Linda M. Bayley

He turned and walked down the middle row. He rattled the last quarter around in his fist. I'll only have one life so I have to choose something that'll matter. - @harkback.bsky.social , One Soft Infested Summer A passage about choosing an arcade game... or is it?

"The foxes are doing okay. There are plenty of diseased rabbits for them to eat." Here's a little post-apocalypse by @judehwriter2.bsky.social to go with your coffee this morning, from @fictivedream.bsky.social #FlashInTheFeed #microfiction

The Shortlist is up: Catching up on stories we've run at T&W plus a mittful of new ones. From Turn & Work: Allison Yeh, Kate Arnold, Mary Magdalen Smihula and Michael Chin

So much wonder in one sentence!! What a fabulous piece. #FlashInTheFeed #microfiction today from @fictivedream.bsky.social

Great big shoutout to the editors and team at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! They are so kind, even when declining my work. Go read their mag and/or send them some stories!

Read my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of Amy Goldmacher's memoir Terms & Conditions, available now through @stanchion.bsky.social ! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Meanwhile in Canada

P.S. You can get Amy's book here: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Knocked on my butt this morning by this section of Amy Goldmacher's memoir Terms & Conditions, available now through @stanchion.bsky.social

"I want to ask what she needs to plan. I want to say we planned to be a family but look at us now." #FlashInTheFeed by @ashtonrussell.bsky.social in @turnandwork.com www.turnandwork.com/guest-post/b...

"You can be in the right place in your life and not even know it; you don’t need the nostalgic shit to tell you that." #FlashInTheFeed by @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social in @turnandwork.com www.turnandwork.com/guest-post/l... Of all the flash I've read this year, this is one of my favourites.

"all you are, and ever were, and ever will be, contracted in that moment into an awareness of that fist, hovering, waiting, and vanished into the vacuum surrounding that suspended violence." #FlashInTheFeed by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social in @turnandwork.com www.turnandwork.com/guest-post/w...

"Dale nods and smiles and it’s fine. None of his replies need to be longer than six words." #FlashInTheFeed by Laura O'Meara in @turnandwork.com www.turnandwork.com/guest-post/r...

"and she says, I’m not a little girl, you know, and I say I know, but that sometimes I get scared you don’t need me anymore" #FlashInTheFeed by the wonderful @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @turnandwork.com www.turnandwork.com/guest-post/v...

This piece by @travisflatt.bsky.social reminds me of the suicide centres in Soylent Green. Except told as only Travis could tell it. #FlashInTheFeed in @turnandwork.com www.turnandwork.com/guest-post/i...

I have two pieces on this list: one that was fun to write, and one that hurt. #FlashInTheFeed

Dad would let us eat cake with our hands for a change, icing streaked on cheeks. Mom would tell him, “They’ll remember this when we’re gone,” her voice a little too bright for such a gloomy turn of phrase. @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/s...

"Mama’s eyes are empty. I remember one time after Daddy’d been gone for months, I asked if she was lonely. She said nah, more like sad. She said sad was when you miss yourself and she’d been sad long before she ever met Daddy." #FlashInTheFeed by @tracieadams.bsky.social !

I think this is a really important point. If I think somebody used AI to write their story, I'm not going to say so in public for the same reason I don't believe in the death penalty: what if I'm wrong? What if the writer is not guilty as charged? Is it worth ruining that writer for good?

Yes! This story blows me away every time I read it.

So, so honoured, @stanchion.bsky.social !

Issue 24 of Stanchion can now be had as a PDF for just $4. So maybe get it? www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

A story about a potato has no right to be this sad. Or this human. Amazing #FlashInTheFeed by @rachelmhollis.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social today.

"All the cookies in the world won't fill that hole, kid," she says. - @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social , "Free Cookies Taste Better," The Price of Cookies What a brilliant, beautiful, devastating #novellainflash , out from @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social

"And god forbid we unknowingly stumble on an AI-generated piece and genuinely enjoy reading it. How does one atone for this? Is it even possible to unlike prose after the identity of its non-human is brought to light?" I am so far down this effing rabbit hole... lithub.com/everyone-is-...

As I struggle more and more with the question of whether a story written by AI can still be a good story, I find this piece by Mike Monteiro really speaks to me. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

These readers were AMAZING. I could listen to Lindy Newns, @marionlougheed.bsky.social and @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social for hours, and I got to hear Ian Coldicott read for the first time! We're doing it all again Thursday, December 17. Hope to see you there! #WritersReading

I GOT NEW GEL PENS! And I have begun using them. No more screwing around.

First half readers at #WritersReading Thur 24th at 7pm. Lindy Newns (featured reader) Ian Coldicott @marionlougheed.bsky.social @lmbayley.bsky.social @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social Get your free ticket for the audience at the link - and please share this post and the link buytickets.at/dublinwriter...

Kumar Sen had a new piece in @mrbullbull.bsky.social yesterday, so I decided I'd go back and read this earlier #FlashInTheFeed first, as a treat. So good, even on the second and third readings! mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

I had a set of gel pens I was saving for something special. Yesterday my friends sent me a beautiful hardbound journal and I thought, The Time Has Come! The gel pens were all dry. I left it too late. Friends, use your special gel pens. They're just gonna run out anyway. Don't miss out!

Don't know how I missed this? But #readingcommunity you need to check out all these pieces! #FlashInTheFeed

You want to learn how to edit your stories? TAKE THIS COURSE!!

"He was still deep in mourning, after all, and despite being over 40, he still needed parents." Sometimes your wife and therapists don't give you quite the right advice... I'm with Brock on this one. #FlashInTheFeed #Microfiction from @woodardwriter.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social

"The view through the binoculars showed him the previous years of his life, all the places he'd had to go to through no choice of his own..." #FlashInTheFeed by Neil Campbell in @fictivedream.bsky.social