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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉

@happilander.bsky.social
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FlashFiction ed @Blood_honey_Lit @TheArgyleLitmag, 8xPushcart,4xBOTN, 6xBestSmFictions, 5xbestmicrofic nom, WigleafTop50,bestmicrofic24, Reads for @okaydonkeymag.

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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 17h
Are you ready for THREE new stories tomorrow at Doric Literary? “Hold Still” by Peter DeMarco “San Luis” by Melissa Flores Anderson @melissacuisine.bsky.social “What the Book Still Says” by Obongodu Paul Unanam October is going to be incredible!
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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 12h
Dear writers who aren't writing right now: An apple tree wants to make apples, &, if the conditions are right, it will. Neither shame nor self-discipline can change the season.
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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thrilled to see my @thirtywestph.com chapbook Everything's Changing mentioned in @writesloud.bsky.social's column on local chapbooks. Thanks Hannah for writing about it! Check it out here: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7924...
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Spot LIT: Short on Time? Read a Chapbook
Have you heard of chapbooks—the little cousin to novels, essay collections, and short story collections? If not, you’re missing out on an entire series of short works from today’s writers. Modern publ...
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Linda Dunn @dunn4authors.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Super happy to be back in @Plague_Circus (and in time) with my tiny coming of age (and cage) piece on navigating through a world gone, with no gps. Thank you so much @xoliverlandx ♥️ plaguecircuspress.com/our-cage-by-...
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Our Cage by Mileva Anastasiadou
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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wrote this story last year, then forgot about it, and a couple of days ago I found out that AI ghosts do exist and are easier to summon than traditional ghosts 👻 Forever grateful to Dodo Eraser for giving my story such a beautiful home ❤️ dodoeraser.org/2026/09/22/i...
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I Made a Ghost
People usually keep the dead in their minds or their hearts or their dreams, but I made a copy of my dead boyfriend before he passed away, and placed him in my computer, because I’d lost people bef…
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Linda Dunn @dunn4authors.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. —Gavin Rossdale
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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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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This gorgeous piece made me cry. 'In the lullaby of this lonely New Zealand night, I heard the lap of the ghost ship’s oars and the major-chord music in the moorings off the coastal scrub." Read @pdforan.bsky.social 's piece in what looks like a phenomenal new issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💔
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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"In this New Zealand, I felt that then-colored popsicle stand floating where the southwestern Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea meet, floating in concept and in kind,...." I love this brilliance by @pdforan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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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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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"I’d never lost a father. Was feeling it. New territory, this death. A new song, this funeral mass. A new land. New Zealand, say. A new land to navigate. A new place to feel. To feel in." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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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
“I dream of wearing crowns…” Oh, I love this dreamy, eerie gem by @happilander.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. 👑
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"We only play dress-up and pretend we move forward, but we’re only kids playing with crowns ..." @happilander.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/ghost-museum/
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Ghost Museum - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
TUESDAY, 9/15, 8 PM. Join us for a virtual drink and hear some good grit lit. @thedrevlow.bsky.social @jdclappwrites.bsky.social @vanwinkle.bsky.social
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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So many brilliant writers! 🎉🎉🎉
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TJ Norris @tjnorrisart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
'Subterranean Ping Pong' (2026) from the Cathartic Dissonance series. #experimentalphotography #contemporaryphotography #tjnorris
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TJ Norris @tjnorrisart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Slack Water by #MilevaAnastasiadou (@happilander.bsky.social) as illustrated with my piece 'Float II' in the brand-new Fall Edition of @tintjournal.bsky.social + tintjournal.com/flash-fictio...
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Slack Water
Tint Journal is an online literary magazine dedicated to ESL or non-native English creative writing. Read and listen to innovative, tinted fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Dad walks in and asks, is it over yet, but I can’t speak. I’m busy dancing before the song ends, and I can’t know if Dad means the music or something worse ..." running and playing and dancing and pausing with @happilander.bsky.social in @tintjournal.bsky.social tintjournal.com/flash-fictio...
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Slack Water
Tint Journal is an online literary magazine dedicated to ESL or non-native English creative writing. Read and listen to innovative, tinted fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Her husband didn’t mind when she fell into his arms, not in the romantic sense, but because her feet couldn’t hold her ..." "... he loved fixing things and he thought he’d fix everything." @happilander.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/f...
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Flash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva Anastasiadou
Daisy had been his everything since forever, but especially after she got sick and he gave up his job and his friends and his garage projects to take care of her.
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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Here’s my shelf of friends and ex-lovers, dust gathering on crowns of love they threw away,...." Big love for this amazing gem by @happilander.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙 gooseberry-pie.com/ghost-museum/
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Ghost Museum - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social live @sudhab.bsky.social Scott Bolendz, @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social Rebecca Evans, Louella Lester @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @rinapalumbo.bsky.social cover art: Charlotte Hamrick gooseberry-pie.com/issue-46/
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Issue 46 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Capilano by Sudha Balagopal Old Dog by Scott Bolendz Cockaleekie by Kathryn Kulpa Okay, Maybe Just a Little Hoot From Time to Time Lemonhead Ferris Wheel by Tara Campbell Ghost Museum by Mileva Anasta...
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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So happy to be part of this amazing lineup of friends and writers and writer friends, on @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social with a story on crowns and clowns and how adults turn into toddlers. Super grateful to Jeff Harvey and to those of you who will read it 👑🤡💕 gooseberry-pie.com/ghost-museum/
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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have a tiny story in this wonderful journal fir bilingual writers and it's about going places and leaving places, ebb and tide and slack water, and I'd love it if you gave it a read, friends! 🌊 Thank you so much @tintjournal.bsky.social 💖 tintjournal.com/flash-fictio...
