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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 17h

This a wonderful, complex, vibrant story - read it right away. And as someone who knows people who grew up behind the iron curtain, I can say the period detail is impeccable. True Blue really was a prized contraband icon. Bravo Cole!

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 18h

In the mood for nostalgia? Thrilled to have my East Berlin story published by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

"Jan has no time for their cotton-candy happiness. His father disappeared 5 years ago. No Stasi shadows, no neighbours with a grudge. Just gone.
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...

Cole Beauchamp — Does It Have Pockets

1989: Every day is the same in East Berlin, until it’s not

www.doesithavepockets.com

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 4h

Sudha! Thanks so much, appreciate it 🙏🏽😍

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks Ronita!

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks so much Suzanne! Haha I can see story ideas forming in your head from here 😂😂 I love that farmer.

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 14h

Awww thanks so much Lisa! Appreciate you reading it and your kind words 🙏🏽

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks so much Jaime, for your vote of confidence! Great being issue buddies with you 🧡

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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 15h

This perfect, evocative piece by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social “We sing like we’ve written every word, belting out the chorus of “I don’t wants,” shaking our heads like wet dogs and slamming into each other.” ⚒️🇩🇪🧡🧡🧡

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 18h

In the mood for nostalgia? Thrilled to have my East Berlin story published by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

"Jan has no time for their cotton-candy happiness. His father disappeared 5 years ago. No Stasi shadows, no neighbours with a grudge. Just gone.
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...

Cole Beauchamp — Does It Have Pockets

1989: Every day is the same in East Berlin, until it’s not

www.doesithavepockets.com

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 14h

Oh thanks for reading it Emmi, will check the link.

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 18h

In the mood for nostalgia? Thrilled to have my East Berlin story published by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

"Jan has no time for their cotton-candy happiness. His father disappeared 5 years ago. No Stasi shadows, no neighbours with a grudge. Just gone.
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...

Cole Beauchamp — Does It Have Pockets

1989: Every day is the same in East Berlin, until it’s not

www.doesithavepockets.com

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 22h

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats Chris, great to be issue buddies with you!

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the best stories I've read this year - and so of our time. So visceral. All the feels - had me laughing and left me haunted.

Kudos to @jaimegill.bsky.social to @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Just. So. Good.

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Fake it ‘til you make it, Tony says, though I’m not sure that works when the it is inside you."

Sharp as an incisor, a phenomenal #fiction #mustread from @jamiegill.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 1d

We defo would have been Chumbawumba-ing our halter tops off. Love and hate this story, cause I want her to never need that damn boy. But so good cause at that age, we just do.

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 6d

Oh @littlerebsprize.bsky.social & @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social I can't tell you what good it did my heart today to see the title of your book. These are hard times. So thanks Sarah for writing it & thanks to all involved in publishing and celebrating it!

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 6d

The IOF must release the hostages it took on international waters today and release the thousands of Palestinian hostages it’s been abducting for decades. Free Palestine.

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats Jack! What a year, what a story. So chuffed for you ❤️

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New Flash Fiction Review (subs open) @nffr.bsky.social · 6d

Still open for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize - deadline 15 Oct so 2 weeks to polish and shine! Loving the entries so far 😍

500 words
Winner $250
Two runners-up $100 each
Entry fee $10
We read anonymously

Check out the interview with judge @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social and good luck!

New Flash Fiction Review (subs open) @nffr.bsky.social · 24d

We're opening subs for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize on 15 Sept!

Read what judge Graham Faulkner wants:

"Capturing the decisive moment with arresting detail. Writing to the questions, not the answers. The ability to create a mood, an intimacy, a connection."

newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...

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New Flash Fiction Review (subs open) @nffr.bsky.social · 6d

Delighted to announce our nominations for Best of the Net - @jackmmorris.bsky.social for "Ernst is coming home" and @kateaxeford.bsky.social for "The truths behind a pumpkin dare, Northern Alberta, 3rd July, 1991"

Best of the Net 2025 #BOTN #flashfiction
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And the Best of the Net Nominees are... | New Flash Fiction Review

Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 10d

Great morning on the Batheaston Art Trail. Love my weekends in Bath, talking to fellow writers and artists. Rejuvenating!

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, great to meet you and your sister Abi!

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 10d

Haha no, will have to have a strum next time

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 10d

Wonderful evening of readings organised by @judehwriter2.bsky.social

Great to see familiar faces @scooterwriter.bsky.social @jupiterjonz.bsky.social @flemwrites.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social

And meet new ones Marie Day, Abi Williams, Caner Akin & Letty Butler

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 12d

Can't believe all this loveliness was 2 weeks ago already.

Thank you again to everyone who came to the first proper big @saloneurope.bsky.social and made it better than I ever could have imagined.

Can't wait for Madrid!

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 12d

Wow, @megpokrass.bsky.social - was that intentional, your tip-of-the-iceberg prompt just after China announces a new Arctic shipping route???

And @kitdewaal.com @saloneurope.bsky.social - it involves SHOES!

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 12d

Yes it is a wonderful rush. Hope you are lapping it up and celebrating!

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