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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · 11d

Who wrote this anonymous, nasty, brilliant capsule view of a marriage in under 50 words?

Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · 24d

If you're in North Jersey on Saturday afternoon, September 27, and also happen to be interested in writing a novel, by all means come to the Fort Lee public library! fortleelibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/how...

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · 25d

Please remember that VR is open not just for submissions but also for interview and review proposals and news of recently published flash fiction books! www.vestalreview.net/guidelines

Submission Guidelines — Vestal Review

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join Vestal Review contributor Francine Witte at an in-person launch for her new book, Some Distant Pin of Light (Cervena Barva Press) 9/6/25, 4-6 PM at the Parkside Lounge, 317 E. Houston Street, NYC.

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Aug 13

The same way you get gruntled. 🙂

Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · Aug 13

Yeah you can be "unhinged" but how do I get "hinged"

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Aug 5

Please help us build our flash vocabulary by adding to this list!

flash flood
flash drive
news flash
hot flash
flashback
flash card
flash mob
flash in the pan
Flash Gordon
flash point
flash bulb
flash dance
flash forward
grandmaster flash
quick as a flash
a flash in the pan
flash-frozen
flashlight

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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 2

#FF Give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community:
@pointedcircle.bsky.social
@pulpliterature.bsky.social
@radicalcatalyst.bsky.social
@smallprint.bsky.social
@stairwellbooks.bsky.social
@thesnapdragonmag.bsky.social
@vestalreview.bsky.social
@villaineralit.bsky.social

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Aug 1

Vestal Review is open for submissions again! They've already started coming in over the transom--keep up the good work! www.vestalreview.net/guidelines

Vestal Review is open for submissions again! They've already started coming in over the transom--keep up the good work! https://www.vestalreview.net/guidelines

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Jul 28

You forgot "write"! 🙂

Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · Jul 28

If I could figure out how to nap, read, water the garden, bake, drink a Fresca, and run on the treadmill all at the same time, I'd be in business.

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Jul 11

How to restructure the humanities: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Satirical Essay on Restructuring Humanities (opinion)

The U of All People is restructuring the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, as David Galef writes.

www.insidehighered.com

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Pithead Chapel @pitheadchapel.bsky.social · Jul 1

Our July issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issue-7/

Words
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
@kimchinquee.bsky.social
RENESHA DHANRAJ
WYLEY FROHLICH JUNGERMAN
TROY ANDERSON
@danbillyc.bsky.social
@theresegleason
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social
BRITTANY REDD
TARA SHEA BURKE

Art
JACELYN YAP

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Brandon Nadeau @bnadeauwriter.bsky.social · Jul 6

Our door is always open.
#LitMag #LiteraryJournal #LiteraryMagazine #Art #Fiction #Poetry #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #WritersLift #FlashFiction #MultiGenre #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Romance #Romantasy #Mystery #LiteraryFiction #Horror #Comedy #Photography #Painting #Sculpture #DigitalArt

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Jul 5

Suitably chilling! VR embraces genre work, too.

DarkHolmePublishing @kerry767.bsky.social · Jul 5

Lily had never spoken before.
But when the basement door creaked open,
she whispered his name.

📖 One of 100+ micro-horror stories.
🛒 Link in bio.

#BookSky #FlashFiction #MicroHorror #CreepyReads
#ShortScares #IndieAuthors #ReadingCommunity #HorrorCommunity

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · Jul 5

Great to be back on @paragraphplanet.bsky.social after not subbing for a long time. Big thanks to Richard Hearn for selecting my micro. #microfiction #flashfiction

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Jul 5

Always up for a hermit crab form!

Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · Jul 5

A beautiful story that shares the value of those who cook for their families 🥹💖

#fantasy #flashfiction

M. R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · Jun 29

New story day! I'm so excited to share "A Recipe for the Day Alban Kills the King," out now from Orion's Belt! This is a story about coming home at the end of the adventure—a story about pain and grief and love and also (most importantly?) really good soup.

www.orions-belt.net/archives/a-r...

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · Jul 5

We’re kicking off July’s issue with brand new SF by Jacob Baugher. “Recitations” evaluates the efficacy of ‘thoughts and prayers’

#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/reci...

Recitations

I came down to the disaster zone in a bubble-skiff, launched from a Responder-class galaxyship in high orbit. It skips and bumps on the turbulence. There are six of us, each wearing the flat white …

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Zoe ⚡️ @lifeandmars.bsky.social · Jun 27

So excited to share this interview I did with @h0lc0mb.bsky.social author of Wolfbaby!

Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Jun 27

An interview with a flash fiction author focused on maternity and childhood.
Read an interview with Susan Holcomb, conducted by Zoe Marzo

vestalreview.net/interview-wi...

@lifeandmars.bsky.social
@h0lc0mb.bsky.social

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · Jun 29

For a five-minute news break via otherworldly stories, follow @vestalreview.bsky.social: striking prose and design in the longest running flash mag

Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Jun 24

How to handle a drunk mom, take 1.
Read "Love, Alice," by Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social

vestalreview.net/love-alice

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Shannon Sanders @shanders.bsky.social · Jun 29

Lovely flash by my workshop buddy @cberwick.bsky.social.

Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Jun 24

How to handle a drunk mom, take 1.
Read "Love, Alice," by Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social

vestalreview.net/love-alice

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · Jun 30

Day 6: @smokelong.bsky.social's The Archive Challenge — @vestalreview.bsky.social

From Issue 1 of "the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet."

“You should get battle pay for those stretch marks.”

Divorce — Vestal Review

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · Jun 30

In the spirit of ‘be careful what you wish for.'

“It all began with rogue condiments.”

The Shelf Life of Faceless Dolls and New Men by Phoebe Kate Foster

(More digging in @vestalreview.bsky.social archives tomorrow!!)

Divorce — Vestal Review

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Jun 27

A review of a story collection about the traps women try to avoid.
Read “Review of First Law of Holes by Meg Pokrass,” by David Brady @megpokrass.bsky.social

www.vestalreview.net/review-of-fi...

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Jun 27

An interview with a flash fiction author focused on maternity and childhood.
Read an interview with Susan Holcomb, conducted by Zoe Marzo

vestalreview.net/interview-wi...

@lifeandmars.bsky.social
@h0lc0mb.bsky.social

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Jun 27

An interview with a flash fiction author with a touch of strange.
Read an Interview with Avitus B. Carle, conducted by Mandira Pattnaik @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

www.vestalreview.net/interview-wi...

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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · Jun 27

The lure of the corvine life.
Read "Obligation," by Trina Young

vestalreview.net/issue-66

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