Michelle Furnace Brosius
@michellefb.bsky.social
Cat lover, reader of books (life is not long enough to read them all), hiker of the hills, writer, wine enthusiast, recovering actor, travel-holic, and occasional speaker of French. Living in beautiful Oregon. Also on https://letterboxd.com/watchtalkies/
I've come to realize that if I spend all my time worrying about how someone feels about me or is mad at me, I'm just wasting energy. Here's some truth: Hardly ANYONE is thinking about you. Ever. But this graphic was me for much of my 20s, that's for sure...
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I've come to realize that if I spend all my time worrying about how someone feels about me or is mad at me, I'm just wasting energy. Here's some truth: Hardly ANYONE is thinking about you. Ever. But this graphic was me for much of my 20s, that's for sure...
December 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's been a long time, sadly, since I've read a page turner and I have TWO to recommend:
1. The God of the Woods - Liz Moore (halfway through). Thriller, mystery, character study.
2. Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes. GRIPPING Vietnam War drama, fiction.
📚💙 #booksky
1. The God of the Woods - Liz Moore (halfway through). Thriller, mystery, character study.
2. Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes. GRIPPING Vietnam War drama, fiction.
📚💙 #booksky
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It's been a long time, sadly, since I've read a page turner and I have TWO to recommend:
1. The God of the Woods - Liz Moore (halfway through). Thriller, mystery, character study.
2. Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes. GRIPPING Vietnam War drama, fiction.
📚💙 #booksky
1. The God of the Woods - Liz Moore (halfway through). Thriller, mystery, character study.
2. Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes. GRIPPING Vietnam War drama, fiction.
📚💙 #booksky
This. Mark Hamill was my childhood crush/hero, Carrie Fisher was my space mom & writer I wished to be. Together, well, sparks fly in the universe from two incredible and amazing people. (PS - I actually met Mark Hamill, very briefly, when I was a coffee caterer. I almost passed out).
This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This. Mark Hamill was my childhood crush/hero, Carrie Fisher was my space mom & writer I wished to be. Together, well, sparks fly in the universe from two incredible and amazing people. (PS - I actually met Mark Hamill, very briefly, when I was a coffee caterer. I almost passed out).
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Truth!!!
October 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Truth!!!
Reposted by Michelle Furnace Brosius
It’s #bannedbooksweek. Let’s stand with booksellers and librarians. #bannedbooks @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It’s #bannedbooksweek. Let’s stand with booksellers and librarians. #bannedbooks @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
I just saw the trailer for the Bruce Springsteen biopic. Curious, anyone have strong (or not) objections to biopics when the subject is still alive? I feel like we might get a more creative story when someone isn't around and time has passed... Should this be a documentary instead? #filmsky #film
September 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Woohoo! Very proud. I passed my Level 2 WSET Wine Studies course with distinction. #wine #education Getting to enjoy the spoils of my beautiful Oregon Willamette Valley Pinot Noir bounty.
September 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Woohoo! Very proud. I passed my Level 2 WSET Wine Studies course with distinction. #wine #education Getting to enjoy the spoils of my beautiful Oregon Willamette Valley Pinot Noir bounty.
Highlighting this fabulous visual history of the film La Bamba. It's gorgeous and insightful (really, the movie stands the test of time). Shout out to my friend Katherine Moore for her great editorial and creative production insights. #film #labamba #photography
August 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Highlighting this fabulous visual history of the film La Bamba. It's gorgeous and insightful (really, the movie stands the test of time). Shout out to my friend Katherine Moore for her great editorial and creative production insights. #film #labamba #photography
Reposted by Michelle Furnace Brosius
Couple more days for @flashfrog.bsky.social’s ghost call! bsky.app/profile/flas...
It's that time of year again! Send us your ghost stories for Flash Frogtober! flash-frog.com/submit/
July 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Couple more days for @flashfrog.bsky.social’s ghost call! bsky.app/profile/flas...
Speaking of gorgeous book covers, I came across this beautiful one at the Sherwood Bookstore. The colors and the simplicity of the design are so intriguing and soothing. I love books that spark my reading interest, but also invite me to hold them because they are a pretty thing. #books
July 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Speaking of gorgeous book covers, I came across this beautiful one at the Sherwood Bookstore. The colors and the simplicity of the design are so intriguing and soothing. I love books that spark my reading interest, but also invite me to hold them because they are a pretty thing. #books
Thank you to @nffr.bsky.social for your fantastic canon of flash stories! During the #archivechallenge, I'm thrilled to have discovered new flash writers that I've become big fans of. Keep up the GREAT work! #flashfiction
July 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Thank you to @nffr.bsky.social for your fantastic canon of flash stories! During the #archivechallenge, I'm thrilled to have discovered new flash writers that I've become big fans of. Keep up the GREAT work! #flashfiction
Reposted by Michelle Furnace Brosius
@smokelong.bsky.social - Since we've been talking about titles! #archivechallenge
This title drew me in, and the story has a surprising emotional arc. I also love the use of "invulnerable" in the first sentence. Fantastic word choice!
newflashfiction.com/used-hearse-...
