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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

7 months

ICYMI my first 💀

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7 months

LOVE a short short built on a piling up anaphora of "Because…"s!! "Because the baby startled awake. Because the baby’s shrieks reverberated through the plaster hallway laced with cracks and sent a jolt straight through my spine. Because…" — @esfletcher

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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3 years

My daughter is in her school spelling bee & I assured her that, for the rest of her life, she’ll know how to spell the word that takes her out. (“picnicking” 1981-82)

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2 years

Last day of chemo. For the rest of my long life. I hope.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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1 year

You are looking at a dusty but just-cleared landing that has stored boxes since just before my cancer diagnosis. Took the whole day, but I conquered it, freeing up space & energy. Please clap.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

Nine months of active cancer treatment & today I throw myself across the finish line of radiation. It will end with a whimper, a whisper, & it’s not really over, but dammit I want a party. @ThanksCancer

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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3 years

I found my spelling bee soulmate who also went out on “picnicking” & appreciate the camaraderie in the replies, but I need to mute. Nature is healing. Love you, fellow bees! 🐝

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2 years

@Jayne_Martin I don’t use sighing in my writing, but you would be shocked by the amount of sighing I do irl. How else does one exorcise the small demons?

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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3 years

@larsonrichard Can't tell if the cat is feeling proud & taking assignment seriously or utterly humiliated & trying to make the best of it.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

This wasn’t the milestone birthday I envisioned, but I’m grateful that I should have another full trip around the sun.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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9 months

And our little goth girl is gone 💔

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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1 year

95% of the peaches I bought at the grocery store this summer got bruised & grew grey-green fur coats before they ripened. So I invested in a crate of ripe peaches. I’m in stonefruit heaven, but I’m also in over my head.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

@Karen92195695 You look gorgeous. And solidarity.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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8 months

Woke up to 2 acceptances, including my first 💀! Brb, heading out buy a lotto ticket.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

Cancer eviction day is tomorrow. I’m as ready as I ever will be, but it’s a long surgery & I am accepting all manner of spooky action: healing vibes, prayers, manifesting candles, good wishes, etc, etc.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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4 years

Just received an acceptance from a dream journal 😭 Celebrating tomorrow morning 🍩

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

When a lit mag writes "we hope you'll send us more to consider soon," how soon is "soon"?

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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9 months

My sweet furbaby’s radical mastectomy is infected & we may be putting her down today. We are heartbroken.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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1 year

It was official last week, but now that my name's on the masthead, it's official-official: I've joined the cnf editorial team at @PitheadChapel .

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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1 year

Two tough writing rejections today. 😞

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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8 months

HALP! Recommendations for a funny literary novel? Trying to lighten a friend’s surgical recovery & apparently all I read is sad or weird.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

Ever been in a bad car accident that you miraculously walk away from & adrenaline carries you until it drains away & then you melt down because you realize how close you came to dying? That’s how I feel 1 year after finding a tiny lump that rocked my world. @ThanksCancer #bcsm

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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3 years

Today marks the final dose of chemo regimen #1 . I feel like there should be balloons.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

1 year

I couldn’t resist making my very own Submittable erasure

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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1 year

4 am thoughts: If you hated the game “Is it a cold or is it covid?” do not, under any circumstances, unlock the advanced level “Is it osteoarthritis or is it metastatic cancer?” @ThanksCancer

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

I thought I’d feel triumphant going to my cancer survivorship class today, but the reality is that it brings up all the fears of recurrence. 🙃 @thankscancer #bcsm

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

Such a dark day when women are more regulated than guns.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

Last day in Italy. After a year of cancer treatment (during a pandemic no less), I’m grateful for more life & the opportunity to re-connect with the wider world & my own sense of pleasure & awe.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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4 years

Woohoo #WritingCommunity I’ve reached 700 followers on the last day of #IndieApril ! I’m celebrating by buying some books. Leave a picture of your book & where to purchase.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Post-op pathology report: surgeon says I’m cancer-free. #bcsm @thankscancer

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

On the morning I’m to learn what cancer treatments await me, I coach my daughter on how to comfort her friend who lost a parent to cancer. #cnftweet

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

@SketchesbyBoze It’s all fun & games until someone has to make the bed.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Moms, I don’t mean to brag, but I recently got a package to an exclusive day spa where they pack my hands/feet in ice & mainline a hand-picked cocktail. For 2 hrs, I listen to 432hz music & a nurse brings me snacks, warm blankets & ice chips if I ask & no one asks me for a thing.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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3 years

