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A piece of beauty and laughter, holding strong those darker truths. ‘Little shits’ ❤️ Bravo Sumitra. #nffd2025 @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social

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Still reading and feeling from yesterday’s #nffd2025 stories. Here’s one that channels pure joy : ‘The glass is cold in the forest night. I find I do not mind so much.’

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FlashFlood: 'Ghost Grapes' by Sarah Freligh #nffd2025

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Here’s mine! Lovely to be a part of this flood of stories from all over the world. #nffd2025

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It’s National Flash Fiction Day today and @natflashfictionday.bsky.social is publishing stories all day! Check them out #nffd2025

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FlashFlood: Debut Flash: 'To bake an autism pie' by Véro Falco #nffd2025

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FlashFlood: 'How to Overcome a Childhood Fear of Earwigs' by Jan Kaneen #nffd2025

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"Cry louder, she tells the apple. Cry so I can hear you." Oh my heart. @wigleaf.bsky.social @maureenlangloss.bsky.social wigleaf.com

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🎉SHE'S HERE!!🎉 Hugely excited to reveal the beauticious cover of my debut collection COLD TOAST feat. the artwork of renowned 70s artist Tim Mara 🔥 Out on 15th May! Preorders now available at www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold... #flashfiction #shortstories #popart #printmaking

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Still time to get stories in for Flash Flood’s @natflashfictionday.bsky.social. My little micro ‘I like you when you’re winter sad’ is looking for friends.

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"People do speak well of the dead. There hadn’t been a word about Maeve’s father. Not inside the church." fracturedlit.com/pushed/ Love this story from @fionamckay.bsky.social

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An eye-opening insight into the economics of book publishing in the UK - courtesy of Galley Beggar Press, writing in the @societyofauthors.bsky.social magazine

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Go go go!

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USA: Chilling verdict against Greenpeace sets an array of deeply damaging precedents on the rights to freedom of speech, association and peaceful protest and puts the very future of Greenpeace at risk. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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Sign up for Walking, Walls, and Writing! Hosted in partnership with @saloneurope.bsky.social this writing and walking workshop will explore the history around @lettretage.de more info and sign up here: buff.ly/f4VuKKA

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So lovely to see submissions ticking in. Get in there! We're open until 15 April. Give us your bold, your brave, your beautiful words. 1 story Max wordcount 500 No previously published material Sim subs are cool, just withdraw asap if needed We read anonymously newflashfiction.com/submit/

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Lidia Yuknovitch @lidiamiles.bsky.social and Brad Listi @otherppl.bsky.social embodying everything I love about what creative dialogue can be: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

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This morning I woke with a cat in my arms. We'd both dreamt about a fox named Beatrice who couldn't trust me when I wore mascara in the snow.

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This: "She ate clean and didn’t smoke and still she almost died and would." Selen Ozturk for @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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Like my mentor #DavidNash, I make work with long timespans: It’s also the art I’m most drawn to… If that speaks to you too, here’s a starter pack of others engaged in serious noticing - through repetition, return, time series & other forms of slow art… go.bsky.app/V6j8hdS

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Brilliant piece from Dani. Worth your time.

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FIRST PLACE in the Welkin Mini 2025. "Nine One One" by @sfreligh.bsky.social. Congratulations, Sarah. A micro that exists on the periphery of the real and the dream, all of it building in such a way that spoke to me on a deeply personal level: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

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So many micro gems in this thread. Thank you @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social‬ for showing us what just a few words can do.

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Read this damn fine thing by @francesorrok.bsky.social Take a trip here to read the end… @wigleaf.bsky.social 🔥

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I'm loving @jmgatford.bsky.social 's Joy of Fixion newsletter, and what a true joy to receive her latest on NY Resolutions: "the focus seems to be more on bragging rights and perfectionism and the fearful avoidance of gross, crushing failure rather than actually just… I dunno, living your life?" ♥️

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Thank you @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for nominating my story ‘Mild surprise on a family holiday’. It’s in great company.

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Vitally important knowledge:

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"Little Paul began walking up behind seated kids and smacking them on the back of the head hard with his lovie, a stuffed bunny." Love this @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social leonliteraryreview.com/issue-28-pat...

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Oh wow this is how it’s done: fracturedlit.com/the-life-of-...

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Extremely rare opportunity that hasn't come up in YEARS: we're open for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our new Short Story/Flash Fiction Book Editor! Details can be found at the link in our bio/linktree (splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/31437...) and threaded: [1/3]

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The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

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Wigleaf! Thank you to Scott Garson and all at @wigleaf.bsky.social for giving this small story its honorary yellow background.

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#a_short_story_per_day December 5, 2024 Sunny Days by Emily Rinkema < @emilyrinkema.bsky.social > www.bullshitlit.com/blog/erinkema A short fiction concerning kids, parents and animals.

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If you really want 1000 Mozarts you abolish pablumatic melody extruders and implement fully solarpunk gay socialism and let people quit wasting their days accumulating bio-survival units, you profligate assbags They're right fuckin' here working three jobs to pay rent

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Great advice from Anne Enright's @otherppl.bsky.social interview: 'I'd make my workspace really precious and nice and clean and centred maybe...and I'd have an idea or not...it's all bullshit! It's in front of you - you have to work it.' podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8...

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