Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 8hThe flowers at Story Mansion don't seem to know it's October. #FlowerReport 110
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Now that the RV travel season is winding down, I need to get in the lab and cook something up. Hope you will join me . . . 041
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Congrats to @maurayzmore.bsky.social on the release of her collection. I've read many of these stories through the years. Looking forward to revisiting them and discovering new ones. Check it out here: 031
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Postcards from The Road: Some awesome cloud cover in the High Plains last week, rivaling what you'd see in Big Sky Country . . . 131
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Postcards from The Road: The wild turkeys were in full force this last week, near the center of the U.S., Black Hills region. A little arrogant, considering it's getting close to Thanksgiving . . . 141
Reposted by Michael Carterellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Submission details: www.ellipsis-zine.com/submit 02720
Reposted by Michael CarterMaura Yzmore / Fiona Embers 😱🥵😎 @maurayzmore.bsky.social · 12/09/2026DANGLING by Maura Yzmore is coming out October 1 from Anxiety Press A collection of twenty-eight stories about people on the precipice. Straddles absurdism, literary realism, and horror, with a dash of the speculative www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... 183
Reposted by Michael CarterFrog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“What happened then?” asked Toad. 116221
Reposted by Michael CarterThe Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Deep breaths. You've still got over a month to send us your #FlashMonster entries. But hey, why wait? Send 'em if you got 'em. #flashfiction #writingcontest Top 10 published on #Halloween. themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste... 055
Reposted by Michael CarterMelissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Excited to have a new poem in the beautiful Sweet Lit.💙sweetlit.orgMelissa OstromThis Stone House It’s curious. The rocks have faces. There’s Mother in bed, too blue to rise, a crack in the foundation. Father, all show, as decorative as cornices. Siblings, gone: My older sister… 147125
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The road home from Glacier, late August. Two-lane almost the entire way . . . 030
Reposted by Michael CarterThe Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026There's no escaping Issue 17.2. #flashfiction themolotovcocktail.com/2026/09/13/v...themolotovcocktail.comVolume 17, Issue 2Flash Monster the 13th contest is now open to submissions. The Biker by Adelaide Gaughran-Bedell Fish Cheeks by Priya Ele Black Hole, 1953 by Christine Naprava 064
Reposted by Michael CarterMaria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It's a soggy Sunday, but yesterday was a spectacular Saturday and I got to see this! 96811
Reposted by Michael CarterMaria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Happy to share that 518 Publishing Company, a fab women-owned press, is publishing my micro story "Second Son" in their Dragons & Droids anthology 9/25! They did a little Q&A feature with me: www.pub518.com/post/droids-...pub518.comDroids & Dragons Author, Maria CarvalhoMeet Maria Carvalho, a lifelong Connecticut resident. Maria is a published author and poet. "Writing stories and poetry came naturally to me as a child, but I got away from it as an adult, focusing o... 164513
Reposted by Michael CarterThe Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Yeah, you! #FlashMonster submission season is in full swing. Deadline hits October 18th, but we read in order received, so get at it and send in yours early. #flashfiction #writingcontest Read guidelines and submit here: themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste... 0104
Reposted by Michael CarterThe Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026We can't wait to get a taste of those sweet, sweet #FlashMonster entries you cook up. Submissions open now. Top 10 published on Halloween. Guidelines here: themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste... #flashfiction #writingcontest 062
Reposted by Michael CarterThe Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Need some inspiration for our #FlashMonster the 13th contest? Reread last year's Top 10 to get those creative juices flowing. (This year's contest guidelines can be found here: themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...) themolotovcocktail.com/2025/10/31/f... #flashfiction #writingcontestthemolotovcocktail.comFlash Monster 2025This is Halloween. I We Were Never Afraid of the Spider by Timothy Fox II In Darkness by Eoin Nordman III Toxoplasma Odocoileus by Colin Alexander IV Son of Seanfhocail by Joseph Gilbride V… 197
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Yes! The 13th can only mean one thing . . . perhaps the best FM yet? . . . 152
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Thank you, rain, for clearing out the smoke and keeping the fire threat down in my area of the world . . . 040
Reposted by Michael Carterold roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 14/07/2026chronicle building, 926 sprague, spokane, washington, 2003 01139
Reposted by Michael Carterold roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 09/08/2026tungloon garden restaurant, spokane, washington, 2003 113515
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026You can barely see the Bridgers behind the smoke coming from the fires incinerating my hometown of Spokane, Washington, four hundred miles away. This mountain range is almost 10k feet high, but you can't tell it is sizeable with all the haze. 010
Reposted by Michael CarterMichael Grant Smith @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Don't miss your chance to read my latest fiction. I'll have to take it down when I sell the imaginary movie rights for big imaginary $$$. I quit my job and sold my clothes this morning. The story is a strong contender for an imaginary literary prize, maybe the Pulitzerbookernobel or whatever. 011
Reposted by Michael CarterMichael Grant Smith @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Hey, it's been a while, but one of my micro fictions was selected for Ellipsis Zine: Six. Don't let that stop you from grabbing a free download! Lots of cool futuristic "what if" stories to read. 021
Reposted by Michael CarterMaria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Pumped to have a twisty tale in this month's issue of SciFanSat Magazine! Check out my flash fiction piece "Origin", along with all the other fab offerings! 👽✨️ 124014
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Postcards from The Road. One bald eagle and one grizzly, deep in Yellowstone last weekend. Also pictured: first trout of 2026! 130
