L Mari Harris
@lmariharris.bsky.social
Reader, Writer, Ozarks dweller. Wigleaf Top 50. Best Microfiction. Editor at trampset.
‘The clock has stopped,’ he says to Mrs White. ‘The sun has forgotten to rise,’ she says in response. ‘I am sure you are wrong,’ he says.
@mattkendrick.bsky.social up at Milk Candy Review 💙
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@mattkendrick.bsky.social up at Milk Candy Review 💙
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Nothing certain ~ by Matt Kendrick
The day the sun forgets to rise, Mr White sits down for breakfast at precisely twelve minutes past seven. This is in the dining room. It is Tuesday. His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opene…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
‘The clock has stopped,’ he says to Mrs White. ‘The sun has forgotten to rise,’ she says in response. ‘I am sure you are wrong,’ he says.
@mattkendrick.bsky.social up at Milk Candy Review 💙
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@mattkendrick.bsky.social up at Milk Candy Review 💙
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"He hadn’t been divorced, three kids, full custody, ex-wife in the state mental hospital, weekday breakfasts of edge-burnt Eggos and heated-over SpaghettiOs"
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social up at @fictivedream.bsky.social 👏
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social up at @fictivedream.bsky.social 👏
Thank you so much for reading and sharing this superb flash. Greatly appreciated, Pat @pdforan.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity
“… if not for promises made and unmade, if not for promises kept, promises unkept, promises unkempt …”
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/11/21/t...
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/11/21/t...
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"He hadn’t been divorced, three kids, full custody, ex-wife in the state mental hospital, weekday breakfasts of edge-burnt Eggos and heated-over SpaghettiOs"
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social up at @fictivedream.bsky.social 👏
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social up at @fictivedream.bsky.social 👏
For anyone who's ever taken time out of their day to read 1 of my stories, thank you. 2 absolutely lovely emails this week from people who simply wanted to tell me they enjoyed my work. My gratitude & appreciation to anyone who takes even MORE time out of their day to email a writer. 🙌
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
For anyone who's ever taken time out of their day to read 1 of my stories, thank you. 2 absolutely lovely emails this week from people who simply wanted to tell me they enjoyed my work. My gratitude & appreciation to anyone who takes even MORE time out of their day to email a writer. 🙌
We are now closed to subs for the remainder of the year. Everything currently in the queue will be responded to soon. Thank you for another great submissions year!
Trampset submissions are closed for the year and will reopen at some point in the new year. We appreciate your words and have some killer work coming for our last issue on Dec. 5.
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We are now closed to subs for the remainder of the year. Everything currently in the queue will be responded to soon. Thank you for another great submissions year!
Our Pushcart Prize announcement is out!
It's our Pushcart Prize nominations! Please help us congratulate Claire Guo, Ulrik Andersen, @glennorgias.bsky.social @mollymemine.bsky.social Oladosu Michael Emerald, & kanda zinguri.
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Our Pushcart Prize announcement is out!
Awesome latest Mondettes. I love reading or rereading these flashes!
This month's #Mondettes picked by
Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
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Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...
November 2025
Ten stories picked by Shome Dasgupta
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November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Awesome latest Mondettes. I love reading or rereading these flashes!
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Super chuffed to have my flash up at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social featuring an enigmatic storyteller and his doubting ex-wife. This story was much rejected, so thank you @davidestringel.bsky.social for believing in it 🙏🏾
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
the fable of the storyteller and his witch — Blood+Honey
by Sumitra Singam “It was never clear who hurled the first stone. The flinty piece of rock hit her on the head, leaving a dark bloom of blood.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Super chuffed to have my flash up at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social featuring an enigmatic storyteller and his doubting ex-wife. This story was much rejected, so thank you @davidestringel.bsky.social for believing in it 🙏🏾
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
Haven't submitted in over a year. Have finished 1 story this year. It has been the year of walking away from everything, & I regret none of it.
So it's a small year for me & stories out in the wild. If you desire, here are the 3 I pubbed this year >
So it's a small year for me & stories out in the wild. If you desire, here are the 3 I pubbed this year >
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Haven't submitted in over a year. Have finished 1 story this year. It has been the year of walking away from everything, & I regret none of it.
So it's a small year for me & stories out in the wild. If you desire, here are the 3 I pubbed this year >
So it's a small year for me & stories out in the wild. If you desire, here are the 3 I pubbed this year >
It's me. I'm the guilty party since I run this account.
Slowly feeling myself wanting to become more social & engaged again. I've needed like a solid year to just retreat.
