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“…my Uncle Joe called her a fucking snowflake and my Dad told him to shut the fuck up, and Uncle Joe laughed and said, what are you going to do, hit me?…”

Don’t miss the spectacular drama in this @emilyrinkema.bsky.social flash!

"I texted my sister & told her to meet me at the Waffle House, that we had a felony to commit. I told her to wear black & she didn't disappoint."

@emilyrinkema.bsky.social is killing it with this story! 🎉to the narrator, sister & dad ❤️‍🩹to Max & Aunt Tica, ⛔ to the minster & Uncle Joe. RIP Kelly.

"...and I grabbed the ball and heard the sirens, but I didn't care, I just wished she were here, Kelly, and that she could see us and the lights and the alarms,...."

Big love for this extraordinary piece of writing by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @wigleaf.bsky.social 💙💙💙

My Aunt Tica asked me to break into the church hall to steal a glass ornament from the lobby tree, so I texted my sister and told her to meet me at the Waffle House, that we had a felony to commit.

@emilyrinkema.bsky.social does my heart in again. In @wigleaf.bsky.social

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I found my father on the back steps. He told me Kelly had asked to come live with us last year. I pretended I didn't know that already....
Excellent story from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @wigleaf.bsky.social

I could not be happier about where this story ended up. Thank you @wigleaf.bsky.social for believing in "Things That Happened at or around My Cousin Kelly's Funeral, in No Particular Order." Started at @smokelong.bsky.social, of course... wigleaf.com

new on our mainpage: "Things That Happened at or Around My Cousin Kelly's Funeral, in No Particular Order," by Emily Rinkema: wigleaf.com @emilyrinkema.bsky.social

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This story is so good! 💔

Oh, this. This one. Read this now!

Oh! I don't have the words to say how much Iove this story.

Something about how the diction goes tall tale… just 🤯

The sun was already rising above the horizon, round and tenderly pink like a clean udder brimming with milk….

Love this by Sergei Gerasimov @wigleaf.bsky.social 👏👏

This story’s gonna stay with me awhile.

Today we have a story of the war in Ukraine, by a writer who lives in Kharkiv. Don't want to give anything away, but the swerve this story takes is brilliant. wigleaf.com

Roadside — Ghost Parachute She thought she finally understood why people would tag the exact happening place of a death with wreaths of textile blooms, bleached as gray as their sticks. It wasn’t that anyone wanted to mark the ...

"It wasn’t that anyone wanted to mark the violence of the passing. More that they wanted to fix the passing itself—the spot, the moment."

Incredibly powerful #microfiction from Scott Garson in Ghost Parachute.

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it's here! my first publication of 2026!

new new: "Grand Jeté," by Sarah Chin: wigleaf.com

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

For the first time since this kind of astonishing list came out, we're open for subs. Don't know how long it will last.

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You should read these beautiful, eerie little fictions by @happilylenaaa.bsky.social 🌟

Three from me in @wigleaf.bsky.social 🖤

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new new: THREE MICROS, by Lena Kinder: wigleaf.com

So so proud of @kathrynreese.bsky.social and her banger of a story in @wigleaf.bsky.social no less. It’s very very good and her postcard is even better 🧡🧡🧡🔥🔥🔥 wigleaf.com

Super excited for this longer flash to be out in the world!

Thanks @wigleaf.bsky.social 💛

"She tugs the singlet so that it sits a little lower than her jade pendant & wonders if her breasts would bleed sugar for the right girl or if that only happens when the Queen commands her senses."

Stunning mashup of lyricism & a text exchange with Persephone. So original @kathrynreese.bsky.social

Read this, it’s divine

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new new: "Who You Used to Love--" by Kathryn Reese: wigleaf.com