Francesca Leader
@mooninabucket.bsky.social
Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, 2025 Best Small Fictions. Lapsed scholar/ Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc.
https://mooninabucket.com
https://mooninabucket.com
The 2025 #BSF anthology is available for pre-order, and I’m in it 😳 😃 My story “Cowboy,” originally published in @southeastreview.bsky.social, somehow landed a spot in this selection of dynamite stories by flash and micro authors from around the world. Pre-order link below 👇 🙏 🤗
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The 2025 #BSF anthology is available for pre-order, and I’m in it 😳 😃 My story “Cowboy,” originally published in @southeastreview.bsky.social, somehow landed a spot in this selection of dynamite stories by flash and micro authors from around the world. Pre-order link below 👇 🙏 🤗
Such a beautiful thing to have three poems up in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social - one very new, one sort of new, and one that wandered for years in the wilderness until someone (the lovely @davidestringel.bsky.social ) was kind enough to adopt it 🤗 Link to the full pieces below👇
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Such a beautiful thing to have three poems up in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social - one very new, one sort of new, and one that wandered for years in the wilderness until someone (the lovely @davidestringel.bsky.social ) was kind enough to adopt it 🤗 Link to the full pieces below👇
Finally got around to claiming mooninabucket.com and moving my author page into that space. I’m by no means a Wordpress whiz - I’ve just sort of FAFO’d my way through it, so the page is still a bit janky, but I’d love if you’d take a look. Link below ⬇️ 🙏
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Finally got around to claiming mooninabucket.com and moving my author page into that space. I’m by no means a Wordpress whiz - I’ve just sort of FAFO’d my way through it, so the page is still a bit janky, but I’d love if you’d take a look. Link below ⬇️ 🙏
Throwback to last fall in the wonderfully eclectic litmag @harpyhybrid.bsky.social 🍁 🍂
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Throwback to last fall in the wonderfully eclectic litmag @harpyhybrid.bsky.social 🍁 🍂
Wow, I’ve got almost a cool million left in dental benefits? Can I use that to pay off my mortgage and send a couple kids to college??🤣 #phishingfails #fridayfunnies
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Wow, I’ve got almost a cool million left in dental benefits? Can I use that to pay off my mortgage and send a couple kids to college??🤣 #phishingfails #fridayfunnies
What a beautiful piece of mail I received this afternoon, all the way from Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 💕 📖 🍀 Grateful to the editors of The Storms Journal for treating my weird little poem so well, and for paying a ridiculous sum to post me a copy of their gorgeous publication. 🥰 🙏
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What a beautiful piece of mail I received this afternoon, all the way from Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 💕 📖 🍀 Grateful to the editors of The Storms Journal for treating my weird little poem so well, and for paying a ridiculous sum to post me a copy of their gorgeous publication. 🥰 🙏
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 1:12 PM
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 ⬇️ 🩵 🙏
Our Lady of FunLand
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Our Lady of FunLand
You guys, I’m in @oneart.bsky.social !! 😃 🤗 Link to the full poem, “Weights & Measures,” in the comments ⬇️ 🙏
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
You guys, I’m in @oneart.bsky.social !! 😃 🤗 Link to the full poem, “Weights & Measures,” in the comments ⬇️ 🙏
Watch your step 😸 Happy Caturday 😻
October 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Watch your step 😸 Happy Caturday 😻
I think I made him late for something 😆 🐢 🍃 💚
September 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I think I made him late for something 😆 🐢 🍃 💚
The irony of my child failing to complete this particular assignment on time is not lost on me 😂
September 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The irony of my child failing to complete this particular assignment on time is not lost on me 😂
Sure, I’ll take a tiered rejection from the great @cincinnatireview.bsky.social 😊 Kinda wonder what the response might’ve been if I hadn’t had to withdraw half the pieces in my packet 🤷♀️ Maybe next time 😉
