Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉

Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉

@happilander.bsky.social

Edits @cherryspottinglit.bsky.social 🍒8xPushcart,4xBOTN, 6xBestSmFictions, 5xbestmicrofic nom, WigleafTop50,bestmicrofic24, Reads for @okaydonkeymag.

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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉
@happilander.bsky.social

I have a story today on Heavy Feather Review on grief and algebra and empty chairs, and about how we react to unsolvable equations, and I'd be so honored if you gave it a read ❤️ heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/07/27/a...

heavyfeatherreview.org“Grief Algebra”: New Side A Flash Fiction by Mileva AnastasiadouGrief Algebra We sit in silence around a table of four. We’re only three, because someone is missing. His chair is empty and will remain silent until someone visits and sits there, unaware of the v…
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉
@happilander.bsky.social

My latest on the wonderful @paragraphplanet.bsky.social is a tiny chronicle of a season in hell, or a grief journey through the months, with the help of T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton and Rimbaud, and I'd be so honored if you gave it a read, friends ❤️ Thank you, Richard 💖

Paragraph Planet@paragraphplanet.bsky.social

“We used to fly” by Mileva Anastasiadou @happylander.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet www.paragraphplanet.com #writing #flashfiction

paragraphplanet.com Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today. A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦
@sagetyrtle.bsky.social

I'm reading for this open mic! Along with the AMAZING @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @rgvaughan.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @brendaarnold.bsky.social @keithwoodruff.bsky.social @seanmcnicholl.bsky.social

Kik Lodge@kiklodge.bsky.social

EWS online open-mic tonight at 7pm ECT • Fionnuala Kavanagh and @nomad-sw18.bsky.social are reading too! www.saloneurope.org/event-detail...

saloneurope.orgOnline Salon | European Writers SalJoin us for this free, friendly online open-mic salon hosted by Kik Lodge.

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Chelsea Stickle
@chelseastickle.bsky.social

Thrilled to see my @thirtywestph.com chapbook Everything's Changing mentioned in @writesloud.bsky.social's column on local chapbooks. Thanks Hannah for writing about it! Check it out here: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7924...

washingtoncitypaper.comSpot LIT: Short on Time? Read a ChapbookHave you heard of chapbooks—the little cousin to novels, essay collections, and short story collections? If not, you’re missing out on an entire series of short works from today’s writers. Modern publ...
Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉
@happilander.bsky.social

I wrote this story last year, then forgot about it, and a couple of days ago I found out that AI ghosts do exist and are easier to summon than traditional ghosts 👻 Forever grateful to Dodo Eraser for giving my story such a beautiful home ❤️ dodoeraser.org/2026/09/22/i...

dodoeraser.orgI Made a GhostPeople usually keep the dead in their minds or their hearts or their dreams, but I made a copy of my dead boyfriend before he passed away, and placed him in my computer, because I’d lost people bef…

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Linda Dunn
@dunn4authors.bsky.social

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. —Gavin Rossdale

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Pat Foran
@pdforan.bsky.social

I lost my Dad this summer and wrote something the day after his funeral mass. Thank you dearest @m-ixedbag.bsky.social and @lit-namjooning.bsky.social team for including it and another piece in your beautiful Issue 3. ❤️https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/this-new-zealand-by-pat-foran

literarynamjooning.wixsite.comThis New Zealand by Pat ForanI didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...

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Kathy Fish
@kathyfish.bsky.social

This gorgeous piece made me cry. 'In the lullaby of this lonely New Zealand night, I heard the lap of the ghost ship’s oars and the major-chord music in the moorings off the coastal scrub." Read @pdforan.bsky.social 's piece in what looks like a phenomenal new issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💔

Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social

I lost my Dad this summer and wrote something the day after his funeral mass. Thank you dearest @m-ixedbag.bsky.social and @lit-namjooning.bsky.social team for including it and another piece in your beautiful Issue 3. ❤️https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/this-new-zealand-by-pat-foran

literarynamjooning.wixsite.comThis New Zealand by Pat ForanI didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...

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Dan Crawley
@danbillyc.bsky.social

"In this New Zealand, I felt that then-colored popsicle stand floating where the southwestern Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea meet, floating in concept and in kind,...." I love this brilliance by @pdforan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

literarynamjooning.wixsite.comThis New Zealand by Pat ForanI didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...

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Pat Foran
@pdforan.bsky.social

"Dad walks in and asks, is it over yet, but I can’t speak. I’m busy dancing before the song ends, and I can’t know if Dad means the music or something worse ..." running and playing and dancing and pausing with @happilander.bsky.social in @tintjournal.bsky.social tintjournal.com/flash-fictio...

tintjournal.comSlack WaterTint Journal is an online literary magazine dedicated to ESL or non-native English creative writing. Read and listen to innovative, tinted fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

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Pat Foran
@pdforan.bsky.social

"Her husband didn’t mind when she fell into his arms, not in the romantic sense, but because her feet couldn’t hold her ..." "... he loved fixing things and he thought he’d fix everything." @happilander.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/f...

jmwwblog.wordpress.comFlash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva AnastasiadouDaisy had been his everything since forever, but especially after she got sick and he gave up his job and his friends and his garage projects to take care of her.

