i met god in a bookstore — Blood+Honey by Tracie Adams “When I spotted the paper dolls among a display of children’s picture books, I felt my body shrink into itself. Suddenly, I was eight again, pulled to the carpeted floor in a crossed...

For your #FlashInTheFeed : this piece by @tracieadams.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social

www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/i-me...

LITTLE SISTER, WHY HAVEN'T WE HEARD FROM YOU? by Timothy Boudreau We remember the shy teenager who visited aunts and uncles with a novel and a piece of knitting.  The adult in an over-sized sweater, huddled in a corner over a cup of tea. Though separated by ten year...

"We must allow ourselves to make brave mistakes." - by @tcboudreau.bsky.social in a story I just heard him read, now out in his book "Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever" ( @stanchion.bsky.social ), originally from @xraylitmag.bsky.social : xraylitmag.com/little-siste... #FlashInTheFeed

Just read this today, and I love it so much!! #FlashInTheFeed #flashfiction

Cover for Shasta Grant’s novel When We Were Feral with image of Shasta and of a young person in the wilderness

The 5th winner of a #FlashInTheFeed copy of When We Were Feral by Shasta Grant, (which you can pre-order NOW) is Andrea Damic @damicandrea.bsky.social! Please DM us! :)

Odd Biography | Fractured

@smokelong.bsky.social #flashinthefeed

Papaya betrayal! One of the most sensual stories I've read in a while. You won't look at produce the same, ever.

fracturedlit.com/odd-biography/

I got to hear Lorraine read this out loud recently... fantastic work!! #FlashInTheFeed

#flashinthefeed @smokelong.bsky.social

So good! "Mary Beth’s boyfriend popped the question, and because she truly loved the idea of love, and maybe even him, she said yes..."

cover image from Shasta Grant's debut novel, When We Were Feral, showing an image of a young person backlit by misty sunlight on a mountainside with pine woods behind. Inset headshot image of Shasta. Text overlay: Giveaway: When We Were Feral by Shasta Grant. Coming June 2026 from Regal House Publishing. "I want everyone to read this book." Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman and Godshot. SLQ logo.

The third name pulled out of the SmokeLong bucket hat for our #FlashInTheFeed giveaway of Shasta Grant's debut novel, When We Were Feral, is Christina Tudor!
@christinaltudor.bsky.social please send us a DM with your mailing details 🌟

cover image from Shasta Grant's debut novel, When We Were Feral, showing an image of a young person backlit by misty sunlight on a mountainside with pine woods behind. Inset headshot image of Shasta. Text overlay: Giveaway: When We Were Feral by Shasta Grant. Coming June 2026 from Regal House Publishing. "I want everyone to read this book." Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman and Godshot. SLQ logo.

Second name out of the hat for our #FlashInTheFeed giveaway of Shasta Grant's debut novel, When We Were Feral, is Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social! Please send us a DM with your mailing address! 💗

"Where the Light Paused" by Nehal She keeps setting a fourth plate at the table. No one comments anymore. Her mother clears it like clockwork. Her father eats in silence. Her sister rolls her eyes but never removes it. Even the dog si...

@smokelong.bsky.social #flashinthefeed

"The world moves on like a polite machine."

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Boys in Boxes | Fractured

Throwing this piece by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social into the #FlashInTheFeed because I've only just come across it and it feels so important:

fracturedlit.com/boys-in-boxes/

This one by @salenacasha.bsky.social seems like an excellent choice for #FlashInTheFeed because it was a liiiiiiitle too relatable for me to have read it at 6:30am on a Saturday. @smokelong.bsky.social

AU: the night your husband proposed | Fractured

"AU:the night your husband proposed" by @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social is a haunting micro about a relationship.

It'll live in rent free in my head so now it has to live in yours too: fracturedlit.com/au-the-night...

#FlashInTheFeed @smokelong.bsky.social

"bloodworks" by J. R. Wilkerson how does it look,from a distanceas i flail at thisnuisance of mosquitosfrom my car to the clinic,as they wave me onat the front deskto the jungle roomyou see,they know me herebut this ain’t gracelandt...

@smokelong.bsky.social #flashinthefeed by J.R. Wilkerson, "Bloodworks" - Excellent use of Dirty Dancing soundtrack :) Great poetry!

www.roifaineantpress.com/post/bloodwo...

miCRo: "What Don't Kill You" by Darius Simpson - The Cincinnati Review At the beginning of Darius Simpson’s “What Don’t Kill You” is a heartbreaking pair of shoes in Akron, Ohio.

