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Joshua Jones Lofflin

@jjlofflin.bsky.social
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Writer Work in Best of the Net, The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf… Links to work on my site: jjlofflin.com

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 2h
So hard to pick just nine, so here’s a small sampling.
My9Albums:
the church
priest = aura

THE FLAMING LIPS
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

The Cure
Disintegration

DAVID BOWIE
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and...

Psycho Tropical Berlin
La Femme

Don't Throw Me Away
The Mumlers

Goldfrapp
Felt Mountain

Green Wing
Trellis

Mutations
Beck
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel seen.
12. Edit as you go or shitty first draft?
MJL: Shitty first draft. Shitty second draft. Shitty third draft. Shitty fourth draft. Just shitty drafts until it gets good.
• EL: It's a lot of shit.
• MJL: A lot of shit.
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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
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Y’all, I had no idea how charming Albuquerque ils.
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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-...
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The Caddisfly - Uncharted
Out 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...
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Name your fav game made before 2000
Box art of the 1994 game X-Com: UFO Defense
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A little bit of rereading for my plane ride west.
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Baltimore 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.
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Baltimore Review Contributors: Readings and Conversation
Join 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…
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Split 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
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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
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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
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Pat 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
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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.
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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If 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
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Beautiful, heartbreaking work.
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s a good day for some Shirley Jackson.
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Claudia 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
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I have a new swampy horror flash in Metastellar today. I’d be honored if you gave it a read. www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
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The Vigilance of Birds
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. She would have liked that, your ability to stay focused, to p…
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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-67
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VOL. 67: Packing Up the Streetlights — Paranoid Tree Press
Alexa Brockamp Hoggatt | Michayla Grbich
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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hey folks, if you've got some time this weekend why not give blood? #Toronto www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canadian Blood Services supply drops nearly 20% since June, prompting call for urgent donations | CBC News
Canadian Blood Services is appealing for people across the country to donate blood, saying its supply has dropped significantly in the last several weeks.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I’m making new friends in Delaware
A very handsome beaver in Trap Pond State Park
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
After 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.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
sometimes it feels like this book I’m writing wears a pretty green ribbon & if you pull it, its head will fall off
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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.”
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Flash 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!!
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Dancing Cartoon Ghosts Music
Alt: Four old-timey ghosts playing musical instruments
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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
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trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Submissions 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/submissions
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submit to trampset | literary journal submissions
Submit fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations to trampset. Read guidelines and share your best work with our literary journal.
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I love art festivals.
A shot of downtown Frederick, MD overlooking Carol Creek. The Frederick Arts Festival.
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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=3354
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The Museum of Heads by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
The 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 ...
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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
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Mario Aliberto 3 @marioaliberto3.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Another brilliant @jjlofflin.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!!!
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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
FRESH 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
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
My 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-...
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June 2026 - Flash Fiction Online
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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-...
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It All Happened Before Me by Chelsea Stickle
This 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...
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I’m thrilled to be part of this issue.
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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...
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Nomenclature by Isabel J. Kim
And 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
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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...
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Silk Fingers by Jan Stinchcomb
Love 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 …
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
These pieces are fantastic
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matchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
In case you are interested: Submission open May 25 to June 2. Just sayin. www.matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines
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matchbook | Guidelines
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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...
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Changeling Daycare—Jan Stinchcomb
They’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 …
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Spending the day in DC with this amazing graduate.
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I’ll never understand plagiarists
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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...
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The Things We Take by Eric Scot Tryon — Passages North
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A video game you’ve completed more than six times.
Screenshot from the game FTL
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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...
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You Were Just Here — Weird Horror Magazine
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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-...
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Little Boy Lost
by 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 ...
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
they should invent a goodreads where cool small press books get thousands and thousands of reviews and big dumb mainstream books get dozens
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
reader: wow this seems effortless. writer: it took me ten years & 400 drafts to complete this story
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
So excited to have a weekend not entirely consumed by DIY (it’s only partially consumed).
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