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Quill Hollow @quillhollow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Cupid's looking out for you... mostly. Read @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's latest story in Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social:

Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Teeehehehe...been MIA from here awhile, and honestly a little thrilled to make my grand Bluesky return with this absolutely ridiculous little Drabble 🤣🫣 Thanks @ratbaglit.bsky.social for appreciating this wackadoodle lil rant I kind of adore. 💕

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

ADORE this one! The absolute epitome of a feel-good romcom meetcute - heart & humor

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 28/11/2025

Congratulations to this year's @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees! Check us out online to read all of this year's award nominations. Ryan Griffith @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social L.F. Khouri Mathieu Parsy @ashdoeswords.bsky.social

Congratulations to our Best Microfiction nominees: The Abbreviated Kafka by Ryan Griffith; Ash Wednesday by Sarp Sozdinler; The Lemon Trees Don't Care You're Sexy (But I Do) by L.F. Khouri; Your Body is a Wolf by Mathieu Parsy; The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died by Ashleigh Adams

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This issue is brimming with talent and killer vibes. Perfectly curated.🎃 I am big lucky to have one of my fave pieces in this issue. 💕The folks at Sky Island saw this one of mine that had been longlisted, shortlisted and ultimately unloved by almost everyone else, and decided to love it anyway. 🎉

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

There is not one single piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social I don’t love. But this one…I’ve been trying for fifteen minutes to find a passage that fits word count and have come up short. I’ll just say: Pier 1, Victorian mansions, confused about babies. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"Eight squirts of popcorn butter bled through thin paper bags" Love this perfect coming-of-age story by my talented friend @ashdoeswords.bsky.social! Dripping with nostalgia bleeding through thin paper bags <3

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Ahhhhhhhh I love this piece so incredibly much, thank you the wonderful folks at @yourimpossiblevoice.com I am forever grateful to y’all for giving this one a good home 💕💕💕

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Oh hey, I’m in here! 🤗🎉 along with a whole bunch of other AMAZING writers. Do yourself a solid and check these out - your eyeballs and your soul will thank you.

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

My steampunk adventure featuring a plucky young pilot is now available to read at Intrepidus Ink! intrepidusink.com/a-place-in-t...

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A Place in the Skies

A brilliant flier and mechanic never takes no for an answer in her fight for an academy spot--and glory--in this tale of the skies.

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The past few weeks have been—well, y’all know how it’s been. It’s felt like trudging through rotten egg toxic sludge. BUT we’re coming out the other side, people! And I have THREE (!!!) pubs coming in October I’m absolutely stoked about. Here to finding sparkles and joy on crisp fall mornings. 🍂✨☕️

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Another incredible piece with absolutely STUNNING writting by the one and only @jaimegill.bsky.social Jaime has such a way of crafting gorgeous prose that also feels innately relatable, no matter the subject. His pieces just stick with you. 💕

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

A wonderful writer, a wonderful story, a wonderful publication. Danger: your heart might be at risk on reading this. Do it anyway. And happy tenth birthday @nffr.bsky.social !

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

“like the lavender laundry detergent steeped in the threads of the blanket I used when I crashed on your couch” OOF @ashdoeswords.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡

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Mizuki Yamamoto @mizuki-yama.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Do you want to have your heart broken? No? Then, don't read this story. If you're even a little bit masochistic, go read @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's story in @nffr.bsky.social this month 💔

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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Another talented friend sharing her words in one of the best places around!

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Eleanor Lennox @eleanorlennox.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"Because Thursdays were ours"😭😭 All the feels and some gorgeous sensory details in this flash stunner from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

If you feel like starting your month with a good cry, here are some beautiful words from the talented @ashdoeswords.bsky.social

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds" Love how this piece from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social focuses on one sense to tell a story in such a creative way: newflashfiction.com/thursdays-sm...

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Thursdays Smell Like You by Ashleigh Adams | Issue #38

They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds.

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James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

‘…because we were just friends, good friends who made out sometimes on Thursdays after happy hour when I was too buzzed to drive.’ Gorgeous details in this new flash from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social 🥃 newflashfiction.com/thursdays-sm...

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Thursdays Smell Like You by Ashleigh Adams | Issue #38

They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds.

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Hey, it’s me! ✨🤩🎉💕 so proud to be a part of this issue alongside so many other INCREDIBLE writers.

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Absolutely SQUEALING with joy to have a piece up in NFFR today! This whole issue is just incredible - congrats on 10 years @nffr.bsky.social 🍾🥂 newflashfiction.com/thursdays-sm...

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Thursdays Smell Like You by Ashleigh Adams | Issue #38

They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds.

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Y’all I’m on a full ass tear today. Get ready because this one from @eleanorlennox.bsky.social is giving all the things. “They were so exquisitely calibrated, they could detect when a houseguest was secretly disappointed there was no skimmed milk.” 🥛 www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

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The Color of Things

At noon, they ate fried river fish out of banana leaves with their fingers. The guide ate with them. Laura had forgotten his name but could not bear to ask it now. Craig called for salt, and Laura …

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Next up, an insanely immersive moment in time. If yall aren’t reading everything @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social has ever written literally what are you even doing. “…her Spanish verbs missing shoelaces, his English nouns wearing mismatched socks.” My god. www.frazzledlit.com/p/invisible-...

