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Colette Parris

@colettepjd.bsky.social

Mom/wife/attorney/writer/work in Wigleaf Top 50/Best Microfiction, 3X BOTN, and 3X Pushcart nominee/unabashed Gemini/amateur genealogist/nature lover (from a distance). Words in MQR, Scoundrel Time, The Offing, Cleaver, Lost Balloon, LEON, MoonPark, etc.

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Delighted to have a story in BULL Magazine @mrbullbull.bsky.social Thank you to the wonderful editors πŸ₯°#flash #flashfiction #flashlit #shortstory #flashpack #writer #writing

25.10.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Thrilled to have a piece included in @westtradereview.bsky.social Fall 2025 collection!πŸ₯° #flash #flashfiction #flashpack #flashlit #poetry #cnf #writing #litmag #shortstory

21.10.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much, Cole! I loved your "1989" piece as well; I really felt like I was there. (Also, you are way braver than I will ever be--you will not catch me on a climbing wall under any circumstances. Lol!) Thrilled to be issue mates!

11.10.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"You put me away that night, into a dusty corner where I could humiliate you no more."

A superlative paean to a tool & the story of a life, exquisitely rendered by Nicole M. Babb | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/nico...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

08.10.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I'm thrilled to be in this issue!

06.10.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many thanks to Does It Have Pockets for publishing my flash CNF!

06.10.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today’s poem is selected by David Naimon (@davidnaimon.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

β€œblessing the boats” appeared in Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton, published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2000.

27.09.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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13.1 Septillion Pounds by Emily Rinkema To help her sleep, we give the baby a basketball, a full-size regulation ball that my husband, CT, puts in her crib one night. He writes her name on it with a black Sharpie, bold letters like they …

I have a new story in @okaydonkeymag.com and I am so excited about it! I hope you like it as much as I do! okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/19/1...

19.09.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6

new on our mainpage: THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 (selecting editor @samanito.bsky.social )

28.06.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 49
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Wigleaf (@wigleaf.bsky.social) Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)

WhenΒ lynnmundell.bsky.social told me I had made the Top 50, my immediate response was, "Ummmm, what?" Still in a state of shock. Thanks so much to wigleaf.bsky.social, laughingyeti.bsky.social, samanito.bsky.social, and Centaur, and congratsΒ to everyone else in the Top 50 and on the longlist!

29.06.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Little R&R β€” Ghost Parachute One night soil falls out of my mouth. Loamy and sandy. Piles and piles on my kitchen floor. I fight the urge to roll in it, feel it brush against my skin, clump it together in my fists. Instead, I swe...

Completely thrilled to be nominated for Best Microfiction by Ghost Parachute for a micro I'm extremely proud of. #flash #flashfiction

ghostparachute.com/issue/may-20...

16.12.2023 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Very cool!

26.11.2023 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As always, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com has excellent advice.

26.11.2023 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 458    πŸ” 148    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 13

I'm going with Kurt.

26.11.2023 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi!

19.11.2023 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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