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Elizabeth Crowder
@thelizcrowder.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, librarian

https://www.elizabethcrowder.com/
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stephstephking.bsky.social
I hear there are a lot of new people here this week. Here are some flash fiction writers for you to follow, if that's your kind of thing!

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October 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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dinalrelles.bsky.social
it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures
Departures by Dina L. Relles handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry. I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again. I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate. You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.
October 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Whenevir Ich heare of the bear yclept "32 Chunk" Ich thynke it ys a Teixcalaanli name from *A Memory Called Empire*
October 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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kathyfish.bsky.social
I absolutely love this story by @ambersparks.bsky.social Recently, I saw a very grumpy call for submissions that listed all the things they did NOT want to see in their queue and this story fits a couple of those. Be open to brilliance and innovation, editors, and you will be rewarded.
September 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Barnacle boy
September 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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electricliterature.com
Lauren Morrow’s debut novel “Little Movements” explores being a Black artist in a space not built with you in mind, and the toll of constantly having to prove your value. (@cherrylousy.bsky.social)
The Unpredictable Choreography of Marriage, Identity, and Ambition - Electric Literature
Lauren Morrow’s “Little Movements” follows a Black choreographer who leaves her life behind to pursue her dreams
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September 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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jsavrankelly.bsky.social
oh wow, this flash essay by @writesloud.bsky.social hits in all the tenderest places 💜
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SWALLOW by Hannah Grieco
The pharmacist has to get the key, which is missing for the moment. The tech apologizes. It was hanging by the fridge in the back, just yesterday. He’s not sure where it went, but the pharmacist will ...
xraylitmag.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
I have a new story in @havehashad.com today! so grateful as always to wonderful editor @aaronburch.bsky.social + all of you who read this one 🤍💀 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/may...
At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is today’s date: August 7, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: Maybe Someday by Anna Vangala Jones. Below that is the text of the opening lines of the story: “They meet every Tuesday around 3pm at the same green bench in front of the train station. It’s crowded enough where they go unnoticed and loud enough near the tracks with trains coming and going where they go unheard. They could be two strangers just happening upon the same bench instead of two would be lovers arranging to meet exactly there.”
August 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
*me and my book project
Sigourney Weaver standing happily with the Alien queen
July 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
thelizcrowder.bsky.social
Haven’t written anything in days but did get my hair done and have been keeping a toddler alive and I think that has to count for something
July 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Anime 101: A Guide for Librarians and Educators | Multimedia Reviews
Anime 101: A Guide for Librarians and Educators | Multimedia Reviews
In this golden age of anime, these beginner-friendly films and series provide librarians with a strong starting point for introducing the format to new audiences.
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July 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
thelizcrowder.bsky.social
Me 😭
ericsmithrocks.bsky.social Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · Jul 16
“Maybe it’s time I took this friendship to the next level.” - Me debating if I should ask my neighbor who always says hi and makes small talk what the hell his actual name is.
July 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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electricliterature.com
Marisa Wright (@marisa-wright.com) interviews Kashana Cauley (@Kashana.bsky.social) about her novel “The Payback,” in which minimum wage workers scheme to erase their student loans and exact revenge on the institutions that trapped them.

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“The Payback” Highlights the Absurdity and Trauma of Massive Student Debt - Electric Literature
Kashana Cauley on the crushing weight of loans, using humor as a way to be heard, and finding community with fellow retail workers
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July 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social
Wash Day this weekend! 🧖🏽‍♀️Gonna reshare an essay of mine because Black beauty is the work that lives in heart, to write with my hands, to give to my folks. 💚

www.craftliterary.com/2025/05/14/b...
Black Tax: The Back-to-Back-to-Back Breaking of Black Hair, Black Bank Accounts, and Black Beauty Salon Culture by Exodus Oktavia Brownlow - CRAFT
Spring 2025  When did Black women get so impatient with our own selves? Is what I think alongside sitting underneath a hooded hair dryer for thirty minutes, the plastic cap bubbling a brewing smell of...
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July 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Here it is! Our ✨amazing✨ MAY ISSUE!

