M.E. Macuaga (she/her) @memi-writes

Hello and happy summer! I'm honored to be reading at the Palabras Literary Salon in Los Angeles this weekend, Sunday 7/20. 🌺📖💞 All are invited to join this celebration of community and words!
Info below and at jencvoice.com/palabras/
~ RSVP: bit.ly/jul2025palabras

#words #create #community

19.07.2025 00:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much, @skron11.bsky.social!

15.06.2025 01:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

'Orange Blossoms' by M.E. Macuaga The last thing I did for you, the only thing I could do for you, was peel you an orange. A little mikan mandarin, from the pile of sweet spheres brought by our neighbor Miyoko from her tree to your hospital room. I plucked one from the paper bag she left along with her regards, and, with its dry rustle still whispering in my ear, I dug my yellowing thumbnail into the soft bare button of the fruit. A fine mist of citrus oil sprayed us and we laughed, bright as the falling sun. Then you watched me from the bed, your gown as loose as your smile. My hands cupped the mikan and turned from each other like a prayer in reverse, a flower blooming as my thumb peeled back the skin to bare its orb. Rind removed from what it had so fiercely, gently protected. Heart tilting, I plucked the segments from their stem. There, one for you. Here, one for me. There, tucked inside, a baby one, naked and awakened now as you once awakened me. And here — a seed I set aside, away from your throat. I think of your skin now, also loose beneath your gown, and your bones beneath your loosened skin, and pithy veins, so soft, and how I could help change your colostomy bag but had to blink my gaze away from the bumps of your spine when the mid-day nurse came to clean you. That’s my job, I’d thought, angry as I left the room for the privacy you wanted. But I had bigger jobs coming, didn’t I, jobs that became mine too soon. To peel you an orange on our last day. To see your loosening. To take that one seed we found, and plant it. --- M.E. Macuaga is a Japanese Bolivian storyteller and escape room addict whose diverse work can be found now/soon in HAD, The Cincinnati Review, Epiphany, Seventh Wave, Flash Fiction Magazine, Oyster River Pages, Luna Station Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her communities include Hedgebrook, Ragdale, Tin House, and Storyknife. Read more: curiousstoryprods.com & @memi_writes.

FlashFlood: 'Orange Blossoms' by M.E. Macuaga #nffd2025

14.06.2025 22:47 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 3

🌎⚡️💖Happy National Flash Fiction Day!!✍️✍️✍️

Thrilled to join the festivities with my new piece "Orange Blossoms," dropping at 3:45p PST / 11:45p BST. 🙏🙏🙏
@natflashfictionday.bsky.social for including me in this epic celebration!!🌟

14.06.2025 16:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Such an honor to be part of this series -- thank you!! ✍️💖

16.04.2025 21:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Quote from Macuaga: "Projectile motion as we knew it. The calculable, imaginable universe.

M.E. Macuaga stands in front of a natural landscape, wearing a charcoal linen dress and red-rimmed glasses.

"Projectile motion as we knew it. The calculable, imaginable universe."

In this week's miCRo by M.E. Macuaga, Cosmic wonder and familial love are bridged by a melodic, clever lullaby.

Link in next post.

16.04.2025 11:45 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1

miCRo: "(FG+FD+FM+FB) = " by M.E. Macuaga Projectile motion as we knew it. The calculable, imaginable universe.

🚀 ✨ New story in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social!

Kate Jayroe (Asst.Ed.) writes: "There’s an awe-inspiring scope to this miCRo. Cosmic wonder and familial love are bridged by a melodic, clever lullaby."

So grateful! 🙏🙏🙏

www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...

16.04.2025 21:34 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

So everyone’s going nuts in our fallout shelter, and lemme tell ya Our 2024 Drabble Contest Co-Winner #2!

🏆🚀⚡My winning story is up!
It's a drabble, just 100 words... come on... you know you wanna click & read...
flashpointsf.com/2025/02/21/s...

My 💖 thanks to @flashpointsf and artist Kevin Pabst!🎤🎨🙏🎉
Congrats also to my co-winner Lily Black! 🧙‍♀️🔥
#SFF #flashfictionfriday #comedy #apocalypse #friendship

21.02.2025 17:59 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The Witch Our 2024 Drabble Contest Co-Winner #1!

NEW FICTION:
Our 2024 Drabble Contest Co-Winner #1!

"The Witch" by Lily Black #SFF #flashfiction
flashpointsf.com/2025/02/07/t...

