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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · May 22

finally doing that thing you didn't want to do because now you have something you want to do even less

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · May 19

Please help us celebrate the Long List for the 2025 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey)! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction – The Long List - SmokeLong Quarterly

Our 14 judges have been hard at work over the last few days—and the last few months—narrowing down the field in our now-annual competition, The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey)...

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Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · May 15

I wrote about the novel writing process and the best books to take on vacation, check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/zoebflav...

We need a vacation

randomly, a travel blog

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Feb 15

LAST CALL to read our JANUARY ISSUE before it hits the archive!! https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

💖 So much love to our contributors 💖:
WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro
ART: Daisuke Takakura
PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa

Composite photo: a girl dressed all in blue appears cloned, captured twirling in sundry positions. Her skirt billows and she smiles radiantly. Her brown hair and shadows dance with her in the sunlight.

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Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · Feb 16

Thank you for sharing🥰🥰

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Feb 6

"What I wanted was to be in love. For all this initial calculus to be dissolved by commitment and mutual aspiration. A tapestry with all its colors blended."

Read the fantastic INNER CHILD WORK by @zoebflavin.bsky.social from our JANUARY ISSUE while you still can: https://buff.ly/42h1b58

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Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · Jan 20

Thanks for sharing!!

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Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · Jan 17

😂💕💕thank you for reading!!

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jan 16

"That’s when I learned that having an old dad who died when he was in high school was one of Dan’s core wounds. Knowing that, I felt closer to him."

Find @zoebflavin.bsky.social explicitly poignant INNER CHILD WORK in our JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/42h1b58

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Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · Jan 16

Thank you for reading!

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Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · Jan 16

Thanks so much!

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Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · Jan 15

Thank you!!

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Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · Jan 15

Thanks so much!!

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Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · Jan 15

Also shoutout to @splitlipthemag.bsky.social fiction editors for such thoughtful edits. 🫶🏻

Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · Jan 15

My first publication!!! A short story out with Split Lip today @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0125...

Inner Child Work — Split Lip Magazine

On our third date, Dan suggested we introduce our inner children into our sex lives. We were drinking whiskey on his uncomfortable sofa that was just two hard pieces coming together at a surprising an...

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Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · Jan 15

My first publication!!! A short story out with Split Lip today @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0125...

Inner Child Work — Split Lip Magazine

On our third date, Dan suggested we introduce our inner children into our sex lives. We were drinking whiskey on his uncomfortable sofa that was just two hard pieces coming together at a surprising an...

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jan 15

Art & words will help us get through 2025. We are honored & grateful to present our beautiful JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro
ART: Daisuke Takakura
PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Jan 2

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social · Dec 4

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · Dec 2

yesterday marked one year since I and several others were laid off by yahoo sports, in one of the most callous ways possible: en masse, via zoom, by a total stranger who conveyed not a drop of empathy for the scary situation we were all being thrown into with zero warning