Chris Cottom

Thank you, Lori, and I absolutely love your story. I wrote mine on last year’s March Micro Madness at ‪@smokelong.bsky.social‬‬. Big thanks to Group 28 for their help with it, and particularly @francesorrok.bsky.social for the surrogacy line, and to @underbellypress.bsky.social for publishing it.

Thank you Sharon but I couldn't possibly comment.

Delighted to make the Trash Cat line up.

I always thought Smokelong Fitness was for the grown-ups. Reader, I was wrong. It’s the best thing to have happened to my writing for yonks.

So pleased to see this one out there. Big thanks to ‪@bulbculture.bsky.social for publishing it and to @norami.bsky.social and @raecowie.bsky.social for their help with it.

Thank you very much Cole

Thank you very much Melissa

Thank you very much, Matt, and for introducing me to 'lanky' metaphors on your inspiring course Glorious Words. Thank you to @bendinggenres.bsky.social for publishing this piece, and to @norami.bsky.social and Smokelong Fitness's Jan Cardio Group 4 at @smokelong.bsky.social for their help with it.

Huge congratulations, Jupiter. I'm really looking forward to reading this.

Thank you very much, Laura.

Thank you very much, Dan

Big thanks to ‪@freeflashfiction.bsky.social for running this great comp, to ‬judge Caroline McKenzie for choosing my story, and to @raecowie.bsky.social, @norami.bsky.social, and September Cardio Group 2 at Smokelong Fitness for their help with it.

They Say Junwei's a Bad Boy Flash fiction by Ya Lan Chang

'Junwei will be caned later today.' What an opening line in this bad boy story by @yalanchang.bsky.social in Issue 4 of Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social. www.frazzledlit.com/p/they-say-j...

Thank you, Matt.

Thank you!

So pleased to see this one out there. Thank you to @penmenreviewsnhu.bsky.social for picking it, to @raecowie.bsky.social, @norami.bsky.social & @finnegag.bsky.social for their help with it, and to the redoubtable @mattkendrick.bsky.social for prompting it on his famous Colourful Characters course.

Delighted to feature in the lovely @templeinacity.bsky.social. Big thanks to EIC @eireneeleni.bsky.social for selecting my story and to @raecowie.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social for their help with it.

Thank you so much, Laura [insert image of old buffer blushing]

So pleased to be here. Big thanks to EIC @jhhwriter.bsky.social for being a real editor and suggesting amends to enable him to reconsider. Reader, I listened to him.

Stoked about this honour. Thank you so much ‪@epistemiclit.bsky.social

Thank you very much, Emma. I'm honoured to share an SL with your extremely strong story.

Thank you, Denise

Big thanks to ‪@freeflashfiction.bsky.social for running this comp, to ‬judge @nishxhegde.bsky.social for choosing my story, and to @raecowie.bsky.social, @norami.bsky.social, and the wordsmiths of Smokelong Fitness ‬October Cardio Group 3 for their help with it.

Ah Melissa, you are indeed my most loyal reader. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this honour @delgeo14.bsky.social. I am thrilled to bits. Big thanks to @raecowie.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social for their help with the piece, and @amymarques.bsky.social for the fabulous illustration.

Thank you Sarah, and for your brilliant idea to put the last section in future tense. And yes, what a class; I'm still missing everyone.

Big thanks to Melissa and Kristin at @epistemiclit.bsky.social for including me in their nostalgia issue; to @sfreligh.bsky.social and her awesome Class of Jan 24 for prompting and nurturing it; and @raecowie.bsky.social & @norami.bsky.social for helping it over the line.

Delighted to feature in @fictivedream.bsky.social on this MicroMonday with a 100-worder prompted by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in her opening workshop for March Micro Madness from @smokelong.bsky.social

Thank you, Melissa. Delighted to appear in this fine-looking edition.

Thank you, Sue. Delighted to be SL alongside recidivist big hitters @quickasaflash.bsky.social and @uksherka.bsky.social