writer, editor, axolotl with a pretty good throwing arm ''Why do I have to understand what you're saying all the time?" — Cory F.
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I have a story in @coldsignalmag that was sort of inspired by 1960s pop songs in which the back-up singers exhort the lead singer to be careful with her heart and the lead singer replies the way she replies. Thank you @johnnychrostek💙 for taking this one. cold-signal.com/versions-of-…
"They’re offended by her light, a bright blue-white luminescence, like glowworms on cave walls in New Zealand, or so she hears."
the distance of *until*, a wish when it wanes, a smile when it settles
@WriterMMaggard in @moonrabbitcandy milkcandyreview.home.blog/20…
"You don’t say that now when you skip school and buy a cone with a flake it tastes so much like fear you want to spit it off your tongue and ..."
that *can* that *can't* that man that mum that you this one from Kik Lodge in @moonrabbitcandy milkcandyreview.home.blog/20…
"Sunlight silvered the naked canopies of trees, and the Genesee River, its course a stark contrast to the orderly placement of skyscrapers and streets, glinted like a snake let loose in a classroom ..."
Firmament, Engine Roar, Jewels by @melostrom in Red Rock Review
"I hide myself in muscle, in warrior football jerseys, and bouncy cheerleader girlfriends, in stormy surfing and outrigger paddling, my skin always bronzed, my hair shorn close, not an ounce of doubt peeking through ..."
@lumchanmfa in @Sunlight_Press thesunlightpress.com/2025/01…
"... I have grown
another day wiser, but of course
this isn’t true. I have grown another day
closer to coldness ..."
Everything Goes by @jadjosey in @ballastjournal ballastjournal.com/jad-josey
"They know how to camouflage, to press hard into one another, to hide by being seen."
"Sometimes she maps her bruises, the ones on her neck or her thighs, the ones she doesn't remember getting and the ones she does."
Creeps by @JJLofflin in @Wigleaf wigleaf.com/202501creeps.htm
“because I was (and will always be)
a little more than what is allowed
to be loved, I quickly learned,
like a chess player, to look
for the move that is ten turns
beyond where we are in the
moment. ...”
Everyday Cat Hair and Snags by @jrouse @ninthletter ninthletter.com/2025/01/07/j…
“Love is different in space.”
“Someone watches your every inhale and lip bite. Notes the hitch of your breath when he runs his tongue along the shell of your ear.”
“… but you can close your eyes.”
@mcarphil in @matchbooklitmag matchbooklitmag.com/mb/phill…
“I wonder if her name is an old-fashioned one, a name of yore (what even is yore?) And I’m thinking maybe it’s Marjory or Ethel or Mrs Ada Quinn.”
“She gives me the gentlest nod and whispers, ‘you just …'”
@kathyhoyle1 in @pocketsmag doesithavepockets.com/fictio…
“She knows that when the guests are gone, their promises disappear like the sun when it sets a torch to the horizon ...”
The Sea is Kindest to Poets + 1 by @amybookwhisper1 in @pocketsmag doesithavepockets.com/fictio…
“My pet ghost apologizes that she’s not a very good ghost.”
“My pet ghost says I’m lucky because …”
Alphabet + 2 by @ClaudiaMonpere in @pocketsmag doesithavepockets.com/fictio…
Thank you so much, @pocketsmag! ❤️❤️❤️
Congrats & best wishes to our nominees for @altcurrent's Best Small Fictions 2025 including @pdforan, @lilysslave, KM Baysal, Rhea Thomas, & Eliana Megerman
“We aren’t dead. Just dead to each other.”
“Friendship is a lifelong effort between two people who love each other deeply. It’s a lifelong effort between two people who hate each other a little, too.”
@anniejo_17 in @rejectionlit rejection-letters.com/2025/0…
“I love this—when mutability happens, old plots turned new after some years …”
“… but I’m already on the other side with her—Anna—the two of us spinning like whirligigs in an open field …”
Latecomer by @EileenTomarchio in @ReckonReview reckonreview.com/latecomer-f…
“Only she knows she lives in an illusion and she pretends she doesn’t know the world is fake, because that’s part of the tale.”
@happymil_ in @OddballMagazine oddballmagazine.com/flash-fi…
“Conversation is a keeping on at this point, dashes of diction, seasoning them sentences with more sentences, exclaiming her exemplary points with another thing 1, and another thing 2, and another thing 3.”
@CoCo4AfroPuffs in @DoricLiterary doric-literary.com/2025/01/0…
“Sometimes I wake at night, thinking I should tell the truth.”
“And sometimes I think (thoughts I push back) ...”
“Sometimes, I want a best friend who ...”
@LoriSambolBrody in @DoricLiterary doric-literary.com/2025/01/0…
"How you clutched its wooden mane in your small hands. How your father said how long is this going to take."
"You laughed. You remembered you laughed."
what shines, what doesn't, what's what, what isn't
@loki_writes in @MISTERBULLBULL mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash…
“Let’s say there was a beautiful boy when you were sixteen.”
"Let’s say there was no boy ..."
"Let’s say there’s no such thing as a happy ending."
“Let’s say there’s a point where imagination fails you. But …”
@doylejacq in @TheFLReview cah.ucf.edu/floridareview/ar…
“… His dreams are tiny—more feeling than story,
really. Simple, beautiful even. Every question, its own answer.
That’s all he has. Like smears of color in motion with no
focus. …”
Reckonings of Oblivion + 2 by @SamRasnake in @FRiGGmagazine friggmagazine.com/issuesixty…