🛸🛸🛸 let this one slip through your fingers

🛸🛸🛸 let this one slip through your fingers

Everything Must Go by Mercer Eddy There’s a void behind the Larsons’ house. They had a yard sale. They found a buyer. If you throw in a rock, there’s no rock anymore. If you flick in a contraband joint, no you didn’t....

“There’s a void behind the Larsons’ house. They had a yard sale. They found a buyer.”

🛸🛸 new one from @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social

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Everything Must Go by Mercer Eddy There’s a void behind the Larsons’ house. They had a yard sale. They found a buyer. If you throw in a rock, there’s no rock anymore. If you flick in a contraband joint, no you didn’t....

“There’s a void behind the Larsons’ house. They had a yard sale. They found a buyer.”

🛸🛸 new one from @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social

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new story in the morning, sleep tight 🛸💜

Saddled, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social -- my notebook reads: "weird! like really quite weird! im into it!" I agree with myself. A stylish, bizarre little bite of?? Horror???
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@chasej.xyz returns with another banger! 🛸🛸

🛸🛸 read the latest, from @chasej.xyz

🛸🛸 read the latest, from @chasej.xyz

Watching As it Circles by Chase Anderson i’m only here because i’m expected to be. The last time isn’t reachable in memory; it could be four days, a week. Too long, too far, i can’t let someone say something, again. Dry sh...

🛸🛸 new one from @chasej.xyz

“The rod creaks under Your weight. i undress as fast as possible, leave the clothes just outside the curtain, pre-warmed and safe.”

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@chasej.xyz returns with another banger! 🛸🛸

story about sittin down in the shower!!!!

Watching As it Circles by Chase Anderson i’m only here because i’m expected to be. The last time isn’t reachable in memory; it could be four days, a week. Too long, too far, i can’t let someone say something, again. Dry sh...

🛸🛸 new one from @chasej.xyz

“The rod creaks under Your weight. i undress as fast as possible, leave the clothes just outside the curtain, pre-warmed and safe.”

www.nightshadesmag.com/watching-as-...

What I’d Want to Have Said Before You’ll Kill Me Again by Chase Anderson When you first arrived to tell me I might not be crazy, I should’ve used these then-fledgling powers to rewind time once more, to before I first failed to save the woman I thought I...

🛸🛸 this week @chasej.xyz returns to NS!🛸🛸

🛸🛸 you may begin the necessary preparations, by reading this:

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What I’d Want to Have Said Before You’ll Kill Me Again by Chase Anderson When you first arrived to tell me I might not be crazy, I should’ve used these then-fledgling powers to rewind time once more, to before I first failed to save the woman I thought I...

🛸🛸 this week @chasej.xyz returns to NS!🛸🛸

🛸🛸 you may begin the necessary preparations, by reading this:

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Butane City Leafs by Pierre S. Robes Carl looked both ways. Latitia had her earbuds in and was turned to the hot dog steamer, humming an anxiety-support song he didn’t recognize. He turned against the wall & slid a pi...

happy opening day to all who celebrate 🛸⚾️

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Do Not Feed the Horses It’s been a slow start to the year, but I’ve had a couple of fantastic story acceptances, and I’m delighted to announce that my surrealist flash fiction ‘Do Not Feed the Hor…

I'm gonna have a weird little story in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social! Read more here diebooth.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/d... and do please check out their bite-sized free reads, an excellent magazine!

#freereads #shortstory #flashfiction #indieauthor #booksky

i can’t really pull another quote from @monicalyrehart.bsky.social’s new piece without giving the whole thing away … it’s so short and weird! 👁️👁️

Your Head by Monica Lyrehart You carefully part your braids, left and right, and watch yourself in the mirror as you leave. Downstairs, Mom expertly flips pancakes, passing Dad a plate without turning. You k...

If you get it, you get it.

It's also okay if you don't 🫶.

Thanks, @nightshadesmag.bsky.social, for sharing this over the weekend!

www.nightshadesmag.com/your-head/

i can’t really pull another quote from @monicalyrehart.bsky.social’s new piece without giving the whole thing away … it’s so short and weird! 👁️👁️

you don’t know where this one is going, i promise

Your Head by Monica Lyrehart You carefully part your braids, left and right, and watch yourself in the mirror as you leave. Downstairs, Mom expertly flips pancakes, passing Dad a plate without turning. You k...

👁️👁️ new one from @monicalyrehart.bsky.social

“You keep your eyes on the clock and your breakfast, the analog arms ticking red circles in your syrupy stack.”

www.nightshadesmag.com/your-head/

you don’t know where this one is going, i promise

Your Head by Monica Lyrehart You carefully part your braids, left and right, and watch yourself in the mirror as you leave. Downstairs, Mom expertly flips pancakes, passing Dad a plate without turning. You k...

👁️👁️ new one from @monicalyrehart.bsky.social

“You keep your eyes on the clock and your breakfast, the analog arms ticking red circles in your syrupy stack.”

www.nightshadesmag.com/your-head/

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