Lina Lau

Three Gmail and my original Hotmail from like 1999

Haha agreed about GG. I saw it opening weekend with my 7 year old and her friends and I think maybe that's the target audience?

Thank you! And I'm glad! That's a memoir I want to read!

Thank you Kelly! This made my day!

"In the ravine after school, we chain smoke and practice puckering our lips and blowing rings, the dank soil dampening our thin shorts"

Wonderful sense of the collective narrator here from @linalau.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

We Forge - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Alireza heidarpour on Unsplash by Lina Lau We forge our parents’ signatures and place fistfuls of change on the counter in exchange for Du Maurier Lights, and the storeowner raises an eyebrow...

Thrilled to have a piece in Gooseberry Pie (@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social) this issue! A little bit of nostalgia for simpler times.

gooseberry-pie.com/we-forge/

billionaires landing
on the red planet at last
leaving us in peace

#SciFaikuSaturday (peace) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

Short short contest at @hippocampusmag.bsky.social!

250 words of CNF. Submit!

For fellow flash writers!

I'd love one if you still have any left!

I was not prepared for this child, a burst of movement and thoughts. —"Recharged" by @linalau.bsky.social in case you missed it

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/recharged

Passing on some writing advice from my then five-year-old in case it's helpful to anyone in this new year

Exactly my process.

Fingers crossed, Beth!

I agree! Even if I put it away for a while, it's still hard to see my own work objectively. Having others look it over is so helpful.

Received feedback on a flash piece this morning with comments that it is close, and suggestions to clarify and tighten, and WHY CAN'T I SEE THIS IN MY OWN WORK?!!!

Oof. So good.

Sometimes it's hard to give up a nap as a new mom.....or ever.....!

Loved the reading, Danielle!

Woo hoo! Congratulations Dawn! Mine got cut, but I'm still thrilled with the long list. Fingers crossed for you.

This made me laugh and then cry

Recharged by Lina Lau — Five Minutes My four-year-old daughter flits around the bedroom, darting, and I’m panicked she will collide with a sharp corner.

Happy to share my newest micro memoir at Five Minutes. Full of questions my kid asks. Seriously. How DO birds sit on eggs without cracking them?

www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...

Thank you Christine!

Same, Katie!

Thanks Kik! You too!

There's 100 Word Story, Five Minute Lit, The Citron Review, The Cincinnati Review....and I'll come back here if I think of others!

Can't begin to describe my excitement about making the long list! Congratulations to all.

Same!

It's delightful scrolling here amid so much writing brilliance.

It IS overwhelming! But it's kind of nice to see so many writers again!