Eliot Li
@EliotLi2
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@PassagesNorth @CraftLiterary @SmokeLong @swamp_pink @pinchjournal @pitheadchapel. Best Small Fictions 23. Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist 23 & 24.
Joined October 2021
I have a new story up @swamp_pink, a dream journal for me! Thank you @TheLines1979! Also, thank you to @PatriciaBidar and @TommyDeanWriter for the helpful feedback on the draft of this piece. https://t.co/QF6Cs2XwvG
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I just voted for @yangszechoo's "The Fox Wife" for Goodreads Readers' Favorite Fantasy Novel of 2024!
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Announcing readers' favorite books of the year!
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Thank you so much for the nomination, @hexliterary!!!
We present our gorgeous list of Best Small Fictions nominations! 🍄🏆🍄@ryanjeffreyshea @meadwriter @ericafrederick @Danaiwrites @EliotLi2
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The Duets Anthology is available! You can find the (free) PDF in the link or purchase a print copy! https://t.co/Xd6SN8bsjr This anthology is a love letter and letter of gratitude to so many writers and editors that have inspired me along the way...
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The first Duets anthology is like a vinyl record of micros written by writers who taught me, mentored me, inspired me, workshopped with me… each with original artwork I created in response to…
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Super honored and grateful to be nominated by @ReckonReview with all these other amazing writers! Thank you @mgnlcs and the other Reckon editors!
Very, very proud to announce our Best Small Fictions nominations: @Mighty_scribe @Sudhasubraman @EliotLi2 @thehagsoup
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"One of us admits her husband looked, driving past, looked and kept looking. His breath ragged. She doesn’t say any more, but we know. He liked it. That helpless curve of hip." Wow, this story from @MynaChang in @WritersResist! https://t.co/qEcb9N2dJm
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"is a melanoma sun scorching your driving hand while your other sneaks pineapple lumps and chocolate fish, sips of L&P sugar-rushing you straight back to CDs and spaghetti straps and first kisses." Love this story from @pleomorphic2 in @ReckonReview!
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“Maybe the last 18 years of raising my daughter, all that meaning and purpose and love, was just a fever dream of normalcy that I’m now shaking off like sleep.” Read Eliot Li’s (@EliotLi2) fever infested flash fiction, “Parentification”:
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"They come jack-tumbling to ground, the stars, with girl faces, looking like our sisters when they put on makeup in front of the bulb-lined mirror" Love this from @loki_writes in @gastropodamag! https://t.co/rt9p413uob
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The stars, when they fall, fall like rain, like broken-wing birds, like falling stars. The sky goes velvet black in their absence. They come jack-tumbling to ground, the stars, with girl faces,...
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Incredibly honored to have my story "Guangxi56" (originally published in @AtticusReview) in Best Small Fictions 2023, alongside so many great stories from many of my favorite authors! Thank you editors at @altcurrent! https://t.co/OFHbEBjlxU
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Flash, Haibun, Micro, and Hybrid by 110 Authors
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"I turned to my first love. Before Dan. I’d always wanted to study turtles." Love this story from @kimsrogers in @ScrawlPlace! https://t.co/B6lsOlspR4
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FRENCH FRIGATE SHOALS, Hawaii—A story by Kim Steutermann Rogers inspired by Green Turtle nesting on a remote island.
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"Jesus in the picture is shiny and half-invisible, like a jellyfish you don’t see until it stings. You could pop him like a soap bubble if you put your hand through, and you do." Wow! This story from @KathrynKulpa in @LascauxReview! https://t.co/KvlIqFHMSz
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For friends outside the US, "Skin Over Milk" is also available on Amazon India and elsewhere as an e-book.
My chapbook "Skin Over Milk" is now available as an e-book on Amazon. Purchase it for yourself or a loved one who loves reading. This book was a runner-up in the 2022 Chestnut Review Chapbook Contest @ChestnutReview.
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Love this story from @authorsudha in @MythicPicnic--it triggered the memories of childhood spelling bee family trauma for me, too!
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Thank you so much for the Pushcart nomination, @PsmokeJournal!
🎉Announcing Peatsmoke's @PushcartPrize nominations for 2023! Fiction: M.E. Kopp, @EliotLi2, & @DarlesChickens8 Poetry: @AndreaKoohi, Robert Carney, & @valerielundeen Read each of their brilliant pieces on our site: https://t.co/GYM6swgnLE
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"When my brother died I stared at the chair he’d been sitting in for hours. I called my ex-boyfriend from my bed, a bog of tears, and asked him to film it. Begged him to help me see." Sofia Drummond-Moore in @PitheadChapel. https://t.co/mjH8qtD9se
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Sofia Drummond-Moore My boyfriend is making an art film about the landscapes in which murder victims were found. One is in the desert. A lingering shot of sand, a hill sloping upwards in the backgr…
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"I remember: At the nape of your neck, a feather of a finger draws a line. A little line inching up, up, up." Beautiful story from @pdforan in @themerseyreview! https://t.co/R7VQaugbzq
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'The Melancholy of the Nape of Your Neck' by Pat Foran
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"I tell you how often I awake in the middle of the night panting, afraid that you’ve left, your side of the bed cooling, your bags packed and hidden for months" Love this from @TommyDeanWriter in @FictiveDream! https://t.co/Y0WduTsV17
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"This is my third date with Hank, and my interest is waning. It doesn’t help that he smirks at anything phallic." Love this from the wonderful @AbbieMBarker in @JetFuelReview! https://t.co/dBTlkvjb2F
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