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Some days words come easy, other days I nap with my dogs.
Just read this great story by a new friend, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social who's in my SmokeLong Quarterly workshop. It's fewer than 300 words but it really packs a punch.
✨ Last day of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
Obsessed with the playful irreverence of this one ➡️ “Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab” by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social -
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Obsessed with the playful irreverence of this one ➡️ “Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab” by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social -
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Emily Rinkema June 2024 Second Prize
Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab by Emily Rinkema It’s his turn, and from the back seat he tosses out an easy one. “Would you rather eat a mile of garbage or a mile of …
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July 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Just read this great story by a new friend, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social who's in my SmokeLong Quarterly workshop. It's fewer than 300 words but it really packs a punch.
I'm participating in @smokelong.bsky.social Summer 2025 Writing 2025 program. Got my water wings on and reading to jump in the pool!
May 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I'm participating in @smokelong.bsky.social Summer 2025 Writing 2025 program. Got my water wings on and reading to jump in the pool!
How cool is this?
All the stories from our previous issues are available to read online! 68 speculative stories about our inner lives ✨️🧠❤️✨️ inner-worlds.ghost.io/past-issues/
May 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
How cool is this?
That’s me in there! My story On the Midway takes place at a carnival where the midway prizes are food items. A final game of the night promises to offer one lucky winner the chance at a better life. So what’s the harm in playing?
May 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
That’s me in there! My story On the Midway takes place at a carnival where the midway prizes are food items. A final game of the night promises to offer one lucky winner the chance at a better life. So what’s the harm in playing?
What defines a great writer? When they can pull at your heart by telling an entire story in exactly 100 words.
Read S.C. Mills' new story in 100-Foot Crow Magazine. @100footcrow.bsky.social
Tell me your thoughts. I'm lying on the forest floor myself right now.
Read S.C. Mills' new story in 100-Foot Crow Magazine. @100footcrow.bsky.social
Tell me your thoughts. I'm lying on the forest floor myself right now.
NEW STORY: "How to Move On (After Your Girlfriend’s Treatment Fails)" by @scmillsbooks.bsky.social.
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How to Move On (After Your Girlfriend’s Treatment Fails) - 100-Foot Crow
By: S. C. Mills. Lose yourself amid golden larches, off the trail where you met. Lie on the cold forest floor. Shiver. Her body isn’t here to warm yours. Rest her old wristwatch over your heart. It st...
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April 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
What defines a great writer? When they can pull at your heart by telling an entire story in exactly 100 words.
Read S.C. Mills' new story in 100-Foot Crow Magazine. @100footcrow.bsky.social
Tell me your thoughts. I'm lying on the forest floor myself right now.
Read S.C. Mills' new story in 100-Foot Crow Magazine. @100footcrow.bsky.social
Tell me your thoughts. I'm lying on the forest floor myself right now.
A mini-saga of saltwater passions, who knew lobsters loved so deeply? Melanie Mulrooney knows. Read her micro-fiction and feel the heat. @melmulrooney.bsky.social
today we've got a romantic micro by Melanie Mulrooney @melmulrooney.bsky.social !! it's about lobsters at the bottom of the ocean !
"The neurons of my cardiac ganglion fired, heartbeat racing in anticipation of your tiny feelers running over my carapace."
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"The neurons of my cardiac ganglion fired, heartbeat racing in anticipation of your tiny feelers running over my carapace."
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LAST NIGHT I DREAMT WE WERE LOBSTERS by Melanie Mulrooney
Last night I dreamt we were lobsters. I was tucked behind a rock, hiding from the cod swimming overhead. The bright blue of your claw caught my attention; one in two million, deliciously unique. “You...
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March 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A mini-saga of saltwater passions, who knew lobsters loved so deeply? Melanie Mulrooney knows. Read her micro-fiction and feel the heat. @melmulrooney.bsky.social
It's not just a lark. He can really write. Check out @slothandenvy.com's Galen Gower's mind-bending story "Bird Dreams of Woman."
BAM (!) Issue Six…it’s time⏳→⌛️
4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.
Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.
Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
Issue Six — BROKEN ANTLER
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March 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It's not just a lark. He can really write. Check out @slothandenvy.com's Galen Gower's mind-bending story "Bird Dreams of Woman."
