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Perry Is So Special By Jeff Harvey Perry stole an issue of People Magazine, the one with Tony Orlando on the cover, and placed it in an old fruitcake tin, hidden under his bed along with his diary, pictures of Joe Nam…

I have a new piece up at @brightflash1500.bsky.social Thanks to Kristen Henderson for publishing Perry Is So Special and @writesofkathryn.bsky.social for her
edits.

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"Instead of moving to California" by Jeff Harvey @jhhwriter.bsky.social is today's 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com

Gooseberry Pie Lit-Annual Writing Competition - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Ryutaro Tsukata: pexels.com It’s almost April which means National Gooseberry Month is just around the corner. In celebration we are having our third annual writing contest with $1,100.00 in ...

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Issue 41 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Gooseberry Pie’s annual writing competition begins April 1, 2026. Please be sure to read this post for all the details including our guest judge Dan Crawley’s writing prompt. Total cash prizes of $110...

Glad to have 2 micros in issue 41 of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social 🙏 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-41/?fb...

Mythic Picnic on X: "MICRO MAYHEM v4 Mythic Micros by @Madeleine_write @melostrom @angela_joynes @jenwithwords @JohnTures2 @amy_grech @AniketSanyal6 @happymil_ @mooninabucket @Koss51209969 @KennethMGRAY2 & @OfferKuban Curated by @NathanBorn2010 / Nathan Pettigrew #MythicPicnicTweetStory === ===" / X MICRO MAYHEM v4 Mythic Micros by @Madeleine_write @melostrom @angela_joynes @jenwithwords @JohnTures2 @amy_grech @AniketSanyal6 @happymil_ @mooninabucket @Koss51209969 @KennethMGRAY2 & @OfferKuban Curated by @NathanBorn2010 / Nathan Pettigrew #MythicPicnicTweetStory === ===

Pleased to have work in Mythic Picnic alongside other fine work by @happilander.bsky.social, @mooninabucket.bsky.social, @melostrom.bsky.social, @jenwithwords.bsky.social, Aniket Sanyal, @angelajoynes.bsky.social, and others! Thank you, @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social ! x.com/MythicPicnic...

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Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for this publication in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Check out the whole issue, which includes stupendous work by @happilander.bsky.social, @amymarques.bsky.social, @pdforan.bsky.social and others!

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On a Ghostlight Night - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Avi Theret on Unsplash by Pat Foran Fresh off a ghostlighting incident that left him clear-eyed and cold, the horse we rode in on didn’t seem to mind that we didn’t seem to know what we signe...

I have a piece with ghostlighting and the horse we rode in on in it in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. Thanks so much @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including this one in Issue 40. gooseberry-pie.com/on-a-ghostli...

Issue 39 (2nd Anniversary Issue) - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Andrew S on Unsplash This is hard for me to believe but it’s Gooseberry Pie’s 2nd anniversary. I launched in December 2023 with our first issue published on January 18, 2024. I want to thank ...

This 2nd anniversary issue is a stunner! @jhhwriter.bsky.social
Can't wait to read all these brilliant writers.

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Happy to have my story in the second anniversary issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social and congrats on your second anniverary. gooseberry-pie.com/pumpkin-cupc...

I'm thrilled to have my story "Knots" in this knock-your-socks-off 2nd anniversary issue! Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social and @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. Here are links to "Knots" and Issue 39. gooseberry-pie.com/knots/ 🥳

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Prattlefog & Gravelrap | Matt Kendrick | Substack A monthly article series about the elements of short fiction: ideas for rocket-boosting your writing craft, reading recommendations, and other writing-related ramblings. Click to read Prattlefog & Gra...

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So pleased to be here. Big thanks to EIC @jhhwriter.bsky.social for being a real editor and suggesting amends to enable him to reconsider. Reader, I listened to him.

Restaurant: A Sort Of Love Story - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Getty Images Unsplash+ by Sarah Freligh For months they bumped butts, unavoidable outcome of their back-to-backness and the proximity of their tiny islands in the vast tangerine sea of the cr...

