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Lisa Thornton

24 days

The bleak days are close. The upside is that whatever you want to think about you can think about and then it will float into the huge sky and disappear.

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Lisa Thornton

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2 years

@NellFrizzell When my grandpa was in the hospital post stroke, we thought he was babbling until my grandma recognized all his references, the dog running across the parking lot, the dropped ice cream cone, the too high laughter. Their whole lives he was living again and only she saw it.

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Lisa Thornton

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2 years

Your writing might not change the world but it will change you and that’s enough.

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Lisa Thornton

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1 year

I have plenty of rejections to work with. This is my first erasure. Hooked.

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Lisa Thornton

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2 years

@Chelsea_Stickle Happens to me too. I still don’t understand it.

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Lisa Thornton

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2 months

Submitting work is intimidating. Getting work declined is humiliating. Getting work published is also painful in some hard to explain way. Writing is torturous. Not writing is worse. Have a great day!

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Lisa Thornton

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1 month

Big rejection today. Making banana muffins and mopping all the floors bc I can control some things in my life dammit. I can make it nice.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

6 months

@fklein907 We had Saltines for years for my extremely picky son. I'm with you-it's a treat for their special day not for us!

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Lisa Thornton

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4 months

Have you done this thing suggested by maybe Raymond Carver and made a list of 10 things you love and 10 things you hate? And then written about them? It's a goldmine.

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Lisa Thornton

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11 months

I lived in 13 places before graduating from high school. Workshop writing prompts are often abt the house you grew up in-the stairs, the kitchen, your bedroom. Just one. Every time, I feel a prick of sadness or maybe jealousy. My story is interesting, too, but it's not that story

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

Today’s rejection from a dream publication says I should revise and resubmit. I feel visible, legitimate and excited 😁

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 year

Might have screamed at work when I opened this email. Might never have been in an anthology. Might eat two pieces of cake later to celebrate!!

Bath Flash Fiction

@BathFlashAward

1 year

Many congratulations to all 50 writers longlisted in our 25th Award! Confirmatory emails with publication offer will be sent in the next couple of hours. And thank you to every one who entered. It was tough to select 50 from hundreds of excellent entries

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Lisa Thornton

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1 year

I asked my husband, who is an oil painter, how he knows when he is done with a painting. He said, "You start, and then you go through this incredible feeling of self-doubt, and then suddenly you're done."

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Lisa Thornton

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1 year

Anyone else so afraid to lose a version of a story that might be better than what you're about to change it into that you save Version 1, Version 2, Version 3, Version 4, etc. in separate files until your desktop is covered in little terrified versions??

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Lisa Thornton

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7 months

One thing I learned as a hospice nurse is that our lives are not storylines. There is often no resolution at the end. Bills unpaid, arguments mid, misunderstandings misunderstood. On days like today when I try to fix everything, this reminds me not to waste my precious time.

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Lisa Thornton

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2 years

Today I ran into a school to get my child after a threat of shooting closed it down. I saw myself running down the sidewalk as I was doing it. I saw my face bc I’ve seen that mother’s face on the news. We are all safe but the ghost of her is in me forever now.

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Lisa Thornton

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11 months

Just made a bold editing move, deleting an entire paragraph and moving two sentences way up making the second to last paragraph the end of the story and then looked around my empty living room for...applause?

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Lisa Thornton

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3 months

I know they say representation matters but my mama heart was not ready for the 13yo to sit forward on the couch and say Mom he looks like me! He has glasses! #StephenNedoroscik #OlympicGamesParis2024

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Lisa Thornton

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8 months

I read my new story to my husband before sending it out (as usual) and he said nothing for a minute and then said “you should send that to the place you think you’ll never get into” ♥️♥️

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Lisa Thornton

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9 months

@AshleyGWinter This is probably too dark and pessimistic to be the only factor but the health care system is built on illness not health. Prevention is not a strategy when yr business is treating sick people.

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Lisa Thornton

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3 years

@IlhanMN Please remember that there are more of us out here who love you than there are people like this ignorant hateful person. Please remember that even though the hateful ones speak louder.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 year

Remember when I sent that story I was so afraid they would not publish but also so afraid they would publish? They are publishing it 😱

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

ICYMI, this story took four years to become what it is today. Which is my whole heart. Thank you so much ⁦ @SmokeLong ⁩ for seeing it and believing in it and sharing it with the world.

The Resident in Room 402 - SmokeLong Quarterly

I save his visits for the last of the day so they can run overtime. The workers cheer when they see me because he doesn’t love everyone and sometimes swears at them and tries to stab their hands with...

www.smokelong.com

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

10 months

About 3 yrs ago I realized if I didn’t give it my all I would die without having tried and now I have 6 upcoming publications-a personal record. You might as well try!

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Lisa Thornton

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6 months

I want to read the memoir of every person on earth. Even the most boring person who runs a veg stand and never does anything but eat and sleep and work. Fascinating. I want to know it all.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

3 months

Rejection within an hour of submitting

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

Thank you, people who lived in my house before me, for planting this beautiful thing

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

@DrunkScribe This makes me realize all my restaurants didn’t have HR departments, just tiny managers’ offices filled with cigarette smoke and the remains of former employees.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

@thorinlvr Can you imagine…Hello my name is Lisa I’ll be your server this eveninnnngggggg…whuhhhhhhh…

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

Changed the terminology on my spreadsheet from rejected to declined. Happier already.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

11 months

When a magazine invites you to resubmit and you do, do you remind them in that second submission that they invited you to resubmit?

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 year

Actual footage of my Submittable account

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

4 months

Turns out I had my Rays mixed up and it was Ray Bradbury who said this! Here’s the quote:

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

3 years

Some days, I stare at the robins out my window and remember a hospice patient from years ago who invited me to die with him. “We’ll be birds,” he said, “and fly over that field and the river.” I told him I had to stay. He left without me.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

19 days

One big difference between young writer me and older writer me is that now when I feel like I can't write, I write anyway.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 year

I almost didn't enter this bc I figured my story was not good enough, not what they were looking for, and now my name is on the flash fiction shortlist with so many writers I admire! Lesson learned-aim high. Thank you, @BridportPrize and congrats to all the winners!

The Bridport Prize

@BridportPrize

1 year

The word is out on our Flash Fiction, Poetry, Short Story and Novel Award winners! ✨ Head to to see our 2023 results. Congrats to all who made the list!🎉 Big thanks to our judges, partners and everyone who entered. ❤️ #BridportPrizeResults #AmWriting

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 year

My story hangs on and now I will have an elevated heart rate until Tuesday!! Congratulations to everyone on the short list 🤩

Bath Flash Fiction

@BathFlashAward

1 year

Big Congratulations to all 20 writers on the short list selected by our 25th Award judge @sarahillswrites Winners announced Tuesday 31st Oct!

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

7 months

Sometimes I just can’t believe any of this is real.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

8 months

My story is on this list! 😮

Flash Frog

@flashfroglitmag

8 months

The 2024 Blue Frog finalists!🐸💙

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

10 months

End of the year rejections are coming in hot so instead of feeling down please enjoy this pic of my husband with a very big burrito

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 year

We had a big party in the woods. We rode horses, stayed up late playing music at the campfire, drank too much whiskey. They forgot to make our breakfast the next morning and then we went fishing. 16 years ago today.

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Lisa Thornton

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2 years

@toddedillard I wrote an email to my community college biology teacher bc his solid and thorough teaching of that subject helped me so much in nursing school. I saw classmates who didn’t have a handle on bio struggling. He was so much the reason for my success and I just wanted him to know.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

8 months

Buying books directly from the hands of their authors 🤩✨

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 year

Very excited abt the invitation to resubmit in today’s rejection. I’m finally understanding how much of a long game this is, and why I needed to be older, able to manage disappointment, and much more patient before I could truly play it.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

3 months

I bought a slice of watermelon in Nepal and the man tried to tell me they were for the monkeys, not for me. I couldn't understand, didn't really try, and a monkey landed on my back and ripped the watermelon out of my hands. I've been a better listener since.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

11 months

It’s fascinating to see an idea go from notes scratched down between patients at work to a piece you’d sit in your bed & chip away at on your laptop while yr husband slept to a title on a long list for @SmokeLong !!

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@SmokeLong

11 months

Announcing the long list for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

10 months

@evornithology Yesterday I tried to call my husband twice from a land line but I had to hang up bc my cell phone kept ringing. I googled the incoming number on my cell phone and discovered it was coming from the building I was in. It was me. I was calling myself.

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Lisa Thornton

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6 months

Woke up to 3rd rejection from NFFD. No Flash Flood for me this yr. But I have 3 new pieces to work w, & the pride that I tried. Can't express how much rejection turned me off like a switch yrs ago. I would have been mortified. I would have felt it in my arms & legs. Now, onward!

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

3 years

@dylanlscott The house from ET is the most realistic and character-like setting I’ve ever seen. It’s what our houses looked like inside. They don’t represent life that honestly anymore. Only “indie” movies seem to even try. Maybe they think movie-goers prefer to escape reality nowadays.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

3 years

@CRSantantasio “Make them shimmer on the page” is my favorite requirement. Glow in the dark words, slightly elevated, ghostlike.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

9 months

@unxpctdisvry I feel like there’s a better way to do this. Use varied textures and materials if you want the look of minimal possessions. Stone, wood, glass create variation without clutter.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

This is the little story I tried to force and it failed every time. Then I got really quiet and there it was. Thank you @BendingGenres for including it in Issue 32!

