Thrilled to have my hungry fence story in the wonderful @yourimpossiblevoice.com Many thanks @keithjpowell.com

The Fence is Always Hungry | Your Impossible Voice By Claudia Monpere — We feed it raw chicken three times a day, but it is never enough. The fence is always changing.

"The fence will love our miniature cathedral. Shout out to our diligent citizens who’ve built the foundation, walls, and pillars."

And we're back with a new #flashfiction Tuesday, courtesy of @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!

American Trickster Who was Carlos Castaneda—the man behind the twentieth century’s biggest literary hoax? American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda is the first—and definitive—biography of the best-sellin...

New from YIV contributor RU Marshall!

"A project of epic proportions, pulled off with remarkable élan." —Kirkus

Smart Search List of the Day The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Literary Flash Fiction feat. @yourimpossiblevoice.com @broadripplereview.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/fee-free-literary-flash-fiction-o6hLNZWs

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Literary Flash Fiction feat. @yourimpossiblevoice.com @broadripplereview.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com

Such a lovely review of my new book by Wilma Kahn, published by the fabulous Your Impossible Voice!

Scrap: Salvaging a Family by Luanne Castle | Your Impossible Voice Review by Wilma J. Kahn — A memoir in flash, Scrap focuses on three discrete parts of Castle’s life in relation to her parents, especially her father. “Scrap” is a multivalent word, and around each of...

"'Scrap' is a multivalent word around whose every meaning and nuance Castle fashions poignant—and sometimes horrifying—flash prose and poetry to reveal her family in all its human pain, mystery, and love."

Wilma J. Kahn reviews Scrap by @luannecastle.bsky.social from @emergejournal.bsky.social!

The Falling Stars: “Not Diminishing the Sacred Number” of Rilke’s Uncollected Poems | Essays By Wally Swist — "In Rilke’s praises, we find our own praise—of ourselves, of others, of mostly anything, actually. When anyone experiences an epiphany, that person wants to share that epiphany."

"Our world suffers today from its authoritarian die-cut mentality, its obtuse bluntness, and its inhuman opacity. Rilke leaves us, with yet another uncollected poem, untitled, as many of them are, written just about two years before his death, as a gift to us..."

Wally Swist returns to YIV!

Excited to announce the publication of my novel, The Hollow of Evening, with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines in Winter 2027.

Gratitude to Akin Akinwumi and Meghan MacDonald of the press, as well as to the journals, editors, and organizations that have supported my writing through the years.

Big Brother Says “2 + 2 = Fun” | By T.S. Carney — I was listening to NPR, a favorite pastime of my family (including my nearly two-year-old son). At seven o’clock in our region, we hear the show 1A — a program that tackles the issues...

"Zamyatin lived under totalitarianism. Orwell read about it from a distance and turned it into moral theater for English readers. And that’s why 1984 feels so clumsy. It isn’t a realistic fear—it’s a bad thought experiment that doesn’t even obey its own rules."

T.S. Carney on dystopias in We & 1984

My latest flash piece, published today by @yourimpossiblevoice.com

#VivanLasSemillas!

Detention Seeds | Your Impossible Voice Brandon McNeice — We had planned for this. In our pockets: sunflower, cosmos, zinnia, marigold. Milkweed fluff, Kiki said her grandmother called silk. The seeds came from wherever kids get things—bode...

Tuesday #flashfiction: @brandonmcneice.bsky.social plants the seeds of rebellion!

Corrine, Edna, and Imogene: A Family of Good Women by Teddy Jones | Your Impossible Voice Review by Peter Mladinic — Against the backdrop of this male-dominated world, Imogene raises her voice, as she ponders fundamental questions: What is family? Where is home? Who am I?

Peter Mladinic on A Family of Good Women by Teddy Jones, out now from @stoneycreekbooks.bsky.social!

"Against the backdrop of this male-dominated world, Imogene raises her voice, as she ponders fundamental questions: What is family? Where is home? Who am I?"

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

Squirrel Fish | Your Impossible Voice Ann Yuan — I meet my future husband on the eve of the Lunar New Year. A forty-seven-year-old Beijing native: a decent job, two apartments, recently divorced, and seeking a stepmother for his preteen s...

We are back with our first Tuesday #flashfiction of 2026, Squirrel Fish by Ann Yuan! It's a feast you won't want to miss.

