Another collection of top-class #shortstories for February. Our thanks to Lou Gallo @loricramerwriter.bsky.social @polyscribe70.bsky.social @luannecastle.bsky.social Susmita Mukherjee and @grahammort.bsky.social. More to follow...
Send us your flash fiction under 1000 words with your name removed from the document and all your loves and fears pressed inside! We're reading until 3/15 or we reach our cap.
"And she would always be his alibi, lying so quickly, even she believed it."
Read @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social
bulbregion.com/Infamy-Comes...
Looks delicious!
The story that was 150 words this morning is now 135 words. #amwriting #microfiction
Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. We look fwd to reading your words so please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...
Congratulations!
Congratulations, Jessica!
doing some freelance editing rn & thought I might share a fun prose-writing trick that can help cut back on wordiness & over-explaining: approach the end of each sentence as a poet may approach a line break; i.e. try to shape sentences so that they end on the most interesting/important word possible
Snowy Sundays are good days for sending out submissions. #amwriting
"She enjoys the bald harshness of this statement, the discomfort it causes, the clumsy grasping for a suitable response."
Read @cake-girl.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/creative-non...
Congratulations, Lisa!
Less is more. #amwriting #microfiction
Moving paragraphs around like I’ve just knocked into my story with a pool ball. What if this story was inside out. What if it started where it ended & vice versa. What if I wrote the same story in 40 different ways & called it a collection. An exercise. A dare.
Same point of view, different word counts, different endings.
Send your #dribbles to @thehooletsnook.bsky.social !
When you can't decide which version to go with. #amwriting
Today's #writingprompt: Write about hosting a party.
Daily Writing Prompts: www.toasted-cheese.com/calendar/
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Congratulations, Bronwen!
Congratulations!
"'Thanks for taking us there,' we said, the ink from our signatures slow-fading like a situationship into the folds of night's road-not-taken light."
Read @pdforan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/on-a-ghostli...
Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!
How can it be that I've written more #poetry than #flashfiction so far this year? #amwriting
Better late than never.. The Mersey Review 8 is finally live! 🐷💚
Get your eyes on down to.. well.. here ⬇️⤵️⏬👇
www.themerseyreview.com/issues/8/
Reminder: Hot Flash Literary is open for subs for just two more weeks (!) for Issue 3: Fire and Ice. Subs open to women-identifying writers. #flashfiction #flashCNF #prosepoetry hotflashliterary.com/submissions/
feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea
'Actually, Asa does look forward to our breakfasts with Dad—but that’s because Mom never buys us fast food. Not that she’s opposed to us eating it. It’s just too expensive, she says.'
Stark bittersweet micro by @loricramerwriter.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
fictivedream.com/2026/02/02/m...
Thank you so much, Laura!
ICYMI today we're feat. "Every Sunday Morning at 9, Dad Honks the Horn of His Midlife-Crisis Mustang" by Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/02/02/m...
When I saw the title I had to read it right now - And I'm so glad I did. Wonderful little micro. Congratulations🎉