The Girl Who Was Afraid She Might Float Away

bendinggenres.com

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

4 months

People often talk abt how writers must toughen up to rejection bc it’s part of the gig and I agree but I also think it’s okay to take a break from submitting if you feel soft and wait til you feel strong again.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

Some rejections protect me from publishing things that are not good enough but I thought they were when I sent them. So, thank you?

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

5 months

Just leaving that acceptance email in my inbox a liiittle longer

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

@DanielleNicki I still use CDs and DVDs in addition to streaming. The artwork & lyrics to the CDs I bought as a teenager are part of my artistic history that feel like family to me. And no one can take them away on a whim. Hurray for physical media!

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

Being a writer with a job and a family is like having an affair. Always sneaking off, not fully listening. Half of your heart somewhere else all the time.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

@Sonderbooks In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge killed people wearing glasses. They took it as a sign that they were “over educated” and not agrarian enough. If these words don’t chill you…

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

3 years

@KindaHagi I think comic geniuses often have deep deep levels of darkness inside. George Carlin, Richard Pryor, John Candy, Jimmy Fallon, Johnny Carson, Robin Williams…

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

7 months

Honored to be a runner-up in @hippocampusmag ’s We Love Short Shorts Contest! Congrats to winner Jeanne and to Abby for doing incredible things with 300 words. Read all of our stories on the website. Link to my runner-up “The Great Wave”👇

The Great Wave by Lisa Thornton | Hippocampus Magazine

Three boats toss in a storm with Mt. Fuji in the background.

hippocampusmagazine.com

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

11 months

I took this class on lyric essays & it was amazing. We read Maggie Nelson, Anne Carson, Danielle Geller, Toi Derricotte, Ross Gay, Elizabeth Bishop, Jo Ann Beard. But after writing fiction it feels like standing naked to write an essay. I am not...brave enough to send these out?

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

@jkirk___ I’m a school nurse. I don’t know how this company sleeps at night. Possible side effects include esophageal damage & cardiac symptoms. Hot peppers=no joke.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 year

Big changes in store. Bought myself a farmhouse from 1884.

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Lisa Thornton

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10 months

We have reached peak marriage, me reading my words aloud to my husband quietly cleaning his carburetor parts.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

@BethanyJarmul I love Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

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Lisa Thornton

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3 months

Seventeen years ago today, it stormed between the ceremony and the reception. Some people crowded into the barn where they’d strung up fancy lights. Others danced in the rain.

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Lisa Thornton

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1 year

People talk about parenting as if it’s one thing. But I got good at parenting a baby, then I didn’t have a baby anymore. I figured out how to parent a toddler and then he was gone. Now I need to figure out how to parent a teenager. Every few years it’s a brand new job.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

I have written a poem that makes me think I have never written a poem before.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

@clhubes I would not have survived my son’s toddler years w/o Little Einsteins in the afternoon. I gave him a bowl of raisins & I sat in the kitchen drinking tea and remembering my old life. He thought they were called “raisinswhileyourewatching” bc that’s how I offered them every day

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

3 months

Acceptance in my inbox! One little good thing carrying lots of weight ✨

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

7 months

Y’all. I think the rumors are true. After 3 yrs of having my nose in lit mags, it is easier to place my stories. This is unscientific, however. Is it bc my writing is getting better? As a result of reading? Does it matter? I don’t know!

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

7 months

Ever gotten halfway thru writing a story and realize you've written this story before but with different characters and a different plot, and then think perhaps you just keep writing the same story over and over and over??

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 month

Checking Submittable every day not for progress but to admire what I did. Thinking I can be brave, look.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

3 months

Woke up to a dense fog advisory and the realization that my property is covered in spiderwebs that we could not see before

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

5 months

My son asked to go for a drive after dinner so he could “see the open spaces in the good light.” 💚🌽

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

9 months

I mentioned this dream once & you, writers of this app, said we want the story. I said I’ve tried. I can’t. Yes you can, you said. No really, I said. Yes you can, you said. I’m honored to see it here, finally, alongside such beautiful writing in the new issue of @PitheadChapel

Pithead Chapel

@PitheadChapel

9 months

Our February issue is live! [FICTION] @meertastic @gwenekirby Max Kruger-Dull @FelicityRLanda [NONFICTION] Olga Katsovskiy @debwerrlein @thorntonforreal @lateration [PROSE POETRY] N. Cuzzi [COVER] Anthony Carrasco

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 months

We drove an hour to escape the flatness and found this incredible tree growing like a lacy curtain over the canyon. The waterfall was dry but the rocks were cool and for a minute or two no other hikers and only the wind in the leaves.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

10 months

Sad Decline Saturday has turned into Super Acceptance Sunday! 🎢

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

4 months

@fklein907 No. And I feel like you should mention this to their supervisor. It is very inappropriate.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

WHAAAAAATTT?!?! Thank you so much @SmokeLong !

