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The onion went translucent before she noticed she'd been standing there long enough for it to. Fifty-something years old, and she'd finally learned to turn the flame down before the smoke instead of after.This is "The Salt You Keep" — a new short story about a woman cooking dinner alone in a quiet house, grieving two friends she lost and still loves. One plate, set out of habit. The good stoneware, with the chip she put there herself, slamming it into the sink during a fight with someone whose face she can no longer assemble. Funny what stays. The chip stayed. the person didn't.A quiet voice keeps her company. It doesn't argue. It just notices.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-salt-you-keep

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Wendy 1d ago

"I miss them," she said, to nobody, and her voice cracked clean in half. A woman cooks alone and learns her lifelong rage was always aimed at herself. https://twp.ai/4hsOyI #ShortFiction #Grief #SelfForgiveness #QueerWriters #AmReading #LiteraryFiction #Healing

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The Salt You Keep

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wendythedruid 1d ago

"A fist held that long stops being a choice and becomes a shape." A hand that's always a fist can't cup water. Can't take another hand. This story sits in the kitchen with a woman who finally sees the swing coming — from inside her own arm.
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#LiteraryFiction #ShortFiction #Grief #Healing #QueerWriters #AmReading #SelfForgiveness #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Bookstodon

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David Milley 1d ago

This morning, Silly Goose Press published their "Pride Out Loud" issue, including my poem "Gawayne Ever After," in which Warren does green stuff.

It's a quick read and it even includes a short recording of yours truly reading the poem. Check it out! And peruse the other pieces in this issue!

https://sillygoosepress.com/pride-out-loud/gawayne-ever-after

Happy Pride!

#poem #poetry #writing #gay #queer #queerwriters #lgbtq #green #pride #sillygoosepress

DOLLSEXPOSED.COM 2d ago

Chrissy and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

https://dollsexposed.com/2026/06/sabotage/

#dollsexposed #dollphotography #gayfiction #mentalhealth #pridemonth #fiction #fictionwriter #losangeles #queerwriters

Sabotage – DOLLSEXPOSED

Chrissy is forced to weather a series of back-to-back blows, some of his own making, until an impossible encounter changes everything.

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Ruthanne Reid 2d ago

Folks I am SO excited. This book is coming out in just a few days!! #writersofmastodon #queerscifi #queerwriters

null 3d ago

Is there an 18+ queer creative freaks community out there or do I have to make one.........

Dead dove, non/dubcon, fiction is not reality, type stuff, where no one would bat an eye if I said I want to be strapped to a medical table and assaulted by pyramid head

(Not sure what to tag this as, but ok to share as this is a semi-interest check that was cross posted on tumblr)

#queerartist #QueerWriters

Frey HG Jun 5

NEW WRITING ACCOUNTABILITY THREAD:
4th June: 1,732 Words of Evie Frobisher written.

A good writing day, because I was mostly stuck in bed with costochondritis, but also on strong painkillers so didnt fuss too much about what I was writing

#QueerWriters #WritingCommunity #LGBTWriteathon

Lauren McMenemy Jun 5

Every Friday, I meet a member of the British Fantasy Society and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). Here's Mancunian Nicolette M Ward, who's drawn to dark character-driven stories that explore transformation, identity and power, primarily those that are queer-focused and morally complex.

https://britishfantasysociety.org/meet-nicolette-m-ward/

#horror #fantasy #darkfantasy #queerwriters #writers #writing