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Tuesday #flashfiction: Mikki Aronoff returns to YIV with a sultry tale of stems and stalks!

"I think it’s time to finally put this book to the fire, both literally and literary, and examine Fahrenheit 451." T. S. Carney on the legacy of Fahrenheit 451.

Thanks so much to @yourimpossiblevoice.com for giving my Mothership a place to land!

Mothership by @ddgwriter.bsky.social lands at YIV for Tuesday #Flashfiction! "Every night, I dream of the mothership. Of escaping just before detonation ... The kindly humans who revived me, tucked me into bed, and claimed me as their offspring."

New #Flashfiction Tuesday: Amy DeBellis returns with "Film Still" @amykdebellis.bsky.social

Stories in (respectively): @westtradereview.bsky.social @elsewheremag.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social Jet Fuel Review and @yourimpossiblevoice.com Read 'em all. Links here:

A witch poem for October by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi 🧙‍♀️ This one originally appeared in @yourimpossiblevoice.com & later appeared in Kiik’s debut collection, which we released last year

Embrace your Wednesday morning—check out, "You Should Have Held Her" by Gina Martucci! #flashfiction

I didn’t know it was #LitMagWeek until just now. There are so many litmags I love. Gonna shout out a few each day this week. 1/ @claudineliterary.bsky.social @gonelawn.bsky.social @yourimpossiblevoice.com @jmwwjournal.bsky.social @alocasiamag.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social

"What Wolf has made is not a chronicle but a reckoning—with the country, with motherhood, and with the specific texture of loving someone in a place that keeps failing to protect them" José Enrique Medina reviews "Parenting in the Age of Columbine" from Elizabeth S. Wolf and Kelsay Books! #poetry

"Marigold and Walter discovered the joys of the flesh together, in a grove of old oaks, the acorns hitting the ground like fireworks. They shed layers of clothing with abandon; desperate, hungry." The Apple of My Eye by Margaret Camille Berliant #flashfiction Tuesday

"I do feel bad for her. I mean, her friends probably shouldn’t have left her here. The room is hot as balls and I want to leave, but there’s no fucking way I try to get by the guys at the door. I don’t even really know these dudes." #flashfiction Tuesday: "Black Light" by Brigid M. Hughes

Your voyaging days aren't over. Art Beck’s “The Insistent Island” is an Odyssey-themed original poetry chapbook, first published by @magrabooks.bsky.social in 2019. Republished by Your Impossible Voice with permission.

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free General Literary Short Stories feat. @castofwonders.org @yourimpossiblevoice.com @asteralesjournal.bsky.social @thequasarreview.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Just over a week left to get your submissions into Your Impossible Voice! yourimpossiblevoice.submittable.com/submit

What might it mean to think like a mountain? Like a prairie? Like a forest? What about like a river? @kelseysquire.bsky.social reviews Open the Floodgates by @ninaschuyler.bsky.social!

Those book nook kits are going to get me one of these days

We are delighted to welcome @csquareh.bsky.social to YIV for #flashfiction Tuesday. Don't miss the breathless drip-drip of Everything Gone All At Once!

Our Found in Translation series invites writers to share their approaches to the art of translation. In this installment, we talk with frequent YIV contributor Wally Swist about how he fashions language that honors the original’s mode of intention.

What are you waiting for?

Sorry for another repost from something that came out months ago! Thrilled to have words in @yourimpossiblevoice.com such a dream pub.

New from Art Beck: Personal Things — essays and poems! A miscellany of essays, poems, translations, and reminiscences from Shearsman Poetry Book that coalesced around a “rather difficult convalescence” the author now looks back on as the "formal introduction to his 85th year." bit.ly/454ioyK

Sending children through the mail. Chekhov and Bowie. It’s all here. Big happy to appear in @yourimpossiblevoice.com wrote this with the house and mailbox in mind where I lived in my teens in the Michigan countryside. Much thanks to @keithjpowell.com

Incredible moments of beauty in this piece! #writesky #grief #fladshfiction #write

"hey, you look pretty badass out there. Weathering this weather. I am one of those people who can’t get warm in winter. You can see me peeking out the window above the flower bed, looking like a nomad in my furred coat hood." #flashfiction Letters to My Mailbox by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social!

"I am off kilter, I am out of whack, and any other saying that softly describes a body that will not function as it should. There is an echo of a sound and it could be a cleaver, the slip of bone on bone, a tear in a vertebral artery." Don't miss To Cleave by @rachelmsmithnz1.bsky.social!

