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Melissa Fitzpatrick

@melissafitz.bsky.social
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Words in Five South, Flash Fiction Online, Atlas + Alice, Lunch Ticket, Flash Fiction Magazine, Roi Faineant, and elsewhere. Website: melissa-fitzpatrick.com Substack: melissafitz.substack.com

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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 4h
Oh, I loved this story 💔
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 9h
I’m late to read this, but it truly touched me. So sorry for your loss. 💔
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So happy to have new work up at literary namjooning literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Deciphering by Andrew Bertaina
At night, we search for the darkness. We stumble around inside of ourselves. Someone says they can still see the fireflies, and I think, perhaps, I can still see my lover—pale pink lips.We cannot make...
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lost girls, found girls, free girls. Love this by @melostrom.bsky.social in @necessaryfiction.com
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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Friends, our submission inbox is completely empty. If you'd be so kind as to help us spread the word among your communities it would be so greatly appreciated. heroinchic.weebly.com
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really loved this story! ❤️
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“What you see before you is what’s left, a mean soil that grows little but grief, my sadness, as wide as a cattail crop.” A terrific story from @melostrom.bsky.social 🌾💛
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Brilliant story! 🩷
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you so much, Matt, and congrats to the other nominees!
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The space we make for each other … just the most beautiful comic by @allisoncole.bsky.social Please read it! @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2026/08/18/t...
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The Space We Make for Each Other - The Rumpus
My son taught me that the way someone moves through the world isn't a problem to solve. It’s a measure of how much room we are willing to make.
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I used to amaze my daughter’s friends making popcorn on the stove. What is this wizardry, haha. A few would ask for it every time they came over.
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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We are now more than halfway through our sub period but you still have plenty of time to get your writing and art in!
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Tiny Molecules @tinymolecules.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our Summer Issue is live! 10 stunning new pieces of fiction from some very talented writers. Enjoy!! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/issue...
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Here is wikipedia article … scroll down to US examples for northern cities vowel shift en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_s...
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Vowel shift - Wikipedia
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It can sound like insertion of w if you don’t have that distinction in your dialect (I don’t), but if you were transcribing phonetically, it would actually be a different vowel (phonectic symbol looks something like a backwards c)
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Not a linguist (but have studied linguistics and phonetics). I would say the vowel is probably different from what you may use in your dialect. I don’t know how to put phonetic symbols on here, but sone dialects distinguish caught/cot, Dawn/Don.
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ooh, beautiful!
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just gorgeous ❤️❤️❤️
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Excellent! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Yoko Ono show at The Broad is amazing!
Branch of olive tree hung with wishes written on paper tags. One wish is for “a cooler planet.” Another for “self-love and autism awareness.”“Add Color (Refugee Boat)” - a wooden boat in a room. The boat, floor, and walls are covered with blue and white messages and drawings made by visitors to the exhibition. Written instruction for a “painting for a broken sewing machine” — Place a broken sewing machine in a glass tank ten or twenty times larger than the machine. Once a year on a snowy evening, place the tank in the town square and have everyone throw stones at it. 1961 winter
A framed typewritten paper with the following instruction: Smell Piece — Send the smell of the moon. 1953 autumn
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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Shortlisted in the Body Prize, "Taking It Home" by Rana Bitar: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
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Taking It Home | MattKendrick.co.uk
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Gorgeous writing! ❤️
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Issue 9 Submissions are now open! Details: epistemiclit.com/submissions/ Submission form: forms.gle/tycBEc2GhxuY...
Agency vs Determinism
August 1-31, 2026
Epistemic Literary logo
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A heartbreaking beauty, this one 💔
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JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
August Submissions Open Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.
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August Submissions Open
Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wow! What a story 💔
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
What a beautiful story!
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Others call it a defect. It isn’t.” Love, love, love this 🚕🚜🛵🚌🚚🚗🏎️🚒❤️
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Congrats! Well deserved ☺️
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Gorgeous 💖
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
💖💖💖
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oh, this one got me right in the ❤️
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
My goodness, this is so beautiful ❤️
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Nooo!
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
So beautiful. I love this 💛
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 17/07/2026
“[...] I tell her sometimes people don’t understand they are standing in the middle of a miracle until all that’s left of it is an afterthought.” “Case of Missing Animals” by Sarp Sozdinler, new poetry out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/07/17/c...
This image is defined by contrast: blue and orange are the colors used here. Most of the elements of the image are blue, including the "MISSING: SAD JACK" poster in the center of the image. However, the image of Sad Jack on the poster is orange-tinted, and he is facing about 1/4 away from the front. There's a light-blue line twisting & scribbled above Sad Jack, which almost gives the impression of lightning.
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Beautiful story ✨
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thank you! 🐝
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Haven’t written much lately, but enjoying chasing bees around with my new macro lens
A honeybee hovers over white/pink blossoms
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just beautiful
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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Open until July 15, are you ready? Micro flash poetry, your name here, maybe. New writer friendly, don’t second guess your way out of a chance. Open to many styles. Send us what you love but no generative AI please, and no hate. Otherwise, hi!
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Beautiful! ✨✨
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
How cool to see a family of them! I’m on west coast, but it looks like there are snowy egrets on east coast too. But there could certainly be east coast birds I’m not familiar with! Here’s the snowy egrets entry from Cornell lab: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snowy_...
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Snowy Egret Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Among the most elegant of the herons, the slender Snowy Egret sets off immaculate white plumage with black legs and brilliant yellow feet. Those feet seem to play a role in stirring up or herding smal...
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Maybe snowy egret? Hard to tell from picture for sure. Did you happen to see the feet? If yellow, then snowy (if you’re in right location for those)
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Beautiful 💔
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I love this! ❤️🐝
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Thank you so much, @the-engine-idling.bsky.social 💕💕💕
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is really going to stay with me. Thank you for writing it.
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Oof! So good!
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