Not to pile on with grim news, but shoulder pads are back.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Tfw you sit in your car after your appointment with the oncologist & have a good cry. @thankscancer

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Thumbing my nose at cancer as I complete another 75-hours of yoga therapy training today. 🎉

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Cancerversary cake—I hear you never forget your first. @ThanksCancer

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Best Christmas present of the year arrived in the mail today. @thankscancer

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Dream journal acceptance last night. As in literal dream that I received a journal acceptance. 😂

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Chemotherapy, surgery, radiation gives a person the starring role in their own body horror trilogy. @thankscancer

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

4 years

Woke up to a sweet card & donuts. I need to get published more often.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Speaking of moms, my mom made my kid a thing ❤️

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Today just got even better. It’s been over a year since I’ve gotten one of these. I’m back, bbs.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

11 months

Creeping up to 2nd cancerversary & I feel my body bracing itself, fear revived that my life will be cut short, the foolishness of making future plans. Thus pleased to announce a defiant f-cancer triumph: I bet on myself this am & applied for a writerly thing in the new year.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

4 years

Can I just admit that the latest short story I'm working on is a full-length subtweet of a co-worker from thirty years ago?

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

“At the oncologist’s office” feels like fiction when I type it. Except it’s memoir.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Hair Appreciation Week has come to a close, and my chemo marathon begins today.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

1 year

tfw you’re waiting for scan results & miss an early evening call from oncology clinic & spend a restless night bracing for the worst & find out the next morning it was just an appointment reminder. 🫠 @thankscancer

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

A birthday bourbon. Cheers to another ride around the sun.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Why, yes, I am avoiding my writing. Why do you ask?

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Anyone else read an acceptance email at least ten times before withdrawing from other mags, or is that just me? (Also, yay.)

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Alone, arms up in surrender, the glass-faced machine whirs and beeps, circling my torso. Even as radiation penetrates my skin to kill bad cells, bad cells trying to kill me, I feel nothing. #tinytruth @ThanksCancer

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Brutal to call a long-time mentor/friend to catch up & get a disconnected number & check the obits & learn they passed months ago. 💔

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Not the prettiest cake in the world, but I think the birthday girl will be happy.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

7 months

Sometimes the stars align & you get to meet a far-flung lit Twitter friend IRL.✨

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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3 years

Picard Tips

@PicardTips

3 years

Picard style tip: If you're balding, don't hide it. Own it.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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1 year

Sinéad O'Connor was part of the soundtrack of my teen years, modeling outspoken bravery & unapologetic anger to girls like me who’d been conditioned to make nice & not waves. May she rest easy as her legacy ripples on. 🌊

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

I’ve had an unhealthy relationship with Twitter for some time. And while an overhyped vapid techbro owner has already made it less fun, I’m riding this out to rock bottom.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

I just woke up from the best nap. Oh, and my chemo port is out.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

6 months

Oncology check-up/infusion day is my semi-annual reminder that cancer is a life sentence & that I’m damn lucky to be here, side effects & all. @thankscancer Let’s get’er done.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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1 year

Here, have a little piece of heaven - The Cure ❤️

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

@midwesternskirt See, this is how it works.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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1 year

I love how there’s a word in Japanese for sunlight shining through the trees: Komorebi. The characters used are “light,” “leaking through,” “trees.” Pure poetry.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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1 year

My writing retreat came with a dog named Bogart who’s made of love.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

Today I head to MA where I will spend the next 11 days & complete an 800-hour yoga therapy training I started back in 2018. My 1st project was designing a class for women w breast cancer. Of those 800 hours, 275 were done while receiving cancer treatment. Lots of feelings rn ✨

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Just in: Her word is “sustenance.”

Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

My daughter is in her school spelling bee & I assured her that, for the rest of her life, she’ll know how to spell the word that takes her out. (“picnicking” 1981-82)

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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9 months

Just read something gorgeous in the slush pile & it’s time to close my laptop & sit in its residual shine.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Home & resting, no surgical surprises. Let the wild rumpus begin. @thankscancer

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Porch time with the lovely @SusanTriemert

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

A year ago was the breast/lymph biopsy that threw my world off its axis. Today I donated the wig that I never wore to a local cancer org & hope it makes some woman going through hell feel a little more like herself.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

1 year

Some dreams do come true: woke up to a cnf acceptance for Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness anthology. Thanks @DianeGotAuthor and @EmergeJournal —thrilled to be included in this project!

