Hi there! Bone Parade is open for submissions through October 15th! We only need one more story for the next issue. Please send us your weird and wonderful genre-bending stories! We're also kind of in the mood for a cozy existential crisis, if that exists?

https://www.boneparade.com/submit/

#LitMag #MagicalRealism #GenreBending #Speculative #WeirdFiction #WritingCommunity

'Release' by Matt Paul

My fiancé’s sister Marcie convinced me to come on the promise of catharsis. How it goes, she says, driving us to the park, dashboard fan parting her ocean of curls, is you write down something you want or want to let go of, set it alight, then feel your chakras smile as it floats away.

My wince must have made a sound.

Read more: https://www.ellipsiszine.com/release-by-matt-paul/

#flash #flashfiction #litmag #zine #writingcommunity #writing

Behold, the Secret Project I've been working on for the last several months...

Introducing @innerworlds! A digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives http://www.inner-worlds.org

#SpeculativeFiction #SFF #SFFH #LitMag #ShortFiction #SubmissionCall

Inner Worlds is a new quarterly digital zine of speculative fiction which illuminates the different ways that we experience ourselves and our world ✨ 🧠 ❤️✨

Submissions open 1 October! Find out more and read our guidelines here http://www.inner-worlds.org

#SpeculativeFiction #LitMag #SFF #SFFH #SciFi #Fantasy #Horror #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

'Turncoat' by Jude Higgins

My friend came for tea wearing new red trousers with a smart blue and white top and I knew I was supposed to compliment her but I didn’t, because the colours were Union Jack bright and I’d already had an argument with my husband, who called me a bigot because I’d refused to watch the coronation...

Read more: https://www.ellipsiszine.com/turncoat-by-jude-higgins/

#litmag #flashfiction #fiction #writing #writingcommunity

@anikeaten There's some activity on the #LitMag hashtag. I've seen a fair few writers mention this problem - maybe asking the litmags directly will help remind them there's social media options other than Nazi platforms!

If your story includes crabs & has an element of the fantastic in it, we want it.

We accept micro fiction pieces of up to 250 words.

If there are no crabs in your story, we will reject it.

If your story is over 250 words, we will reject it.

We pay 3c per word.

crabtalesmagazine.com/submissions/

#litmag #crabs #crab #writingcommunity #writing #creativewriting #shortstory #microfiction #fiction #sff #sf #crabtalesmagazine #submissionsopen

The inaugural issue of #SciFanSat is out today. I am proud to have 4 pieces included. SciFanSat was my favorite of the #writingcommunity hashtag prompts on Twitter. With the fragmenting of the #writingcommunity to various other places, I am happy that SciFanSat lives on in the new format.

Download your #free copy now.

https://blueboarpress.com/store/SciFanSat-E-Zine-Issue-1-Begin-p582660294

#sciencefiction #fantasy #sff #litmag @Jason_H_Abbott

Hey hey the summer issue of @fantasticother is out now!

https://fantasticother.com/

#SpeculativeFiction #SpeculativePoetry #ShortStories #ShortSFF #ShortFiction #LitMag

Just submitted to a journal.
Completely bungled it.
Typos.
No attachment add.

😮 🙄 😂 🤡 🧟‍♀️

#poetry #litmag
#poetryCommunity #poetryCafe
#amWriting
#amGoofingUp
#amCoffeeDepeleted
#amClosingLaptopNow

Calling all #multilingual writers +#translators — a new lit mag/project, manywor(l)ds, is interested in your work! We welcome year-round subs of any genre that experiment with multi-, trans- and inter-lingualism, esp. writers who don’t yet have a strong presence in the anglosphere. Comp: $10 for unpublished work.

If this is you, email manyworlds dot place at gmail.

find us: www.manyworlds.place !

@litsubmissions @litodons #translation #litodons #litmag @translators

'A Bartender Named Destiny' by Jacqueline Doyle

Her name was Destiny and she told me I didn’t have long to live. Carpay something, she said, which I didn’t really get at the time. Car payments? House payments? The car’s paid off, by the way, but not the house.

Read more: https://www.ellipsiszine.com/a-bartender-named-destiny-by-jacqueline-doyle/

#litmag #flashfiction #fiction #writing #writingcommunity #writinginspiration

@splitlipthemag So glad you're on #mastodon. I love it here. I wish more of the #publishing community would join. #fiction #art #nonfiction #poetry #review #litmag #memoir

'Best Friends Forever' by Pam Avoledo

Megan had been my best friend since elementary school and the way she tells it, I was on the swing by myself, running my jelly shoes over the pebbles, my shoulders hunched and she sat next to me, and gave me the other half of her headphones and we listened to Spice Girls and whenever I went over her house she would have to be Posh...

Reda more: https://www.ellipsiszine.com/best-friends-forever-by-pam-avoledo/

#litmag #flashfiction #fiction #writing #writingcommunity #writinginspiration

Here's my poem "Objective Questions" from issue 2 of Copihue Poetry. Seems fitting, to read it over, given everything going on climate-wise in the world.

Poem - Objective Questions
Poet - Ren Pike (me 🌞)
Journal - Copihue

https://www.copihuepoetry.com/ren-pike-objective-questions

#poetry #poems #poem #poetrycommunity #litmag #litmags

'Semi-Detached' by Victoria Stewart

When they lived in a Victorian terrace, they used to joke that there was a body buried in the cellar, Dr Crippen-style. Now they’d moved to a 1930s semi, Paul said Emma would have to look out for confidence tricksters disguised as door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen.

Read more: https://www.ellipsiszine.com/semi-detached-by-victoria-stewart/

#litmag #flashfiction #fiction #writing #writingcommunity #writinginspiration

Any suggestions for publications that might be interested in a short (under 1k words) meditation on carpenter bees?

#CreativeNonfiction #bees #CarpenterBees #WritingCommunity #literaryjournal #litmag

'The Used Car Salesman' by Will Musgrove

Used car salesmen don’t smell like their dealership counterparts. Doesn’t mean we don’t try. We douse expensive colognes and deodorants on our wrists and armpits, but you can’t duplicate a dealership’s newborn scent.

Read more: https://www.ellipsiszine.com/the-used-car-salesman-by-will-musgrove/

#litmag #flashfiction #fiction #writing #writingcommunity #writinginspiration

'What Do I Wear to My Friend’s Funeral?' by Zach Murphy

I didn’t reply to Jacob’s last text message to me, but I did show up to his funeral. I’d spent the entire morning deciding what to wear. A lot of the clothes that I once wore don’t quite fit me the way they used to in high school.

Read more: https://www.ellipsiszine.com/what-do-i-wear-to-my-friends-funeral-by-zach-murphy/

#litmag #flashfiction #fiction #writing #writingcommunity #writinginspiration

The new issue of Evening Street Review, a #literary #magazine #litmag published in Oakland, CA, is out and about in the world. My #poem #poetry is on page 81. I’ve waited more than a year to see “Second Life” in print. Take a look, please?

https://eveningstreetpress.com/product/evening-street-review-number-38/