Janna Miller

Go to the poetry reading! You know you want to!

This is a delight, every word! So good!

"40 years gone and now here he is, sex-on-wheels Jimmy Bang, windows down, cruising slow, like we’re all still fresh and hot and ready for it."

This is a delight - from one "too old for this shit" to another.
Jimmy. Fucking. Bang
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ICYMI

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Captain and the Quartermaster by C.L. Clark How different that was from the beginning. With her hand in Deputy Quartermaster Omopria’s, sneaking away from the army’s camp, Captain Len felt like she could climb the clouds. But the sky was clear ...

“Commander Maeb Len knows that, more than anything, an army needs hope in order to struggle onward. They need a vision to fight for and faith that the future will be better than the past. Better than the present.”

@clclark.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social!

You Perfect, Broken Thing - Uncanny Magazine When I leave the kill floor, my legs are wasted. I shuffle to the women’s locker room. I can’t stand anymore, but I know if I sit, I’ll never get back up. At least, not for another hour. I prop myself...

“With my eyes closed, I see: constellations of my future—the hero, the lover, the companions, the enemies to slay.”

Love the expertise on display in this story! @clclark.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social !

Honing the Blade C. L. Clark is the author of the Magic of the Lost trilogy (The Unbroken, The Faithless, and The Sovereign), Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf, and Fate's Bane.

This week’s guest is C.L. Clark! We’ll focus on the craft of short stories vs longer works – and getting them published. Huge thanks to C.L. for taking time to talk with us!

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"None of the snakes were awake, but the music made you think something violent was going to happen. I suppose the violence was in the man, not the snakes."

I love this story! All of Helen's stories are full of quirky happenings & gorgeous language.

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Mayhem & Death - Helen McClory — 404 Ink ‘A writer completely unafraid’ - Ali Smith | ‘Shiny dark licorice mind candy’ - Margaret Atwood

A story in Helen McClory's collection, "Lore," creeped me out so much I still remembered it years after I read it. It's in her wonderful collection, MAYHEM & DEATH. It's available at 404 Ink if you're in the UK.
@helenmcclory.bsky.social @404ink.bsky.social

Read the interview and look out for the book. Vanessa is an awesome writer!

Squeeee!! My book trailer is so cool❤️❤️❤️

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White page with title: Blessings from War Island Cookbook. Black and white figures to color are scattered on the page. Pigeon figure says - Asshole pigeon familiar. Athena figure says - bored autistic war goddess. Teacup figure says - special interest ceramic collection. Truck figure says - possessed monster cars. Toad figure says - toad soul collector. Group of adults with laptops and books says - student loan defaulter teacher army

#UnhingedPit #A #F

My personal experience as an educator with autism and parent of two autistic Level 1 and 2 children...I've not met one autistic child in my school system or my child's specialized school without an autistic parent, diagnosed or not. Not one.
Take your Tylenol dear friends, genetics trump meds.

Thank you, Myna! ❤️

I'm looking forward to reading all the stories too! Thanks for sharing, Gillian!

Flash Roundup * July 2025 A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

I *always* love @mynachang.bsky.social Flash Roundup but this month is spectacular. So much including from @scribblermiller.bsky.social @donnalgreenwood.bsky.social @kathyfish.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social
@jennywong.bsky.social

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This looks amazing, as usual! Thanks for putting all of this together and for including my story too. Looking forward to reading everything on the list! ❤️

Always look forward to Myna's roundup. She has so many great flash spec stories - plus links to some great craft articles/people.
I'm very grateful to have my @smallwondersmag.com piece included as well as a micro by Bernie Jean Schiebeling.
Do check it out!

Thanks so much, Dana! And I hadn't heard of The Root Children, but it looks so interesting!

Thank you and thanks so much for reposting, Vanessa!

Ah, thanks so much, Vanessa! ❤️

So excited to see Root Myth in @smallwondersmag.com ! The whole issue is 🔥.
Thanks to Cislyn and Stephen and the Small Wonders Staff!

Oscar and and the other flutterflies are gathering their rose petal pages and dancing despite the storm.

Thank you for posting, Melissa!

Grateful to be featured on this kick-ass list with my Flash Flood piece about chickens. @mynachang.bsky.social 's lists are always 🔥

Looking forward to Timothy's book and 2026!

Brief Reviews of New or New(ish) Books | New Flash Fiction Review …in which NFFR suggests some summer reading for you by Patricia Q. Bidar, Lorette C. Luzajic, Keith J. Powell, and Robert Shapard, with hopefully more recommendations to follow (in the coming dog days...

Today, @nffr.bsky.social "mini-reviewed" my novelette, Wild Plums, as well as books by Lorette C. Luzajic, Keith J. Powell, and @robertshapardbooks.bsky.social. I'm honored to be highlighted in such stellar company!

When Anxiety Turns You into a Pacman Pellet — Ghost Parachute I wind you around and around and drive your breath out of you quick quick in time to your rapid heart and you fight me with deep breaths and meditation but I am insidious and claw my way back up throu...

New micro up Ghost Parachute!

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We Drive the Years Claudia Monpere   I drive my dad to the air-conditioned Ace Hardware. I’m visiting from out of town, and it’s 110° in Fresno, too sweltering for his daily walk around his condominium complex, …

"On every aisle: awe. A hose like the one his mother watered the strawberries and roses with. A battery charger and jumper like his dad needed to get the old Ford running. A red wheelbarrow."

Stirring CNF, @claudiamonpere.bsky.social, in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/we-drive-the...

There's some ick. I'm staring them down from over here.

The mice show me their feet. Look, they say. We have clever mice feet. We will build temples for you.

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I love this micro! The atmosphere heavy with singing and mice!