Christine H.

Of course!!!

"My mother used to say I had quite the imagination. She didn’t mean it as a compliment." Love this tiny surreal piece by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross in @Ilanot Review:

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Zary Fekete ~ On the Umbrella - New World Writing Quarterly It is difficult to despair completely while holding an umbrella. A small house of ribs and fabric, sprung open with a click, lifted like a modest crown above

It's always wonderful to read work by writers I hadn't read before. "Even now, the umbrella carries a faint echo of ceremony, a small shield between human and heaven" by @zaryfekete.bsky.social in @newworldwriting.bsky.social

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"Mom fell and got hurt. Or Mom got agitated and hurt someone else, perhaps another stumbling sufferer." by @tracyroyce.bsky.social -omg I can relate! Caregiving is so hard.

OMG I can relate to this!

Big thanks to @fiveminutelit.bsky.social and EIC @susannabaird.bsky.social for featuring my flash CNF!

Love this!

🔥🔥🔥 love your writing!

Love "Wyoming" -- such great imagery and such a brave piece ❤️

Christine Chen @csquareh.bsky.social is such a natural at the fragmented form, and this one's a stunner. Read "Raise the Red Lantern" in the inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary. hotflashliterary.com/raise-the-re...

Thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing, Kathy 🙏

"“It just reacts a little late,” he says, wiping away steam. “Like someone getting old.” A strange and fascinating read by Huina Zheng in Hot Flash Literary

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"You press your lips against the moist paper heart of my mask." Beautiful piece by @Nancy Stohlman in Hot Flash Literary

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"They stuck their fists inside people and twisted things." Such as fabulous piece by @chelseastickle.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary

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"I probably should have spent less energy on changing my shape and more on changing my mindset." by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary

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"My insides resemble a well-marbled steak." by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary - gut wrenching piece, I could relate so much!

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Home - Hot Flash Literary Welcome to Hot Flash Literary Hot Flash Literary is an online journal of flash whose mission is to give women-identifying writers a voice; specifically, it’s a place for women’s voices to ignite. Like...

Check out inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary founded by @jekwriter.bsky.social & Tina Carlson: "One thing remained clear, though: that women-identifying people needed a place where their voices wouldn’t get lost in an icy gale. Where they could, instead, be hot like lava." hotflashliterary.com

This piece blew my mind. Leave it to @Mikki Aronoff to retell a fairy tale afresh "When his fervent claws tore at my breasts, I clutched his furry ears, whispered how even my daughter would not visit." in Hot Flash Literary

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Such an honor to have work stand besides so many major talents!!! 🙏🙏

Current Issue - Hot Flash Literary Issue 1 – Summer 2025 My Body, My Choice

The first issue of Hot Flash Literary is live--featuring phenomenal work by Mikki Aronoff, @csquareh.bsky.social Christine H. Chen, @kathyfish.bsky.social, @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, Stella Reed, @chelseastickle.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, and Huina Zheng! hotflashliterary.com/current-issue/

Thank you so much for reading and sharing, Claudia 🙏🙏

I'm so honored and thrilled to have a work published in @theforge.bsky.social - many thanks and gratitude to Editors Jacky Taylor and Yosh Haggerty 🙏🙏

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Thank you so much for reading and sharing 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you so much for reading and sharing, means a lot to me 🙏🙏🙏

Ten Years After Mom Left, and It’s Jazz Night at the Hideaway — Ghost Parachute Under the club’s high-top table scarred with strangers’ initials and circles—like wedding rings—Brent knocks a shoe against my foot, and I shift away. Miles Davis’s “So What” swings low and ripe from ...

"I slip out of the club into a fog of smokers...and wonder if Mom knew the only way to be free was to run, run, run and never look back." Held my breath as I read this story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute

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What Kind of Country — Ghost Parachute They are eating pasta with too much parmesan. They are waiting for the news. Waiting to see which direction their country will angle next. Right or left. They don’t have much hope, but they still have...

"Forty, and where could they move? What other place would take them?" A fabulous and timely piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute

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Supernova — Ghost Parachute For Friday show and tell, Rita shares what she found in the gutter on the way to school. She walks head down and finds many things: single mittens, discarded fast food boxes and once a soggy five-doll...

"All Rita has to do is step out and follow the path of light to the waiting spaceship, happy as hell to live among them and not smell like a cigarette." by @sfreligh.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute

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say yes to distress — Ghost Parachute hey everybody’s doing it just let us shove this camera thingy down your throat don’t let your hands reach up to stop it to grab it to pull it back out don’t move your head don’t vomit and most of all ...

"...just let us shove this camera thingy down your throat don’t let your hands reach up to stop it..." a one-sentence gem by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute, illustrated by the marvelous @amymarques.bsky.social

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Thank you so much for reading and sharing, Matt 🙏🥰