The 2025 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction ConThology Show exists in the wild! Listen on your favorite podcast app or at the link below. I'm still adding the text of the stories to the site, but they will all be there asap.
https://t.co/px3YPJgwXP
One Shot Kill — Issue 3 — Featuring: Zachary Wilhide, Terena Elizabeth Bell, Nathan Pettigrew, Dr. John A. Tures, William Draycott, David M. Simon, Keith Roysdon, Scott MacLeod, Lawrence Kithcart, and Edward Barnfield https://t.co/8KhuUCiRrD
@JoyceCarolOates Martin Amis wrote that the ghost of Dolores Hayes haunts the book, and that many readers miss her death. That helped define it as a tragedy.
So, if you ever lose faith in the power of the short story, the speech below - which Ken Leung knocks out the park - borrows from a Denis Johnson story, “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden”.
Eric Tao "Money is Peace" speech https://t.co/7wTP046pOF via @YouTube
You never know, is my point. You put the words out there, and you never know who they impact and who they move. Denis Johnson, in the same collection, writes: “It’s plain to you that at the time I write this, I’m not dead, but may be by the time you read it.”
Written around 2013, a couple of years before he was diagnosed with the liver cancer that killed him, it gets revived as part of a hit HBO / BBC series and speaks to a new generation a decade later.
Really pleased to be longlisted and published - again! - in the @LeicesterWrites short story competition. Big thanks to judges @AbiFAHynes, @ihussainwriter and @lauravcoleman, and to the indefatigable @dahliabooks for organising.
Many congrats to everyone who entered this year’s @LeicesterWrites short story competition. My fellow judges @AbiFAHynes and @lauravcoleman and I had the impossible task of whittling down the final three. Somehow, we got there, but with much deliberation.
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Don’t be so judgy: See how it feels to be genetically engineered, in "A Kid with Six Arms Wants to Kick My Ass" #story by Edward Barnfield. “Offshoots: Humanity Twigged" #SFF#anthology from Third Flatiron. https://t.co/ZQ8rOiKzWp #books
Jazzed to have my story, “A Kid with Six Arms wants to Kick my Ass,” in Third Flatiron's new #SFF#anthology, "Offshoots: Humanity Twigged.” Fantastic to see it in print - thanks @TFlatiron and @julirew!