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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Jul 16

chicago last weekend, amsterdam next weekend, salt lake city the week after that, then puerto rico, then boulder...my past self really underestimated the amount of energy I would have this summer 🫣

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · Jul 6

"I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum, the index cards with illegible scribbles..." - from "Greed" by Tori Walters, Finalist, 2025 Contest for Flash CNF.
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/greed-by-tori-walters/

Greed by Tori Walters | Hippocampus Magazine

"I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum, the index cards with illegible scribbles..." -- "Greed" by Tori Walters. Flash contest finalist.

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Jul 2

A delightful and tender piece that I could read over and over and over again.

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Jun 18

Is Harry Styles bagging groceries at a Trader Joe's in Indiana? Read this funny, tender story by Andrew Graham Martin to find out.

"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...

My Teenage Daughter

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Jul 2

This flash piece hasn’t left me since I first read it.

Do yourself a favor, and give it a read.

Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · Jun 12

Friends! My new #flashfiction, “Sparrow’s Work Song,” is among the dazzling poems and stories in the new issue of @variantlit.bsky.social. It’s a story I really love. Huge thanks to prose editor Tori Walters for all the kindness & support.
variantlit.com/sparrows-wor...

Sparrow’s Work Song

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Jul 2

It was an absolute pleasure to work with you on this wonderful piece, Matt!!!

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Jul 2

Have you read our newest issue yet?!?

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Jun 12

Issue 21 is here! ✨️

variantlit.com/issue-twenty...

ISSUE TWENTY-ONE

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Jul 2

Still on Cloud 9 over this!
☁️🥰☁️

Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · Jun 11

CYMI: The 2025 We Love Short Shorts Finalists & Special Mentions! Congrats to winner Annamaria Formichella and finalists Hillary Wentworth and Tori Walters. Read all stories here:
hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/cont...

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · May 6

I can't believe I get to share this piece with the world after it was named one of the finalists of the We Love Short Shorts Creative Nonfiction Contest put on by @hippocampusmag.bsky.social

I am so proud of these piece and honored to have been selected!

hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/gree...

Greed by Tori Walters | Hippocampus Magazine

"I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum, the index cards with illegible scribbles..." -- "Greed" by Tori Walters. Flash contest finalist.

hippocampusmagazine.com

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · May 5

I'm so honored and excited to be one of the finalists for @hippocampusmag.bsky.social's We Love Short Shorts Contest! I have been reading Hippocampus Mag for years, so to be selected as a finalist means so much to me ☺️!!

Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · May 2

We're thrilled to announce the three finalists and honorable mentions for the 2025 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Creative Nonfiction. The finalist stories and winner announcement goes live with our May-June 2025 issue next week. hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/cont...

Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Apr 14

working to pay for my daily strawberry matcha latte and protein smoothie 🍓🍓🍓

Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Apr 11

Today's read: themorningnews.org/article/the-...

The Querent - The Morning News

Fortunetelling is easy to ridicule, frequently misunderstood, and, for some people, extremely powerful. Unfortunately, what’s very tough to predict is what reading futures will do to the person ...

themorningnews.org

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Apr 9

"They are beautiful. They are good. They do not doomscroll. They do not despair about what is to come. They do not live in the past, swimming in regrets. They are alive in the here and now."

www.thebeliever.net/the-magic-we...

The Magic Well - Believer Magazine

I. The first image came in black and white: slashes of sable, rosettes, slender legs. Echo’s eyes were zipped shut, her face marked with lines as if dripping with tears. Several babies curled up at he...

www.thebeliever.net

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Mar 30

“I do not have one brain for thinking about a rubbled Gaza and another for thinking about my gentle cat wheezing through the night.“

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

What Will You Do?

What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?

www.thenation.com

Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Mar 25

happy spring sunsets everyone 🌹🌸🌷🌼🐝🐄🌅

Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Mar 20

Team Renae Update: The Power of Community

It has been one month since we first shared Renae’s story, and the response has been nothing short of awe-inspiring.

💛OVERWHELMED. GRATEFUL. INSPIRED. 💛

www.gofundme.com/f/rallyforre...

Donate to Support Renae's Fight Against Stage IV Lung Cancer, organized by Lauren Landry

Hi, my name is Eric Vere and I’m reaching out on behalf o… Lauren Landry needs your support for Support Renae's Fight Against Stage IV Lung Cancer

www.gofundme.com

Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Mar 20

Subs for @variantlit.bsky.social are open until April 5!!!

Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · Mar 20

also I don't beleive any of them charge fees so SUBMIT YOUR WRITING WITH WILD ABANDON

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · Mar 14

“They’re fluffy and pastel, the kind of sweater a young girl would wear, a girl who still believed that presidents were kind and just. A girl who …”

@sfreligh.bsky.social in @variantlit.bsky.social variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...

The Girl Most Likely To

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Mar 14

HVAC unit needs repairs, piles of laundry, left garage door broken, bones aching—Friday is hitting hard this week.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 14

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

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Kyle Isamu Weik @kyleisamu.bsky.social · Mar 3

“They threaten to call Bruce the manager who’s usually doing Roberta the lifer waitress in his office upstairs or is passed out drunk in the wine room.”

You gotta give this piece by @sfreligh.bsky.social a read!

Sarah Freligh @sfreligh.bsky.social · Mar 3

New Rita story at Variant Lit. Thanks to the editors! variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...

The Girl Most Likely To

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Mar 9

If you're sending out work today, send us your poems or prose! We're open now through April 5 for our Summer issue.

variantlit.com/submit/

Submit

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Mar 6

"I can’t really fix anything, but I feel all this pressure to save everyone. To be of use./
My friends, they are coming apart at the seams. Not my problem, you say?"

Oh my. This may be my new favorite poem.

yalereview.org/article/emil...

Emily Skillings: "A Room in Dumb Bitchville"

A poem by Emily Skillings: "Hello. Can you hear me? If not me, do you hear the notifications sweetly intoning?"

yalereview.org

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Mar 6

"In the beginning, it was spring. That magical unfolding—viriditas."

Nancy Huggett's nonfiction piece, "The Beginning of Devotion," was a lovely way to start my morning and to intensify the yearning for spring today.

@thedodgemag.bsky.social

cymbals-corn-mx5t.squarespace.com/nancyhuggett1

The Beginning of Devotion by Nancy Huggett — The Dodge

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Tori Walters @victoriaceann.bsky.social · Mar 5

❤️❤️❤️

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Sarah Freligh @sfreligh.bsky.social · Mar 3

New Rita story at Variant Lit. Thanks to the editors! variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...

The Girl Most Likely To

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