Laura Besley
@laurabesley.bsky.social
Lover of coffee, chocolate, reading & writing
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"After we sign the divorce papers, my soon-to-be ex-husband and I decide to go for lunch." Love (a journey) by Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
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I am absolutely delighted to have a new story out - Love (a journey) - with Fictive Dream. Huge thanks to editor Laura whose dedication to short fiction is phenomenal.
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
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Subs are open for an unthemed issue! ✉️
Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
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Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
No fee
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November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Subs are open for an unthemed issue! ✉️
Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
No fee
Click thru for full details
ettereview.com/submit/
Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
No fee
Click thru for full details
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'I drag my chair close to the window, eyes glued on our crooked street, heart catapulting every time a young man walks by...'
Wonderful breathless sentence by @sudhab.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
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Wonderful breathless sentence by @sudhab.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
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MicroMonday #32
Mama, I’m Home by Sudha Balagopal I drag my chair close to the window, eyes glued on our crooked street, heart catapulting every time a young man walks by, until it gets too dark, until the s…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
'I drag my chair close to the window, eyes glued on our crooked street, heart catapulting every time a young man walks by...'
Wonderful breathless sentence by @sudhab.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
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Wonderful breathless sentence by @sudhab.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
fictivedream.com/2025/11/17/m...
'This morning, as she babbles about the sun, he knifes a lean skin of margarine across a thick slice of granary bread. Then he cuts the bread into ten soldiers to dip in the egg.'
Phenomenal writing by @mattkendrick.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review
#fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity
Phenomenal writing by @mattkendrick.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review
#fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
'This morning, as she babbles about the sun, he knifes a lean skin of margarine across a thick slice of granary bread. Then he cuts the bread into ten soldiers to dip in the egg.'
Phenomenal writing by @mattkendrick.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review
#fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity
Phenomenal writing by @mattkendrick.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review
#fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity
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"it’s just you now, and the silence of your brain is strange-but-in-a-good-way, then blissful, then strange-but-in-a-bad-way, then weird, then lonely and frightening, and you realise you need those other yous" Beautiful & true @laurabesley.bsky.social
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These Days You’re Kinda Okay by Laura Besley
Imagine you’re forty-something and you’re kinda okay about who you are these days and although you never thought you would be, you are, and decide the reason you’re kinda okay these days is because yo...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"it’s just you now, and the silence of your brain is strange-but-in-a-good-way, then blissful, then strange-but-in-a-bad-way, then weird, then lonely and frightening, and you realise you need those other yous" Beautiful & true @laurabesley.bsky.social
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So happy & grateful to be chosen for this contest! 🥰
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
So happy & grateful to be chosen for this contest! 🥰
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Wow
Inspiring writes4Goal
So our next thing now is to explore the reality of what can be achieved - where R we now?
R is for reality
It’s no good planning an exercise plan-based on gym membership if I can’t really afford 2 join a gym!
The #vss365 #prompt for 18Nov is #Reality
Inspiring writes4Goal
So our next thing now is to explore the reality of what can be achieved - where R we now?
R is for reality
It’s no good planning an exercise plan-based on gym membership if I can’t really afford 2 join a gym!
The #vss365 #prompt for 18Nov is #Reality
a magnifying glass shows the letter r on a piece of paper
ALT: a magnifying glass shows the letter r on a piece of paper
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November 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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CURRENT PROMPT HOST:
The #vss365 host for November 16-30 is:
@lovehealthed.bsky.social
Prompts will drop at 8 AM GMT (UTC)
Follow Sheila, if you haven’t already!
The #vss365 host for November 16-30 is:
@lovehealthed.bsky.social
Prompts will drop at 8 AM GMT (UTC)
Follow Sheila, if you haven’t already!
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
CURRENT PROMPT HOST:
The #vss365 host for November 16-30 is:
@lovehealthed.bsky.social
Prompts will drop at 8 AM GMT (UTC)
Follow Sheila, if you haven’t already!
