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‘He decides to move away to an old farmhouse that doesn’t exist on any known map.’ Each time I read that final line, it devastates me anew. @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 🌚 gooseberry-pie.com/the-moon-fil...

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‘Guess what happened to me yesterday. I was at Safeway, and Kate Finnster actually backed her cart out of the pasta aisle because she saw me standing there…’ Ah, my heart. @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 🍞 jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/f...

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Hostile Environments, a collection of dark flash fictions and short stories by the winner of @molotovlitzine.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social @flash500.bsky.social and @bathflashaward.bsky.social novella-in-flash prize Pre-order here www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

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Thank you to everyone who has bought a copy of our new anthology ‘Monsoon’. Copies are available on Kindle and from our bookshop: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...

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‘…a universe of viscera and stars, nurseries for new life.’ Beautiful new micro from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social at Maryland Literary Review (plus, anything featuring David Bowie automatically gets bonus points) ✨ www.marylandliteraryreview.com/blackstar/

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‘…stories of fights and of jobs and of fires and of moments that bled through the T-shirt of most days. And I was a vessel for his out-of-step feelings. Willingly. We were a diesel puddle.’ Gosh, this burns. Jack Barrie in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 🔥 splitlipthemag.com/flash/0625/j...

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🚨 Cat-ran new lit mag on the scene! This is not a drill! 🚨 Love the sound of this. Edited by Claudine and @dehardy.bsky.social - one to keep your eyes on 👀

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‘Inside the ace, there is a mechanical bird in a cage, turquoise, gold, and purple, head held up, beak open.’ That final image will stay with me some time. @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social 🦷

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‘The physicist’s daughter lives an accelerated existence.’ Knew I was going to love this from the first line. @mariegethins.bsky.social in @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social ⚡️

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"and paper, all crinkly like, for flames from them thrusters" Brilliant voice, dazzlng end. @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/sebb...

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‘Auntie June never rushes anything. She smokes slow. Peels potatoes slow. Stays kneeled a second longer than everyone else at Mass. Says things once and then never again.’ This @smokelong.bsky.social story from Sarah Chin, about seeing someone in a new light 📺 www.smokelong.com/stories/ms-p...

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‘I’m now officially on the scoresheet, forever a footnote in the story of a legend. Forever someone.’ Such an evocative scene from Seth Gleckman in the new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social, and I love the questions it raises 🏀 www.smokelong.com/stories/savi...

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‘The food is great if you like roots and celery, and I sure do!’ This story from Jeff Landon in @nffr.bsky.social, chosen by @chriscottom.bsky.social for this month’s #Mondettes from @mattkendrick.bsky.social, absolutely gutted me 🦍

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‘Other days are abstract pictures, blurred swipes of life encased in 24-hour sketches.’ Just love how @jenwithwords.bsky.social captures the way those tiny details can have colossal impacts in @twinbirdreview.bsky.social. That last line is a knockout 🌌

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"...and God knows I’m cack-handed, will probably mess it all up..." Ah, the ending is perfect! @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in Flash Flood! @natflashfictionday.bsky.social

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‘You kissed my hair and said, rain is rain is rain. I smiled, but it fell short inside my mouth.’ Beautifully lyrical writing from @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social; a meditation on weather and scents and connection 🌧️ www.smokelong.com/stories/betw...

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‘I lounge by the infinity pool and ask for a drink that tastes of sky. It comes in a tall glass, deepest blue.’ Just love how this micro from @jackmmorris.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social ends 🍹

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This month's #Mondettes picked by @chriscottom.bsky.social ⚡️Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Chris made these brilliant picks 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/june-2025

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‘Grandma chews slowly, carefully. One chocolate to my four. Five. Six. I suck on a creamy center, and she shoots me a look that says, what else is eating you?’ A startling fugue of a story from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social. I need the Wes Anderson short, like, yesterday 🦆

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Our fathers—both Holy and holier-than-thou—say it’s unnatural, say their boxes are wired wrong. We sit to these comments daily; as every day as pouring the last remains of dust from a cereal box. gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social

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🦘 🥊 Kirsti MacKenzie continuing her streak of killer, voicey knockouts https://www.havehashad.com/uubv6

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shoutout to all the HAD dads! today's square from Richie Zaborowske left me a little stunned when I read it as a submission, making me immediately reread it a couple more times, and it wowed me all over again rereading just now https://www.havehashad.com/ezrmx

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“and God knows I’m cack-handed” A single monologue brings tiny revelations and hopes between the words. Always love work by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social!

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I love the voice in this quiet little gem from @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social and the way the ending suffuses everything that's gone before with light and heart...

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For our readers in the UK and eastward (and night owls in the US), our special competition issue is live! The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction! www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

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