Coleman Bigelow @cbigs - Bluesky Profile

looking for places to submit spooky, #ghost, thriller #flashfiction. I'm assuming magazines would be looking right about now but not sure where to send. Any thoughts? #feedback

08.08.2025 21:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I call this “the bee and the thistle”. #nature #gardens #bees #maine #flashfiction

07.08.2025 20:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Way My Mother, Who Refuses to Die, Is Like A Ford Taurus by Danielle Barr My mother died of a massive stroke, but she swears she didn’t. Dropped down dead right there at the breakfast buffet, then climbed back up to her feet—pardon me, she said to the coveralled man behi…

"...and—between you and me—the secret best thing about mamas is that they're temporary."

"The Way My Mother, Who Refuses to Die, Is Like A Ford Taurus" by @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

25.07.2025 17:44 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2

Thanks! Happy to have a story every now and then that’s not a downer 😁

14.07.2025 13:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Seeking Companionship - 101 Words As the breeze through the open convertible ruffled what was left of his greying hair, Mort tapped in time with […]

Happy to have my micro "Seeking Companionship" up at 101words. This was one of my favorites from the @smokelong.bsky.social marchmicro session. #microfiction #flashfiction #seekingcompanionship #parakeet 101words.org/seeking-comp...

14.07.2025 13:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

From our latest issue 🦝
We loved the setting we were plunged into, the instant tension and confusion. Then @cbigs.bsky.social MC taking this time to reflect and regret and ultimately reveal himself was a rollercoaster.
Read and listen to Coleman's story here:
trashcatlit.com/divine-inter...

12.07.2025 16:02 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks for the great workshop!

01.07.2025 19:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for reading and sharing!

01.07.2025 19:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is a must read by @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social - I love how this all circles (or should I say slithers) around to the title. powerful stuff!

01.07.2025 17:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

don’t miss this unsettling banger with some hard scary truths at its core 👏👏👏

(i expect nothing less from Coleman & editor @therelphian.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social natch!)

#flash #fiction

01.07.2025 12:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

@cbigs.bsky.social damn! just read your #flash #fiction in new @trashcatlit.bsky.social & damn!!!
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01.07.2025 10:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

thank you for reading and sharing!

01.07.2025 12:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Divine Intervention Coleman Bigelow Listen to Coleman read his story Content Warning active shooter On bended knee, he came to me. Well, it was more like an army crawl. “Get down!” he hissed. I was confused. Couldn’t …

My story "Divine Intervention" is up @trashcatlit.bsky.social today. You can even listen to me READ it! I have to say that working with @therelphian.bsky.social was a fantastic experience and I highly recommend. This story was born in @smokelong.bsky.social workshop. trashcatlit.com/divine-inter...

01.07.2025 12:27 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 3

COMING 1st JULY 🦝
Coleman @cbigs.bsky.social forces his MC to consider what kind of man he is
Ian @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social explores love, passion and regret
Jude @judepickledplum.bsky.social takes us to the seedy side of a magic show to teach us life lessons

25.06.2025 10:48 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Can’t wait for this one!

21.06.2025 15:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So pleased to have two stories in this wonderful @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthology. Many thanks to @karjon and @cherylmarkosky There are so many great pieces. #flashfiction #microfiction #seasons #winter #skiing.

19.06.2025 12:48 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Love this one from @kelliborges2.bsky.social - it has a lulling rhythm that underscores the "we never" danger. Brilliant!

