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We have a great new piece today from Kathleen Hellen! Check out “how to identify birds by sound.” lost-balloon.com/2025/02/19/h...

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A compact lesson in the power of story structure by @megaretadams.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social

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I have a flash fiction story out in @lostballoon.bsky.social, “The Medical Resident Leaves Her Husband.” I continue to find dark humor in subverting medicine's clinical guidelines. Thanks @chelsvoulgares.bsky.social and the Lost Balloon team for publishing this! lost-balloon.com/2025/02/12/t...

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New story today! Check out “The Medical Resident Leaves Her Husband” by @megaretadams.bsky.social! lost-balloon.com/2025/02/12/t...

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We have deleted our Twitter account! Please tell all your writer friends to follow us here.

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"He now clutches me less like bone porcelain and more like a winning lottery ticket, like deep-rooted sage grass at the edge of a cliff.." Beautiful line after beautiful line.

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LB’s BSF noms are posted!!!

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It's time to submit to @lostballoon.bsky.social! We're open through Feb 7! lost-balloon.com/submit/

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So honored to have “Kryptonite” nominated for BSF @lostballoon.bsky.social. Huge thanks to editors @chelsvoulgares.bsky.social and @madelineanthes.bsky.social and to the wonderful @kathyfish.bsky.social for the workshop that inspired my story! ❤️🙏

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I’m so thrilled to be nominated 😊 Thank you @lostballoon.bsky.social 🙏 🩵📚

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We are delighted to announce our nominees for Best Small Fictions!!! @amadolaila.bsky.social @kelliborges2.bsky.social Cameron Mackenzie, Nora Esme Wagner, and Yasmine Yu!

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"I asked Billy to tea or something stronger back home, and it was like past me ripped that bus ticket up and tossed it into the river." Great work from @lkardos.bsky.social

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“Someone once told me that perimenopause is like a train crashing over an already seeping oil spill. Insomnia and hot flashes and mine and Craig’s divorce and zero call-backs and the cherry on top was Mom’s diagnosis.” Lauren Kardos | @lostballoon.bsky.social lost-balloon.com/2025/01/29/g...

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Hello beautiful friends. @lostballoon.bsky.social will open on Saturday for the first time in 2025. We need your art and your words, now more than ever. We're only open for the first week of Feb, April, June, Aug and Oct! Plan accordingly and send us your best. lost-balloon.com/submit

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my first spicy flash 🌶️ thankful for the @smokelong.bsky.social fitness prompt that gave me the courage and for absolute dream mag @lostballoon.bsky.social for giving it a home!

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We have a great new piece today from Lauren Kardos! Check out “Gentle.” lost-balloon.com/2025/01/29/g...

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Here's a prose poem! Shout out to the Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota and Sufjan Stevens lol... Much love to @lostballoon.bsky.social for featuring this one!

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"sometimes I hear that “terms and conditions may apply” because even in an MRI machine, there’s ads. A man designed it, one of the technicians says" Wonderful dovetailing between different tones and narrative elements in this piece from @lissatorres.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social

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We have a great new piece today from @lissatorres.bsky.social! Check out “The Golden Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals.” lost-balloon.com/2025/01/22/g...

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We’ll have new work tomorrow, but don’t forget to read this great piece!

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Congratulations to @ezhang77.bsky.social! Her piece from Lost Balloon will be in the new Best Microfiction anthology!!!

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Ahhh I can’t believe I got chosen!! 😭😭😭 Thank you so much @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social and @lostballoon.bsky.social and congrats to the other winners!!!

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We have a great new story today from Terena Bell! Check out “Hit and Run.” lost-balloon.com/2025/01/15/h...

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We have a great new piece today from @sethwade.bsky.social! Check out “The Pool Boy at Dracula’s Castle.” lost-balloon.com/2025/01/08/t...

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What a delight to be among these writers, nominated for Best Microfiction—thank you, @lostballoon.bsky.social 💗

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Thank you so much @lostballoon.bsky.social for this nomination!!

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Many thanks to Lost Balloon for this nomination 💕

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Many thanks to Lost Balloon for the nom!

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Congratulations to our nominees for Best Microfiction!!!! Elissa Cahn, Katherine Schmidt, @ezhang77.bsky.social @paulwrites7.bsky.social @jessiepaige.bsky.social

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We have a great new piece today from Caitlin O’Halloran! Check out “The Magic of Scrambled Eggs.” lost-balloon.com/2024/12/18/t...

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New flash fiction is live @lostballoon.bsky.social ! 💙

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"...I hold onto him tight and feel everything I need to feel about rollercoasters and the sky and the way the world tilts and spins and coasts forward without us." New work by Allison Field Bell in @lostballoon.bsky.social. @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social #writer lost-balloon.com/2024/12/11/c...

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"I want and don’t want. My body wants. My body feels some existential doors closing and it has jammed its foot in and demanded to be served." So many brilliant lines in this piece of writing by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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