Srilatha Rajagopal
@srilatha91.bsky.social
Writer, long distance mom,distracted wife, doglover.
Pushcart nom 2025. BFFA long listed.
Recipes http://rasaala.com
https://linktr.ee/srilatha.rajagopal
3 magical stories from the one and only @pleomorphic2.bsky.social. Deeply touching as always!
With unexpected lines like this:
“Mythili wonders what the opposite of orphan is – what you would call a mother without a baby”
With unexpected lines like this:
“Mythili wonders what the opposite of orphan is – what you would call a mother without a baby”
Friends, I have a tryptich about mothers in Flash Boulevard! Thanks @francinewitte.bsky.social!
“A Thing In Itself” is from my NiF forthcoming from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social in the northern Autumn!
flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/s...
“A Thing In Itself” is from my NiF forthcoming from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social in the northern Autumn!
flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/s...
SUMITRA SINGAM: Skin/ Flesh/ Seed
Flash Fiction by Sumitra Singam Skin/Flesh/Seed Mohini looks for love in all the wrong places, schooled in the filmies which are full of ginger-hipped women in gauzy sarees, kajal eyes flicked outw…
flashboulevard.wordpress.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
3 magical stories from the one and only @pleomorphic2.bsky.social. Deeply touching as always!
With unexpected lines like this:
“Mythili wonders what the opposite of orphan is – what you would call a mother without a baby”
With unexpected lines like this:
“Mythili wonders what the opposite of orphan is – what you would call a mother without a baby”
Reposted by Srilatha Rajagopal
Stop the presses! We're doing out first writerly event! With just over a month until subs open, we invite you to come #namjooning with us. We'll chat a bit, we'll write a bit, and we'll answer all your submission (and other) questions. Register now! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Stop the presses! We're doing out first writerly event! With just over a month until subs open, we invite you to come #namjooning with us. We'll chat a bit, we'll write a bit, and we'll answer all your submission (and other) questions. Register now! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Vennpongal with coconut chutney hits the spot on this cold January morning! Made with equal measures rice, barnyard millet and yellow mung dal. Recipe in comments.
January 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Vennpongal with coconut chutney hits the spot on this cold January morning! Made with equal measures rice, barnyard millet and yellow mung dal. Recipe in comments.
“Note to self: carry a cane or pretend to faint when taking the bus.” A dose of unabashed caustic from @delgeo14.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social
Thank you The Drevlow @mrbullbull.bsky.social
for publishing 'Surrounded by idiots'
for publishing 'Surrounded by idiots'
"The poor lad stinks as bad as Snow White’s breath when the lazy cow finally decided to wake up with a piece of rotten apple stuck in her throat." @delgeo14.bsky.social
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
January 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“Note to self: carry a cane or pretend to faint when taking the bus.” A dose of unabashed caustic from @delgeo14.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social
Reposted by Srilatha Rajagopal
We're excited to announce that the theme for our next anthology is SEASONS. We're thrilled to welcome Cheryl Markosky @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social as guest editor. Cheryl will be joining Karen Jones in reading the submissions. You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/news/
National Flash Fiction Day
Save the Date: we're celebrating the next National Flash Fiction Day on 14 June 2025!
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 11:19 AM
We're excited to announce that the theme for our next anthology is SEASONS. We're thrilled to welcome Cheryl Markosky @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social as guest editor. Cheryl will be joining Karen Jones in reading the submissions. You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/news/
Reposted by Srilatha Rajagopal
today we have a terrific 350 word creative nonfiction story by Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social !! it's about being married to a terrible person
xraylitmag.com/on-the-nosta...
xraylitmag.com/on-the-nosta...
ON THE NOSTALGIA OF DRIED APRICOTS AND OTHER GARBAGE by Jeanann Verlee
I am 41. Standing at the Formica counter of a roach-friendly Queens apartment five lifetimes ago, I crumble gorgonzola over flatbread dough, then stud it with gems of diced dried apricot and fresh thy...
xraylitmag.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:58 PM
today we have a terrific 350 word creative nonfiction story by Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social !! it's about being married to a terrible person
xraylitmag.com/on-the-nosta...
xraylitmag.com/on-the-nosta...
Anyone have insights on turning a cooking website into a printed book? Considering turning mine rasaala.com into a book.
Home
For Vegans And Vegetarians
rasaala.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Anyone have insights on turning a cooking website into a printed book? Considering turning mine rasaala.com into a book.
Reposted by Srilatha Rajagopal
For the @nytimes.com I wrote about how Enough is Enough with the incumbent president and his cabinet of folly and let’s stop coddling Trump voters and be real clear-eyed about what lies ahead. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
Opinion | Enough
To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 PM
For the @nytimes.com I wrote about how Enough is Enough with the incumbent president and his cabinet of folly and let’s stop coddling Trump voters and be real clear-eyed about what lies ahead. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
So she grieved for Marie and I mourned the cluster of cells with the abnormally high plasma protein-A count that could have been someone to love.
