“The tornado is sexy, sultry, a slut.”

@skyskkyy.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/she-sucks/

"I find the first one on my way home from school, as I’m crossing the forest."

More good news! ✨️ Contributor @skyskkyy.bsky.social was published in @prairie-schooner.bsky.social! 👏 buff.ly/Pg89iHV

SHE SUCKS @fracturedlit.bsky.social ♥️

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We press our bodies together like sandwich bread. Her torso wiggles, her torso says we must go back to the convent. Her hips gyrate, her hips don't care. Her habit falls from her head. I sink my teeth into the cotton, its fibers swimming down my throat. My stomach fills like it hasn't in weeks. - Skyler Melnick, "Sisterhood of Dirt" Fall 2025 The Desire Issue Prairie Schooner prairieschooner.unl.edu

Skyler Melnick's "Sisterhood of Dirt" appears in our Fall 2025 issue (the Desire issue), available now.

Read @skyskkyy.bsky.social's story on our website: prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/sist...

Read the TOC & more excerpts from the issue + order a copy: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...

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This story rocks—err, rots. Either way give it a read.

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“I try not to look in the mirror. To see my face, barely peeking out from the ooze. I am myself melted, left out for years and years in the scorching heat.”

I mean come onnn, this beauty by @skyskkyy.bsky.social

“I was a waitress before I married. Now I wait again, for the rot to fulfill itself, for my decay to be complete.”

“It's tranquil, this completion.”

@skyskkyy.bsky.social in @wigleaf.bsky.social wigleaf.com/202601rot.htm

Rot with me 🥩🌱

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new new: "The Rot," by Skyler Melnick: wigleaf.com @skyskkyy.bsky.social

We are THRILLED to announce our ✨Best Small Fictions Nominations✨ Lots of love to @sashabrown.bsky.social, JR Fenn, John Jodzio, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Neeru Nagarajan

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"We did not mean for this to happen. The boy, bleeding on Marie’s carpet."

✨ Check out @skyskkyy.bsky.social's flash piece MARIE, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL in our new DECEMBER ISSUE: buff.ly/L7ZHC72

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Marie, the Most Beautiful — Split Lip Magazine We did not mean for this to happen. The boy, bleeding on Marie’s carpet. Marie standing on his chest, tap dancing, as if that will help the situation.

Absolutely love the dark, uncanny world that @skyskkyy.bsky.social creates in MARIE, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL. Such an honor and joy to get to edit this piece!

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Three abstract panels like a storm erupting against a blue sky. Panel 1: broad, swooping gestures of white and pale gray.

Panel 2: dark veins streak downward like electricity.

Panel 3: a thick, explosive tangle of dark paint with flashes of red.

Cozy up with our DECEMBER ISSUE. 🎁

WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson.
ART by Eric Calloway.
PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social.

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The smallest girl who ever lived.

Read "The Smallest Girl Who Ever Lived," by Skylar Melnick @skyskkyy.bsky.social in issue 67.

vestalreview.net/the-smallest-girl-who-ever-lived

Art by Jinghong Chen.

The Smallest Girl Who Ever Lived — Vestal Review

“That white ball has bounced into the sky, full as an eye socket. Do you know what a full moon means? my sister asks. Means transformation, she says, like mermaids becoming girls and girls becoming mermaids.”

@skyskkyy.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social www.vestalreview.net/the-smallest...

Our winter 2025 issue is here!

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We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +

Friday Five: December 5, 2025 New experiment on Fives and Favs.

something new - your M7 Friday Five

five albums, five stories (one fav!)

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It Smells Like Dead Girls in Here by Skyler Melnick The line takes forever, but finally it’s my turn. I stare at my best friend, tucked into a girl-sized mahogany coffin. Bridget is incredibly dead. Face painted, hair curled and crunchy, she looks e...

““Am I dead? I ask her.
How should I know?””

Skyler Melnick for @hexliterary.bsky.social hexliterary.com?p=2579

♥️ so very excited to be a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow ♥️

When We Were Rabbit

Where we go wrong is Rebecca. She really wants it, to be rabbit with us. She’s someone’s little sister, but no one trusts her, because she has breasts already. And she’s proud of them, which disgusts us.

Read this fabulous story by @skyskkyy.bsky.social at
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