chestnutreview.com/chip-houser-... Admiring this exquisitely paced, sensitive, heartbreaking 💔 prose by Chip Houser @ChestnutReview.com

Still chiseling miniatures, learning more about beginning-middle-end. @100wordstory.bsky.social accepted another of mine, titled, “Past midnight, the chicken falls on her from above.” Than you to them!

Thank you, @fictivedream.bsky.social , for accepting my micro story, “We moved to the country for the quiet, but”. It’s a pleasure to work with this fine lit magazine and their editor Laura.

Thank you, @fictivedream.bsky.social for accepting my microstory, “We Moved to the Country for the Quiet, But”. It’s a pleasure to work with that little magazine & their editor Laura.

Emily Rinkema- Fiction Tiny Little Babies My sister Sarah texts me our secret emoji code–squirrel, Portuguese flag, martini glass–which means no questions, I need you now. We’ve only used this once, when Mom showed up at...

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Wowed by this highly inventive story by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social , @ Flight lit magazine. “We’ve only used this once, when Mom showed up at my apartment with a bottle of bottom shelf gin and a male hooker named Jeff….” Loving speculative layer + sister layer.

Thank you Lisa Thornton! For your reading & interpretation. 😀

Thank you for your reading, Matt!

Thank you, Claudia. High praise from a
fine writer!

Thank you, James Montgomery. I appreciate you engaging.

No Kings event this past weekend in Austin Texas was hopeful, inspiring, upbeat.

The Fence is Always Hungry yourimpossiblevoice.com/the-fence-is-a… via Your Impossible Voice Journal.
Innovative dystopian fiction, by talented, imaginative Claudia Monperre: “We feed it raw chicken three times a day, but it is never enough. The fence is always changing.” WOW!

My 100-worder landed in the pinnacle of 100-worders, @100wordstory.bsky.social! Happily tucked in there! Thank you. 😊

Pocket Dad - 100Words Nicole BrogdonOnce, I was small and he was a giant, making me jump for the razor strap hanging above the toilet, to whip me.

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My prose poem “100th Birthday Party” 🥳 is live @ TimberJournal winter 2026 issue. Thank you 😊 Timber! & Thank You 🙏🏽 to @josehernandezdz.bsky.social for his generative prose poem workshops, where I’m writing, then publishing some quirky pieces!

Bernhardt the Therapy Dog by Nicole Brogdon My father wanted “a dog with big balls.” So he brought home an ex-police German shepherd, brown with black saddle markings, a Nazi dog. “Bernhardt”, his tag read. Dad the animal’s chest until he lu…

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Happy that Wensum Lit in the UK published some of my very southern fiction, “Bernhardt the Therapy Dog”. Thank you, Wensum!

It’s all over now.

The literary Journal JMWW accepted my flash fiction,
“New Dad”. Thank you. And can’t wait 😝 to see it all dressed up, performing in print.

In-person, w my writing-buddy & friend, Kelli Short Borges, who is visiting & hiking & taco-ing w me this day in my hometown of Austin Texas. Such a talented editor and writer! And a warm wise woman with big ears and big smarts. What would we do w/o our writer friends?

To Ms Death Short Fiction by Nicole Brogdon

New Halloween story of mine, “To Ms Death”, rests here, in @tangledlockslit.bsky.social Journal.
I’m grateful to editor TeresaBerkowitz!
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My Growing Boy - Thin Skin Baby’s father slips from bed at seven, dons a clean blue button-down that highlights his eyes. Tangled in sheets in a pale nightgown, I stink of milk, Baby Boy belly-down on me, chests rising and fall...

Thanks to Thin Skin Jrnl, my dark humor abt parenting , “My Growing Boy”, sits in these pages;”:https://thin-skin.com/flash-fiction/my-growing-boy/

Epater Lit, p 29, my story “Maybelle in the Middle”. static1.squarespace.com/static/657a6...

Thank you, Epater Lit magazine, for publishing my story, “Maybelle in the Middle”. Nice to see it on white-on-black background! I wrote this story to help me process the death of a best friend five years ago.

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No Kings March, Austin Texas. Such good energy!