Horror, grief, love! Read @barlowadams.bsky.social in trampset pushcart nominated!
Horror, grief, love! Read @barlowadams.bsky.social in trampset pushcart nominated!
Excited to get a Pushcart Prize nomination today from trampset journal for my literary horror story about ducks and marriage and the dark things that sometimes gather on the tips of our best intentions.
Coatl
by Barlow Adams
trampset.org
November 16, 2024 at 11:55 AM
So she grieved for Marie and I mourned the cluster of cells with the abnormally high plasma protein-A count that could have been someone to love.
Horror, grief, love! Read @barlowadams.bsky.social in trampset pushcart nominated!
Horror, grief, love! Read @barlowadams.bsky.social in trampset pushcart nominated!
Reposted by Srilatha Rajagopal
December is looking 🔥🔥🔥 with these themed submission calls!
I want your domestic oddities. Your odes to kitchen utensils, elegies for broken appliances, sonnets for your favourite coffee mug…fill my kitchen with goodness…I can’t wait to read your words!
I want your domestic oddities. Your odes to kitchen utensils, elegies for broken appliances, sonnets for your favourite coffee mug…fill my kitchen with goodness…I can’t wait to read your words!
Announcing the 2024 Winter Guest Calls for JAKE!🧵
November 15, 2024 at 11:52 PM
December is looking 🔥🔥🔥 with these themed submission calls!
I want your domestic oddities. Your odes to kitchen utensils, elegies for broken appliances, sonnets for your favourite coffee mug…fill my kitchen with goodness…I can’t wait to read your words!
I want your domestic oddities. Your odes to kitchen utensils, elegies for broken appliances, sonnets for your favourite coffee mug…fill my kitchen with goodness…I can’t wait to read your words!
Reposted by Srilatha Rajagopal
Announcing the 2024 Winter Guest Calls for JAKE!🧵
November 15, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Announcing the 2024 Winter Guest Calls for JAKE!🧵
“Teach her early that if she isn’t bowed with pain and fatigue, then she isn’t working hard enough." Incredible piece on pain by the brilliant @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social
Here's my CNF piece in @epistemiclit.bsky.social about my struggles with fibromyalgia. I hope you'll read it. Thank you @gcbwrites.bsky.social for choosing it. 🙏
"Ensure that the hollowed-out girl binds herself together with the abiding glue of
shame."
epistemiclit.com/current-issu...
"Ensure that the hollowed-out girl binds herself together with the abiding glue of
shame."
epistemiclit.com/current-issu...
November 13, 2024 at 1:10 PM
“Teach her early that if she isn’t bowed with pain and fatigue, then she isn’t working hard enough." Incredible piece on pain by the brilliant @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social
Reposted by Srilatha Rajagopal
Just five days left now! Please share this with everyone you know who writes micro fiction. Previously unpublished and/or published work considered no matter where or when it was published. $1000 grand prize! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
a man with long hair and a beard says " just five days left "
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard says " just five days left "
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Just five days left now! Please share this with everyone you know who writes micro fiction. Previously unpublished and/or published work considered no matter where or when it was published. $1000 grand prize! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
What bird is this? Never seen in our neighborhood in Jacksonville before.
November 11, 2024 at 2:28 PM
What bird is this? Never seen in our neighborhood in Jacksonville before.
In the beginning, the newer one seemed out-of-place, a stranger who had sneaked into my phone. Now the older recording seems the odd one. Did I know this person?
Read this poignant piece by @barlowadams.bsky.social in @sugarsugarsalt.org
Read this poignant piece by @barlowadams.bsky.social in @sugarsugarsalt.org
Have a (sort of) new piece today. It’s a reprint of the first published story I ever shared on social media. It happened before anyone really cared about my writing. It feels a bit full circle considering everything going on. As always, I am humbled by anyone taking the time to read.
Voicemail Like a Timebomb by Barlow Adams
Voicemail is a method of time travel. It can take you back, bring the future to you, even stop time. I’m fond of voicemails. If you ever leave me one, I will use it as I like. I make no apolo…
sugarsugarsalt.org
November 10, 2024 at 10:08 PM
In the beginning, the newer one seemed out-of-place, a stranger who had sneaked into my phone. Now the older recording seems the odd one. Did I know this person?
Read this poignant piece by @barlowadams.bsky.social in @sugarsugarsalt.org
Read this poignant piece by @barlowadams.bsky.social in @sugarsugarsalt.org
This story has been nominated for a Pushcart prize by the amazing @delgeo14.bsky.social in Raw Lit. My first ever Pushcart nom for the most personal story.
Love all @srilatha91.bsky.social’s work. Here’s two. The one in Raw Lit (EIC @delgeo14.bsky.social) is a particular fave.
“My thatha warned us of men on the street who would kidnap wayward children, gouge their eyes out and make them beggars. Of tigers dressed in people clothes.”
“My thatha warned us of men on the street who would kidnap wayward children, gouge their eyes out and make them beggars. Of tigers dressed in people clothes.”
November 10, 2024 at 1:33 AM
This story has been nominated for a Pushcart prize by the amazing @delgeo14.bsky.social in Raw Lit. My first ever Pushcart nom for the most personal story.
The graves are crowded closely …punishment, then there is a short stretch of lawn tilting to the cliff’s edge, and beyond that a sickening void she imagines rushing out to meet her.
I read it breathlessly
@emmasloley.bsky.social
I read it breathlessly
@emmasloley.bsky.social
This is a nice idea, thank you! 💙 "The Cassandras" is my favorite story I've ever written: www.thecommononline.org/the-cassandr...
The Cassandras
EMMA SLOLEY <br> He laughs in an antic way, his longish surfer’s hair whipping around his face. There’s something different about his mood, she can tell before she even gets close, something anticipat...
www.thecommononline.org
November 10, 2024 at 1:13 AM
The graves are crowded closely …punishment, then there is a short stretch of lawn tilting to the cliff’s edge, and beyond that a sickening void she imagines rushing out to meet her.
I read it breathlessly
@emmasloley.bsky.social
I read it breathlessly
@emmasloley.bsky.social
Reposted by Srilatha Rajagopal
Stunning story by @srilatha91.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
"You wonder if her mean streak is inherent or has developed over a lifetime spent in the kitchen amidst pots of disappointment and spice jars filled with expired opportunities."
pitheadchapel.com/a-thousand-l...
#writers
"You wonder if her mean streak is inherent or has developed over a lifetime spent in the kitchen amidst pots of disappointment and spice jars filled with expired opportunities."
pitheadchapel.com/a-thousand-l...
#writers
A Thousand Lies for a Wedding
Srilatha Rajagopal When you turned twenty-two your future became the business of every athai and mami who descend on your house with a stack of potential boys’ horoscopes; to drink coffee, eat amma…
pitheadchapel.com
November 10, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Stunning story by @srilatha91.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
"You wonder if her mean streak is inherent or has developed over a lifetime spent in the kitchen amidst pots of disappointment and spice jars filled with expired opportunities."
pitheadchapel.com/a-thousand-l...
#writers
"You wonder if her mean streak is inherent or has developed over a lifetime spent in the kitchen amidst pots of disappointment and spice jars filled with expired opportunities."
pitheadchapel.com/a-thousand-l...
#writers
I can’t get over how pretty this is! My first sourdough!! Hope it’s cooked inside as well :)
November 8, 2024 at 11:31 PM
I can’t get over how pretty this is! My first sourdough!! Hope it’s cooked inside as well :)
Reposted by Srilatha Rajagopal
"Because of her tumor we had to leave our sister behind on our trip to Disney. It was sad because it was her birthday too but by then she was too sick to get out of bed & plus the charity gave us free tickets & they had an expiration date" Sean-Taro Nishi mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
November 8, 2024 at 1:18 PM
"Because of her tumor we had to leave our sister behind on our trip to Disney. It was sad because it was her birthday too but by then she was too sick to get out of bed & plus the charity gave us free tickets & they had an expiration date" Sean-Taro Nishi mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
Reposted by Srilatha Rajagopal
Please share this with everyone you know who writes micro fiction and CNF. We are officially in the last week of reading entries for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Word limit: 250. Full details/guideline here:
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2024 - 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...
www.smokelong.com
November 8, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Please share this with everyone you know who writes micro fiction and CNF. We are officially in the last week of reading entries for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Word limit: 250. Full details/guideline here:
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
Genius thread! Happy happy happy, chummi! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
Hey friends, how do you all feel about a music challenge, since there isn’t anything else worth discussing in world affairs. It’s my birthday tomorrow - can we have a conversation only in lyrics in this thread please? It’s one of my favourite things. I’ll start:
Thank you for the music 🧡
Thank you for the music 🧡
November 7, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Genius thread! Happy happy happy, chummi! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
Started my first sour dough bread yesterday. Seemed a good day to start making something good!
November 7, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Started my first sour dough bread yesterday. Seemed a good day to start making something good!
Slowly building my base back here. Hoping for peace.
November 7, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Slowly building my base back here. Hoping for peace.