REVIEW: The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly | Hippocampus Magazine "For those of us who aspire to write micro, Beth Ann Fennelly shows us how it’s done in a book that brilliantly leverages the shortest of forms..." - Vicki Mayk

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Vicki Mayk reviews The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly. Read it here:
www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-the-irish...
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Me too! 😜

Thanks for sharing @claudiamonpere.bsky.social! Appreciate you!

Mahalo @mattkendrick.bsky.social for sharing and your kind words. This one is a special favorite of mine:-)

Evie — Ghost Parachute When the last bird goes extinct, Dad calls the 3D Printer Man and pays for me. My back is downed vermillion red and my long fish-hook curved beak is painted the salmon of spawning fish heading upstrea...

Read "Evie" written by @kimsrogers.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"When the last bird goes extinct, Dad calls the 3D Printer Man and pays for me."

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March 2026 Issue — Ghost Parachute

Another stellar collection of stories in Ghost Parachute, curated by @brettpribble.bsky.social.

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Happy to share I’ll be published in the March issue of Ghost Parachute alongside so many of my favorite flash writers!

Gratitude to @brettpribble.bsky.social for saying YES.

And mahalo to @francinewitte.bsky.social for the prompt that somehow pulled this speculative story from my subconscious.

This is good. 👇

Confession at the Last Bar in the World — Ghost Parachute It started with birds. We named the first one Martha, a nod to her namesake, the last of the passenger pigeons, who died in 1914. Then, we went for a whole flock of ‘em and Carolina parakeets and Ivor...

Honored to be joining many writers I admire in the upcoming Ghost Parachute anthology (editor @brettpribble.bsky.social) for this speculative story. Strangely, feels like a good match for the speculative world in which we find ourselves living right now.

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Super fun, Laurie! Glad to see you back in the flash space:-)

Thrilled for you @sudhab.bsky.social. So well deserved! Congratulations!

Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says amandascgorman Minneapolis, Minnesota For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched & froze. Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been. Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour & bitter anger of our neighbors Is moved by the love * better angels of our nature.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

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Appreciate you right back, @marioaliberto3.bsky.social!

Aw, thanks, Claudia! You found it now; that’s all that counts:-)

I’m sorry for your loss, Marie. August is a hard month for me, since it’s the anniversary of my mom’s death. Appreciate your kind comment. Means a lot.

What a lovely surprise to see this again and a lovely reminder of a piece that has special meaning for me. Thanks for sharing @pdforan.bsky.social

Last Play of the Game — Vestal Review

I know. I know. I say this every time @marioaliberto3.bsky.social publishes a new story, but this really truly, once and for all, could be my all-time favorite!

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Read this!

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Jenny, thanks so much for sharing.

Please enjoy this interview w Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social about her amazing new collection, Bitter Over Sweet, 2023 winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards. LINKS to her book and to her AMAZING launch on Nov 7 w Deesha Philyaw & Avitus Carle are in the interview.

First off, I just have to say, I love the Bath Flash Fiction Award! Thank you so much to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for seeing and appreciating my cranky, zero-fucks-given Menopausal Woman character. She's a real hoot!

So many great lines in here!

So good!

Of course, NOW I see this! Damn!

As soon as I wrote this one, I knew where to send it. Ghost Parachute Rules! Happy reading, everyone...

Also, a big thank you goes to @erinvachon.bsky.social who jiggled loose the seed of this triptych in their prose poem webinar. Seriously, what would I do without @smokelong.bsky.social ??

Grieving Hope | ELJ Editions Grief and hope. Two words that aren’t used together often. Yet, through stories of nature and nurture, of reckoning and coming to terms, Charlotte Hamrick, Kim Steutermann Rogers, Ronita Chattopadhyay...

And now you can get the ebook as well. Thanks @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social for bringing us together in this beautiful anthology which became a home for my first micro chapbook (Preparing to be wrecked)
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Lovely. Like a breath.

Photo of book cover of BITTER OVER SWEET by Melissa Llanes Brownlee.

You’re back in the 8-0-8 @lumchanmfa.bsky.social

Congratulations on your a-maz-ing story collection!

THE NITTY GRITTY INTERVIEW WITH RONITA CHATTOPADHYAY – Reckon Review The eight pieces in Ronita’s collection explore feelings of grief and confusion as a young girl at the death of a dear friend, her first loss, and how the experience might influence future losses.

Thanks @charhamrick.bsky.social for the engaging questions. And I also did learn a lot from your writings @charhamrick.bsky.social @kimsrogers.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie @emergejournal.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social
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