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Melissa Fitzpatrick
@melissafitz.bsky.social
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Words in Five South, Flash Fiction Online, Atlas + Alice, Lunch Ticket, Flash Fiction Magazine, Roi Faineant, and elsewhere. Website: https://melissa-fitzpatrick.com/ Substack: https://melissafitz.substack.com
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · Sep 12
My first published comic is up @crucialcomix.bsky.social! 🦜🪶🪺💕

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Birds of Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a beautiful city because of migration—both human and otherwise.
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 13d
Love this! 🦓
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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 15d
Read "The HOA rules don’t apply" written by @amygcb.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

"To the zebra who wanders loose in our suburban neighborhood. It ambles up and down the streets like he belongs among their English countryside names."

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The HOA rules don’t apply — Ghost Parachute
To the zebra who wanders loose in our suburban neighborhood. It ambles up and down the streets like he belongs among their English countryside names. He’s not intimidated by Northumberland or Buckingh...
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ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social · 13d
Two Poems by P M F Johnson in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Two Poems by P M F Johnson
Fire The comfortable enemy that warms us, lulls us, kills the cat, smudges the walls to the devil’s own darkness, renders air unbreathable. What you said that night I believed. Hopes built fr…
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 14d
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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 14d
Every day is a good to remember this. @melissafitz.bsky.social
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Hybrid - Melissa Fitzpatrick - Temple in a City
Hybrid art and poem by writer and author Melissa Fitzpatrick published in Temple in a City literary journal.
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 14d
It’s in my TBR pile!
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 24d
Such a beautiful reflection on finding hope in hard times.
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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · 24d
What are you doing for hope these days?

If you missed it, a blog post about hope, loss, and breaking from writing: koss-works.com/instead-of-w...

#writing, #hope, #gardening, #breaks, #ageofaquarius
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 26d
Here is one of mine:

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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 28d
Thank you! 🥰
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 28d
Oh, thank you, Karen! ❤️
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 28d
Reading this lovely piece by @jackiegoyette.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social felt like self care

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Daylight Savings by Jacqueline Goyette
This is springtime. The first day and I am up in town, past medieval walls and old churches, up the ramp of steps to the piazza. Spring is in the small things today: the twitch of flowers peeping up f...
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 28d
Thank you, Kik!
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 28d
Loved this ❤️🐕
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 28d
Thank you so much for reading, Pat 🦜💚
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · 29d
Beautiful ❤️
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · Sep 15
Thank you so much, Melissa. Heartbreaking times. 💔
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · Sep 15
This beautiful and haunting piece
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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · Sep 12
Honored as heck to be included in the second issue of Literary Namjooning. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
Delicious Trees by Miriam Gershow
The thing I don’t remember is leaves. It’s been winter forever, branches bare, limbsnaked. There’s ice on snow on ice. Gray slosh. Needles hold on the fir trees, butneedles aren’t the same as leaves. ...
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · Sep 15
Loved this piece by @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

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Mountain Path, North Wales by Bronwen Griffiths
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” HeraclitusIf the path is steep and stony on the way up the mountain and if, perhaps, it crosses severalstreams or rivulets and, if there are fields ...
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · Sep 12
My first published comic is up @crucialcomix.bsky.social! 🦜🪶🪺💕

www.crucialcomix.com/comic/birds-...
Birds of Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a beautiful city because of migration—both human and otherwise.
www.crucialcomix.com
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · Sep 11
Oh, this piece 💔
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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · Sep 8
"Because all you have now is paper and pencil." Why You Start Drawing Again by Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/08/m...
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · Sep 2
I eventually found homes for the kittens and their mama. It was a crazy couple of months … but also, so much fun, haha

Hope all is well with all your feline friends!
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · Sep 2
That happened to me once, and next thing I knew, I was living in a 1BR apartment with 9 cats. (My cat, the stray, and the stray’s seven kittens). 😂
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · Sep 1
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Mario Aliberto 3 @marioaliberto3.bsky.social · Sep 1
@bradymicheller.bsky.social put a lot of editorial love for these stories in the latest House of Arcanum! Check out "Every Day is Halloween" for Mandy's story.

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Every Day is Halloween... — House of Arcanum
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · Sep 1
I have a new story out today! Huge thanks to @kimmagowan.bsky.social & @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. And to you, for reading! (No thanks AT ALL to you if you don't read it 😤)

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The Bowling Story
Aaron Burch What happened was, I got divorced. You could take it back further—moving out, separation, sleeping in different rooms, therapy, affairs, fights, resentment, etc.—but none of that really…
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · Sep 1
Beautiful! 💙💙💙
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · Sep 1
I’m so happy this piece found a home with @claudineliterary.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/aniking

The whole inaugural issue is fantastic!
Ani King | Family Patterns: Cyanocitta cristata
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Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social · Aug 31
So good!
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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · Aug 29
ICYMI please enjoy today's gem Juror Number Eight by Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity. Just click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/29/j...
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