My story "The Eleven Year Debt" was published in @neonandsmoke.bsky.social's first anthology! I'm very excited to be part of their community and look forward to working with them again! T & J are great editors and treat authors with respect!
www.neonandsmoke.com/april-anthol...
I hadn't realize the website was redesigned. Looks great!
Very cool! Congrats!
I hope everything works out!
"No Music Played" by @daniellefellis.bsky.social, an emerging writer from the Quad Cities and a reader for The Colored Lens.
My micro, "No Music Played", was published by @fiveminutelit.bsky.social! Happy to be part of their community!
Some years are like that. So far, I was more productive in 2025 as well.
At first I thought you meant you've written 28 books so far and I was very confused lol
My story, "The Wickie" was republished by Still Here Magazine.
Volume 2 of Neon & Smoke is live.
New voices. New heat.
Stories that blur the line between literary and genre.
Many thanks to vinayg.art for the artwork and special shout out to our emerging artists.
Read. Feel. Share
Neon & Smoke: Half-genre. Always lit.
#indielit
A company running a city sounds like a nightmare, but I do like the idea of this. I feel like a good group of people could rejuvenating an abandoned city would be the same spirit.
I've heard of Council Bluffs! I'm along the border of Illinois. I'm from the Quad Cities area, but I've been in Cedar Rapids attending Kirkwood. I might just stay.
I didn't realize you were from Iowa as well. I don't see a lot of fellow Iowans in the wild!
Super cute!
My story, "He Cried in a Hardware Store", was published by Still Here Magazine as a digital exclusive. They included some nice art with it too. You will need to subscribe to read it, but subscription is free!
I figured, but I also read it as Call of Duty and thought it was oddly fitting
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That's INSANE. The more I think about it, the worse it gets
Congrats!
Thank you!
My story, "For Allyce, and Maybe Jay Andrews" was published by @forpageandscreen.bsky.social! You can read it here:
Cool stuff! Can't wait to see what it is!
My story, "The Lady in the Grocery Story" was published by Third Wednesday Magazine! You can read it online now. It will also become available in print.
Maybe don't shake it. Sit down with it and have a conversation. Dance with it. Then offer it some tea and ask it to be quiet. I know I'm just an internet stranger, but I'm rooting for you!
My short story, "Beneath the Yellow Streetlight" was published by Kings River Review.
I mean "this many stories" lol
I published eight stories this year. One, "He Cried in a Hardware Store" was published twice and received no rejections. It was also my first publication. This was my first year taking publishing seriously and I didn't expect to land three stories. #blessed
I love that. Would make a cool story where the chosen one is simply a formality in bureaucracy.
Yes, you are the chosen one 😝
