Avitus, thanks so much for reading and sharing. 💙

“The laws bring their own darkness. Our bodies shudder. No man can be locked out. A girl is a woman is a slut is a girl. Is a car. Needing only maintenance, occasional starlight.” @claudiamonpere.bsky.social@splitlipthemag.bsky.socialsplitlipthemag.com/flash/0524/c...

Girl Locks — Split Lip Magazine

It’s very late, the policeman insists, for a woman and a girl. His flashlight drills into our car.

"the time she imagined kids stepping on her in the playground as if she wasn’t there, the time she saw a deer strung up on wires by its front and back feet in her uncle’s back yard." Brilliant flash from the archives @cherylpappas.bsky.socialwww.havehashad.com/hadposts/spent

Spent by Cheryl Pappas

The time she wet her pants in first grade, the time she imagined kids stepping on her in the playground as if she wasn’t there, the time she saw a deer strung up on wires by its front and back feet in...

Love the cover. Love the writer. Can't wait to read.

Cover reveal! Presenting the face of These Worn Bodies, the forthcoming flash fiction collection from @avitusbcarle.bsky.social@mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award! Release date November 1; pre-order link up soon. Cover art and design by Shen Chen Hsieh.

Avitus! Amazing cover. Can't wait to read. Congratulations!!!

She is HERE!!!! Cover reveal day for my upcoming flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES (and YES it says FLASH FICTION under the title IM SO HAPPY)!!!!! Keep a lookout for THESE WORN BODIES available November 2024 #flashfiction

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Cover reveal! Presenting the face of These Worn Bodies, the forthcoming flash fiction collection from @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, winner of the 2023 Moon City Press Moon City Short Fiction Award! Release date November 1; pre-order link up soon. Cover art and design by Shen Chen Hsieh.

Yay!!!

Thrilled to have a story in one of my favorite lit mags-- Cleaver. www.cleavermagazine.com/salt-paint-b...

SALT PAINT by Claudia Monpere

Claudia Monpere’s flash appears or is forthcoming in Craft, Smokelong Quarterly, The Forge, Atlas and Alice, Trampset, and more.

"Marianne lies awake, staring at the peeling patch on the ceiling, thinking of the growing list of dead people in her life." Terrific story by @kimmagowan.bsky.socialwww.cleavermagazine.com/the-back-nin...

THE BACK NINE by Kim Magowan

Kim Magowan is the author of the short story collection Don't Take This the Wrong Way, co-authored with Michelle Ross.