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Sand and Gravel Chapbooks @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social · 11h

It's incredible how much @travisflatt.bsky.social can pack into this 360 word story, creating a little miniature world of fully-fleshed characters and seasonally appropriate strangeness.

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · 3d

This is happening! Has already happened, actually. Check it out! 👀

Sand and Gravel Chapbooks @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social · 3d

www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/six-st...

Five Stories, a chapbook by @travisflatt.bsky.social is available now on our website!

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, Jason!!

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Jason! That means a lot; I appreciate you taking the time to read it, and I’m glad it spoke to you!

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · 9d

New CNF up at Aesterion Lit.

www.aesterion.com/fall-2025-1

General 2 — aesterion

www.aesterion.com

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks!

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · 28d

Very happy this bonkers little guy found a good home at @templeinacity.bsky.social ! 🗡️🐉👖

Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 28d

A joy from start to finish complete with cardboard swords, horrified teachers, excruciated adults, puppy love and other love and our favourite new exclamation, ‘Die, Pants!’ @travisflatt.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/fiction-trav...

Temple in a City

Temple in a City literary journal, Travis Flatt, fiction

templeinacity.com

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Haven’t been on here in a minute. Here’s a thing I wrote about werewolves. And epilepsy.

Suddenly And Without Warning @sawwflashfiction.bsky.social · Aug 28

Anyone else eager for Halloween? Too bad, you're getting a werewolf story. One about two brothers. Thank you to returning author @travisflatt.bsky.social

www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com/werewolf-twi...

Werewolf Twins – Suddenly, And Without Warning

www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · Jul 8

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge

Sizzling wordplay in @danbillyc.bsky.social "Hotline" from @gonelawn iss. 50

"Rotary phones (filched from the Radio Shack on the corner) jangle their urgent bells, so leisure time takes a break."

gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Gone Lawn 50 : Dan Crawley

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · Jul 6

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge

Adventurous, fun, bombastic micro from Myna Chang. "Empire" in @gonelawn.bsky.social

"The mice show me their feet. Look, they say. We have clever mice feet. We will build temples for you."

gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Gone Lawn 40 : Myna Chang

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Roi Fainéant Press @rfpress.bsky.social · Jul 3

Many folks have a favorite color. Some even wear that color every day. But what do you do when your child develops a strange affinity for the color blue? An almost disturbing affinity? Go read "Amy's Blue Period" by @travisflatt.bsky.social to find out! 👇
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/amy-s-b...

Today, her class finger paints, but Amy refuses to touch white paper and tantrums so severely over the shortage of blue paint that I have to come pick her up.

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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thank you @travisflatt.bsky.social , Casey Jo Graham Welmers, @thaddevassie.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, @donmexlar.bsky.social for your work

Their tunes are up on the M7 playlist, give it a follow! open.spotify.com/playlist/3kU...

M7 Master Playlist

Playlist · keerstee.mack · 141 items · 46 saves

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · Jul 1

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge

Is writing creating imaginary images in the reader’s mind? “What if All the Oceans” by @christopherallen.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social iss.34.
“Are rocks alive? I’m ashamed to say I had to look that last one up.”

gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Gone Lawn 34 : Christopher Allen

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · Jun 22

It’s gorgeous, y’all. Check it out. A new @aniking.bsky.social story in the @expositionreview.bsky.social Spring issue!

expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x...

This Is Milkweed - Exposition Review

by Ani King Flash Fiction And this is Queen Anne’s lace. Daucus carota, I think. Your mom had a horse named Queen Anne when we were kids. And these are bull thistle. I used to confuse them with nett...

expositionreview.com

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · Jun 16

I took a risk on this weird short, and I’m kinda in love with him. Thanks @thetemzreview.bsky.social !! 🛸🚀👽

thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · Jun 16

Read @travisflatt.bsky.social's amazing mournful-yet-unhinged story "'Good Job on the Test, Son,' a Boy Genius Adventure" in Issue 31!

Boy Genius catches shoplifters with his X-Ray specs...

www.thetemzreview.com/flatt.html

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · Jun 10

ISSUE 31 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

www.thetemzreview.com/issue-thirty...

A photo taken from the shallow edge of the Thames River in London, Ontario in early summer. The sun is bright, and both banks have many green plants and bushes. There are rocks in front of the viewer that lead into the water, and the water reflects the trees and the blue sky

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · May 17

Belated thanks to the folks over at @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for helping me bring this little weirdo to the world.

Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social · May 8

“Grandson” by Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet www.paragraphplanet.com #flashfiction #writingcommunity

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · May 2

See! I’ve been slacking. Here’s one to make you laugh (and possibly wince) by the fantastic @olangela.bsky.social
Over at the fantastic @mrbullbull.bsky.social

Angela James @olangela.bsky.social · Apr 28

This one has everything— hooker boots! Crickets! Strap-op dildos! Thank you to @mrbullbull.bsky.social and to my @smokelong.bsky.social fitness buddies for earlier feedback!

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · May 1

Funny and sad and wonderful new story by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social up today at @fracturedlit.bsky.social

fracturedlit.com/i-regret-to-...

I Regret to Inform You I Made These Plans When I Gave a Shit and Things Have Changed - Fractured

Willow doesn’t even get the satisfaction of saying Brandon broke up with her. They were never a couple, not officially, their relationship undefined after six months of perfunctory orgasm-less sex (fo...

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · May 1

Appreciate the shout! I’ve become a bit lazy about that in the last little bit.

I’ll add:

@elissafield.bsky.social
@olangela.bsky.social
@kiptain.bsky.social
@fionamckay.bsky.social

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · Apr 22

Haha wow! That was awesome!

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · Apr 22

Damn. Give this a look.

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Apr 22

"I go, 'Please.'

And you say, 'No chance.'"

So stoked to feature Sam Berman on hex this week with an incredibly well crafted story, every line distilled into knife-sharp perfection. This one is so strange and compelling and just an absolute wonder at the sentence level. Don't miss it! 👇

War Paint by Sam Berman

I go, “Please.” And you say, “No chance.” So, “Please. Please. Please,” I plead. “No. No. No.” Twilit. Almost all dark, outside, on our lawn is the stack of pallets your brother hasn’t com...

hexliterary.com

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · Apr 22

Whoa. This hits like a right hook. Check it out.

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · Apr 22

"When your dead cousin visits, he’s not the blond boy standing proud in the photo on your mantelpiece, seven swim-suited cousins holding hands like a daisy chain at the summer reunion, knuckle crunching your hand"

Excited to have my #flashfiction published in @mrbullbull.bsky.social
#WriterGoals

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · Apr 22

"When your dead cousin visits, you’re pleased he doesn’t smell of garbage-strewn alleys and rank BO, like his late-night poundings on your door when he’s all Come on cuz, you’ve always had it better than me, share the wealth." @nomad-sw18.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · Apr 5

Thanks, Sumitra! 🙂

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · Apr 5

No Luannes were harmed! She’s fine.

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