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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 5h

“Your wife was overjoyed when your uncle drowned in three inches of water at the bottom of a cave. It meant your family would inherit his house. Although you both wished it wasn’t in such tragic circumstances.”

Jack Lennon | @xraylitmag.bsky.social

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HEIR APPARENT by Jack Lennon

1 Your wife was overjoyed when your uncle drowned in three inches of water at the bottom of a cave. It meant your family would inherit his house. Although you both wished it wasn’t in such tragic circ...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 23h

“I describe arms hanging straight down, how our hands weave and flutter. I say tomorrow we learn how to drool. Shooting starts in a week. “What a comedown,” my sister says. I tell my sister, “Shoot me.””

@pamelapainter.bsky.social | Ghost Parachute

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Zombie Quartet — Ghost Parachute

Actor: Zombie 101 I tell my sister, so, here I am, top drama school grad, final role King Lear, and I’m learning how to lurch and dip. “A fluid lurch,” the teacher yelled. “Lurch, dip, lurch, dip, ...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 1d

“Many years ago, I loved a man I would have to leave. (Or: I loved a man because I would have to leave.) (Or: Because I had to leave this man, I would always love him.)”

@dinalrelles.bsky.social | @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

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Departures | matchbook

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure to register for @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's book launch event with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social over Zoom on November 7th at 7pm EST! buff.ly/CtKtA0k

Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET right here: buff.ly/3pPOviA
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 1d

Eeeeeee thank you!!!! I LOVED this one!!!!

And that sneak peek in your bio about seeking representation for the craft book! I can’t WAIT I need it!!!!!

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 2d

“The kid is always being a genius and he is always smiling and kind. One thing I know about people who are always smiling and kind is they’re the saddest fuckers of all.”

@kathyfish.bsky.social | Ghost Parachute

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The Saddest Fuckers of All — Ghost Parachute

I am needing a prescription for the Pill. I can no longer use Student Health due to living in a new town and not being a student anymore. I am telling this to the kid as he is rolling out pizza dough ...

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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 2d

I've just reached 1,800 free subscribers on my Substack! I know that we are all bombarded with great and not-so-great content every day, so thank you for finding value in my writing craft analysis and writing tips!

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Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling | Tommy Dean | Substack

Welcome to Good Trouble, where I love to break down writing craft and highlight great writing and entertaining stories. Click to read Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling, by Tommy Dean, a Substack p...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 2d

“He had this pressurized way of speaking in an argument that felt out of line with the quiet, like he was negating something exactly as it was happening. Like he would never consider himself an angry person…”

@aimee-bender.bsky.social | Ghost Parachute

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Encounters — Ghost Parachute

When I was in my twenties and went through a breakup and didn’t hate the person, I harbored what I’d call the “nursing home” fantasy. I’d imagine running into my ex in the wallpapered halls of an assi...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 2d

Website refresh is complete including my upcoming workshops with the @flashfictioninst.bsky.social and Blue Stoop!

www.avitusbcarle.com/workshops

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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 7d

Read "Clone of the Lost Astronaut" written by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.

"There’s a hurricane teasing the leftover bits of Massachusetts. A snow storm masking Chicago. Mission control wants to keep things concrete."

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Clone of the Lost Astronaut — Ghost Parachute

There’s a hurricane teasing the leftover bits of Massachusetts. A snow storm masking Chicago. Mission control wants to keep things concrete. Be specific they say, since this is the final call. “Are yo...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 7d

Both honored and thrilled to have a clone story in the anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute!

Special congratulations @brettpribble.bsky.social and the fantastic team of illustrators for all of their hard work!

And congrats to all my Ghost Parachute pub buddies!!

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Clone of the Lost Astronaut — Ghost Parachute

There’s a hurricane teasing the leftover bits of Massachusetts. A snow storm masking Chicago. Mission control wants to keep things concrete. Be specific they say, since this is the final call. “Are yo...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 8d

Change of plans!

The 6-week course is under construction.

How about a 2-hour generative flash workshop through the Flash Fiction Institute!

We’ll discuss emails, letters, texts and all the ways these forms are used in storytelling!

Register here:

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"Dear Flash" with Avitus B(uckhaulter) Carle | Friday, Oct. 17 | 3pm PST/6pm EST - Flash Fiction Institute

In this 2-hour generative workshop, participants will delve into stories told in the form of letters and emails, unraveling what makes them resonate. Prompts will be provided, exploring tone, what is ...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 9d

“No one ever came for the stolen house or tights and material or mannequins, but someone did eventually come for me, saying I’d been stolen from a nice family who’d been searching for me.”

