Now I’m actually screaming in the most sacred place: around the baby. Under the baby. Inside the baby’s head for ten, twenty, eighty years until he is an old man and closes his eyes for the last time because that kind of trauma stains Terrific micro Jenny Stalter Ghost Parachute

She held up the new communication board. The sad image was much better than the simple frowny face on the hospital’s board. On this image, the head was tilted, the eyes dark, lamenting planets Patience & empathy, reminding us of our better selves @claudiamonpere Ghost Parachute

Gratitude becomes complicated. Your sister is dying. Your sister has been dying. Your sister will die. Some stories you instantly know in your heart why they win all the good things in all the good places. Congrats @maxiejanef.bsky.social in Booth.

In bed that night, I thought about the soft collision. The car and the snow. I thought about my mother's car. All that crushed metal. I thought about the new couches. They were large and pink and you could sink into them with your whole body. Congrats Allison Field Bell DIAGRAM

Miss Jasper next door doesn’t have kids since she never hooked a husband and has to work for AT&T all day saying Number Please with nobody to talk to when she gets home Oh I loved this gossipy one so much! jhhwriter in trampset

A little sneak peek at my guest post that drops tomorrow on Mandira Pattnaik’s blog!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

😱 I am floored to announce that I won the Baltimore Review flash fiction contest! 💚 baltimorereview.org/summer_2025/co…

It was such a pleasure putting this collection together! Thank you, Mark, for inviting me to the picnic!

The water carved its own path, and I moved around it, listening to the songs you sent me, the lyrics heavier now, sharper than when you were still breathing, laughing, hoping. gorgeous prose Melissa Flores Anderson Reckon Review

ICYMI... wildfires, the ninth step of twelve, ghosts of murdered daughters... it's all in here, and more.

So appreciative to The Lascaux Review for picking my story, Détente, as a finalist for the 2025 Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction. And of course, huge thanks go out to judge Sara Hills and Bath Flash Fiction where it first appeared. lascauxreview.com/detente/

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Presenting the dazzling contributor list of Issue 2. So much literary beauty is coming your way! We're beyond excited to share it with you all. #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

The sculptor had left off the scar on her forehead. The inch-long half moon above her right eyebrow is her favorite thing about her face. With her thumbnail, she cuts the scar into the butter wow, the subtext of this story took my breath away Emily Rinkema 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 Temple in a city

Woohoo! Can't wait to read this one!

The light at the end of the tunnel started out invisible, and I moved by hope alone. Slowly, during all this walking, it has grown from a pinprick to the size of a quarter. Claustrophobic and tenacious, with an ending that just hits Megan @ Sugar Pig Temple in a city

and finally for once not singing about god but singing about fire, my father who was not dead then and still not dead now 20 years later, 20 years of me talking to his living ghost crazy, but I held my breath reading this the first time thru, so good Benjamin Drevlow trampset

Do not let them into your heart, she tells me, a single child hoping for a friend, a teenager dreaming of her first boyfriend. Their love is like poison. Lisobel Tang in trampset

Huge thank you to Sundog Lit and Eric Rasmussen Eric Rasmussen for really seeing this story and loving it as much as I do. It was a complete pleasure working with Eric and I totally love this lit mag! They are awesome! sundoglit.com/dawn-tasaka-st…

Check out the newest collection of Mythic Micros curated by Nathan Pettigrew ⬇️ and then check back for an upcoming collection from Moran Press (and maybe a collection from you?)