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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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Publishes 6-sentence stories 2nd Thursday every month. No more than 400 words. Submissions always open. Never a fee.

Editor, Jeff Harvey (@jhhwriter.bsky.social)

https://gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/
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jmww is looking for Associate Flash Fiction and Fiction Editors! Applications open through January 31, 2026.

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Associate Flash Fiction and Fiction Editors Wanted!
jmww is looking for Associate Flash Fiction and Fiction Editors! Applications open through January 31, 2026.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Our Dec issue is now live! It's our last issue of the year, and it's super sized!

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We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Explore the site sections and our Medium archive for more.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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December 2024 Issue Work by @sfreligh.bsky.social Guy Biederman @amybarnes.bsky.social @ddgwriter.bsky.social @kimsrogers.bsky.social @rebeccatiger.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @csquareh.bsky.social
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Issue 24 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Shamblen Studios on Unsplash Gooseberry Pie launched in December 2023 with our first issue published January 18, 2024. What started as an idea to publish one six-sentence story per week quick...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"Scrubbing the rug again. Sweeping linoleum again. Letting the dog out. Letting him in."

Wow. This extraordinary piece (and that last line!) by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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She's — Ghost Parachute
Scrubbing the dog’s vomit; subtracting his runny stool from the white carpet. Scooping coffee “crystals” from the jar in the cupboard and dissolving them into microwaved tap water. Taking a steadying ...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Claudine Literary @claudineliterary.bsky.social is such a great newcomer to the lit scene. Check it out and vote! 😺
dehardy.bsky.social D.E. Hardy @dehardy.bsky.social · 7d
Humans!!!!! What a gift of joy straight to my heart! We all know how tiring and hidden our work as editors and readers can be. How thrilling to be seen!! 💚😭💚 thank you @chillsubs.bsky.social for sharing this and thank you to the kind voter who left the comment!
chillsubs.bsky.social Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 7d
So excited to share this sweet comment a voter left for @claudineliterary.bsky.social!

Our Best Lit Mag Awards close in a week, so get your votes in now‼️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

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December 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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with @sherrieflick.bsky.social @mfcfeeley.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @francinewitte.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @jhhwriter.bsky.social and @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social, if you can believe it! ghostparachute.com/issue/decemb...
December 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
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December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Love this micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social!

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Kim Magowan | Instead of Doing Something Juvenile, Like Slashing Your Tires, After You Dumped Me for DeAnna Vacario
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December 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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“My ex-boyfriend Jack (Jack from Buffalo, not Jack from Encino) swiped three cases of poppers from Eddie’s Porn Emporium on Hollywood Boulevard and I started selling them out of the trunk of my Pinto”

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Jeff Harvey | They Come and Go
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December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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"The good news is that I am in the room where it happens. The bad news is that room is in hell." 🤣🤣💀
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21d
"In the last court term, I wrote ten dissenting opinions, more than any other justice. Have you previewed the horror show on the docket for this term? Alito just winked at me and asked if it’s too soon to joke that I don’t have the brain processing power to do this job."
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent
You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve wri...
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November 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Dusty Springfield, “The Windmills of Your Mind”
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Dusty Springfield / Windmills Of Your Mind
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November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Super excited that my story "La Brea Tar Pits" was nominated for Best Microfiction 2026 -- huge thanks to Gooseberry Pie and Jeff Harvey!
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Writer friends, please welcome my fellow Berlin-based writer @janewords.bsky.social to Bluesky! And be sure to check out her amazing work like this story in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social: gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...
La Brea Tar Pits - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Imleedh Ali on Unsplash by Jane Yager I’m the one who wanted to come here, but now I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad le...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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“Matthew was well trained as a sales sort, to the extent that he trained others to mimic the party line of the company selling seashells to fishermen…”
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Thank You for your Patience - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Sebastian Pociecha on Unsplash by Sheila E. Murphy A wishy-washy wave of partial kindness inflected itself within the row of syllables Matthew methodically released into the ear canal of the ...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Thank you so much for reading and sharing this superb flash. Greatly appreciated, Pat @pdforan.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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“She knows she is surrounded by people pleasers who cringe as they watch her wrinkle her expression on Zoom then work to move her face muscles back to neutral smooth.” @shemurph.bsky.social
Bittering Up - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Manuel bonadeo on Unsplash by Sheila E. Murphy Hilda wields a curious power with her ritually unhappy face. She knows she is surrounded by people pleasers who cringe as they watch her wrinkle...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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“No one knows the hiding spot where I go when there’s too much noise,”
—@salgal.bsky.social
Three Truths and a Lie - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Joe Dudeck on Unsplash by Sally R Simon No one knows the hiding spot where I go when there’s too much noise, like Dad yelling at Mom or Jimmy playing rap too loud or Walter mowing the meadow,...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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“The morning was pleasant, so we kept walking, forgetting how quickly conditions change.”
—Michelle Ross
Transmogrification - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Logan Voss on Unsplash by Michelle Ross The morning was pleasant, so we kept walking, forgetting how quickly conditions change. By the time we turned around, we’d run out of shade—no reprieve...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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iamchrisscott.bsky.social
Super thrilled that my story “My Dad who Lives in the Walls” has been nominated for Best Small Fictions! Thank you Gooseberry Pie and Jeff Harvey. gooseberry-pie.com/my-dad-who-l...
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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pleomorphic2.bsky.social
Massive thanks @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for this mom! And thanks @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for picking this crazy queer arthropod piece for the comp! Co breaths fellow nominees 🧡. Here’s my weird-ass story: gooseberry-pie.com/the-undulati...
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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@maireadwrites.bsky.social
“It’ll take them the rest of the day, so we leave them to it and head to the hospital, to sit at my mother’s bedside and watch her sleep.”

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When My mother Is Admitted to Hospital, We Organise a Team of Cleaners to Perform a Deep Clean of Her House - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Aleksi Partanen on Unsplash by Mairead Robinson They start in the attic with buckets and bleach, their efficient brooms sweeping spiders into tiny binbags as sunlight spills through gaps in t...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2026

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
Mikki Aronoff
@chrisscott.bsky.social
Best Small Fictions Nominations 2026 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine is thrilled to nominate the following for Best Small Fictions 2026:
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November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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“But I don’t tell my son that because I don’t want to glorify chewing tobacco, driving erratically, or not wearing your seatbelt.” @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
Subway Was Real When You Worked There - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Taylor Flowe on Unsplash by Lisa Thornton reads my son aloud from my senior yearbook and I’m not sure yet who the inscription is from but then he says no one has fallen out of my car lately a...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Best MicroFiction nominees 2026 from @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

Jen Wrightsmith
Kalliopy Paleos
@francinewitte.bsky.social
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social
Jane Yager

Congratulations to all!♥️
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A La Mode Archives - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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November 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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“On the morning after my mother’s funeral, I started on the walls with a color called Summer Grass Green…”
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Paint Fumes - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Taelynn Christopher on Unsplash by Jessica Klimesh On the morning of my mother’s funeral, I woke up early to prep the house for painting, spreading out drop cloths, taping edges, and priming ...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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By @jekwriter.bsky.social
“Being young, I adjusted quickly to having only one eye, because, as the ER doctor said, kids are resilient.”
All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Mohamed Marey on Unsplash by Jessica Klimesh When my left eyeball popped out, it bounced so fast and high, like a superball, against my ceiling, against my walls, against my closet door, that...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM