Fresh off the press today, a delightful story by Joseph Kerschbaum who shows us "the wrong words said like pipe bombs and the right words like handwritten letters never delivered."
#fiction #flash #micro #writingcommunity #writing
We have new work by Tom Stevens that brings a somewhat frightful, even dreadful sense of the divine. This piece speaks to me in painful and articulate tongues.
In this piece, Asif Raheel shares with us that The Man Who Borrowed Silence "Some days felt almost sacred. Other days, completely empty. Most days, both."
Beautiful work from Asif. See it here:
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#fiction #flash #philosophy #insight
Hey did you know we have a Substack page in addition to our main web site? Maybe a little crazy because I'm up to my armpits in things to do, but it's fun putting some of your work up there in order to reach more people. Zappity.
Up today, new work from Roy N. Mason who asks if these things are wonderful days of your life, or mourning of moments forever gone.
The train was late getting out of bed this morning, but even so, @eireneeleni.bsky.social let us know that they "blamed the explosion on a freak rogue cowhunk solar storm"
New work up at DTJ today! Thank you Eirene!
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David Anson Lee has a new piece up at Dog Throat Journal HQ in which people remember things they never lived, and laughter gnaws at the edges of midnight.
If you click, you will see it. So click onward, friends before time runs backwards again. #fiction #flash #prose #poetry
Over here at Dog Throat Journal HQ, we have new work from Grace Mattern. Weird and wonderful and poignant
"She uncoils a story: the ER, clotted lungs, groceries she abandoned, premeasured needles...."
#flash #fiction #writing
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Image for Dog Throat Journal that says submissions are open, include a picture of Ocho the doggie
At Dog Throat Journal, selections are not made by committee. It's just me, Victor David, who reads every piece that zips in through our submission portal.
If that sounds good, this is to let you know that Feb subs are open. #writing #flash #fiction #writingcommunity
Ocho (in the pic) says hi.
New work up today, No Attachment
"Enough to crack the shell of the machine, to reattach an umbilical cord." - Dolo Diaz
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Today is Thursday is some parts of the world, and we have a new short fiction piece by Madison Lee Patterson.
"His body was ropey and pale, eyes desperate...."
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Dog Throat says go for the toad option.
Dog Throat Journal nominations for Best Small Fictions, 2025. Greg Lemon, Rachael Savage, Hayley Phillips, Salvatore Difalco, Barlow Crassmont
Hello! We're very pleased to announce our nominations (in reverse alphabetical order by title) for Best Small Fictions/2025 Greg Lemon, @rachelsavagewrites.bsky.social, @hayleym29.bsky.social, Salvatore Difalco, Barlow Crassmont. Many thanks to all!
Well... I've finished the nominations for 2025 Best Small Fictions, and will get the details out soon. Thanks everybody! More info soon.
It's Tuesday (they say) and we have a new piece up. A vacation like no other.
"My children panic and tear at the earth with their fingernails." - Mar Ovsheid
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Column "Average Dead Average" by Michael Templeton (from Wander Lines)
“Now that AI is taking hold of the general intellect and the human capacity to think and create...there will be no one around who is capable of recognizing mediocrity as mediocrity.“
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From the archives:
"...covered with lace and her eyes the only visible part of her face, my mother with a bulletin cooling the heat of a sermon, of sinful thoughts, a flag above the grave..." - Jeff Burt
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@bigjosh84.bsky.social has a beautiful new piece up at DTJ today, a lovely melding of divine and grit, populated by angels and whiskey. Thank you Joshua!
"We drank to the lost, the half-believed, the saints whose miracles gnawed like maggots on the bones of the world."
Okay! Listing of the day. Thanks @duotrope.com !
And subs are open. Come on down with your flash and micro. Looking forward to reading your work!
I admit I am a social media stumblebum so if I already posted this one, please forgive and allow me to pull from the archives a piece for your enjoyment, then meet me after work for a whiskeybeer.
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The photo is by Ron Walker. Love his work!
Dog Throat Journal, open for submissions.
Hello and Happy New Year! Our submissions are open.
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"It wasn't the rising that got to us. Tall and lanky, he walked with a lurch even before he died the first time."
New work by @tachment.bsky.social today. Check it out and enjoy. Thank you Julia!
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Thank you Hayley! (sorry for the fumble finger misspell of your name), onward!
Thank you, Haley!
"She couldn’t send it out the door this way, this mundane thing taken to an extraordinary event."
Lovely new work from Hayley Phillips, @hayleym29.bsky.social
Take a read/see here:
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"Words don’t always mean what they say, though: our paperboy, who rides his bike like a bull, says he’s a rebel but he’s not. He comes when he’s called, just like his dog."
- Cheryl Snell, today at DTJ. #flash #fiction #micro #cookies
Black Friday is here they say. Well, we don't try to sell anything here at DTJ, just give you weird and wonderful stories. So no BlackF deals.
We do have an interesting piece by Barlow Crassmont to share, one of the winners of our flash contest earlier here. #flash #fiction - Happy DTJ Friday!
New Poetry! poster with a snipper of the poem "My hands were not meant for prayer but they fold anyway not to God, but to gravity. Ash collects..."
Read our new poem by Joshua Walker! Follow him over at @bigjosh84.bsky.social! We're really excited to have his work over in our yard!
