Stan

Thanks @vestalreview.bsky.social

Thanks @vestalreview.bsky.social for a terrific issue and for including my 500-word story.

A longer 1,000-word edit of 'Bleeding Seamonster' will be in @neonandsmoke.bsky.social in 2026

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Missile Command Graham Robert Scott   And now, with gestures fierce and possibly rehearsed, and with dabbed wetness at the corners of her eyes, the student protests that her adjunct professor hates her unacco…

This story by @graythebruce.bsky.social is one hell of a sentence!

pitheadchapel.com/missile-comm...

...by one very generous first reader 👊 Thanks Gray!

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Thanks @belindarowe.bsky.social for this and for your story this week. Likewise @graythebruce.bsky.social and @marioaliberto3.bsky.social for helping a new writer - very grateful to you all.

I’ll chime in with
@adelegallogly.bsky.social
@stanjwild.bsky.social
@gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social

Thanks @belindarowe.bsky.social and right back at you.

Another brilliant story in @vestalreview.bsky.social.

'Antarctica in the Basement' by @belindarowe.bsky.social is heart breaking and emboldening to the end.

Belinda is also a #SmokeLongQuarterly Emerging Writer Fellow 2025

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Thanks @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social. Yours too!

Thanks a lot @graythebruce.bsky.social!

This is one stunning piece of flash!!! Check out @stanjwild.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social.

Thanks a million @marioaliberto3.bsky.social

Another great story in @vestalreview.bsky.social this week.
This time by @mattleibel.bsky.social, recently nominated for @pushcartprize.bsky.social - Congratulations Matt
Full issue: www.vestalreview.net/issue-67
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Now with proper links! I'll get the hang of this sooner, or later...

Issue 67 — Vestal Review

3 highlights from VR this week:
🔹 Last Play: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social
🔹 Saint Cindy: @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
🔹 The Walrus: @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Full issue: www.vestalreview.net/issue-67
#VestalReview #FlashFiction #LiteraryMagazine #ShortStories #WritingCommunity #Fiction

3 highlights from Vestal Review this week:

🔹 Last Play:@marioaliberto3.bsky.social
🔹 Saint Cindy:@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
🔹 The Walrus:@emilyrinkema.bsky.social

Full issue: www.vestalreview.net/issue-67

#VestalReview #FlashFiction #LiteraryMagazine #ShortStories #WritingCommunity #Fiction

Screenshot of Bleeding Seamonster at Vestal Review

Very honoured to have my flash fiction piece, “Bleeding Seamonster”, in @vestalreview.bsky.social.

Read it here: www.vestalreview.net/bleeding-sea...

Massive thanks to David Galef and his team for believing in this piece!

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