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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 7h

This sounds like my perfect day

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 1d

“It also makes me wanna cry—but in a fun way” - me after two glasses of wine

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Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 2d

This beautiful story by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social hit me right in my emotional core. Highly recommend!

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to share my newest piece in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Issue 36: "Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?"

Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including my work alongside that of so many other remarkable writers!

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Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash by Sarah Lynn Hurd You might be flat on your back, picking at loose fibers in a worn Turkish rug you inherited from your mother, who managed a Pier 1 I...

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much for reading and sharing, Nicole! <3

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 2d

Ash!!! Thank you 😭💗🥹

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 3d

"...or she might be wandering in a field, brushing hands over long grasses, floating on her back in an endless ocean,...."

Big love for this gem by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to share my newest piece in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Issue 36: "Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?"

Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including my work alongside that of so many other remarkable writers!

gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...

Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash by Sarah Lynn Hurd You might be flat on your back, picking at loose fibers in a worn Turkish rug you inherited from your mother, who managed a Pier 1 I...

gooseberry-pie.com

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 3d

Dan! Thank you for reading and sharing!

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much! :’)

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Lillie!! <3

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to share my newest piece in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Issue 36: "Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?"

Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including my work alongside that of so many other remarkable writers!

gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...

Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash by Sarah Lynn Hurd You might be flat on your back, picking at loose fibers in a worn Turkish rug you inherited from your mother, who managed a Pier 1 I...

gooseberry-pie.com

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 3d

My mom strictly enforced handmade cards for any and every occasion and I can’t escape it

Small, square card with a simple watercolor strawberry cake placed on a brown paper stamp-scalloped frame

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 5d

Hi! Why not read this story of mine? If you feel like it, you know.

Published in @trampset.bsky.social in February.

Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces trampset.org/margaret-mul...

Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces

by Cuyler Meade

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 9d

So excited to have a new story in one of my very favorite magazines today. Super proud of this one, and I hope you all like it.

Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 9d

"...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through."

"Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

Door in the Woods by Chris Scott

Sarah is hiking up ahead of me, so she’s the first to see it. She goes around the bend, says “Hey now,” and stops in her tracks. Then I see it, too. Right there in the middle of the trail is a sing…

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 5d

This is so good! haunting!

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 5d

"I’m so aware of it now, that little ball of poisonous tissue."

I can tell this one is going to stick with me for quite a while. Fantastic, horrifying work @jaimegill.bsky.social!

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 6d

"Fake it ‘til you make it, Tony says, though I’m not sure that works when the it is inside you."

Sharp as an incisor, a phenomenal #fiction #mustread from @jamiegill.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 5d

"Eight squirts of popcorn butter bled through thin paper bags"

Love this perfect coming-of-age story by my talented friend @ashdoeswords.bsky.social! Dripping with nostalgia bleeding through thin paper bags <3

Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 5d

Hello, hello, hello, how low? Tuesday's #FlashFiction smells like (pre)teen spirit. Tune into "The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died" by @ashdoeswords.bsky.social!

The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died | Your Impossible Voice

By Ashleigh Adams — "That June, I stole a red-and-black checkered flannel from my stepdad and frayed the hem with kitchen shears."

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ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social · 6d

ONE ART is pleased to announce IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems, Guest Edited by Julia Caroline Knowlton!

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IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems

IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems ONE ART is pleased to announce IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems, Guest Edited by Julia Caroline Knowlton! About The Guest EditorJulia Caroline K…

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 16d

This piece is such a sensory experience and I loved every bit of it. I don't know how you pack so much into your micros, Ash! (I know I'm so late on sharing this one, but I've been thinking of it since I first read it)

Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · Sep 1

Absolutely SQUEALING with joy to have a piece up in NFFR today! This whole issue is just incredible - congrats on 10 years @nffr.bsky.social 🍾🥂

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Thursdays Smell Like You by Ashleigh Adams | Issue #38

They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds.

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 16d

The language in this story, like all of Mizuki's writing, truly sings. It carries it's own melody, and I feel you can hear it even in the title.

Mizuki @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social · Sep 13

Inviting you for a brief 🌿 respite from these times with my little story that's out today at @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Thank you to the editors for letting it share space in this issue. And thnx @smokelong.bsky.social where I drafted this piece 💞

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Beyond the Chattering Flush by Mizuki Yamagen

Here’s how you do it. Sit on the ledge, where the ivy climbs, threading dark green rivulets over the old stone wall. Place your hand here where the slate is firm and constant. See the little dip, wher...

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 16d

such a perfect red!

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 17d

must stay primed for a rambling monologue at a moment's notice!

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 17d

you're driving on a sparse midwestern highway at 7 am to an office in an out-of-town industrial area in your 2006 corolla with rusted wheel wells, fog settling across browning september fields, and you're singing along to you don't know you're beautiful on the radio and you're 31 years old and—

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Aug 3

PAUL ÉLUARD (1895-1952)

Translated by William Carlos Williams

Curfew

So what the door was guarded
So what we were imprisoned there
So what the street was barred off
So what the town was under attack
So what she was famished
So what we were without arms
So what night had fallen
So what we made love.

PAUL ÉLUARD (1895-1952)

Translated by William Carlos Williams

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you so much, ZE!

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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you so much! <3

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