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M Lenoir Bond
@mlenoirbond.bsky.social
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Poet. Writer. Editor. Best of the Net nom. Work in: Prairie Schooner, Rust & Moth, COMP: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Best New Poets, december Mag, etc. Associate Editor for The Molotov Cocktail. Herbalist. Herbivore. Bunmom. Even weirder than you think.
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M Lenoir Bond @mlenoirbond.bsky.social · Aug 26
Always my favorite @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #flashfiction contest to read. I love seeing new spins on tired old tropes as well as unique creations bubbling forth from writers’ mind cauldrons. 🧙 #flashmonster has been our annual October contest since 2014!
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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · Aug 21
It's that time of year again. We want to see your nasties, the dark entities you conjure and the ghouls you stitch together. Make them brutal, make them sympathetic, make them impossible to define.

#FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 1d
Get moving! That #FlashMonster soft deadline hits tomorrow.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d
Victo Ngai, award winning illustrator and artist from Hong Kong #womensart #Autumn #Fall
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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 1d
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From 'Sea Garden' (1916)
—H.D. / Hilda Doolittle

#forgottenpoets #poetry #booksky
OREAD WHIRL up, sea - Whirl your pointed pines, Splash your great pines On our rocks, Hurl your green over us, Cover us with your pools of fir.
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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 2d
“When we take in our first breath, it is a promise to take on this human story... Breath is our entrance into story making—it is a promise.” #FromTheArchive In the 2021 September/October issue, Joy Harjo discussed the power of breath within poetry. Read more: at.pw.org/42zK3Xy
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d
Artist Maya Gelfman, "Black Birds" installation, created with yarn #WomensArt
Installation with eighteen flying black birds created with yarn, suspended in the air while attached to a ball of black yarn on the floor, all against a white background
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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 3d
Four days left!

Send us your monstrous #flashfiction before the October 15th soft deadline. #FlashMonster

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d
Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921 #WomensArt
Painting of a hilly landscape reflected in still water in colours of purple green and blue
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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 5d
Just read this phenomenal story in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social

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Dead Man from the Ocean Floor by Neil Clark He climbed into my boat tonight, seawater spewing from the bottoms of his trouser legs, a thousand tiny crabs crawling in and out the holes in his bloate…
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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 6d
6 days left until the #FlashMonster soft deadline. Send us monstrous #flashfiction by Oct. 15

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We like literary approaches, but we also dig genre and pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert usual monster tropes or create something unspeakable.
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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 7d
Take a load off and read Issue 16.2. Featuring #flashfiction by @gioclair.bsky.social, @christinaltudor.bsky.social, and Al Ryanne Gatcho.

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Volume 16, Issue 2
Flash Monster 2025 contest deadline hits very soon! Survival Instincts by Christina Tudor The Gribble Took My Name by Al Ryanne Gatcho Constellations of Calcium by Gio Clairval
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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 9d
For this year's @molotovlitzine.bsky.social monsters call i had a wacky idea and listening to where it takes me. And its dead fun. Also may involve time travel.
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Abigail Williams @abbywilliams.bsky.social · 10d
Thanks so much for reading, Rachel - and for sharing. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social · 10d
Oof. I missed this @molotovlitzine.bsky.social Flash Monster winner from @abbywilliams.bsky.social last year. Heartbreaking and gorgeous. themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/flash...
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Her Name Was Laika by Abigail Williams The hand that touched my nose smelt of cat and biscuits and a little of the ducks who had surrendered their feathers to its glove. It touched my nose softly. …
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Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social · 12d
I’ve done it* again.

*Started a new Flash Monster draft for @molotovlitzine.bsky.social’s contest close to the deadline after working on a completely different story for a few weeks.
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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 13d
Less than 2 weeks left until our #FlashMonster soft deadline. Get that monstrous #flashfiction turned in by October 15th. Top 10 published on Halloween. #writingcontest

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 16d
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 17d
A dark gray bunny sits peacefully among daisies in a garden on a sunny day with blue sky.
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 19d
Skull Bat
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Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social · Aug 31
I’m celebrating the last day of summer by wearing a cardigan and staying indoors.
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 18d
A white bunny with brown markings sits on a wooden bench, mouth open wide as if yawning. The background is a porch with columns.
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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 19d
We want to see what's inside those big brains of yours.

Send us monstrous #flashfiction by October 15th soft deadline. 12th annual #FlashMonster issue will run on Halloween. #writingcontest

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 22d
That #FlashMonster 2025 deadline will creep up on you!

Soft deadline hits Oct 15th. Issue drops on Halloween. You can go as literal or figurative with your monster as you want. Literary or pulpy. Art house or grindhouse.
#flashfiction #writingcontest

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 21d
Close-up of a gray and white bunny being held by hands.
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 21d
"I still very much and thoroughly consider myself a fiction writer. But sometimes something of life presents itself directly for writing, and that was this." Our first featured author of Issue 89 is Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social. Read her interview here: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Aimee Bender - SmokeLong Quarterly
You have three threads woven together here—the story of your father, of the taxed sump pump, and of Joni Mitchell making music—and it’s all seamless and brilliant. Are you on the lookout for events li...
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M Lenoir Bond @mlenoirbond.bsky.social · 21d
Very intelligent and classy post written by the wonderful @rustandmoth.bsky.social regarding the subject of #plagiarism.

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A Letter to a Young Plagiarist | Rust & Moth
We were lucky enough to publish many wonderful poems in 2024, but one of them certainly caught your eye. We confirmed recently through a simple Google search that you, a young university student, had ...
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