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FlashFlood opens for submissions on 19 April till 25 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Stories will be published on NFFD. Pre 2023 previously published considered. Reserved slots for unpublished writers. For more details see our submission guidelines: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

Congrats, June! 🙌💜

Thaaanks!

Welkin me up!

Dear #WritingCommunity: Paragraph Planet is always seeking your 75-word #stories. One has been published on the home page every day since 2008. Get involved Submit today. (Oh and please spread the word, RT etc ) paragraphplanet.com/submission.php

✨️Dolly appreciation post✨️

Recently submitted to a lit mag with a ~9 month~ response time. Can't wait to announce how much my future rejection weighs and if it has my eyes 😍

CW: Scots

Muckle thanks tae the fowks at SEXTET for includin ma poyum "The Yerl of Buckingham Wauks on the Saubath" in issue 3! (This ane is espeicially for ma Anglican freends 😉⚓)

An gin ye're in Glesga, ye can hear me readin it in the installation at Six Foot Gallery till the 21st. (Verra sexy😘)

I have a stack of old magazines by the door to recycle and I'm even struggling to part with those. What if I want to read one again? What if I get a sudden urge to collage?? 😅

That's a real ~choice~ as an upstairs neighbour 😬😬

parent to 4 year old: time to sleep, sweetie, you wouldn't want to grow up to be an ~*~ anti-bedtime leftist ~*~

What a wild error 😬😬

Screenshot showing an excerpt from 'Methods of Divination' by Erin Bondo: The day after, we begin. We turn our faces to the cockcrow sky, weigh the wind in our palms, inhale lightning - one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi - and exhale thunder. We swig and swirl at teas and coffees and wines...[click link in post for more!]

New words up in SEXTET Issue III: Offerings! Read 'Methods of Divination' at the link below 👇

And if you're in the Glasgow area, swing by @sixfootgallery.bsky.social and listen to myself & other contributors read our pieces at the Listening Station 🎧

sextet.co.uk/erin-bondo/

This is true but also I hate it

A screenshot of @joolia.bsky.social's post with the text 'this is weird' above a screenshot of a US Homeland Security tweet. The original tweet features an image of Jesus on the cross with the text of Luke 23:46 overlaid ('Father into thy hands I commend my spirit'). Above the text, a small white cross has been placed near Jesus's crotch. The text of the tweet above the image reads: Luke 23:46 On this solemn day, we reflect on the ultimate sacrifice our Savior made for all humanity. Trust in God's plan.

me, a former academic, zooming in on JC's crotch: one is immediately struck by the theocratic symbolism of his junk – his manhood, if you will – being propped up by a tiny cross. In this essay, I will...

me, a former academic, zooming in on JC's crotch: one is immediately struck by the theocratic symbolism of his junk – his manhood, if you will – being propped up by a tiny cross. In this essay, I will...

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

It’s Transgender Day of Visibility and this tiny cranky middle-aged feminist just wants to say she loves you and our cause is the same cause.

My dead father from beyond the grave: spring forward, fall back!!

(Also: righty-tighty, lefty-loosey)

Looks gorgeous! 🙌

Photo of an open laptop and part of a woman's leg inside a blanket fort. A bedsheet is stretched over the bedframe and propped up with pillows, a yoga bolster and poster tubes, with fairy camping lights casting a cozy glow.

Just got an acceptance that requires audio, and since my flat has no closets, it's audio-bed-fort building time again, baby!

Sometimes being a grown-up is okay, actually.

“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

Chalk board with a conversation. Me: This escape room is hard. Friend: This is a bookstore. Credit: Daisy Chain Book Company

The hardest room to escape.

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll

She was born on March 20th, 1915

Thanks so much, Gill! Looking forward to reading your story 🙌💜

As another non-Irish Erin, I relate to this *deeply*

Thanks, Matt! 🥰🥰

Thanks, Rosaleen! Looking forward to reading your pieces 😍💜

Thaaanks! 🥰

Thaaanks! 🥰🥰