Chris Cottom

Thank you, Alison, and for your help with it.

Thank you, Cole. I changed the ending about a million times ...

Thank you, Gisele.

Big thanks to ‪@freeflashfiction.bsky.social for running this brilliant competition, to ‬judge @sagreene1.bsky.social for choosing my story, and to @raecowie.bsky.social, @norami.bsky.social, and the word sculptors of A Smokelong Summer Flash Group 4 for for their help with it.

Delighted to have stories professionally read on Sherry's Shorts at 1:52 and 10:09 mins respectively.

Thank you, Tim

So pleased to see this out there, thank you ‪@bnadeauwriter.bsky.social‬ at MoonLit Getaway. Thanks also to @raecowie.bsky.social, @norami.bsky.social & @yalanchang.bsky.social for their help with it.

Bravo, Eleonora!!

It's wonderful. Emily. I really, really like it.

Bravo Laura!

Thank you, Cole. The spreadsheet is non-fiction.

Thank you, Matt. Parents take note: the light-up yo-yo will be the must-have toy this Christmas.

Thank you, Cole. The spreadsheet was real.

Big thanks to Melissa and Kristin at @epistemiclit.bsky.social for giving a voice to my small piece of resistance here.

Thank you very much, Sarah.

Image of a tiger's face, with the words: her grandchildren will need more than old wildlife programmes and soft-toy tigers: they’ll need polar bears who don’t have to swim hundreds of miles because they’re hungry, glaciers that stay icy, jungles jumping with tree frogs and tamarin monkeys, rivers fizzing with kingfishers, not chemicals.

Delighted to be in the beautifully produced Paperboats Zine from @paperboatswriters.bsky.social on World Earth Day. Thank you to @sfreligh.bsky.social for introducing me to pantoums, and to Barbara Marsh, @raecowie.bsky.social & @norami.bsky.social for their help.

Thank you so much, Matt.

Yeah writers, one week to order get words in right. I've cleared my calendar and I'm ready to get judgmental just as soon as the word-boffins at @freeflashfiction.bsky.social unleash that longlist to me, after which I shall have a fast car standing ready to speed the results down to FFF Central.

So pleased to appear in @fictivedream.bsky.social today, long a dream journal of mine. Thanks to @raecowie.bsky.social, @finnegag.bsky.social and @yalanchang.bsky.social for their help with this one.

Judge on standby. Please send words. £150 top prize. Cash for five others on SL. £2.55 entry if you live in the UK and can pay by BACS. What's not to like?

Rustic cob

Thank you!

Thank you, Cole. I'm outing my inner artisan baker with this story, but that's all I'm admitting to.

Thank you Jennifer and Laura. And it's great to be part of the Frazzled Fam, too.

So honoured to be chosen for this by judge Joanna Miller. Big thanks to Ian @freeflashfiction.bsky.social for running this bimonthly comp and to @norami.bsky.social and several non-BlueSkyers for their help. Congrats to my fellow SLers; see y'all next time I hope (literally, cos I'm the judge).

Thank you to Gisele @thehooletsnook.bsky.social for publishing my minimalist micro.

Big thanks to flashficfestuk.bsky.social for such a fun prompt; to scooterwriter.bsky.social for runner-uppering me; and Barbara Marsh, deborahzafer.bsky.social, yalanchang.bsky.social, and finnegag.bsky.social for their help. Congrats to laurieiswriting.bsky.social and erinbondo.com.

Inspiring Teacher? Flash Hero? Great Guy?

This is such a cool club. Hang out with cool flashfolk, get a story in advance with Tommy’s analysis, plus prompts. Tommy unpacks more on Zoom, then we discuss. You get the video so you can catch up with the bits you missed, and written feedback on one story. All for $85. I’ve booked the next lot.

Emoji of blushing old buffer