Jaime Gill

Always lovely when someone takes the time to comment on a story. Thank you, Lillie. I do like how First Date turned out, the way the ugliness creeps up, inch by inch... hngrmtn.org/issues/hngr-...

They can’t take it back now, its been officially announced with my picture and everything. I’m a finalist for a Tennessee Williams Prize!

Teenage me, who devoured Tennessee’s oh so queer plays, would cry at this honour. Maybe today me too.

Results soon but finalist is already wild dream territory

Remember that Hunger Games book where all the competitors were people who had already won Hunger Games? The new Trash Cat is that but with stories.

Every story here has already won glory in another magazine and stood out enough that Trash Cat is giving them another day in the sun. Dive in!

Submissions for the Mini Bin are now OPEN.
Send us your best micros before 8pm (UK Time) on the 10th March.
Make 'em short, make 'em sharp, make 'em story.
50-175 words, any genre.

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Ah thank you. I wasn’t trying to create a twist, more a growing sense of not-rightness that finally reveals its full ugly face

Ah thank you. I wasn’t trying to create a twist, more a growing sense of not-rightness that finally reveals its full ugly face

Hunger Mountain Review – VCFA Journal of the Arts Hunger Mountain is the VCFA Journal of the Arts

New story out: First Date, in the wonderfully eclectic pages of the wonderfully named Hunger Mountain. Like many first dates, this doesn't end where you hope it will. Its dark, explores pornography and control, and you might not like who you end up sat opposite. Have fun!
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Something wicked this way comes…

Great piece and love how you intertwine the music with the lives of you and your mother.

With thanks to Zurui for the red envelope and apologies to Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King…

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR OF THE HORSE EVERYONE

The Screenwriting Challenge — nycmidnight The Screenwriting Challenge is an annual screenplay competition that challenges writers around the world to create short screenplays based on genre, subject, and character assignments in as little as ...

Who needs weekends? Who needs to spend time with other human beings? Weaklings, that's who.

If you need me, you'll find me bashing through a script: nycmidnight.com/scc

Really very moved by how people are responding to Siouxsie, Susan, Robert and Me. It's a leap into the dark for me but it's not so bad here, this dark. missourireview.com/jaime-gill/

Being a writer is the most embarrassing thing in the world! I write down the entire contents of my soul for validation! And then some editor will just be like no thanks!

It fills me with a great deal of joy (and no little relief) that this story is striking a chord with people. This is one I really did want to be read and understood in all its idiosyncrasy

Thank you so much! Do you mind if I repost that? Real people’s opinions always count for more than the writer’s !

Thank you so much! Do you mind if I repost that? Real people’s opinions always count for more than the writer’s !

Siouxsie, Susan, Robert & Me - my one and only creative non-fiction story - is in the Missouri Review. I can’t believe it.

It’s about me, my late mother, the music and alcoholism we shared, and our different fates.

Sad, beautiful, honest. My life story in 1000 words

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Yep. This tracks.

I think I might compile a list of surefire signs you are dealing with a moron.

People who say “it’s as simple as” is another one - it is always followed by an opinion on an incredibly complex matter, something that is anything but simple

Genuine question. Has anyone ever encountered someone saying “do the research” who genuinely could have explained but chose not to? Have you, perhaps?

Or is it always a blustering cover for someone not knowing what they are talking about (which is my working theory)?

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

“Such small, selfish thoughts. I thought coming out would make me a bigger, better person, but I’m still just me.”

Ghosted is @theforge.bsky.social story of the week for 8 more hours. It’s political, yes, but its also very personal

Thanks again @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social for midwifing this baby

January is over and we're delighted to thank #fiction authors: Scott Bolendz @fionajanemack.bsky.social @jaimegill.bsky.social @kiptain.bsky.social Mathieu Cailler Eva Rivers Louella Lester and Anna Schachner. Pls. click on the link below to check out their stories fictivedream.com/2026/01/

Jaime Gill's newsletter - dispatch #1 In which the writer introduces the newsletter, talks about his new story in The Forge, digs up an old ghost story, recommends a great writer, and raves about a song and movie.

Hello! My debut newsletter is up and running. Yikes.

Topics include new stories at @theforge.bsky.social, @freeflashfiction.bsky.social & @fictivedream.bsky.social as well as recent inspirations, @suedehq.bsky.social’s “Wild Ones” & @a24movies.bsky.social’s “Heretic.”

Why not take a look around?

Ghosted - The Forge Literary Magazine Ghosted, a short story by Jaime Gill

"I’d like to forget what happened to Javi but he’s more inescapable since his deportation than when he lived three miles away. Can you be haunted by someone who isn’t dead?"

Ghosted, my story of infatuation, heartbreak, consequences, activism & deportation in the US

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Oh thank you so so much. I might get this made into t shirts and make my friends wear them if we’re out in public together

ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten...

#RIP_Alex 💔

Thank you so much Anne. I wish it weren’t so relevant this time

Fabulous story by Jaimie Gill and super relevant to what's happening in the world today.

Ah let me see what I can do!

"Now everyone’s heads are like wasp nests buzzing with alarm—the blustering abroad, the vengeance at home, the ever-metastasizing conspiracy theories."

Yet another haunting and deeply poignant story by the talented @jaimegill.bsky.social. I wish this one felt more like fiction.