Brit writer in Cambodia. I work, write, read, run, box, sometimes socialise. www.jaimegill.com & jaimegill.substack.com Published in Missouri Review, The Forge, Fractured, Trampset & more Bridport & Luminaire Prose Award winner, 3 times Puschart nomineehttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mltdy66prk2jSo grateful FFF is again reprinting a slightly older story of mine - Notes For A Eulogy - especially as the ed had to recode his website to make the experimental formatting work! A short version of this came second in the Bridport Prize for flash, but I think it has twice the impact at 500 words. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltdy66prk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mkshvp5bak22Thank you Pithead Chapel, for publishing NO OBITS, inspired by a 1998 headline from the Bay Area Reporter to mark the first week since 1981 without new AIDS deaths. The new meds WORKED. Not a cure, but a reprieve. I try to capture that bittersweet moment in this tiny story https://bsky.app/profile/bayareareporter.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkshvp5bak22https://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mkikpw34ns2gAh Cuyler that’s so lovely and I’m grateful you made it through one of my longest stories. It’s one of my favourites, Thank you for sharing, I appreciate it [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Apr 2026 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkikpw34ns2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mjyrrnpekc2kCan someone watch the second series of BEEF for me please and tell me if it is outstanding or just good. Anything less than outstanding and I will boycott it as I don’t want to soil the memory of the first one - one of my favourite works of art of all time.21 Apr 2026 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyrrnpekc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mjecjvjhnk2eThank you Hungarians. The surgical removal of Orban - a local cancer that has metastised globally - has made me very very happy. It has also made Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance and Tucker Carlson very very unhappy. DOUBLE JOY.13 Apr 2026 07:06 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjecjvjhnk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mj2lta5qos2vPlease read this remarkable story. The Commuter is like a magical cat that delivers its night’s kills to me every morning. Sometimes pretty but dead bunnies. Sometimes snakes, still alive. Sometimes alien beasts that are impossible to classify. This time it’s a cat friend. A haunted night cat. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Apr 2026 10:26 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2lta5qos2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mj2lc3itfk2vThis you must read. MUST. READ. I had the honour of being in on this from the brainstorming stage then watching it become this gorgeously written melancholy wonder. @electricliterature.com have impeccable standards, as this proves. But one day they’ll slip up and I WILL sneak a story in, BY GOD. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Apr 2026 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2lc3itfk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3miwczx5vmk2u2025 was a calamitous year for me and NYCM. Let's see if I can turn it around in 202607 Apr 2026 17:38 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwczx5vmk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mim5ccpc3s2uSo it's OUT. The tenth anniversary edition of the @bmthwritingfest.bsky.social writing prize, with mine & @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social third-placed story Almost Extinct in it. Available on print on demand on Amazon or on Kindle at a good price if you're curious https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bournemouth-Writing-Prize-Anthology-2026-ebook/03 Apr 2026 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mim5ccpc3s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mijekq26522mThis forlorn little story - and its main character — has a special place in my heart. I’m deeply grateful to. @freeflashfiction.bsky.social for reprinting it (and NFFR for doing so first). Does this make me a grizzled old writing veteran? That last paragraph may be my favourite thing I’ve written. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Apr 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijekq26522mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3migerwykgc23I'm 99.9% sure this isn't an April's Fool given they contacted me a week ago. I'M SO INSANELY EXCITED. I compiled a collection of my 20th century gay histories into a chapbook (mini-book if you don't know) and the lovely @purpleinkpress.bsky.social have made it a finalist for their Cat's Eye Prize. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2026 09:27 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3migerwykgc23https://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3midolrexsc2gFor the record I think I maybe made a suggestion on one single word and I'm not even sure about that, but I would like to claim the 20 per cent of the credit this post suggests. Amazing work @chriscottom.bsky.social - this is one of your finest, and your finest is very very fine indeed. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Mar 2026 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3midolrexsc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3midnsrnlxs25It’s ages since I’ve been a music journalist (that’s mine below) and I’ve lost touch with the consensus but PRESUME it’s now accepted fact that Muse’s Black Holes and Revelations has the best opening 3 songs of the 21st century? If anyone says otherwise, which album? https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mqbd/31 Mar 2026 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3midnsrnlxs25https://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mhxcdt2ocs2yWas honoured to be one of (many) fiction readers for Best of the Net 2026. Thrilled one story I voted yes to won & another was a finalist. But I read many INCREDIBLE stories that didn’t make it… the talent out there awes me. Actually it would help my writing career if you’d all take it down a notch [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2026 09:33 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxcdt2ocs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mhsqpxvscc25Thrilled FFF published this, forming a "northern alcoholic trilogy" with the preceding Wet Brain and Impossible Summer (all illustrated by my gifted friend, Khy). The near-drowning happened exactly as described, near the end of a relationship. The rest, luckily, did not. THANK YOU FFF and Kerri. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Mar 2026 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhsqpxvscc25https://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mhgxwf7kes2mA writing dream has come true: one of my stories has been turned into an audio production on a podcast. This is Manchester, England, 1956, later expanded into All These Things I've Never Done. Huge thanks to Sam James for the PERFECT reading & Chris Fulwell, podcast supremo: https://rss.com/podcasts/one-more-short-story-with-chris-fulwell/2635985/19 Mar 2026 21:44 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgxwf7kes2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mhatajygxk2wDid you guys read this story I recommended. If not, please comment with your explanation for why you don't want to take 15 minutes out of your day to experience delight. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Mar 2026 11:04 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhatajygxk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mhasy2qn2k2bWho was it who said that they would have written a short letter but didn't have the time? Can't remember, but it's a good one. I absolutely hate writing 100 word length stories. But fine. Let's try again... nycmidnight.com/100 https://nycmidnight.com/10017 Mar 2026 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhasy2qn2k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mgq6rfgdz22lThis is probably my favourite short story of the last year, starring two of my favourite characters. Bursting with voice, heart and humour, so charming and moving. There's something in its warmth and idiosyncrasy that reminds me of John Irving. Give yourself a gift and read it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Mar 2026 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgq6rfgdz22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mgkoejadxc2aA pretty amazing 50th birthday present. One of my favourite, most personal and experimental stories - This Is Not A Horror Film - chosen by Trash Cat for their selection of previously published gems. There’s a Q&A if you want to hear me banging on. Thank you TC & Trampset for first publishing it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Mar 2026 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgkoejadxc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mg6adrufdk2lAlways lovely when someone takes the time to comment on a story. Thank you, Lillie. I do like how First Date turned out, the way the ugliness creeps up, inch by inch... https://hngrmtn.org/issues/hngr-mtn-33/fiction [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Mar 2026 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6adrufdk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mg65exjs2s2hThey can’t take it back now, its been officially announced with my picture and everything. I’m a finalist for a Tennessee Williams Prize! Teenage me, who devoured Tennessee’s oh so queer plays, would cry at this honour. Maybe today me too. Results soon but finalist is already wild dream territory [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Mar 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg65exjs2s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaimegill.bsky.social/post/3mg5q52avdk2xRemember that Hunger Games book where all the competitors were people who had already won Hunger Games? The new Trash Cat is that but with stories. Every story here has already won glory in another magazine and stood out enough that Trash Cat is giving them another day in the sun. Dive in! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Mar 2026 12:05 +0000at://did:plc:lycmvnrzel2owmm3cples6h7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg5q52avdk2x