The #vss365 host for November 16-30 is:
@lovehealthed.bsky.social
Prompts will drop at 8 AM GMT (UTC)
Follow Sheila, if you haven’t already!
When you well up at the response to one of your pieces... Thanks so much, Cole! 💜
Oh Laura! All of my decade selves applaud this piece and all the heart in it! Love this so much! Isn't @lit-namjooning.bsky.social just THE BEST????
stitch is surrounded by hearts and love stickers
ALT: stitch is surrounded by hearts and love stickers
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November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
When you well up at the response to one of your pieces... Thanks so much, Cole! 💜
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you find pictures of your younger selves and make posters with MISSING at the top and stick them to lampposts and walls and in the supermarket and think your younger selves will come back and make you kinda okay again, but nothing, nothing
🩵🩵🩵 @laurabesley.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
🩵🩵🩵 @laurabesley.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
“it’s just you, here and now, and the silence of your brain is strange-but-in-a-good-way”
A gentle reminder by @laurabesley.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social that we not only need to know who we are, but who we’ve been. A lovely read.
A gentle reminder by @laurabesley.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social that we not only need to know who we are, but who we’ve been. A lovely read.
"These Days You're Kinda Okay" by @laurabesley.bsky.social is a beautifully crafted, almost philosophical story about making peace with yourself, past and present. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
you find pictures of your younger selves and make posters with MISSING at the top and stick them to lampposts and walls and in the supermarket and think your younger selves will come back and make you kinda okay again, but nothing, nothing
🩵🩵🩵 @laurabesley.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
🩵🩵🩵 @laurabesley.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
An absolute highlight for me this year was for my piece 'These Days You're Kinda Okay' to be published by @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💜 It's a very personal piece and I couldn't imagine a better home for it.
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
"These Days You're Kinda Okay" by @laurabesley.bsky.social is a beautifully crafted, almost philosophical story about making peace with yourself, past and present. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
An absolute highlight for me this year was for my piece 'These Days You're Kinda Okay' to be published by @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💜 It's a very personal piece and I couldn't imagine a better home for it.
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
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Thank you so much for including Laura Besley in your line up. Absolutely thrilled @turnandwork.com @laurabesley.bsky.social #fiction #authors
The Shortlist for November 14, 2025:
Links to fantastic short fiction from writers that are new to me:
Stephen Baily in @turnandwork.com
Shoshauna Shy in @lunchticket.bsky.social
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social
(1/3)
Links to fantastic short fiction from writers that are new to me:
Stephen Baily in @turnandwork.com
Shoshauna Shy in @lunchticket.bsky.social
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social
(1/3)
The Shortlist for November 14, 2025 - Turn & Work
Fiction from Stephen Baily, Shoshauna Shy, Laura Besley, Sarah Chekfa, Joshua Jones Lofflin, and Diana Kole.
www.turnandwork.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Thank you so much for including Laura Besley in your line up. Absolutely thrilled @turnandwork.com @laurabesley.bsky.social #fiction #authors
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fiction from... (2/3)
Sarah Chekfa in Kernel Magazine
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social
Diana Kole in Joyland Publishing
www.turnandwork.com/weekly-short...
Sarah Chekfa in Kernel Magazine
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social
Diana Kole in Joyland Publishing
www.turnandwork.com/weekly-short...
The Shortlist for November 14, 2025 - Turn & Work
Fiction from Stephen Baily, Shoshauna Shy, Laura Besley, Sarah Chekfa, Joshua Jones Lofflin, and Diana Kole.
www.turnandwork.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
fiction from... (2/3)
Sarah Chekfa in Kernel Magazine
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social
Diana Kole in Joyland Publishing
www.turnandwork.com/weekly-short...
Sarah Chekfa in Kernel Magazine
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social
Diana Kole in Joyland Publishing
www.turnandwork.com/weekly-short...
