Rachel Abbey McCafferty

I have an idea for a new cooking competition. It’s just like all the other ones except that instead of having a set time to complete your tasks, you have to finish before your baby wakes up from a nap. Do you have 20 minutes? Do you have 2 hours? Who knows!

This could take me a week to read; it could take two months. I’m excited either way.

I had not realized just how long King Sorrow was and I kind of keep looking at my copy and laughing in terrified delight?

Oh, thank you!

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I start my day by reading an article about climate change, and then I apply sunscreen, SPF 120, and get in my boat to row to work. The sun shines harshly, the former shifting of seasons done, leaves permanently burnt on twisted limbs, green growth relegated t...

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Again and again and again and - Rachel Abbey McCafferty — Bulb Culture Collective The day the bugs descended, the air was thick with warmth and wings.

Or this one in @bulbculture.bsky.social? (Also, originally, in formercactus!) www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/again-a...

In the hours before the errant chunk of asteroid crashed into our planet by Rachel Abbey McCafferty People watched and waited and did all the things you’d expect: went to loved ones, went to church, went to the forest, went to the water’s edge. Headed to the grocery store because they thought there ...

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It’s my birthday! I’m totally going to use it as an excuse to ask you to read or share some flash fiction. Maybe you’d like to read one of my tiny apocalypses? Or send me something close to your heart so I can find some new favorites?

Yes. Or using that nasally tone every emo/pop-punk band had in the early 2000s.

🤣 the 40s are such a magical decade.

😂 well, once said errands are done, I absolutely plan to use my birthday as an excuse to ask people to read and share some flash, so send some my way!!

Ringing in my 40s like one of those millennial memes: rocking out to some Kendrick/2000s rap while enjoying a peppermint mocha and running errands. Probably gonna take a selfie later, switch to my high school era pop punk playlist.

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Like, my kid thinks of grunge and emo as mom and dad’s music and that is hilarious to me.

Yeah and it’s interesting how perceptions can change from generation to generation.

Yeah that’s fair.

They weren’t making pop music in the ‘80s-2000s, my teenage sworn musical enemy, so they were fine by me.

Yeah, same age group here and as a teen, I was very into music from the 60s/70s and from the 90s — basically anything that I thought had been the counterculture I missed out on. So I mentally included the later Beatles stuff in that.

THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.

There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories.

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Oo that is outstanding.

Agreed! It’s unforgettable.

Oh you sold me just on the Library at Mount Char comparison.

I’m never going to get over the “should writers read” take so …

Oh this is so subtle and heartbreaking and lovely!

Nothing certain ~ by Matt Kendrick The day the sun forgets to rise, Mr White sits down for breakfast at precisely twelve minutes past seven. This is in the dining room. It is Tuesday. His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opene…

Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read:

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