Sarah McPherson

Happy National Flash Fiction Day, everyone! 🥳 Here's my offering in the #FlashFlood - 'Down From the Door' #NFFD2026

In Hookland folklore, rivers and all their tributaries are highways for spirits. For not all souls travel by the county’s corpse roads. Some swim, some float. This makes the confluence of streams and old fords potent places of sorcery, powerful places of peril.

Recently encountered this video, and it resonates deeply with me. Make little guys, everyone ❤️ www.patreon.com/shing/posts/...

A whole new cast! Welcome to BFS Shortcuts; not replacing Long Story Short, but filling those empty weeks in which silence reigns. No longer! Ten set questions introduce authors you may not have read, but should. Kicking us off tomorrow, @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social faces the questions!

#ReEnchantment is resistance.

'After the grandfather clock metronomes your absence.' Love this gorgeous micro from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social!

My obsession with Girl In The Year Above continues unabated with their third single, which came out today...

'She keeps you in her poppy-song, there with dewed-fireflies and unlovable soil' Beautiful!

What I appreciate most about this cat is how pissed off it looks to have been discovered! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Writers are in the business of being as human as we goddamn can. That's measured by vibes, by the way we feel, by gauging how well we’ve managed to communicate the thing we want to communicate in our writing.

Luna Station Quarterly is always seeking new artists to work with. We license art for four covers each year. We prefer work by woman-indentified and non-binary artists. 1/3

This is why I restarted having singing lessons as an adult a few years ago (after stopping when i was 18), just for the joy of it!

Hark, writers of the north country. A fortnight remains to send us your sorcerous tales. Gaze upon our submission guidelines etc: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/

Went to a weaving workshop at our summer staff festival yesterday, and made this dinky little wall hanging that I'm quite pleased with (I was going for abstract seascape vibes)

Sheer brilliance here from @wangleberry.bsky.social

Submissions are open at trampset! Read our guidelines and send us your best work. We pay $30 via PayPal. Anybody can use our free submission category. Tips and quick response revenues pay our writers, editors and site costs ✍️ We've missed you all! www.trampset.org/submissions

Happy to report that I'll be in the FlashFlood again this year! Look out for 'Down From the Door' at around 8:15am BST on Saturday 13 June 😊

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-6-mcph... 'She avoided direct line of sight, always, preferring to make her approach over or around obstacles. Whenever we went out I had a constant sense she was peering over my head at something more interesting ...' @summermoth.bsky.social

We are thrilled to share that our Human Authored scheme is now live. This scheme has been designed for the benefit of SoA members, to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books.

Plums xkcd.com/3209/

The new block of The NIFTY Book Club starts next week! On Monday, 23rd February, we'll be discussing 'Lessons at the Water's Edge' - the prize-winning novella-in-flash - by Caroline Greene. There's still time to sign up! See ⏬ for details ⏬ #fiction #flashfiction #novellainflash #writingcommunity

But they were all of them deceived, for Sauron, in his cunning, fashioned a crap-ton of rings in various sizes.

Amused by the fact that the #BitesizedBookClub session focusing on happy/positive stories is the one that has generated the most divisive opinions and (friendly) disagreement so far 😄 Thanks to everyone who came for the interesting discussions!

This is a great list!

The NIFTY Book Club is great - come join us! ☺️

Because, here's the thing. We're told: "it's the way of the world; it's human nature," as an excuse for every act of cruelty or selfishness we witness, in the hope that we'll just stand by and watch. But it's not human nature. It's human choice. And we don't have to stand by. We can stand up.

'Stella felt the universe hold its breath, wrap its extravagance around her (her! tiny, insignificant Stella!)' Speaking of happy stories, this one by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social is a moment of joy encapsulated!

Well, I settled on four that *I* think are happy. Will see what everyone else makes of them at the session next week! 😊

Maybe 'It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)' by REM Or 'I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)' by Meat Loaf

Today's debate, as I try to finalise my choices for this month's #BiteSizedBookClub... how much of a bittersweet edge can I allow myself before I decide something doesn't qualify as a happy flash fiction? 😄

This is a beautiful story

So many open tabs... so many...

Still time to sign up for the January session next week - come and read some brilliant stories by @devaneemily.bsky.social with us! #BitesizedBookClub #FlashFiction #Reading