Jared Varnado

Creatures of the EZ-STOP by Janice Leadingham Creature calls himself Creature because everyone else does and his mama says it’s better to be in on the joke. Creature looks just like his dead daddy but his mama is really beautiful and that has …

FLASH FROGTOBER👻🐸

“Creatures of the EZ-STOP” by @thehagsoup.bsky.social is now up!

Art by Sandy Little

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Yay !! I’m so happy and grateful that this story is out in the world thanks to the incredible @flashfrog.bsky.social !!

Til death do us part? Well you girls are dead. And I’m parting.

Cheeky, wonderful prose piece up today. Enjoy "Unexplained Phenomena of Invisible Women" by @thehagsoup.bsky.social

Read it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-25-25/unex...

Cosmo’s moon

This is really cool - can’t wait to read!!

Think they found that tortoise yet?

Somebody Somewhere

"Sure enough, it began to snow, the fattest flakes Gill had ever seen. Only, this snow fell to the ground with a punch. The thud of muscle, obscene. Oddly juicy." Love this story @thehagsoup.bsky.social

Gonna howl at the moon because my flash story Hell’s Half Acre, 1876 is out today with @gonelawn.bsky.social ! Thrilled to be a part of this issue !

“Mary knew miracles in Kentucky, in March yet, were rare enough, but at the moment she realized she needed the animal fat from the barn, had, in fact, forgotten to render it down the night before, it began to fall from the sky.”
@thehagsoup.bsky.social

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This one is so good - “Evadine’s lungs and leg bones are buried up in Pensacola under a stone that has both her and Jimmy’s name on it even though he’s not there yet—he’s out looking for a new wife in the Clearwater Mall. “

re: your submission

The flower arrangement at your funeral would be perfection.

Last week it felt wrong to celebrate the release of Best Small Fictions that includes my story “Imagining the Woman …” ! I’m so excited & grateful to @meaganlucas.bsky.social & @reckonreview.bsky.social for nominating me, & to the editors & Nathan Leslie ! www.marylandliteraryreview.com/mlr-press/

So excited to have this one up today !!

So excited to have this fun one up on MemeZineLit !

“A Visit from Your Biblically Accurate Guardian Angel at Bedtime” by Janice Leadingham — MEMEZ... To have a thumb with a sturdy nail to peel oranges, fingers to split its sections, a lover to share it with.

New story from @thehagsoup.bsky.social is out now at MemeZineLit tinyurl.com/ybh3xt7v

The Heiress’s Guide to the Care and Keeping of her Ghost Welcome to your own little home, dear, what was once mine— the hill it sits on, the grass and the worms, the one good sunny patch in the back that’s fit for growing vegetables, the slight slope to...

I’m so excited to have a ghost story up at Maudlin House today ! I wrote this one in the midst of grief, for grievers. maudlinhouse.net/the-heiresss...

This is the silliest stuff I’ve written and I’m so honored that @publishedbyjake.bsky.social liked it !! 💀

Death Works at Trader Joe's A triptych of poetry and prose

Grab your Hawaiian shirt, it's time to get some groceries with @thehagsoup.bsky.social!
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I did a podcast/video conversation about not writing with @benjamingorman.bsky.social See my muppet arms, glorious mustache, and human-sized gourd costume in YouTube or listen wherever podcasts are played!

So excited my story is up now on @rfpress.bsky.social ! 🐋

"We Ate and Ate into Extinction" by Janice Leadingham CW: Reference to indecent exposure/sexual harassment Before the thing with the man on the street, she picks the blue cotton dress because it complements the veins on her neck, and the perfume of viole...

@thehagsoup.bsky.social has another wonderful piece out today! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/we-ate-...