Rachel Abbey McCafferty
@ramccafferty.bsky.social
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Ghosts of the Mundane by Rachel Abbey McCafferty
The office bathroom
Picture this: you’re in the bathroom, trying to rinse off your hands, but the automatic faucet won’t acknowledge your existence.
Can you imagine being stuck in a public bathr...
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“… when you were young, you were just always bumping up against all the ghosts of people you used to be, and the ghosts of people you wished you were, and what no one tells you is that life is about figuring out just how to live with all those different ghosts.” www.havehashad.com/hadposts/gho...
I have an idea for a new cooking competition. It’s just like all the other ones except that instead of having a set time to complete your tasks, you have to finish before your baby wakes up from a nap. Do you have 20 minutes? Do you have 2 hours? Who knows!
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I have an idea for a new cooking competition. It’s just like all the other ones except that instead of having a set time to complete your tasks, you have to finish before your baby wakes up from a nap. Do you have 20 minutes? Do you have 2 hours? Who knows!
I had not realized just how long King Sorrow was and I kind of keep looking at my copy and laughing in terrified delight?
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I had not realized just how long King Sorrow was and I kind of keep looking at my copy and laughing in terrified delight?
It’s my birthday! I’m totally going to use it as an excuse to ask you to read or share some flash fiction. Maybe you’d like to read one of my tiny apocalypses? Or send me something close to your heart so I can find some new favorites?
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It’s my birthday! I’m totally going to use it as an excuse to ask you to read or share some flash fiction. Maybe you’d like to read one of my tiny apocalypses? Or send me something close to your heart so I can find some new favorites?
Ringing in my 40s like one of those millennial memes: rocking out to some Kendrick/2000s rap while enjoying a peppermint mocha and running errands. Probably gonna take a selfie later, switch to my high school era pop punk playlist.
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Ringing in my 40s like one of those millennial memes: rocking out to some Kendrick/2000s rap while enjoying a peppermint mocha and running errands. Probably gonna take a selfie later, switch to my high school era pop punk playlist.
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We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
Submission Guidelines — Bulb Culture Collective
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November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
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There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
I’m never going to get over the “should writers read” take so …
Only two match-ups remain before we move on to the final round! Vote in our What Was Literary Twitter? bracket to determine the greatest moment of the literary internet.
What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket *Day 5*
Day five and only four remain! Pour out a cold plum for yesterday’s runner-ups, including “This Is Just To Say,” bad art friend, and the transparency and advocacy campaign #PublishingPaidMe The fou…
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November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I’m never going to get over the “should writers read” take so …
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Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read:
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
Nothing certain ~ by Matt Kendrick
The day the sun forgets to rise, Mr White sits down for breakfast at precisely twelve minutes past seven. This is in the dining room. It is Tuesday. His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opene…
milkcandyreview.home.blog
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read:
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
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"Extremely long sentences, strange syntax, unusual structures, etc., don’t exist to punish readers but to provide other aesthetic experiences and different types of stories. Story is never separable from execution. So-called difficult books couldn’t be made into easy books without ruining them."
Wrote a little about difficult books, short books, and short and difficult books. countercraft.substack.com/p/short-litt...
Short Little Difficult Books
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"Extremely long sentences, strange syntax, unusual structures, etc., don’t exist to punish readers but to provide other aesthetic experiences and different types of stories. Story is never separable from execution. So-called difficult books couldn’t be made into easy books without ruining them."
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Unimaginable amount of doomscrolling possibilities today.
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Unimaginable amount of doomscrolling possibilities today.
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Imagine thinking that reading a Wikipedia summary is the same as reading The Grapes of Wrath or hearing some gen AI voice tell you what Aretha Franklin singing Natural Woman is? It’s offensive to the concept of creation AND perception, the creator and audience, to say this is equivalent.
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Imagine thinking that reading a Wikipedia summary is the same as reading The Grapes of Wrath or hearing some gen AI voice tell you what Aretha Franklin singing Natural Woman is? It’s offensive to the concept of creation AND perception, the creator and audience, to say this is equivalent.