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

New @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social live @sudhab.bsky.social Scott Bolendz, @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social Rebecca Evans, Louella Lester @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @rinapalumbo.bsky.social cover art: Charlotte Hamrick gooseberry-pie.com/issue-46/

gooseberry-pie.comIssue 46 - Gooseberry Pie Lit MagazineCapilano by Sudha Balagopal Old Dog by Scott Bolendz Cockaleekie by Kathryn Kulpa Okay, Maybe Just a Little Hoot From Time to Time Lemonhead Ferris Wheel by Tara Campbell Ghost Museum by Mileva Anasta...

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Tint Journal
@tintjournal.bsky.social

Issue Fall '26 "nurture" ☀️🪴 The latest issue of Tint Journal is here! Find all texts online and for free at tintjournal.com, and support us with a small donation if you can ♥ Thank you for joining us on our tinted journey and for making the literary scene a more fun, open and colorful place!

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Claudia Monpere
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social

"When Daisy came back from the dead, she couldn’t walk properly, like she couldn’t walk when she was alive because disease had stolen her strength. Her husband didn’t mind when she fell into his arms, not in the romantic sense, but because her feet couldn’t hold her" Love! @happilander.bsky.social

JMWW Journal@jmwwjournal.bsky.social

"Daisy had been his everything since forever, but especially after she got sick and he gave up his job and his friends and his garage projects to take care of her." Flash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva Anastasiadou jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/f...

jmwwblog.wordpress.comFlash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva AnastasiadouDaisy had been his everything since forever, but especially after she got sick and he gave up his job and his friends and his garage projects to take care of her.

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Lisa Thornton
@thorntonforreal.bsky.social

“…we wanted the Daisy we knew before she got sick, we didn’t know how to handle the Daisy we knew before she died…” Do not miss this story by @happilander.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social today 🕷️

JMWW Journal@jmwwjournal.bsky.social

"Daisy had been his everything since forever, but especially after she got sick and he gave up his job and his friends and his garage projects to take care of her." Flash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva Anastasiadou jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/f...

jmwwblog.wordpress.comFlash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva AnastasiadouDaisy had been his everything since forever, but especially after she got sick and he gave up his job and his friends and his garage projects to take care of her.

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JMWW Journal
@jmwwjournal.bsky.social

Flash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva Anastasiadou Daisy had been his everything since forever, but especially after she got sick and he gave up his job and his friends and his garage projects to take care of her.

jmwwblog.wordpress.comFlash Fiction: Unburying Daisy by Mileva AnastasiadouDaisy had been his everything since forever, but especially after she got sick and he gave up his job and his friends and his garage projects to take care of her.

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Matt Kendrick
@mattkendrick.bsky.social

"Dad died old but we remember him young and vibrant and full of life" Beautiful insistence of the repetition in this from @happilander.bsky.social; all these looping motifs that build the resonance

Brett Pribble@brettpribble.bsky.social

Read "Dad Never Grew Old" written by @happilander.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "He was old and gray and tired, and we caressed his wrinkled hands before they took him away, and we stared at his lifeless body, because we knew it was the last..." tinyurl.com/3bh2au2j

tinyurl.comDad Never Grew Old — Ghost ParachuteHe only died old. He was old and gray and tired, and we caressed his wrinkled hands before they took him away, and we stared at his lifeless body, because we knew it was the last time we’d see him, an...

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Pat Foran
@pdforan.bsky.social

"He only ..." "... we straightened his creased shirt, and we kissed his weathered cheeks once more, and ..." "He only ..." Mileva: ❤️ @happilander.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

ghostparachute.comDad Never Grew Old — Ghost ParachuteHe only died old. He was old and gray and tired, and we caressed his wrinkled hands before they took him away, and we stared at his lifeless body, because we knew it was the last time we’d see him, an...

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Pat Foran
@pdforan.bsky.social

“She felt a special affection for the moon, because the moon refused to pose in photos, the moon was always, unapologetically, the moon …” @happilander.bsky.social in @manyworlds.place manyworlds.place/issue-13/mil...

manyworlds.placeThe Wolf Who Wore a Cat's Face by Mileva Anastasiadou - manywor(l)ds :: placeOnce upon a lupine nightmare, there was this cat who wasn’t a cat, but she wore cat makeup and cat clothes and acted like a proper cat and nobody knew she wasn’t a cat. The cat was two wolves in a wol...