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Janice Leadingham

@thehagsoup.bsky.social

Writer. Appalachian. Best Small Fictions ‘24- Reckon Review- Bullshit Lit- HAD-Milk Candy Review & more

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Latest posts by thehagsoup.bsky.social on Bluesky

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

23.10.2025 20:27 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you !! ❤️

23.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much ! That means a lot to me !

23.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“Creature arrived at the farm this morning with the sky waking in wounded red, and all the cows were lying down in the field and the hairs on his arm, soft and spare as a woman’s, were standing on end.”

I love this flash by @thehagsoup.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social

22.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much for sharing it !!!

23.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A cathartic story for you today !Thank you @dishsoapquart.bsky.social !

26.02.2025 02:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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twenty-two — Tiny Molecules

"Lights bordered the sign shaped like a hand, long fingers and lined palm, in the window facing Hawthorne—the carnival hues ran sequentially red, yellow, blue"

Love the evocation of place and yearning in this #FlashFiction from @thehagsoup.bsky.social

www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

01.02.2025 10:20 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much !!

02.02.2025 00:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"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

22.12.2024 02:40 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much Claudia !!

22.12.2024 23:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Gone Lawn 58 : Janice Leadingham

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 !

15.12.2024 23:36 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

“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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15.12.2024 18:23 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thrilled and so looking forward to creating artwork for the winners of the 2025 Blue Frog ✨ 😭

Submit those stories!! 🙏 #flashfiction #writingcommunity

05.12.2024 19:56 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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A Fairy Tale for Florida Girls—Janice Leadingham Dahlia is twelve-years-old, an only child, and the daughter of a mother with nine very fine fingers and no ruby ring. She hates the sound flip-flops make on parquet floors. She craves sunblock, to …

I have a new story up today at Crow & Cross Keys ! crowcrosskeys.com/2024/12/04/a...

04.12.2024 22:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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re: your submission

18.11.2024 23:06 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you !!

16.11.2024 16:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Maryland Literary ReviewMaryland Press – MLR

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/

13.11.2024 18:57 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

So excited to have this one up today !!

15.09.2024 00:37 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

So excited to have this fun one up on MemeZineLit !

27.01.2024 20:46 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

#writingcommunity

28.11.2023 21:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I have no idea what I’m doing

28.11.2023 21:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I have a possibly v dumb question about chapbook manuscripts ! Should I add personal acknowledgements in the submission ? Or wait to see if it is accepted ?

28.11.2023 21:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much !!

19.10.2023 01:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

18.10.2023 22:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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!
jakethemag.com/death-works-...

05.10.2023 22:33 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

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

06.10.2023 12:23 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

It’s the first day of fall and I walked through the graveyard and made apple butter and submitted to @wrongpublishing.bsky.social 💀

22.09.2023 23:55 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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!

19.09.2023 14:37 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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