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Invisible Measures

By Mizuki Yamagen (Highly Commended)

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Catching up on reading today and whoooo buddy we’ve got some good ones. First, a killer piece by the always incredible @mmschreier.bsky.social I’ve said it before-as a Not SciFi Girlie(tm) MM consistently manages to remind me why I’m wrong. Every. Time. www.justkeepupmagazine.com/they-her-us-...

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They, Her, Us by MM Schreier — Just Keep Up Magazine

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Love this one. Autumn doesn’t miss. www.chicagowrites.org/write_city/1...

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Cold Snap

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This past week damn near took me out. A tsunami of anxiety, bonkers twists and turns at work, and a week of tough fiction Rs. Then I woke up this morning to a proof for a story I'm SO excited about, in a mag I absolutely ADORE and may I just say, thank you universe. I needed that. All is well. 🙌✨💕

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I somehow missed that the absolute queen of sensory sad girl litfic shouted out my lil FlashFlood piece about a month ago…I bow to you, Madame. 🙇‍♀️🎉

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Archive challenge day 3! The magic of this little delight is how grounded and relatable it is despite the absolutely absurd premise. I am also a sucker for unexpected grief pieces. This is firing on all cylinders for moi. newflashfiction.com/tiff-holland... @nffr.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social

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Wrapping Kevin by Tiff Holland

It was his last wish, to be a mummy.

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Day 2 of the archive challenge. Adore this pointed little piece, framed in a fairytale retelling, that proves the Man vs. Bear argument has *always* been a thing. newflashfiction.com/evelyn-n-alf... @nffr.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social

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Not all Wolves by Evelyn N. Alfred

What they never tell you about Lil Red Riding Hood is that the wolves were everywhere.

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Kicking off the archive challenge from @smokelong.bsky.social with this gorgeous little sensory piece that reminds me of a time where I could still take shots in grungy bars at 1am without needing three business days to recover. Ah, memories. @nffr.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/roaring-twen...

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Roaring Twenties by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris

She remembers the vodka-clear starts of nights. Leggings, suede jackets and crimping hair, her sister separating strands.

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Spotted a writer buddy in the wild! Love this one from the always-talented @scmillsbooks.bsky.social 💧

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I need a good, fast-paced psych thriller req and I feel like I’ve read them all. Preferably not detective-based (but I will budge on that in a pinch). Preferably solid prose-wise. Stuff like Alice Feeney, Lucinda Berry, Peter Swanson, Ashley Audrain, Shari Lapena. Drop ‘em if you got ‘em 📚 ⤵️

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Speaking of reading, finally got my hot little hands on the latest 2024 Bath Flash Anth and whooooo boy I feel pretty dang honored to be amongst such micro greatness. 🥰🎉 These stories are damn good.

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

June decided to throw everything at me all at once, so I took a little time off from writing/subbing (without feeling guilty about it) and gave myself some grace. I have, however, been reading a ton, bopping around some different genres and having a blast.📚

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Late to the party on this one but oh my God I have rarely read a more relatable few hundred words. @sarlynh.bsky.social does it again, plz don’t look at my notes app tho it’s unfit for public consumption 🤣

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

So so happy to have another little ragey piece up in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social Also thanks to my amazing writing buds who shared before I could even get to it myself 🎉 Love yall 💕💕💕

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I honestly don't even have the words to describe this piece, just go read it. Mizuki is just such a talent (and a fabulous human being to boot)- I am not surprised whatsoever to see Smokelong recognizing her brilliance. ✨

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This piece is absolute perfection. Literary Choose Your Own Adventure. It’s brilliant it’s impactful, it will fuck you up.

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

So happy to have this little guy up in FlashFlood today alongside so many other amazing pieces 🤩🎉🐦

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Gorgeous piece by the one and only @jaimegill.bsky.social the gave me big feels on this Sunday morning 💕✨🔭

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 02/06/2025

It’s good to see me, isn’t it? 💜✨ Yes, yes, the rumors are true — we are OFFICIALLY launching here on Bluesky! In case you forgot, we’re a place to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores, not billionaires. Thanks for being here 🙌🏽

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The After Happy Hour Contest Issue dropped today, and I'm in there! 🎉🎉🎉 Go pick up a copy and support this great mag - they were an absolute JOY to work with and there are some killer pieces in this issue. after-happy-hour.square.site/product/cont...

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After Happy Hour Contest Issue #4: Food | After Happy Hour

After Happy Hour put together a feast of words for our 4th annual contest issue. Inside you'll find the winners of our annual contest, along with our other favorite stories, poems, and essays from...

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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Oh hey I made the @notquitewrite.com prize longlist! This was my first time entering, but I feel duly initiated to the NQW madness - I listened to the podcast for results like a lunatic masochist only to get called DEAD LAST, after I’d given up all hope. 🤣 Touché, friends. Touché.

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