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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks so much! Likewise I love the illustration - it emanates so much.

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Glenn Orgias @glennorgias.bsky.social · 1d

Creepy in the best possible way!!!!

Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 1d

I have a little Spooky Season piece for everyone up in @flashfrog.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy. A big thanks to @ericscottryon.bsky.social for giving this a home.

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Night is a Mouth with No Shape by Joshua Jones Lofflin

There’s the fog, always, a mist that clings to the girl’s legs. She walks along this darkened highway—not a real highway, but a narrow stretch of pitted asphalt with hardly any shoulder. Cars sweep…

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 23h

Fantastic work!

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you, Glenn!

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks for reading and sharing!

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 1d

"What if time itself is a kind of wound?" Joshua Jones Lofflin is our featured author this week. Read @jjlofflin.bsky.social's interview that accompanies his award-winning story. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Smoke Signals with Joshua Jones Lofflin - SmokeLong Quarterly

This story won the SmokeLong Summer Standalone Flash competition—congratulations! I know you (like me) are a SmokeLong Fitness groupie. What prompt did you write this story for (if any)? What feedback...

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 1d

🥰

Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Ani!

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 1d

💀💙

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! It’s brilliant!

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 1d

FLASH FROGTOBER 👻🐸

“Night is a Mouth with No Shape” by @jjlofflin.bsky.social is now up!

Art by @olaal-fateh.bsky.social

flash-frog.com/2025/10/13/n...

Night is a Mouth with No Shape by Joshua Jones Lofflin

There’s the fog, always, a mist that clings to the girl’s legs. She walks along this darkened highway—not a real highway, but a narrow stretch of pitted asphalt with hardly any shoulder. Cars sweep…

flash-frog.com

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 1d

I have a little Spooky Season piece for everyone up in @flashfrog.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy. A big thanks to @ericscottryon.bsky.social for giving this a home.

flash-frog.com/2025/10/13/n...

Night is a Mouth with No Shape by Joshua Jones Lofflin

There’s the fog, always, a mist that clings to the girl’s legs. She walks along this darkened highway—not a real highway, but a narrow stretch of pitted asphalt with hardly any shoulder. Cars sweep…

flash-frog.com

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 5d

“But what did I know? I was just saying a word in real life that I’d only heard in movies”

New micro from @kimmagowan.bsky.social !

Kim Magowan @kimmagowan.bsky.social · 5d

I have a new story in awesome @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Many thanks to Jeff Harvey for publishing this micro, and @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social fpr the prompt that generated this micro. (And Mike is in this issue too, yay!).

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Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 5d

Y’all, it actually has veins 😬

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing like the sounds of strange scrapes and scratchings coming from the attic to usher in Spooky Season. 😱

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 7d

Happy pub day to the brilliant @angieellis.bsky.social !

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A Snake and a Feathered Bird

This atmospheric coming-of-age tale follows Ben, a sensitive boy struggling to unravel his family history while caught in the vortex of other people’s lives. Vancouver Island, 1875. Three-year-old Ben...

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 8d

"I loved a man I would have to leave. (Or: I loved a man because I would have to leave.) (Or: Because I had to leave this man, I would always love him.)"

the longing in this excellent piece from @dinalrelles.bsky.social

Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 8d

it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures

Departures
by Dina L. Relles
handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry.

I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again.

I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate.

You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 8d

Love it!

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 8d

“Every ghost caves. Maybe it’s boredom. Perhaps curiosity. But it starts with nudity, with peeping.”

I always love reading @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social & doubly so during Flash Frogtober

Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 8d

FLASH FROGTOBER👻🐸

“Collision” by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social is now up!

Art by Courtney Burton

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Collision by Michael Czyzniejewski

Light my candles in a daze ‘cause I’ve found God. —Nirvana, “Lithium” The hardest part about being a ghost is getting over the sex, as in watching the living go at it. It’s ironic because when you …

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 9d

Watching Japanese otters on YouTube is the palette cleanser I need

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 9d

I feel this

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 11d

FLASH FROGTOBER is just around the corner! 👻🐸👻

And you all aren’t ready…

These aren’t your grandparents’ ghost stories! 👀

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Glenn Orgias @glennorgias.bsky.social · 15d

Always love Josh's stories, this one is great! Kinda creepy, vaguely naughty, altogether unsettling and clever.

Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 18d

I have a small piece up at trampset today about cutaneous horns. A big thanks to the editors for giving it a home.

trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 18d

"you don’t like to say what it resembles, but you can tell what your boyfriend is thinking, the way he simpers and leers."

@jjlofflin.bsky.social's "Portrait of Mary Davis the Horned Woman — oil on canvas 1668"

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