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flashficfestuk.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Two more fabulous workshops to whet your festival appetite. Go deep in different ways with @stephaniecarty.bsky.social & @susmitab.bsky.social More details and book at flashfictionfestival.com

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 21/03/2026

'We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.' -Ursula K. Le Guin 🎨Arthur Rackham #BookWormSat

Illustration showing a woman in a dark, dense forest.

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Right then, it’s going on the list! I have collagraph next, then pastels, so will pencil that in to try ☺️

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Congratulations Ruth how lovely! And I adored the Snow Child ❄️

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kara oakleaf @karaoakleaf.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

very surprised and grateful to see this little story win the 2025 new flash fiction review prize! the whole @nffr.bsky.social issue is phenomenal and i’m so glad to be in such good company 🥰 newflashfiction.com/body-as-a-si...

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New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed) (@nffr.bsky.social)

New Flash Fiction Review is an online magazine devoted to flash fiction. Read more: https://newflashfiction.com

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I miss it too, thought I should dip in here to reconnect with the old crew!

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

@jodierobins.bsky.social I’m trying to move back to reading words after a long break and recent success with audiobooks, looking forward to yours!

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Books bought with the money I’ve made from selling my first pieces of art ✨

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Would you like to have a cry? Yes. Yes you would. Read this @trampset.bsky.social piece by Oladosu Michael Emerald. It's 230 words. You will be grateful you took 3 minutes out of your day, I promise. trampset.org/reasons-to-s...

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Reasons to Stay Alive When the World Burns

by Oladosu Michael Emerald

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

You are right, I cried and rightly so.

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Jus finished @debdanthewriter.bsky.social In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit - winner of @bathflashaward.bsky.social Novella-in Flash award. Wonderful voice. Broke my heart quietly.

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Thanks Sara I’m so pleased it gets to exist ☺️

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

So pleased to share my new novella in flash out for pre-order with AdHocFiction. 3 women’s lives intertwine can unscrupulous adoption agency.

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Just saw your shortlisting, fab 👏

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flashficfestuk.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Want to go shadowy with your #flashfiction stories? @stephaniecarty.bsky.social & @susmitab.bsky.social are leading workshops on darker themes at the flashfiction festival 18-20th July! Flashfictionfestival.co

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Down the Red Rabbit Hole talking about sleep disorders, the brain and fiction… shows.acast.com/the-red-rabb...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Textile artwork by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico #WomensArt

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a hillly landscape and windmill under a swirling windy sky

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Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

99p on kindle for 5 days! My slightly creepy suspense novel about a girl who nobody knows exists amzn.eu/d/81PMan9 A SAFE PLACE

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25/03/2025

When we say that we hope this post is ‘awesome,’ we don’t mean we want it to be expressive of awe or terror. We mean that we hope you like it. This reduction of a word's intensity is called ‘semantic bleaching.’

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Etymology of the day: in the expression ‘just deserts’, ‘deserts’ is an old past participle of the French ‘deservir’, meaning ‘deserve’. To get your just deserts is to get what you deserve. ‘Desert’ in this sense is obsolete, which is why lexicographers see ‘just desserts’ popping up everywhere.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18/03/2025

meme | noun | an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media

You have a 10-hour flight, where are you sitting meme
1: moist
2: irregardless
3: synergy
4: literally
5: impactful
6: adulting

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13/03/2025

‘Rhythm’ has two h’s and no vowels. Just remember: Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move Rhythm is also a dancer and a soul’s companion.

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Sam Steele @samsteeleauthor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Want to know how to forge a Great Master and get away with it? Then read THE LAST LETTERS OF VILLA CLARA. She’s out today in paperback in all the usual places. @headlinebooks.bsky.social @sheilland.bsky.social #1960s #art #tuscany #london #vermeer #historicalfiction #publicationday

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My little sleeping beauty / wolf flash reprint with Trash Cat Lit 🐺

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Hurray I’m in Issue 3 of Trash Cat Lit with a reprint 🐺 Some bedtime reading…

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A triple tease for Issue 3 🦝 @emilyrinkema.bsky.social delivers a complex, heart-breaking journey of loss in Grace, @markpeters.bsky.social takes us somewhere children’s dreams become all too real in Last Rites of Spring, and @stephaniecarty.bsky.social reimagines a lupine fairytale in Waking Beauty

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat

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