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Francesca Leader
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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.

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Best Small Fictions 2025
Flash, Haibun, Micro, & Hybrid: 110 Pieces by 110 Authors Nominated by Indie Presses Around the World
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November 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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three poems — Blood+Honey
by Francesca Leader “…it sounds like you, sliding / into my dark bed, matching your/soft metal to my / tender ore, the safety of a door *clicking* shut—fit / tight, world contained.”
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November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Oh, this is such an honor — thank you so much!! 😭 🙏
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Thank you so very much for reading and sharing a part that resonated with you, Jim 🤗 🥹
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Oh, how cool! I don’t know why it wouldn’t get published - your writing is 🔥 🔥 🔥 🤗
November 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Weights & Measures by Francesca Leader
Weights & Measures I still don’t know how You can compliment a girl Without infecting her, Say she’s perfect Without seeding worry Of when she won’t be Anymore, span her Waist with hands Amarve…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Thank you so much, Jay 🤗 🤗 things are better now 💙
November 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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When My Daughter Says She Cut Herself at School
Francesca Leader I hear her say she didn’t mean to cut so deep. That her father left his razor out (though I begged him to be careful), so she took it, just in case. She tells me the blade’s sharpn…
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November 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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