I am so excited for this — apocalyptic horror, a unique story form and a monthly treat to look forward to? Yes, please.
The first issue of THE END TIMES will hit this week! Physical subscriptions will hit on or around the 19th. Digital subscriptions will hit inboxes ON the 19th.
Subscriptions are still open.
Subscriptions are still open.
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I am so excited for this — apocalyptic horror, a unique story form and a monthly treat to look forward to? Yes, please.
ICYMI and need a bit of light in the dark, @templeinacity.bsky.social published my micro, “The summer the sky burned, our town got a new pool and only opened it three times” as part of its special Joy issue last week. Give it a read? templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
Temple in a City literary journal
The summer the sky burned, our town got a new pool and only opened it three times micro fiction by author Rachel Abbey McCafferty. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ICYMI and need a bit of light in the dark, @templeinacity.bsky.social published my micro, “The summer the sky burned, our town got a new pool and only opened it three times” as part of its special Joy issue last week. Give it a read? templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
I still believe in the power and importance of journalism but wow there have been a whole lot of things making me glad my career has been local recently.
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I still believe in the power and importance of journalism but wow there have been a whole lot of things making me glad my career has been local recently.
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Some like their joy with a touch of acid and this little slice delivers both. Tense, taut and tender. By @ramccafferty.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
Temple in a City literary journal
The summer the sky burned, our town got a new pool and only opened it three times micro fiction by author Rachel Abbey McCafferty. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Some like their joy with a touch of acid and this little slice delivers both. Tense, taut and tender. By @ramccafferty.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
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"We were all new proportions and unmet potential. We were the promise of a future"
So much suggested around the edges of this micro from @ramccafferty.bsky.social - great writing
So much suggested around the edges of this micro from @ramccafferty.bsky.social - great writing
My version of joy in @templeinacity.bsky.social is a flash of light in the dark. Give it a read? templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
Temple in a City literary journal
The summer the sky burned, our town got a new pool and only opened it three times micro fiction by author Rachel Abbey McCafferty. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"We were all new proportions and unmet potential. We were the promise of a future"
So much suggested around the edges of this micro from @ramccafferty.bsky.social - great writing
So much suggested around the edges of this micro from @ramccafferty.bsky.social - great writing
This is really cool.
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...
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is really cool.
This book. This. Book. Another one where @sgj.bsky.social has terrified me and ripped my heart out and made me think and feel all at once.
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This book. This. Book. Another one where @sgj.bsky.social has terrified me and ripped my heart out and made me think and feel all at once.
For the evening crowd:
My version of joy in @templeinacity.bsky.social is a flash of light in the dark. Give it a read? templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
Temple in a City literary journal
The summer the sky burned, our town got a new pool and only opened it three times micro fiction by author Rachel Abbey McCafferty. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
For the evening crowd:
My version of joy in @templeinacity.bsky.social is a flash of light in the dark. Give it a read? templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
Temple in a City literary journal
The summer the sky burned, our town got a new pool and only opened it three times micro fiction by author Rachel Abbey McCafferty. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My version of joy in @templeinacity.bsky.social is a flash of light in the dark. Give it a read? templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
Delighted to be part of this joyful little issue. ♥️
It’s here, it’s live, your little slice of joy. A micro issue bursting with heart-filling poetry, flash, micro and CNF, brief and brilliant as a sun glint on water. Sip at them whenever it hurts. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Delighted to be part of this joyful little issue. ♥️
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We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟
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Lil sneak preview of who’s coming to you soon in our Joy micro issue. Expect it out soon. templeinacity.com/joy/ templeinacity.com/joy/
Temple in a City literary journal
Contributors to JOY, a special pop-up edition of Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Lil sneak preview of who’s coming to you soon in our Joy micro issue. Expect it out soon. templeinacity.com/joy/ templeinacity.com/joy/
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We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.
a dog is standing on its hind legs in a room with the words cant wait written on the floor .
ALT: a dog is standing on its hind legs in a room with the words cant wait written on the floor .
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November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.