Pickle Juice by Kelly Pedro When the water comes, it seeps through the windows. Dad says that’s because the windows are wood and rotten, just like Mom’s teeth, just like her breath that always smells like pickle juice and Mom…

NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“Pickle Juice” by @kellypedro.bsky.social is now up!

Art by @tinamariecox.bsky.social

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CANDACE WEBB: I Insisted on the Beach, and Now This Rock Will Determine the Fate of Our Marriage I frisbee the flattest rock into the water. The ocean roars, but you are silent, arms folded, looking away from me. Sullen because you hate the beach. I hold my breath and wait to see if the rock w…

This is a piece in 50-Word Stories (fiftywordstories.com/2026/04/10/c...) that was posted on April 10. I wrote this story in a flash fiction workshop given by @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social and hosted by Shannon at Flash Fiction Magazine. Thanks for the inspiration and support!

Found this little guy the other day.

I'll have to check these stories out. So, how many stories did you want to have? And how did you whittle them down from 200?! There's so much good flash out there.

My Favourite Author is An Asshat What do you do when the person who inspires you is deservedly cancelled?

She had me at "asshat," but seriously, read Sonal Champsee's Writer Therapy. On point and funny. sonalchampsee.substack.com/p/my-favouri...

Um, yeah, so this happened! Thanks @megpokrass.bsky.social for choosing my weird flash about grief as one of the winners of the CRAFT 2024 Flash Prose Prize. "Pareidolia" will be published April 11 with my craft essay about how this story came to be (hint: it was in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness)!

Woo hoo! Congrats! Not surprised but happy for you!