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therelphian.bsky.social
Cumbrian writer. Loves cats, tea, apocalypses and dark botany. Noms for Pushcart, BOTN, Best Small Fics and Best Microfics, Wigleaf longlisted Short fic collection, Know That We Held on Amazon Website, socials and stuff: https://linktr.ee/JPRelph
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Thank you to Thin Skin magazine for giving this piece a home. You can read my story, More Than the Sun and the Moon here: thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...

New Slacks' post is live. Performing pussies, salacious photographs, oversized flaps. It's all here... benettonslacks.substack.com/p/the-most-d...

It's live people - can't wait for you to read these eleven wonderful flash 💜

I am a sucker for an apocolyptic love story! Enjoy this dark beauty from Four Score 84 with desperate abandon."At the End of the World, You Love Whenever You Can" by @therelphian.bsky.social is just perfection. Read it now! It could all go to shit tomorrow! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/at-the-...

Can't wait for you to read these delights 💜

Gooooooooooooood morning! Guess what time it is? Four Score & 84 is live right now. Tell the first person you see in a powdered wig or somethin'. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog

It's here - Issue 84 - and I am proud as pickles in punch to be part of it. Thank you @rfpress.bsky.social It's the apocalypse baby, who you gonna love? 🖤 www.roifaineantpress.com/post/at-the-...

So I just watched eps 1 & 2 of The Last of Us S2. Yeah. I’m not ok

So yeah, coffee ice-cream 😬

A cracking lineup you say [dons jaunty hat], I’ll be there 😀

Kathy knows her flash Trash Fans. This is where our Ed earned her flashing chops. Go check it out if you're thinking about getting into short form 🦝

Wimpy on the Crescent in Carlisle. Burgers and chips served on plates. Tinned strawberries and ice-cream in those weird silver metal bowls we had in the late 80s. None of the other burger places have it down like Wimpy 😍

Sunday it is, I’ll be there 😀

Working with the Ed at Bottle Rocket Mag was fantastic. A really considerate publication. My story The Other Side is published today. I’d love of you had a few minutes to read 🐆 www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/the...

I got mine in, what are you waiting for? Flash fiction up to 500 words. For charity!

We’re thrilled to announce that submissions for Issue 4 open on April 28 - 1 week away! It’s astounding to think that Issue 4 will mark the 1 year anniversary of Underbelly Press. We’re so grateful to everyone who has supported us over the past year.

Still blown away that I’m in this packed, beautiful issue. My flash, Selfheal is on page 104 but take your time and enjoy getting there 🧡

Nobody plays ‘what? I wasn’t doing anything’ like Mary 🤍 #caturday

Get your reading chops round this 😀

Crawling into your inboxes tomorrow like pubic lice, Slacks is back with the plague that gripped the village's nethers for long, terrible weeks. After this, the blog goes fortnightly - to give him, and you, a nice long time for showers and hot cocoas. benettonslacks.substack.com

My salty little seaside story The Dune Tripper is up at seasidegothic.com/feature/the-... (and of course in the printed book) - subscriber only, but all this silty sensation for just a couple of quid? Bargain, surely! 🌊

In a world where nothing is certain and indeed everything's uncertain, one man risks all exposing terrible, intimate things in his reportage of village life. It's Part Four of a four part series. Which means it's the last one. Heeeeere's Nutjob benettonslacks.substack.com/p/when-you-c...

Now, available in audio! Hit the link to hear me read my own story. Go on, everybody loves a Scottish accent, aye?! R's rolling all over the place! Reposts massively appreciated.

Benetton is a little late getting his blog out today! Come meet Headcase benettonslacks.substack.com/p/when-you-c...

It's almost the weekend AGAIN! That means more from Benetton Slacks and the weirdest, filthiest village in all the lands. Like, everywhere. Meet two more of the newspaper staff in this two-day Slackstraveganza 😀 Then SUBSCRIBE for weekendly wonders benettonslacks.substack.com