Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨

How little is a little while? Y’all moved FAST but now every day is gonna feel like a lifetime haha 🤣🫠

I somehow missed that the absolute queen of sensory sad girl litfic shouted out my lil FlashFlood piece about a month ago…I bow to you, Madame. 🙇‍♀️🎉

We Might Be in New York Already by Maggie Su We are making mountains out of molehills again, we tell ourselves the morning after. But the night before, in the alleyway behind the gay bar beneath a KFC, we breathe in air like it might slip, sands...

Archive challenge day 4 - I don’t know what it means that I keep being drawn to these pieces that are giving “me in my mid-20s” but I’m living for it. newflashfiction.com/maggie-su/ @nffr.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social

Alas, they do not. 🤣🫠

Wrapping Kevin by Tiff Holland It was his last wish, to be a mummy.

Archive challenge day 3! The magic of this little delight is how grounded and relatable it is despite the absolutely absurd premise. I am also a sucker for unexpected grief pieces. This is firing on all cylinders for moi. newflashfiction.com/tiff-holland... @nffr.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social

Not all Wolves by Evelyn N. Alfred What they never tell you about Lil Red Riding Hood is that the wolves were everywhere.

Day 2 of the archive challenge. Adore this pointed little piece, framed in a fairytale retelling, that proves the Man vs. Bear argument has *always* been a thing. newflashfiction.com/evelyn-n-alf... @nffr.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social

Roaring Twenties by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris She remembers the vodka-clear starts of nights. Leggings, suede jackets and crimping hair, her sister separating strands.

Kicking off the archive challenge from @smokelong.bsky.social with this gorgeous little sensory piece that reminds me of a time where I could still take shots in grungy bars at 1am without needing three business days to recover. Ah, memories. @nffr.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/roaring-twen...

Spotted a writer buddy in the wild! Love this one from the always-talented @scmillsbooks.bsky.social 💧

I need a good, fast-paced psych thriller req and I feel like I’ve read them all. Preferably not detective-based (but I will budge on that in a pinch). Preferably solid prose-wise. Stuff like Alice Feeney, Lucinda Berry, Peter Swanson, Ashley Audrain, Shari Lapena. Drop ‘em if you got ‘em 📚 ⤵️

Yay so happy we’re pub buddies! 💕💕

Speaking of reading, finally got my hot little hands on the latest 2024 Bath Flash Anth and whooooo boy I feel pretty dang honored to be amongst such micro greatness. 🥰🎉 These stories are damn good.

June decided to throw everything at me all at once, so I took a little time off from writing/subbing (without feeling guilty about it) and gave myself some grace. I have, however, been reading a ton, bopping around some different genres and having a blast.📚

Late to the party on this one but oh my God I have rarely read a more relatable few hundred words. @sarlynh.bsky.social does it again, plz don’t look at my notes app tho it’s unfit for public consumption 🤣

I’m Sorry for Your Loss I busy myself at the buffet table, straightening dishes of soggy pasta salad and toothpick-skewered salami cubes.

Stunner up from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social:

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So so happy to have another little ragey piece up in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social

Also thanks to my amazing writing buds who shared before I could even get to it myself 🎉 Love yall 💕💕💕

I honestly don't even have the words to describe this piece, just go read it. Mizuki is just such a talent (and a fabulous human being to boot)- I am not surprised whatsoever to see Smokelong recognizing her brilliance. ✨

This piece is absolute perfection. Literary Choose Your Own Adventure. It’s brilliant it’s impactful, it will fuck you up.

So happy to have this little guy up in FlashFlood today alongside so many other amazing pieces 🤩🎉🐦

Gorgeous piece by the one and only @jaimegill.bsky.social the gave me big feels on this Sunday morning 💕✨🔭

It’s good to see me, isn’t it? 💜✨

Yes, yes, the rumors are true — we are OFFICIALLY launching here on Bluesky!

In case you forgot, we’re a place to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores, not billionaires.

Thanks for being here 🙌🏽

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The absolute HEIGHT of sophistication

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My husband is out of town all week and my brain is dancing with all the takeout I’m gonna order that he doesn’t like.

After Happy Hour Contest Issue #4: Food | After Happy Hour After Happy Hour put together a feast of words for our 4th annual contest issue. Inside you'll find the winners of our annual contest, along with our other favorite stories, poems, and essays from...

The After Happy Hour Contest Issue dropped today, and I'm in there! 🎉🎉🎉 Go pick up a copy and support this great mag - they were an absolute JOY to work with and there are some killer pieces in this issue. after-happy-hour.square.site/product/cont...

OH MY GOD I LOVED THIS BOOK. I was obsessed with Christopher Pike on the whole but this one is burned in my memory!

For some reason this whole scene played out in my mind like a Robot Chicken skit, and for that, sir, you have my unending gratitude. All is forgiven. 🤣🎉✨

Same to you - your piece is gorgeous!

All good! Unless you ask my epically frayed nerves. They may never forgive you, but they’re sassy like that. 🤣

Oh hey I made the @notquitewrite.com prize longlist! This was my first time entering, but I feel duly initiated to the NQW madness - I listened to the podcast for results like a lunatic masochist only to get called DEAD LAST, after I’d given up all hope. 🤣

Touché, friends. Touché.

Start with season one and report back (season two is my fave, it broke me). My DMs are open for any and all commentary 🤣🔥🥂

Can I even *write* a story without a lil disdain for the status quo? Remains to be seen, but I’m guessing…it’s a no. 🤣 Can’t wait to see some of your stuffs out in the world. 💕