Chekhov's Law to create tension and then, through a dazzling tour of characters and motivations, still achieves a release that feels realistic and earned. Very curious now about that staff meeting :-)
This story was born of half a dozen classroom conversations from over the years and the lingering trauma of one very disturbing staff meeting last spring.
Huge gratitude to Necessary Fiction for giving this one a home.
Huge gratitude to Necessary Fiction for giving this one a home.
This week's story is "By Act Three, the Gun Must Go Off" by Lindsey James.
November 24, 2024 at 5:06 AM
I adore the way this story plays with Chekhov's Law to create tension and then, through a dazzling tour of characters and motivations, still achieves a release that feels realistic and earned. Very curious now about that staff meeting :-)
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okay, we're starting with this
Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!
Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)
Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up
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Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!
Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)
Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up
actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
November 21, 2024 at 5:50 AM
okay, we're starting with this
Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!
Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)
Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up
actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!
Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)
Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up
actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
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ICYMI: Our latest flash fiction offering, the wonderful "Almost Plea to My Ex-Therapist" by @rachellaverdiere.bsky.social. 🦩 📝
Almost Plea to My Ex-Therapist by Rachel Laverdiere
Things may have gotten too serious too quickly, but I gather up the long skirt of my dress and step out of Steve’s vintage yellow bug—a car I’ve dreamed of owning since I was little— one of Steve’s…
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November 19, 2024 at 4:11 PM
ICYMI: Our latest flash fiction offering, the wonderful "Almost Plea to My Ex-Therapist" by @rachellaverdiere.bsky.social. 🦩 📝
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We can build the #literaryfiction community beyond the starter packs.
Here’s how: First, hit the like button, reply with #literaryfiction, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button.
Then, follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts.
Here’s how:
Here’s how: First, hit the like button, reply with #literaryfiction, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button.
Then, follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts.
Here’s how:
November 20, 2024 at 3:31 PM
We can build the #literaryfiction community beyond the starter packs.
Here’s how: First, hit the like button, reply with #literaryfiction, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button.
Then, follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts.
Here’s how:
Here’s how: First, hit the like button, reply with #literaryfiction, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button.
Then, follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts.
Here’s how:
Art gives the gift of insight so we can better understand and contextualize the challenges of living in the world.
I just wish it wasn't quite so *necessary* in cases like this.
I just wish it wasn't quite so *necessary* in cases like this.
I would like reality to stop stealing plot points from OUR MISSING HEARTS, it was not intended as a how-to guide for authoritarians
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November 19, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Art gives the gift of insight so we can better understand and contextualize the challenges of living in the world.
I just wish it wasn't quite so *necessary* in cases like this.
I just wish it wasn't quite so *necessary* in cases like this.
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Because tedious tasks are my therapy right now: are you a short fiction writer (flash or short stories only, please) publishing in litmags or aspiring to? I'd like to make a starter pack of short story and flash people! Comment here and please share for visibility #writingcommunity
November 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Because tedious tasks are my therapy right now: are you a short fiction writer (flash or short stories only, please) publishing in litmags or aspiring to? I'd like to make a starter pack of short story and flash people! Comment here and please share for visibility #writingcommunity