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Melissa Flores Anderson

@melissacuisine.bsky.social

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Writer of flash, CNF, short stories and unpublished novels. Reader/Editor with Roi Fainéant Press. BOTN nom for 2023.

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So I gotta remember about bluesky because look at this, I was tagged in a post about my awesome story that came out earlier this month with @mrbullbull.bsky.social!

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Last chance to catch me reading from my new chapbook from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social and forthcoming coauthored novelette from @emergejournal.bsky.social, tomorrow, April 28, noon CA/3 p.m. east coast.

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Oh hey, my chapbook from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social is available for preorder: jakethemag.square.site

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So pretty excited that I got a flash published in swamp pink today. And it's a sad little love story just in time for Valentine's Day:
swamp-pink.cofc.edu/featured/nes...

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See you at AWP Table T1509 w/Emerge Journal Feb. 9, 9 a.m. to noon Feb 10, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. And some other times, too! Say hi, get stickers, share your writerly intentions and take an instamatic photo for social media! We can’t wait to see you! Xoxo Melissa & François

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Are you going to AWP? I'll be there at the bookfair T1509 2/9 and 2/10. Would love to meet all you awesome writers at the @rfpress.bsky.social table.

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Uphill on the morning walk. A change of perspective (but mostly did it to avoid a skunk on my regular route.)

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She's adorable!

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Oh thank you for reading and listening and sharing. I think we all know how much it hurts to be on the outside of love.

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Great to be part of this new lit mag that celebrates writing and music. Check out my song contribution and piece.

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I will be reading part of my story Layers at the Awakenings Anthology book launch night 1 today, 4 p.m. California time. Register for free at: www.eventbrite.com/e/awakenings...

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Thank you! I am very excited about it.

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Now it's in my head, too. That song keeps showing up in Spotify lists for me 🤣

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A description of my first CNF collection ⬇️

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I am so thrilled to have my very first chapbook selected by @publishedbyjake.bsky.social! Can't wait for you all to read it in 2024.

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i am working out the details of the final poem as part of the SCREAMWORDK series. this entire project consists of 8 autumn/halloween-time poems written since fall 2021. as all of the SCREAMWORDK poems "parody" TEAMWORDK poems, this last piece will be set to music, as the 8th poem in TEAMWORDK was!🧡

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Ran a 5K to raise money for scholarships at the day job. Exhausted now!

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So honored to make the shortlist...can't wait for the final selection!

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I just got my first tattoo like two hours ago. I say go for it.

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Nope, just keep that crush to yourself and get all giddy and silly when you see your crush.

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Sometimes in this indie lit world, the wins can feel few and far between. But I am happy to have received a 2024 Best of the Net Nomination from Raw Lit Magazine for my CNF "By the Numbers." In good company here, and even if I don't make the final anthology cut I'm honored.

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I am also still awake (though different time zone) and I suspect I know the culprit.

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Thanks for sharing! I'm gonna shout, too!!!

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I only have three stories out on sub and one chapbook and honestly each rejection is making me feel extra fragile as I can't just be like, "oh well, I got 20 more subs out there. Something will hit." I need to build up that sub list again. But that means writing new material.

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First weekend in a while without work stuff so I am trying to write as much as I can and also looking at flowers in my backyard.

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