September 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sure, I’ll take a tiered rejection from the great @cincinnatireview.bsky.social 😊 Kinda wonder what the response might’ve been if I hadn’t had to withdraw half the pieces in my packet 🤷♀️ Maybe next time 😉
Eleventh time was the charm with dream-mag @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ! 😃 I did sort of break in last July when they chose a painting of mine for their cover, but what I really wanted was to be in their pages as a writer—been trying since April ‘22–and it’s finally happened. #keepgoing 😊 🙏
September 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Eleventh time was the charm with dream-mag @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ! 😃 I did sort of break in last July when they chose a painting of mine for their cover, but what I really wanted was to be in their pages as a writer—been trying since April ‘22–and it’s finally happened. #keepgoing 😊 🙏
ICYMI, this poem is the first work I’ve had out in five months. 😃 Grateful to Lee for choosing to publish it, and to all who’ve chosen to read it so far 🤗 🙏
Link below ⬇️
Link below ⬇️
September 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
ICYMI, this poem is the first work I’ve had out in five months. 😃 Grateful to Lee for choosing to publish it, and to all who’ve chosen to read it so far 🤗 🙏
Link below ⬇️
Link below ⬇️
The winged horse asked me to tell you they say hey 🐎 🪽 🥰
September 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The winged horse asked me to tell you they say hey 🐎 🪽 🥰
This poem wandered for years. So grateful to Lee Potts for giving it a beautiful home as the 265th poem in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social 🤗 🩵
Link below ⬇️
Link below ⬇️
September 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This poem wandered for years. So grateful to Lee Potts for giving it a beautiful home as the 265th poem in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social 🤗 🩵
Link below ⬇️
Link below ⬇️
Three (3!!) poems accepted by the lovely @davidestringel.bsky.social of @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social !! 😃 A very happy Friday, indeed 🤗 🥰
September 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Three (3!!) poems accepted by the lovely @davidestringel.bsky.social of @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social !! 😃 A very happy Friday, indeed 🤗 🥰
Killer aesthetic, fast response, AND they accepted all four (4!!) of my poems?? Doesn’t get any better than this. 🤩 So grateful to the EIC of @villaineralit.bsky.social - check them out! 🔪 🩸 😈 🔥
September 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Killer aesthetic, fast response, AND they accepted all four (4!!) of my poems?? Doesn’t get any better than this. 🤩 So grateful to the EIC of @villaineralit.bsky.social - check them out! 🔪 🩸 😈 🔥
Acceptance from @oneart.bsky.social !! 😀 Been chasing this one for a while now. Thrilled and grateful 🤗
August 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Acceptance from @oneart.bsky.social !! 😀 Been chasing this one for a while now. Thrilled and grateful 🤗
Despite coming of age in the era when girls with “Pink” on their a$$es and “Juicy” on their thighs were ubiquitous, I can assure you that I’ve never before in my life worn a pair of these—they’re hand-me-downs from my 17-year-old 😂 Also, my 1st poetry collection has a title 😊
August 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Despite coming of age in the era when girls with “Pink” on their a$$es and “Juicy” on their thighs were ubiquitous, I can assure you that I’ve never before in my life worn a pair of these—they’re hand-me-downs from my 17-year-old 😂 Also, my 1st poetry collection has a title 😊
August 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“The work is mysterious and important.” 😉
August 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“The work is mysterious and important.” 😉
This quote hit me like a ton of bricks tonight. And yes, I will be using this the next time someone says my best isn’t good enough 😌
August 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This quote hit me like a ton of bricks tonight. And yes, I will be using this the next time someone says my best isn’t good enough 😌
Such a lovely surprise to learn that @lit-namjooning.bsky.social nominated my story for a 2026 Best of the Net award! Deeply grateful 🤗 🙏
August 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Such a lovely surprise to learn that @lit-namjooning.bsky.social nominated my story for a 2026 Best of the Net award! Deeply grateful 🤗 🙏