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

I made cherry chocolate chip cookies with pastry flour instead of all-purpose. Flat & ugly, yet chewy & delicious. Happy accident?

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

8 months

Two personalized “you came so close to being a finalist” emails this week means I’m going on a submission bender this weekend.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

The night before night before surgery insomnia

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

11 months

Over the weekend, I completed a 20-hour yoga training for continuing ed AND drafted a new flash. Please clap.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

@ChWood321 I would never have guessed that was a wig. You look great!

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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4 years

@WakeUp2Politics @atrupar She’s not giving a readout & getting defensive about it because THERE IS NO PLAN.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

4 years

Currently watching TV w my husband. Which means me watching him scroll through Netflix for 45 minutes before he decides he can’t find anything & it’s time for bed.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Muting now, but grateful for all the good wishes. 🌸

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

1 year

Cancer festered an already-present sense that life is too short. But the deep relaxation I felt during yesterday’s MRI suggests I might need to bulk up my being time & ratchet back on my doing time. Alrighty then, back to gardening.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

4 years

[Happy internal screaming] Thrilled to receive a flash acceptance yesterday from Nonconformist Mag. It’s live today & I’d love it if you checked it out:

Roman Jenkins Contemplates the Abyss - The Nonconformist Magazine

by Elizabeth Fletcher

nonconformist-mag.com

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Welcome to another episode of my boring life: As I recover from breast cancer surgery, husband broke a rib playing soccer & daughter brought home impetigo from camp. What a messy week.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

1 year

I spy my story on the shortlist!

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@NewFlashFicRev

1 year

Thank you to everyone who entered The New Flash Fiction Prize. The shortlist is now with our judge @sarahillswrites . Please don't identify yourself with your story while the judging process is underway. Congratulations to the top 10!

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Elizabeth Fletcher

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2 years

Cape > gown Also, my six-month follow-up with surgical oncology PA included the words “No concerns.”

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Anyone else’s dreams been wild of late? In one week, I’ve been visited by several departed—ghosts both real & manmade.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

4 years

Don't mind me. I'm currently having a moment realizing I'll die before I've read everything I want to read.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Had a procedure w sedation yesterday & though I have zero recollection of it, I asked my husband, “Do you have anything to get off your chest while I’m not forming memories?”

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Surgery is done & I won a surprise overnight stay in Chez Fairview.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

I know these clearance rack pants with a thigh-high side slit were meant as a beach coverup, but I kinda love them & am tempted to wear them out & about.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Right after my diagnosis, poet Sarah Green loaned this traveling cow to see me through treatment. Today, more than a year later, the cow went home.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Another procedure. More holes in my body. Send good vibes.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Today I complete a 75-hour training that swallowed all my weekends in March, & that my oncologist had prepared me for not being well enough to do. Feeling grateful & defiant.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Today’s barbershop ear trim & tidying of chemo mullet feels like a win. @ThanksCancer

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Eager to share this micro born in a @TommyDeanWriter workshop. Many thanks to @EricScotTryon & to @jackie_staikos for the stunning artwork.

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3 years

NEW STORY ⚡️🐸 "Twister" by @esfletcher is now up! Art by @jackie_staikos

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

4 years

Just accepted 5£ for a piece of writing, the rough equivalent of 2 submittable fees. Not life-changing cash, but it's amazing how good it feels all the same.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

2 years

Found the most perfect gift for the friend who poisoned her husband this year with foraged false chanterelles

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Only on chemo #2 , but it’s become clear that afternoon infusions are for the party people.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

My daughter’s wildfire story has a dedication 💗😭

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

9 months

Or, how neuroscience helped me crack the combo lock on my creative flow… Thanks @brevitymag for sharing so this can reach other writers who face resistance.

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"I have a confession: I hate sitting down to write."~ Elizabeth Fletcher / @esfletcher

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

Apparently part of my writing process is submitting a piece & immediately unlocking the next level of revisions. 🙃

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

@clhubes Just your run-of-the-mill uterine library.

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Elizabeth Fletcher

@esfletcher

3 years

I want to offer a giant *thank you* to everyone who offered likes & care & comfort. There’s no way for me to respond personally to everyone, but it filled my heart & made the past week bearable. Happy to report a good prognosis! 💗

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