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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 19d
Our latest issue finds us rushing through time and space courtesy of new work from @geoliminal.bsky.social Elisabeth Sheffield, @israelbonilla.bsky.social Roberto Ontiveros, @supernaturalfeat.com @juliaevem.bsky.social Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, @addisonzeller.bsky.social
Issue 33 | Fall 2025 | Your Impossible Voice
Our latest issue includes new work from Eric Williams, Elisabeth Sheffield, Israel Bonilla, Roberto Ontiveros, Dan Weaver, Julia Meinwald, Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, Addison Zelle...
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The final poem from our new issue burns bright! Finish off your week with "past is a flame" by Karen Earle!
Excerpt from past is a flame by Karen Earle: bird-boned singer I / smoke-and-mirror you / minor-keyed to confusion/hovering ash-to-ash auras all / star-prick constellations/the broken wheel the lucky strikes / in spider-sticky spins
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Who said family get-togethers had to be dull? Pull up a chair for "Brother From Another" by Jaryd Porter! bit.ly/48S9Ptq
Excerpt from "Brother From Another" by Jaryd Porter: We were three blocks from Mom’s house, and all of the houses looked copied and pasted with different earth tones and a few objects on the driveway and porch to make them look lived in. The whole neighborhood looked like a white town, and appearances weren’t deceiving—my sister Paula and I were the blackest people on the block, and we were only half.
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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In "Tired Rejections," Stephen Cicirelli challenges readers to read the "story of stories," distilling the elements of fictional drama down to their essences along the way. Click the link and unlock the mystery!
Tiered Rejections | Issue 33
By Stephen Cicirelli — "His brother, a junior and an athlete in high school, was visiting campus. Wanting to show him a good time—and, perhaps, convince him to play soccer there—he bought weed and Ban...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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You've either met the people in this story or you are one of the people in this story. Check out "Winners" by @juliaevem.bsky.social !
Winners | Prose
By Julia Meinwald — "It was in the Self-Help section of Barnes and Noble that April met Justin. She was holding Open Yourself to a Win, a title her over-eager roommate had recommended forcefully to he...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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"In the back of the closet, sealed in a garment bag, was the ghost. A dark, woolen suit, smelling faintly of camphor, and a life she had meticulously shed."

Tuesday #flashfiction: Two Funerals by Toshiya Kamei
Two Funerals | Your Impossible Voice
Toshiya Kamei — The phone call had come that morning. Etsuko’s sister-in-law, Akiko, her voice thin and stretched tight as a wire. “Kenji passed,” she’d said, no preamble, no softening.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Today's listing of the day is: Brilliant Flash Fiction #WritingCommunity
Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: Brilliant Flash Fiction #WritingCommunity
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December 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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A truly great short story tells you everything you need to know about it from its very first line. This is one of them. Check out "Storing Dinosaurs" by @supernaturalfeat.com in our latest issue! bit.ly/3XY7fMa
Excerpt from Storing Dinosaurs by Dan Weaver: A fter Carmen married Phillip I couldn’t chase her with my lizards no more since it scared Phillip and he would hide in the room and the one time it made it so that Carmen couldn’t drive Phillip to work and he was late and he didn’t want to tell his boss that Carmen was getting threatened with lizards.
December 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Spent the day in the car getting ahead of the snow, but this is such an honor! What a great group of stories! Thanks to @yourimpossiblevoice.com, an incredible journal!
yourimpossiblevoice.com Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 8d
Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2025 (or 2026, however they calculate it)! @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
Dana Wall
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Congratulations to our Best Small Fictions nominees: The Last Lipstick Factory by Dana Wall; Hotdogs by Hugh Behm-Steinberg; Anthem by Brett Biebel; A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame by Sage Tyrtle; Of the Lovers by Addison Zeller
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Congratulations to this year's @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees! Check us out online to read all of this year's award nominations.