“Mentally, they ranked each other—the yeast of her loaves, the prime cut of his.”

the “back-to-backness” in this by @sfreligh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/Restaurant-A...

Prisoner No 10 At The Hershey County Jail - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Khaled Ossama on Unsplash by Amy Barnes Christmas songs play on the exercise yard loud speakers because it is December, not because we’re allowed to celebrate in our chocolate prison that som...

“I unwrap the candy bar my mom sent me for the holidays with its pictures of snow drifts on the wrapper, and think for a moment I’ve seen a glimpse of my family’s Christmas, but …”

@amygcb.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/prisoner-no-...

August - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo Getty Images/Unsplash+ by Kim Steutermann Rogers When box turtles seek the muck of ponds and skunks the undersides of back porches. When late summer scorches squirrels and bird baths desiccate, ...

“When the days tick off the calendar and the anniversary inevitably rolls around, what I really want is …’

@kimsrogers.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/august/

The Guy I Dumped In The Iowa Cornfields On The Way To His Grandparents’ House - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Amr Taha™ on Unsplash by Melissa Llanes Brownlee  The guy I dumped in the Iowa cornfields became my boyfriend in my senior year of high school and I let him steal me from his friend, the nice...

“… and I let him steal me from his friend, the nice one, because I wasn’t nice and neither was he. The sex was at-the-beach-and-in-the-McDonald’s-bathroom-and-behind-the-bleachers fun.”

@lumchanmfa.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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Selena Apple - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Amr Taha™ on Unsplash by Lynn Mundell It was Gran’s 80th birthday, but that was before Little Charles ate the Gravenstein, his teeth in their green braces going at the fruit like a toy combin...

“… some said Selena Apple had spoken to them in her distinctive monotone, a few, probably liars, even saying she had offered advice on how to heal their maladies, including non-issues like skin tags.”

@lynnmundell.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/selena-apple/

Housewarming - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by James Garcia on Unsplash by Dawn Miller We slip through wall studs, step over chalk outlines of counters, vanities, that over-sized quartz kitchen island we’ve always wanted in this, our firs...

“… yet isn’t it the ultimate dream to sit with the one who knows you best, who knows the deepest parts of you and stays?”

@dawnwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/housewarming/

Diwali Fireworks - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Harsh Gupta on Unsplash by Sudha Balagopal Three days after she returns from her holiday-wedding-honeymoon, Ma invites us for Diwali, like it’s just another year of celebration, when Pa’s bee...

“… until I breathe-squint-breathe-squint into the darkness …”

@sudhab.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/diwali-firew...

Triple-Digit Fire Weather - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Lawrence Crayton on Unsplash by Dawn Tasaka Steffler When we exchanged our wedding vows, my husband said I was the only woman who ever tamed the rabid wolverine in his soul; in my presence, h...

“I wake from these dreams with a panicky fluttering in my throat, like wings beating in a too-small space or some small rodent throwing a thin layer of dirt over itself.”

@dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/triple-digit...

God Jul! - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Unsplash+ by Kathryn Silver-Hajo Our parents argue about everything—like mom’s a vegetarian, but dad insists on bringing home a brisket or chicken livers from his butcher shop every night and...

“… and I poke Ralph ’s ribs, say, *what if they killed each other* and he whines, *or ran off and left us all alone with no extra-ricotta lasagna or almond cake for our Yuletide dinner*.”

@kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/god-jul/

The Day I Went Missing - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Unsplash+ by Jessica Klimesh There were no gifts last year (or any previous year)—no tiered cake or pink champagne, no celebratory pomp at all—so this year I asked the mayor if the town might...

“… I explained to her that it was simply a celebration of the day, twenty years back, when I’d gone missing, just up and left my previous life and drove my Ford straight off the edge of the world …”

@jekwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-day-i-we...

Solstice Wonder - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Harm Weustink on Unsplash By Amy Marques ~After Kafka’s A Little Fable: “Alas,” said the mouse, “the world is growing smaller every day.”  Ah, little one, says the owl whose orange eyes are t...

“My world may be vast, my friend, but it is not deep, not close, not my own, for I have not grown large enough to learn how to make myself small.”

@amymarques.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/solstice-won...