âThe 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.â @claudiamonpere.bsky.social@splitlipthemag.bsky.socialsplitlipthemag.com/flash/0524/c...
Itâs 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 wasnât there, the time she saw a deer strung up on wires by its front and back feet in her uncleâs back yard." Brilliant flash from the archives @cherylpappas.bsky.socialwww.havehashad.com/hadposts/spent
The time she wet her pants in first grade, the time she imagined kids stepping on her in the playground as if she wasnât there, the time she saw a deer strung up on wires by its front and back feet in...
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.
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
Thrilled to have a story in one of my favorite lit mags-- Cleaver. www.cleavermagazine.com/salt-paint-b...
Claudia Monpereâs 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...
Kim Magowan is the author of the short story collection Don't Take This the Wrong Way, co-authored with Michelle Ross.
"It took many years before I could write about my husbandâs suicide. In one of my failed attempts, it struck me how bizarre it was that Iâd experienced so much sudden death or disappearance from boys and men I loved." Read @claudiamonpere.bsky.socialbuff.ly/3wDnd45
Number one had cerulean blue eyes and haloed heat as we danced at Sadie Hawkins in our matching flannel shirts and he wandered night stairs and stars almost as stoned as his mother and strummed âDust ...
"We convene at the table as the crowns of shivering stalks of corn disappear; the rusty tractor and its rotten tires go next, and the rubber tire swing floats away from the bicentennial maple tree" Brilliant @aniking.bsky.social@flashfrog.bsky.socialflash-frog.com/2024/03/25/t...
*THE BLUE FROG 1st PLACE WINNER* Introduction by Guest Judge KRISTEN ARNETT The titular Radishtown of the storyâset to sink beneath the rising waves while simultaneously celebrating an annualâŚ
Thrilled that the amazing @pitheadchapel.bsky.social@smokelong.bsky.social@sawers.bsky.social@kimmagowan.bsky.social for this lovely news!
Grand prize $2500, second prize $1000. In its fourth incarnation, The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction is open for entries until April 30. It's big. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) is a biennial competition that celebrates and compensates excellence in flash. Our first grand prize winner in 2018 was âWhale Fallâ by Alv...