James Montgomery

It was already there when we got to read that amazing first draft! Really love this one, a new favourite of mine of yours 👏

Train Man by Patience Mackarness | Issue #40 There is a you who still follows the tracks through India, photographing engines with names like Locomotive Sentinel and Last Star.

‘Who still looks out from a moving carriage on tea plantations, holy rivers, red-dust fields and red-haze sunsets…’

How all the details in this @nffr.bsky.social story from @patiencemackarness.bsky.social bring it so brilliantly to life… 🛤️

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Bamboo Silk by Rosaleen Lynch | Issue #40 Pillow talk turns to silk; real or faux. In winter’s lowlight, smoke rises from the bedside ashtray, as the hotel window keeps the lunchtime city at bay.

‘It’s real, he says. As real, she nods, as the London rush hour, that will take them home this evening, on their separate ways.’

Just love this richly atmospheric flash from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social 🚬

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The claw machine by Nadia Born | Issue #40 now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home. no special instructions.

‘you jimmy the joystick and imagine testing the bath water with your elbow…’

Wonderfully off-kilter story from @nadiaborn.com in @nffr.bsky.social 👶

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Fabulous, Suzanne! Love your micros ❤️

So shiny! ✨

Anyone noticed anything different about us (the Welkin) just recently?

🧐

Massive congratulations, Barbara! 🥳

Huge congratulations, Timothy! 🥳

Loved it, Angel!

Congratulations, Madeleine! Great news 🎉

Yay, Alison! Fingers crossed for the next stage 🤞

Thanks, Emma! Still can’t believe I’m on that list, really.

Brilliant news! Best of luck for the next stage 🤞

Thanks, Daniel! 😊

Aw, thanks Jack! 🙂

Thanks, Kathryn! 😊

Congratulations, Salena! 🥳 Best of luck!

Yay, Sumitra! Fingers crossed for you for the next stage 🤞

❤️

Hmmm, I don’t know about ‘mastered’, but thank you! ☺️

😊

Thanks, Ros!

Saving to watch this later, @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social 👏

Thank you! ❤️

There are no stupid questions - The Offing Micro - The Offing Magazine

‘Like time was a possession she kept in her pockets…’

Just love how @ezhang77.bsky.social frames this one in @theoffingmag.bsky.social 📞

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Elena, this is so good! 🔥

Over Drinks — Ghost Parachute I used to create a miniature horse, just using the power of my thoughts. I performed the trick only when we had guests over, when the children were peeking through the stairs at our friends pouring hi...

‘…the way my hands got shakier each time I performed the trick, how the horse ran in narrower and narrower circles on the furrows on my hand.’

A tiny marvel from @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute 🐎

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Precipitation — Ghost Parachute I can’t afford heat, so we stay under the covers to trap the heavy air. We change positions to work up a sweat. Only when we’re about to suffocate do we pull back the blanket and let our hot air escap...

‘I burrow under the covers and think about the time I played dead so you could give me CPR.’

Such an intimate flash from @bestthingaround.bsky.social in the new issue of Ghost Parachute 💦

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‘…with Charlie, we’re amplified, turned up, the most vivid versions of ourselves.’

Completely transported to this scene in @emilyrinkema.bsky.social’s new story in @gonelawn.bsky.social 🏕️

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