I was reading this today. Get on it!

😍🙌🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

"If you carve the words in sadness,
know them like the ink you bury,
like the veins that rise to the occasion."

Undoing: The Book of Being Here by @jenlrouse.bsky.social in The Constant Hum of Elsewhere, published by Harbor Editions @smallharborpub.bsky.social (congrats, Jen! ♥️)

New nonfiction today from Lacey Rodriquez.
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So good to read you! Another writer & I were talking about your excellent story “We’re All Just Trying to Keep Our Shit Together at the DMV” recently.

Dottie [heart] Hank – There were rumors, of course.  Like that time Helen’s boy, Dale, had this catalytic converter side hustle going on. Helen believed his overtime story because she wanted that new Ashley…

Flash fiction by @lmariharris.bsky.social is like a precious gem, rare & worth the wait. So good to read her again!

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New Wind & Root from the brilliant Mary Thorson, come see.

I have both & they are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Melissa 🌷💛😍 You’re a jewel! TY!

Thank you so much! You know I’m a big fan of your work. 💛

Excavating, Exploring & Ending: A Best Small Fictions Conversation YouTube video by Flash Frontier

In a very new experience (for me!) I participated in a panel discussion for Best Small Fictions with some really cool writers like Scott Garson and Meg Pokrass. About endings and short fiction. Watch or don't!! www.youtube.com/live/OTB7dxC...

#napowrimo

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN APRIL 1 - 7 Submission guidelines here.

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN APRIL 1 - 7
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Thank you, Pat 💙

Dan 🙏💙😍

Storm Warnings & Shapeshifting by Charlotte Hamrick I’m sitting in the carport of my childhood home sometime in the 1970s. I’m barefoot because it’s summer and I’m often barefoot in summer, the soles of my feet toughened from wa…

Thanks to @emergejournal.bsky.social & @dianegotauthor.bsky.social for including my CNF in their new issue. Love this journal!
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Pat 💚💜💛🙏😊

New Nonfiction today from J.R. Welch
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"One summer we played Workin’ Together time and again, Tina’s husky, soulful cries floating up to the bald sun"

Great evocation of character and relationship in this one from @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

Matt, thank you for your kind words and for reading 💛

New fiction today from Noreen Graf!!

Thanks so much, Dan 💛

My mantra.

IF THE CONCRETE - SHATTERED TEARS | Photograph by Joanne Macias

“If she had listened. If she had not done that thing. If she could slip through the keyhole like a ghost.”

I‘m blown away by this… @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social

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Thanks so much, dear Koss💜💛❤️

If you ever get to New Orleans you must get the turtle soup at Commander’s Palace. Loved your story!

Many thanks to Gooseberry Pie for accepting my micros. Love this journal!

New creative nonfiction today at Reckon. Come visit and read "Mothering, 21st Century Edition" by Alina Zollfrank
@zollizen.bsky.social

Submissions Open Next Sunday! For previously published CNF

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