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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 7h

"Doomsday Rice" by Andrea Salvador, a Filipino writer. She studied psychology and the history and philosophy of science at the University of Melbourne.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 19h

"Summer Stroll" by Julia Clebsch, in case you missed it. Julia writes CNF and memoir, and has been published in Legacy, Five Minutes, and Lesbian Connection, and is a two-time WOW finalist and two-time reader at the Salem Literary Festival.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Weekly Five from the week of July 20 is live, featuring micromemoirs by Jenne Knight, Adrian Bresler, Swati Moheet Agrawal, Queen Esther, Cassie Lipton, Kristy Money @sonyaewan.bsky.social Abdurahiman Noushad, Elizabeth Jannuzzi @christinakapp.bsky.social @emhall47.bsky.social & Alane Balchunas.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Billiards" by Eduardo Winck in case you missed it. Eduardo's work appeared on The Good Men Project. He teaches with Writing Class Radio and seeks representation for his memoir The Winner Takes It All.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Pennies" by Heidi Wehmer, who is currently studying art and hopes to be a teacher someday!

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Gray Hair" by Alyson Floyd in case you missed it. Alyson writes short fiction and screenplays. Her work has previously appeared in Short Beasts.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Crows" by Kirby Olson, who lives in rural New York State, keeping one eye on the crows. His most recent poetry book is Night Shift at the Utopian Turtletop Factory.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Pitter-Patter" by Chelsea Zhu for The Hallway, in case you missed it. Chelsea is a high school writer who loves figure skating, dancing, and matcha lattes.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"First Encounter" by @jackieseaberg.bsky.social, in case you missed it. Jacqueline lives and writes in New York’s Hudson River Valley.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"My Marriage" by Susan Davis in case you missed it. Susan is a retired English teacher and taught over three thousand students. She took the time to earn three masters degrees in creative writing.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Digest week of July 13 is live, w/ micromemoirs by Ann Fischer, Annemarie Whilton, Trivikram Pujar @amyavt.bsky.social Kevin West, Sunayna Pal, Andrea Montgomery, Pawel Grajnert @jmorelli1230.bsky.social Isha Rajan, and from our archives, Salvatore Difalco. fiveminutesweeklydigest.substack.com

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The Art Sub" by Tom Newcomer, a substitute teacher living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He’s survived fatherhood, retirement, and the hazards of public school teaching.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"A Small Step" by Kanwar Plaha, in case you missed it. Kanwar lives in Sydney and loves doing the "write" thing. Otherwise, he just taps a keyboard and pushes a mouse and calls it "day job."

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"B-Roll" by Stefanie Fair-King, who loves coffee, books, cats, and Oxford commas. She has degrees in English, philosophy, and liberal arts. She and her husband live in Texas.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"A Dead Bully" by Marc Audet in case you missed it. Marc lives and writes in Connecticut, is self-employed as a web application developer, and has traveled and lived in Canada, England, and Ireland.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"kicked out '97" by @pagingdrjama.bsky.social in case you missed it. Jama is a trans masc professor of community organizing, creative writer, proud papa, and big time nerd.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Enough" by Jennifer A. Weigand, in case you missed it. Jennifer's short form fiction was an honorable mention in Creation Magazine’s The Midnight Hour Anthology.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"It Began With G" by Donna Williams. A mother and grandmother, Donna is consistently inconsistent in her writing, yet she keeps yielding to the beautiful, maddening pull of words again and again.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Anxiety" by @jmorelli1230.bsky.social in case you missed it. Jenny is a New Jersey high school English teacher who lives with her husband, cat, myriad yard pets, and a menagerie of stories inside her mind.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Artifact" by Gretchen Wiker in case you missed it. Gretchen is a writer and former middle school teacher in Northern California.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Icebreakers" by Tiffany Kung for The Hallway, Five Minutes' high-school publication, in case you missed it

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Digest from the Week of July 6 is live, with micromemoirs from Tiffany Doerr Guerzon, Jill Suttie, Dellun Chow, Andrei Romanov, Jade Black @midnight-scrivener.bsky.social @queenesther.bsky.social Joan Sosin, Salvatore Difalco, Carrie Mitchell & Isabelle B.L. fiveminutesweeklydigest at Substack.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Lubbock" by Tanya MacIntosh in case you missed it. Tanya writes speculative fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She has lived in Toronto, Quebec City, Jerusalem, and Calgary where Gigi, her rescue dog, generously shares the house with her.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"At Ten" by Trisha Prosser, in case you missed it. Trisha has studied with author Hope Edelman and currently studies with author Jeannine Ouellette. She’s a 2024 Semifinalist at Tulip Tree Publishing.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"No Baby Brother" by Shana Naugle, an adjunct professor and a mother.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Nought" by Anuradha Dev in case you missed it. Anuradha is a teacher who lives in the heart of India, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, with her husband, two grown-up kids, and a dog.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

