Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026New flash at @pinchjournal.bsky.social 👠🌈💚 www.pinchjournal.com/pjo/on-the-h...pinchjournal.comOn the High Expectations of Daughters — PINCH“We say you are so creative, wow, look at you go. We say you are so capable, so resilient to your father’s yelling. I say our children got the best of him: his strong heart and shaggy mane, his painte... 110
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I would pay so much money for a stripped-of-AI software package. I just want to type in a document in peace!!! Thomas Pynchon was right, we writers never should have flocked so eagerly to the word processor. I wanna go back to the typewriter, back to the paper & pen 000
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The “I only used it as a research tool” excuse is also unacceptable to me. Any artist worth their salt should be denying the machine. Walk away, turn it off. Have you not been paying attention to what the tech industry has been doing for the last 20 years? Get a fucking clue. 010
Reposted by Susan HolcombLinda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 20/04/2026"Didn't I understand, that smile seemed to say to me. We were in the sand box. We were just playing pretend." Ouch, my heart. #microfiction by @h0lc0mb.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social . Adding it to your #FlashInTheFeed, better late than never!! 232
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Whenever people say AI reduces “friction” on basic tasks I want to remind them that friction is the force that allows you to walk. Without friction, we’d all be sliding around powerlessly or unable to move. Friction is unfairly maligned. You need friction! Friction is good. 010
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 16/12/2025I’m excited to have a story on @mattkendrick.bsky.social’s end-of-year list but even more excited to read through the whole post—a blurb for each chosen story, plus prompts! So much love for the ever-evolving, boundary-pushing world of flash fiction 🌟 110
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025A novel called KARENS, a grownup version of HEATHERS where the Karens terrorize their neighbors via the local HOA until a new family moves to town and the murders begin. This idea would have been so funny had I had it in 2021 instead of right now 000
Reposted by Susan HolcombMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/09/2025gives lie to the whole “but no one knew they were like that back then” (also would be nice to see someone bring her book back out) 232386
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 16/09/2025I have a new flash piece out in swamp pink! Written on my phone during a particularly gnarly prenatal testing appointment—read for feral cats, haunted houses, and the cursed chaos of newborn babies 🏠😱 swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/the...swamp-pink.charleston.eduThe Scream-Room – swamp pink 020
Reposted by Susan HolcombMatt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 10/08/2025“It’s weird, isn’t it?” she says. “Squaring who you are with who you might have been…” Great evocation of character and yearning in this fab piece from @h0lc0mb.bsky.social; so much movement from beginning to end 272
Reposted by Susan HolcombDan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 04/08/2025"'It’s weird, isn’t it?' she says. 'Squaring who you are with who you might have been…'" Wow! This perfection, the last lines. Love this story by @h0lc0mb.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social 💙💙💙 293
Reposted by Susan HolcombSara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social · 04/08/2025“It’s weird, isn’t it?” she says. “Squaring who you are with who you might have been…” Love this gem of a story from @h0lc0mb.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. So good! 🌟🌟🌟 272
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 04/08/2025I am soooo thrilled to have a new little flash piece out with dream journal @flashfrog.bsky.social today! Thank you @ericscottryon.bsky.social for seeing and supporting this shard of a story and @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social for the gorgeous, perfect collage paired with it! 🎸 3175
Reposted by Susan HolcombFlash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 04/08/2025NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Eugenia” by @h0lc0mb.bsky.social is now up! Art by @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/08/04/e...flash-frog.comEugenia by Susan HolcombShe’s a poet and a bass guitarist, the coolest in my LA mommies group, and someday soon: a breakout late-in-life pop star. “I could be like a female Leonard Cohen,” she tells me one day at the park… 0123
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Good for Zohran Mamdani! What a bright spot he is in these horrid times ✨ 000
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Hurray for a new issue from @vestalreview.bsky.social! I have a brief interview with @lifeandmars.bsky.social in this one ♥️🌈🐺 132
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Thank you @blinkink50.bsky.social !! The wolf pack grows 🐺🐺🐺✨ 010
Reposted by Susan HolcombErin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025If you get a chance, check out this beautiful review of @h0lc0mb.bsky.social's WOLFBABY by @ginathayer.bsky.social. "After reading, we emerge from the tunnel where we, too, have looked at things unseen. We lick our teeth and sniff the air. We check for answers, for the presence of blood." 🐺 ❤️ 183
Reposted by Susan HolcombSmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 27/04/2025"Holcomb reminds us of our animalistic natures — the raw and eerie and universal in us all." - Gina Thayer on Susan Holcomb's Wolfbaby. Read the review at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/atoms-and-em...smokelong.comAtoms and Embryos: On Susan Holcomb's Wolfbaby - SmokeLong QuarterlyReviewed by Gina Thayer “Last night I lay awake and thought: how different might philosophy be if those who wrote it had thought they could get pregnant.” Susan Holcomb’s debut flash and microfiction ... 052
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 26/04/2025“WOLFBABY leaves crumbs for us to follow, and trusts that we will find our way, that the den is near, that the pack is waiting.” Marveling at this gorgeously-written review of my chapbook from @ginathayer.bsky.social for @smokelong.bsky.social !! www.smokelong.com/atoms-and-em...smokelong.comAtoms and Embryos: On Susan Holcomb's Wolfbaby - SmokeLong QuarterlyReviewed by Gina Thayer “Last night I lay awake and thought: how different might philosophy be if those who wrote it had thought they could get pregnant.” Susan Holcomb’s debut flash and microfiction ... 011
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025✨This is not the pastel coming of the stork—this is the wolf 🐺✨ My chapbook WOLFBABY is available for pre-order!! 👇 www.thecupboardpamphlet.org/product-page...thecupboardpamphlet.orgWolfbaby by Susan Holcomb | cupboardpamphletTeaching Notes for WolfbabyUse in the classroom to discuss: the formation and organization of a story collection; first-person narrative strategies; catalogs as constructive units; confession; stories... 164