@juliastrayer.bsky.social | @trampset.bsky.social

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Mama Wanted

by Julia Strayer

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 9d

Can’t tell if the guy gave me 2 donuts for the price of 1 because he knew I missed my train or he thought I was cute or maybe he could tell I love me a glazed donut 🤔

Either way I’m not mad about it 🤤

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 11d

Can’t make it to the Blue Stoop reading this Sunday?

How about spending some virtual time with me AND writing some POV based flash?

I’ll be teaching not one, but TWO classes on POV and flash! Sign up for one or both and let’s get writing!

www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/pov

Viewpoints & Vantage Points, flash fiction with Avitus B Carle — Blue Stoop

People contain multitudes, and it's a writer's job to try to capture the wholeness of their being on the page. But transforming people into characters requires us to intentionally choose a point-of-vi...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 12d

Friends! I’ll be reading from my debut collection, THESE WORN BODIES, Sunday, September 28 as part of Blue Stoop’s Delco Writers and Friends Reading series!

I hope to see you there!

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Delco Writers and Friends: A Reading, Reception and Open Mic — Blue Stoop

Join us on Sunday, September 28 at 4:00 pm at the Park Avenue Community Center in Swarthmore for a reading and reception celebrating the literary talent thriving in Delaware County. Featuring Moriel ...

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Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social · 13d

⚡️Fast Flash Review: The Potential of Radio and Rain by @mynachang.bsky.social published by @cutbank.bsky.social
🙏 to @nightparrot.bsky.social #flashfiction

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 13d

“He’s naked and she’s dead and he has more to say to her in that shower than he ever does to me, sitting across from him at the kitchen table. When he speaks to her he’s a boy throwing pebbles at a window…”

@writesofkathryn.bsky.social | BULL

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My Husband Talks to his Dead Wife in the Shower | MrBullBull

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 14d

“The doctor flashes a light on my freckles and moles, quickly moving from one to the next. Her speed tells me I’m fine, that this was an unnecessary crossing of my boundaries.”

@chelseastickle.bsky.social | @yourimpossiblevoice.com

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We’re All Bananas | Your Impossible Voice

By Chelsea Stickle — "After my mother’s skin cancer diagnosis, I was bullied by my older sister Sally into scheduling a 'skin test,' which is what they call it when you strip in a cold room and show a...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 14d

“We talk about our families of origin. About the ways in which they shaped us and unshaped us. The parents and grandparents who did or didn’t let us play with Barbies or Tonka trucks.”

@jackiedwrites.bsky.social | The Queer Love Project

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Of Blood and Water

It feels like our queer chosen family has been holding its collective breath for years. Yet, we will continue to base our “family plan” on our happiness—not on societal expectations.

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 15d

“…the only competition we have is the writers we were yesterday. There are a lot of books out there, a lot of spaces to inhabit, and a lot of roles to play. There is room for all of us.”

- @eburtonwrites.bsky.social

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You Don’t Have to be Published to be Part of the Literary Community

Recently, I taught a character workshop for my local writers’ group.

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 15d

Come listen to me read some weird flash stories alongside Delco and Friends writers this Sunday hosted by Blue Stoop!

Books will be sold by Celia Bookshop

Open mic to follow

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 16d

“Is this you?

I suppose it is, but not the same me from this time last year. I feel more like a tree that’s dropped all its leaves, branches mostly unchanged, new growth just beginning to flush.”

@jadjosey.bsky.social | @havehashad.com

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Replying to Spam Texts by Jad Josey

Hi, what are you doing? I’ve been mostly watching the ocean, counting the messengers of light that descend through the clouds, thinking about time, how there’s never enough of it when you love som...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 21d

I will be stopping by the stoop at Blue Stoop in Swarthmore, reading with several amazing writers!

Books will be sold, I’ll have stickers AND the favorite dry erase magnets to be given with every purchase of my flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES

www.bluestoop.org/events/delco...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 27d

“Dads peer over Mandy’s head to see if her mom is dressed in her sexy cat outfit like last year, only for the other moms to respond to the dads’ disappointment with whispers of overdose, poor dear.”

@marioaliberto3.bsky.social | House of Arcanum

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Every Day is Halloween... — House of Arcanum

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