Your Body Is a Wolf | Your Impossible Voice By Mathieu Parsy — "It starts with a tearing—quiet at first, like silk splitting in the dark—and then the howl builds in your spine, in your teeth, in the wet hinge of your jaw."

Before you head down to the breakers for Mathieu Parsy’s new flash in Issue 17, sink your teeth into his stunning (and bite size) piece from @yourimpossiblevoice.com

yourimpossiblevoice.com/your-body-is...

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

Ignoring Poetic Schools: Premeditations by Klipschutz | Your Impossible Voice Review by Art Beck — This book has been out for a half dozen years and was well received for a small press volume. But I just came across it a few weeks ago and was so happy to read it that I feel com...

"This book has been out for a half dozen years and was well received for a small press volume. But I just came across it a few weeks ago and was so happy to read it that I feel compelled to publicly respond with my thanks to the one-named San Francisco poet, Klipschutz."

A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame | Your Impossible Voice By Sage Tyrtle — "The bus driver brakes hard and I stumble, my 37 weeks pregnant belly stumbles, my whole big self stumbles into a woman in a baseball hat who mutters fat bitch and I open my mouth to ...

Love this so much 💕 yourimpossiblevoice.com/a-list-of-th...
@yourimpossiblevoice.com @sagetyrtle.bsky.social

Rate My Professor: Allen Ginsberg | Issue 31 By Arlene Tribbia — Professor Ginsberg seems to spend a lot of time at the beginning of class trying to get a poetry carpool going to Rocky Flats. Everyone—except for me—seems to know the reason for t...

We are delighted to share that "Rate My Professor: Allen Ginsberg" by Arlene Tribbia was listed among the "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American Essays 2025. Congratulations!

We’re All Bananas | Your Impossible Voice By Chelsea Stickle — "After my mother’s skin cancer diagnosis, I was bullied by my older sister Sally into scheduling a 'skin test,' which is what they call it when you strip in a cold room and show a...

My micro "We're All Bananas" about sisters and skin found a home at @yourimpossiblevoice.com.

yourimpossiblevoice.com/were-all-ban...

Who By Fire | Your Impossible Voice By Laila Amado — "In this story, we don’t die by fire. We don’t wake in the middle of the night to the screeching of the warning sirens on the phones under our pillows."

The second story was "Who by Fire", a dark natural disaster/apocalypse micro: yourimpossiblevoice.com/who-by-fire/

Thank you @yourimpossiblevoice.com for giving this story a place in your pages 🙏

My Brother, the Salmon | Issue #39 He’s swimming upstream again, dogged and lean, ready to spawn his latest ideas. I wonder aloud if perhaps he doesn’t need to have all the answers.

Here's my second story in @nffr.bsky.social's 2025 flash fiction prize issue. Boundless gratitude to Valerie Fox and colleagues for selecting "My Brother, the Salmon," which got its lungs in workshop with the wonderful @megpokrass.bsky.social!
💜🙏🏼💜🙏🏼💜
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Links to the stories I published this year are on my site, along with many more from years past. Thanks for checking them out if you have time!

mattjakubowski.com/about/fiction/

yes that’s what’s stopping bookstores from doing this. a lack of courage

Libation | Your Impossible Voice By Matthew Jakubowski — "I later learned people had a lot of opinions about the kind of people we were, and our so-called lifestyles, a word they thought was so vaguely clever."

5/ “Libation” in @yourimpossiblevoice.com

yourimpossiblevoice.com/libation/

The Blue Plastic Basin | Issue 32 By Eric T. Racher — "Lying just then on the bed well not bed really not thinking of anything thinking nothing of skin of the heaviness of days of dead starling or grackle not sure which not thinking o...

A story in Your Impossible Voice. @yourimpossiblevoice.com With special thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social
The Blue Plastic Basin
yourimpossiblevoice.com/the-blue-pla...

Excerpt from Another Place by Addy Evenson: Two months ago, a man she had never seen before promised her his life. He coaxed her behind the back shed and undid her tulle dress. “You ever think about touchin’ ‘em?” he asked. “What?” “Their bodies.”

Guest editor @alvinlu.bsky.social said it best when he described Another Place by Addy Evenson as "a perfect and poisonous dose of Southern Gothic." What more do you need to know? bit.ly/492zcZE

Excerpt from Of the Lovers by Addison Zeller: There seems no limit to the night’s ability to darken. It must be that the woman let the man into the house. The woman was clothed to begin with, then she was naked. The man was naked a little after that.