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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote a teensy thing 🥹
Thanks @fictivedream.bsky.social for taking it in and the Yeah Nah team hosted by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social for the feedback that helped make this little piece 💖

#microfiction #speculative #flashfiction #specfic #literary #litfic #writesky

Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 9d

"The old coat is gone, shed for something entirely new." Shedding by Emmi Khor @emmikhor.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/29/m...

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Ahhh!! Congrats! Such a cool festival idea!!

Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 8h

Oh no! Sending strength his way!!

Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 8h

These look gorgeous! 😍

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 1d

Love #FlashFiction? Love #SpeculativeFiction? Join me for this @smokelong.bsky.social #WritingWorkshop and I'll give you the tools to write speculative fiction as metaphor, one of my FAVOURITE THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE:

www.smokelong.com/product/spec...

#Writing #WritingCommunity

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, this one was just gorgeous!!

Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks for sharing!! 👀

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 13h

Hahaha! That's very cool!!

Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 13h

That's awesome!! Great work!!

Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 13h

Doing some exercising in my writing time! Is that procrastinating or writing? 😝

Wishing you all a productive #writing session!

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writerslife #writesky #onwriting

a cartoon drawing of a dog running on a treadmill

ALT: a cartoon drawing of a dog running on a treadmill

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 18h

Terribly great indeed! 😂

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you! I'll be in Large Print! 😃

Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 20h

I have a micro story projected onto Fremantle's Port Authority Building this week! 🥹
Time to go hunting for it tonight...

#Fremantle #Perth #drabble #wallart

Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 1d

Well this is new... my words are going to be lit up large on a wall in #Fremantle with other Oz writers!

"Sun worn, wind torn, years spent sea borne, he crests into port..."

Thanks Night Parrot Press and #totallylifreo

Catch a pic! This week only 7-10pm!

#microfiction #Perth #writingcommunity

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Donate if you can, share either way. Keep Apex putting out great stories!

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 7d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 20h

Aaaah, how I remember the vodka cruiser nights! Love how this piece lands me in a nostalgic era even as the ending reminds us of the transactions of youth.

Check out @pleomorphic2.bsky.social piece in @claudineliterary.bsky.social !

Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 2d

Chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social with my CNF “Friday Night Is”. Thanks to @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the beta (if we’d been at uni together you would totally have been Shell or Kez, babe)
Thanks @dehardy.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡
www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 20h

Oof! Love the everyday portrayal, until it's not. The link didn't quite work but I found your story! 💕

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome poem by @shanaross.bsky.social in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
I love seeing that moment when we know our boundaries.

Give this little piece a read!
kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

#microfiction #speculative #quietthings #poetry #read

“I have been to the market” by Shana Ross

kaleidotrope.net

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 1d

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Sumitra! It's such an unreal place to see words!

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 1d

It'll be projected on the side of the Port Authority Building

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Matt Tighe @mktighewrites.bsky.social · 2d

Released today and all physical copies sold out at Conflux Canberra!
You can order here
books2read.com/drowninginth...
#Conflux #horror

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 2d

I've never seen a chocolate one! 😱 Love the durian ones!

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HAD @havehashad.com · 2d

Upcoming submission call!

Theme "LUCK"

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"

guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

The theme is "LUCK".

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry".

POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don't go over this cap.
PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece.
Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under.
Tanya Žilinskas will curate the "prose" submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the "poetry".
All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours

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Andrew Leonard @aleonard82.bsky.social · 13d

My cozy sci-fi tale, "Memory Lane," is now live at Sci-Fi Shorts. Would love to hear what you think! ift.tt/Uermxy8

Memory Lane

Andrew Leonard

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · 4d

If you read one thing I published this year let it be this one. 🐺 ☀️

Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 4d

"After a Wolf Swallowed the Sun" by @linardos.bsky.social free to read online!

"Man wanted the sun, and he’d have sucked it dry, turned it to tall towers of glass and more machines. So I swallowed it, to protect it from the Man.”

plotthoundmag.com/after-a-wolf...

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