This one really kept me up at night ~ thank you @keychild.bsky.social for letting this stray into your tower 🤍

An excerpt from micro fiction, Insomnia by Lena Kinder published on crowcrosskeys.com, presented on a muted greyscale banner featuring a white cat with half its face in shadow against a dark background. The excerpt reads: Sometimes, in the mornings, you find white fur on your tongue. You imagine this cat luminous and small, a tiny moon sprinting in your body, a fluffy spirit awakened by the witching hour.

Sometimes, in the evening, you find a link. You should click it.

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A muted greyscale banner for micro fiction, Insomnia by Lena Kinder published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring a white cat with half its face in shadow against a dark background.

There is a feral animal scampering through the tower this evening. We don't quite know what it is, but we do know that it bites. Visitor, beware. It's safer to read today's micro fiction.

"Insomnia" by @happilylenaaa.bsky.social

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It's never been a better time to click the link.

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We're looking after a box for a mysterious entity. They have told us we can open it, but we don't want to risk it. We're opening our browser and reading today's poem. You should too.

"Pandora Opens Her Browser" by Allison Burris

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I had a lot of fun writing this little horror story—very glad to see it published today at Crow & Cross Keys! (Shoutout to my dog Tilly for the inspiration.)

Two Poems—Sarah Clark What do you know about submission? Not trees bending over hard in a hurricane or flesh giving in to a scalpel or bones crammed into a skin- bag. Continue reading…

Day 11: "Heirloom" by Sarah Clark in @crowkeys.bsky.social. The line work!! The sensory details!! The rhythm & sound!! Did I mention the line work??

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Read this if you've ever let yourself love a wild thing.
@snarlsdickens.bsky.social

An excerpt from short story, A Little Thing in a Big World by John MacNeill Miller published on crowcrosskeys.com, presented on a muted greyscale banner featuring a dark, moody storm cloud. The excerpt reads: The wind outside was roaring in the trees. The old couple told each other a storm was coming all day. On their afternoon walk the sky clouded over like a dead man’s eye, and the temperature dropped without warning. The roaring began at the same time, a ways off, so low and visceral they felt it even before they heard it.

You've been telling yourself to click the link all day. So click it.

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A muted greyscale banner for short story, A Little Thing in a Big World by John MacNeill Miller published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring a dark, moody storm cloud.

We're battening down the hatches here in the tower. We're not quite sure why, but it feels necessary. For another oncoming storm, today's short story...

"A Little Thing in a Big World" by John MacNeill Miller

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Can I interest my #PhantomsFriday friends in a ghostly flash fic, written by yours truly?

This is very good (full disclosure: this is my bestie's work, which is very good)

ICYMI, my second story with Crow & Cross Keys is out now!

Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat!

I actually have a ghostly flash fic that came out today. Check it out here👇

"Because there is blood on her hands. Isn't there?"
@braegrosz.com in @crowkeys.bsky.social

An excerpt from flash fiction, When You Are Ready by B. Rae Grosz published on crowcrosskeys.com, presented on a muted greyscale banner featuring an eerie, distorted image of a woman standing in the corner of a darkened room. The excerpt reads: She is not an only-glimpsed ghost. If you’ve seen her, then you are seeing her, you are looking at her now. Maybe you are only glancing at her out of the corner of your eye just now, because you have not yet given up trying to live like she’s not there.

This is not an only-glimpsed link. It's clicked too. By you.

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A muted greyscale banner for flash fiction, When You Are Ready by B. Rae Grosz published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring an eerie, distorted image of a woman standing in the corner of a darkened room.

Something is moving in the corner of our eye. It is pretending we can't see it, and so are we. It's for the best, really. The thing in the corner of our eye is reading flash fiction. So are we. This flash fiction:

"When You Are Ready" by @braegrosz.com

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Changeling Daycare—Jan Stinchcomb They’re raising children differently these days, and Diane does not want to be left behind. A changeling in the family is not a tragedy or even a problem for her daughter’s generation, though some …

“Is it not possible to love the original child and the changeling at once?"

