Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 2hSo hard to pick just nine, so here’s a small sampling. 020
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“While you are living on the other side of the world, trying to get away from your miserable broken family, you learn that ghosts can lurk inside walls until the moment they conquer a room.” Fantastic new work from @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social 131
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Y’all, I had no idea how charming Albuquerque ils. 030
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"the man rises from the muck. In only his underwear, he is soft, and so pale he seems to reflect the green of the pond scum." the always amazing @angieellis.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/stories/the-...unchartedmag.comThe Caddisfly - UnchartedOut at the sisters’ place, in the marsh at the bottom of their land, a man stands neck-deep in the water. It is summer, and the marsh is warm with a thick green sludge on top. The man watches the tiny... 131
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A little bit of rereading for my plane ride west. 140
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Baltimore peeps, if you're checking out the Baltimore Book Fest this weekend, I'll be reading with other @baltimorereview.bsky.social contributors. This Saturday, 11-12 , inside the courtyard of Peabody Heights Brewery. Beer plus lit, yay! Come say hi if you're able to make it.baltimorebookfest.comBaltimore Review Contributors: Readings and ConversationJoin moderator Barbara Westwood Diehl, Senior Editor at the Baltimore Review, for an engaging conversation with six Baltimore Review contributors. Hear them read from their work… 053
Reposted by Joshua Jones LofflinSplit Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"First, make coffee. The power may be out, the electric grinder useless, but you can crush the beans with your wife’s mortar and pestle." ☕️ Check out contributor @jjlofflin.bsky.social's flash piece THE VIGILANCE OF BIRDS in Metastellar! 👏 buff.ly/DCE7ydi 194
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026“I felt compelled to sit, peck at the keys, so many of them missing, yet just enough” Gorgeous, sad work from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social 130
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“This guy though. He was kind of a fool. He was always remarking about my feet.” New fantastic work from @kathyfish.bsky.social 121
Reposted by Joshua Jones LofflinPat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026“Humanity stands next to me and only understands magic as a basement. A man-made basement, a recent study suggests, is nothing but a dream falling down a hole. …” slipping by numbers with @neonpajamas.bsky.social in Notre Dame Review 152
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026“Gently, you push my head to safety when someone waves a barrel in my direction. Your voice drops low and sweet, almost a memory.” Amazing new work from @elissafield.bsky.social here. 111
Reposted by Joshua Jones LofflinMason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026If you get an email that seems to be from Taylor (one of our lovely readers), it's not us! We would never ever ever ask you to pay us to publish your book. #scam #publishingscam #phishing 096
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It’s a good day for some Shirley Jackson. 000
Reposted by Joshua Jones LofflinClaudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"Let the coffee mug’s heat radiate up your palm and wrist through the bandages. You should change the dressing. Already it’s weeping. Red flecks spatter the mug’s yellow smiley face you’d gotten last Father’s Day." A chilling heartbreak @jjlofflin.bsky.social 132
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I have a new swampy horror flash in Metastellar today. I’d be honored if you gave it a read. www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...metastellar.comThe Vigilance of BirdsFirst, make coffee. The power may be out, the electric grinder useless, but you can crush the beans with your wife’s mortar and pestle. She would have liked that, your ability to stay focused, to p… 3111
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026“We pulled the moon down, tucked the darkness of night into its own box to sleep” New prose poetry from Alexa Brockamp Hoggatt in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-67paranoidtree.comVOL. 67: Packing Up the Streetlights — Paranoid Tree PressAlexa Brockamp Hoggatt | Michayla Grbich 042
Reposted by Joshua Jones LofflinSage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Hey folks, if you've got some time this weekend why not give blood? #Toronto www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caCanadian Blood Services supply drops nearly 20% since June, prompting call for urgent donations | CBC NewsCanadian Blood Services is appealing for people across the country to donate blood, saying its supply has dropped significantly in the last several weeks. 074
Reposted by Joshua Jones Lofflinbillkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026 5860381524
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026After a shitty work week, I just saw Caroline Rose in an amazing pop up concert, and I’m reminded how transformative and healing the arts are. Keep making art, you weirdos. 020
Reposted by Joshua Jones LofflinAnna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 06/07/2026sometimes it feels like this book I’m writing wears a pretty green ribbon & if you pull it, its head will fall off 2443
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026“For eight hours a day, I lop the heads off carp and walleye. That flat blade chopping through flesh and bone could be the work of a machine—or the dead.” 221
Reposted by Joshua Jones LofflinFlash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 23/06/2026🚨 We close our general submission in ONE WEEK! 🚨 Which also means in one week we open up for our annual July call for ghost stories only!!static.klipy.comDancing Cartoon Ghosts MusicAlt: Four old-timey ghosts playing musical instruments 03226
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026“I told Keith to go in there the first day with a fake parrot on his shoulder and an eyepatch and pass out times table worksheets like a goddamn normal summer school math teacher, but no, he had to do the obituary/tombstone idea” You gotta read this amazing flash from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social 130
