Colette Parris
@colettepjd.bsky.social
Mom/wife/attorney/writer/work in Wigleaf Top 50/Best Microfiction, 3X BOTN, and 3X Pushcart nominee/unabashed Gemini/amateur genealogist/nature lover (from a distance). Words in MQR, Scoundrel Time, The Offing, Cleaver, Lost Balloon, LEON, MoonPark, etc.
Pinned
“Remember, there’s a full floor directly beneath you.” I look down again and tut-tut. He’s a liar."
How sure can we be of the ground below? Timely, unsettling new #cnf from @colettepjd.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/colette-...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
How sure can we be of the ground below? Timely, unsettling new #cnf from @colettepjd.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/colette-...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Many thanks to Does It Have Pockets for publishing my flash CNF!
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Delighted to have a story in BULL Magazine @mrbullbull.bsky.social Thank you to the wonderful editors 🥰#flash #flashfiction #flashlit #shortstory #flashpack #writer #writing
"What if he didn’t meet the older boys behind the high school or the people under the overpass with their trash-can fires and shouts of buddy, pal, bro, people who handed out belonging like the rainbow of pills they stole and sold." Dawn Miller mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
October 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Delighted to have a story in BULL Magazine @mrbullbull.bsky.social Thank you to the wonderful editors 🥰#flash #flashfiction #flashlit #shortstory #flashpack #writer #writing
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Thrilled to have a piece included in @westtradereview.bsky.social Fall 2025 collection!🥰 #flash #flashfiction #flashpack #flashlit #poetry #cnf #writing #litmag #shortstory
We’re excited to present the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by @jrigamonti.bsky.social, Michelle Bitting, and Joseph Byrd among others; fiction by @dawnwriter.bsky.social ; CNF by Candace Kelsey and John Jacobson
Read it below:
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#writingcommunity
Read it below:
buff.ly/CauWXGD
#writingcommunity
October 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Thrilled to have a piece included in @westtradereview.bsky.social Fall 2025 collection!🥰 #flash #flashfiction #flashpack #flashlit #poetry #cnf #writing #litmag #shortstory
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"You put me away that night, into a dusty corner where I could humiliate you no more."
A superlative paean to a tool & the story of a life, exquisitely rendered by Nicole M. Babb | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/nico...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
A superlative paean to a tool & the story of a life, exquisitely rendered by Nicole M. Babb | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/nico...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"You put me away that night, into a dusty corner where I could humiliate you no more."
A superlative paean to a tool & the story of a life, exquisitely rendered by Nicole M. Babb | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/nico...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
A superlative paean to a tool & the story of a life, exquisitely rendered by Nicole M. Babb | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/nico...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Many thanks to Does It Have Pockets for publishing my flash CNF!
“Remember, there’s a full floor directly beneath you.” I look down again and tut-tut. He’s a liar."
How sure can we be of the ground below? Timely, unsettling new #cnf from @colettepjd.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/colette-...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
How sure can we be of the ground below? Timely, unsettling new #cnf from @colettepjd.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/colette-...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Many thanks to Does It Have Pockets for publishing my flash CNF!
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Today’s poem is selected by David Naimon (@davidnaimon.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.
“blessing the boats” appeared in Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton, published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2000.
“blessing the boats” appeared in Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton, published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2000.
September 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today’s poem is selected by David Naimon (@davidnaimon.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.
“blessing the boats” appeared in Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton, published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2000.
“blessing the boats” appeared in Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton, published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2000.
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I have a new story in @okaydonkeymag.com and I am so excited about it! I hope you like it as much as I do! okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/19/1...
13.1 Septillion Pounds by Emily Rinkema
To help her sleep, we give the baby a basketball, a full-size regulation ball that my husband, CT, puts in her crib one night. He writes her name on it with a black Sharpie, bold letters like they …
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September 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I have a new story in @okaydonkeymag.com and I am so excited about it! I hope you like it as much as I do! okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/19/1...
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new on our mainpage: THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 (selecting editor @samanito.bsky.social )
June 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
new on our mainpage: THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 (selecting editor @samanito.bsky.social )
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Completely thrilled to be nominated for Best Microfiction by Ghost Parachute for a micro I'm extremely proud of. #flash #flashfiction
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A Little R&R — Ghost Parachute
One night soil falls out of my mouth. Loamy and sandy. Piles and piles on my kitchen floor. I fight the urge to roll in it, feel it brush against my skin, clump it together in my fists. Instead, I swe...
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December 16, 2023 at 9:33 PM
Completely thrilled to be nominated for Best Microfiction by Ghost Parachute for a micro I'm extremely proud of. #flash #flashfiction
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As always, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com has excellent advice.
November 26, 2023 at 9:06 PM
As always, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com has excellent advice.