Anne Anthony

Reading it now! Chock full of fresh revision ideas!!

Fantastic idea & generous opportunity for university students!

“Such abandoned lonely places” ❤️

When I began writing, my stories lacked details about scenery, physical traits, and all that world building hoopla. Why? Because I’d skipped over it when I read, choosing like you, to follow the plot. Now, when I write, I close my eyes & imagine the place — look around, see what my characters see.

Translators! Send in your book length poetry translation! $1500 prize, publication by the University of Wisconsin Press! You can resubmit--different judge every year!

Has anyone got a story regarding your writing on Paragraph Planet? Did you have 75 words featured which were later in a published novel? Did a story inspire you to seek out an author? Forge a friendship online? Would love to hear and share your #stories

A stunner. Resurrected memories of when I’d walked through my parents home for the last time before it was cleared of everything preparing for its sale. 💔

Ooh. Loved this story! Such a believable world an unexpected ending.

Wow! Congrats!! Very cool!!

Wow!! Such fantastic news!!

I read this!! And WHAT a story!!

You there. Are you the owner of a dog or owned by a dog? This story felt felt like reading my memoir.

Until I started reading @doesithavepockets.bsky.social slush pile, I never noticed how much certain phrases and words popped up everywhere. Bonus: It’s improved my writing —I cringe when I read overused words when I’m revising my work and quickly strike them.

Well, now, you just inspired me to buy his book! Thanks for that!!

Been sharing with friends.

Someone called us ‘The Pocketeers!!’ Definitely in the running for our team’s nickname.

Another disappointing broken promise. Maybe next time.

Hello Human A short reminder

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“You don't know yet that you will feel the track-rattling impact in your guts every time you pass through a tunnel for the next ten years.”

Prose with power. 💔

Do the raspberries substitute for ice?

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"A palpable sense of vulnerability, and a brave use of self-disclosure hums throughout from the first page.”
-- CRAFT editor's note

Angela Kubinec's powerful short story illustrates excellence in writing published today in CRAFT .

I look forward to reading it!!

Gosh, this one hurt my head (or maybe my heart?) You're so good at world-building but lordy, what a world you've imagined in this story!! Congrats!

Wondered about the head. Thanks for reassurance. 😉

Warnock: Clearly you have an agenda. It is a threat to the public health of the American people. It's clear that you are carrying out your extremist beliefs.

RFK JR: We’re the sickest people on earth. How am I a threat?

Warnock: I think that you ought to resign.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

So, last December my younger brother passed away leaving behind his aging dog Ginger. My other younger brother adopted her and tells me stories about her stubborn antics. When this hybrid piece came into our pocket, I felt compelled to make sure we published it!! Love it so very much!!

*Phenomenal cosmic prose ... itty bitty living space.* In our latest issue, a brand new micro #fiction from the incredible
@sfreligh.bsky.social |https://www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sarah-freligh

Artwork @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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