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lisaalletson.bsky.social
Writer. Lake lover. Wigleaf Top 50 LL. Nominated for Pushcart (x2), Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, BOTN. Words in Atticus Review, Bending Genres, Cincinnati Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, New Ohio Review, Pithead Chapel, Roi Fainéant.
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I lunched with a writer whose award-winning fantasy novels I've loved for decades. I'm a poet and flash writer. I asked my new friend about novel-writing. Quizzed him on structure, perspective, length, and more. He said, don't worry about all that. Just pick up a pen and write. So today I did.

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I concede that on one level the ‘Gulf of America’ idiocy is just a toddler screaming in his sandbox. On another, I wrote a novel 35 years ago, TIGANA, about how tyrants erase (or try to) names, history, art to consolidate their control of people. So, it matters. Symbols do. So does acquiescence.

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

My beloved Mom has been in the hospital since a massive stroke in December. Her spirit is strong, though her body is severely impacted. She laughs, feels. It's in her bright eyes. I understand her intonation and expression. She just wrote my name, and it's the most beautiful artwork I've ever seen.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

"they did I saw them step into thin air and fly" Oh wow, Sarah. What an incredible micro. @sfreligh.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

"You gather up the downy bed blankets. Pull them around your shoulders like a cloak of feathers." This is a phenomenal story by @lisaalletson.bsky.social in @rfpress.bsky.social 💙💙💙 #flashfiction

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you @jomalby.bsky.social for always pairing my words with the perfect image.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

My mother is in a dream world sharper than life. Needles. Beeps. Alarms. Pink nutrition in a dangling bag. Trauma-ICU-Stroke Ward. A breathing tube smiles across her face. I stroke her hair. Sing "Unchained Melody," Dad’s love song to her. She mouths the lyrics, “I'll be coming home, wait for me.”

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

Delighted to have an acceptance from @inkinthirds.bsky.social, a visually stunning print journal. My story will run in the Spring issue. They're open for submissions in poetry, prose, photography, and art. Do check them out! inkinthirds.org

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

Claire Keegan on Small Things Like These: 'I wasn’t setting out to write about misogyny or Catholic Ireland'. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

"Confessions" from Frigg Magazine. ✌️💜

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

off balance— a penguin feather on her shoulder #senryu inspired by @lisaalletson.bsky.social

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

I appreciated this bit of wisdom from Nancy Stohlman in her newsletter, today.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

A thread on 2024. I wasn't prepared for this year's many unravellings, including the early death of our dog at a time our family needed her most. By holding it all together I feel I've become...emotionless, taut. It's hard to open myself to write when I fear the emotions that will escape.

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

"Spectrum" was one of my early ventures into poetry in 2021. The Lumiere Review published it. Sad to hear they no longer exist. But my poem does.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Our chapbook "Are You Willing" is here: bottlecap.press/products/wil... In a @lumchanmfa.bsky.social zoom, I made open invitation to collaborate with source for erasure poems. @pleomorphic2.bsky.social responded with courageous vulnerability. We invite you to eavesdrop on our exchange.

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

I very rarely write CNF. But when Artemis died, I couldn’t find a lot of flash that captured the loss of a much-loved pet. It felt important to me to try and put that feeling into words. Thanks for publishing this, @emergejournal.bsky.social ❤️ 🐈 emergeliteraryjournal.com/artemis/

submitted 89 days ago • 10 comments