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sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you @100wordstory.bsky.social for choosing my entry as winner for the photo story for the month of April 🥤 #100words #flashfiction #writingcommunity

100wordstory.org/photo-story-...

Photo Story: Milkshake - 100Words

The afternoon sun and Lloyd Lovell’s bull-eyed stare were hot on Mandy’s back as she waited for the bus.

100wordstory.org

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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you so much @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for this BOTN nom! This story went through many iterations, much like my own coming out story, and though it is fiction, it holds a special place in my heart 🌈. Congrats fellow nominees! read it here: haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam

Blue background, text "Hayden's Ferry Review. Fiction. "The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Hand" by Sumitra Singam, "Reputations" by Lauren Barbato" referring to their Best of the Net noms

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sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · 6h

Congratulations, Sumitra. Beautiful story.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 16h

NEW POEM #273: "After Camping With Jeff in the Dismal Swamp I Consider Companionship" by Dustin King

"But Jeff, I followed you as you followed a heron, flirting with her, / or him, olympian wings beating air as we slid between cyprus knuckles"

stonecirclereview.com/after-camping/

#Poem #Poetry

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sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · 1d

😅

sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · 1d

I even remember Rio, her boyfriend 😅

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 2d

"...but before Mandy could say no way, the straw was in his teeth, braces glinting,...."

Big love for this award-winner by @sandrinado.bsky.social in @100wordstory.bsky.social 💙💙💙

sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you @100wordstory.bsky.social for choosing my entry as winner for the photo story for the month of April 🥤 #100words #flashfiction #writingcommunity

100wordstory.org/photo-story-...

Photo Story: Milkshake - 100Words

The afternoon sun and Lloyd Lovell’s bull-eyed stare were hot on Mandy’s back as she waited for the bus.

100wordstory.org

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sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks so much, Dan!

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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 2d

I have a story in the amazing new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social alongside so many of my flash heroes! gooseberry-pie.com/or-was-it-a-...

Or Was It a Baby? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Diane Picchiottino on Unsplash by Emily Rinkema It’s 5:00 a.m. and I ask my husband if he wants to hear my dream, but he pulls the quilt over his shoulders. I ask my other husband, but he jus...

gooseberry-pie.com

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sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, Sumitra!

sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you @100wordstory.bsky.social for choosing my entry as winner for the photo story for the month of April 🥤 #100words #flashfiction #writingcommunity

100wordstory.org/photo-story-...

Photo Story: Milkshake - 100Words

The afternoon sun and Lloyd Lovell’s bull-eyed stare were hot on Mandy’s back as she waited for the bus.

100wordstory.org

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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 6d

Chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social with my CNF “Friday Night Is”. Thanks to @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the beta (if we’d been at uni together you would totally have been Shell or Kez, babe)
Thanks @dehardy.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡
www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

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Jenny Stalter @jennystalter.bsky.social · 6d

So excited to share my new story out today in @fictivedream.bsky.social !! Thanks to editor Laura Black for selecting this story, and thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for their workshop where this was born!🍂 🍁 🍂

Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 6d

"So, this lady’s looking at me with more desperation than I’ve ever seen in someone’s eyes..." Divine Intervention by Jenny Stalter @jennystalter.bsky.social #flashfiction #shortstory #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/10/05/d...

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Ink In Thirds @inkinthirds.bsky.social · 9d

2026 will be a big year as we celebrate our 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲! We have some ideas percolating on how to celebrate our 10th anniversary, but we'd love to hear 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮! Leave us a comment or DM.

We are always looking for new art! Subs now open.
inkinthirds.org/submissions/

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sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · 9d

Wow 💥
- complex characters
- nuanced storytelling
- harrowing and tender
- delivered by an expert voice all the way

By Her Hand, Marion Taffe
#Writingcommunity
#Auslit
#Books

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Ink In Thirds @inkinthirds.bsky.social · 10d

Submissions 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 for our 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 2026 issue!

Why INK?

•No Fees
•All-inclusive
•Paying Market
•We respond to all subs
•Literary Prize Nominations
•Fast turnaround time
•Full-color Print Issues (& digital download)

inkinthirds.org/submissions/

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 12d

"Kindness" by @emhall47.bsky.social, whose prose has appeared, or is forthcoming, in places such as Portland Review, Passages North, 100 Word Story, Necessary Fiction, and Cherry Tree.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 12d

"Sea Lake" by @sandrinado.bsky.social in case you missed it

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sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · 29d

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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · Sep 4

This story racked up 19 rejections before @yourimpossiblevoice.com took it. This BOTN nomination means a lot to me. Thank you @keithjpowell.com 🙏🏾
Written in a @lumchanmfa.bsky.social workshop. Mahalo, my friend 🧡
Read it here: yourimpossiblevoice.com/when-i-final...

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sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · Sep 3

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 2

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Present Tense
by Todd Dillard

My father’s telling me about his dog,
how it fell into a well
when they were walking down a wooded path.
His dog ran across some rotted planks,
the planks splintered, “And whoosh!”
my father says. “No more dog.”
I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M.
“I’m not finished,” he says.
He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket,
how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down,
and yelled for the dog to get in.
“But all I pulled up was more barking.”
“Dad,” I say. “This never happened.”
He says he can’t remember
how long he tried to get the dog
to shimmy into the bucket.
Just that at some point
when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“
as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“
he decided to give up.
“Dad,” I say. “It’s late.
I’m tired. And you’re dead.”
“Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!”
My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt
and pouring the dirt into the well.
And I know what he’s getting at, I know
he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket
he filled the well and
the dog jumped out. He’s going to say
something about how the dog
led him home through the dark.
I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.
“Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?”
I keep lowering the bucket
but all I ever pull up are leaves.
Red leaves. Lately, some gold.

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Lisobel Tang @lisobeltang.bsky.social · Aug 29

So excited for my piece to be featured in the latest issue of @trampset.bsky.social. Do check it out & the amazing work of fellow writers <3

trampset @trampset.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Do not let them into your heart, she tells me, a single child hoping for a friend, a teenager dreaming of her first boyfriend. Their love is like poison."

@lisobeltang.bsky.social's "China Dog"

trampset.org/china-dog-68...

China Dog

by Lisobel Tang

trampset.org

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · Aug 23

We’re free, free, free, with overgrown feathered bangs, hand-me-down tees on matchstick frames, sucking down raspberry Slurpees on steaming sidewalks . . . —"Sweet Dreams" by @carlyanderson.bsky.social

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes/sweet-dreams

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100 Word Story @100wordstory.bsky.social · Aug 21

Long before language, when moonlight kissed the earth each green and lushy night, there were no words per se or even the mouths to say them.

And then there was the time by Francine Witte
For the full story visit 100wordstory.org

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sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · Aug 16

Amazing! Congratulations, Sumitra!!!

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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you, @100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my tiny sugary-but-not-sweet tale

100 Word Story @100wordstory.bsky.social · Aug 14

Despite lick-smack-snap, despite sticky-tacky-sweet, despite red and white spirals on peppermint discs, despite green glinting gumdrops, despite chocolate-glazed fingers sucked just clean enough to grab one more sweet thing, she listened,

Despite by Tara Campbell
Full story at: 100wordstory.org

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