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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 5h

October Reader Sara Siegel is a writer & arts admin. based in Western Massachusetts. Her short stories & poems have been published in Wild Violet, Vantage Point, Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, Cleaver Magazine, Bright Sleep Magazine, Fairlight Books, Quail Bell Magazine & The Palisades Review.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 11h

"Riding" by @swethaamit.bsky.social who secured an MFA from University of San Francisco. The author of a memoir and three chapbooks, she has appeared in Bending Genres, Ghost Parachute.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 17h

The Digest from the Week of July 27 is live, featuring micromemoirs by Vanessa Bloom, Peter DeMarco, @zsaffrynterra.bsky.social Karen Webber, Toshita Kumar, Alexa Savard @emhall47.bsky.social Miguel Ángel Calvo, and from our archives, Deirdre Parker.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

October reader Lee Reilly writes about women, identity, & care in flash & essay. Credits include Fourth Genre, Hippocampus, and Five Minutes, and recognition from Barbara Deming Fund, Ragdale & other organizations. The author of 2 nonfiction books, she hosts Shannaghe, a residency in Maine.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"HR Manager" by Tatiana Samokhina, who works in the bustling City of Sydney. She is an English teacher and fiction translator, in love with literature.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Yeller" by Ann-Christine Vevera, in case you missed it. Ann-Christine is a Swedish-American writer who lives with her husband, Matt, and two dogs, Breeze and Zuzu, in a small coastal town in Florida.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Five Minutes" by Naya Torrecampo for The Hallway, in case you missed it. Naya enjoys playing piano covers in her spare time. When she's not reading stories, she's writing her own.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Retired from the US Forest Service, Sarah Flick lives in northern Colorado. She has previously published in The New York Times, High Country News, The Free Press, and multiple journals including 101 Words, 50-Word Stories, McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She has a special love for micro essays.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"End Credits" by Will Neuenfeldt in case you missed it. Will studied English at Gustavus Adolphus College. His poems are published in Capsule Stories, Months to Years, and Red Flag Poetry.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Breakthrough" by Alana Moore in case you missed it. Alana is a junior at George Washington University.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Welcome Youseef Elias, a recently retired Alameda County Public Defender. After taking a writing class at City College of San Francisco, he joined a writing group with classmates. He also enjoys theatrical storytelling, painting, and is a volunteer on the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Commission.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"That Fall" by Kyra Anderson, a writer and artist who lives in Western Massachusetts where her every move is carefully monitored by her small, elderly dog.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Frankenstein" by @kacienewport.bsky.social in case you missed it. Kacie is an award-winning filmmaker and storyteller with a BFA in Film, currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"College Break" by Summer Chan in case you missed it. Summer finds Houston, Texas, much less dreary than her native Seattle, but bemoans the lack of nearby hiking.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"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 · 30/09/2026

"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

Susanna here at Five, I have a key I found after my mother died which I where on a string around my neck, and really appreciated this one!

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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 · 15/09/2026

Yes! Miguel is a great storyteller!

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