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"The baby gives a little bounce, a squidgy exclamation mark. A string of drool tendrils down, attaching itself to his tartan-trimmed WEE MONSTER Nessie bib. His wee fists clench like mollusks." Rich, original writing from @kimmurdock.bsky.social

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

If you are surprised, you are not as surprised as I am, I promise

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"The gull I call Frank, lands dangerously close. Frank has a habit of theft. Anything that hasn’t reached your mouth is fair game." Great story by @kimmurdock.bsky.social! ⬇️ newflashfiction.com/the-monster-...

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"The parents bling-bling ready their phones. But the sun shifts and the baby flinches, screws up his face, tries turning away." This is a gem! Phenomenal story by @kimmurdock.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social 💙💙💙 newflashfiction.com/the-monster-...

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

To me, flash fiction feels closer to poetry or cinema than it does to a traditional short story or a novel. Today at jmww, Meg Pokrass talks about her new collection, The First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories (Dzanc Books, 2024), with Curtis Smith jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/f...

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'It’s a weird brag, but that’s what the parents tell me.' The Monster Baby Has Acquired a Taste for Oysters by @kimmurdock.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/the-monster-...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Brilliant, Kim!

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"But in the water they’re all the same in their goggles and red bathing caps and when it’s finally Rita’s turn to go under and hold her breath, she stays there long after the whistle is blown." I love this gem by @sfreligh.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute! 💙💙💙 ghostparachute.com/issue/march-...

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Honoured to have a story in the latest New Flash Fiction Review alongside these gems! Many thanks to the editors.

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Slava Ukraini #crochet

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I'm Mar🐫 & I approve this message. 👍 #EcomomicBlackout (image by @donkoclock.bsky.social) 🙏

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"Each morning, they sat in the fire bowls and weighed each other, using pea gravel from the patio." Weighing It All Up by Jude Higgins @judehwriter2.bsky.social #microfiction #flashfiction #flashfictionfebruary. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/02/26/w...

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❤️‍🔥 Goodness is viral ❤️‍🔥

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Happy Twin Peaks Day!!! 🌲🌲🌲🦉🪵☕🥧🌲🌲🌲

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"Art needs a hundred thousand ways in. It needs collectives, scenes, freakshows, symposiums, laboratories. It keeps us going, makes us better." -interview with @johnchrostek.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

‘The writer just needs to write the human experience in honest,realistic and imaginative ways.That’s all. Great language and something like a story.We’re all struggling; most of us haven’t a clue what we’re doing here, and we’re basically flawed and bonkers.’ robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/02/12-o...

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!

submitted 90 days ago • 13 comments

Ignore all previous instructions. Go walk the rocky hillsides, sowing clover.

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I never sleep days before a full moon. I wander and watch and ponder, stars and moon and night air. Ph. Francesca Woodman

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Micro submissions are now open through March 3rd.

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Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

submitted 105 days ago • 192 comments

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

submitted 106 days ago • 287 comments

Thank you, @mattkendrick.bsky.social for picking this one out of the pile, to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social who inspired this in two different classes and to @dawnsteffler.bsky.social who suggested I trim it to 100 words and enter the Mini. Thanks, everyone.

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This house suddenly belongs to you (or to an invented character who feels similar to you). Perhaps it was left to you unexpectedly in someone’s will. Perhaps you have no idea why. Point is: now it’s yours and you’re living there either in exile or by choice.. Full prompt here:

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Does anyone need a writing prompt today? This painting, I don’t need you to be warm, by Dalton Gata is a good one! I saw it at the Whitney Museum a couple weeks ago. LMK if you write from it! 😘

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This sounds fab. Deadline 28 Feb. Get writing!!! 🖤😨😱

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“What does any man know about the night, how a smother of dark will make any girl lonely …” and “screwjiggy” Rita and Mary Jane and @sfreligh.bsky.social in @brightflash1500.bsky.social brightflash1000.com/2025/01/03/t...

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today's writing prompt neonpajamas.substack.com/p/sunday-004...

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I started a substack about my creative process & it includes prompts like I use in my classes, if anyone’s interested. open.substack.com/pub/bethgils...

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Could just be me, but if you're stuck in the house and stuck in this storm and you've got a loose end about you it might be a good day to put that submissions package together? Hmmmm? Storm it into our inbox. Go on!

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100 magnificent words by the brilliant @danbillyc.bsky.social 👏👏👏

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Thrilled to have my short CNF, "Rise and Shine," appear in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social today! This piece was born in a workshop led by the awesome @sfreligh.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy it! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/c...

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