Friday night is cigarette-in-hand, tits out, turning away from the front door when you clock his dirty blonde flop, angle the drink so it spills over, and you have to lick the sticky sweetness off your fingers.
and that ending...
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social
07.10.2025 01:10 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you @dehardy.bsky.social and @claudineliterary.bsky.social for your generous review of my flash chapbook THE MISSING GIRL (@blacklawrence.bsky.social)! Take a look at the stellar microprose and glowing review of @kazbarwrites.bsky.social's chapbook as well!
06.10.2025 19:18 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Yessssss, it’s that time again!!
06.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@jekwriter.bsky.social: “I peer out the front window and see a couple of neighbors waterskiing in the street and some kids playing Marco Polo.”
06.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Heather Emmanuel | The Truth Is Only a Feeling
New micro CNF by Heather Emmanuel: “You blink at her. Wonder whether you should lie, or risk torpedoing the moment built from fraught fingers.”
www.claudineliterary.net/heatheremman...
06.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social 🌟🐈⬛🌟: “Friday night is open-toed heels, purpling toes peeping at the beer-soaked floor of the Captain Cook.”
06.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@ezhang77.bsky.social: “When the left hand pointed a plastic finger to the horizon, I followed it.”
06.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“Enough cannot be said about Aldridge-Morris’s ability to pin an era. She is simply a wizard of time-and-place vibe.”
06.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
“Doyle stands by our side, asking us why we’re so willing to trust a good story, why we’re so primed to believe.”
06.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
✨🌟✨: “I always thought I’d see you again. But the words are tumbleweeds, rolling across the desert.”
06.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Elizabeth Gjelten | Under the Blooming Buckeye
New Writer Spotlight! ✨🐈⬛✨
Microfiction by Elizabeth Gjelten.
Check it out!
www.claudineliterary.net/elizabethgje...
06.10.2025 09:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle | A Review
Check out our review of The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle. 🫥👧🏻🐈⬛
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/themissinggirl
06.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris | A Review
Check out our review of Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris! ❄️🍞🐈⬛
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/coldtoast
06.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Sumitra Singam | Friday Night Is
New micro CNF by Sumitra Singam!
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam
06.10.2025 09:28 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
Elena Zhang | Call Me
New Microfiction by Elena Zhang! @ezhang77.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/elenazhang
06.10.2025 09:10 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
Jessica Klimesh | What If Everything Is Already Ruined
New Microfiction by Jessica Klimesh! @jekwriter.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/jessicaklimesh
06.10.2025 09:08 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
Happy reading, humans! 💚🐈⬛💚
06.10.2025 04:04 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 6
Last day in the office for interns Moose and Pickles. 😿
Thank you for all the good times, gentleman. May you find your forever literary homes quickly. Get out there and claim some quality humans! 💚🐈⬛💚
05.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pickles is the one with the single big spot near his neck (the one in back in this photo)
03.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🙏🏼🙏🏼
03.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rest assured, they are not afraid to take *frequent* breaks. 😂
03.10.2025 21:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Final staff meeting with interns Pickles and Moose. 🥺
Our Dec. issue is wrapped. We’re officially reading for Jan 2026! Happy New Year?? 😂🥳
As always looking for fic. and CNF micros. Free subs; paying market.
If you’ve got a chapbook coming out, let us know! 🐈⬛📚🐈⬛
03.10.2025 18:23 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
🌟💚🐈⬛💚🌟
03.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our October issue drops on Monday!! 🎉
This month we’ll feature reviews of two phenomenal chapbooks—by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris and Jacqueline Doyle.
These are must-reads, humans!
📚🐈⬛💚
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social
03.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
Great intern or greatest intern?
At a scrappy 1 lb flat, Coco is able to open a barn door that not even Claudine has figured out.
We all live in Coco’s world now, humans.
🐈⬛😳🐈⬛
03.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So excited!!
02.10.2025 23:49 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Staff mtg today: we’re reading for Dec for about 24 hrs more & then we’re moving on to Jan 2026! 😳
FYI, we pull about 6-7 fiction subs for every CNF sub, so if you’re into stats, that’s a little data for ya.