11.02.2025 18:51 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Thank you so much to those who have reached out. Please send your prayers to the brave souls fighting to protect us and support to our friends who have lost schools, neighborhoods, businesses and beloved homes. 💔🙏Thank you. 2/2

10.01.2025 20:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Literary things are happening but I will be dark for a beat while I grapple with the impact of the Los Angeles wildfires -- short and long term. My family and home are currently safe but just a mile from the evac zones and our community is devastated. 1/2

10.01.2025 20:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#flashfiction #litmags #litmag #thewritinglife #writers #writerscommunity #writingmama #writing #writingcommunity #literarymagazine #scifi #womenwhowrite #womenwriters #space #supportthearts

28.12.2024 18:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#sciencefiction #litmags #thewritinglife #authorsofig #writers #writerscommunity #drabble #100wordstory #writingmama #writing #writingcommunity #literarymagazine #scifi #womenwhowrite #womenwriters #writingcontest #microfiction #flashfiction

28.12.2024 18:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Huzzah! A super fun win to round out the year. So excited! Thank you so much @flashpointsf.bsky.social !!🚀✨✍️🏆

28.12.2024 18:33 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

🎉Congratulations to our 2024 Drabble Contest winners! (In no particular order):

"So everyone’s going nuts in our fallout shelter, and lemme tell ya" by M.E. Macuaga

"The Witch" by Lily Black

Competition was stiff and the decision was tough. Thank you to all who participated.

23.12.2024 16:39 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

So excited! Thank you so much @flashpointsf.bsky.social !!🚀✨✍️🏆

28.12.2024 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

✍ Thrilled to have my story "Whalesong" published with @flashfictionmagazine, recently named #2 Best Lit Mags for Flash by the @chillsubs_official community. A big round of THANK YOUs to my editor Aishwarya Mishra, the inimitable Shannon Huffman, and the entire FF Mag team!❤️⚡🌈 Y'all rock!!

27.12.2024 16:46 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Early Draft of Hallmark Movie Screenplay: Christmas for Christmas INT. QUAINT BAKERY Jennifer, 29, enters with two snowflakes on her immaculate hair and a smile on her face. An older woman, Abigail, looks up from ...

JENNIFER: Oh, Mark. Christmas.

MARK: Huh. Not work?

JENNIFER: No, Christmas! You never Christmas?

MARK: No, I work. Work work. Dad worked. Dad worked and worked. Dad sad. Dad sad work. Mom dead, car crash. So Dad worked sad and sad worked. No Christmas.

21.12.2024 17:46 — 👍 48 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2

Hyper Specific Yoga with Adriene Videos I Wish She’d Make for Me Yoga for Young Adults Who Did Something Weird to Their Backs Fifteen-Minute Yoga for the Modern Woman Who Spent the First Ten Minutes of Her Free T...

"Calming Breathing Exercises for the Moment When Teens Walk by, and You Can’t Remember If the Jeans You’re Wearing Are Good"

20.12.2024 03:00 — 👍 36 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

Oh my gosh! I just started reading This Cursed House as a possible comp and I'm hooked. 📖👀💓 Sadly registration is already maxed out for Sunday but I will keep an eye out for future opportunities. The Back Room is awesome! Thank you Hank!

19.12.2024 17:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh God, it's like Christmas next week, it feels like the apocalypse every goddamn day, and the nightmares will only continue to unfurl in the new year. Also you still have to write your book.

17.12.2024 15:11 — 👍 309 🔁 61 💬 15 📌 13

My tiny sci-fi screenplay "The Auction" is a quarterfinalist! Thank you so much @filmmaticnews!! 🚀🙌🎥🏆✍🌟

#scifi #screenplay #movies #moviemaking #moviemagic #writing #writingcommunity #writingmama #womenwriters #timetravel #heist #shortfilm #screenwriting #writingcontest #filmmaking #writinglife

17.12.2024 04:05 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

100 followers! Mini milestone 🎊💖😆

14.12.2024 05:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ack! I've been solving the puzzle every day but not posting 😆🫣 Here is yesterday's!

12/12
Like the resonant clang of a temple bell, she lived by the axiom that myopic friendships would only make her glum.

13.12.2024 17:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#literarycommunity #amwriting #memoir #speculativefiction #literaryauthors #mamaswhowrite #writing #worldbuilder

13.12.2024 17:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Starter pack for #literaryfiction writers to find each other! Comment/repost and I'll add you go.bsky.app/ARue8c8

#literaryfiction #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors 💙📚

18.11.2024 07:36 — 👍 562 🔁 266 💬 209 📌 31

Excited to join this community with a literary memoir and speculative story collections in the works! Thank you!

13.12.2024 16:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

One week, one journal acceptance, seven rejections from a mix of publishers, residencies, and agents.

Baby steps!

#keepwritingandcarryon
#thewritinglife
#amquerying #litmags #emergingwriter
#writing
#rollercoaster

07.12.2024 06:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

12/4
Her thigh flexes, twitches with every spat.

07.12.2024 06:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

12/3
The wild ethic of the woods demanded that the hunter bow to the cub in the grove before taking aim.

05.12.2024 07:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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