Today, we enter into that other place, where the birds & the sky are bluer. Same name. Come find us... We're staying here, so double the fun!

@JeffreyHermann's "You Can Be Something Different Today You Say to Yourself Today Again" https://t.co/2SD1bkioGq

Michaella Thornton's "Green" https://t.co/3ia4ARrtHX

@amorak's "My Other Girlfriend is a Corvette" https://t.co/AH8YQJmHx9

Robin Wilder's "On the Origin of My Species" https://t.co/Qt3qspy4GT

@Ladiwoods1's "While Democracy Was Being Dismantled" https://t.co/aklIMs54wl

Please help us congratulate our Best Microfiction nominees! @Ladiwoods1 Robin Wilder, @amorak Michaella Thornton, & @JeffreyHermann

“There is much to accept in this life. We stand at easy attention. The mountain shields us when the horizon slits its throat. Brief coral splash on the overcast ceiling. An iris rolls back inside the ritual head.” Lucia Lu

People on the subway catch your eye and blow away like sparks striking the hay alight flown out before the barn’s in flames Atar Hadari

“Lay down your weapons and kill an idea of yourself up close. Face to face. Stop practicing taxidermy. Stop writing short stories and start finding children trapped in wells. There are thousands.” ⁦@JeffreyHermann⁩

“where I’d once sat with my guitar and watched a green flash at sunset. There were waterfalls and glaciers and moments of laughing till I cried scattered between the two in all directions.” ⁦@tylercdempsey⁩

“And they all hum in agreement like a church choir of passive-aggressive psychos. That’s the vibe. I’m never coming back.” ⁦@malsmart⁩

“How when he left us, his body cookie-cut the light from the doorway and he laid a ribbon of finger on his lips, his eyes bright with their own celebration.” L Soviero

“We wanted lightning to strike. Butterflies to burst thick as smoke from a cloven tree, white doves to transform into ravens.” Kathryn Kulpa

Like poverty unto ridelessness is immaterial since the only thing the big glittering logos on these palaces refer to, end of the day, is sex, which is their thing…and fuck any rich twats staring from behind all that glass who don’t know it Stevie doCarmo

“Oh, Amelia, the love of my life who did not love me. There is no use asking what she saw in Gregory. Love, like murder, has its own incomprehensible laws.” Elizabeth J Wenger

“A trucker pulls in, engine coughing, headlights sweeping the lot like searchlights from a moral universe that still polices meaning…He looks tired but precise, like an idea that survived its author” Joseph Randolph

"You Can Be Something Different Today You Say to Yourself Again Today" @trampset

“There is much to accept in this life. We stand at easy attention. The mountain shields us when the horizon slits its throat. Brief coral splash on the overcast ceiling. An iris rolls back inside the ritual head.” Lucia Lu

People on the subway catch your eye and blow away like sparks striking the hay alight flown out before the barn’s in flames Atar Hadari

“Lay down your weapons and kill an idea of yourself up close. Face to face. Stop practicing taxidermy. Stop writing short stories and start finding children trapped in wells. There are thousands.” ⁦@JeffreyHermann⁩