This title drew me in, and the story has a surprising emotional arc. I also love the use of "invulnerable" in the first sentence. Fantastic word choice!
newflashfiction.com/used-hearse-...
Used Hearse by Sandie Friedman
She bought the hearse used from the Highlands Funeral Home, and the first time she drove it home to show Patrick, she felt invulnerable.
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July 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@smokelong.bsky.social - Since we've been talking about titles! #archivechallenge
This title drew me in, and the story has a surprising emotional arc. I also love the use of "invulnerable" in the first sentence. Fantastic word choice!
newflashfiction.com/used-hearse-...
This title drew me in, and the story has a surprising emotional arc. I also love the use of "invulnerable" in the first sentence. Fantastic word choice!
newflashfiction.com/used-hearse-...
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
Love this from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @nffr.bsky.social and all its specific details. Man, you can smell that diaper air!
newflashfiction.com/trip-trappin...
This great sentence will haunt me: "a swirling mist of urine and meatballs."
Love this from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @nffr.bsky.social and all its specific details. Man, you can smell that diaper air!
newflashfiction.com/trip-trappin...
This great sentence will haunt me: "a swirling mist of urine and meatballs."
Trip-trapping by Sara Hills
The autumn I turn ten, we leave my dad and the crusted expanse of Arizona desert, hard-packed sand dotted with dried grass and shriveled cacti, for the suburbs of Chicago.
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July 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
Love this from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @nffr.bsky.social and all its specific details. Man, you can smell that diaper air!
newflashfiction.com/trip-trappin...
This great sentence will haunt me: "a swirling mist of urine and meatballs."
Love this from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @nffr.bsky.social and all its specific details. Man, you can smell that diaper air!
newflashfiction.com/trip-trappin...
This great sentence will haunt me: "a swirling mist of urine and meatballs."
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
Prose poetry is tough for me, but this story resonates with my personal experience abroad.
"Understanding the book was like trying to touch a whitecap on an ocean wave as it washed back out to sea."
newflashfiction.com/kathleen-mcg... @nffr.bsky.social
Prose poetry is tough for me, but this story resonates with my personal experience abroad.
"Understanding the book was like trying to touch a whitecap on an ocean wave as it washed back out to sea."
newflashfiction.com/kathleen-mcg... @nffr.bsky.social
Junior Year Abroad by Kathleen McGookey
I intended to live one significant moment after another, beginning with that tiny bottle of Dior cologne in the cramped bathroom of my Air France flight.
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July 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
Prose poetry is tough for me, but this story resonates with my personal experience abroad.
"Understanding the book was like trying to touch a whitecap on an ocean wave as it washed back out to sea."
newflashfiction.com/kathleen-mcg... @nffr.bsky.social
Prose poetry is tough for me, but this story resonates with my personal experience abroad.
"Understanding the book was like trying to touch a whitecap on an ocean wave as it washed back out to sea."
newflashfiction.com/kathleen-mcg... @nffr.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
Hurrah for Horo-Flashes! These are so fun, creative forays:
newflashfiction.com/horo-flash-p... @nffr.bsky.social
"I’m more fish than you are, I tell the goldfish. He keeps swimming."
Hurrah for Horo-Flashes! These are so fun, creative forays:
newflashfiction.com/horo-flash-p... @nffr.bsky.social
"I’m more fish than you are, I tell the goldfish. He keeps swimming."
Pisces: The Artist Poses His Muse Before a Goldfish Bowl by Kathryn Kulpa
He never tells me to smile. He says he likes me best for my perfect blankness. Once he painted my eyes. Only my eyes. Floating like olives in a glass jar.
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July 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
Hurrah for Horo-Flashes! These are so fun, creative forays:
newflashfiction.com/horo-flash-p... @nffr.bsky.social
"I’m more fish than you are, I tell the goldfish. He keeps swimming."
Hurrah for Horo-Flashes! These are so fun, creative forays:
newflashfiction.com/horo-flash-p... @nffr.bsky.social
"I’m more fish than you are, I tell the goldfish. He keeps swimming."
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
A great example of a story working backwards to show the transformation of a character. Gorgeous use of language and imagery abounds here:
newflashfiction.com/marissa-hoff... @nffr.bsky.social
A great example of a story working backwards to show the transformation of a character. Gorgeous use of language and imagery abounds here:
newflashfiction.com/marissa-hoff... @nffr.bsky.social
Them Naming Me Trespasser by Marissa Hoffmann
Before I was lying on my front in my own piss at the edge of the platform, I was standing on the tracks facing that freight train.
