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Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 2d

Appreciate you, Melissa! 🩷

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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 2d

“Writing has always been a way of understanding myself…”

Check out @charhamrick.bsky.social’s wonderful interview with @ronita.bsky.social!📚💚

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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 5d

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Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 4d

So good to talk with @ronita.bsky.social !
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 7d

We are so honored that Eileen, Holly, Mary Ann, and Summer trusted us with their incredible work, and SO very proud to nominate them for the Best of the Net this year.

Read their stories here:
reckonreview.com/award-nomina...

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Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 9d

Well done! My best friend ran away when we were teenagers so I totally get it. Very well done.

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Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 9d

This issue is a treasure trove for flash fiction lovers. I’m savoring it!

ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

October 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute

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Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 10d

Congrats! Signing up!

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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 10d

We have new creative nonfiction from Katrina Ralbag over at Reckon. Come see.

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 12d

“because everyone knows pigtails and pinafores belong in Kansas (said The Man.)”

A fresh take on Glinda and the Wizard of Oz all in six sentences by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 28d

Thrilled to have another microfiction in the exciting @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 🙏🥧

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Glinda Was Never a Witch - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

pexels.com photo by froken-frokus by Charlotte Hamrick She was wishful fluff conjured up by The Man who, like some men, see women as either Good or Bad, Madonna or Slut. Glinda was a fantastical idea...

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Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you, dear Jenny!

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 25d

Taking a break from short poetry films to try something a little different…

‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ is a brand new flash fiction film series starting Fall 2025.

First episode drops October 15th!

But in the meantime, a little teaser…
youtu.be/aDKdo-sjrIs

The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore | Teaser/Trailer

YouTube video by jenwithwords

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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 13d

It’s the weekend & we’re reading submissions in between cook-outs & zoo visits. Do we have your CNF or Fiction? 🤓

reckonreview.com/submissions/

Submissions – Reckon Review

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Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 16d

“And maybe the last day on earth,
before we go back to earth, either
buried or ash, we wonder if anyone
ever truly knew us.“ 🩷

Francinewitte @francinewitte.bsky.social · 17d

Poem up in Pedastal. Thank you, John Amen, editor.

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Pedestal Magazine » Francine Witte – The Bones of Us

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Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 17d

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Kim Steutermann Rogers @kimsrogers.bsky.social · 18d

If you ever have an opportunity to work with editor @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, jump.

Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks.

dianegottlieb.com/conversation...

Conversations on Grieving Hope - Diane Gottlieb

Hi all! I am so very excited to bring to you this month not one interview but five!! Earlier this year, ELJ Editions published a GORGEOUS volume of five micro-chapbooks (for those not ensconced in the...

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Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you, dear Gina💛

Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 18d

““We eat in the dim, dancing light of a taper candle placed in an empty wine bottle. The amethyst of your wedding ring glimmers.”
🙌❤️

River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 18d

“I don’t tell you you’re my muse; that will come later, after we’ve left this adobe house in the New Mexico mountains, where you’re gracious to let me stay.”
-from “Letter from the Same Room,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Lauren Fath
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 27d

“Angela’s mom suggests that I make a list of the things I am responsible for. It should be present tense.”

"This was the last person to leave her, but I was still the last to fail her."

@nathanwillis.bsky.social @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/working-titl...

WORKING TITLE NO.6 | Fiction by Nathan Willis – Reckon Review

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 25d

ICYMI: my micro in @claudineliterary.bsky.social!

Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 25d

Celebrating our September microfiction today!! 👏🏼🙌🏼👏🏼

@lumchanmfa.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/melissallane...

@aniking.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/aniking

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Charlotte Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 25d

“…I buried my face in your neck, asking, how will our story end? So damn happily, you said, tugging at the sheet dividing us…”
❤️
Kate Horsley in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/red-olivetti/