As always, much love & gratitude to our contributors 🥰
WORDS: John Jodzio, @joshdenslow.bsky.social , @cindyhouse.bsky.social & theoceanisgay.bsky.social
ART: Natalie Christensen
PLUS: Barrak Alzaid reviews noam keim

Start reading now! buff.ly/h13a7FK
Minimalist photograph of an adobe wall. Its sunlit, coral-and-salmon surface is etched with dancing cracks. Geometry and shadow are in sharp play against a boundless blue sky.
May 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
thelizcrowder.bsky.social
Asked my toddler for a little space so I could take a cute selfie and this was his best and only attempt
April 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
thelizcrowder.bsky.social
Can’t believe he was ever this small 💕
April 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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landrewhuffman.bsky.social
Have a little weird one out today with @havehashad.com! Pleased as punch to get my second skull!
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · Mar 16
one of those pieces that just wowed me with language, and a classic example of something feeling so amazingly and perfectly capturing HAD vibes that I hadn't known existed until I read it

from L. Andrew Huffman:

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-w...
March 16, 2025 I woke up dead. L. Andrew Huffman I woke up, dead. I dead, woke up. I woke up the dead. I woke up and you, dead, woke up. No, I woke up, and you, dead, did not. You, dead, did not roll over to sock me in the shoulder until I turned off the alarm. I, not dead, snoozed my alarm until I was late to work. I woke up dead and you did not wake and at the table I sat, dead, eating a fried egg and egging on the brain fried online. Up, up here, not dead, I am down for anything today. Strangers making eye contact, I can do that. Elevator’s full of people with elbows that jab into my ribs, I can do that. I can do not dead things. I sat at the table and you, dead, sat across from me. You looked wrong, your head lolling to the side. You are up to something, I know that. I know you are trying to surprise me. Dead, you are. I am. I read a book when I was a kid and failed grammar class. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. Punctuation matters. Punctuation changes how a life is described. I try to write a sentence that will bring you back, but I can’t. I want to wake you up, wake up, wake up the dead, but instead my days are punctuated with remembering.
March 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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lumchanmfa.bsky.social
so I kissed her for the first time, and the girl I love was all teeth and nerves

omg... this is so good... I AM CRYING...

@aniking.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

pitheadchapel.com/nervous-thing/
Nervous Thing
Ani King The girl I love wears a harness everyday under her shirt, worn brown leather, I made it from the straps of an old saddle myself, I cut the pieces to her measurements and punched the holes …
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March 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
I'm officially open for queries!

I'm specializing in mystery, suspense, thrillers, crime fiction, and upmarket fiction with a sharp edge. I'm drawn to high-stakes narratives, complex characters, and stories that refuse to be put down. More on my website: t.co/d6MEt6LMii
Rosecliff Literary banner with a yellow maze-like swirl
February 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
thelizcrowder.bsky.social
Managed to carve out like five minutes of free time today which feels like a win 💕
February 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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havehashad.com
fire new single sentence story today from Mia Testa!

"...and you want so badly to be having fun but really you aren’t, because he is so gentle and so kind and so patient and you haven’t had sex in months..."
https://www.havehashad.com/34bfu
At a Bar Off Broadway by Mia Testa
You order a double even though the doubles here cost double, unlike where you’re from, because you need it to steady your nerves, because he’s sat right there opposite you, perfect in every way except…
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February 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
Oh my heart, so happy to see With or Without You in such lovely company, and that people are still finding my little rom-com. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/02/13/w...
What the World Needs Now…Is Romance Books, a guest post by Jennifer Rummel
Teen Librarian Jennifer Rummel shares some of her favorite romance books
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February 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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mcarphil.bsky.social
maybe the library booksale will fix me
February 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM