Jon Fain
Writer of Short Fiction(s) and Other Prose Entertainments
Selected Publications:
https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/jonfain
@morganwallace.bsky.social
Writer of minimalist stories, knower of obscure and useless things. Member of PNWA and Hugo House.
@tracieadams.bsky.social
Book: Our Lives in Pieces Words in Trash Cat, Frazzled Lit, SoFloPoJo, Fictive Dream, BULL, Cleaver, Raw Lit… Pushcart nominee 2025 Retired educator and playwright
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://emilyrinkema.wixsite.com/my-site
@suddenflash.bsky.social
Flash fiction, microfiction, keeping it succinct. https://yoursuddenflash.blogspot.com/ #writingcommunity
@xaviergarcia.bsky.social
writer / editor / hermit / collector of dust Editor at Twin Pies Literary / Linktree: linktr.ee/xavieragarcia
@cre8ivetype.bsky.social
Truth, when not sought, rarely comes to light - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. #TrueNorthStrongAndFree 🇨🇦
@729xhappier.bsky.social
Philosophy, Plato, Non-classical Logics, David Foster Wallace, Skating, Art & Design. Posts reflect my views not those of my employer. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements. Mostly feral.
@notveryalice.bsky.social
slipstream simulacrum || writing @ House of Vlad, X-R-A-Y, HAD, Misery Tourism, Rejection Letters, Best British Short Stories @ Salt Publishing || fiction editor @ X-R-A-Y || EIC @ bodyfluids.org || painter || nuclear physics obsessive || pronouns: ae/aer
@christopherbrown.bsky.social
Writer & lawyer. Author of A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS • Novels TROPIC OF KANSAS et al • urban nature newsletter FIELD NOTES • christopherbrown.com
@kenjennings.bsky.social
Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of 100 PLACES TO SEE AFTER YOU DIE (bit.ly/3kLgJKO) and a bunch of other stuff. OMNIBUS co-founder (patreon.com/omnibusproject).
@lowlifelitpress.bsky.social
Lowlife Lit Press carves out a niche in the literary world by embracing the unpolished, the downtrodden, and the defiantly real. It’s a press for those who’ve been knocked down but keep telling their stories anyway.
@mattjakubowski.bsky.social
Writer, dad, skater in West Philadelphia. www.mattjakubowski.com/about/ #flashfiction forthcoming in Variant Lit & Bulb Culture Collective. Stories in JAKE magazine, Best Microfiction 2024, Milk Candy Review. Poems in Stone Circle Review & 3:AM Magazine📚🌿
@alexspeier.bsky.social
Boston Globe reporter. Registered in the Ecktionary as “Stat Masterson.” Author of “Homegrown” (https://bookshop.org/p/books/homegrown-how-the-red-sox-built-a-champion-from-the-ground-up-alex-speier/8023395)
@piperformissouri.bsky.social
Executive Director, Blue Missouri. Grassroots organizer. Writer. Educator. Former State House nominee. Rural mom fighting for rural schools.
@sodrock.bsky.social
The foreign policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️ https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
@thebulwark.com
Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe
@frank212.bsky.social
Short stories in Stand, Bull, Tough, Starlite Pulp, CJ, Enclave, a bunch of other places. Columns in Hobart & Bull. Five collections of poetry w/ Punk Hostage, Blue Horse, NeoPoiesis.
@writerdan.bsky.social
Writer of light detective fiction and urban fantasy, grinding my way to publication. Likely to follow you only if you are a reader, writer, or author. Or author-adjacent. Or #NAFO and #Ukraine. 💙📚 I only respond to DMs that are substantive.
@groovejones.bsky.social
Music Creation, Soul’s vibration You are an eternal being doing a material journey. Make it count. Listen to every voice. Notice the divinity in each soul. Care about what moves people to wholeness. 🚫DM, 🚫porn, please. 🙏
@theargylelitmag.bsky.social
The Argyle Literary Magazine is FINALLY returning from an extended hiatus in Spring 2025. NEW LOOK! NEW FOCUS! NEW CONTENT! STILL MONUMENTALLY COOL AF!!! Stay tuned for updates! EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social www.theargylelitmag.com
@thatwriterguy.com
NYT Worstselling Author SFF📚, Satire, Comedy, Absurdist, 😺 Waiting for a Hit on Corncob 🌽 TV https://michaeltilford.substack.com/ https://patreon.com/ThatWriterGuy42
@bfredrocks.bsky.social
BFRed from the shit-show called Twitter. A blue dot in the crazy Arizona desert, praying the Orange felon doesn’t fuck the country up over the next 4 years. I use the f-word in almost every post.
