Flight: A Literary Sampler

"They’ve become the guy still drunk at the bar at 3:00 a.m. bragging about beating the crosstown rival in the state championship back in high school."

@beansbaker5.bsky.social on bad teams in his essay "I Need a Sign" in Flight 2

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"press the ice pick to your cheek for a moment, then toss over your left shoulder"

Let "Recipe for a Spell: to Heal a Migraine" by @carmalynnpark.bsky.social enchant you in Flight 2

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"The stench/seeps through the city,/all the way to the river"

"Sillage" from @jackbedell.bsky.social asking us to consider what we would rather ignore, in Flight 2

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"Men, from some group I couldn’t identify, stormed past us, firing automatics. One of them yelled, “Freedom!” and all three of us laughed out loud."

Start your week with @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social and "Polecatz" in Flight 2

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Michael Czyzniejewski- Fiction Polecatz Randy and Gino were arguing about the best place to hold up in an apocalypse. Randy was firmly in the hardware superstore camp. Gino insisted on sporting goods. Randy said with hardware, t...

Thanks to @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social at @flightlit.bsky.social for publishing my apocalypse story in their new issue!

went to college and they tried to “cancel” me because I “can’t read”

Michael Czyzniejewski- Fiction Polecatz Randy and Gino were arguing about the best place to hold up in an apocalypse. Randy was firmly in the hardware superstore camp. Gino insisted on sporting goods. Randy said with hardware, t...

“‘We’d need to propagate,’ I said. ‘Don’t pretend we wouldn’t.’”

@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-czyz...

Jack Bedell- Poetry Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collection is Ghost Forest (...

“… Morning / fog, chemical haze, interstate, / and cars stacked on top / each other, as oblivious to it all, / to what part of it is already / inside us, as can be.”

@jackbedell.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...

thought i had sent poetry to @flightlit.bsky.social and went through my email to find it and it turns out i only did it in a dream. now to manifest my dreams. check out @fklein907.bsky.social's cool new lit mag! also buy her book or chapbook, perhaps even both!

Flight 2 Now Live! Editor's Intro Flight 2 is landing in times that are, we are constantly reminded, unprecedented. We are surrounded–in the news, on social media–by reminders that things are bad, and unlikely to get b...

Flight 2 has landed! Spend your Sunday drinking in new work from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @beansbaker5.bsky.social @carmalynnpark.bsky.social and @jackbedell.bsky.social

Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2-2/

And the issue here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2/

Fantastic issue! The @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social story is brutal, the way it snuck up on me—and I have to vote for the hardware superstore…(or maybe a Five Guys—I don’t plan to stick around for long in an apocalypse, so I’d like to go out surrounded by French fries and milkshakes).

We’re excited to share this poem with everyone in Flight 3!

We still need fiction and pieces for our Brewer’s Choice category—submit today!

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@ketchiklein.bsky.social and I are so excited about the pieces selected for Flight 2! Come enjoy some apocalypses with us this Sunday!

@ketchiklein.bsky.social guided me through from a pretty messy first draft to the version you see here! Super excited that it's out to read!

Really excited to have a poem up at @flightlit.bsky.social today!

Flight 2 Now Live! Editor's Intro Flight 2 is landing in times that are, we are constantly reminded, unprecedented. We are surrounded–in the news, on social media–by reminders that things are bad, and unlikely to get b...

Flight 2 has landed! Spend your Sunday drinking in new work from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @beansbaker5.bsky.social @carmalynnpark.bsky.social and @jackbedell.bsky.social

Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2-2/

And the issue here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2/

Sean Ennis- Fiction Its Powerful Parking Lot I did not sleep like a winner. Yes, I had watched Vivian turn one hundred dollars into almost three hundred thousand dollars at the craps table. And yes, we had made love i...

Big thanks to @flightlit.bsky.social for nominating my piece, “Its Powerful Parking Lot” for Best Microfiction 2026. Shoutout to The Old Rats Motorcycle Gang.

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A light green and gray graphic that reads "Congratulations Nominated for Best Microfiction 2026: Sean Ennis: Its Powerful Parking Lot" Published in Flight One

Congratulations to @seanennis.bsky.social

You can read his killer story here: flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...

A light green and gray graphic that reads "Congratulations Nominated for Best Microfiction 2026: Sean Ennis: Its Powerful Parking Lot" Published in Flight One

Congratulations to @seanennis.bsky.social

You can read his killer story here: flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...

Submission Guidelines Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...

If you're thinking about ending the year by sending out some submissions, consider us! We're free to submit to, and all submissions are read by both editors.

Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

Heimlich After I Eat Poetry Too Quickly Again by Todd Dillard It's all coming up now, milkweed and mango, grandmothers in kitchens with their stoic spoons, crows barking in alder trees, enough dead deer to overflow football stadiums, sad fathers with their boots…

new Todd Dillard on HAD always a treat of a day!
read the poem Todd said about, "I wanted the poem to look a little barfy, so the odd indent as the lines lengthen are fine IMO"

"It's all coming up now,
milkweed and mango,
grandmothers in kitchens..."

https://www.havehashad.com/mbsra

Rita Mookerjee- Brewer's Choice Wherein the Kardashian Sisters Marvel at Their Bounty, Reach Enlightenment It’s all here, past the most beautiful door  I have ever seen. It’s all here, and I wore silk  to sleep and woke up refr...

And round out your tasting with our Brewer's Choice, "Wherein the Kardashian Sisters Marvel at Their Bounty, Reach Enlightenment" from @ritamookerjee.bsky.social

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Claudia Monpere- Creative Nonfiction When I Knew Nothing Some Saturdays Meg woke up with a stranger she’d hooked up with at The Red Raven. I wondered— did he make her a Prairie Oyster for her hangover like I did when I stayed over in ...

Follow that up with a knockout essay, "When I Knew Nothing" from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social

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Matthew E. Henry- Poetry “…it is not the stones, / But the child’s mound—" A golden shovel from Robert Frost’s “Home Burial” were it only true that tragedy howls in packs of three,  I wouldn’t so curse my retention, wish...

Then, the devastating poem, "it is not the stones/but the child's mound" from @mehpoeting.bsky.social

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Sean Ennis- Fiction Its Powerful Parking Lot I did not sleep like a winner. Yes, I had watched Vivian turn one hundred dollars into almost three hundred thousand dollars at the craps table. And yes, we had made love i...

First up, @seanennis.bsky.social and his flash fiction piece, "Its Powerful Parking Lot"

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We've been a little quiet here, but it's because we've been working hard getting ready for Flight 2!

On November 30th, we'll have four incredible new works of literature for you to sample.

Until then, tide yourself over by rereading the work from Flight 1!

Lot's wife:

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Submission Guidelines Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...

The good news is that we're always open, and always free! You can submit in all genres with a good chance for acceptance in Issue 3 now!

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Acceptances for Flight 2 have now officially been sent!

Our (very) small team is in the process of sending other responses as we speak. If you haven't heard from us yet, it's because you made it to our "serious consideration" folder, and we're still considering your work for Issue 3.