Eirene Eleni

3 ducks in, well, kind of a row. In water.

Spent the morning getting ducks in a row

Graffiti on sun-dappled rock says message in a bottle.

They sent an SOS to the world

One week to go! Submissions for Issue 4 close at midnight in whatever time zone you're in. After that, we're accepting submissions for Issue 5, in October - our first anniversary issue!

Some sail the world for adventure, some try to text without glasses and a 12 pound dog leeched to her face.

EIC Kristin is doing a little reading…

I hope it continues. Ooh-reeeee sounds fun.

This makes sense. I usually see one, sometimes two but I saw three today and wondered if one was young.

Monarch butterfly sipping on a flower.

Brightener

Little garden popping with yellow pink and orange flowers, a wild happy mess.

May I thank whoever made this happy little garden

The Lantern and the Night Moths · Invisible Publishing Chinese Canadian poet-translator Yilin Wang has selected and translated poems by five of China’s most innovative modern and contemporary poets: Fei Ming, Qiu Jin, Zhang Qiaohui, Xiao Xi, and Dai Wangs...

Today is the day! The Lantern and the Night Moths, my debut book of translated modern Chinese poetry and essays on translation, is out from @invisibooks.bsky.social. I'm so excited to be able to share this book with all of you. (1/? thread)

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The neighbourhood hawk is very screeeee today

Temple in a City Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

Hours away from subs closing. Are you ready? We are. Join the fun and the fam. The fun fam. Etc. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

Sure autocorrect I meant pool but pooka could have been a possibility, sure.

Last day!

red lanterns
hold the cups
to the moon

#Art #abstract #painting #red #moon #cups #reunion #poetry

Dramatic bird poop splatter. Bam.

This bird thought it was in an action movie.

Temple in a City Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

No pressure or anything but this is the LAST WEEKEND to submit before the August 5 deadline. If you’ve been putting it off for a later day we sagely intone that the day, alas, is here. Or the one after or after that or after that. But that’s it. You get it right?
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Flash poetry art letters, send us what you love & lost behind the drawer you stuffed it in, send the tears of your childhood dolls, your chimney swift joys, your sodden regrets, your icicle guilts, anything that makes your heart thrill. Any genre is fine. Be embarrassing. Why not, everything else is

We hate to say it but

Sudha Balagopal — Does It Have Pockets Red Hibiscus

Honored to have a short story up @doesithavepockets.bsky.social today! Many thanks to the editors🙏🙏
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Wah, look at this, world 👇👇👇

It's been a fab month of #fiction. Our sincere thanks to
@ruebaldry.bsky.social, Gary Duncan, Tiffany Siougas, C. Christine Fair, @tayburns.bsky.social @sarlynh.bsky.social, Nora Esme Wagner, Aislinn Kelly-Lyth @kerryhp.bsky.social @kiptain.bsky.social and Wes Byers #shortstories

I am in!

He hasn’t done it yet but I feel poor Scott could probably detect or demon hunt or fall accidentally into another world through his shoes or discover he’s been seeing ghosts all this time or his mother was a whale or his first love is mathematics or he be kidnapped by a goldfish with a grudge or

If anyone would like to make poor Scott a story character consider this a collab.

Poor Scott close up of his eye (and side of face) watching you.

Poor Scott joined a boy band at 16 then turned 35 cries eyeliner tears but he is also watching you.

Charcoal and pencil sketch of poor Scott crying eyeliner tears with fierce hair and sadness.

Poor Scott who joined a boy band at 16 then turned 35 cries eyeliner tears. But who among us has not.

Temple in a City Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

Issues 2 and 3 are building nicely. Immense gratitude to all who trust us with your work. Subs open until Aug 5 for flash poetry art and letters. Join the Temple fam! Unlike your real family we never ask you to call and we know how to use zoom but we won’t.
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travelling by standing still
the wonderful puzzle of your windows