Reposted by Joshua Jones Lofflintrampset @trampset.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Submissions are open at trampset! Read our guidelines and send us your best work. We pay $30 via PayPal. Anybody can use our free submission category. Tips and quick response revenues pay our writers, editors and site costs ✍️ We've missed you all! www.trampset.org/submissionstrampset.orgsubmit to trampset | literary journal submissionsSubmit fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations to trampset. Read guidelines and share your best work with our literary journal. 04929
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026“The heads have all been accounted for. The lockers are glued shut. There is a coat rack but no appropriate place to store a hat.” This piece from Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece in @hexliterary.bsky.social will knock your socks off (or maybe your head) hexliterary.com?p=3354hexliterary.comThe Museum of Heads by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-GilleceThe Museum of Heads holds the world’s largest collection of heads. The Museum of Heads opened a long time ago. No one can say when. If they could, they would still have their heads. In front of ... 141
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 07/06/2026“The water in the waiting room is rising, but slowly.” Excellent new work (x2!) from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Joshua Jones LofflinMario Aliberto 3 @marioaliberto3.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Another brilliant @jjlofflin.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!!! 052
Reposted by Joshua Jones LofflinFlash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 05/06/2026FRESH FICTION FRIDAY! Check out our June issue opener — “FLEKKE” by Joshua Jones Lofflin. Top ten reasons to go on an IKEA date, and the meatballs are 1-9 😄 #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading 1105
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026My story is live now on @flashfictiononline.bsky.social if anyone wants to read about dates at IKEA. Many thanks to the editors for giving it a home. flashfictiononline.com/issues/june-...flashfictiononline.comJune 2026 - Flash Fiction Online 1113
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026“This all started when those loose zebras were frolicking across suburban Maryland.” Stellar flash from @chelseastickle.bsky.social in @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/it-...havehashad.comIt All Happened Before Me by Chelsea StickleThis all started when those loose zebras were frolicking across suburban Maryland. It was summer, and it seemed they might live out there for the rest of their lives. We imagined them dodging those wh... 173
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026“So God looks down from heaven and says to Cain, ‘You have to invent murder.’ Cain looks up from the field and says, ‘OK, you got it, God. What’s murder?’” I love this story from @isabel.kim in Strange Pilgrims www.strangepilgrims.com/p/nomenclatu...strangepilgrims.comNomenclature by Isabel J. KimAnd Cain says, “God asked me to do some stuff, and I don’t know about it.” And Eve says, “Oh that guy.” | Short Story #5 020
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026“In the movies the silk grows from his fingertips in long strips of soft, caressing tissue.” Fantastic work from @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @villaineralit.bsky.social villaineralit.com/2026/03/24/s...villaineralit.comSilk Fingers by Jan StinchcombLove letters addressed to Silk Fingers no longer arrive at the studio on Culver Boulevard, but his fans are still out there. They find a way to forgive his violent acts, or perhaps the violence is … 142
Reposted by Joshua Jones Lofflinmatchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · 11/05/2026In case you are interested: Submission open May 25 to June 2. Just sayin. www.matchbooklitmag.com/guidelinesmatchbooklitmag.commatchbook | Guidelines 12513
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026“A changeling in the family is not a tragedy or even a problem for her daughter’s generation, though some parents still take steps to keep the fairies out.” Some perfect Mother’s Day reading from @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/01/c...crowcrosskeys.comChangeling Daycare—Jan StinchcombThey’re raising children differently these days, and Diane does not want to be left behind. A changeling in the family is not a tragedy or even a problem for her daughter’s generation, though some … 152
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Spending the day in DC with this amazing graduate. 050
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026“I want to take something that tilts their universe a few more degrees. Something they can’t simply shrug away.” Brilliant flash from @ericscottryon.bsky.social in @passagesnorth.bsky.social www.passagesnorth.com/the-things-w...passagesnorth.comThe Things We Take by Eric Scot Tryon — Passages North 183
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026A video game you’ve completed more than six times. 010
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026“It’s already over once you see the blood.” Fantastic, creepy work from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in Weird Horror Magazine www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/you-were-jus...weirdhorrormagazine.comYou Were Just Here — Weird Horror Magazine 151
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026“The house is a tower. The tower is still finding its feet. It was pulled down. It was put up.” I love the language in this @mattkendrick.bsky.social flash in @nervetowrite.bsky.social www.nervetowrite.com/post/little-...nervetowrite.comLittle Boy Lostby Matt Kendricklives in a lighthouse a hundred leagues from the sea. The house is a tower. The tower is still finding its feet. It was pulled down. It was put up. The waves here are silent. They are ... 230
Reposted by Joshua Jones LofflinAaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 13/04/2026they should invent a goodreads where cool small press books get thousands and thousands of reviews and big dumb mainstream books get dozens 44512
Reposted by Joshua Jones LofflinAnna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2026reader: wow this seems effortless. writer: it took me ten years & 400 drafts to complete this story 410722
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026So excited to have a weekend not entirely consumed by DIY (it’s only partially consumed). 040