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francesorrok.bsky.social
Writer on longing / belonging Drawn to the wild ones Words in Wigleaf | Smokelong Quarterly | Gone Lawn | New Ohio Review etc
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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

submitted 91 days ago • 16 comments

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...

submitted 28 days ago • 16 comments

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

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

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?" ♥️

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

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]

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

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)

submitted 85 days ago • 181 comments

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.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 437 days ago • 10 comments

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...

submitted 515 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to reading this issue! Particularly happy that I was fortunate to interview Frances Orrok about her prize-winning story!

submitted 529 days ago • 0 comments

Ok - here but only just! Working it out slowly...

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