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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 27d

It’s real, it’s live. Part 3 has dropped which makes the issue complete. 9 authors added, 6 new flash and micro stories, 3 new poems. Let them take you away for even a bit from the routine and trouble of this world into new ones. Let them remind you all we can be templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

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Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

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Edith K. 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · 2d

Check out the audio reading of the work too, it was a delight to read ;)

dogyard @dogyardmag.com · 2d

Come read #dogyard! Our FIRST creative piece! @kattysouza.bsky.social is a delight and we were so grateful for her work and we hope you love it as much as we did. She's a DOG FOR LIFE!

#litmag #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #art #reading #writing #author #writer #online #interview

Poster that has a painting of a tattooed body submerged underwater, the head just poking out. The words say “Creative Debut, Read Katherine Souza’s piece in dogyard mag!” “There’s a lump in your throat. It’s wriggling. You say you don’t know why this happens when I touch your sternum. But I see the lump for what it is: a bird you swallowed to keep the chirping muffled in a corporeal tomb…”

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 7d

I have a new short story in the wonderful Terrazzo Editions today called “Maybe Mary” & I’d be thrilled if you give it a read. so grateful to amazing editor Gina Nutt. you can find her interview with me here too www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...

title: Maybe Mary
author: Anna Vangala Jones

a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple

title: Maybe Mary
author: Anna Vangala Jones

a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple

quote from story: “She says she doesn’t want to talk about the disappearance. Anything but that is fine.”

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 14h

two days left <3

ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 9d

ANMLY is looking to add some new members to our all-volunteer team! Come make cool stuff with us! All roles are 1-3 hours/week.

- Comics Editor
- 2 Fiction Readers
- 2 CNF Readers
- Features & Reviews Co-Editor

Email [email protected] w/ a brief statement of interest & a CV/resume to apply

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

Guess what it also is? Banned books week! Hurray for free speech & boo to censorship.
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Banned Books Week | October 5-11, 2025

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 2d

My weird horror story "My Collectors" is in this month's Kaleidotrope!
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“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places”

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 5d

See, it’s ANOTHER good day for this.

Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 6d

Every day is a good day to share a piece of writing or art you love. Or like. Or found uncomfortable. Or made you question or feel or think. That made you want to smile or cry or paint or draw or love. That reminded you of something you have or lost or could find. That carried your feet another step

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 6d

Everyday is a good day to remember this. By Todd Matson.
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Temple in a City literary journal, Todd Matson

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 6d

Every day is a good day to remember this. @deniseb.bsky.social
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Temple in a City literary journal, Denise Bayes fiction

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 6d

Every day is a good day to remember this. @sugarpigblog.bsky.social
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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 6d

Every day is a good to remember this. @melissafitz.bsky.social
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Hybrid - Melissa Fitzpatrick - Temple in a City

Hybrid art and poem by writer and author Melissa Fitzpatrick published in Temple in a City literary journal.

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 9d

@thewritelifeliz.bsky.social if you want to tell her how great this is.

Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 9d

This tiny micro. So much pathos and ache with a biting finish. Takes you some seconds to read but stays with you stays with you stays with you like an echo in the heart. By Elizabeth Rosen.
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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 10d

"You backspace again; This is a story about the hand that bites, words that chew.

You backspace. Again. Again. Again."

My lord, I love this brilliance by @karenc.bsky.social in @rfpress.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social · 10d

Grateful to have another piece the always wonderful @rfpress.bsky.social amongst such talented company! Thank you @melissacuisine.bsky.social for having me! Shout out to @megpokrass.bsky.social in whose anxiety workshop it was born! 💙
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"This Is Not A Story" by Karen Crawford

You stare at the blank page, the cursor cursing. You type; this is a story about anxiety. A story about the time the wind screamed until the sky grew orange and the clouds choked on ash and where do y...

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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 10d

Today walking and faffing about. Tomorrow working on my short story collection. Editor’s notes for the first few stories are in!
Mountain and moorland, sun and shade. 💚

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 10d

Feeling no no no, read this mossy gem by @mondickson.bsky.social yes yes yes.
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Temple in a City literary journal, Monica Dickson

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 11d

Anyone feeling lost, thinking nothing can change for the better, a little reminder by
Kendra Cardin that it can. A change in the recipe, flash fiction.
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Wishes can come true. Beautiful flower seedling not yet scattered to the wind but getting ready to burst out and find welcome soil.

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 11d

Like this: a hot, icy wonder by @luaz.bsky.social
Read and believe.
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Temple in a City literary journal, Kyla Houbolt flash fiction

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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 12d

Call for submission from Usawa (theme: Witness)
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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 12d

Big congrats you amazing writers! 🎉🎉🎉

The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · 12d

Please join me in congratulating the #WelkinPrize nominations for the @genrepunkmag.bsky.social awards.

For the Editors' Choice Award:

@cake-girl.bsky.social
@noranadj.bsky.social
@mrallanmiller.bsky.social

Genrepunk Editors' Choice Award Nominations. Allan Miller, Karen Baumgart, Nora Nadjarian

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 12d

(There are no actual skipping rope songs and warm grass lying in here, we extrapolated, you can too, add your own layers, immerse yourself, immerse, no one’s watching).

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 12d

Want a little sneak cry that isn’t about the state of the world for once but the state of your world, the one you forge out of love and trying, the one that has echoes of skipping rope songs and lying in warm grass? @junegemmell.bsky.social has you tenderly here. templeinacity.com/fiction-june...