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Amber Ken

@amberken.bsky.social
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Writer of short stories, poetry, and CNF - I don't much like to choose (read: bisexual) autistic & chronically ill 🥄 🌊 Folkestone-dweller genres: literary, horror

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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 3h
I'm doing it... I'm finally watching Twilight for the first time...
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
she's just like me
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy spooky season! 🎃🦇👻
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our very first prose poetry issue is NOW LIVE 🦝 Twenty absolute stunners for you to savour. Huge thanks to Jude Potts @judepickledplum.bsky.social for her reading assistance. We'll start highlighting these beauts soon. For now, grab a brew and lose yourself 💜 trashcatlit.com/prose-poetry... 1/2
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Prose Poetry, September 2026
We have twenty beautiful pieces in this, our first issue of prose poetry. Inspired by a very special raccoon, Jimothy, the theme was a celebration of tenacity and difference. Click on the images to…
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So happy to have this little micro in Full House literary today. Thank you, @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social , a joy to be here. www.fullhouseliterary.com/new-fc/then-...
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Then they added self-checkouts by Eirene Gentle — Full House Literary
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kind of a vibe
Reddit post with an image of a beetle on a piece of apple. The post title reads 'Sick or just unfathomably greedy?'.
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our next sub call creeps ever closer and it's our first for horror only 🦝 We want biohazards and our sub call page has inspirational images and ideas. Unleash your dark biology...call open 27th Sept to 11th Oct and publishes on All Hallows Eve trashcatlit.com/call-for-bio... #submissioncalls
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Little heart-melter ❤️
Small cream-coloured dog cuddling his pink pig soft toy.Cream-coloured dog cuddling his pink pig soft toy.
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HAD @havehashad.com · 23/09/2026
love all the constraints everyone made up for themselves and locked into for Lexi's call! today from @bryanthomasdaly.bsky.social "This poem uses verbatim texts, sent between me and my wife, in winter of 2025. ... The poem is shaped like Minnesota, where we live."
September 23, 2026
32 Texts in Winter
Bryan Thomas Daly
Stop all food, dairy, gum and hard candy. Pistachios,

hazelnuts. Ok I am home. When do you get home?

That time is bogus. No answer yet. Yes. Waiting

by the door. Coming home now. Walking home.

Could use paper towels. Thanks. Going home.

I am very tired. I like lo mein. Just arrived.

At home. Dad died. Check out these urns.

This is black cord. Journey over. Love.

Love that pic of him and Billy. Is there

anything that you desperately need?

I’m here now and it’s pretty scary.

Eggplant. Cucumbers. About an hour

outside Des Moines. Should I add enough

to cover them again? No problem. No need.

This is also black cord. No hard candy is bogus.
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks Louise! 😁
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you!!!
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you! 🥰
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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i forgot about bisexuality
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I was having a bad day and burst into tears upon getting this, I'm so so so happy that my work will be in @xraylitmag.bsky.social!!!!! What a dream 💫
Acceptance email from X-R-A-Y literary magazine.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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puddinglovelyy.bsky.social @puddinglovelyy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
May i entertain you with coquette gengar #pokemon
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
111 said I need medical attention within 24 hours, emergency dentist line they referred me to said to see how I go over the weekend 😮‍💨 here's hoping I'm not dead from infection by Monday!
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Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Happy Families” by @laurabesley.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #amwriting
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Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today.
A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New piece that's right with us, here, on that lovely cusp of summer and fall. Sink into "Green Music" by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/9-15-26
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hi! So our eSims are keeping a whole hospital going in Gaza, and countless of students who are studying for exams right now. Our funds are about to run out because the usage of those eSims are especially high. <3 #ConnectingGaza
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it's here and it's so chubby 🥺
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just hope my lil bud survives Royal Mail okay 🤞🏻
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm getting a pet rainbow stag beetle (well, it's still in its larva stage) tomorrow and I'm SO EXCITED
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Prepare for pieces as short and snazzy as Jimothy himself!
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"In the shower, we compare her eating disorder to my gender dysphoria. We’re running low on food stamps" —Madeleine Poole beestungmag.com/issue28/midd...
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Midday, my lover brings home groceries by Madeleine Poole
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Grateful for the flowers in my garden 🌿
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Thank you!! 😊
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Thank you for reading and sharing! 😊
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Thank you so much! 😁
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why thank you, Leigh 😌 @leighloveday.bsky.social
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Today we are spotlighting @amberken.bsky.social and her fab speculative flash 🦝 We loved how the worry of a pregnant mother bleeds into this wonderfully non-techy story of time travel. Reader @leighloveday.bsky.social said: Inventive, intelligent and empathetic. trashcatlit.com/time-space-a...
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ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Web submissions are open for historical fiction. 14th-20th September, 1,000 words or fewer. The usual guidelines apply and can be found here: ellipsis-zine.com/submit
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I've submitted five new pieces of work today. Am I insane?
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congratulations!! Your story gave me a good laugh (I particularly enjoyed the phrase 'manspreading boulders')
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Zach Breneman @zmbreneman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey hey! Pls read my first ever publication here with my custody battle taken to extremes in a small town story, Gorsebrush (Pop. 73)! Thrilled to be in @trashcatlit.bsky.social !!! The best part is it will take you 2 minutes to read, but will never leave your heart (maybe)!
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thank you!! 😊 Wow, you must've had your hands over your ears in 2016 - it was everywhere 😂
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thank you! 😊
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thank you! I've heard it helps in a certain unexpected profession 🤭
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When you go to submit something and then remember that it actually needs a title
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Your story went in such a different direction to what I was expecting! Great vibes 🙌🏻
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SF Layzell @sflayzell.northsky.social · 02/09/2026
I had a lot of fun working on this! Thank you to the magnificent Trash Cat Lit for publishing my prompted story, Codename: California Poppy 📚🪐 Looking forward to reading the rest of the issue too 🦝 trashcatlit.com/codename-cal...
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Codename: California Poppy
SF Layzell Listen to SF read their story This was it. The most important night of my life. I fidgeted with my pin badge, a bright yellow California poppy, the one personal item I was permitted to w…
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So whimsical and heartfelt - loved it!
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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My not so spooky ghost cow story is live. 🐮 Congrats to all the storytellers.Huge thanks to @therelphian.bsky.social for doing such an amazing job showcasing writers and their work😎 and to readers @leighloveday.bsky.social and @joclark.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/the-light-is...
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The Light is the Boy
Keith Woodruff Cow does not think of herself as haunting the barn. In the loft, she drifts above the bales, watches the blue swallows loop out and in. Waits for the boy to climb the rungs and pop t…
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
real 😭
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Your story was right up my street! Social commentary + creepiness = 😘👌
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Super happy to be in this issue with my story 'Time, Space and Other Parental Needs'! Working with @trashcatlit.bsky.social has been delightful. 💜🦝🗑️
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I loved them both, Joyce!
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Joyce Bingham @joycebingham.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How exciting two stories in the same issue of @trashcatlit.bsky.social I'm honoured.
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Our new submission call is now OPEN! 🦝 Prose poetry up to 300 words. Any genre. Celebrating tenacity and difference 💜 Visit our sub page for guidelines, inspo and sub link trashcatlit.com/call-for-pro... Deadline: 10th September, 8pm (BST)
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