Happy for an acceptance from @okaydonkeymag.com. Look for me in the summer (with stories about winter, natch).
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Happy Earth Day! 💚🌳🌻🌎

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FlashFlood is open! We’d love to receive your subs 😊 Flashes up to 300 words, pre 2023 prev published considered, reserved spots for debut writers. You have until 23:59 on 25 April: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

April 2026 Ten stories picked by Katherine Plumhoff

This month's #Mondettes picked by @kplumhoff.bsky.social

⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Katherine made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing

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Pick a prompt word from each category. (Why I love my writing group.) 💙

Thank you to Ames Free Library for the opportunity to be a writer in residence at their historic Queset House. In addition to a week of glorious time to write, I’ll be hosting a workshop and reading April 28 and 30.

A beautiful ginger boy kitty with nose freckles.

We shall not see his like again. 💔🐈 🌈

Ecotone? Although they take FOREVER.

"Keep Your Visions to Yourself" by Kathryn Kulpa / Trampset Literary Journal Don't give them 4, give them 2 + 2.

From "Keep Your Visions to Yourself" in Trampset Journal:

"I sank down behind my twin bed, winding the phone cord around my wrist, you sat on your bed, doing your nails, rolling your eyes."

@trampset.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social

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A green field shrouded in fog and mist.

Rhode Island or the misty moors of Yorkshire?

Excellent! 💜

Busy getting ready for a new flash workshop I’m teaching at Gemini Ink, but also so grateful to be in the newest HOT FLASH LITERARY! 🔥

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#1, I adore this , and #2, I can’t read it without singing a Cure song. 🎶

LOVE! 🐝🖤💛

Thanks for reading! 🌷

Congratulations! 🎉

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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Thanks so much! 💙

Ready to submit to Gooseberry Pie’s writing competition? Submissions are open. Cash prizes. Submit here:

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Thanks, Claudia!

So glad you enjoyed it, Matt!

OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz

Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

Thanks so much!

Thanks for reading! 🖤

Thanks for reading!

This story hits so hard. 🔥🔥🔥

Thanks for reading & sharing! 🖤

"A buffer zone, a bridge from inside to out." Sober House by Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link below and enjoy

Thanks for sharing! 🖤

Yay! Excited to read this. Thanks! 🎉