“I sense time cannot steal what time itself is gifting.” 💥

"We wanted to know: if real teeth were traded for real babies, what could we get for false teeth?"

Love this from @marijean.bsky.social - the sense of childhood naivety, and the deeper stories lying underneath

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Sea Lake by Sandrina Dorigo — Five Minutes Out on the salt flats, I imagine being at the bottom of whatever sea was once here, megalodon and ribbons of sea grass above.

"In my eardrums waves thrum, roaring against the silence."

This brilliant piece of writing by @sandrinado.bsky.social in @fiveminutelit.bsky.social 💙💙💙
www.fiveminutelit.com/sea-lake

Thanks so much!

Thank you!

“Just as an empty shell recounts its swirling sea, there is memory here.” This amazing write by @sandrinado.bsky.social in @fiveminutelit.bsky.social
So poetic and evocative 🌊🧡🧡🧡

Thank you lovely, Sumitra!

Delighted to have this piece up at @fiveminutelit.bsky.social about my hometown. 🌊

It’s truly an honor to be included in the fabulous August issue of @centaurlit.bsky.social! Huge thanks to editor @lynnmundell.bsky.social for publishing “We Don’t Meet in Buda” alongside a fabulous lineup! ❤️❤️

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They sit quietly, their hands spread out flat. The mother faces them, pursing the lips someone said were just like Grace Kelly’s.

Nail Party by Laura Wettersten

For full story visit 100wordstory.org

My grandmother wrapped my thumb with a piece of thread, the tip of my finger growing redder with each turn of the fiber. —"Remedy" by Sua Im

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/remedy

Receipts, sticky notes, promotional pens, junk mail. My husband never throws anything away. —"Upendings" by @mhypponen.bsky.social in case you missed it

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/upendings

Beautiful

Skydiving by Tammy Komoff — Five Minutes The ancient Cessna has rusty holes where rivets should be and vibrates worryingly as we ascend over cornfields.

My new non-fiction drabble is out today! It's so great to be part of Five Minutes again!
Come read about one of the most memorable five minutes of my life and while you're there check out all the other amazing drabbles Five Minutes has to offer!
www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...

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Friends I have a piece up in a dream journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social today about the relentlessness of motherhood (and a public toilet sign). Hope you’ll read. Thanks @kbonilla.bsky.social for seeing something in it 🧡🧡🧡

We're looking for more photography and art! Upcoming issue, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤: (𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥/𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫) Vol 6, i.2! #VisualArt #photography Fill our inbox with something that gives us the 𝑭𝑬𝑬𝑳𝑺! Look at our past covers and give us something new and different!

I have a new story up at the wonderful Monkeybicycle today about sisters, ghosts made of clay, & holding on / letting go—grateful to editor @jamestatehill.bsky.social & any of who you read this one: monkeybicycle.net/my-clay-sist...

After years of failed attempts to conceive, Ling adopted the baby her relative didn’t want.—"Advice' by Huina Zheng

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/advice

The Ridge Street bus to Nichols Junior High halted abruptly, sending those of us perched on seats sideways to the floor. —"White Jeans" by Shoshauna Shy

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/white-jeans

fourteen birds on power lines

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Congrats, Sumitra. A great piece💥

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For what it's worth, he was pretty crazy after losing my mom. The weed became his daily cigarette. —"Burn in Smoke" by Muhammad Alif Alhafiz in case you missed it

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/burn-in-smoke

MY BROTHER LECTURES ME ABOUT GAUGUIN - He says, “Art is in the eye of the beholder.”I say, “So you want to behold a naked fourteen-year-old Javanese girl whom he bought as asex slave?”And he says,

Friends, i have a ragy cnf micro featuring Gauguin in @epistemiclit.bsky.social. Hope you’ll read. Thanks @kristinwrites.bsky.social @melruthwrites.bsky.social @gcbwrites.bsky.social for being the most awesome, supportive editorial team 🧡🧡🧡

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Awesome, Sumitra! 💥