@wigleaf.bsky.social
Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
this is really something,
“Loitering: sitting around without a purpose. You were without a purpose. Eight hours ago you had one. Will you ever find a new one?”
new new: "The Fourth of July, 2015," by Ruby Huston: wigleaf.com (another first published story!)
17.11.2025 19:27 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Mixed media artwork. A vintage New Mexico postcard with regional motifs filling bold block letters, overlaid with torn strips from a printed photo of a young boy smiling on a bike. The edges are bordered by fragments of old, handwritten letters.
We love an issue release day, fam. 🥳 We're so excited to finally share our NOVEMBER ISSUE with you! 🎉 buff.ly/PLKRM5J
16.11.2025 00:00 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0new new: "House," by Vincent Perrone: wigleaf.com
13.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1This is one of our early bangers — and wild to be seeing it just now, on the release day of Katrina’s debut collection from Cornerstone Books!
11.11.2025 13:22 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1“It's so dark that there aren't any shapes dancing on the backs of my eyelids”
06.11.2025 02:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We don’t, no!
11.11.2025 13:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Last Thursday, for example, I stuck my head in the oven and waited for death; but instead I grew wings, flew to Heaven, and killed God. It was a whole thing.”
06.11.2025 12:54 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟
08.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 40 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0amazing
06.11.2025 12:57 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0new new: "Whalefall," by Kimberly Potthast: wigleaf.com
04.11.2025 19:53 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 3Thrilled for this!
30.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0new new: "Propinquity," by Daniel Sylvan Paige: wigleaf.com (first-published story alert!)
30.10.2025 18:21 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1new new: "Mountain Time, Baby," by Meghan Proulx: wigleaf.com
21.10.2025 17:59 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0new new: "The Inherited," by Alula Selassie: wigleaf.com
17.10.2025 18:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0agh this is so good
12.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Extremely pleased to have a story in Wigleaf.
12.10.2025 19:26 — 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0“Even after I quit that job, I had oval red burns on the pale side of my right forearm from reaching into the top oven.” @eliseblackwell.bsky.social in @wigleaf.bsky.social with this story about the things you don’t understand burning scars into you 🧡
12.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is stunning! @eliseblackwell.bsky.social at @wigleaf.bsky.social ❤️🩹
13.10.2025 02:52 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Take three minutes to improve your Sunday, with this micro-story from @eliseblackwell.bsky.social ⬇️
12.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@eliseblackwell.bsky.social
12.10.2025 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0new new: "Franchise," by Elise Blackwell: wigleaf.com
12.10.2025 18:23 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 5new 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 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 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 📌 1
