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So excited to have my piece nominated for Best Small Fiction! Thank you to the team at @lostballoon.bsky.social for believing in my work!

Thrilled to be nominated and grateful to the @lostballoon.bsky.social team for all their care and work in creating this wonderful magazine.

Awards 2025 AWARD WINNERS “The Great Girl Evaporation of 2022,” Vic Nogay – BEST MICROFICTION 2025 BEST SMALL FICTION NOMINEES “In Waiting,” Catherine Buck”What We Left…

You can find links to all of these wonderful pieces on our awards page! lost-balloon.com/awards/

We are happy to announce our nominees for Best Small Fictions! Please congratulate @catherinebuck.bsky.social, @onmytangent.bsky.social, Alex Juffer, Maggie Maize, and Annabelle Taghinia!

We have a great new piece today from Christopher Scammell. Check out “The Dust Comes.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/28/t...

We have a great new piece today from Christopher Scammell. Check out “The Dust Comes.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/28/t...

" For weeks, Miles has been coming home to the private moat of dirty laundry on my side of the bed. He pretends not to notice." Stunning, heartbreaking.

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Better Than by Lee Doyle I had this new dress. It was completely over the top, but I wore it anyway.  I guess I wanted to make a lasting impression. The slinky fabric, the hot pink and lime print, the bell sleeves, a dress…

You are going to love our new piece by Lee Doyle! Check out “Better Than.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/21/b...

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Love this piece!

The very cool folks at @lostballoon.bsky.social published my flash nonfiction and gave me the best start to this year 🥰

Why I Don’t Have A Tattoo by Stuti Srivastava I don’t have a tattoo because I don’t want one, I tell everyone. That’s a lie. I have wanted a tattoo since I first saw a person up close with a tattoo of their choice instead of “Amarendu’s wife” …

We have a great new piece today from @stutisrivastava.bsky.social! Check out “Why I Don’t Have a Tattoo.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/14/w...

“I watch him speak and wonder how long ago he stopped being the man I love.”
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social @lostballoon.bsky.social:

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So happy to publish this piece!

Thanks so much to EIC @chelsvoulgares.bsky.social and the team at @lostballoon.bsky.social - excited to be in your wonderful magazine again.

It's a story born on a slippery descent in the Pyrenees, that evolved into a story about second chances and all the mistakes we'd like to turn back time on.

@nomad-sw18.bsky.social has done it again. In @lostballoon.bsky.social “What I feel is as hard and as true as the stone I cannot dislodge.” 🔥🔥🔥

"Up goes my arm and whoosh go my boots. Treacherous path. Treacherous husband. I slide and slide and collide into boulders, sharp edged branches, stinging nettles."

“Treacherous path. Treacherous husband. I slide and slide and collide into boulders, sharp edged branches, stinging nettles.”

I love the way this uses time and reads like poetry as the story unwinds.

Love this!

“Up goes my arm and whoosh go my boots. Treacherous path. Treacherous husband.”

Clever as it is poignant, must read by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social!

Rewind by Cole Beauchamp I have something to tell you, my husband says, but I’m not listening. I’m trying to shift the stone lodged in my mountain boot. Rain has slicked the narrow path covered in last year’s crushed leave…

"What I feel is as hard and as true as the stone I cannot dislodge. I raise my arm to shush him, to stem this flow of didn'ts and didn'ts and didn'ts."

Read @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social.

lost-balloon.com/2026/01/07/r...

Rewind by Cole Beauchamp I have something to tell you, my husband says, but I’m not listening. I’m trying to shift the stone lodged in my mountain boot. Rain has slicked the narrow path covered in last year’s crushed leave…

We have a great new piece today by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social! Check out “Rewind.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/07/r...

Congrats to our nominee @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social, who will appear in the anthology!!!

We’ll have new work tomorrow! Don’t forget to read this piece!

This is wonderful!

wow, truly stunned to be on this list! congrats everyone! thank you @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social @dseuss.bsky.social and @lostballoon.bsky.social 🤍