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Trash Cat Lit
@trashcatlit.bsky.social
Online magazine for flash and short fiction.
Chill Subs 2024 Community Favourites Flash Fiction #7
https://trashcatlit.com/

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Editor: JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social

Read Stories: https://trashcatlit.com/treasured-words/
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We're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Do you prefer your fiction with a little steam? Aching passion and fiery love? We got two for you ❤️‍🔥
Like the perfect lover, we only got teases for you today - go buy the book for the full reveal 🦝
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

@terryholland.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Like stories where things aren't what the seem? Little off-kilter? Discombobulating?
We've 3 crackers in our print anthology - alongside 24 other short treasures. 🦝
Be teased, be tempted, then go buy for charidee!
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

@lozzawriting.bsky.social
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Today's teases from our gorgeous charity print anthology are from stories exploring family loss and uncovered family secrets.
Stunning work from @joycebingham.bsky.social @mikepiero.org @clareobrien.bsky.social

Get a copy and enjoy all 27 short fictions:
mybook.to/WhatComesToL... 🦝
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
There are 27 short fictions in our print anthology - two of them deal beautifully with stories of escape 🦝
If these teases tempt you, you can grab a copy for less than £10!
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

What Comes to Light by @quickasaflash.bsky.social 💜
Thin Place by @justine1902.bsky.social 💜
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We are blumming chuffed to share our nominations for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social
Amazing stories that deserve to go all the way 🦝💜

@sarahkat.bsky.social
@terryholland.bsky.social (in print)
@joeluscombe.bsky.social
@timothycgoodwin.bsky.social
@bronwengriffiths.bsky.social (in print)

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November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Like stories with an unusual narrator?
We've a couple of stunners in our print anthology - hear from the POV of a river and a sentient badger in pieces by Karen and An.
There're 25 more tremendous short fictions - and it's all for charity.
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We have just made it for our October newsletter!
News and Subs and SO MANY Trash Family successes incl. @cbigs.bsky.social @madeleinewrite.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social @angelajoynes.bsky.social @leighloveday.bsky.social @meproctor.bsky.social and more!!

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October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We hope your pumpkins are full of treatsies 🦝🎃
Here are some strange tales from our archive for the season...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Like your story-reads with a smidge, or even a pantwetting load, of laughs? Our print anthology has 3 corking tales to whet your giggle-box.
With 24 other amazing reads inside - grab one.
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

Teases from @mrallanmiller.bsky.social @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social & Shayla Felix
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reposted by Trash Cat Lit
I finally watched Weapons last night and really enjoyed it! So much fun.

If you also loved this movie, you might like my 300-word “Last Rites of Spring”, first published by Sage Cigarettes in 2024, reprinted by @trashcatlit.bsky.social (with audio)
earlier this year:
trashcatlit.com/last-rites-o...
Last Rites of Spring
Mark Peters Listen to Mark’s story – read by Nefeli Vidali Content Warning murder of parent and a parakeet On the morning of March 19th, dozens of children across the Eastern Seaboard s…
trashcatlit.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Want your reading chops round something uncanny and yet agonisingly relatable?
Yeah, so we have that in our print anthology - and another 24 stories to boot.
Raising money for charity, go grab a copy...
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

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October 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Want to read something a little folky, a little mystical?
Our print anthology has that among its 27 glorious short fictions.
Here are some teases to tantalise your storybuds 🦝

Then click here to buy our book and help raise money for charity 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

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October 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
October 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We're returning from a socials break to share that 40 copies of our first print anthology have been purchased - which equates to around £127 for our chosen charity 😀
Please consider grabbing a copy of this stunner, with 27 flash and short stories, and let's raise more 🦝
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October 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Leigh has set the challenge Trash Family and friends - let's see your books with your cats (and other pets!) 🦝🐱
Got one! Nice tactile paperback of What Comes to Light, a @trashcatlit.bsky.social charity anthology with a story by me and 26 better ones by other writers. But how many of them have taken photos with cats in? Get a copy! All proceeds to the Wildlife Trusts! Save a stoat! mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
October 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A wonderful shoutout from @matgost.bsky.social for our print anthology, What Comes to Light and the fabulous Silent Screams in which our Ed has some quiet horror 🖤

mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Three amazing charity anthology projects just landed...
My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social
Read all about them here:
matgost.substack.com/p/silent-scr...
October 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A treasure amongst treasures - where is your copy of What Comes to Light?
Twenty-seven incredible short fictions available to buy now and raising funds for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

Find out more and get story teases here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
October 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
September 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Check out the webpage for our upcoming print anthology. We have added story teases from our twenty-seven amazing contributors to tantalise your readerly appetites🦝💜

trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
What Comes to Light 2025
Edited by JP Relph Coming late September 2025 is our first print anthology to raise funds for UK charity, The Wildlife Trusts. The theme for this submission call was Treasure in Unexpected Places, …
trashcatlit.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The paperback proof of our upcoming anthology is getting some last-minute editorial attention from Mary. She's ruthless! but also chonky so one could say, the proof is with the pudding 🦝😼
Not long now until the book can be in your cat's paws too!
September 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Fab new literary awards from @monarch.gay and we are thrilled to send our two nominations.
Good luck @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and @mikepiero.org 💜💜
September 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
September's newsletter is live 🦝
We've got subs, Trash Family stuffs from @cbigs.bsky.social @matgost.bsky.social @meproctor.bsky.social & @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, three quick reads from Genrepunk Award nominees and some autumnal ekphrastic writing prompts 🧡

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Hello from the welcome chill of September
Welcome to our latest newsletter. We have news, submission stuffs, Trash Family publications, Quick Reads from award nominees and a seasonal ekphrastic writing prompt.
trashcatlit.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
2nd spotlight and another awesome take on 'Morgue' 🦝
We loved @madeleinewrite.bsky.social's wrangling of the prompts into this creepy, cinematic noir with real heart and an MC we want more of.
Prompts: Morgue/ Funeral Home, Ghost, Falling

Read and listen here: trashcatlit.com/friday-night...
September 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Today we have 2 stories that should be TV shows 🦝
We loved @muchadoaboutnil.bsky.social's reluctant hero figuring out his weird gift. This builds wonderfully to a chilling end.
Prompts: Morgue/Funeral Home, Nightshift Worker, Unwanted Gift

Read and listen here: trashcatlit.com/rubbernecker/
September 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM