Janice Leadingham
@thehagsoup.bsky.social
Writer. Appalachian. Best Small Fictions ‘24- Reckon Review- Bullshit Lit- HAD-Milk Candy Review & more
Yay !! I’m so happy and grateful that this story is out in the world thanks to the incredible @flashfrog.bsky.social !!
FLASH FROGTOBER👻🐸
“Creatures of the EZ-STOP” by @thehagsoup.bsky.social is now up!
Art by Sandy Little
flash-frog.com/2025/10/20/c...
“Creatures of the EZ-STOP” by @thehagsoup.bsky.social is now up!
Art by Sandy Little
flash-frog.com/2025/10/20/c...
Creatures of the EZ-STOP by Janice Leadingham
Creature calls himself Creature because everyone else does and his mama says it’s better to be in on the joke. Creature looks just like his dead daddy but his mama is really beautiful and that has …
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October 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Yay !! I’m so happy and grateful that this story is out in the world thanks to the incredible @flashfrog.bsky.social !!
Reposted by Janice Leadingham
“Creature arrived at the farm this morning with the sky waking in wounded red, and all the cows were lying down in the field and the hairs on his arm, soft and spare as a woman’s, were standing on end.”
I love this flash by @thehagsoup.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social
I love this flash by @thehagsoup.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social
FLASH FROGTOBER👻🐸
“Creatures of the EZ-STOP” by @thehagsoup.bsky.social is now up!
Art by Sandy Little
flash-frog.com/2025/10/20/c...
“Creatures of the EZ-STOP” by @thehagsoup.bsky.social is now up!
Art by Sandy Little
flash-frog.com/2025/10/20/c...
Creatures of the EZ-STOP by Janice Leadingham
Creature calls himself Creature because everyone else does and his mama says it’s better to be in on the joke. Creature looks just like his dead daddy but his mama is really beautiful and that has …
flash-frog.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“Creature arrived at the farm this morning with the sky waking in wounded red, and all the cows were lying down in the field and the hairs on his arm, soft and spare as a woman’s, were standing on end.”
I love this flash by @thehagsoup.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social
I love this flash by @thehagsoup.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social
A cathartic story for you today !Thank you @dishsoapquart.bsky.social !
Cheeky, wonderful prose piece up today. Enjoy "Unexplained Phenomena of Invisible Women" by @thehagsoup.bsky.social
Read it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-25-25/unex...
Read it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-25-25/unex...
February 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A cathartic story for you today !Thank you @dishsoapquart.bsky.social !
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"Lights bordered the sign shaped like a hand, long fingers and lined palm, in the window facing Hawthorne—the carnival hues ran sequentially red, yellow, blue"
Love the evocation of place and yearning in this #FlashFiction from @thehagsoup.bsky.social
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
Love the evocation of place and yearning in this #FlashFiction from @thehagsoup.bsky.social
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
twenty-two — Tiny Molecules
www.tinymolecules.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"Lights bordered the sign shaped like a hand, long fingers and lined palm, in the window facing Hawthorne—the carnival hues ran sequentially red, yellow, blue"
Love the evocation of place and yearning in this #FlashFiction from @thehagsoup.bsky.social
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
Love the evocation of place and yearning in this #FlashFiction from @thehagsoup.bsky.social
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
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"Sure enough, it began to snow, the fattest flakes Gill had ever seen. Only, this snow fell to the ground with a punch. The thud of muscle, obscene. Oddly juicy." Love this story @thehagsoup.bsky.social
Gonna howl at the moon because my flash story Hell’s Half Acre, 1876 is out today with @gonelawn.bsky.social ! Thrilled to be a part of this issue !
Gone Lawn 58 : Janice Leadingham
gonelawn.net
December 22, 2024 at 2:40 AM
"Sure enough, it began to snow, the fattest flakes Gill had ever seen. Only, this snow fell to the ground with a punch. The thud of muscle, obscene. Oddly juicy." Love this story @thehagsoup.bsky.social
Gonna howl at the moon because my flash story Hell’s Half Acre, 1876 is out today with @gonelawn.bsky.social ! Thrilled to be a part of this issue !
Gone Lawn 58 : Janice Leadingham
gonelawn.net
December 15, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Gonna howl at the moon because my flash story Hell’s Half Acre, 1876 is out today with @gonelawn.bsky.social ! Thrilled to be a part of this issue !
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“Mary knew miracles in Kentucky, in March yet, were rare enough, but at the moment she realized she needed the animal fat from the barn, had, in fact, forgotten to render it down the night before, it began to fall from the sky.”
@thehagsoup.bsky.social
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@thehagsoup.bsky.social
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December 15, 2024 at 6:23 PM
“Mary knew miracles in Kentucky, in March yet, were rare enough, but at the moment she realized she needed the animal fat from the barn, had, in fact, forgotten to render it down the night before, it began to fall from the sky.”
@thehagsoup.bsky.social
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
@thehagsoup.bsky.social
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Thrilled and so looking forward to creating artwork for the winners of the 2025 Blue Frog ✨ 😭
Submit those stories!! 🙏 #flashfiction #writingcommunity
Submit those stories!! 🙏 #flashfiction #writingcommunity
🐸💙2025 Blue Frog!💙🐸
Theme: “Voice”
Guest Judge: Gina Chung
Guest Artist: @jiksuncheung.bsky.social
flash-frog.com/contest/
Theme: “Voice”
Guest Judge: Gina Chung
Guest Artist: @jiksuncheung.bsky.social
flash-frog.com/contest/
December 5, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Thrilled and so looking forward to creating artwork for the winners of the 2025 Blue Frog ✨ 😭
Submit those stories!! 🙏 #flashfiction #writingcommunity
Submit those stories!! 🙏 #flashfiction #writingcommunity
I have a new story up today at Crow & Cross Keys ! crowcrosskeys.com/2024/12/04/a...
A Fairy Tale for Florida Girls—Janice Leadingham
Dahlia is twelve-years-old, an only child, and the daughter of a mother with nine very fine fingers and no ruby ring. She hates the sound flip-flops make on parquet floors. She craves sunblock, to …
crowcrosskeys.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:43 PM
I have a new story up today at Crow & Cross Keys ! crowcrosskeys.com/2024/12/04/a...
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November 18, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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Last week it felt wrong to celebrate the release of Best Small Fictions that includes my story “Imagining the Woman …” ! I’m so excited & grateful to @meaganlucas.bsky.social & @reckonreview.bsky.social for nominating me, & to the editors & Nathan Leslie ! www.marylandliteraryreview.com/mlr-press/
Maryland Literary ReviewMaryland Press – MLR
www.marylandliteraryreview.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Last week it felt wrong to celebrate the release of Best Small Fictions that includes my story “Imagining the Woman …” ! I’m so excited & grateful to @meaganlucas.bsky.social & @reckonreview.bsky.social for nominating me, & to the editors & Nathan Leslie ! www.marylandliteraryreview.com/mlr-press/
So excited to have this one up today !!
"Jimmy had the face of a Labrador Retriever all dogless girls know from childhood that belonged to a friend or a neighbor but of course was never theirs so that when the girls looked in Jimmy’s eyes they saw something like home but better." @thehagsoup.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
September 15, 2024 at 12:37 AM
So excited to have this one up today !!
So excited to have this fun one up on MemeZineLit !
New story from @thehagsoup.bsky.social is out now at MemeZineLit tinyurl.com/ybh3xt7v
“A Visit from Your Biblically Accurate Guardian Angel at Bedtime” by Janice Leadingham — MEMEZ...
To have a thumb with a sturdy nail to peel oranges, fingers to split its
sections, a lover to share it with.
tinyurl.com
January 27, 2024 at 8:46 PM
So excited to have this fun one up on MemeZineLit !
I have a possibly v dumb question about chapbook manuscripts ! Should I add personal acknowledgements in the submission ? Or wait to see if it is accepted ?
November 28, 2023 at 9:58 PM
I have a possibly v dumb question about chapbook manuscripts ! Should I add personal acknowledgements in the submission ? Or wait to see if it is accepted ?
I’m so excited to have a ghost story up at Maudlin House today ! I wrote this one in the midst of grief, for grievers. maudlinhouse.net/the-heiresss...
