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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 8h

Read "The Hippies" written by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "The water ran over my steel P.O.W. bracelet. The word was, if your P.O.W. returned from Vietnam, he would take you for a steak dinner." tinyurl.com/yc4h4ta5

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The Hippies — Ghost Parachute

I sliced my hand with a steak knife the day after Christmas, sneaking leftover pie. The wound stung and pulsed. I made my way to the sink, rinsed my hand over the piled dishes. It hurt. The water ran ...

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It's worth every one of those 34 years!

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Amboise on the Loire. On a drizzly day

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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Read "Archaeology" written by @kathyfish.bsky.social and illustrated by @kaystedmanfriedman.bsky.social. "For many years, she had to wear a back brace. It gave her a dignified air, as if a string were attached to the top of her head, pulling her up tall." tinyurl.com/bdhrhczn

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Archaeology — Ghost Parachute

My childhood best friend was beautiful. For many years, she had to wear a back brace. It gave her a dignified air, as if a string were attached to the top of her head, pulling her up tall. She glided ...

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's cold this morning in the Loire Valley so huddling down in the camper van till it warms up and catching up on some reading

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

short stories? We’ll publish them! And that means he’ll bring his novel to us next. So poor Allen & Unwin were very pissed off at themselves for a long time, I know." www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/the-...

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The Trailblazing Women Who Transformed Australian Publishing — Kill Your Darlings

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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The 10 Year Anniversary Issue of Ghost Parachute is here! Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

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October 2026 Issue — Ghost Parachute

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"before I pushed you off of me with a shriek of stop; before you yanked on the button of my jeans; before tried to slide your palms under my sweater" Sharing again, in light of Cornell. From @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/fourteen-by-...

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're chuffed to bits to announce our Best Small Fictions 2027 noms 🦝 Not easy choosing from months of amazing fiction, congrats to these five superb writers 💜 @cuylermeade.bsky.social @shiramusicant.bsky.social Clara Cooke @joycebingham.bsky.social Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social 1/2

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Such sad news for me this morning. Soon after I moved to Hastings in 2000 I attended a diploma course in creative writing. One of my dear friends from that group died early this morning. Her death was not unexpected as she'd been very ill. Rest in peace dear friend

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Andrea Damic @damicandrea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Over the moon with my first publication in @fictivedream.bsky.social This is huge for me 🥰 #flashfiction #writingcommunity #indiepress #fiction #diversevoices

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Evening mood here in France. After a visit to Conques and the worst bowl of soup in the univers.

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social for taking my perimenopausal plaint. And thank you @summermoth.bsky.social for helping me with the title for this piece! 🧡🧡🧡 “The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on…” trashcatlit.com/maybe-there-...

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Maybe There is Nothing That I Can Do

Sumitra Singam Listen to Sumitra read her prose poem The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on over the speakers and they remember studying…

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you and looking forward to reading all. From a coffee stop near Conques

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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My friend John Penoyar was the inspiration for my new story up at Flash Fiction Mag today. It's called "Still Life with Floating Apple." Hope you enjoy it. flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2026/09...

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Honoured to have my piece “The tale of a dining table as told to itself” nominated for Best of the Net 💚 You can read it here: www.claudineliterary.com/kathrynreese

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Kathryn Reese | The tale of the dining table as told to itself

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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What? Is it this time already? The deadline for the latest £1400 prize fund BFFA is coming round again Closes Sun 4th Oct. Just under TWO weeks. For up to 300 word micros. All 50 longlisted writers are offered publication in our 2026 anthology. Results end Oct. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

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Colorful Neon Number 2

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Auvergne coffee stop and old oak tree. Currently all local fuel stations are sans fuel.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Epistemic Literary is truly a dream publication. You should submit to them every chance you get.

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Waiting for a windscreen wiper to arrive for our van. Quelles bonnes Vacances!

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Prose Poetry issue launches Monday, here're 3 more teases 🦝 Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social immerses us in setting and emotion in both of her beautiful pieces 💜 Polly Conway uses breathless repetition to drive her layered piece 💜 Both writers use the imagery of seals to enhance 🦭

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Managed a bike ride to casino city! Chatel Guyon. La Belle Epoque

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW in our Trash Family Bookfinder for your reading pleasure 🦝 @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social with her dark folklore novel, The Brink www.amazon.co.uk/Brink-Sophia... @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social with her haunting novel of love and loss, Longshore Drift www.amazon.co.uk/Longshore-Dr...

