Lisa Thornton
@thorntonforreal.bsky.social
Writer, school nurse. Stories in SmokeLong, Ghost Parachute, New World Writing, Cincinnati Review+. Pushcart & BotN nom. Wigleaf Top50 LL. Assoc FF Editor @JMWW. Lover of trains & due process. Cries easily.
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This story has been incubating for 15 years. Thanks to @newworldwriting.bsky.social for giving it the perfect home at the perfect time.
Meet “Fancy Thompson” here ⬇️
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Meet “Fancy Thompson” here ⬇️
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The list of places I want to be published in next year is honed, reviewed, solidified. I am coming for you.
November 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The list of places I want to be published in next year is honed, reviewed, solidified. I am coming for you.
Hearts full, we saw a pelican land in a cypress. Now we cross the Mississippi. There is snow ahead.
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Hearts full, we saw a pelican land in a cypress. Now we cross the Mississippi. There is snow ahead.
I'll never have written all the words. It will never be done. No project will define me. No recognition will make me finished. I'll write like breathing instead. Like cleaning and eating and sleeping and waking.
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I'll never have written all the words. It will never be done. No project will define me. No recognition will make me finished. I'll write like breathing instead. Like cleaning and eating and sleeping and waking.
Cafeteria red beans and rice, green bean supreme, tomatoes and cucumbers in vinegar and salt, fried okra. Big families laughing, old people & babies. No clean up.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Cafeteria red beans and rice, green bean supreme, tomatoes and cucumbers in vinegar and salt, fried okra. Big families laughing, old people & babies. No clean up.
No swamp tours on Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
No swamp tours on Thanksgiving
Have you read these stories? They are 🔥!! I am beyond thrilled to find my name on this list. Thank you to @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 🙏💛
And here are our dazzling Pushcart 2026 nominees! Hooray for @maxpasakorn.bsky.social, Shome, @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social , @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @juniper-writing.bsky.social and @mattleibel.bsky.social!
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#namjooning
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Have you read these stories? They are 🔥!! I am beyond thrilled to find my name on this list. Thank you to @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 🙏💛
Got some great writing news today and some not so great writing news. Ate blackened redfish from the gulf. An egret flew over the car.
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Got some great writing news today and some not so great writing news. Ate blackened redfish from the gulf. An egret flew over the car.
Reposted by Lisa Thornton
"Maggie ended up with Gouda. She didn’t choose him. He didn’t choose her."
Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
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Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
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Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
An expensive, sought-after breed, which Maggie only knew because she took a photo of the animal’s smushed face and uploaded it to Google. Maggie ended up with Gouda. She didn’t choose him. He didn’…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"Maggie ended up with Gouda. She didn’t choose him. He didn’t choose her."
Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/f...
Flash Fiction: Gouda was a Scottish Fold by Brendan Gillen
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/f...
Four state travel day. Cotton fields wet in Arkansas this morning. Mississippi pines green and towering along the side of the road. Magnolias shiny. Hawks the same.
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Four state travel day. Cotton fields wet in Arkansas this morning. Mississippi pines green and towering along the side of the road. Magnolias shiny. Hawks the same.
Reposted by Lisa Thornton
Your life has a soundtrack. We're here to press play. Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape that explores the relationship between music + memory. We're open to all forms, as long as they're flash.
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Your life has a soundtrack. We're here to press play. Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape that explores the relationship between music + memory. We're open to all forms, as long as they're flash.
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
Talk to me in directions. Tell me to take 55 south to Memphis. 80 to Denver. 25 to Santa Fe. This jargon is my weakness. Immediate crush.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Talk to me in directions. Tell me to take 55 south to Memphis. 80 to Denver. 25 to Santa Fe. This jargon is my weakness. Immediate crush.
Lying awake after chugging Pepto in the middle of the night, I had an idea for an actual book that is better than any idea I’ve had before I think & so when I write it & get famous & am being interviewed & someone asks me how I got the idea for my book I am going to say indigestion.