The Heiress’s Guide to the Care and Keeping of her Ghost
Welcome to your own little home, dear, what was once mine— the hill it sits on, the grass and the worms, the one good sunny patch in the back that’s fit for growing vegetables, the slight slope to...
maudlinhouse.net
October 18, 2023 at 10:01 PM
I’m so excited to have a ghost story up at Maudlin House today ! I wrote this one in the midst of grief, for grievers. maudlinhouse.net/the-heiresss...
Reposted by Janice Leadingham
Grab your Hawaiian shirt, it's time to get some groceries with @thehagsoup.bsky.social!
jakethemag.com/death-works-...
jakethemag.com/death-works-...
Death Works at Trader Joe's
A triptych of poetry and prose
jakethemag.com
October 5, 2023 at 10:33 PM
Grab your Hawaiian shirt, it's time to get some groceries with @thehagsoup.bsky.social!
jakethemag.com/death-works-...
jakethemag.com/death-works-...
This is the silliest stuff I’ve written and I’m so honored that @publishedbyjake.bsky.social liked it !! 💀
Grab your Hawaiian shirt, it's time to get some groceries with @thehagsoup.bsky.social!
jakethemag.com/death-works-...
jakethemag.com/death-works-...
Death Works at Trader Joe's
A triptych of poetry and prose
jakethemag.com
October 6, 2023 at 12:23 PM
This is the silliest stuff I’ve written and I’m so honored that @publishedbyjake.bsky.social liked it !! 💀
It’s the first day of fall and I walked through the graveyard and made apple butter and submitted to @wrongpublishing.bsky.social 💀
It's here... SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN for our first ever halloween anthology, YOU TOOK THE WRONG TURN (guest edited by @nikonamerica.bsky.social.)
Read the guidelines & submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit
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Read the guidelines & submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit
wrongpublishing.com/submit.html
September 22, 2023 at 11:55 PM
It’s the first day of fall and I walked through the graveyard and made apple butter and submitted to @wrongpublishing.bsky.social 💀
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I did a podcast/video conversation about not writing with @benjamingorman.bsky.social See my muppet arms, glorious mustache, and human-sized gourd costume in YouTube or listen wherever podcasts are played!
On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Erik Grove, author of stories in COZY COSMIC and WINDING PATHS, about marathon running, Australian brain worms, and how the most punk rock thing in the world is therapy.
bit.ly/WNWHome
bit.ly/WNWHome
September 19, 2023 at 2:37 PM
I did a podcast/video conversation about not writing with @benjamingorman.bsky.social See my muppet arms, glorious mustache, and human-sized gourd costume in YouTube or listen wherever podcasts are played!
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@thehagsoup.bsky.social has another wonderful piece out today! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/we-ate-...
"We Ate and Ate into Extinction" by Janice Leadingham
CW: Reference to indecent exposure/sexual harassment Before the thing with the man on the street, she picks the blue cotton dress because it complements the veins on her neck, and the perfume of viole...
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September 17, 2023 at 3:56 PM
@thehagsoup.bsky.social has another wonderful piece out today! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/we-ate-...
So excited my story is up now on @rfpress.bsky.social ! 🐋
Monday afternoon Finally, and FINALLY you get to read the whole of this flash fiction piece “We Ate and Ate into Extinction" by Janice Leadingham @thehagsoup.bsky.social It lurks disturbingly in the shadows of Expression 47! Read it here!
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/we-ate-...
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/we-ate-...
September 18, 2023 at 8:58 PM
So excited my story is up now on @rfpress.bsky.social ! 🐋
Reposted by Janice Leadingham
I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
September 16, 2023 at 10:12 PM
I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
Reposted by Janice Leadingham
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If you are in the Portland, OR area and want to write in or get down with writer-y or reader-y Good Times, I have this here newsletter that compiles events at our biggest bookstores and venues for your conveniences. Please share etc.!
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August 23, 2023 at 4:10 PM
Hi there. :self promotion alert:
If you are in the Portland, OR area and want to write in or get down with writer-y or reader-y Good Times, I have this here newsletter that compiles events at our biggest bookstores and venues for your conveniences. Please share etc.!
mailchi.mp/1e4319f3c9e0...
If you are in the Portland, OR area and want to write in or get down with writer-y or reader-y Good Times, I have this here newsletter that compiles events at our biggest bookstores and venues for your conveniences. Please share etc.!
mailchi.mp/1e4319f3c9e0...