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Probably not going to have time to read many of your stories over the next 3 weeks. Travelling in France. Currently in strange campsite in Clermont Ferrand region. Full of conspiracy nuts and home made fruit pudding

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As well as spotlighting @joycebingham.bsky.social's stories today, we also have the Q&A she did with Trash Cat. Get informed and inspired trashcatlit.com/2026/09/16/q...

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Q & A with Joyce Bingham

My writing mojo is cyclic, so I’m used to having days when new writing just doesn’t happen, I try to relax into it. I edit if I have something written. Otherwise, I go and potter in the garden or t…

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Hastings Book Fair was good fun. Tomorrow I'm talking at Rye Festival about my novel 'Longshore Drift' and on Wednesday I'm off to France, maybe Italy. Besides that I'm screaming in in frustration at the news, our power supply (voltage issues) & when I put the refill in my deodorant I broke it!

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're thrilled to reveal the contributor line up for our very first prose poetry issue 🦝 Look out for this 20-piece issue on 28th September, it's a beaut 💜 @madeleinewrite.bsky.social Moira Ashley, Lavanya Arora, Polly Conway, @sandrinado.bsky.social @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Rachel Jones 1/2

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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's finally the 12th! Which means, Issue 3 is LIVE, folx! 23 fabulous pieces of fiction and non-fiction. Come on in, grab a beanbag, your beverage of choice, and read! And if any of the pieces speak to you, let the author know! And so, here we go! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3

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ISSUE 3 | Litnamjooning

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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As many of you know, I've been writing menopausal women stories and essays for a while. And this one has my whole heart in it. I hope you check it out, as well as all the other tremendous authors in the issue. Thank you Literary Namjooning for being a perfect home for this little ocean zucchini. 🫛🌊

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Of All the Landscapes her Life has led her Through by Dawn Tasaka Steffler

this is her favorite; there’s something about the windsweptness of this coastline. Scruffy trees bent from wind the sharp smell of cold. On a cliff overlooking the ocean she has created a sort of nest...

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I lost my Dad this summer and wrote something the day after his funeral mass. Thank you dearest @m-ixedbag.bsky.social and @lit-namjooning.bsky.social team for including it and another piece in your beautiful Issue 3. ❤️https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/this-new-zealand-by-pat-foran

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This New Zealand by Pat Foran

I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...

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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Delighted to have a new flash in the excellent @bluestemmag.bsky.social. Thank you, Editor Mike McClelland, for picking this one.💙

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Cattails and Regret — Bluestem Magazine

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Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We apologize about all the calls for donation, I don't like it but I'm disabled & I cannot earn a living through art or through editing, can cannot pay Submittable for the thing that makes us able to accept calls for the senior editor's comments on their work. So we can only survive on donations. ❤️

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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tomorrow! (or whenever Sept 12 is for you--don't come after me).

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Excited Im So Excited

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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Oddly, his fading is a damp stone in her lungs; surely, she should feel relieved to know he is leaving her for the last time?" Please take a moment to appreciate this BotN-nominated piece by @cake-girl.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social ! #FlashInTheFeed templeinacity.com/creative-non...

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Temple in a City literary journal

Flash creative nonfiction And Now, for the Final Act, Watch Him Choose the Circus by author Karen Baumgart. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 11/09/2026

We all have that older relative who strikes fear in our hearts every time they start a sentence with: ‘I saw this thing on Facebook…’

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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Lucy’s relieved. She enjoys not giving a shit. If anyone needs her, oh well. She’s unavailable." How I love this! @melostrom.bsky.social in @necessaryfiction.com 💜 necessaryfiction.com/stories/lost...

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Lost Girls – Necessary Fiction

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Powerful story. Sadly, always relevant.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is really a long shot, but one of the writers who was due to come to the second week of our retreat (Monday-Sunday next week) has had to pull out, so we unexpectedly have a free room. Anyone interested, please get in touch.

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