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Jenny Stalter

@jennystalter.bsky.social

2024 Best Small Fictions | 2023 Smokelong Fellow. Nom: Pushcart, BotN, Best Microfiction, Best American Short Stories. I love your cat. Are you gonna eat your pickle?

367 Followers  |  426 Following  |  67 Posts  |  Joined: 14.11.2024  |  2.0593

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PS- Rihanna once came out here (Cadillac Ranch) and tagged FUCK TRUMP ❀️

07.11.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Where I live. Often fraught with ill weather, be it political or the elements, but there is always beauty.

07.11.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Join us!!

06.11.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Thank you! ❀️

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❀️

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Crushed or, Lust β€” Ghost Parachute I call in to work with a case of limerence, it’s debilitating, you can look it up, and the boss tells me that isn’t a good excuse; he obviously didn’t look it up, so I tell him I’m murdering someone, ...

Read "Crushed or, Lust" written by @jennystalter.bsky.social and illustrated by @kaystedmanfriedman.bsky.social.

"I call in to work with a case of limerence, it’s debilitating, you can look it up, and the boss tells me that isn’t a good excuse..."

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01.11.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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01.11.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always. Your work is amazing.

31.10.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

FIVE MORE DAYS!!

Happy Halloween ❀️❀️❀️

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πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

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JFC 😒

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Interview with Patricia Q. Bidar about her forthcoming book, Pardon Me for Moonwalking

"One of the benefits of getting older is the perspective it brings. I have many things I want to express, hopefully in a way that touches or changes others in some way." Terrific interview b/w @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social & @swethaamit.bsky.social
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14.10.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Huge congrats and so well deserved!! 🀩

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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

10.10.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Delighted to be featuring The Almost today, Kelli. Thank you for sending it our way @kdiannerule.bsky.social‬ #flashfiction #writingcommunity #readingcommunity

10.10.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, Emily, I'm glad he's okay!! ❀️

07.10.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Read this nostalgic little gut punch of a CNF by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social !!

06.10.2025 05:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So good!! πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

06.10.2025 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Aww, the feeling is definitely mutual!

05.10.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, Sumitra, thank you for sharing and for your kind words! β€οΈπŸ™

05.10.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much for reading and sharing, Dan! β€οΈπŸ™

05.10.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for sharing, Emily! And thank you for being such a great workshop mate! β€οΈπŸ™

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05.10.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So excited to share my new story out today in @fictivedream.bsky.social !! Thanks to editor Laura Black for selecting this story, and thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for their workshop where this was born!πŸ‚ 🍁 πŸ‚

05.10.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Thank you, Laura, for selecting this story! So happy to join the pages of Fictive Dream! β€οΈπŸ™

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Thanks so much for reading and sharing, Linda! β€οΈπŸ™

05.10.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

😍

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Making Love Is A New Subject β€” Ghost Parachute I haven’t made love in ages, which isn’t true. But I often say, well, many things. I often say that the truth isn’t in the truth but in what feels like the truth. I haven’t made love in ages, so I fli...

New flash by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in the brand-new Ghost Parachute!

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Damn, this is good. GP is always so good, but this issue! πŸ”₯

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Lark Song β€” Ghost Parachute I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth. I take flight under pink spring sunris...

"You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth"

Love this beautiful micro @jennystalter.bsky.social Wonderful artwork from @amymarques.bsky.social as well:

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