Past is the more natural way of storytelling for me. I might use the present tense for a first person POV in a story filled with tension and suspense.
March 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Past is the more natural way of storytelling for me. I might use the present tense for a first person POV in a story filled with tension and suspense.
@clarkesworldmagazine.com is all class, all the time. Their writers are stellar. So many writers would love to see their stories--their own words--in Clarkesworld and their names on the cover.
Google is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Google is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Seriously Google? How does your "AI" get "but has also faced criticism for publishing AI-generated stories" from the countless news stories written about us NOT WANTING GENERATED STORIES and actively fighting against them. Oh wait, it's not actually intelligent, is it? Just bullshit all the way down
March 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@clarkesworldmagazine.com is all class, all the time. Their writers are stellar. So many writers would love to see their stories--their own words--in Clarkesworld and their names on the cover.
Google is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Google is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Yay, Morgan! A darling cover for your new book. Wonder what happens between these two? Guess we'll have to wait until September.
So it's my *official* cover reveal day even though it's been creeping through as a preview on links lately.
LOOK AT IT. IT'S SO PRETTY.
#booksky #romancelandia
LOOK AT IT. IT'S SO PRETTY.
#booksky #romancelandia
March 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Yay, Morgan! A darling cover for your new book. Wonder what happens between these two? Guess we'll have to wait until September.
Nora is my alpha reader, er, snuggler.
March 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Nora is my alpha reader, er, snuggler.
I’m reading a story I wrote last year over one weekend for a contest. It’s terrible! But I’m going to revise it and eventually submit it.
March 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I’m reading a story I wrote last year over one weekend for a contest. It’s terrible! But I’m going to revise it and eventually submit it.
Check it out!
SUBMISSIONS WINDOW OPEN FOR **BIPOC WRITERS ONLY PLEASE** UNTIL APRIL 1st!
We're looking for 1+ Weird Folk Horror story for our quarterly New Weird magazine THE SKULL & LAUREL, now until April 1st.
Length: 100 to 4999 words
Submissions info here:
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Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
We're looking for 1+ Weird Folk Horror story for our quarterly New Weird magazine THE SKULL & LAUREL, now until April 1st.
Length: 100 to 4999 words
Submissions info here:
tinyurl.com/2na7fhww
Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
THE SKULL & LAUREL open for Short Story Submissions **BIPOC WRITERS ONLY, PLEASE** — tenebrous press
We are looking to accept at least one extra Weird Folk Horror short story from a BIPOC writer. SUBMISSIONS WINDOW: 11th of March to 1st of April This submissions period is for Issue 004 of THE...
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March 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Check it out!
Eleanor Lennox's bittersweet tale of space travel (and the reason for it) is featured in Radon Journal. Congratulations, Eleanor, on this stunning story!
Check it out now!
Check it out now!
“The Fish in the Garden” by Eleanor Lennox will have you avoiding nostalgia at all costs.
Read it in Issue 9 on radonjournal.com.
You can find more of Eleanor Lennox at eleanorlennox.com.
@eleanorlennox.bsky.social
Read it in Issue 9 on radonjournal.com.
You can find more of Eleanor Lennox at eleanorlennox.com.
@eleanorlennox.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Eleanor Lennox's bittersweet tale of space travel (and the reason for it) is featured in Radon Journal. Congratulations, Eleanor, on this stunning story!
Check it out now!
Check it out now!
Charlie Rogers wrote "The Jims" and you can read it here now. Flash fiction has never been so thrilling. I have goosebumps with goosebumps.
"He frowns. I prefer this expression to the smug know-it-all of a second ago, but still I smile a bit as I imagine hammering my fist into his perfect teeth." @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
March 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Charlie Rogers wrote "The Jims" and you can read it here now. Flash fiction has never been so thrilling. I have goosebumps with goosebumps.
A great new 'zine to support. Great people doing great things.
It's a ko-fi thing! Funds 4 paying authors & artists we publish in our zine. Issue 3 open for subs Mar 1-Apr 15 (theme is Dystopian Theme Park, doesn't have to be literal, your interpretation. Subs read by our judges & scored). Send us questions if you have any!
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Support Sloth & Envy Press on Ko-fi! ❤️
We pay our Toad Shade Zine writers and artists what we can upon acceptance. We'd like to be able to pay them pro-rate and keep the zine going.