Think Black lives don't matter? Maybe you need some #FlashInTheFeed! Like this piece in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social by Darius Simpson, who asks, "what I mean is have you cried for no reason lately":

www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/micro...

Unlimited Options - SmokeLong Quarterly It was Friday night and the only people in the strip mall parking lot were trapped families at Cheeseburger in Paradise, an anxious security guard keeping watch over the Dollar Tree, teenage employees...

Double posting for #FlashInTheFeed because I forget yesterday!

So much teen angst and nostalgia in this one and it's very clear why it was a Grand Micro contest finalist for @SmokeLong: www.smokelong.com/stories/unli...

Procession – swamp pink

#flashinthefeed @smokelong.bsky.social I have another one from a great author, but at the time I read this story, which was four years ago, I didn't know anything about her. Anyway, this story stayed with me:

Procession by Kathy Fish
swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/pro...

4 Tips on How to Survive Alone on an Island

@smokelong.bsky.social #flashinthefeed

bendinggenres.com/4-tips-on-ho... by Joseph Gorodnitskiy. If you need an escape plan...

The Right Light by Janelle Bassett I eat my lunch in the park, because a televised doctor told me to. I should experience the outdoors for at least twenty minutes a day, so my eyes can take in a non-screen light source. He said this…

Tardy to the party as always but #FlashInTheFeed gave me a great excuse to revisit an old favourite flash: The Right Light by Janelle Bassett

okaydonkeymag.com/2019/09/06/t...

Flash Fiction: Clementines by Yunya Yang He is dirty, germs on his hands, in the gaps of his nails, something invisible and harmful. Something that harms her.

I missed #FlashInTheFeed yesterday but sharing this story anyway because we all need more flash in our lives. Read this beautiful, compact flash, "Clementines" by Yunya Yang.

(Huge congrats on WHEN WE WERE FERAL, Shasta!)

jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/f...

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

(Forgot to tag @smokelong.bsky.social for #FlashInTheFeed here)

Grass Cuts – Free Flash Fiction My daughter runs barefoot across the fresh patch of wet grass, leaving behind a trail of giggles as my husband mock-chases her around our lawn. He’s pretending to be a monster, fi-fa-fo-fumming; stomp...

"He’s pretending to be a monster, fi-fa-fo-fumming; stomping his feet on a patch of ragweed. I used to pull those weeds out in the same lawn, as they were mother’s least favourite chore, and father’s most favourite form of punishment." #FlashInTheFeed

Grass Cuts – Free Flash Fiction My daughter runs barefoot across the fresh patch of wet grass, leaving behind a trail of giggles as my husband mock-chases her around our lawn. He’s pretending to be a monster, fi-fa-fo-fumming; stomp...

Every line of "Grass Cuts" by @j4prez.bsky.social is beautiful and heartbreaking at once! Read it here: freeflashfiction.com/fiction/gras... #FlashInTheFeed

Judy Blume Didn't Prepare Me for the Apocalypse - SmokeLong Quarterly Judy Blume prepared me for first periods and first loves—not these rising muddy waters filling the streets like an open mouth beneath the sepia-tone sky tinged gray like food that’s rotted before you ...

Gambling with World War Three? Get ready for the apocalypse with this #FlashInTheFeed by @christinaltudor.bsky.social from @smokelong.bsky.social : www.smokelong.com/stories/judy...

the sky didn't slip inside - SmokeLong Quarterly let’s pretend the day didn’t begin with death. let’s pretend you didn’t facetime my sister from your car crying, YOU’VE LEFT ME & I’VE FALLEN THROUGH THE EARTH, & then put a plastic bag over your head...

#flashinthefeed another one from me from a writer I don’t know, but love their writing @smokelong.bsky.social

www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...

I love this micro by Cristina Fríes in @vestalreview.bsky.social. Sharp, straightforward language and a punch in the gut. #FlashInTheFeed www.vestalreview.net/back-at-the-...

P.S. Drafted this one in @smokelong.bsky.social Summer '25 (and it someone who doesn't know me could read it for #FlashInTheFeed. Just Saying!!)

Angela, in the basement by Kelly McElroy The first time my mother takes my oldest sister down into the embalming room, I am hidden away upstairs, staring at my ceiling. My sister has just returned home from getting her degree in mortuary …

@smokelong.bsky.social #flashinthefeed "Angela, in the basement" by Kelly McElroy. The thin veil between life and death is a couple of floors. Beautifully rendered story!
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The Blob Takes Manhattan | Fractured

#flashinthefeed (The story is: The Blob Takes Manhattan).

fracturedlit.com/the-blob-tak...