Lauren Kardos
@lkardos
dc via apollo, pa | she/her | words @ Best Microfiction, Bending Genres, Lost Balloon, Milk Candy Review, Flash Fiction Online, Cold Signal, hex literary & more
All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social transports you in place and time, each flash has you feeling like the characters are people you know. wished it was longer than a chap! out from @chestnutreview.bsky.social #smokelong #blurbchallenge
another recent fav flash collection: Everything’s Changing by @chelseastickle.bsky.social. love how each piece leans into the surreal to get at the complex messiness of human relationships. grab a copy from @thirtywestph.com #smokelong #blurbchallenge
another banger of a flash collection, Maybe This is What I Deserve by Tucker Leighty-Phillips pub’d by @splitlippress.com. bits of wonder woven with the everyday, each story offers this childlike sense of understanding something new and weird and glorious #smokelong #blurbchallenge
Hereafter by @sfreligh.bsky.social is a novella-in-flash that feels like a guiding light for the genre. a tiny book I read slowly because I didn’t want it to end, even if I cried at every other flash. head to @adhocfiction.bsky.social and get your tissues ready #smokelong #blurbchallenge
The Anchored World by @sawers.bsky.social is one of those collections that lingers years after reading. whether based fable or fairy tale, each flash comes with teeth. grab their collection from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social #smokelong #blurbchallenge
final one of the evening, Kristen Zory King’s Ladies Ladies Ladies from the kind folks at @stanchion.bsky.social is so, so good. each flash blends the uncanny and familiar, I feel like these ladies on the page are people I know #smokelong #blurbchallenge
the lovely @bayveen.bsky.social self-published her flash collection last year. loss, love, myth, and so much more, you can contact Bayveen directly for your copy of Life Blood, Ghost Breath #smokelong #blurbchallenge
I was lucky enough to hear @lumchanmfa.bsky.social read from her gorgeous collection Bitter Over Sweet at AWP, and truly every story is a fish bat to the heart. grab your copy from @sfwp.bsky.social #smokelong #blurbchallenge
tired: AC breaking at 9pm the week of a code red air quality heat wave wired: getting a 💀
when human-made art from the 15th century inspires human-made art in the 21st century. thank you @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving this little danse macabre story a home in @bulbregion.bsky.social
lucky enough to have a weekend to write in West Virginia in the gorgeous retreat space of @ellenweeren.bsky.social 💕
hope to see yinz in Baltimore! here’s where I’m planning to be, would love to say hello, grab a coffee/drink, or a snack
for some reason Macavity scared the shit out of my sister and me every time we watched the VHS of Cats on Broadway
filled up my creative cup this trip home. a post-industrial iron mill tour, bingo with my grandmother, a concert at my favorite high school haunt, and the titty sphinxes of Allegheny Cemetery. thankful for my sister for hosting me (and reading my novella draft)!
visiting my first home this week ✨ not sorry for the onslaught of western pa nostalgia coming your way!
day 29 of the #SealeyChallenge (yesterday!) was Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
day 27 of the #SealeyChallenge (yesterday!) was Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove
day 25 of the #SealeyChallenge: Hair Shirt by Adrian Sobol @yoadrianididit.bsky.social
day 24 of the #SealeyChallenge: Alive at the End of the World by @theferocity.bsky.social