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The Shortlist for November 14, 2025:
Links to fantastic short fiction from writers that are new to me:
Stephen Baily in @turnandwork.com
Shoshauna Shy in @lunchticket.bsky.social
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social
(1/3)
Links to fantastic short fiction from writers that are new to me:
Stephen Baily in @turnandwork.com
Shoshauna Shy in @lunchticket.bsky.social
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social
(1/3)
The Shortlist for November 14, 2025 - Turn & Work
Fiction from Stephen Baily, Shoshauna Shy, Laura Besley, Sarah Chekfa, Joshua Jones Lofflin, and Diana Kole.
www.turnandwork.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Shortlist for November 14, 2025:
Links to fantastic short fiction from writers that are new to me:
Stephen Baily in @turnandwork.com
Shoshauna Shy in @lunchticket.bsky.social
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social
(1/3)
Links to fantastic short fiction from writers that are new to me:
Stephen Baily in @turnandwork.com
Shoshauna Shy in @lunchticket.bsky.social
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social
(1/3)
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Totally agree with you. Delighted you enjoyed this story, and thank you for reading @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity
‘He chooses a brie baguette (I have a dairy intolerance) and I order a bacon cob (he’s a vegetarian).’
A writer in total command of her craft; @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 🫖
fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
A writer in total command of her craft; @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 🫖
fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
Love (a journey)
by Laura Besley AFTER WE SIGN the divorce papers, my soon-to-be ex-husband and I decide to go for lunch. We’re in an unfamiliar neighbourhood, but we spot a café across the road from the lawyer’s o…
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November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Totally agree with you. Delighted you enjoyed this story, and thank you for reading @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity
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‘He chooses a brie baguette (I have a dairy intolerance) and I order a bacon cob (he’s a vegetarian).’
A writer in total command of her craft; @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 🫖
fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
A writer in total command of her craft; @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 🫖
fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
Love (a journey)
by Laura Besley AFTER WE SIGN the divorce papers, my soon-to-be ex-husband and I decide to go for lunch. We’re in an unfamiliar neighbourhood, but we spot a café across the road from the lawyer’s o…
fictivedream.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
‘He chooses a brie baguette (I have a dairy intolerance) and I order a bacon cob (he’s a vegetarian).’
A writer in total command of her craft; @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 🫖
fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
A writer in total command of her craft; @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 🫖
fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
It was wonderful to have Diane Simmons take part in this month's NIFTY Book Club to talk about her novella-in-flash, William Prichard & Co. It's always fascinating to hear an author talk about their work.
#fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity #novellainflash
#fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity #novellainflash
I’m excited/nervous that my NIF ‘William Prichard & Co’ will feature on @laurabesley.bsky.social ‘s NIFTY book club this evening. I’ll be popping in later to answer questions 😊
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
It was wonderful to have Diane Simmons take part in this month's NIFTY Book Club to talk about her novella-in-flash, William Prichard & Co. It's always fascinating to hear an author talk about their work.
#fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity #novellainflash
#fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity #novellainflash
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‘Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend. . . a profoundly moving experience.’ Ann Patchett
The Rest of Our Lives is shortlisted for the Booker Prize - we're looking forward to finding out the winner this evening ✨
www.faber.co.uk/book/9780571...
The Rest of Our Lives is shortlisted for the Booker Prize - we're looking forward to finding out the winner this evening ✨
www.faber.co.uk/book/9780571...
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
‘Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend. . . a profoundly moving experience.’ Ann Patchett
The Rest of Our Lives is shortlisted for the Booker Prize - we're looking forward to finding out the winner this evening ✨
www.faber.co.uk/book/9780571...
The Rest of Our Lives is shortlisted for the Booker Prize - we're looking forward to finding out the winner this evening ✨
www.faber.co.uk/book/9780571...