"I am off kilter, I am out of whack, and any other saying that softly describes a body that will not function as it should. There is an echo of a sound and it could be a cleaver, the slip of bone on bone, a tear in a vertebral artery." Don't miss To Cleave by Rachel Smith! #flashfiction

My debut chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain,” received a lovely review from the literary journal @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Grateful for this thoughtful, close reading of the 12 stories in my collection. yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...

My debut chapbook got reviewed and it’s a rave. Beautifully written. I’m still processing. So grateful to @yourimpossiblevoice.com for such a close, thoughtful reading of my work. yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...

Thrilled to have this thoughtful, stellar review in @yourimpossiblevoice.com for my debut story collection, “Ghost in the Rain” (Bottlecap Press). Review link: yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost... Link to book: bottlecap.press/collections/...

Our 2025 Doctorow Prize winner Karen An-hwei Lee on MARIMO, MON AMOUR (coming this fall) in @yourimpossiblevoice.com ~ read more: yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...

Hovering exquisitely on the line between flash fiction and prose poem, @mattjakubowski.bsky.social "uses deft twists and turns of language to launch readers into completely unexpected scenes, each grappling with unique takes on this question." #flashfiction

Hi, friends. Some news! My debut chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain,” is out now from Bottlecap Press! It’s got 12 micro & flash stories: lost ghosts, immortal siblings & haunted lovers. I poured years of my heart into this book. So proud & thrilled to see it in the world! bottlecap.press/products/gho...

Smoke by Gabriela Alemán, translated by Dick Cluster, “Rather than a work of ‘historical fiction,’ per se, Smoke is a literary work that indagates and interpellates the concepts of history, historicity, and historiography, while asserting the collective nature of knowledge and memory.”

Look straight ahead. Keep your eye on the light. Wait for it. Go. Now! Tuesday #flashfiction: Sign Language by Gary Finke.

My flash, a retelling of Cinderella, is out today. Thank you to @yourimpossiblevoice.com!

#flashfiction Tuesday: Pop quiz time. Are you ready for "A Princess From Another Land" by @pamavoledo.bsky.social?

Our final poem from issue 34 arrives courtesy of Jo Ann Clark. Stop by and check out Abduction III! tr.ee/iJUgIoants

"Properly Dark" by L.M. Moore appears in Your Impossible Voice #34! tr.ee/R0tggMTmr9

Everyone, we've been away but we're back with new highlights from issue 34. Stop by "Apartment 304" by Rowan MacDonald and catch up! tr.ee/kR63DhE7lR

The Sigh of a Man by Davey Long. Long's work has been published in the UVic Community Campus Garden journal, Sundew, Wayfarer Magazine, and 149 Review. She serves as creative nonfiction editor for The Warren Undergraduate Review. tr.ee/-mKu5Yj5wF

Ricardo Bernhard's "To Understand Light" can be found in our latest issue. Bernhard is a Brazilian writer and diplomat currently based in South Africa. His fiction has appeared in Neon Origami and is forthcoming in Litbreak Magazine. tr.ee/fkmsDTE2nk

It's almost the weekend and you deserve something special. Check out "Little White Monkeys" by Manshuk Kali and translated by @slava8.bsky.social appearing in our newest issue! tr.ee/GUrbjAIzdG

Incoming! Don't miss out on "Missiles Like Low Ceilings" by Will Falk in YIV 34! Falk is a poet, attorney, and community organizer. His first poetry collection is When I Set the Sweetgrass Down (Wayfarer Books, 2023). tr.ee/dxIwNpEfVV

Two Millimeters In by Jade Kleiner from our latest issue! Kleiner is a writer from New England. Among other places, her poetry can be found in Neologism Poetry Journal and manywor(I)ds, her haiku in Haikuniverse and Cold Moon Journal, and her fiction in Bright Flash Literary Review. tr.ee/wyEFtz1ugz

David Anson Lee makes his YIV debut with After the Simulation Learns to Listen in issue 34! David Anson Lee is a physician, poet, and philosopher. His work has appeared in Ink Sweat & Tears, Braided Way, Right Hand Pointing, Eunoia Review, Silver Birch Press, and other journals. tr.ee/G9iT5QPg4P

Missing Bake Off? Garth Robinson has a piece to help with your Hollywood craving. Robinson lives along the Chesapeake Bay and holds an MFA from Hollins University. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in DIAGRAM, Iron Horse Literary Review, Oyster River Pages, and elsewhere. tr.ee/Seh7XRRiTi

Next up in issue 34 is Poor Thing by Claire Salvato! Salvato's work has appeared in The New York Times Learning Network, The Eunoia Review, Nowhere Girl Collective, and Magus Mabus magazine. Click the link in our bio for more.