Slowly feeling myself wanting to become more social & engaged again. I've needed like a solid year to just retreat.
We're finally approaching 1k followers here. It's us. We know it is. We need to get out of our heads & start engaging again. We're trying. We appreciate all of you who have followed us here!
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It's me. I'm the guilty party since I run this account.
Slowly feeling myself wanting to become more social & engaged again. I've needed like a solid year to just retreat.
Slowly feeling myself wanting to become more social & engaged again. I've needed like a solid year to just retreat.
"The swollen traffic comes and goes. The heart roosts where it can."
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social up at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social up at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙
Player by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social
“The swollen traffic comes and goes. The heart roosts where it can.”
“The swollen traffic comes and goes. The heart roosts where it can.”
Player - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Paul Arky on Unsplash by Claudia Monpere A piano tilts on the dirt beside a freeway entrance like an unbalanced stilt walker: chipped keys, case body cracked, chunks of wood missing, and stil...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"The swollen traffic comes and goes. The heart roosts where it can."
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social up at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social up at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙
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I just read “A New Kind of Dan” by @kylerseibel.bsky.social in Best Small Fictions 2024 (originally in @trampset.bsky.social), and loved it so much. The ending is perfect. Sorry I’m so late to this one, but if you haven’t read it… trampset.org/a-new-kind-o...
A New Kind of Dan
by Kyle Seibel
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November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I just read “A New Kind of Dan” by @kylerseibel.bsky.social in Best Small Fictions 2024 (originally in @trampset.bsky.social), and loved it so much. The ending is perfect. Sorry I’m so late to this one, but if you haven’t read it… trampset.org/a-new-kind-o...
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Best Microfiction reopens! Please spread the word!
Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Best Microfiction reopens! Please spread the word!
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October submission stats:
375 received
7 accepted
1.87% acceptance rate
We're currently reading for the Dec issue. See guidelines & consider subbing. Free to sub; $30/piece accepted.
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375 received
7 accepted
1.87% acceptance rate
We're currently reading for the Dec issue. See guidelines & consider subbing. Free to sub; $30/piece accepted.
trampset.org/submissions-...
Submissions
Thank you for your interest in trampset. We are looking for…
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November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
October submission stats:
375 received
7 accepted
1.87% acceptance rate
We're currently reading for the Dec issue. See guidelines & consider subbing. Free to sub; $30/piece accepted.
trampset.org/submissions-...
375 received
7 accepted
1.87% acceptance rate
We're currently reading for the Dec issue. See guidelines & consider subbing. Free to sub; $30/piece accepted.
trampset.org/submissions-...
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"Normally, disassembling isn’t so dramatic. Tag comes over. We make out, have sex. And sometimes, we remove each other’s limbs and reattach them."
Sara Kaplan-Cunningham's "Reassembling"
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Sara Kaplan-Cunningham's "Reassembling"
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Reassembling
by Sara Kaplan-Cunningham
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October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Normally, disassembling isn’t so dramatic. Tag comes over. We make out, have sex. And sometimes, we remove each other’s limbs and reattach them."
Sara Kaplan-Cunningham's "Reassembling"
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Sara Kaplan-Cunningham's "Reassembling"
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"Endings are as simple as this, cynical, like the full stop after every lavish gasp."
Genaro Emiliano Aguilar Saucillo's "Acid"
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Genaro Emiliano Aguilar Saucillo's "Acid"
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Acid
by Genaro Emiliano Aguilar Saucillo
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October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"Endings are as simple as this, cynical, like the full stop after every lavish gasp."
Genaro Emiliano Aguilar Saucillo's "Acid"
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Genaro Emiliano Aguilar Saucillo's "Acid"
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"The skin of time is made of light. And I saw it the day my mother cut my lip in a fit of rage."
@abhii106.bsky.social's "Wound"
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@abhii106.bsky.social's "Wound"
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Wound
by Abhinav
trampset.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"The skin of time is made of light. And I saw it the day my mother cut my lip in a fit of rage."
@abhii106.bsky.social's "Wound"
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@abhii106.bsky.social's "Wound"
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"You had no idea all the ways life can break you, and wouldn’t you give anything to have that ignorance back?"
@mmkaufman.bsky.social's "The Carwash Essay"
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@mmkaufman.bsky.social's "The Carwash Essay"
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The Carwash Essay
by M.M. Kaufman
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October 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"You had no idea all the ways life can break you, and wouldn’t you give anything to have that ignorance back?"
