@wigleaf.bsky.social
Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
new new: TWO MICROS, by Judah Crow: wigleaf.com
07.10.2025 16:08 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0We LOVE a story on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🤩 Managing Editor Wendy Olsen published an observant piece in @wigleaf.bsky.social we know you'll love too. Catch it here:
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Oh my heart this story by @wendyoleson.bsky.social ! The contrast between the child’s gentle, innocent perspective and the violence/danger in the story works so well. Very powerful piece. I don’t want to give too much away. But read it!
01.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0new new: "Kingdom by the Sea," by Zehra Habib: wigleaf.com
02.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I just read The Boy Waits by Wendy Oleson @wendyoleson.bsky.social at @wigleaf.bsky.social
Good, clever, killer ending: wigleaf.com
Honored and excited to be the Selecting Eddie the @wigleaf.bsky.social Too 50 2026!
01.10.2025 17:34 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0@wendyoleson.bsky.social
25.09.2025 20:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0new new: 2nd of season! "The Boy Waits," by Wendy Oleson: wigleaf.com
25.09.2025 20:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1September sub window: OPEN 🪟
24.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0new new: first of season! "Lobotomy," by Philip Walker: wigleaf.com
19.09.2025 18:42 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0We agree!!!!!
31.08.2025 01:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Beautiful story, beautifully written, deeply felt.
Well worth the read.
We’ve hit our submission cap. See you in the last week of September 🌟
29.08.2025 15:12 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Do you need something satisfying to read that will take you away from this hellhole for about 3 perfect minutes? Here is my recommendation, courtesy of @danchaon.bsky.social and @wigleaf.bsky.social:
wigleaf.com/201302him.htm
Big thank you to SmokeLong for challenging us to commit to two weeks of reading and sharing daily flash. Diving into @wigleaf.bsky.social's archive has been both inspiring and rewarding. <3
08.07.2025 14:58 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Not quite sure if yesterday or today was the last day of the @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge, so JUST TO BE SAFE here's a little one from the @wigleaf.bsky.social Hint Fiction issue by Ben White
wigleaf.com/201008ied.htm
Today's @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge story (the last?) from @wigleaf.bsky.social is this tiny little one by @kimchinquee.bsky.social
Maybe it's bc my parents listened to REO Speedwagon or bc of the particular moment it captures, but this one hits hard
wigleaf.com/201002speedw...
"Hi, Natalie," I said. "Where's Janine?"
"I ate her," Natalie said without looking in my direction.
Last day of @smokelong.bsky.social's #ArchiveChallenge
Taking it back to year one at @wigleaf.bsky.social with this agile, intricate character study by Tai Dong Huai.
wigleaf.com/200810natali...
Today's @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge story from @wigleaf.bsky.social is this one from @horse-updates.bsky.social
I like the way this one uses little touches to illustrate the edges of the fuller, more complicated live of the characters
wigleaf.com/201902electr...
"Five years after that, I cried wildly with a good friend on the floor of a Radisson Blu bathroom."
The anaphora here makes the closing line twinkle all the brighter.
@martamaranda.bsky.social in '18 @wigleaf.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge Day 13
wigleaf.com/201804five.htm
"Pancakes" from @kristintenor.bsky.social in '23 @wigleaf.bsky.social threw me right into the moment and didn't let up once.
"She doesn't know why her mother walked barefoot to the neighbor's pond that day..."
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge Day 12
wigleaf.com/202301pancak...
Wrote something while on vacation and got a prize for it 🥲 thank you Wigleaf and thank you jet lag! wigleaf.com/202409sydw.htm
05.07.2025 23:02 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Today for the @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge, as we journey through @wigleaf.bsky.social :
A neat little list story from Ling Ma in 2011. It's fun going back and seeing the stories big names published as they were coming up:
wigleaf.com/201110lifepl...
"A strange vibrancy came upon us—the Betta a ruby glint in the corners of our eyes."
This story of a drowning marriage by Emma Smith-Stevens in '14 @wigleaf.bsky.social so effortlessly laces metaphor with meaning.
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge Day 11
wigleaf.com/201409august...
BIG CONGRATS 2025 MythicPicnic winners, Sophie Hoss and @stephanieyu.bsky.social 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
05.07.2025 18:23 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2Still doing the @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge bc art doesn't stop for fascism!
This one in @wigleaf.bsky.social is a classic from @roxanegay.bsky.social back in 2012. You know how the best apocalypse movies have that one image that stays with you? This is THAT
wigleaf.com/201203as.htm
I've lost track of what day we're on for the @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge...
This one from @wigleaf.bsky.social is a bit more recent, by @katetooley.bsky.social. The lyrical language creates a mist of ambiguity, like looking at a streetlamp through fog
wigleaf.com/202301bodies...
"I have told her a thousand times that we are not all heading, every second, toward some quiet epiphany."
Such a fan of this quiet, introspective, meta, story from @rebekahbergman.bsky.social in '21 @wigleaf.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge
wigleaf.com/202104everyt...
Day 8 of @smokelong.bsky.social's #ArchiveChallenge
Love this glum + grotesque + rather beautiful story from @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social in '16 @wigleaf.bsky.social
"...at night it pooled around her like spilled milk that could not be un-spilled."
wigleaf.com/201612place....
A whole week of @smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge!
"The air above me illuminates like sections of code I've been working on."
This eerie piece by Tara Isabel Zambrano in '17 @wigleaf.bsky.social reminds me of Severance + the horror of time passing in cubicles.
wigleaf.com/201711cubes....
