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Best Microfiction 2024 book is available now. I’m honored to see my story “Pastels” here, alongside fine flash writers’ stories. Thank you, judges Grant Faulkner, and Meg Pokrass and the Best Microfiction team.

Glad to see quirky Deal Jam Magazine has their new issue out. Thank you editor Eriana Ktistakis for accepting my 250 w “Dead Animals”, my writing experiment in shaping old fertility treatment emos into a relieving fiction. Whew! dealjammagazine.com/ourwork

whaleroadreview.com/issue-35/ New issue of Whale Road Review out. My prose about my saucy grandmother, “Dangling Over the Sea”, published here. I’m inhaling the other fine pcs. Grateful to editor Katie Manning. Katie Manning

roifaineantpress.com/blog. Delighted to see their new issue, w my over-the-top party story, “The Last Party”, published inside. Thank you, Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN BAYBEEEE. Distinctive graphics and rare verve, in this singular lit magazine.

“After fifty, they said, it starts with your hair. Your hair disappears overnight, it would be there one evening and gone by dawn. By dawn it would have vanished, you’d be bald as a baby—….” Surreal, funny, profound. By Kelli Short Borges. Stellar issue, too. bendinggenres.com/the-incredible…

“Charlie chugs down escalators, tall in his Air Jordans. …he floats, rehearsing dunks and swerves, rehearsing what he will say to the old man. Charlie would rather be shooting hoops—Ali McKenzie-Murdoch ali mckenzie-murdoch, exciting lush fiction, in current Gone Lawn, a journal of word-things

gonelawn.net/journal/issue5…

Thank you, Eunoia Review for accepting 3, yes 3, of my flash fiction stories for Sept. Editor Ian Chung Ian Chung works quickly!

The Good Life Review, The Good Life Review, said Yes to my 100 word story, “Letdown”. For breast-feeders and other-feeder humans! Coming soon. Thank you!

Austin, Texas, a path in a nearby park. Moments in the southwest can still feel magical, at times.

Thrilled! tangled locks journal (SUBS OPEN) accepted my hybrid piece, “Texas Women are Traveling to Albuquerque”. Appreciating editor Teresa Berkowitz for brave work, calling for women’s pieces about reproductive histories. Hopeful, when our creative writings add to dialogue on social issues

Who says the suburbs are dull? One of my neighbors….

Surprise! ‘Read abt myself this morn—⁦thank you, Kathy Fish⁩, who held up my flash, “Pastels”, as ex of 3para emo flash. Thanks again to ⁦Vestal Review⁩ for originally publishg it; & to ⁦Best Microfiction⁩ ‘24 for letting it sit in your creamy pages, too.

My favorite greenbelt, in lovely hot spicy soupy Austin Texas

But, Beautiful — The Muleskinner Journal, by Keith Hood ⁦Keith Hood⁩ . Such a complex, haunting story, about family, beauty, skin, and more, w references to the just-right, well-chosen old standard, “But, Beautiful”. muleskinnerjournal.com/but-beautiful

Congratulations to Flash Fiction Winners! Lit agent Emily Williamson had this to say about the top 3: “What I loved about these 3 was the whimsy blended with grief or longing or hurt. And there was some healing there too…” Check the stories out here: wow-womenonwriting.com/112-FE1-Spring…

lost-balloon.com/2024/08/14/kry… Read this poignant, rapid-moving story—which jogs forward then flashes backward, in time—from prolific flash writer Kelli Short Borges

wow-womenonwriting.com/112-FE1-Spring… I won 3rd place (but who’s counting?) in Women on Writing WOW’s 😮 spring flash fiction contest. Thank you WOW’s Angela for back patting, prize $, & fdback on my surreal story “Burning ”, abt a woman who’s family treats her like she’s an oven.

ghostparachute.com/issue/septembe…

“And when she confessed her sin to Sister Smith, she was told boys had different rules, was told it wasn’t his fault, was told she was a very bad girl. And she was summoned…” Strong dark work fr Kelli Short Borges , Ghost Parachute