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If you haven't registered yet, there's still time! THIS FRIDAY 2/28 8pm EST Zoom launch for ALL THE DEAD WE HAVE YET TO BURY. Celebrate with us!!! @chestnutreview.bsky.social @amymarques.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kimsrogers.bsky.social 💢Register here: forms.gle/VFivbPHzEfqq...

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Book Mail!! Powerful stories I adore and have read over and over again and amazing new ones to me. ❤️ A gorgeous achievement @marioaliberto3.bsky.social! Looking forward your zoom book launch this Friday, 2/28! Link to purchase: a.co/d/6aF4B6s

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Belated book mail... listen, y'all should read this. Gorgeous and painful and visceral. One of my favorite flash stories is in here, but there are so many others that just flattened me. Congrats on the book, KOSS. DANCING BACKWARDS TOWARDS PLUPERFECT

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That night as we lay in bed, no light coming through the curtains I closed tight enough to keep out the moon, you said not to worry, that you’d protect me from my fear. For just a moment I thought maybe I’d let you try. So Good! @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

When we return home, the hall light, flickering on and off, gives the apartment the half-finished quality of a dream. Elliot is chopping onion finely as her lover Oliver watches. Nadia, our adopted poet, enters through the front door. Love/joy encapsulated Afri Arebu in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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imagining golfers, stroking their clubs, screaming fore as they swung, their balls flying into the blue of the sky hooooo, dis one, steamy! 🥵 @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

He shivered. If he was going to continue to sit out there, he should probably go inside for Margaret’s blanket. He glanced back towards the house but he did not move. I loved this one more each time I read it, a beautiful, evocative piece @davidbevan.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social

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Excited for my first FBOMB reading this Friday! And LOOK 👀 at that amazing line up! Link to register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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I cannot wait to read this!!!

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Cool—the way your granny greets you after she learns you're only there to visit and not to bring her home. read this poignant hermit crab 🖤 from @cbigs.bsky.social RAW LIT

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In the third month at that reform school, she stole the bleach from the laundry room, gulped it down, breathing in fumes, her esophagus blazing from the liquid flowing back upward. Maybe Mom can take my body home if I die. beautiful and terrifying all at once Yiru Zhang @nimrodjournal.bsky.social

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She orders a selfie stick but prefers when Aimee takes photos of her. She lies on her bed with her arms folded and her skin covered in a fine dusting of gypsum powder. Make me look dead, she says. Aimee poses her and poses her. wow! @jjlofflin.bsky.social @wigleaf.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

he told others that Helena was his servant, and Francine his niece, Descartes planned to move to France with them, so his daughter could be educated there. But when she was five, Francine caught scarlet fever. Three days later, she died Historical & wonderfully odd Sharon Wahl @wigleaf.bsky.social

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“Thankfully, you don’t see the sales lady’s face—perplexed at first, and then disapproving—when I’m the one taking a seat on the sofa and you’re the one entering the dressing room.” @dawnsteffler.bsky.social | @inshort.bsky.social inshortjournal.com/dawn-tasaka-...

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My mother told me on the phone about the suicide, an offhand do-you-remember-so-and-so? It figures that I’d be drawn to the teacher harboring darkness inside. @jacqdoyle.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

So many have written to me today about this poem in the last few days (here in @londonreview.bsky.social )(also in my book To 2040) that I thought I’d post it. Thank you for returning it to my attention. I wrote it two years ago. It already felt scary then… www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Thrilled to be nominated for this! Warm thanks to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and the other editors at the amazing @unchartedmag.bsky.social. Congratulations to the other nominees! 🎉🎉🎉

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

You and Meg hug throughout dinner. She’s stopped coaxing you to flee. You both know what happens to women who are caught. dystopian but it honestly doesn't feel far off. @claudiamonpere.bsky.social is giving me the shivers once again. @fracturedlit.bsky.social

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‘Your father couldn’t make a living from land and drowned in debt,’ she yelled at Appa. ‘Your mother refuses to leave that awful place. And you want to take our daughter there?’ Love how this story unfolds, slowly confirming my fears @sudhab.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I love this CNF by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @inshort.bsky.social . Please take a moment to read it and share it. It's heartbreaking and strong and brave and vulnerable all at once. inshortjournal.com/dawn-tasaka-...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

This is one of the most honest and beautiful pieces of writing I’ve read in a long long time. Read it! By @dawnsteffler.bsky.social

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I close my eyes and lean my head back against the wall. I know this isn’t my fight. But you’re only becoming more sensitive, more soft-spoken. And this world likes to break fragile things. @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in In Short! inshortjournal.com/dawn-tasaka-...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

"I guestimate your size, select some pretty bras, and lead you to the fitting room. Thankfully, you don’t see the sales lady’s face—perplexed at first, and then disapproving" Stunning CNF @dawnsteffler.bsky.social inshortjournal.com/dawn-tasaka-... #flash #flashfiction #Flashlit

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

UNDER A MONTH TO GO! 🤩 You have until 15 Feb to enter @natflashfictionday.bsky.social’s Micro Fiction Comp 🌟 No theme, up to 100 words, judged by @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social @uksherka.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social and me. Every day, I’ll be posting a dazzler to get you inspired ✨ Thread 🧵

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Not sure if my butterflies are from excitement or apprehension. But this is my first CNF! Another piece from my collection about the challenges/joys of parenting queer kids. Much ❤️ to everyone at In Short & EIC Steph Liberatore for holding space for this topic. inshortjournal.com/dawn-tasaka-...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Absolutely stunning story. A must read. @sfreligh.bsky.social @welkinprize.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

On Small Acts of Defiance, a wee 🧵 I grew up in an abusive environment, but I still have to go back there once in a while. Now that we’re all faced with an abuser in power, I thought I’d share something that’s helped me in my personal situation, in case it helps anyone else. (YMMV, obvi) 1/10

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