Next issue is Oct 6– which is also Pickles and Moose’s last day. 🥺
30.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One week from today—Monday October 6–our new issue launches!!! 💚🐈⬛💚
@ezhang77.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @jekwriter.bsky.social
29.09.2025 22:36 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
Friday feels. Claudine and Moose.
26.09.2025 20:25 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brit writer in Cambodia. I work, write, read, run, box, sometimes socialise. www.jaimegill.com
Published in Trampset, Fractured, Litro, Blue Earth, NFFR & more.
Bridport, Luminaire & New Millennium Writing winner, Bath, Fractured & Smokelong finalist.
Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Climate change l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
SL Bridport, Bath, Oxford & WestWord Prizes. BSF BMF & Pushcart noms.
Published stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OLycEkDPIHts-GvyZpoSmdbYLBzyTYTfSjfGQmsECs/edit?u
A new annual anthology by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. Learn more: https://monarch.gay/ 🦋
(they/she) 🏳️🌈
writer · scientist · hue of blue masquerading as a human
Words at Small Wonders, Worlds of Possibility, Interstellar Flight Press, WestWord
indigorue.com
🦔 🧀
*formerly known as E. S. Hovgaard*
WOLFSONG (stories) ROOTS OF THE BANYAN TREE (YA novel). Atticus Rev, Citron Rev, CRAFT, Dribble Drabble Rev, Emerge Journal, Ghost Parachute, Gooseberry Pie, New Flash Fic Rev, Pithead Chapel, RUBY Lit. Best Microfic, Best Small Fics, BOTN, Pushcart noms.
Book lover and cat worshiper, I observe people and write words for a living. She/They. Codexian. SFWA. HWA. Best Small Fictions 2022. Best Microfiction 2024.
fiction writer · stories in Fairy Tale Review, Wigleaf, HAD, Hunger Mountain, Fractured Lit, etc · MFA Columbia
https://linktr.ee/skyskkyy
Writer/educator/community advocate. Cats & catastrophe. More better food 4 all. Bewaring billionaires bearing tech.
Debut novel I’M THE UNDERTOW, forthcoming May ‘26 (Central Avenue)
Rep’d by @clgslr.bsky.social at @PSLiterary.bsky.social
EIC: @flashfrog.bsky.social
www.ericscottryon.com
Writer, Editor, 🎬 Critic | Journalism: Guardian, Slate, Teen Vogue, etc | Creative: Flash Frog, HAD, Maudlin, etc | 🥇 Flash Fiction Mag '24 | Reader at @fracturedlit.bsky.social
rebeccaclong.com
teacher, poet, father, husband | WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD (ELJ 2023) | Ed. POETS OF QUEENS 2 | EIC of @porcupinelit.bksy.social | Co-Founder of monthly reading series and poetry community get togethers, @notatawp.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jbeloff
Writer, book critic, prof. MIGRATING FICTIONS (Ohio State UP 2018). RIPPLES INTO THE WILD (Cornerstone Press 2027). Pushcart Prize winner. Writing at Threepenny Review, LitHub, Mass Review, Pleiades, and HAD. https://abbymanzella.weebly.com/
Born in HK, raised in Queens.
Chinese American writer.
Associate Fiction Editor at JMWW Journal.
Chiyeunglau.com
Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Microfiction 2024, & Wigleaf Top 50 🌸 Winner of the Fractured Literary 2021 Flash Fiction Contest and the Welkin Prize 🌻 Author of LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, published by The Masters Review 🌷lindybiller.com
Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink (fmrly Crazyhorse) | Wigleaf | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
Writer. Founding editor of Little Thoughts Press (@littlethoughtspress.com)
clairemtaylor.com
otherthoughts.beehiiv.com
📍Baltimore
Chapbook One Good Thing available from Bottlecap Press
https://bottlecap.press/products/one
Poet/Prose person, parent, paradox enthusiast, passionate bookseller, polyam and pretty queer
https://www.quinnrennerfeldt.com/
Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
Publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. 2023 Flash Fiction Judge Bridport Prize. #BestSmallFictions #FlashFictionAmerica. Nomad. Very much a back-office guy. He/him
Writer
Work in The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf…
Links to work on my site: jjlofflin.com
