@bendaggerswrites.bsky.social
escape room designer | writer | close-up magician | vegan www.studioescape.jp Published in Crepuscular, West Word, Black Hare Press, Elegant Lit... 5-time NYCM Finalist 🥇 WB 2025 Microfiction 🥈NYCM 2023 Flash 🥈WB 2024
Huge congrats!!!
06.10.2025 05:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats!!!!!
05.10.2025 00:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My noir sci-fi story "Closing the Loop" has just been published in Fabula Argentea magazine. Check it out here:
fabulaargentea.com/index.php/ar...
Just received a nice surprise in the post today — a physical copy of the beautiful inScribe journal where a reprint of my short story Night Shift appears!
26.09.2025 03:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My steampunk adventure featuring a plucky young pilot is now available to read at Intrepidus Ink!
intrepidusink.com/a-place-in-t...
Love it! What a brilliant micro!!
20.09.2025 22:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Congrats!!! What an amazing story!!!
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My story "It Takes a Village" won the 2025 microfiction Writing Battle!
07.09.2025 23:31 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 2
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This features a couple of the emotions listed:
Another talented friend sharing her words in one of the best places around!
02.09.2025 19:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0My insanely talented friend @christyhartman.bsky.social has won this contest two years running. Even more amazingly, she has come first in EVERY SINGLE ROUND both years.
Good news for the rest of us: she's not allowed to compete for two years in order to give the rest of us a fighting chance!
I’ve heard nothing but good things about Matt and his courses. @averyother.bsky.social tagging you because of your weird and wonderful brain!
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Two magic shows today at the beautiful Chidori Bunka event space
10.08.2025 09:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Here's your bit of quirky work for the week! A short story collection by Toad Shade Zine editor Galen Gower!
books2read.com/galengower
Sage advice from a sage wordsmith!
04.08.2025 13:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@skyislandjournal.bsky.social really are the best. They sent this postcard (a real, honest-to-god paper postcard!) all the way to Osaka to inform me of my publication date.
Here's the story in question if you haven't read it:
www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issu...
Just received a surprise acceptance from an A-tier printed journal! Details soon!
30.07.2025 06:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've finally gotten round to making my own website! It's the usual "I'm a writer" fare, but there's a big list of my published pieces, so if you're interested then please check it out below:
bendaggerswrites.net
You can read my story "I, Shinigami" from tomorrow in Sky Island Journal! (If you happen to be reading this tomorrow, then you can read it today. And if you're reading this the day after tomorrow then you could have already read it yesterday. What took you so long?)
www.skyislandjournal.com
Happy to have made the Flash 500 longlist!
There are some amazingly titled stories which have also made it this far, so I'm sure the competition is going to be fierce.
flash500.com/long-list-fl...
One of my comedy pieces has just been published by Egg+Frog. Check it out below:
eggplusfrog.com/flash-report...
The left wing cafe that's become a coffee-based insane asylum
Nothing good comes from sitting down and enjoying a nice oatmilk flat white in peace. Humans need some screeching lunatic barging in and headbutting them while they're mid-sip.
I'm very happy to announce that one of my short stories is scheduled to appear in Intrepidus Ink. More details soon!
intrepidusink.com
My story "Night Shift" is now available to read for free in this month's Elegant Literature:
www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/
Wowsers, that was some of the best prose I’ve read in a looooong time.
Incredible work!!!
Talented friends doing talented things!
30.06.2025 22:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was interviewed by the brilliant Writing in Progress podcast last week. If you want to hear about magic, language learning, and erotic fossils then we've got you covered!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 500-word Fiction Challenge on August 15th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/500
24.06.2025 00:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stunning!!!😍
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