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Better get moving! Our early-bird period for #FlashVillain runs out in a week (March 10th). #flashfiction #writingcontest themolotovcocktail.com/flash-villai...

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"Like the Monarch Butterfly, rust-and-mustard panes of its wings black-bordered, stained glass in flight...devourers of milkweed...the leisurely flapping of wings the last thing you see while your heart slows." - #flashfiction by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/vol-1...

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We've got some real gems in Issue 15.6. #flashfiction themolotovcocktail.com/2025/02/28/v...

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We've got some real gems in Issue 15.6. #flashfiction themolotovcocktail.com/2025/02/28/v...

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The Molotov Cocktail does not disappoint.

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That treacherous #FlashVillain early bird deadline will be here before you know it! Send us villainously early entries by March 10th. #flashfiction #writingcontest themolotovcocktail.com/flash-villai...

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Few people know this but you can turn off your phone and read a book

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By request: It’s my honor. My dialysis days were some of my hardest and I met so many amazing people of all ages. One of the single most formative experiences of my life. This story is a little bit me, a little of who I almost was, a little of the people I loved and lost. ✨ 💙 🩸

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Reading is resistance. So we’re reading our favorite banned books. Which are you rereading? Which do you recommend?

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#FlashVillain contest early-bird period is open until March 10th. Send us your malevolent #flashfiction early! #flashfiction #writingcontest themolotovcocktail.com/flash-villai...

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#FlashVillain contest early-bird period is open until March 10th. Send us your malevolent #flashfiction early! #flashfiction #writingcontest themolotovcocktail.com/flash-villai...

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Whether you believe “the scariest villains are the ones who have nothing left to lose” (Gillian Flynn) or “every villain is a hero in their own mind” (Tom Hiddleston), we look forward to reading your cruel creations of misunderstood meanies, nihilistic narcissists, and sick sociopaths.

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There's villainy afoot! #FlashVillain 2025 contest now open to submissions. themolotovcocktail.com/flash-villai...

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#ShudderFridayNightMovie was The Vourdalak. Best vampire puppet not featured on Sesame Street. In all seriousness, I loved this. Presents the vampire (vourdalak) as more folk horror than anything else. Haunting, beautiful, and pleasantly surprising.

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"As grandpa opened the front door to a blue Texas sky with nary a blemish, something came down from above, pierced the porch roof above him and landed beneath the patio floorboards..." The sky is falling in Matthew Senn's "The Sign." #flashfiction themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/vol-1...

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BIPOC writers: send your horror/Weird fiction collection to me by Valentine's Day. I'm excited to see what strangeness and terror you've cooked up: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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"Sylvia was dead. Sylvia with the red ribbons and brown hair. Sylvia with the pretty dresses and shoes. Sylvia whose skin was so pale, she gleamed like the moon." Read "Sylvia" by Sarah Daly. #flashfiction themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/vol-1...

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Random pet peeve: When food is left uncovered in refrigerators in movies (e.g. the plate of chicken in Gremlins). Wrap that shit up!

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The truth is not stranger than fiction, it’s dumber.

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If you're a fan of philosophical #flashfiction with ultra-long titles, read Peter Alsante's "The Fate of Your High School Bully and of Several Generations of Butterflies Now Rests in Your Hands." themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/vol-1...

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One of my 2025 writing goals is to make 12 pro sales, but this raises the question of what exactly IS a pro sale? In today's blog post, I'm gonna see if I can figure that out. Have a look. #writingcommunity #amwriting wp.me/p6jTNd-2jZ

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It’s @molotovlitzine.bsky.social and I posing in front of THE Laura Palmer house from #TwinPeaks one day after the genius #DavidLynch passed away ❤️‍🩹 #LauraPalmer

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New year, new issue. Get reading. #flashfiction themolotovcocktail.com/2025/01/16/v...

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"With David Lynch, I feel like he didn't find the switch. He went right ahead and installed one of his own, flicked it on, and left a light burning somewhere in my core that'll never go out." — @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social on the power of David Lynch popheist.com/your-first-d...

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New year, new issue. Get reading. #flashfiction themolotovcocktail.com/2025/01/16/v...

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This one hurts. The world is a less interesting place today. deadline.com/2025/01/davi...

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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

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Science: you can’t hear a picture Me:

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Least favorite bird: Mockingbird Favorite bird: Flatteringbird

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Mike always did like to be the center of attention.

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Thinking of my dear friends in L.A. right now (I lived there for 11 years). Trying to will some PNW rain your way. I feel so bad for everyone, including the wildlife. 😢

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I dislike the idea of flash as just a shorter, short story beholden to all the rules & constraints of short stories. In that case, it becomes a trick of compression alone, a hurried up, stunted short story that caters to declining attention spans. If you write flash, is that what you're aiming for?

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Not too many submissions so far, but I'd love to see more! If you're a BIPOC writer with a horror/Weird fiction collection that fits the criteria described in the link, consider sending me your manuscript any time this month or the first half of next month: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Years late on this, but somehow didn't get around to watching Midnight Mass until this past week. What a treat! ("Who am I to judge. But, still. ")

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You're doing it again. Stop clenching your jaw!

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We need a specific word to describe the mild satisfaction an introvert feels when somebody else cancels plans.

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Excellent ocean horror from @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social on Molotov cocktail. And to think I’m only hours away from a New Years plunge in the Pacific…

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This year: Got published 5 times, 6 counting podcasts. Won third place (twice) in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social's Killer Flash and Flash Monster contests. Nominated for Brave New Weird, Best American Science Fiction, and a Pushcart Prize. Became a member of the SFWA. Looking forward to 2025!

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Hey. If you start working on your synopsis today, tomorrow you can say you’ve been working on it since last year.

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"Something unseen lived in Charter House, wordlessly dispatching residents, leaving it empty until the window displays on 5th Avenue filled with Christmas decorations and the barometer plummeted." From @colincalexander.bsky.social's "The Giving Season." themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/flash...

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"If I did not rush her into my arms upon immediately seeing the state she was in, it was only because I knew she had drowned three weeks prior." Read "Out of Oneness, Two" by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social, runner-up in #FlashMonster 2024. themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/flash...

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If you haven't yet had a chance to read the space-dog-themed #FlashMonster winner, "Her Name Is Laika," you can remedy that right now. Great stuff from @abbywilliams.bsky.social, and we're not even really dog people. themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/flash...

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