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"You ask this of Milton the butcher, the only one left in town." How Many People Does a Cow Feed? by @francinewitte.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/12/07/h...

Sounds of August — Poem by Evie Groch - Written Tales Evie Groch hears August breathing through aspens, wings, and falling leaves. Her poem lingers on the delicate noise of a season ending its slow, golden exhale.

Sounds of August — Poem by Evie Groch - Written Tales

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Murder Your Darlings - Roy Peter Clark Clark summarizes over 50 writing books in six categories, with insightful commentary and bullet-pointed lessons at the end of each chapter.

As I work on a list of books to review for next year I've been thinking again about what a great resource Murder Your Darlings is. Wisdom from 50+ writing books for the time of one!

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Panic — Short Story by L. Keith - Written Tales Keith writes from inside a body frozen mid-plea, where laughter becomes assault, breath collapses inward, and silence swells until it feels like the only voice left.

Panic — Short Story by L. Keith - Written Tales

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The hunt for Bedo continues in chapter 3 of our Serial Saturday, Hide Behind by Molly May Jones:

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Kinship of Music – Free Flash Fiction Heat emanated from the powerful stage lights above our orchestra, diffusing into the air and calling upon the hazy, surreal atmosphere reminiscent of a languorous evening by a fireplace. Fierce white ...

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Kinship of Music
by Isabella Murray

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Pssst, are you a teacher? We've turned some of our best short stories into lesson plans for Grade 9-12. Vocabulary words, learning theories; everything to keep your school happy! buff.ly/fuQNxBk

If you could only choose one genre to read, what would it be?

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A New Woman by Heidi Marjamäki | MoonLit Getaway Heidi Marjamäki grew up in Finland, studied in Scotland, and worked in Oxford and London before making her home in Berlin. Her short stories have been published by ergot., The Dark Corner, and others....

"Now that she was here, the gift card weighing heavy at the bottom of her bag like it was a gold ingot and not a sleek bit of cardboard with raised lettering, she felt so out of place she wished for a moment she hadn’t come."

"A New Woman" by Heidi Marjamäki:
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After Dinner Conversation - Short Stories For Long Discussions.

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ICYMI today's we're featuring The Club Is Church by Kristopher Monroe #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/12/05/t...

The Best Films of 2025 Our critics rank their favorite movies of the year.

“One Battle After Another,” “Sinners,” and more of our critics favorite films of the year.

Eating the Bible Bare implements are best, a stiff-backed chair sharp against your spine and a clean wooden table with a patch of sunlight to light up the Bible you’re about to eat one page at a time, a glass of…

You’ve been traveling to this room far away your entire life, and eating the Bible will light up your nerves until the neon lasso of the motel flickers and dies out once and for all.

~from "Eating the Bible"
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More Than A Blank Parenthesis Equals God’s Forgetfulness - PSYCHOPOMP.COM we who climb on hope / to risk breathing / end up falling / back into a wolf's mouth

and for our SECOND Fantasy Friday offering of the day 💞

today's POETRY ✨

"the ground startled
with despair only grows more teeth"

More Than A Blank Parenthesis Equals God’s Forgetfulness by
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inspo for issue 2 courtesy of issue 1 - looking back on this beautiful piece by Stasha Cole!

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When I Say No, the Joker Smiles In the dark theater, I stale with the popcorn left

Today’s Featured Poem:

“When I Say No, the Joker Smiles” by Taylor Byas from Resting Bitch Face published by Soft Skull Press

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The Mini Crossword: Friday, December 5, 2025 Toot one’s own horn: four letters.

In today’s crossword: toot one’s own horn (four letters).

✨CONTEST NEWS!✨This year, our annual Emerging Writers’ Contest will be open from February 1 to March 31. Submit your fiction, nonfiction, or poetry for the chance to win $2,000, a conversation with Aevitas Creative Management, and publication in Ploughshares! Find out more: https://pshr.us/ewc26

Aôthen Magazine A literary magazine devoted to the world of classics.

"Starving somewhere as a virgin felling gods heavenside."

From "Parthenogenesis" by Irteqa Khan. Featured in Aôthen Magazine, Issue 2, 2022. Read here: aothenmagazine.com#issue2.

Excerpt of Sandra Davies's "Monsoon" published in issue 176 of The New Quarterly.

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Sandra Davies's "Monsoon", from Issue 176! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/monsoon/

'Life Among Petals' by Tatiana Anisimova. Oil on canvas, 40x30in.

A cluster of hydrangeas glows against the night, their soft magentas forming a ‘nest’. A bee rests - guardian, keeper and the life that ensues the petals return again.

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"Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American… Door is a Jar is a print and digital literary magazine of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama and artwork. Our publication focuses on writing that is accessible for all readers.

Join us in congratulating Jay Morse. His nonfiction piece, "Triumph," first published in Issue 30 Spring 2024, was just listed among the "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American Essays 2025.

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