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February 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A great new 'zine to support. Great people doing great things.
Hey, friends, especially my 11:59ers. Check out this new magazine. Now accepting submissions and paying pro rates. Read the latest issue now!
Our FEBRUARY ISSUE is free to read now at www.mergansermagazine.com ✨🌌
The issue opens with Ian Li’s "Dandelion of Creation", followed by K. Lynn Harrison's "From the Delta Front", Christina Chin's "Scene From A Celestial War”, and Pooja Joshi’s "A Remembered Nightmare.”
@poojajoshi.bsky.social
The issue opens with Ian Li’s "Dandelion of Creation", followed by K. Lynn Harrison's "From the Delta Front", Christina Chin's "Scene From A Celestial War”, and Pooja Joshi’s "A Remembered Nightmare.”
@poojajoshi.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Hey, friends, especially my 11:59ers. Check out this new magazine. Now accepting submissions and paying pro rates. Read the latest issue now!
Sarah Hurd’s story takes you on gossamer wings back in time. If you’re past your quarter-life crisis, you’ll love this one. The artwork is perfection.
NEW STORY⚡️🐸
“In the Slipstream” by @sarlynh.bsky.social is now up!
Art by @keelyhoneywell.bsky.social
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“In the Slipstream” by @sarlynh.bsky.social is now up!
Art by @keelyhoneywell.bsky.social
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In the Slipstream by Sarah Lynn Hurd
We filled our arms with cool bottles of syrupy soda, strawberry licorice, peanut butter crackers, crinkle-cut potato chips—as much as we could carry. Throwing our heads back under the fluorescent l…
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February 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Sarah Hurd’s story takes you on gossamer wings back in time. If you’re past your quarter-life crisis, you’ll love this one. The artwork is perfection.
My friend Cuyler has a story in this great magazine. Intrepidus Ink promotes characters who are fearless in the face of adversity, struggle and overcome. In a time where so many magazines focus on gloom and horror, check out this one where the intrepid succeed.
February 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
My friend Cuyler has a story in this great magazine. Intrepidus Ink promotes characters who are fearless in the face of adversity, struggle and overcome. In a time where so many magazines focus on gloom and horror, check out this one where the intrepid succeed.
Check out This synchronized swimming.
January 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Check out This synchronized swimming.
Isn’t this beautiful and awe-inspiring? I’m inspired by the beauty.
More please! What wonders of nature inspire you?
More please! What wonders of nature inspire you?
In winter through early spring, you can sometimes find unspoiled, still-bright groundcherries sitting in the latticed remnants of their husks, like hearts suspended in paper ribcages
January 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Isn’t this beautiful and awe-inspiring? I’m inspired by the beauty.
More please! What wonders of nature inspire you?
More please! What wonders of nature inspire you?
I'm in the November issue of Wishbone Words!
Order yours today for 50% off using this discount code: WW50FF2E11CB04.
You'll get 250+ pages of book reviews, poems, prose, and art.
And a melancholic redhead on the cover. Coincidence?
I think not!
Order yours today for 50% off using this discount code: WW50FF2E11CB04.
You'll get 250+ pages of book reviews, poems, prose, and art.
And a melancholic redhead on the cover. Coincidence?
I think not!
November 15, 2024 at 11:37 PM
I'm in the November issue of Wishbone Words!
Order yours today for 50% off using this discount code: WW50FF2E11CB04.
You'll get 250+ pages of book reviews, poems, prose, and art.
And a melancholic redhead on the cover. Coincidence?
I think not!
Order yours today for 50% off using this discount code: WW50FF2E11CB04.
You'll get 250+ pages of book reviews, poems, prose, and art.
And a melancholic redhead on the cover. Coincidence?
I think not!
Happy publication day to me! My first work is out today in Wishbone Words online magazine. It's a narrative poem about two people who meet for coffee. One friend talks about how fabulous her life is while the other, chronically ill, debates what to share that will sound interesting. "A Rare Treat"
November 15, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Happy publication day to me! My first work is out today in Wishbone Words online magazine. It's a narrative poem about two people who meet for coffee. One friend talks about how fabulous her life is while the other, chronically ill, debates what to share that will sound interesting. "A Rare Treat"