1500 drones create a stunning Chinese dragon in the night sky.

So much beauty here - delighted to have a micro in the mix! Thank you Melissa Melissa Llanes Brownlee and Mythic Picnic!

So excited for this!! Hope you take the time to dive into these 12 bite-sized morsels of goodness (and maybe a little bit of darkness). Thank you Mythic Picnic!!

We start contributor highlights with Jo Clark (she also did a Q & A for us - link in comments). Jo's story, Tricks of the Light is a poignant, immersive piece that punches hard in the feels. A really unique take on the prompt. Go read it now 🦝 trashcatlit.com/tricks-of-the-… 1/2

Thank you so much TrashCatLit **SUBS OPEN** for including my earwig story in their Winter Pop-Up!

Our issue highlight today is from Rebecca Field. A powerful story of denial and fear with vivid description that discombobulates the reader. Go read Atypical Mole. trashcatlit.com/atypical-mole/

Absurd, tender and true - a heartbreaker from Mathieu Cailler

The earwig has completed its strength and flexibility exercises plus its dance to the rising sun. Leaving it free to explain matriphagy, which is accepted practice among certain types of earwig. Frances Gapper in TrashCatLit **SUBS OPEN**

We're highlighting one of repeat bin offenders today, Andrew Andrew Monge. We love how he works prompts in such unique ways. This story really moved us, avoiding any cliché and giving us tension, pace and solid emotion. You'll love Francine too 🦧 trashcatlit.com/francine/

We end our winter pop-up highlights (what an issue, right?) with Mairead @Judasspoon. We loved the dystopian setting - so original and genuinely horrifying - and those layers of story about mothers and their children. An immersive, surreal read for you 🐋 trashcatlit.com/orcas/

It’s our birthday

I think about this piece a lot these days. A non-fiction gem by Frances Gapper in Literary Namjooning | Subs Closed! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/is… #flashinthefeed

It's Tuesday, which means it's Author Spotlight Day! This week (and the next), we're featuring Frances Gapper, who has two pieces in Issue 1! Frances describes her fiction piece as "namjooning in John Galsworthy's work." Read it here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/ri… #flashinthefeed

Likewise - and I'll be following on Feb 8th with my story Saturday Girl.

We're back! Frances Gapper is still in the spotlight for her brilliant non-fiction. When she's #namjooning, Frances says, "I sometimes meet a fox, who only appears when I’m thinking about something else entirely." Read "Is That All There is?" here : literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/is…

On a gloomy Saturday in Flash Fiction February, here's my story Saturday Girl, written in a ghostly SmokeLong Quarterly workshop led by Helen Rye. Thank you Laura at @FictiveDream !

Congratulations to Paul and to the four commended poets: Özge Lena, Wendy Howe, Frances Gapper Frances Gapper and Sarah O’Grady. We received lots of entries for this competition and enjoyed reading them all! We warmly welcome your work again in the future

FlashFlood: 'starlings' by Frances Gapper dlvr.it/TLLcWM #nffd2025

This is a wonderful story.

I love this mini-collection! Thank you Melissa Llanes Brownlee ❣️