Flash Roundup * October-November 2025 A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!

Ahh!! Omg thank you so much Myna !!!

Yay !! I’m so happy and grateful that this story is out in the world thanks to the incredible @flashfrog.bsky.social !!

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Thank you so much ! That means a lot to me !

“Creature arrived at the farm this morning with the sky waking in wounded red, and all the cows were lying down in the field and the hairs on his arm, soft and spare as a woman’s, were standing on end.”

I love this flash by @thehagsoup.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social

Thank you so much for sharing it !!!

A cathartic story for you today !Thank you @dishsoapquart.bsky.social !

twenty-two — Tiny Molecules

"Lights bordered the sign shaped like a hand, long fingers and lined palm, in the window facing Hawthorne—the carnival hues ran sequentially red, yellow, blue"

Love the evocation of place and yearning in this #FlashFiction from @thehagsoup.bsky.social

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"Sure enough, it began to snow, the fattest flakes Gill had ever seen. Only, this snow fell to the ground with a punch. The thud of muscle, obscene. Oddly juicy." Love this story @thehagsoup.bsky.social

Thank you so much Claudia !!

Gonna howl at the moon because my flash story Hell’s Half Acre, 1876 is out today with @gonelawn.bsky.social ! Thrilled to be a part of this issue !

“Mary knew miracles in Kentucky, in March yet, were rare enough, but at the moment she realized she needed the animal fat from the barn, had, in fact, forgotten to render it down the night before, it began to fall from the sky.”
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Thrilled and so looking forward to creating artwork for the winners of the 2025 Blue Frog ✨ 😭

Submit those stories!! 🙏 #flashfiction #writingcommunity

A Fairy Tale for Florida Girls—Janice Leadingham Dahlia is twelve-years-old, an only child, and the daughter of a mother with nine very fine fingers and no ruby ring. She hates the sound flip-flops make on parquet floors. She craves sunblock, to …

I have a new story up today at Crow & Cross Keys ! crowcrosskeys.com/2024/12/04/a...

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Last week it felt wrong to celebrate the release of Best Small Fictions that includes my story “Imagining the Woman …” ! I’m so excited & grateful to @meaganlucas.bsky.social & @reckonreview.bsky.social for nominating me, & to the editors & Nathan Leslie ! www.marylandliteraryreview.com/mlr-press/

So excited to have this one up today !!

So excited to have this fun one up on MemeZineLit !

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I have no idea what I’m doing

I have a possibly v dumb question about chapbook manuscripts ! Should I add personal acknowledgements in the submission ? Or wait to see if it is accepted ?

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The Heiress’s Guide to the Care and Keeping of her Ghost Welcome to your own little home, dear, what was once mine— the hill it sits on, the grass and the worms, the one good sunny patch in the back that’s fit for growing vegetables, the slight slope to...

I’m so excited to have a ghost story up at Maudlin House today ! I wrote this one in the midst of grief, for grievers. maudlinhouse.net/the-heiresss...

Death Works at Trader Joe's A triptych of poetry and prose

Grab your Hawaiian shirt, it's time to get some groceries with @thehagsoup.bsky.social!
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This is the silliest stuff I’ve written and I’m so honored that @publishedbyjake.bsky.social liked it !! 💀