@mmkaufman.bsky.social's "The Carwash Essay"
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@mmkaufman.bsky.social's "The Carwash Essay"
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"I am a disappointment: to my mother for not cleaning
my room, to my ex-husband for not obeying, to my now-husband for being depressed"
@sainttangerine.bsky.social's "Outside My Son's Therapist's Office"
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my room, to my ex-husband for not obeying, to my now-husband for being depressed"
@sainttangerine.bsky.social's "Outside My Son's Therapist's Office"
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Outside My Son’s Therapist’s Office
by Sara Quinn Rivara
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October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"I am a disappointment: to my mother for not cleaning
my room, to my ex-husband for not obeying, to my now-husband for being depressed"
@sainttangerine.bsky.social's "Outside My Son's Therapist's Office"
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my room, to my ex-husband for not obeying, to my now-husband for being depressed"
@sainttangerine.bsky.social's "Outside My Son's Therapist's Office"
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"A boy proposes his love to his lover. Somewhere else, a wife proposes her agony to her husband."
Ridwan Fasasi's "Simultaneous Events"
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Ridwan Fasasi's "Simultaneous Events"
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Simultaneous Events
by Ridwan Fasasi
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October 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"A boy proposes his love to his lover. Somewhere else, a wife proposes her agony to her husband."
Ridwan Fasasi's "Simultaneous Events"
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Ridwan Fasasi's "Simultaneous Events"
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"What we sell here wears itself drop-waisted, accordion-pleated in rust, gradients of blacklisted thrift rubble."
@connorharding.bsky.social's "The Curiosity Shop"
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@connorharding.bsky.social's "The Curiosity Shop"
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The Curiosity Shop
by Connor Harding
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October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"What we sell here wears itself drop-waisted, accordion-pleated in rust, gradients of blacklisted thrift rubble."
@connorharding.bsky.social's "The Curiosity Shop"
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@connorharding.bsky.social's "The Curiosity Shop"
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"We held the light at the wrong slant, the cousins and I, like forgetting to floss our teeth or close the faucet. Someone dear to us had gone."
@hellbends.bsky.social's "Dear Little Mortuary"
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@hellbends.bsky.social's "Dear Little Mortuary"
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Dear Little Mortuary
by Elisa Luna Ady
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October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"We held the light at the wrong slant, the cousins and I, like forgetting to floss our teeth or close the faucet. Someone dear to us had gone."
@hellbends.bsky.social's "Dear Little Mortuary"
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@hellbends.bsky.social's "Dear Little Mortuary"
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"Pedro and I slipped out through his bedroom window
to light a joint, standing on his neighbour’s gable roof."
@halfmoonmocha.bsky.social's "Two memories of the city"
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to light a joint, standing on his neighbour’s gable roof."
@halfmoonmocha.bsky.social's "Two memories of the city"
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Two memories of the city
by Debmalya Bandyopadhyay
trampset.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"Pedro and I slipped out through his bedroom window
to light a joint, standing on his neighbour’s gable roof."
@halfmoonmocha.bsky.social's "Two memories of the city"
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to light a joint, standing on his neighbour’s gable roof."
@halfmoonmocha.bsky.social's "Two memories of the city"
trampset.org/two-memories...
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"I am the cool fizz of prosecco sliding down one’s throat during the golden hour. The chartreuse velvet couch we make out on after eating Vietnamese take-out."
@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
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@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
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Green
by Michaella Thornton
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October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"I am the cool fizz of prosecco sliding down one’s throat during the golden hour. The chartreuse velvet couch we make out on after eating Vietnamese take-out."
@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
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@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
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Our 2nd to last issue of 2025 is now live!
Our Oct issue is now live! Featuring @kellathornton.bsky.social @halfmoonmocha.bsky.social @hellbends.bsky.social @connorharding.bsky.social Ridwan Fasasi, @sainttangerine.bsky.social @mmkaufman.bsky.social @abhii106.bsky.social Genaro Aguilar, & Sara Kaplan-Cunningham
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October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Our 2nd to last issue of 2025 is now live!
Our 2nd to last issue of 2025 drops this Fri. Another stellar issue coming your way!
The Oct issue drops Fri! Featuring @kellathornton.bsky.social @halfmoonmocha.bsky.social @hellbends.bsky.social @connorharding.bsky.social Ridwan Fasasi, @sainttangerine.bsky.social @mmkaufman.bsky.social @abhii106.bsky.social Genaro Aguilar, & Sara Kaplan-Cunningham
Mark those calendars!
Mark those calendars!
October 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Our 2nd to last issue of 2025 drops this Fri. Another stellar issue coming your way!