Reposted by Laura Besley
ICYMI today we're featuring Love (a journey) by Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
ICYMI today we're featuring Love (a journey) by Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
I am absolutely delighted to have a new story out - Love (a journey) - with Fictive Dream. Huge thanks to editor Laura whose dedication to short fiction is phenomenal.
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
"After we sign the divorce papers, my soon-to-be ex-husband and I decide to go for lunch." Love (a journey) by Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
fictivedream.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I am absolutely delighted to have a new story out - Love (a journey) - with Fictive Dream. Huge thanks to editor Laura whose dedication to short fiction is phenomenal.
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
'for the rain to stop
for our favourite song to play on the radio'
Such power and tenderness in this list story by @susmitab.bsky.social @welkinprize.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #writingcommunity #WelkinWindbackWednesday
for our favourite song to play on the radio'
Such power and tenderness in this list story by @susmitab.bsky.social @welkinprize.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #writingcommunity #WelkinWindbackWednesday
This week for #WelkinWindbackWednesday, "We are waiting – " by @susmitab.bsky.social :
The Welkin Writing Prize | Shortlist 25
Shortlisted pieces for the 2025 Welkin Mini
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
'for the rain to stop
for our favourite song to play on the radio'
Such power and tenderness in this list story by @susmitab.bsky.social @welkinprize.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #writingcommunity #WelkinWindbackWednesday
for our favourite song to play on the radio'
Such power and tenderness in this list story by @susmitab.bsky.social @welkinprize.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #writingcommunity #WelkinWindbackWednesday
'I Sang to the loom, the day my mother died.'
This beautiful lyrical piece is a like a song with its near-repeated refrain.
#fiction #flashfiction
This beautiful lyrical piece is a like a song with its near-repeated refrain.
#fiction #flashfiction
NEW STORY: @worldanvil.bsky.social delivers a poetic meditation on loss in her new flash fiction story "Song of the Loom"!
www.dreamtheory.media/song-of-the-...
www.dreamtheory.media/song-of-the-...
Song of the Loom
by Janet Forbes
I Sang to the loom, the day my mother died.
My hands were an echo of hers. Heavy with grief, they wove eight hundred threads onto the frame, a hundred for each string of her Lyra. ...
www.dreamtheory.media
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
'I Sang to the loom, the day my mother died.'
This beautiful lyrical piece is a like a song with its near-repeated refrain.
#fiction #flashfiction
This beautiful lyrical piece is a like a song with its near-repeated refrain.
#fiction #flashfiction
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Of course. Can't not have the Welkin. I've even been updating the Welkin website 😀 Had to find a solution to my website having too many pages without deleting stories 😬
November 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Of course. Can't not have the Welkin. I've even been updating the Welkin website 😀 Had to find a solution to my website having too many pages without deleting stories 😬
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We hope your pumpkins are full of treatsies 🦝🎃
Here are some strange tales from our archive for the season...
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Here are some strange tales from our archive for the season...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We hope your pumpkins are full of treatsies 🦝🎃
Here are some strange tales from our archive for the season...
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Here are some strange tales from our archive for the season...
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I'm beyond thrilled that my story, 'Like a memory, or maybe only a dream' has been nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize ✨ Huge thanks to Matt for this nomination & everything he does for the writing community.
#fiction #microcfiction #WelkinWritingPrize
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
#fiction #microcfiction #WelkinWritingPrize
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
October 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'm beyond thrilled that my story, 'Like a memory, or maybe only a dream' has been nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize ✨ Huge thanks to Matt for this nomination & everything he does for the writing community.
#fiction #microcfiction #WelkinWritingPrize
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
#fiction #microcfiction #WelkinWritingPrize
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
Fantastic piece of historical flash by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
#flash #historical
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
#flash #historical
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
Cole Beauchamp — Does It Have Pockets
1989: Every day is the same in East Berlin, until it’s not
www.doesithavepockets.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Fantastic piece of historical flash by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
#flash #historical
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
#flash #historical
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...