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Unapologetically bold. Weird, vivid flash fiction. Tweets by Editor in Chief and Founder @brettpribble and Assistant Editors @MRoetsWritrix and @GirlGoneQuiet

Joined September 2016
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Read "Lullabies from the Gullet of a Pitcher Plant" written by Haley Hartman and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/mtetfuru

Lullabies from the Gullet of a Pitcher Plant — Ghost Parachute

One beetle. My first. Shiny and black. It shimmied down my windpipe, tiny legs like a staccato earthquake. My insides clenched. Growled. Tremored, creating tiny water rings through my digestive...

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Read "Selkies" written by Kevin Spaide and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/4yjwtjmu

Selkies — Ghost Parachute

Driving those rutted back lanes along the coast you would find places I swear did not exist until we got out of the truck, the wind blowing over the dunes, cows wandering the beach, shitting and...

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Read "The Woman My Husband Loved Before He Loved Me" written by Andrea Lewis and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/382vz5ka

The Woman My Husband Loved Before He Loved Me — Ghost Parachute

My husband wants to take our daughters to the zoo, but I am too nicely dressed for the zoo. We have come from church, and I am wearing good alligator pumps with new sheer hosiery in a shade called...

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Read "Egret Girl" written by @AmitSwetha0627 and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/mtrfknxu

Egret Girl — Ghost Parachute

After my thirteenth birthday, Pa abandoned us for a much younger woman. When he left, Ma enforced the rules. “Do not let your hair down. Do not wear clothes that expose your cleavage or skin. Do not...

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Read "Self-Portrait as Banksy’s Flower Thrower" written by @Kiptain62 and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/mude5cc5

Self-Portrait as Banksy’s Flower Thrower — Ghost Parachute

I live a two-dimensional life, and yet I have mass. I can feel the weight of the bricks and mortar at my back that hold me upright, the smoothness of the plaster that makes up the sky all around me...

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Read "Mother’s Little Helper" written by @jeff__harvey and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/3zhr9xv2

Mother’s Little Helper — Ghost Parachute

Mom’s unemployment ran out and her boyfriend found her a job at a local factory installing the flashing lights on emergency vehicles. On her first shift she nicked a portable one and placed it on our...

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Read "Inside The Boar’s Head" written by @DeniseBayes and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/3dmmp23x

Inside The Boar’s Head — Ghost Parachute

We watch them from the forest undergrowth. They park their hulking metal machines on top of the ancient pathways our ancestors trod. We sniff out our old trails, scents lingering from before they...

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Read "Alligator Envy" written by Scott Bolendz and illustrated by Amy Marques. tinyurl.com/ymhcnudt
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Read "Death With" written by @RenukaRag and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/5cjhnz4k

Death Wish — Ghost Parachute

The fence accepts us after a fraught negotiation of wire and skin, a cold bite at my wrist. Diya goes first. At twenty-six, my elder sister moves like someone who stopped being afraid of the dark...

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Read "Recovery V" written by Patricia Q. Bidar and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/5xavwffc

Recovery V — Ghost Parachute

I She is fine, the nurse has assured him. And why would she lie? Joanna’s surgery is done. Hugh sits with her afterward in the recovery room. It is night and the rain mists down under the lights. The...

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Read "Margo Is Having a Bad Day and She Hates Golf" written by @DelGeo14 and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/mtapftn3

Margo Is Having a Bad Day and She Hates Golf — Ghost Parachute

Margo tucks her belly in, flattens her butt, and throws her shoulders back, hoping to lift her boobs in the process to relieve her lower back pressure. But then she can’t breathe, and gets a shooting...

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The June 2026 issue is here! tinyurl.com/37mwymw7

June 2026 Issue — Ghost Parachute

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Read "In Her Dreams" written by @andrewbertaina and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/4mp5669y

In Her Dreams — Ghost Parachute

There was a racket in the yard. Hammers of some sort and starlings fighting on the wire that ran across the alley. The neighbors were hammering things again. The sound waves kept breaching her hull...

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Read "I Mistook a Fly for My Cat" written by Michelle Ross and illustrated by @KaylanStedman. tinyurl.com/2k4j4m8x

I Mistook a Fly for My Cat — Ghost Parachute

I was brushing my teeth before work, and the fly was buzzing about my head much the way my cat buzzes about the sink when I brush my teeth before bed. I heard myself say, “Hey, Zazu.” I’ve mistaken...

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Read "Trains" written by Sherrie Flick and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/4jyazne9

Trains — Ghost Parachute

Barb has no sense of direction. Today she wears a black shirt and a white skirt with sneakers as she walks around the wrong block looking for the store to return the thing that needs returning. She’s...

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Read "Bolted" written by @xPamelaPainterx and illustrated by @KaylanStedman. tinyurl.com/4u4jeazm

Bolted — Ghost Parachute

It takes my roommate seconds to unlock the door to our tiny dorm room.  “Locked” isn’t the whole story.  It was not only locked, which my key can open, but also bolted.  It’s the third time I’ve come...

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Read "Walden Sink" written by @FeeleyMfc and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/muxf8kf5

Walden Sink — Ghost Parachute

Stomachs full of free-range chicken and organic wine, the two Annies wound their way down Greenwich Street. Snowflakes caught in their crocheted beanies, the sleeves of their puffer jackets swished,...

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Read "The Fool on the Hill" written by @rtigernyc and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/39c8nrvy

The Fool on the Hill — Ghost Parachute

The lice fall onto Samantha’s lap in music class. Engorged on the blood they have sucked from her scalp, they wriggle on her blue plaid uniform skirt. She squishes one between her right thumb and...

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Read "Your Five-Step Guide to Being a Pallbearer" written by @MikeKiggins and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/r3jenam9

Your Five-Step Guide to Being a Pallbearer — Ghost Parachute

Most people say it’s an honor, but your family isn’t most families. Five years ago, your mother had demanded, “Why?” Behind her, your father and siblings nodded. “Why are you doing this?” She lowered...

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