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sarah lynn hurd

@sarlynh.bsky.social

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writer, reader, poet, film photographer, romantic, nostalgic, silly, thinking of bread (she/her) words in NFFR, Anti-Heroin Chic, HAD, trampset, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, ONE ART, and elsewhere sarlynh.com

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 21d

Incredibly honored and grateful to the entire team at trampset for my first-ever Best of the Net nomination! <3

trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 21d

Our fiction nominees for Best of Net: Nancy Connors & @sarlynh.bsky.social

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 4h

My mom strictly enforced handmade cards for any and every occasion and I can’t escape it

Small, square card with a simple watercolor strawberry cake placed on a brown paper stamp-scalloped frame

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 1d

Hi! Why not read this story of mine? If you feel like it, you know.

Published in @trampset.bsky.social in February.

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Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces

by Cuyler Meade

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 5d

So excited to have a new story in one of my very favorite magazines today. Super proud of this one, and I hope you all like it.

Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 5d

"...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through."

"Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

Door in the Woods by Chris Scott

Sarah is hiking up ahead of me, so she’s the first to see it. She goes around the bend, says “Hey now,” and stops in her tracks. Then I see it, too. Right there in the middle of the trail is a sing…

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 1d

This is so good! haunting!

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 1d

"I’m so aware of it now, that little ball of poisonous tissue."

I can tell this one is going to stick with me for quite a while. Fantastic, horrifying work @jaimegill.bsky.social!

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 2d

"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

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 1d

"Eight squirts of popcorn butter bled through thin paper bags"

Love this perfect coming-of-age story by my talented friend @ashdoeswords.bsky.social! Dripping with nostalgia bleeding through thin paper bags <3

Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 1d

Hello, hello, hello, how low? Tuesday's #FlashFiction smells like (pre)teen spirit. Tune into "The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died" by @ashdoeswords.bsky.social!

The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died | Your Impossible Voice

By Ashleigh Adams — "That June, I stole a red-and-black checkered flannel from my stepdad and frayed the hem with kitchen shears."

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ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social · 2d

ONE ART is pleased to announce IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems, Guest Edited by Julia Caroline Knowlton!

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IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems

IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems ONE ART is pleased to announce IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems, Guest Edited by Julia Caroline Knowlton! About The Guest EditorJulia Caroline K…

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 12d

This piece is such a sensory experience and I loved every bit of it. I don't know how you pack so much into your micros, Ash! (I know I'm so late on sharing this one, but I've been thinking of it since I first read it)

Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · Sep 1

Absolutely SQUEALING with joy to have a piece up in NFFR today! This whole issue is just incredible - congrats on 10 years @nffr.bsky.social 🍾🥂

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Thursdays Smell Like You by Ashleigh Adams | Issue #38

They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds.

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 12d

The language in this story, like all of Mizuki's writing, truly sings. It carries it's own melody, and I feel you can hear it even in the title.

Mizuki @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social · 26d

Inviting you for a brief 🌿 respite from these times with my little story that's out today at @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Thank you to the editors for letting it share space in this issue. And thnx @smokelong.bsky.social where I drafted this piece 💞

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Beyond the Chattering Flush by Mizuki Yamagen

Here’s how you do it. Sit on the ledge, where the ivy climbs, threading dark green rivulets over the old stone wall. Place your hand here where the slate is firm and constant. See the little dip, wher...

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 12d

such a perfect red!

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 13d

must stay primed for a rambling monologue at a moment's notice!

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 13d

you're driving on a sparse midwestern highway at 7 am to an office in an out-of-town industrial area in your 2006 corolla with rusted wheel wells, fog settling across browning september fields, and you're singing along to you don't know you're beautiful on the radio and you're 31 years old and—

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Aug 3

PAUL ÉLUARD (1895-1952)

Translated by William Carlos Williams

Curfew

So what the door was guarded
So what we were imprisoned there
So what the street was barred off
So what the town was under attack
So what she was famished
So what we were without arms
So what night had fallen
So what we made love.

PAUL ÉLUARD (1895-1952)

Translated by William Carlos Williams

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you so much, ZE!

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you so much! <3

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 21d

In such incredible company with this stunning piece that I can't believe I've only now read!

trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 21d

Nancy Connor's "Spill"

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Spill

by Nancy Connors

trampset.org

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks, Chris! (':

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you!!!

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trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 21d

@sarlynh.bsky.social's "Ten Seconds"

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Ten Seconds

by Sarah Lynn Hurd

trampset.org

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 21d

Incredibly honored and grateful to the entire team at trampset for my first-ever Best of the Net nomination! <3

trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 21d

Our fiction nominees for Best of Net: Nancy Connors & @sarlynh.bsky.social

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 22d

Not sure if I'll watch The Sting, Butch Cassidy, Gatsby, The Way We Were, or All the President's Men tonight <3

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've pulled away from traditional dialogue in a lot of my recent work, but the characters in my current project are CHATTY my god

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · Sep 8

@eleanorlennox.bsky.social's prose is always so effortless and this story in particular is SUCH lush, beautiful work.

Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · Aug 31

Our closer for August is “The Color of Things” by Eleanor Lennox. A piece that gives you a one-sides glimpse into a failing relationship against a backdrop of jungle. Big White Lotus vibes!
#flashfiction #writingcommunity
@eleanorlennox.bsky.social

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

The Color of Things

At noon, they ate fried river fish out of banana leaves with their fingers. The guide ate with them. Laura had forgotten his name but could not bear to ask it now. Craig called for salt, and Laura …

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · Sep 8

my office bestie is off today and I just told an entire anecdote to my other two coworkers, realizing half-way through that they were both wearing headphones and couldn't hear me, but I finished the story anywayyyy, so yeah I miss her lol

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · Sep 5

You make it so easy! 🖤