SmokeLong Slaughterly

@SmokeLong

2 years

Announcing the SmokeLong Quarterly Pushcart Prize nominations! Celebrating some fabulous work from @marcusytan , @oyinkansolaso , @Thorntonforreal , @itssonoemi , @n897x1975 , @DeeshaPhilyaw ⚡️🎉❤️

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

@blgtylr I watch this movie every Christmas and sink into the dialogue like an old comfy bed.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

I am over the moon about this! Thank you @SmokeLong and congrats to all the finalists. I can’t wait to read your stories!

SmokeLong Slaughterly

@SmokeLong

2 years

Announcing the Finalists for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2022! Congratulations to Marcus Tan, Scott Pomfret, Luke Sutherland, Oyinkansola Sofela, Noémi Scheiring-Oláh, Amy Cipolla Barnes, Jack Bedrosian, Pat Jameson, Alexandra Karaim, and Lisa Thornton. 🎉🎉🎉

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

7 months

@vinceyface I am a school nurse and give these out every day. Kids can even choose what color they want.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 year

Confession: sometimes I stand at the sink after I’m done washing dishes pretending to wash dishes bc when I’m at the sink washing dishes no one talks to me.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

3 years

@DrJenGunter A friend of mine has kids in a school district where a parent said in a school board meeting that he has ‘come to terms’ with the fact that his kid might die of COVID but he was willing to risk that to ‘protect his freedoms.’

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

11 months

Wish I could make a quilt of my old lovers. Wish I'd stolen something from each one of them that I could stitch together to make something new.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 year

This is unexpected and lovely! Thank you so much, @press_roi and congrats to all the writers 🙏♥️🙏

Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN BAYBEEEE

@press_roi

1 year

A lil drum roll, please! RF is proud to announce our 2023 Best of the Net noms! If you see Achi Mishra, @GTurnerwriter , @crankypacifist , @SuperHeavy666 , @Matt_Johnson_D , @jenwithwords , Jordan Joe, @gempet69 , @thorntonforreal , @maud_lavin , or @SadeeBee today, congratulate them!

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Lisa Thornton

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16 days

The 13yo says there’s 2 things he doesn’t like abt his life-“the slow, relentless march of time and when I get something in my eye.”

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Lisa Thornton

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22 days

Girl who does my hair: Do you want yr phone? It's a long time to sit. Me: No. I'm fine. Girl: It's a long time. Me: I have things to think about. Girl: Me: I'm going to start now.

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2 months

My mother says the cicadas on the Cape were so thick the year she was pregnant w me that they fell from the sky like rain. She says she carried an umbrella to get the mail. Maybe that’s why they sound like a lullaby to me.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

6 months

Just submitted two very personal stories. Feels like I packed up all the underwear I wore last week and sent it off to be examined by strangers.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

4 months

Maybe I use this site differently than other pple, but in all honesty why like a post if no one can see that you liked it? Why bother? I thought that sharing what we found interesting was the point of this place. Is that not the point?? What is the point then?!

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

My biggest writing accomplishment of 2022 has been that I feel a little less conflicted about calling myself a writer than I did last year.

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Lisa Thornton

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27 days

It’s supposed to rain so I’m making spiced lentils w butternut squash. The guy down the street is selling hay bales for five bucks. I’ve been waiting to feel satisfied my whole life. Maybe today is the day.

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@Thorntonforreal

2 years

A year ago I ordered two cheap white desks from IKEA, set them up in the corner of my bedroom and got serious abt my writing. Here’s to making space for your dreams✨🥂

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

9 months

I have new creative nonfiction up today! Thanks to the editors @jmwwjournal for selecting it.

Creative Nonfiction: One Step at a Time by Lisa Thornton

Mothers have brown hair that they tuck behind their ears while playing Candyland.

jmwwblog.wordpress.com

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 months

Sending your written work out into the word is so hopeful. Sometimes I do it when I feel the opposite, just to push myself in that direction.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

3 years

@ambernoelle Women will get abortions whatever they decide. It will just be more difficult and more dangerous. It’s almost funny how they think they can control this.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

2 years

@ashantifortson @Chelsea_Stickle What genre would you assign to Salman Rushdie’s novels like Midnight’s Children and Quichotte? I always thought of them as magical realism but he is not Latin American.

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Lisa Thornton

@Thorntonforreal

1 year

In a terrifying Friday the 13th twist, the 12yo has brought his kazoo home from school to practice The Chipmunks Christmas song this weekend.

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Lisa Thornton

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11 months

I love how absurd it is that anyone can write a poem in their bedroom and send it to a magazine and lots of people might read it.

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