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The first tulip!

"One day, you’ll learn all the ways people die young. One day, I’ll have to tell you." Love this one by Bethany Jarmul in Lost Balloon:

Congratulations, Francine! Love the story.

"I don’t know why my mother decided to go back to the church after we’d been out for four years, but I like these boys." Love this tiny one by Melissa Llanes Brownlee Pithead Chapel :

“Although he’s speaking science, I think of my marriage and the skin on my neck turns damp in response.” My story “Binary Stars” in Ghost Parachute:

"There are different models for an open marriage, and the one Karen would prefer, the one she feels most suited to, is what she thinks of as the French model: both partners cheat, but they’re discreet." I have no words! Go, read kim magowan Tahoma Literary Review:

I want to write something new. Inspirations, please, writer friends.

Thanks for reading and sharing my story, Megan!

Read Bethany Jarmul in JAKE. 😢😢

"but it’s not my place to say anything because I know what hurting yourself means and how it feels" The wonderful Melissa Llanes Brownlee Fractured Lit:

"What color was her hair then? Gray already? Dyed brown? I can’t remember." Don't miss this essay by Jesse Lee Kercheval CRAFT:

"My porch stood inundated with carnations and casseroles I left to rot, the stench seeping into the foyer." My micro "Fortune Cookie" up Centaur Lit: centaurlit.com/fortune-cookie…

This is beautiful! Ronita C Everscribe Magazine:

"But I’m here now, and my body is my body again. Not drunk, I feel even the molecules in the air shifting." Sort and powerful. Allison Field Bell River Teeth:

Thrilled to have my story "Razia, Razia" included in the 2025 Best Small Fictions list. Thanks The Good Life Review for publishing and nominating it! altcurrentpress.com/best-small-fic…

Looking for a home for my 2000-word story. Suggestions, please.

The season to take long walks and admire the beauty all around me. #spring #summer

"You can throw pain and heartbreak at me all you want, but I will still notice the majestic owl flying overhead, the flower considered weed blooming through man-made concrete, the full moon and the falling stars shining through pollution." Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos BULL:

CommuterLit June 9 - 13: Flash Fiction Contest Deadline End of Today - mailchi.mp/commuterlit/f2…