Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“... I’d lost people before and I knew that minds and hearts and dreams can’t be trusted to keep the dead alive.” @happilander.bsky.social in Dodo Eraser dodoeraser.org/2026/09/22/i...dodoeraser.orgI Made a GhostPeople 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… 151
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"... we sing and sing like we’re invincible, we scream happy screams, because there isn’t sadness or grief or pain and nothing has beaten us yet." @happilander.bsky.social in Plague Circus plaguecircuspress.com/our-cage-by-...plaguecircuspress.comOur Cage by Mileva Anastasiadou 141
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Are 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! 0118
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Dear 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. 0223
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thrilled 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...washingtoncitypaper.comSpot LIT: Short on Time? Read a ChapbookHave 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... 0123
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Super 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-...plaguecircuspress.comOur Cage by Mileva Anastasiadou 000
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I 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...dodoeraser.orgI Made a GhostPeople 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… 020
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Linda Dunn @dunn4authors.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. —Gavin Rossdale 021
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I 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-foranliterarynamjooning.wixsite.comThis New Zealand by Pat ForanI 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... 145519
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Just realized this must be the story you told me about and I love it so much, Pat! New Pat Foran favorite, tops the Grief People at the moment 🌟🖤🖤🖤 130
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This 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 💔 1134
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉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/...literarynamjooning.wixsite.comThis New Zealand by Pat ForanI 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... 1134
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 12/09/2026@pdforan.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social ♥️♥️♥️ 110
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/...literarynamjooning.wixsite.comThis New Zealand by Pat ForanI 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... 370
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉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. 👑 1114
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉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/gooseberry-pie.comGhost Museum - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine 163
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Pat, thank you again so much, friend 💖💖💖 120
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 11/09/2026TUESDAY, 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 094
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So many brilliant writers! 🎉🎉🎉 0183
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉TJ Norris @tjnorrisart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026'Subterranean Ping Pong' (2026) from the Cathartic Dissonance series. #experimentalphotography #contemporaryphotography #tjnorris 0122
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉TJ Norris @tjnorrisart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Slack 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...tintjournal.comSlack WaterTint 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. 171
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Oh! Such amazing art! Soooo honored to be paired with you 💖💖💖 110
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉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...tintjournal.comSlack WaterTint 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. 151
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉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...jmwwblog.wordpress.comFlash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva AnastasiadouDaisy 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. 121
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉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/gooseberry-pie.comGhost Museum - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine 182
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026New @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/gooseberry-pie.comIssue 46 - Gooseberry Pie Lit MagazineCapilano 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... 0188
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So 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/ 031
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Bronwen! Thank you so, so much for sharing 💖💖💖 010
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I 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... 071
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉Tint Journal @tintjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Issue 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! 032
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉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 151
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉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 🕷️ 162
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026static.klipy.comLove This with HeartsALT: Love This with Hearts 110
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Lisa! Thank you so much for believing in this story ❤️❤️❤️ 110
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 🌟🌟🌟 162
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Oh my, Melissa! So brilliant! Love it so much 💖💖💖 110
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It 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... 000
Reposted by Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Flash 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.jmwwblog.wordpress.comFlash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva AnastasiadouDaisy 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. 083