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July 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
A great example of a story working backwards to show the transformation of a character. Gorgeous use of language and imagery abounds here:
newflashfiction.com/marissa-hoff... @nffr.bsky.social
A great example of a story working backwards to show the transformation of a character. Gorgeous use of language and imagery abounds here:
newflashfiction.com/marissa-hoff... @nffr.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
A short flash that packs a punch. That title is EARNED. Proof that going short can astonish and astound:
newflashfiction.com/melaniemarqu...
A short flash that packs a punch. That title is EARNED. Proof that going short can astonish and astound:
newflashfiction.com/melaniemarqu...
Betrayal by Melanie Márquez Adams
When I finally had the courage to say goodbye, I let my beloved doll know that our time together was coming to a tragic end.
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July 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
A short flash that packs a punch. That title is EARNED. Proof that going short can astonish and astound:
newflashfiction.com/melaniemarqu...
A short flash that packs a punch. That title is EARNED. Proof that going short can astonish and astound:
newflashfiction.com/melaniemarqu...
If you could revisit a book that took you by surprise and changed you the first time around?
Just finished S2 of the Wolf Hall series adaptation that reinvigorated my love and joy for the books. The trilogy was my 1st intro to Hilary Mantel & I remember being so astonished by her writing! #books
Just finished S2 of the Wolf Hall series adaptation that reinvigorated my love and joy for the books. The trilogy was my 1st intro to Hilary Mantel & I remember being so astonished by her writing! #books
July 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
If you could revisit a book that took you by surprise and changed you the first time around?
Just finished S2 of the Wolf Hall series adaptation that reinvigorated my love and joy for the books. The trilogy was my 1st intro to Hilary Mantel & I remember being so astonished by her writing! #books
Just finished S2 of the Wolf Hall series adaptation that reinvigorated my love and joy for the books. The trilogy was my 1st intro to Hilary Mantel & I remember being so astonished by her writing! #books
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
A poignant flash. Rich in what it doesn't need to say.
newflashfiction.com/steve-cushman/ and @nffr.bsky.social
A poignant flash. Rich in what it doesn't need to say.
newflashfiction.com/steve-cushman/ and @nffr.bsky.social
Out of Reach by Steve Cushman
My father and I stood in the field behind our house, a cigarette between his lips, playing catch.
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July 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
A poignant flash. Rich in what it doesn't need to say.
newflashfiction.com/steve-cushman/ and @nffr.bsky.social
A poignant flash. Rich in what it doesn't need to say.
newflashfiction.com/steve-cushman/ and @nffr.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
What a delightful story that carries the right amount of backstory to showcase the relationship between these two women:
newflashfiction.com/francine-wit... and @nffr.bsky.social
What a delightful story that carries the right amount of backstory to showcase the relationship between these two women:
newflashfiction.com/francine-wit... and @nffr.bsky.social
Mushrooms, for example by Francine Witte
Mildred never cared much for them. Says they are too much like men, and you can’t always smell the poison.
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July 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
What a delightful story that carries the right amount of backstory to showcase the relationship between these two women:
newflashfiction.com/francine-wit... and @nffr.bsky.social
What a delightful story that carries the right amount of backstory to showcase the relationship between these two women:
newflashfiction.com/francine-wit... and @nffr.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
These 4 are all so different in tone and structure. Flash never ceases to amaze me with how you can tell a story.
newflashfiction.com/robert-shapa...
newflashfiction.com/doug-cornett/
newflashfiction.com/rupert-dastur/
newflashfiction.com/lou-beach/
These 4 are all so different in tone and structure. Flash never ceases to amaze me with how you can tell a story.
newflashfiction.com/robert-shapa...
newflashfiction.com/doug-cornett/
newflashfiction.com/rupert-dastur/
newflashfiction.com/lou-beach/
Piggish by Robert Shapard
I was a piggish child, thin and small. I wore glasses and would eat anything—it was my way of knowing the world. I ate mold, weeds, shoe polish, and fish food. I tasted shit.
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July 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
@smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge
These 4 are all so different in tone and structure. Flash never ceases to amaze me with how you can tell a story.
newflashfiction.com/robert-shapa...
newflashfiction.com/doug-cornett/
newflashfiction.com/rupert-dastur/
newflashfiction.com/lou-beach/
These 4 are all so different in tone and structure. Flash never ceases to amaze me with how you can tell a story.
newflashfiction.com/robert-shapa...
newflashfiction.com/doug-cornett/
newflashfiction.com/rupert-dastur/
newflashfiction.com/lou-beach/