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Tint Journal @tintjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Issue Fall '26 "nurture" ☀️🪴 The latest issue of Tint Journal is here! Find all texts online and for free at tintjournal.com, and support us with a small donation if you can ♥ Thank you for joining us on our tinted journey and for making the literary scene a more fun, open and colorful place!
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"When Daisy came back from the dead, she couldn’t walk properly, like she couldn’t walk when she was alive because disease had stolen her strength. Her husband didn’t mind when she fell into his arms, not in the romantic sense, but because her feet couldn’t hold her" Love! @happilander.bsky.social
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“…we wanted the Daisy we knew before she got sick, we didn’t know how to handle the Daisy we knew before she died…” Do not miss this story by @happilander.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social today 🕷️
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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Found girls wonder if their teachers will offer retests. In time, the minus after an A bothers them. Still, they smile. They join clubs. They exercise." @melostrom.bsky.social in @necessaryfiction.com 🌟🌟🌟
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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It looks like a horror story, but it's about grief, and my take of the month is that horror stories are grief stories disguised. Thank you so much @jmwwjournal.bsky.social for publishing it 💔 jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/f...
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JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Flash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva Anastasiadou Daisy had been his everything since forever, but especially after she got sick and he gave up his job and his friends and his garage projects to take care of her.
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Flash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva Anastasiadou
Daisy had been his everything since forever, but especially after she got sick and he gave up his job and his friends and his garage projects to take care of her.
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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gorgeous and so profound! @happilander.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 💜💜
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My #CraftArticle for September is all about research - what counts as research, how to do it and how much to do: prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/the-resear...
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The Research Rabbit Hole
Yesterday I got so frustrated with myself.
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Happy first day of September! We're thrilled to share our dazzling list of contributing authors! Issue 3 out on Sept 12. #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Dad died old but we remember him young and vibrant and full of life" Beautiful insistence of the repetition in this from @happilander.bsky.social; all these looping motifs that build the resonance
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"He only ..." "... we straightened his creased shirt, and we kissed his weathered cheeks once more, and ..." "He only ..." Mileva: ❤️ @happilander.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
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Dad Never Grew Old — Ghost Parachute
He only died old. He was old and gray and tired, and we caressed his wrinkled hands before they took him away, and we stared at his lifeless body, because we knew it was the last time we’d see him, an...
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“She felt a special affection for the moon, because the moon refused to pose in photos, the moon was always, unapologetically, the moon …” @happilander.bsky.social in @manyworlds.place manyworlds.place/issue-13/mil...
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The Wolf Who Wore a Cat's Face by Mileva Anastasiadou - manywor(l)ds :: place
Once upon a lupine nightmare, there was this cat who wasn’t a cat, but she wore cat makeup and cat clothes and acted like a proper cat and nobody knew she wasn’t a cat. The cat was two wolves in a wol...
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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reminds me so much of my old Dad. Thank you @happilander.bsky.social
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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So happy and honored to be back on Ghost Parachute among friends and stellar writers! Thank you always, @brettpribble.bsky.social ♥️♥️♥️ ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Flash by: @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, Pamela Painter, @megpokrass.bsky.social, Rebecca Tiger, Liz Crowder, @kiptain.bsky.social, @happilander.bsky.social, and a bunch of people I don't know but am excited to read! Some fantastic artwork, too, especially by my bud, @courtneyb77.bsky.social!
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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congrats to @brettpribble.bsky.social, @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social, and everyone at Ghost Parachute for another fine issue! Read up! ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
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September 2026 Issue — Ghost Parachute
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Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Dad died old but we remember him young and vibrant and full of life … this is full of heart @happilander.bsky.social … love it💕
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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Read "Dad Never Grew Old" written by @happilander.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "He was old and gray and tired, and we caressed his wrinkled hands before they took him away, and we stared at his lifeless body, because we knew it was the last..." tinyurl.com/3bh2au2j
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Dad Never Grew Old — Ghost Parachute
He only died old. He was old and gray and tired, and we caressed his wrinkled hands before they took him away, and we stared at his lifeless body, because we knew it was the last time we’d see him, an...
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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So happy and honored to be back on Ghost Parachute among friends and stellar writers! Thank you always, @brettpribble.bsky.social ♥️♥️♥️ ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“Three will outrun this decaying function if he’s far enough, fast enough, but emotions overwhelm him when he looks at the chair, because feelings aren’t his thing …” @happilander.bsky.social in @hfr.bsky.social heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/07/27/a...
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“Grief Algebra”: New Side A Flash Fiction by Mileva Anastasiadou
Grief Algebra We sit in silence around a table of four. We’re only three, because someone is missing. His chair is empty and will remain silent until someone visits and sits there, unaware of the v…
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"Once upon a lupine nightmare, there was this cat who wasn’t a cat, but she wore cat makeup and cat clothes" Love this brilliant fairytale-evocative flash from @happilander.bsky.social about belonging and pretending you're someone else
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Are there any real consequences?” A terrific interview with @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social! Check it out!💙📚
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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is a tale about a cat who was a wolf in a cat world, and also about the moon, and it's published today on the anniversary issue of the wonderful @manyworlds.place 🐈 Many, many thanks to the editors! 🐺🌟🐺 manyworlds.place/issue-13/mil...
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Heavy Feather Review @hfr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Stop doing math at the link in bio 🧮 “Grief Algebra”: New Side A Flash Fiction by @happilander.bsky.social #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/07/27/a...
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“Grief Algebra”: New Side A Flash Fiction by Mileva Anastasiadou
Grief Algebra We sit in silence around a table of four. We’re only three, because someone is missing. His chair is empty and will remain silent until someone visits and sits there, unaware of the v…
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good grief, this hits home.
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