@jaimegill
Brit writer in Cambodia. I work, write, read, run, box, sometimes socialise. www.jaimegill.com & jaimegill.substack.com Published in Missouri Review, The Forge, Fractured, Trampset & more Bridport & Luminaire Prose Award winner, 3 times Puschart nominee
Full disclosure. I'm active in writing groups and Mike's in one of them. I saw an early draft, but the characters of Hiro (my beloved Hiro!) and Juan leapt off the page and into my heart instantly. I know I would be recommending this just as vigorously if I'd not known who the hell Mike Dunn was.
This is probably my favourite short story of the last year, starring two of my favourite characters. Bursting with voice, heart and humour, so charming and moving. There's something in its warmth and idiosyncrasy that reminds me of John Irving. Give yourself a gift and read it.
‘until at the end he begs her to get off the living room floor and – please please please – sleep in her bed tonight).’
Don’t miss this powerful, heartbreaking story by @jaimegill.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social
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I’m so glad to see this story by @jaimegill.bsky.social back in the world. It’s so good. The concept is so unique, but not at the expense of the narrative.
A pretty amazing 50th birthday present. One of my favourite, most personal and experimental stories - This Is Not A Horror Film - chosen by Trash Cat for their selection of previously published gems. There’s a Q&A if you want to hear me banging on. Thank you TC & Trampset for first publishing it.
Always lovely when someone takes the time to comment on a story. Thank you, Lillie. I do like how First Date turned out, the way the ugliness creeps up, inch by inch... hngrmtn.org/issues/hngr-...
They can’t take it back now, its been officially announced with my picture and everything. I’m a finalist for a Tennessee Williams Prize!
Teenage me, who devoured Tennessee’s oh so queer plays, would cry at this honour. Maybe today me too.
Results soon but finalist is already wild dream territory
Remember that Hunger Games book where all the competitors were people who had already won Hunger Games? The new Trash Cat is that but with stories.
Every story here has already won glory in another magazine and stood out enough that Trash Cat is giving them another day in the sun. Dive in!
Submissions for the Mini Bin are now OPEN.
Send us your best micros before 8pm (UK Time) on the 10th March.
Make 'em short, make 'em sharp, make 'em story.
50-175 words, any genre.
trashcatlit.com/microfiction...
Ah thank you. I wasn’t trying to create a twist, more a growing sense of not-rightness that finally reveals its full ugly face
Ah thank you. I wasn’t trying to create a twist, more a growing sense of not-rightness that finally reveals its full ugly face
New story out: First Date, in the wonderfully eclectic pages of the wonderfully named Hunger Mountain. Like many first dates, this doesn't end where you hope it will. Its dark, explores pornography and control, and you might not like who you end up sat opposite. Have fun!
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Something wicked this way comes…
Great piece and love how you intertwine the music with the lives of you and your mother.
With thanks to Zurui for the red envelope and apologies to Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King…
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR OF THE HORSE EVERYONE
Who needs weekends? Who needs to spend time with other human beings? Weaklings, that's who.
If you need me, you'll find me bashing through a script: nycmidnight.com/scc
Really very moved by how people are responding to Siouxsie, Susan, Robert and Me. It's a leap into the dark for me but it's not so bad here, this dark. missourireview.com/jaime-gill/
Being a writer is the most embarrassing thing in the world! I write down the entire contents of my soul for validation! And then some editor will just be like no thanks!
It fills me with a great deal of joy (and no little relief) that this story is striking a chord with people. This is one I really did want to be read and understood in all its idiosyncrasy
Thank you so much! Do you mind if I repost that? Real people’s opinions always count for more than the writer’s !
Thank you so much! Do you mind if I repost that? Real people’s opinions always count for more than the writer’s !
Siouxsie, Susan, Robert & Me - my one and only creative non-fiction story - is in the Missouri Review. I can’t believe it.
It’s about me, my late mother, the music and alcoholism we shared, and our different fates.
Sad, beautiful, honest. My life story in 1000 words
missourireview.com/jaime-gill/
Yep. This tracks.
I think I might compile a list of surefire signs you are dealing with a moron.
People who say “it’s as simple as” is another one - it is always followed by an opinion on an incredibly complex matter, something that is anything but simple
Genuine question. Has anyone ever encountered someone saying “do the research” who genuinely could have explained but chose not to? Have you, perhaps?
Or is it always a blustering cover for someone not knowing what they are talking about (which is my working theory)?
they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
“Such small, selfish thoughts. I thought coming out would make me a bigger, better person, but I’m still just me.”
Ghosted is @theforge.bsky.social story of the week for 8 more hours. It’s political, yes, but its also very personal
Thanks again @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social for midwifing this baby
January is over and we're delighted to thank #fiction authors: Scott Bolendz @fionajanemack.bsky.social @jaimegill.bsky.social @kiptain.bsky.social Mathieu Cailler Eva Rivers Louella Lester and Anna Schachner. Pls. click on the link below to check out their stories fictivedream.com/2026/01/
Hello! My debut newsletter is up and running. Yikes.
Topics include new stories at @theforge.bsky.social, @freeflashfiction.bsky.social & @fictivedream.bsky.social as well as recent inspirations, @suedehq.bsky.social’s “Wild Ones” & @a24movies.bsky.social’s “Heretic.”
Why not take a look around?
"I’d like to forget what happened to Javi but he’s more inescapable since his deportation than when he lived three miles away. Can you be haunted by someone who isn’t dead?"
Ghosted, my story of infatuation, heartbreak, consequences, activism & deportation in the US
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Oh thank you so so much. I might get this made into t shirts and make my friends wear them if we’re out in public together