First-gen PhD, professor of writing, author of the novel Seldom Seen, a Miner's Tale. Writer of tales short and shorter, poems, CNF, scholarship. Facilitator of therapeutic and expressive writing workshops. Crafter and consumer of cocktails. https://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3mnshyopcds2jYes! Another banger from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Damn... www.whaleroadreview.com/rinkema/ https://www.whaleroadreview.com/rinkema/08 Jun 2026 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnshyopcds2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3mmlpy646yk2rChrist, this one. Damn. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 May 2026 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmlpy646yk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3mjxilhslvk25I have a new piece out at the venerable Flash Fiction Magazine *crowd goes wild*. Thanks to everyone at FFM, who spends their time and energy for the love of the form. Respect. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Apr 2026 22:15 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxilhslvk25https://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3mhr332j5222zA big thanks to Amy Mitchell and her crew at @thetemzreview.bsky.social for publishing "The Mighty." Prepare to feel real weird reading it. I hope you'll join me in experiencing the issue. Share with those who read and those who might and, especially, those who should. shorturl.at/KTp4L https://shorturl.at/KTp4L23 Mar 2026 22:07 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhr332j5222zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3mcinx7d42k2jLove this place! Let's Gooooo! [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Jan 2026 22:45 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcinx7d42k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3mbruhbbcv22bHave you read @sfreligh.bsky.social short story collection Other Emergencies? If not, let me tell you why you should! shorturl.at/dh04I https://shorturl.at/dh04I06 Jan 2026 21:10 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbruhbbcv22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3m6psgdjeos2iExcited to see my name on this list. Big thanks to @alliumjournal.bsky.social for accepting then nominating my work. Best of luck, everybody! [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Nov 2025 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6psgdjeos2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lzow3mn3ec2cLove this! Gonna to read 'em all! [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Sep 2025 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzow3mn3ec2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lyybgwna522rJust discovered this little slice of the microsphere! Can't wait to dive into @claudineliterary.bsky.social16 Sep 2025 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyybgwna522rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3ly6nluapgc2eI'm behind on promoting a rare piece of published nonfiction. A huge thanks to @alliumjournal.bsky.social for publishing this frantic, plaintive experience. tinyurl.com/ya7na9as https://tinyurl.com/ya7na9as06 Sep 2025 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly6nluapgc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3ly6dffw2is2t“Uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, cervix,” Dr. Doris Day says. “I say we take them all.” “That’s a lot of me,” I say. “Oh, you’d be surprised how little it is!" Awesome story by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Hot Flash Literary tinyurl.com/3ubv7uv2 https://tinyurl.com/3ubv7uv206 Sep 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly6dffw2is2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lwjylbyhks23"The men are dying . . . beautiful boys ugly-cry too." On-point rendering by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in his story "Boys in Boxes," Published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/boys-in-boxes/ https://fracturedlit.com/boys-in-boxes/16 Aug 2025 18:25 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwjylbyhks23https://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lv7frnrx6c2hSuper excited (and a little proud) to have new micro published with such a preeminent supporter of the super short form. Thanks to everyone @lostballoon.bsky.social !! [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jul 2025 19:57 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv7frnrx6c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lunaho3d222yA masterclass example of precision dialogue used to reveal the story not told. Admired the subtleties in awareness of marriage, sacrifice, taking and being taken advantage of, rebirth, and failure. A good study of the flash fiction by Gaurav Bhalla, published in Journal of Compressed Creative arts23 Jul 2025 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lunaho3d222yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lhwrnad2ds2cBig thanks to @bendinggenres.bsky.social for publishing my braided micro piece that uses Leviticus, the epistolary form, and a little bit Minecraft. Originally drafted in an @sfreligh.bsky.social workshop. Can't wait to read through the issue! bendinggenres.com/prophecy/ https://bendinggenres.com/prophecy/11 Feb 2025 23:08 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhwrnad2ds2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lhwqwmuylk2cStoked to be a finalist for this contest! Thanks to all the editors @flashfrog.bsky.social and Guest Judge Gina Chung for your time and commitment 🤟 [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Feb 2025 22:55 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhwqwmuylk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lglmilm64c2f"If Leo Tolstoy could have ten kids and famously forget some of their names, then I could get pregnant and keep creating everyday." Fuck yes. Megan Mizanty's "Hillers" in @bendinggenres.bsky.social tinyurl.com/7edhwaet https://tinyurl.com/7edhwaet25 Jan 2025 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lglmilm64c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lgldnxcxjk2qThough I'm from the rural Midwest and not South, much of this piece from @raniqualee.bsky.social in @barrenmagazine.bsky.social felt like home. And that ending. C'mon, ya'll. tinyurl.com/2hj3wwmu https://tinyurl.com/2hj3wwmu25 Jan 2025 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgldnxcxjk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lgbcvaunak2bAdmire the nuance of mother/daughter & mother/son here, as well the promising ending and chance at redemption and growth: Read @rachellaverdiere.bsky.social in @okaydonkey.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4sbpxvhy https://tinyurl.com/4sbpxvhy21 Jan 2025 16:53 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbcvaunak2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lfhh2nbfnc2yThis is the first time I've read flash about a serial killer. There's no showing off here. Just the power and precision of a well-told story. "In The Chips" @ tinyurl.com/ye7pd59b https://tinyurl.com/ye7pd59b11 Jan 2025 09:58 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfhh2nbfnc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3leufefbtak2yNearly two years behind on this brilliant piece of flash @flashfrog.bsky.social, but with what just happened in New Orleans and what will undoubtedly happen again soon, the story, sadly, still resonates. tinyurl.com/4pyajt65 https://tinyurl.com/4pyajt6503 Jan 2025 20:07 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3leufefbtak2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lef7elfy2s2g The thinning of the animals; the self-alienation of humans; the world returning without them; the hospitals beginning to fill--a vivid display of the Malthusian Cycle, balanced on deft prose. tinyurl.com/4cmmxjcy in @nffr.bsky.social https://tinyurl.com/4cmmxjcy28 Dec 2024 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lef7elfy2s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3lea4dljl2c24“I began to have this dream where instead of being signed we just went missing,” says a young model in a state of mental decline, not realizing that her and her friend’s abundant visibility as models is the ultimate invisibility. Beautiful work. tinyurl.com/muzr84p9 https://tinyurl.com/muzr84p926 Dec 2024 18:32 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lea4dljl2c24https://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3ldlpxvltxs24I admire the dichotomy in education highlighted by @sammatin.bsky.social in this interview. Best read alongside the story, "People of Color Monologue," which to me is a politically charged piece that suggests that with love there's hope. tinyurl.com/yvddv6dc https://tinyurl.com/yvddv6dc18 Dec 2024 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldlpxvltxs24https://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3ldjwyo5pfk2uThe voice of this piece, the sense of place, the staying silent in life and not speaking ill of the dead (just like in the American Midwest), and the way the living stand fragmented around the deceased. Fucking beautiful. Let’s just someone say it already. Hot damn. shorturl.at/Kzi41 https://www.smokelong.com/stories/these-things-we-not-saying/17 Dec 2024 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldjwyo5pfk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social/post/3ldh262nqnc2qExcited to see the new issue out. Check out my story "Obit," written in an @sfreligh.bsky.social workshop, and the accompanying interview with the sagacious Chey Dugan. Can wait to read through it all. Congrats, everyone!🤘 [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Dec 2024 19:17 +0000at://did:plc:qfnnopc2t4wmtpyvznpxtxuh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldh262nqnc2q