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Lying awake after chugging Pepto in the middle of the night, I had an idea for an actual book that is better than any idea I’ve had before I think & so when I write it & get famous & am being interviewed & someone asks me how I got the idea for my book I am going to say indigestion.
My MIL is a famously bad cook who once stuffed the turkey but too much & it came out raw so she crammed the whole thing down the garbage disposal which burst the pipes and leaked onto our heads while watching TV in the basement so we drove home early but ran out of gas on the way in a blizzard
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
My MIL is a famously bad cook who once stuffed the turkey but too much & it came out raw so she crammed the whole thing down the garbage disposal which burst the pipes and leaked onto our heads while watching TV in the basement so we drove home early but ran out of gas on the way in a blizzard
Reposted by Lisa Thornton
Much thanks to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for seeing something in this essay that is a little about belonging & identity, a little about milkweed, and a little about my dad 🙏💛
"I still look for milkweed. In the ditches on the side of the road and around the base of telephone poles."
"The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles" by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
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"The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles" by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
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The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles
by Lisa Thornton
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November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Much thanks to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for seeing something in this essay that is a little about belonging & identity, a little about milkweed, and a little about my dad 🙏💛
Reposted by Lisa Thornton
There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
Much thanks to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for seeing something in this essay that is a little about belonging & identity, a little about milkweed, and a little about my dad 🙏💛
"I still look for milkweed. In the ditches on the side of the road and around the base of telephone poles."
"The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles" by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/24/t...
"The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles" by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/24/t...
The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles
by Lisa Thornton
psalteryandlyre.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Much thanks to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for seeing something in this essay that is a little about belonging & identity, a little about milkweed, and a little about my dad 🙏💛
Thank you to @lit-namjooning.bsky.social for giving my words such a beautiful home 🙏💛🙏💛
Begin your week with this brilliant (and very timely) CNF by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in Issue 2. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Thank you to @lit-namjooning.bsky.social for giving my words such a beautiful home 🙏💛🙏💛
I mopped the floors and put up the tree. I made pumpkin bread. I went for a walk. Everything in order.
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I mopped the floors and put up the tree. I made pumpkin bread. I went for a walk. Everything in order.
Harvest season means mice on the counters, mice on the piano, mice relaxing on the couch while everyone is asleep.
a couple of cartoon mice are holding hands
Alt: Two of those lovely mice from Cinderella dancing hand in hand.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Harvest season means mice on the counters, mice on the piano, mice relaxing on the couch while everyone is asleep.
Yesterday I played chess with a stranger. Underrated activity. Embarrassing, thrilling, addictive. Not about looks.
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Yesterday I played chess with a stranger. Underrated activity. Embarrassing, thrilling, addictive. Not about looks.
His Q&A was great. He talked abt listening as giving instead of receiving. He said he reads in the thinking chair EVERY MORNING. And he said silence in the time of social media is a radical act.
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
His Q&A was great. He talked abt listening as giving instead of receiving. He said he reads in the thinking chair EVERY MORNING. And he said silence in the time of social media is a radical act.
Reposted by Lisa Thornton
Congrats to our Pushcart nominees!
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Congrats to our Pushcart nominees!
Met Steve from Blue’s Clues. Cried a little.
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Met Steve from Blue’s Clues. Cried a little.
Reposted by Lisa Thornton
Poets: I’ve got to present on prose poems on Monday. Toss me your faves, please 🙏 what you think are great examples of prose poetry. Who’s a good prose poem *reader* that might have a video channel?
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Poets: I’ve got to present on prose poems on Monday. Toss me your faves, please 🙏 what you think are great examples of prose poetry. Who’s a good prose poem *reader* that might have a video channel?
Keep getting raining and crying mixed up in Spanish and out comes a poem every time
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Keep getting raining and crying mixed up in Spanish and out comes a poem every time