Reposted by Michael CarterThe Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 31/10/2025This is Halloween. #FlashMonster themolotovcocktail.com/2025/10/31/f...themolotovcocktail.comFlash Monster 2025This is Halloween. I We Were Never Afraid of the Spider by Timothy Fox II In Darkness by Eoin Nordman III Toxoplasma Odocoileus by Colin Alexander IV Son of Seanfhocail by Joseph Gilbride V… 0146
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Went with a simple pumpkin design this year. Roasting seeds today and handing out some candy later with The Shining playing in the background. Haven't picked a costume yet but I have all day. Happy Halloween everyone! 170
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Dropping in from an extended, mood-enhancing SM break to congratulate everyone. Still the best comp out there, IMHO. Looking forward to the next one! 061
Reposted by Michael CarterThe Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Can't wait to see what will emerge in our #FlashMonster contest. Deadline is October 15th. We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen. themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...media.tenor.coma black and white photo of a body of water with a few wavesALT: a black and white photo of a body of water with a few waves 056
Reposted by Michael CarterMaria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Happy Saturday! Totally psyched that my micro "Plastic is Forever" was published in 101 Words today! 😃 101words.org/plastic-is-f...101words.orgPlastic Is Forever - 101 Words2022: Microplastics are first detected in human blood. 2025: Evidence mounts that plastic particles have infiltrated every part of the […] 14429
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Is it necessary to advertise this? Glad I went to breakfast by myself this morning. Geez. 😂 130
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Postcard from the Road: HST is not wrong. We all have to have someone to believe in. This, carved into a wall in downtown Missoula, Montana, late August '25 . . . 140
Reposted by Michael CarterMichael Grant Smith @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Feels great to be back after a 3-day sub-orbital test flight (details are classified but I can tell you they'd run out of monkeys) and learn my essay-flash-doodle "The Lesser Feats of Atlas" is up at The Airgonaut. I'm home again but still weightless! theairgonautblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/t... 062
Reposted by Michael CarterM Lenoir Bond @mlenoirbond.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Always my favorite @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #flashfiction contest to read. I love seeing new spins on tired old tropes as well as unique creations bubbling forth from writers’ mind cauldrons. 🧙 #flashmonster has been our annual October contest since 2014! 083
Reposted by Michael CarterThe Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 21/08/2025It's that time of year again. We want to see your nasties, the dark entities you conjure and the ghouls you stitch together. Make them brutal, make them sympathetic, make them impossible to define. #FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...media.tenor.comprepare for new horror is written in white on a black backgroundALT: prepare for new horror is written in white on a black background 042
Reposted by Michael CarterJP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social · 21/08/2025It's my birthday very soon so I'm shamelessly releasing my two collections in time 😀Four years of short fic writing is crammed into these two books of my published work. I'll have links to them soon, on the 'Zon, and hope you'll give one - or both - a looksee 🖤 2111
Reposted by Michael CarterUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 21/08/2025“Come and play with us, Danny.” 1249484
Reposted by Michael CarterMaria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Some think world's #mundane They sadly stagger through life Blind to the magic (My 📸) #vss365 #haiku 7576
Reposted by Michael CarterMaura Yzmore / Fiona Embers 😱🥵😎 @maurayzmore.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Do you want to read my musings on creativity and craft, with snippets of my villain origin story? You can do so now in this cool new interview with the Bold Journey magazine boldjourney.com/meet-fiona-e... 🌶️📚💙📚 #writesky #booksky #amwriting #interview 264
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Record or near record high temp today in the Northern Rockies. In two months we'll have had a few days below freezing and likely our first snow!media.tenor.coma cartoon character says today 's forecast in front of a blue backgroundALT: a cartoon character says today 's forecast in front of a blue background 030
Reposted by Michael CarterMaria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Today's sky = 10/10 98010
Reposted by Michael CarterDestination Yellowstone @destyellowstone.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Artist’s Point in Yellowstone National Park. Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. 041
Reposted by Michael CarterM Lenoir Bond @mlenoirbond.bsky.social · 17/08/2025“It’s alive! It’s alive!” #FlashMonster #flashfiction #themolotovcocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.socialmedia.tenor.coma black and white photo of frankenstein smiling in a dark room .ALT: a black and white photo of frankenstein smiling in a dark room . 165
Reposted by Michael CarterMaria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Stonehenge has always captured my imagination, and I loved #writing this #scifi story about its true purpose. Just published in MetaStellar magazine (earlier version pub'd by the fab Owl Hollow Press)! #SciFiSat www.metastellar.com/fiction/the-...metastellar.comThe Beacon - MetaStellarA mysterious object discovered in a melting glacier reveals the true history of Stonehenge and the Sphinx, rewriting Earth's past as well as its future. 84913
Reposted by Michael CarterMaria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Carried away on a sea of beauty #FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 0533
Reposted by Michael CarterThe Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 15/08/2025#FlashMonster 2025 contest now open to submissions. #flashfiction #writingcontest themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste... @mlenoirbond.bsky.socialthemolotovcocktail.comFlash Monster 2025“There’s a monster inside each of us.” – Catriona Ward Submit to Flash Monster Back at it again with Flash Monster 2025, our 12th annual monster-themed contest. Last year we… 0149
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 14/08/2025If one encounters a Boneyard cocktail lounge on one’s travels, one must stop. And if one stops, one must of course order the “Hello, Clarice,” whether one is a mixed drink drinker or not. 120
Michael Carter @michaelcarter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Perfect day on the Big Blackfoot, near Bonner, Montana . . . 191
