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Elizabeth Fletcher
@esfletcher.bsky.social
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writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Pushcart nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope
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Elizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social · May 27
Who’s up for a body-horror love story? If you act fast, you can read it before my husband does.

Many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social & @havehashad.com for giving this cringey cnf a good home.
Love, Distilled by Elizabeth Fletcher
If grand romantic gestures were my measure of true love, I never would’ve married my husband. He is nothing if not practical. He bought me a basic calculator our first Christmas together so I wouldn’t...
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Timeline hopping provides the structure for this beauty by @anniejowrites.bsky.social
anniejowrites.bsky.social Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 18h
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
Title: “A Love Story Told in Nine Lives” Author: Anna Vangala Jones An illustration of a man walking past a cafe window. Inside the cafe a woman is sitting and drinking coffee at a table by the window and the man is looking at her as he walks.
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Please join us in congratulating our Pushcart nominees! Good luck everyone!
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Feels right that my donated word (kerfuffle) was woven into a melancholy-tinged poem as part of the @donatedwords.bsky.social project
midwesternskirt.bsky.social K Weber @midwesternskirt.bsky.social · 4d
continuing my walkthrough of DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES over at @donatedwords.bsky.social!

PAGE 15/"Tapestry of the Living” by Misty H

words donated by
@authorlindamcrate.bsky.social
@kimmannix.bsky.social
@esfletcher.bsky.social

author took on a “music word” challenge

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donatedwords.bsky.social donated words poetry @donatedwords.bsky.social · 4d
DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough!

PAGE 15: “Tapestry of the Living” by Misty H

donated words
@authorlindamcrate.bsky.social GOSSAMER
@kimmannix.bsky.social VERIFY
@esfletcher.bsky.social KERFUFFLE
word challenge: music word
word choice: rhythm

PDF collection: tinyurl.com/2025daylight
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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At long last! My copy of Bitter Over Sweet by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social
Colorful cover of Bitter Over Sweet in front of pampas grass
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Thursday: friend’s reading +
Friday: school play +
Saturday: open art studio showcase +
Sunday: reading for Pushcart noms & co-writing =
Heart medicine for creatives
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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⚡️HAD call for a cause ⚡️
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · 11d
Happy HAD Friday! 2 submission windows today for those who make some kind of donation to a cause! Link will work from 10-11am and 7-8pm Eastern. Where are you donating? havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34166...
Submission call to benefit... causes. You pick the cause. We don't need your money, but lots of other people do. Make a donation to a cause that really needs it. Reply to our post with links to give others ideas. Include a screenshot/picture of your donation (from today, of any amount) with your submission. I'm gonna open two windows today (Friday, November 14th): from 10-11am Eastern, and 7-8pm Eastern; no limit, no scramble, no lost sleep (hopefully!) If you don't have spare cash at the moment, HAD still appreciates you. Screenshot an impassioned letter about something you care about to your city counselor, school board, governor or whatever. Writing-wise: no theme, no restrictions. Short is nice, we like publishing short. Also, we'll select at random one submitter to win a merch article of their choosing, (including the sold-out HADt!) <3 crowjonah
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Texting with writer friends counts as writing
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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(words/word donors 1 of 3)

APRICITY - @mishiepoet.bsky.social DAYLIGHT - @opwriter.bsky.social FREQUENCY - Julia Beach
GOSSAMER - @authorlindamcrate.bsky.social HARBINGER - @madelinksi.bsky.social
HEARTSICK - @midwesternskirt.bsky.social KERFUFFLE - @esfletcher.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Bowie wants to remind you to stop and smell the leaves
Tan goldendoodle looks up while standing on a carpet of bright yellow maple leaves
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Writing retreat yielded a new subtitle last night that will help me hew this revision!
Title page in Scrivener reads “HEARTLAND: A Memoir of Wayfinding in the Maya Mundo by Elizabeth Fletcher”
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Progress!
Various colored Post-its stick out of a sheaf of paper. A pen & a mug that reads “let the adventure begin” rest nearby.
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Current status: hiding out in an Airbnb with my manuscript
An open laptop rests on a coffee table, next to it is a thick stack of 8-1/2 x 11 paper & four different colors of Post-It notepads atop it. In the background are a gas fireplace (on) & a potted plant
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
A miniature basset hound stands in front of a miniature bone in the middle of a palm of a hand. A thought bubble with a drawing of a dog reading a book hovers above its head.
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I spy…prime real estate going to @ambersparks.bsky.social at @nextchapterbooksmn.bsky.social
The candy apple red hardcover of Happy People Don’t Live Here sits with other books under a sign that reads “New Fiction Releases”
November 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Bowie delivering you a Happy Halloween!
Tan mini goldendoodle pouting while wearing a UPS dog costume and holding a Coloplast box
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Getting a watercolor tattoo today to redecorate after cancer.
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Gone Lawn is one of those foundational lit mags that’s been around since before I started publishing & consistently puts out interesting work. If you can donate something to keep it viable, now’s the time.
gonelawn.bsky.social Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 28d
Hate this sort of thing.

Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.

gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Send us some art, please!!
Black and white image of an empty frame on a wall. Text: “WE HAVE SOME GREAT SUBMISSIONS, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON? NOT ART (circled in red) HELP US FIX THAT!”
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Sunday chin scritches
The face of a tan goldendoodle with soulful eyes getting chin scritches (forearm with script tattoo visible)
October 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Awake well before my 7 am alarm because I’m eager to fly home to my family. This trip for a yoga training was a tiny oasis from my regular responsibilities. An invitation to go deep, with space to sit with gratitude & grief. I return, slightly altered.
October 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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If only @dieworkwear.bsky.social would comment on how this cat is wearing his tux.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Oct 25
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.
October 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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More excellent SF decorations
A winged gargoyle perched in a window is lit with a red light, a caldron nearby cauldron’s contents appears to bubble with red liquid An inflatable, illuminated octopus sticks its head out a window on the second floor of a house. Three separate tentacles emerge from other second floor windows.
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
esfletcher.bsky.social
More excellent SF decorations
A winged gargoyle perched in a window is lit with a red light, a caldron nearby cauldron’s contents appears to bubble with red liquid An inflatable, illuminated octopus sticks its head out a window on the second floor of a house. Three separate tentacles emerge from other second floor windows.
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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My SF neighborhood for the week is bringing the spooky spirit
Skeletons on a bike & hanging off eaves of house Circus-theme: 12 ft skeleton with clown hair & nose, skeleton in a tutu balances on a wall, one with a turban reads a crystal ball, two gram front door wearing flowy dresses, one on balcony in striped suit holding a barbell, another (out of shot) hangs upside down from a trapeze 12 foot skeleton with clown wig & red nose lurks near a tree, another dressed skeleton is attached to spinning wheel, waiting for the knives to be thrown. 12 foot grim reaper stands in front of house while skeleton waves, upside down, from a flagpole, bones and headstones grouped nearby
October 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM