If you're looking for something to chew on today, may I recommend No Time Like The Present?

Thanks so much to @wigleaf.bsky.social for publishing this little horror!! 🪱❤️🧠

whoa hell yeah 🔥

"Swans" by Amy Stuber "This is a story about Peter’s first year of college. No, it’s about boys and birds and men. Or it’s about love and safety and the ways we hurt each other."

Couldn't be more excited to get to share that @amystuber.com's Short Story, Long story, "Swans," was selected for The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2026!

This was not only one of my fave stories I published last year, but one of my fave stories of the year, period. Congrats, Amy!!

always dig on @thecorlew.bsky.social's newsletter & especially jazzed to see my tiny story from @bulbregion.bsky.social spotlighted here ⚡️⚡️⚡️

April 2026 - Flash Fiction Online

My cyber-noir story "Ten and Out" is free today in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!

"But I need to know: did Harrad betray me, too? The last time I saw him, when he inked my tenth contract tattoo…was his good luck kiss actually a kiss goodbye?"

Don't forget! It's Leonora Carrington-coded, too!

What a lovely tale. 💙📚

Many thanks to The Bulb Region for publishing my particularly weird little story "Fish Eyes"!!

Dead Letter Orchard by Cate McGowan When the post office burned, the volunteers saved the flag and two shelves. The letters went to ash. Allen Pike shoveled what he could into a bus tub, took it home, and worked the ash into the lot beh...

"The fruit showed in July. Not apples. Pale pods with a seam. Along each seam a name pressed faintly, as if by a thumb..."

Don't miss this magical, mysterious spring harvest by @catemcgowan.com, new on hex today! 🔥🌳💌🔥👇

Thanks for reading, Penni. We think so, too!

Late notice, but we’re open for subs til midnight 4/15. (Our last sub window of the season)

Dead Letter Orchard by Cate McGowan When the post office burned, the volunteers saved the flag and two shelves. The letters went to ash. Allen Pike shoveled what he could into a bus tub, took it home, and worked the ash into the lot beh...

"TAKE ONLY WHAT NAMES YOU."

This week on hex, some absolute magic grows from ashen remains. You won't want to miss this new wonder by @catemcgowan.com. Bask in its mystery, in each carefully crafted sentence! Dead Letter Orchard is up now!!

Dead Letter Orchard by Cate McGowan When the post office burned, the volunteers saved the flag and two shelves. The letters went to ash. Allen Pike shoveled what he could into a bus tub, took it home, and worked the ash into the lot beh...

"The fruit showed in July. Not apples. Pale pods with a seam. Along each seam a name pressed faintly, as if by a thumb..."

Don't miss this magical, mysterious spring harvest by @catemcgowan.com, new on hex today! 🔥🌳💌🔥👇

A Wedding in Xibalba by Xavier Garcia Why the fuck did I sit here, thought Iqui Acab as he shuffled in his seat, turning once again to meet the grinning face of Old Spider Monkey. “Gorgeous wedding, huh?” asked Old Spider Monkey. Th...

Thank you so much for reading! Honestly, appreciate the kind words! I think my other full length Lady Blood story in Profane Sorcery 2 is sold out. But if you’re curious to read a flash story that she’s in, def check this one that @hexliterary.bsky.social put out!

hexliterary.com?p=2337

So rad seeing @adrianf.bsky.social's "A Slow Boil" featured in @major7mag.bsky.social's Friday Five today! 🙏🐸🙏

Pleased as punch to have some new flash fiction in the very amazing @bulbregion.bsky.social today. Consider our sky here ---> bulbregion.com/The-Wrong-Sk...

really love that observation--thanks, Lillie ! ❤️

These stories are strong on their own but I really like the way they fit together. Both magic, but opposite magics; a magic of holding on and a magic of letting go

congrats, Danny

My second article for Reactor! I got to chat about my love for Ilona Andrews’s amazing work. I love this writing duo so much. The Kate Daniels series got me through my undergrad years and their new epic fantasy THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME, is stunning!

sweet fancy moses these fairy tales ... what a delight!

These are just wonderful:

"She opens the door and sees a small white cat with a black spot on its head resembling parted hair and black markings on its feet resembling boots. It walks in and fixes itself a martini."

Two Fairy Tales by Nora Maynard The Boy in the Bottle A girl and her brother are on vacation in the mountains. While their parents are visiting a casino, the girl and boy walk a steep path through a forest looking for a place to ...

"A girl and her brother are on vacation in the mountains."

Such a thrill, this week, to have two new fairy tales by @noramaynard.bsky.social up on hex! Dreamy and dreadful, these pieces feel like contemporary cautionary tales unperturbed by clean, wrapped up endings. Don't miss this fantastic pair!

Two Fairy Tales by Nora Maynard The Boy in the Bottle A girl and her brother are on vacation in the mountains. While their parents are visiting a casino, the girl and boy walk a steep path through a forest looking for a place to ...

We absolutely love this pair of fairy tale shorties by @noramaynard.bsky.social, up this week on @hexliterary.bsky.social! Replaced identities, mounting debt--a sense of danger and unease runs beneath the surface of these wonderful pieces! Don't miss em!!!

For reasons I feel the need for some morning fiction, friends.

I’m excited to have a pair of v. short fairy tales out today! Thank you, @hexliterary.bsky.social, for giving them such a marvelous home!

And big thanks to @rpmirabella.bsky.social’s brilliant workshop at @writingco-lab.bsky.social, where the first tale got its start

Two Fairy Tales by Nora Maynard The Boy in the Bottle A girl and her brother are on vacation in the mountains. While their parents are visiting a casino, the girl and boy walk a steep path through a forest looking for a place to ...

"A girl and her brother are on vacation in the mountains."

Such a thrill, this week, to have two new fairy tales by @noramaynard.bsky.social up on hex! Dreamy and dreadful, these pieces feel like contemporary cautionary tales unperturbed by clean, wrapped up endings. Don't miss this fantastic pair!

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Madam Strzyga’s Pagan Pest Control You call her when something is living in your walls. You don’t ask what she does with it.

I’ll say it again, but man, some of the best stories I’ve read recently are flash fiction and this one by @katharinetyndall.bsky.social in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social blew me away.