September Submissions Spotlight: Months to Years, publishing nonfiction exploring mortality, death, and dying-related topics. Submissions open October 15.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Chicken Run" by @jpariseye.bsky.social who lives in Occupied D.C., with his wife, Beth, and dog, Dolce. Their kids, including the one in this story, have flown the coop.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Poor Substitute" by John Holmes in case you missed it. John likes to write and cycle but avoids doing the two at the same time.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Opportunities with projects run by Five Minutes contributors @dearfear.bsky.social Scribblers Ink, Interrobang Lit, and The Marine Diaries! More in slide and in September Substack, 5minutes100words.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Who Knows?" by Liz deBeer, whose work has appeared in Fictive Dream, Bull, Brevity Blog, and other journals. Her debut chapbook Farewell to Emptiness is available from @thirtywestph.com

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

High Fives to our contributors who recently published elsewhere: @emhall47.bsky.social Sarah Paris, and @kaidelmas.bsky.social. Find out where and what in our September newsletter, 5minutes100words at Substack.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"My Bad" by @scmart.bsky.social whose fiction has appeared in North American Review, Wigleaf, Vestal Review, Citron Review, Gone Lawn, and others. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The Editor" by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer in case you missed it. Gabe is a writer, educator, and spiritual director based in Philly. Her weekly Substack Journey With the Seasons shares creative prompts and spiritual practices.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Time with Teeth" by Caitlin Horrocks in case you missed it. Caitlin is author of the books Life Among the Terranauts, The Vexations, and This Is Not Your City. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Paper Clip Fix" by J. Alan Nelson, a writer, journalist, lawyer, and actor, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of Net, and Best Microfiction.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Last Farewell" by Miguel Ángel Calvo in case you missed it. Miguel, who worked for an insurance company for nearly three decades, is a retiree who dedicates part of his time to writing.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Kevin West is a Mainer living in Hamburg, Germany with his kick-ass wife & oft-grumpy dog. His work has been published in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Toasted Cheese, Rattle, 3Elements Literary Review & more. When not writing, he overwhelms his dog with ear scratches. Get micros in to Kevin!

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Not a Play Day" by Linda Kohler, whose work appears in The Marrow, Bracken Magazine, Five Minutes, and elsewhere. She lives on Kaurna land in South Australia.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The Concert" by @yimiwriting.bsky.social in case you missed it. Born in Shanghai, Yimi now pretends to settle in Northern California. She builds code by day and disassembles herself by night.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Editor's Picks from the Marathon, High Fives, and more in the September newsletter, now live at 5minutes100words.substack.com

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"To Say No" by James Shapiro, in case you missed it. James writes at dawn in an old chair; during the day he happily teaches at a school in his home town of New York.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sarah Parris is a professor of English & creative writing in Missouri where she lives with her wife & 3 cats. Her work has appeared in Bright Flash Literary Review, Blood Tree Literature, Midwest Weird, Oracle Fine Arts Review, and others. Outside of writing, she enjoys Dungeons & Dragons.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"The Flying Shoe" by Nicole Irizawa, who grew up in landlocked Ohio and now calls Japan home. Her writing has appeared in Grande Dame Literary and Does It Have Pockets.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

September Reader Andrea Montgomery is thrilled to be back for round two as a Five Minutes reader. Her first go-round inspired the micro "Willing Warmth.” She's excited to have her creative well fed again. Andrea writes CNF from Burlington, Ontario. Her first Five Minutes credit was “Zairian Road.”

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Pronouncements" by Louise Arnott, who lives and plays in Victoria, British Columbia. She enjoys writing about the uncommon in the commonplace.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Chaitanya Cheke is a short story writer and English teacher based in Pune, India. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Muse India, In Parentheses, 3Elements Literary Review, Open Doors Review, and Molecule. Submit micros to Chaitanya & the rest of the Sept. team: fiveminutelit.com/submissions

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Sticky Mail" by Héctor Hernández in case you missed it. Hector is retired. His short stories have appeared or are forth coming in Flash Fiction Magazine, After Dinner Conversation, CaféLit, Bright Flash Literary Review, and Literally Stories.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

August Reader Bliss Goldstein's been published in HuffPost, LA Times, and CALYX, where she won the Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing. HuffPost awarded her their “Best Of.” Her work has also been nominated for Best of the Net. Bliss is working on her novel drawn from real life: Cult Momma.

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