Ryan Griffith
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L.F. Khouri
Mathieu Parsy
@ashdoeswords.bsky.social
Congratulations to our Best Microfiction nominees: The Abbreviated Kafka by Ryan Griffith; Ash Wednesday by Sarp Sozdinler; The Lemon Trees Don't Care You're Sexy (But I Do) by L.F. Khouri; Your Body is a Wolf by Mathieu Parsy; The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died by Ashleigh Adams
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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SO EXCITED to be nominated by Your Impossible Voice - I'm crazy proud of this piece, and this has made me really happy:
yourimpossiblevoice.com Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 8d
Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2025 (or 2026, however they calculate it)! @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
Dana Wall
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@sagetyrtle.bsky.social
@addisonzeller.bsky.social
Congratulations to our Best Small Fictions nominees: The Last Lipstick Factory by Dana Wall; Hotdogs by Hugh Behm-Steinberg; Anthem by Brett Biebel; A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame by Sage Tyrtle; Of the Lovers by Addison Zeller
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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What could be better reading for the day after Thanksgiving than a story about family? A story about family by Robert Ontiveros is what. bit.ly/4p8NzkU
Excerpt from The End of My Sentence by Roberto Ontiveros: "At the funeral, Dot’s secret pedigree felt like a palpable fact, with all of my legitimate cousins lined up by Uncle Seth’s twenty-nine-year-old widow and even Dawn: Dawn, the one love child we all knew of. I never saw Dawn, Seth’s mid-career creation. The woman was twenty-five but looked twelve at 4’11” and had inherited from her father that juvenile glow he wore even as he succumbed to his disease. Dawn was a nurse in another county, I had heard, but of course never mentioned in the family newsletter."
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Never thought much about what @yourimpossiblevoice.com's looking for, although it's been pointed out it's in the name of the journal itself and this seems proven in my selections. Case in point being Joyce Meggett's "The Robinson-Barber Thesis", a voice I found compelling from the very start.
The Robinson-Barber Thesis | Issue 33
By Joyce Meggett — "I want you to understand, it’s nothing personal. I’m going to be completely silent—you should know that. I won’t write notes or gesture or draw pictures."
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November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2025 (or 2026, however they calculate it)! @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
Dana Wall
@brettbbl.bsky.social
@sagetyrtle.bsky.social
@addisonzeller.bsky.social
Congratulations to our Best Small Fictions nominees: The Last Lipstick Factory by Dana Wall; Hotdogs by Hugh Behm-Steinberg; Anthem by Brett Biebel; A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame by Sage Tyrtle; Of the Lovers by Addison Zeller
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2026

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
Mikki Aronoff
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Best Small Fictions Nominations 2026 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine is thrilled to nominate the following for Best Small Fictions 2026:
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November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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A lot of journals that say they're open to weird fiction mean like this
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Only a fraction of the spectacular haul I received from above/ground press @robmclennan.bsky.social. I am rich this winter! abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...
12 chapbooks lined up on a grey/blue/white spackled rug.
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com

#FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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snagged me my third ever pushcart nomination, mil gracias to the good folks at @yourimpossiblevoice.com for the honor
yourimpossiblevoice.com Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 12d
Congratulations to @illepitaph.bsky.social, @geoliminal.bsky.social, Elisabeth Sheffield, Peter Grandbois, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, and @molarawood.bsky.social—this year's Pushcart nominees!
Congratulations to our Pushcart Nominees: The Temperance of Heretics by Steve Barbaro; Leeuwenhoek’s Lens by Eric Williams; Cate’s Upstate or Fashion After the Apocalypse by Elisabeth Sheffield; Crow calls from the top of a pine by Peter Grandbois; Clotheslines by Khalil AbuSharekh; Requiem for the Golden City by Molara Wood
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Thankful to nominate yet another Best Small Fictions class. We implore you to read these short fictions on Afferimages in your spare time. Congratulations everyone and and best of luck!
@swethaamit.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social
Kerry Sutherland
Kenna DeValor
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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We're chiming in today to announce our Best Small Fictions nominees! Congratulations and good luck everyone!
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Pleased to welcome our 1st release of 2026, Primal House by Emily Koss! Due out in late-January, you can reserve your copy today! elj-editions.com/primal-house/
Primal House | ELJ Editions
When our narrator’s house is reclaimed by the wilderness, she embarks with her Pooch on a rambling and rollicking journey. She meets undead deer and living skeletons, travels through dream worlds and ...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Enjoy a steep discount on all ebooks and books and book bundles now through Sunday. Get 5 books for just as little as $45 plus S/H! Where can you go wrong? elj-editions.com/black-friday...
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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A message for Unbound authors
alexdecampi.bsky.social Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 10d
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.

If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM