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jamesmontgomery.bsky.social
Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Welkin Writing Prize, The Failing Writers Podcast, Emerge Literary Journal |🌟 HC Bath Flash Award ‘23 & NFFD Micro Competition ‘24 |🥇 Pokrass Prize ‘23 | 🥈 Micro Madness ‘24 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
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‘but for now you smell like bbq and cheap cigarettes and chlorine and our bodies suspend all the anxieties of what’s next.’ @flashfrog.bsky.social - consistently publishing some of the best flash fiction around. Today, this summer spectral from @nadiaborn.com 🏚️

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Gosh, I love flash fiction. I’ve been delving into lit mag archives and some personal favourites from years back with my choices for this month’s instalment of @mattkendrick.bsky.social’s Mondettes, and… stories, man. I don’t know how to say it more eloquently than that 😅 ⚡️ ❤️‍🔥

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‘Once he told me he could feel static in people. I never knew if he meant electricity or loneliness. Sometimes I think I was the static, buzzing just below his threshold for empathy.’ Just love the details and darkly humorous tone in this flash from @mallorysmart.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute 🍺

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‘It’s only a matter of time before I drown in a sea of my own making.’ Beautiful writing from @kiptain.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute, in this flash based on American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. Incredible accompanying art from @amymarques.bsky.social, too 🌙

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‘Not everything that lights us emits light; it can be reflected, he thought, like the moon.’ I love where this flash lives. @rinapalumbo.bsky.social in @brettpribble.bsky.social’s Ghost Parachute 🌂

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‘…whether he’ll return as the slick fish he was back then, slippery creature of babble and splash.’ Brilliant writing from Mikki Aronoff in @soflopojo.bsky.social, so much contained in only six sentences 🐟 www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-37-may...

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‘Soon, she also had no words, just the secret sadness she screamed into the closet when she thought no one was looking.’ Stunning work from @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @havehashad.com 🦋

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‘…she doesn’t seem to care whether she’s eating history or philosophy.’ All-too-human musings in this story from @shiramusicant.bsky.social, featured in @smokelong.bsky.social and originally published in @vestalreview.bsky.social 📄 www.smokelong.com/stories/oppo...

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I mean, COME ON. If you love flash, you know you’re going to love this 😎 🍞 So excited for this debut collection from @kazbarwrites.bsky.social 👏

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‘…you’re lonely for your partner. But you both agreed to avoid each other for a couple of weeks, until things felt safe again. Safe. What even is safe?’ No easy answers here. @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @theforge.bsky.social 🗳️

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‘There’s a weird tightness to Gladys’ leathered face, her leathered fingers still working, when Bernice says, “I don’t think that’s scratching.”’ Guaranteed to raise a smile, this one! @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🦍

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‘He had six Dalmatians, all names starting with the letter “L.” Lulu, Leon, Leonard, Lupe, Lukas, and Little. I asked why “L” and he said he liked the shape the letter made– two lines coming together.’ Funny and heartbreaking and true. Natalie Warther in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🦴

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‘…the mirror a door I could slip through if I were just bright enough.’ Dark and beautifully written - @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social ✨

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Happy to report that a micro of mine first published in Ellipsis Zine will be getting another airing this June 🙂 Thanks to everyone involved with FlashFlood for all their efforts 🌊 @natflashfictionday.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Fab to spend some time with the latest instalment in the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social rainbow series 💜 Especially enjoyed stories from @sagreene1.bsky.social, @jupiterjonz.bsky.social, @jmgatford.bsky.social, @fionamckay.bsky.social and @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social. Thanks, @judehwriter2.bsky.social 🫶

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Our festival package allows you to attend 7 workshops/panels during the weekend out of a choice of over 30. Here’s a panel chaired by @sharontelfer.bsky.social with @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @mariegethins.bsky.social & @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social on writing the 100 word micro

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‘Both are alone over the holidays and she wants to tell him that she is his personal happiness, right there in the church.’ A sharply-written, fragmented new flash from @megpokrass.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social - the light shines in a little more with each new section ⛪️

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Booking this counts as writing, right? 🙃 Nab a ticket now! 🎟️ If you love the form, I can’t tell you what a wonderful weekend getaway the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social is. Workshops and writing and readings, all surrounded by like-minded folk that love flash fiction as much as you do 🩷

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Booking this counts as writing, right? 🙃 Nab a ticket now! 🎟️ If you love the form, I can’t tell you what a wonderful weekend getaway the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social is. Workshops and writing and readings, all surrounded by like-minded folk that love flash fiction as much as you do 🩷

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Friends, have you heard of www.writersworkout.net? They're an amazing, FREE online writer's conference, and they're on YouTube NOW! Here's a 30 min video of me talking about Writing Trauma Without Traumatising Yourself - goes live 5pm EST 17/3. youtu.be/l2_gLFyIu3E

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‘My Petra’s baby. She sends me pictures of the cumulus clouds he made over the years. His first tsunami. The two-week habagat that drenched Davao for days, fucking up my fresh perm.’ How did I miss this?! Such originality from Andy Lopez in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🌪️ flash-frog.com/2025/02/03/f...

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‘…there is room for it—voicemails, our clothes limp on the drying rack, the starchiness of yesterday. One time you ran to the top of a building just to convince someone into tomorrow.’ Oh wow! Such beauty from Jun Ying Wen in @emptyhousepress.bsky.social☀️ www.emptyhousepress.com/issue-thirte...

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‘Spends the morning baptising old fences in a pool of molten zinc, raising them out galvanized silver, before… heading up the town to Delaney’s Hardware for some weed-killer.’ Gorgeous storytelling from @jamesgwriter.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 🌱 fictivedream.com/2025/03/14/w...

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Congratulations to all the winners of the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social micro competition! And if you didn’t manage to sneak into the top 10, don’t lose heart. Get those stories back out there 🌟 So many outstanding examples of the micro form 👏

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