Nicole Brogdon

My prose poem, “The Bad Doctor”
was accepted by Unbroken, & I’m so tickled. Thanks to generative prose poem
workshops with ‪@josehernandezdz.bsky.social. Love his laid back presence and the class readings and prompts.

Happy Anniversary to me and this guy. 33 years of luck, love, picnics, and adventures.

Hi Shannon! Good to see you here. I just now saw this. I’m at nicolebrogdon@hotmail.com. More soon.

Old and new friends @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social @chiphouser.bsky.social @tom1walsh.bsky.social at the amazing retreat in the Rockies led by @kathyfish.bsky.social and Nancy Stohlman. Great combo of playing, going deep, and going weird with our writing. Beautiful bonding with everyone.

I took another of @kathyfish.bsky.social enriching 90 mins classes yesterday—fr 3-in-90 flash fic classes—good price point, when u sign up for packet of 3—on creative revision ideas. Surprising, fresh, do-able, write-in-class and leave inspired! I recommend highly!

TODAY at 1:00 pm Eastern! Thanks to all who signed up! Be sure to locate your email with session link (sometimes they go to spam/promotions). Let me know if you're not seeing it. See you SOON! 💙💙💙

Oh, wow! Cole, Thank you for engaging in the world of my story, set in Bastrop, Texas. And placed in Susurrus Mag.

It’s really hard for me to post here, to focus here, on flash fiction, when parts of this country are burning. Kudos to anyone who’s fighting the good fight. And practicing any art form, speaking and expressing truth & soul.

Dead Daddies — Susurrus

I have a gritty southern story, “Dead Daddies”, in the lovely new issue of @susurrusmag.bsky.social. Thank you to the editors for such good editorial care. I’d be honored if you’d read my story. Thank you! www.susurrusthemagazine.com/dead-daddies

Susurrus. Issue Twelve. Summer 2025.

Featuring: Malcolm Glass, Azul, D Bedell, Emma Bolden, Mark Blaeuer, B.C. Brock, Nicole Brogdon, Christa Fairbrother, Elisheva Fox, Marianna Gibson, Matthew Hand, William Hawkins, Patrick Holian, Tyler Jagt, L. Bellee Jones-Pierce, Gabby Kiser, Pamela Manasco, Marshall Moore, Anne Myles, Claire Nelson, Jeff Newberry, Megan Nichols, Sean Sexton, Chelsea Stickle, and Lisa Zerkle

Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt.

View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve

📸: Malcolm Glass

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Thank you @librelit.bsky.social & editor Mart Buchanan, for showcasing my therapy-culture-infused flash, “Self-Help”. x.com/librelitmag/...

Thank you, Kelli, for supporting so many of us working on flash fiction!

Thank you,
Cole,for engaging with my flash fiction! Happy reading, to all of us!

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Check out “GOAT Boy”, 250 w, by moi, @ the lovely, admirable @centaurlit.bsky.social . Based in part on true story of a child who survived in the cold Andes through the care of goats. Thank you editor @lynnmundell.bsky.social

Pleased with my Fictive Dream & editor Laura Black for their fine treatment of my recent surreal story, “Some Good News About Jesus”. Thank you! Feels good to take some risks when I write. Please read.

Some Good News About Jesus by Nicole Brogdon  HAVE YOU HEARD? Jesus is in town. Isaw him last night—Saturday, on Dirty 6th. I was trying to get into Midnight Cowboy—ringing that door buzzer everybody loves—without my ID…

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Austin Texas. Prickly pear cactus.

Thank you, @fictivedream.bsky.social , for accepting my risk-taking story, “Some Good News About Jesus”. Can’t wait to see how it reads in print!

Tractor By Nicole Brogdon

My new microstory, “Tractor”, w teenaged dance energy, is in
@MicromanceMag. Thanks for your youthful spirit, this opportunity, & colorful graphics, Micromance! open.substack.com/pub/microman...

Swallowing At Moontower’s Crawfish Boil, I’m grooving with this girl from Idaho, the 80s cover band blasting “More Than a Feeling” through our bods. She’s got tortilla-colored freckles, and she looks me in the…

Here’s my new story, “Swallowing”, in Bloodletter Mag. Love their concept—feminist horror— & love their engaged editor, Anna Laura Falvey.
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You meet the strangest people, at airports!

Very early birthday gift fr fellow Anne Tyler super-fan, my buddy Cass, who’s read ALL of Tyler’s books—a feat in itself—& gifted me the new one: “I even bought if fr a REAL bookstore! But I read it first, & loved 💜 it.” Happy to start reading it tonight.

Strugglers — Ghost Parachute. It’s mine! My baby! “Strugglers”, born out of a long hard day at my day job, doing therapy. Thank you, Ghost Parachute and editor Brett Pribble.

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Ghost Parachute just accepted my parable, “Strugglers”—a timely little ode to all of us gloriously human 😊 strugglers—for publication! Thank you 🙏🏽 much, editor @brettpribble.bsky.social

In hard times, poetry comes back to me—esp this last stanza of Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”, urging us to love.

Good a.m., #5amwriters club. Some thoughts from RB.