“… and they join hands as they leap, unafraid …”

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An excerpt from poem, The Sky Still the Color of Old Blood by Patricia Russo published on crowcrosskeys.com, presented on a muted greyscale banner featuring an upturned plant pot on a dark background. The excerpt reads: She straightens the potted plants knocked over in the storm checks the scars on her forearms in case any new ones have appeared overnight

You check the link in case any new poetry has appeared. (It has.)

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A muted greyscale banner for poem, The Sky Still the Color of Old Blood by Patricia Russo published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring an upturned plant pot on a dark background.

Something is scurrying through the tower and knocking over all of our trinkets. We haven't caught it yet, but we will. By the time you've read today's poem, we will have caught it. We promise.

"The Sky Still the Color of Old Blood" by Patricia Russo

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Full Pink Moon in Libra tonight.
April Fools in every sense, but here's a true story for you: Changeling Daycare.

Thank you to Elou Carroll and @crowkeys.bsky.social

ICYMI
I have a new story to go with your Pink Moon.
"Changeling Daycare" is up @crowkeys.bsky.social

An excerpt from short story, Changeling Daycare by Jan Stinchcomb published on crowcrosskeys.com, presented on a muted greyscale banner featuring a bonfire on a dark background. The excerpt reads: “We’re lucky,” Klara explains. “The neighbors came home and found a little old man with a long white beard waiting at the dinner table instead of their baby. He’s eating them out of house and home.” Diane cannot train the dismay out of her voice. “I could have babysat for you.”

You're lucky. You get to click the link.

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A muted greyscale banner for short story, Changeling Daycare by Jan Stinchcomb published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring a bonfire on a dark background.

The tower grew a nursery recently. We often hear children laughing, but when we look inside, we always find it empty. We are unnerved. We're going to read today's short story and pretend not to listen.

"Changeling Daycare" by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

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An excerpt from flash fiction, Little Black Thoughts by Judy Slitt published on crowcrosskeys.com, presented on a muted greyscale banner featuring an out of focus orb on a dark background. The excerpt reads: She picked it up and turned it over in her hands, a smooth pink orb the size of a golf ball. Its color changed as she held it, fading to murky blue and then gray. “Don’t bring that home,” he said. “Why would you do that? What is the point of that?”

Click the link. Why wouldn't you?

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A muted greyscale banner for flash fiction, Little Black Thoughts by Judy Slitt published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring an out of focus orb on a dark background.

We're having technicolour thoughts today. Too many of them. We would prefer it if our thoughts would pick a colour and stick to it. If we read today's flash, they just might...

"Little Black Thoughts" by Judy Slitt

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An excerpt from poem, Garden by Deidre Cavazzi published on crowcrosskeys.com, presented on a muted greyscale banner featuring an abstract image representing the galaxy. The excerpt reads: It is the time after fairytales. After constellations mapped to dreams have become comets and fall slowly sunward. It is always night: pupil-black and irised open. The sky spacious as the pause before revelation, as the suspension of breath, as the unsaid.

It is the time before clicking the link. Click it to see what comes after.

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A muted greyscale banner for three poems by Deidre Cavazzi, Garden, Celestial Navigation, and Sylph published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring an abstract image representing the galaxy.

Outside the tower, the sky can't make up its mind. We've had blazing sun, snow, hail. We only hope the stars won't fall this evening to complete the set. While we hope, we'll read a trio of poems by Deidre Cavazzi:

"Garden"
"Celestial Navigation"
"Sylph"

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An excerpt from short story, Bad Decisions by M. Stevenson published on crowcrosskeys.com, presented on a muted greyscale banner featuring a pair of shadows embracing on a wall behind a set of prison bars. The excerpt reads: “Have you come for your price?” Alice asks. Her bad decision smiles. “Are you ready to pay it?” “Yes,” says Alice, without hesitation. Her bad decision leans forward. Alice leans to meet her.

Have you come to click the link? We thought so.

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A muted greyscale banner for short story, Bad Decisions by M. Stevenson published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring a pair of shadows embracing on a wall behind a set of prison bars.

The tower has been indecisive lately, always appearing in many places at once. It cannot decide where it wants to be, which is unfortunate for we who are stuck inside it. Luckily, we have an excellent short story to read:

"Bad Decisions" by M. Stevenson

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