15.06.2025 19:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

'Locks' by Kelli Short Borges We never walk alone at night. Never. Only stupid girls ignore that rule and we know what happens to them. If we need reminding, all we need to do is watch Dateline and listen to Keith Morrison, watch breaking news in any state any city any day. We never forget the girls’ faces. Their Bambi eyes, their yearbook grins, hair shiny as rearview mirrors. We click deadbolts, check them twice. We lock our bedroom doors at night—a lock inside of locks. We never take cocktails from strange men. We travel in packs, never leave a girl alone, never drink more than two martinis. We remember the girl who went missing last month, the ghosts of her eyes, her Chiclet smile stapled to a Starbucks bulletin board. A girl who broke the rules. It won’t be us, we say. We never walk to our cars without our keys in hand, nails flashing Kick Ass Red, metal splayed through our fingers like weapons. We are cortisol-flushed, animal eyes alert. We are ready. We never forget the rules. Until our keys are hung, our pajamas on. Until we’ve turned locks upon locks upon locks. We never see them coming. Until their whiskey breath runs hot down our necks. Until their arms slip around us, familiar as locks. Until we remember Keith Morrison, his baritone warning, it’s always the friend, the boyfriend, the husband, it’s always someone you know. --- Kelli Short Borges writes from her home in Phoenix, Arizona. Her fiction has appeared in Peatsmoke, Moon City Review, Lost Balloon, and elsewhere. Recently, Kelli's work was chosen for the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist and the 2024 and 2025 editions of Best Microfiction. She’s currently working on her first novel.

FlashFlood: 'Locks' by Kelli Short Borges #nffd2025

14.06.2025 21:21 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 15

Such a privilege to be a part of this and thanks to all of the editors and organizers. Wonderful stories all around! Thank you!!!

15.06.2025 19:52 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“Because, if I’m not on that bike, then I’ll never land helmetless head first on the pavement.”

Want to find out what happens next? Don’t miss @cbigs.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social! 🚴‍♂️💔

14.06.2025 23:30 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you for reading and sharing , Kelli!

15.06.2025 01:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

‘And while we’re stretching things, suppose my dad stays to watch. He sits there on the bleachers in his Izod and visor and cheers for my good shots and throws his big hairy arm around my sweaty shoulders’ 🥺 such a delicate, heartbreaking flash from @cbigs.bsky.social

14.06.2025 20:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks so much, Karen.

14.06.2025 21:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love it! Congratulations

14.06.2025 12:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

14.06.2025 00:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

'Break Point' by Coleman Bigelow Let’s say I never set out on that shiny Schwinn that I thought was a special present from my dad, but which turned out to be just a free ten-speed the dealer had “thrown in” with his new truck. And let’s say I wasn’t taking the bike to the tennis courts because I had no other ride. Then we can forget how I hung my tennis racket through the handbrake wires, and how the racket dropped into the front wheel as I was flying down that hill and stopped the bike dead and sent me hurtling over the handlebars. Because, if I’m not on that bike, then I’ll never land helmetless head first on the pavement and lay sprawled there for minutes trying to make sense of what’s happened until I hear car brakes and open my eyes to a find a strange woman kneeling beside my road-rashed body. And we can fast forward right past my parents’ eventual arrival at the hospital, and ignore the curses under Mom’s breath and the whiskey on Dad’s. Actually, let’s drop the bike altogether, and imagine that my dad does drive me to the courts. And that for the entire drive, Dad talks to me about building a game plan and sticking to a strategy. And while we’re stretching things, suppose my dad stays to watch. He sits there on the bleachers in his Izod and visor and cheers for my good shots and throws his big hairy arm around my sweaty shoulders. And if Dad’s too much to ask for, then I’ll settle for making it to the match on my own. I’ll settle for winning the whole tournament, and having a scouting pro who “likes my potential” and who begs me to board at his training camp—a camp which just so happens to be far, far from home. --- Coleman Bigelow's work has appeared recently, or is upcoming, in Brilliant Flash Fiction, Cleaver, Flash Boulevard, Ghost Parachute, Gooseberry Pie and NFFD. Find more at: www.colemanbigelow.com or follow him on Instagram @cbigswrites and Bluesky @cbigs.bsky.social.

FlashFlood: 'Break Point' by Coleman Bigelow #nffd2025

14.06.2025 00:30 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3

Thank you!

04.06.2025 20:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

thank you!

04.06.2025 19:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gifted & Talented by Coleman Bigelow As we shuffle into class on Wednesday, near-sighted Nellie spies a shiny golden apple on our teacher, Mr. Ward’s, desk. The apple has a perfectly sculpted stem and leaf. It’s shocking that Nellie is t...

New story up at Gastropada Lit. #flashfiction #school #magic #apple #teacher #students
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04.06.2025 18:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Such a powerful one by the super talented @kelliborges2.bsky.social Give it a read!

19.05.2025 00:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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