Frances Gapper
@biddablesheep
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2024: Atlas and Alice, Splonk, Gooseberry Pie, Switch, SoFloPoJo, Best Microfiction, Southword, Literary Namjooning, TSS, Neither Fish Nor Foul, Trash Cat Lit
Black Country, UK
Joined January 2019
We are thrilled to share our nominations for @PushcartPrize 🦝 @biddablesheep
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@emilyrinkema Mairead Fagan Good Luck you fabulous Trash Family đź’ś
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My story "Brief Lives of Garden Insects" was published this month by Flash the Court - thank you to @CourtneyHarler1
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In “Brief Lives of Garden Insects” by Frances Gapper, bugs are sexy. And fascinating. From “The Dreadfuls” to the “Best in Show,” these miniature, pesky creatures flash in to and out of their own l…
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Our June contest “Illumination” was a bright spot for Flash 405, with @lumchanmfa as our guest judge. Congratulations to our winners: Chloe N. Clark, Meg Taylor, @biddablesheep, Alice Hatcher, and Liana Meffert! Read their flash here: https://t.co/eJ4WxCspfP.
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Our June contest “Illumination” was a bright spot for Flash 405, with the brilliant Melissa Llanes Brownlee as our guest judge. With a record number of submissions, we are pleased to finally share...
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superb characterisation *cough*
Second hero is from @biddablesheep🦝 We loved the pace of this cleverly structured piece, the superb characterisation and of course, a Trash Eagle - elevated. Very unexpected use of prompts: Building Remodel, Unlikely Hero, Firearm Read here: https://t.co/106YKB4BRB
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“Anton Chekhov is dead. According to Dad he shot himself by accident, while playing with the gun on the wall.” Sheer brilliance by @biddablesheep in @TrashCatLit! 🔥👏
The Seagull has Landed.
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"It's on the corner of Michigan and Eerie... The whiskey claws its way down my throat" - Whoa!
Here's my new story on @TrashCatLit about a hard-bitten supernatural detective on a personal mission. This one's for @JacobPlieth, who gave me the idea of The Morgue being a bar, rather than an actual morgue
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So happy to be a repeat bin offender! Looking forward to reading stories from Trash Family members both old and new.
We pushed and we pushed and we have delivered a pair of delightful flashy collections 🦝🦝 Thirteen flash from all new Trash Family: https://t.co/69h3cFa3hX Twelve flash from repeat bin offenders: https://t.co/RC3FbChqjb A bumper read of amazing prompted stories - ENJOY!
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HERE THEY ARE! 25 contributors to the upcoming Prompted Stories issue. Split into new and existing Trash Family for your consumption. The issue will launch on Thursday 🦝 @Madeleine_write @sclly21 @Jitling @AdLibby1 @biddablesheep @JennyHart2001 @10kandalatte @jupiterjonz 1/2
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Join us in congratulating our Best of the Net nominees! @ChristyTending, @biddablesheep, @TLSherwood1, and @mooninabucket!
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Thank you so much @lit_namjooning for nominating my CNF "Is That All There Is?" for a 2026 Best of the Net award. What a wonderful surprise!
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I love this mini-collection! Thank you @lumchanmfa ❣️
Refresh, Renew, Reimagine Mythic Micros by @amybookwhisper1 @writesfromla @BlaiseMarcc @onbonbon7 @CharlotteHam504 @RelphJp @MarioAliberto3 @emilyrinkema @biddablesheep @pleomorphic2 @iamsuzannehicks @AFB16 Curated by Melissa Llanes Brownlee / @lumchanmfa
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This is a wonderful story.
The August issue of @TheSunMagazine features one of my stories which I have been so excited to share for months! Grateful to Finn Cohen and all of the editors for helping me get this piece ready for publication. I'd be honored if you checked it out!
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FlashFlood: 'starlings' by Frances Gapper https://t.co/voSSwEc8NN
#nffd2025
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Congratulations to Paul and to the four commended poets: Özge Lena, Wendy Howe, Frances Gapper @biddablesheep and Sarah O’Grady. We received lots of entries for this competition and enjoyed reading them all! We warmly welcome your work again in the future
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On a gloomy Saturday in Flash Fiction February, here's my story Saturday Girl, written in a ghostly @SmokeLong workshop led by Helen Rye. Thank you Laura at @FictiveDream !
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We're back! @biddablesheep is still in the spotlight for her brilliant non-fiction. When she's #namjooning, Frances says, "I sometimes meet a fox, who only appears when I’m thinking about something else entirely." Read "Is That All There is?" here : https://t.co/e5Km5DXfZC
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Likewise - and I'll be following on Feb 8th with my story Saturday Girl.
Very much looking forward to Flash Fiction February 2025 from the wonderful @FictiveDream delighted that my piece The Orchard will be included on Feb the 6th
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It's Tuesday, which means it's Author Spotlight Day! This week (and the next), we're featuring @biddablesheep, who has two pieces in Issue 1! Frances describes her fiction piece as "namjooning in John Galsworthy's work." Read it here: https://t.co/kejBebQiXh
#flashinthefeed
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I think about this piece a lot these days. A non-fiction gem by @biddablesheep in @lit_namjooning
https://t.co/L2m0lBNe94
#flashinthefeed
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We didn’t pay to go into Wells Cathedral, instead gazed up at the rows of blank-faced, wind-eroded sculptures. Upright saints and seated monarchs, half angels. We walked through Penniless Porch,...
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