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Janna Miller

@scribblermiller.bsky.social
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Librarian, writer, collector of oddities. SmokeLong, Shenandoah, Citron Review, Best MicroFiction. All Lovers Burn at the End of the World ('24 ELJ) Reader at SmokeLong. Codex and Electric Sheep member. millersminusculemystories.com

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Sally Sultzman @sallysultzman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Her mightiest foe, indeed!!
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Yes!!! Aaya can't wait to escape the bonds of my computer and get stuff done! Yay Apex! This human is soooo grateful!!
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
So incredibly thrilled to be working with Darian and Apex Books! This outrageous book is coming at just the right time! And look - a Marketplace Report! It's like a dream!
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Grateful to be a part of this issue. They are always fantastic - I am excited by the authors on the title page. Available for pre-order!
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Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Blood+Honey's June update LIVE!!! www.bloodhoneylit.com/blood-honey-...
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Blood+Honey Home — Blood+Honey
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
In half an hour if anyone would like to come listen!
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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Start your week with our most recent release: “Ten and Out” by Myna Chang! And if you’re looking for inspo for our current call for noir stories, this is a great example of what we love. #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction @mynachang.bsky.social flashfictiononline.com/issues/april...
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April 2026 - Flash Fiction Online
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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I'm so so excited for the @electricsheepsf.bsky.social x @khoreo.bsky.social mashup! Read these extraordinary khōréō stories! 🧡🧡🧡🧡
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"AITA for wanting a return on my investment?" Great use of form, and extremely satisfying! By Leon Tomova in @khoreo.bsky.social
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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This week we're focusing on stories in khōréō! We love this magazine & have a big list of stories to share! Please join us in reading these gems! Huge thanks to @emelkrishnan.bsky.social & @danaiwrites.bsky.social & the magazine staff for their help curating our list! @khoreo.bsky.social
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Introducing khōréō
Volume 5, Issue 4 is out now! The fourth issue of our fifth year is now live! If you’re a subscriber, you should already have access to this issue. Miss out? Never fear: you can buy a copy of the issu...
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Loved revisiting this story!
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Go to the poetry reading! You know you want to!
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
"40 years gone and now here he is, sex-on-wheels Jimmy Bang, windows down, cruising slow, like we’re all still fresh and hot and ready for it." This is a delight - from one "too old for this shit" to another. Jimmy. Fucking. Bang @mynachang.bsky.social
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Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
ICYMI
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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
“Commander Maeb Len knows that, more than anything, an army needs hope in order to struggle onward. They need a vision to fight for and faith that the future will be better than the past. Better than the present.” @clclark.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social!
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Captain and the Quartermaster by C.L. Clark
How different that was from the beginning. With her hand in Deputy Quartermaster Omopria’s, sneaking away from the army’s camp, Captain Len felt like she could climb the clouds. But the sky was clear ...
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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
“With my eyes closed, I see: constellations of my future—the hero, the lover, the companions, the enemies to slay.” Love the expertise on display in this story! @clclark.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social !
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You Perfect, Broken Thing - Uncanny Magazine
When I leave the kill floor, my legs are wasted. I shuffle to the women’s locker room. I can’t stand anymore, but I know if I sit, I’ll never get back up. At least, not for another hour. I prop myself...
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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This week’s guest is C.L. Clark! We’ll focus on the craft of short stories vs longer works – and getting them published. Huge thanks to C.L. for taking time to talk with us! @clclark.bsky.social
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Honing the Blade
C. L. Clark is the author of the Magic of the Lost trilogy (The Unbroken, The Faithless, and The Sovereign), Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf, and Fate's Bane.
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"None of the snakes were awake, but the music made you think something violent was going to happen. I suppose the violence was in the man, not the snakes." I love this story! All of Helen's stories are full of quirky happenings & gorgeous language. @helenmcclory.bsky.social
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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A story in Helen McClory's collection, "Lore," creeped me out so much I still remembered it years after I read it. It's in her wonderful collection, MAYHEM & DEATH. It's available at 404 Ink if you're in the UK. @helenmcclory.bsky.social @404ink.bsky.social
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Mayhem & Death - Helen McClory — 404 Ink
‘A writer completely unafraid’ - Ali Smith | ‘Shiny dark licorice mind candy’ - Margaret Atwood
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Read the interview and look out for the book. Vanessa is an awesome writer!
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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Squeeee!! My book trailer is so cool❤️❤️❤️ @sfwp.bsky.social
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#UnhingedPit #A #F
White page with title: Blessings from War Island Cookbook. Black and white figures to color are scattered on the page. Pigeon figure says - Asshole pigeon familiar. Athena figure says - bored autistic war goddess. Teacup figure says - special interest ceramic collection. Truck figure says - possessed monster cars. Toad figure says - toad soul collector. Group of adults with laptops and books says - student loan defaulter teacher army
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
My personal experience as an educator with autism and parent of two autistic Level 1 and 2 children...I've not met one autistic child in my school system or my child's specialized school without an autistic parent, diagnosed or not. Not one. Take your Tylenol dear friends, genetics trump meds.
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Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I *always* love @mynachang.bsky.social Flash Roundup but this month is spectacular. So much including from @scribblermiller.bsky.social @donnalgreenwood.bsky.social @kathyfish.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social @jennywong.bsky.social mynachang.com/2025/07/25/f...
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Flash Roundup * July 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Always look forward to Myna's roundup. She has so many great flash spec stories - plus links to some great craft articles/people. I'm very grateful to have my @smallwondersmag.com piece included as well as a micro by Bernie Jean Schiebeling. Do check it out!
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
So excited to see Root Myth in @smallwondersmag.com ! The whole issue is 🔥. Thanks to Cislyn and Stephen and the Small Wonders Staff! Oscar and and the other flutterflies are gathering their rose petal pages and dancing despite the storm.
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Grateful to be featured on this kick-ass list with my Flash Flood piece about chickens. @mynachang.bsky.social 's lists are always 🔥
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Looking forward to Timothy's book and 2026!
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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Today, @nffr.bsky.social "mini-reviewed" my novelette, Wild Plums, as well as books by Lorette C. Luzajic, Keith J. Powell, and @robertshapardbooks.bsky.social. I'm honored to be highlighted in such stellar company!
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Brief Reviews of New or New(ish) Books | New Flash Fiction Review
…in which NFFR suggests some summer reading for you by Patricia Q. Bidar, Lorette C. Luzajic, Keith J. Powell, and Robert Shapard, with hopefully more recommendations to follow (in the coming dog days...
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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New micro up Ghost Parachute! ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...
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When Anxiety Turns You into a Pacman Pellet — Ghost Parachute
I wind you around and around and drive your breath out of you quick quick in time to your rapid heart and you fight me with deep breaths and meditation but I am insidious and claw my way back up throu...
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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"On every aisle: awe. A hose like the one his mother watered the strawberries and roses with. A battery charger and jumper like his dad needed to get the old Ford running. A red wheelbarrow." Stirring CNF, @claudiamonpere.bsky.social, in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/we-drive-the...
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We Drive the Years
Claudia Monpere   I drive my dad to the air-conditioned Ace Hardware. I’m visiting from out of town, and it’s 110° in Fresno, too sweltering for his daily walk around his condominium complex, …
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The mice show me their feet. Look, they say. We have clever mice feet. We will build temples for you. @mynachang.bsky.social #nffd2025 I love this micro! The atmosphere heavy with singing and mice!
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
we birthed them all sleek as eels, our girls untethered by waves, they slip under, we wait for them to surrender to the suck-pull of the weedy lake bottom @aniking.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Fabulous with slippery, beautiful words.
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I’m in the back seat of a Holden Monaro parked up the road from my place kissing a boy whose name I don’t remember when they say on the car radio John Lennon’s been shot. @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social A whole history lesson and family dynamic in a sentence. ❤️
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
...and cousin labors on the labors of our other cousins, men who take our family boats on to the waters of our home with tourists ready to do battle, rod against spear... @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Love the whole vibe so much and the way this comes together!
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
But what if this isn’t a story, what if it’s a string of beautiful, covalent adjectives and adverbs, that sound of the bell of a heart chilled by the lack of notice... @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“One might pull through with a final moment of strength and pant in your hands, wet and droopy.” Amazing spec write by @scribblermiller.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Zita says the faecoliths trapped in a diverticulum means he has to carry us little shits with him forever wherever he’s gone. Y'all, this line is amazing! (you should also read the whole thing) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
ICYMI!
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"Gently relocate the orbs to your stomach incubator. You will feel them inside when they start to rock and peck, like undigested energy." A new masterfully weird micro from @scribblermiller.bsky.social in the Flash Flood! @natflashfictionday.bsky.social
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'Chickens Remember One Hundred Faces' by Janna Miller
Gather the fertilized eggs in your warmed pocket apron, one at a time. Gently relocate the orbs to your stomach incubator. You will feel the...
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The flash floodgates are open! My weird little robot chicken piece is floating down the stream already. Can't wait to jump in and read all the pieces! Thanks so much Ingrid, and all those behind Flash Flood!!
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Look at this good thing!
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"I hang up. I hang up. I hang up. I know that I hang up after minutes of frozen fear–my hand curled into the receiver, my fingernails cut into the plastic." Wow. @scribblermiller.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social!
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Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A powerful piece of writing by @scribblermiller.bsky.social ❗❗❗
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“His voice grinds into my ears like gravel stuck in a fan.” @scribblermiller.bsky.social showing us how trauma is timeless in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 🔥🧡🐍
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Yay, Janna! 🐍
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Just wow
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Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"The last thing I see is white, the color of ice and bone–but supple and fleshy between fangs, until I am gone. I am lodged in the reticulated stomach next to a mouse, who trembles and climbs into my lap." @scribblermiller.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social
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Kelli Short Borges @kelliborges2.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
“His mouth is like the maw of the snake and I am swallowed into him. The mouse trembles in my lap again.” Awed by this brilliant piece… don’t miss @scribblermiller.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social ❤️❤️
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Laila Miller @lailamiller.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"The last thing I see is white, the color of ice and bone–but supple and fleshy between fangs, until I am gone." Incredible work by @scribblermiller.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social
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