I’m guest judging WestWord’s 2025 Hermit Crab Prize! £6 submission (~ $7 USD) £23 with feedback (~ $29 USD) Story Max: 650 words (excluding titles) Deadline: February 23, 2025 Excited to read your experimental, form bending flash! Image: Mark Harpur westword.substack.com/p/hermit-crab-…

Congrats to the nominees! Congrats Amy Marques and Claudia Monpere 🥂🥂

Beyond thrilled to have my microfiction "I See You" in the new Issue 86 amongst 9 other works by amazing talents in SmokeLong Quarterly -- Huge thanks and gratitude to Editors for putting together such a wonderful issue 🥰 smokelong.com/stories/i-see-…

Second #Pushcart nom this season! Huge thanks Talon Review (University of North Florida )

Congrats all!! 🎉

So grateful to Flash Frog for nominating my story! Congrats and best of luck to everyone here!

What an honor to be on this list! 🐸💙

So honored by this nomination… Such a wonderful journal with thoughtful curation and beautiful art.

Congratulations to Christine H. Chen, Mary Grimm, Stella Hayes, Robert Scotellaro, & all the other authors chosen for this year's Best Microfiction! bestmicrofiction.com soflopojo.com

I've been away from this platform for a while...but I see the writing community is still here! Congratulations to the winners 🥳🥳🥳 and fellow Honorable nominees --- Huge Thanks and Gratitude to EiC Jeff Harvey Gooseberry Pie Lit **OpenForSubmissions** and Contest Judge Melissa Llanes Brownlee

Many thanks and gratitude to editors of National Flash Fiction Day for their nomination and to Pidgeonholes where "Cumulonimbi" first appeared - congratulations to everyone on the list of Best Small Fictions 2025 😍😍😍😍

Delightful piece "There’s a story I lost. It was about the time my dog swallowed a cicada." by Rachel Weinhaus in Does It Have Pockets

"Sticky grains of sand slid off her body. How she wishes now she had loved it more, uncrossed by sutures, undotted by small scars from laparoscopies" in Does It Have Pockets by Sherri Alms doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sherri…

"My father carried distance within him like a ghost body. No matter where he was, he was far away." by Arria Deepwater

Thrilled to have a visual narrative "Triptych–Pescatarian Tribulations" in The Scalar Comet (drawings in markers, gel pens, coloring pencils on discarded cardboard trays) - Huge thanks to EiC Akin Aguda! Check out this stellar magazine! scalarcomet.com/triptych-pesca…

Excited to share "A Tale of Fairies" shortlisted in WestWord Folktale Flash competition - Many thanks to Amanda Saint 🥰 westword.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-fa…

ON THE SITE TODAY: "A Certain Idea of Myself," new fiction from Michelle Ross. monkeybicycle.net/a-certain-idea…

Read "Tomb Sweeping Day" written by CHT-CHEN and illustrated by Amy Marques. tinyurl.com/2jyb828v

"...just let us shove this camera thingy down your throat don’t let your hands reach up to stop it" by Melissa Llanes Brownlee in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/august-2…

"The time when she recovered and learned to embrace mundanity, watching the days pass with an expressionless face, as I left home..." heartbreaking story by Swetha Amit in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/august-2…