This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

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💥 THIS WEEKEND💥

I’ll be teaching CRAFTING STRUCTURE IN FLASH FICTION at Rutgers’ Cooper Street Workshop! Want to write your heart out? Learn more about bending form in flash?!

Then this workshop is for you!

✨Details✨

When: April 11, 2026
Time: 10 am - 1 pm

camden.rutgers.edu/event/cooper...

What this shows is that no matter where one goes or no matter how much technology one has, what humans need most is each other.

Our second spotlight is by @catherinebuck.bsky.social 🦝

We loved the short searing sentences that make this micro feel tense and breathless, the sense of encroaching danger and escalation and the last lines that land scalpel sharp.

Read and listen here:
trashcatlit.com/tattler/

"You should have seen it, a monster, through the window, yes I did, with my own two eyes I did. You shut up, you weren’t brave enough. You’ve never been brave like me."

Tense, propulsive writing from @catherinebuck.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social

trashcatlit.com/tattler/

Thanks so much Matt for reading!

So happy to be in this micro issue and excited to read the rest of these stunning pieces!

In the Name of Those Optimist Iranian Fools — Split Lip Magazine Minutes after my feet touched moon dust, your voice creaked in the video message.  “The virus wins,” you chuckled in that half-slanted way you did when nothing was funny. Jaundice yellow laced i...

Thinking of this piece by @pegahouji.bsky.social today.

splitlipthemag.com/flash/0924/p... #flashinthefeed @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

March 18, 2026 Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

Teasing our upcoming March Mini Bin micro issue with these two crackers 🦝

@catherinebuck.bsky.social follows two boys into the woods and has us question who the monsters are

@stuartcavet.bsky.social shows us what happens when something that should help us, chooses to help itself

More teases later

Today! Come meet "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet"!

othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

Here they are! Our sixteen Micro Binners!
Their amazing smol works are coming on the 21st March. Be there! 🦝
@sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social Ron Arbuckle @lmbayley.bsky.social Jesse Binger @catherinebuck.bsky.social @stuartcavet.bsky.social @travisflatt.bsky.social @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social 💜

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OTHERSIDE - Queer Speculative Fiction OTHERSIDE is a queer-led literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

6 - The Homeowner's Bride by Ayida Shonibar. i love the haunted house POV in this story. ayida is so good at clandestine relationships with a body count. ❤️ othersidespec.com

Got a whole bunch of stickers at AWP and am not going to stick them on anything until I get into their respective mags. Wish me luck!

Loved the chance to meet you! Can’t wait to read an eventual carousel book… 🎠

Love AWP. Love writers! Goodnight

Such a good piece. Loved the way this came together. Thank you for writing it!

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

With image of Kurt Vonnegut on the left: “(talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope) Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

Thinking of this all the time these days

Thrilled to be nominated and grateful to the @lostballoon.bsky.social team for all their care and work in creating this wonderful magazine.

The minute it goes above 30 degrees I can feel my brain unfurl like a giant leaf

I haven't been able to get this book out of my head since I read it. A truly incredible work.

open again for another 45 newbies! anyone who's submitted to us before need not (better not!) apply

Really looking forward to this!

These are both incredible stories!

I’m a constituent and this is beautiful! Thank you.

Stunningly powerful new piece from @ayidashonibar.bsky.social! A true voice to watch.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Smokelong is the best group for building community and writing flash! So excited to rejoin for 2026.