@nbacobwebs.bsky.social
Old pics, news clips, highlights and fistfights from the corners of NBA history.
@thetopazfiles.bsky.social
CEO | Author | Philanthropist 🇬🇧🇮🇪 Author of The Topaz Files. The Mainstay is out now: https://amzn.eu/d/9kUx3Bt
@tinymolecules.bsky.social
A quarterly literary journal. We love flash, we love experimental, we love saying something big in a small space. https://www.tinymolecules.com/ EIC @sdobbie.bsky.social
@sarahholloway.bsky.social
Flash fiction, CNF and short stories. Work in SmokeLong Quarterly, Roi Fainéant, Emerge Literary Journal, SugarSugarSalt, Cowboy Jamboree, The Argyle, Third Street Review. Reader for Story Magazine. She/her.
@adamhaver.bsky.social
Writer • Poet • Fiction • Willie Morris Award • Translation • Wolf Conservation • Community Specialist for a Fiction Writing Community https://tinyurl.com/CWCFiction
@rgvaughan.bsky.social
Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com
@bettysueblue.bsky.social
Author. Editor. Educator. Anti-fascist. EIC & Publisher of Black Lily Zine. Living w C-PTSD & vocal about ending the stigma surrounding mental illness.
@sofafilms.bsky.social
Educator and filmmaker with a passion for documentary animation. No DMs. #vegan #covidcautious #maskwearer #liberal #animator #catlover #childfreecatlady
@sawwflashfiction.bsky.social
We take submissions and publish Flash Fiction - 600 words or less. Flash fiction is an under-appreciated form of prose. It is a place where every sentence needs to speak volumes, a place where constraint leads to freedom.
@internethippo.bsky.social
@zakariah.bsky.social
Writer. Walker. Banjo Player. Progeny of Cannibals. Author of MINK: SKINNING TIME IN WISCONSIN and EGG ON HER FACE: STORIES OF CRIME, HORROR, AND THE SPACE IN BETWEEN. https://substack.com/@pteratorn731655
@prison-stories.bsky.social
My award-winning Prison Short Stories, all written at San Quentin, support my work in picking up prisoners who are paroling. 🖋️ Joyce Carol Oates published one. I served 39 years, 23 of them at San Quentin. There, I discovered that words can heal.
@suzannehicks.bsky.social
Writer living with multiple sclerosis. Often very tired. Best Microfiction ‘24 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist ‘24. Read my work: www.suzannehickswrites.com
@thewoolfofficial.bsky.social
Howl-worthy words & art from Switzerland and beyond | Short fiction, prose poetry, CNF & visual art | https://thewoolfx.com/ | Issue 8 out in May 2025
@melmay60.bsky.social
Former editor and actress, future unknown. Skeptic. Mother of twins. Lover of words, thrift shops, the color green, and most dogs.
@shanders.bsky.social
THE GREAT WHEREVER (forthcoming from Holt, summer ‘26); COMPANY, 2024 winner of the L.A.Times Book Prizes Award for First Fiction: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/company. Mom, twin mom, lawyer, Silver Springer. She/her
@bryanjmason.bsky.social
Black comedy crime writer. An Old Tin Can is the first in a new series set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. I also write regular theatre reviews. Member of Crime Writers Association www.bryanjmason.com #crime #author #books
@arambender.bsky.social
- Multi-genre author of German heritage. Recent words in: Guilty Crime Mag, Chiron Review, Hidden Peak Press, Bristol Noir, Pulp Modern, Mystery Tribune, Thriller Magazine, Close To The Bone - THE BLACK BOW now out on https://amazon.com/dp/B0DD6YX6FJ/
@ruralunease.bsky.social
Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
@victordeanda.bsky.social
Writer of crime fiction, horror, and weird stuff. Movie freak and music geek. Literary slutizen.
@straczynski.bsky.social
Writer/producer. Babylon 5, Sense8, Changeling, Thor. Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America. Together We Will Go, The Glass Box. DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS. Scripts, behind the scenes posts and a lot of conversation at https://www.patreon.com/thejoepage
@the-engine-idling.bsky.social
the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. www.engineidling.net EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
@alvinlu.bsky.social
Novels: Daydreamers (Fiction Collective 2, July 2025), The Hell Screens. alvinlu.co
@jandrewm.bsky.social
He/Him. Quaker. BSF '21, Hopkins R, So Flo Po Jo, Fourth River, Heavy Feather R, Bending Genres, Identity Theory, Ilanot R, Sugar House R, Psaltery & Lyre, Kissing Dynamite, YIV, NDQ, Atlanta R, elsewhere. Poetry reader at West Trade Review.