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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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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 5d

Over the years, we’ve been fortunate to publish many essays on poetry and translation by Wally Swist. Today I’m pleased to share the introduction to his forthcoming collection, "If You’re the Dreamer, I’m the Dream: Selected Translations from Rilke’s Book of Hours" (Finishing Line Press)! #poetry

Listening to Rilke Redux |

By Wally Swist — "In Rilke’s praises, we find our own praise—of ourselves, of others, of mostly anything, actually. When anyone experiences an epiphany, that person wants to share that epiphany."

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 8d

We’re delighted to have Carla Bessa return to YIV with a new translation by Elton Uliana. Keep your eyes on the prize for Tuesday #flashfiction “don’t ask what any of this means.”

“all I know is that I have to run. that’s the premise of my being-in-the-world: running, that’s how I’m programmed.”

don’t ask what any of this means | Your Impossible Voice

By Carla Bessa, translated by Elton Uliana — "all I know is that I have to run. that’s the premise of my being-in-the-world: running, that’s how I’m programmed."

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 11d

Please join me at Stories on Stage Davis for a performance of my story "Overview Effect" (originally published in @yourimpossiblevoice.com) on October 12. Full event info here:

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 13d

ICYMI: I had a flash in @yourimpossiblevoice.com

We’re All Bananas | Your Impossible Voice

By Chelsea Stickle — "After my mother’s skin cancer diagnosis, I was bullied by my older sister Sally into scheduling a 'skin test,' which is what they call it when you strip in a cold room and show a...

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 13d

“Jeff Weddle is a poet who reads other poets. Jeff Weddle is a philosopher whose ideas come not out of books but out of lived lives, of friends of now and then, of family, and of people met along the way.”

Peter Mladinic reviews "Letter to Xhevdet Bajraj" by Jeff Weddle

Ask the Sunlight on a Sleeping Dog: Letter to Xhevdet Bajraj by Jeff Weddle | Your Impossible Voice

Review by Peter Mladinic — "Jeff Weddle is a poet who reads other poets. Jeff Weddle is a philosopher whose ideas come not out of books but out of lived lives, of friends of now and then, of family, a...

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 15d

Tuesday #FlashFiction: "We’re All Bananas" by @chelseastickle.bsky.social!

“After my mother’s skin cancer diagnosis, I was bullied by my older sister Sally into scheduling a ‘skin test,’ which is what they call it when you strip in a cold room and show a stranger every part of your body.”

We’re All Bananas | Your Impossible Voice

By Chelsea Stickle — "After my mother’s skin cancer diagnosis, I was bullied by my older sister Sally into scheduling a 'skin test,' which is what they call it when you strip in a cold room and show a...

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 22d

Tuesday #flashfiction: Subjective Condition by Rebecca Tiger

"The neurologist says I could be like this for two to three years. I am in my doctor’s office, crying because of dizziness, and he looks at me as if I’m an alien. 'Well, the scans show you are okay.'"

Subjective Condition | Your Impossible Voice

By Rebecca Tiger — "A woman swims up to me in the clear blue-green Aegean. We agree that the water is beautiful."

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 29d

Tuesday #flashfiction: The Things You Will Do—a breathless moment of grief and guilt by @andreamarcusa.bsky.social!

The Things You Will Do | Your Impossible Voice

By Andrea Marcusa — "You will see your mother’s number calling and a strange cardboard voice will strike your ear with She’s passed, and you’ll hang onto your mind, save it from falling into dead air,...

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Sep 2

"We passed one plastic cup after another back and forth through the bars, then she smashed the bottles into a trash can, came back inside, and we all toasted quick thinking and said fuck these fragile assholes as we gulped instead of sipped."

Tuesday #flashfiction: with @mattjakubowski.bsky.social!

Libation | Your Impossible Voice

By Matthew Jakubowski — "I later learned people had a lot of opinions about the kind of people we were, and our so-called lifestyles, a word they thought was so vaguely clever."

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Sep 1

Boom. Congratulations, all, and best of luck! @sundresspub.bsky.social

Your Impossible Voice 2026 Best of the Net Nominees | Contributor News

Your Impossible Voice is proud to nominate these extraordinary pieces from issues 31 and 32.

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Aug 26

Tuesday #flashfiction: Rage, wreckage, and rumination take flight in @karenschauber.bsky.social's Sparrowhawk!

Sparrowhawk | Your Impossible Voice

By Karen Schauber — "I ram down hard on the pedal driving the blue metallic mustang around the bend, careening headlong into a future without You. A year of joust and weave, submerge and abandon."

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · Aug 22

August Spec Flash Roundup!

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Flash Roundup * August 2025

A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Aug 20

"It starts with a tearing—quiet at first, like silk splitting in the dark—and then the howl builds in your spine, in your teeth, in the wet hinge of your jaw. You bite your pillow, your tongue, your lover’s shoulder. You bleed without knowing where from."

New #flashfiction from Mathieu Parsy!

Your Body Is a Wolf | Your Impossible Voice

By Mathieu Parsy — "It starts with a tearing—quiet at first, like silk splitting in the dark—and then the howl builds in your spine, in your teeth, in the wet hinge of your jaw."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 20

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Aug 19

No Tuesday Flash Fiction today while we are working on resolving this.

a man is sitting at a desk in front of a computer with a fire coming out of the screen .

ALT: a man is sitting at a desk in front of a computer with a fire coming out of the screen .

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Aug 19

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Aug 19

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Aug 12

"She stretches out one long wing, almost as if she is waving at me. I wave back. I tell her my name. She speaks in a language that I don’t understand. Well, at least we aren’t strangers anymore. Does that make us friends?"

Tuesday #flashfiction from Sophie Isham!

My Friend, the Heron | Your Impossible Voice

By Sophie Isham — "We stare at each other. Both have long limbs; both find pleasure near the shore of the lake. A few turtles on a log soak in the sunlight between us. I admire her balance, how she ca...

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · Aug 10

Thrilled to receive an acceptance from @yourimpossiblevoice.com for a story I started in a @francinewitte.bsky.social prompt session! Thank to @jekwriter.bsky.social and Tammy Evans for their feedback! And thanks to @keithjpowell.com for the acceptance!

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Aug 5

Tuesday #flashfiction: A one-night stand tangled in perfume, politics, and leftover shakshuka in The Lemon Trees Don’t Care You’re Sexy (But I Do) by L.F. Khouri.

The Lemon Trees Don’t Care You’re Sexy (But I Do) | Your Impossible Voice

By L.F. Khouri — "She asked where I was from. I said Chicago. She said, no, like really. I said Palestine."

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Mizuki @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Sometimes I imagine her—your wife. Her body gone small under the machines."

My little strange story of longing is out at @yourimpossiblevoice.com today. Thank you to Keith and the editorial team for giving this a home 🙏🏻

Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Jul 29

We were captivated by the thoughtful sensory details in this new #flashfiction from @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social, and you will be too! Don't miss "A Weekly Arrangement."

A Weekly Arrangement | Your Impossible Voice

By Mizuki Yamagen — "I know your order by scent before I see you—lilies, always lilies, that quiet kind of white, the kind used for altars, for memorials, for weddings when people still believed in vo...

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · Jul 29

We were captivated by the thoughtful sensory details in this new #flashfiction from @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social, and you will be too! Don't miss "A Weekly Arrangement."

A Weekly Arrangement | Your Impossible Voice

By Mizuki Yamagen — "I know your order by scent before I see you—lilies, always lilies, that quiet kind of white, the kind used for altars, for memorials, for weddings when people still believed in vo...

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