Matt Barrett

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The Great Frontier — Ghost Parachute By morning, we dug ourselves a trench. And hung photos in the dirt, old posters from our bedrooms, framed within the mud. We paced the few feet back and forth, crouching so no one could see our bobbin...

Read "The Great Frontier" written by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

"By morning, we dug ourselves a trench. And hung photos in the dirt, old posters from our bedrooms, framed within the mud. We paced the few feet back and forth, crouching so..."

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Thank you for including me in this issue, Brett!

The Great Frontier — Ghost Parachute By morning, we dug ourselves a trench. And hung photos in the dirt, old posters from our bedrooms, framed within the mud. We paced the few feet back and forth, crouching so no one could see our bobbin...

"In the creek, we scoured for crayfish, sucked the meat straight from their tails. We buried their skeletons to solidify the floor. One of us said we were pioneers, the other said we were just playing"

@mbarrettwriter.bsky.social writing brilliant things as usual: ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

Thank you, Matt!

Dog in the sun reading my latest story in The Sun Magazine. Deeply grateful to the editors for including another story of mine in one of the greatest publications on earth ❤️❤️ www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/602...

‘…she’d just hung there with her hair sweeping the woodchips and eyes shut tight like she was sleeping.’

What a central image to this fantastic flash from @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 🦇

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Thank you so much for reading and sharing, James!

That's great to hear, thank you so much for reading it!

I have a micro in @fracturedlit.bsky.social today! Thank you so much to the editors for picking up "First, They Fall": fracturedlit.com/first-they-f...

new issue of Cutleaf! Featuring short fiction by @ladiwoods.bsky.social, nonfiction from @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social, and poetry courtesy of @taylorfthiel.bsky.social

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I hope you like it!!

The Reunion - Cutleaf Journal Our five-year-old son asks us for forgiveness. He apologizes for what he did this morning. He hangs his head and paces before our TV, even with his favorite

Grateful to Cutleaf Journal for publishing my essay, "The Reunion," today! It was inspired by walks with my son on the Gettysburg battlefield and the impossible task of teaching a 5 year old about good and bad. cutleafjournal.com/content/the-...

Thank you, Frances!

This is a wonderful story.

The Seafood Stand Once, my father drove from New Jersey to California by siphoning gas from strangers’ cars, then sent his van off the Pacific Coast Highway by laying a brick on the accelerator. His mother almost died ...

‘Once, my father drove from New Jersey to California by siphoning gas from strangers’ cars…’

The Seafood Stand by
@mbarrettwriter.bsky.social

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Thank you, Eileen!

Thank you so much, Sarah!

The Seafood Stand Once, my father drove from New Jersey to California by siphoning gas from strangers’ cars, then sent his van off the Pacific Coast Highway by laying a brick on the accelerator. His mother almost died ...

The August issue of @thesunmagazine.bsky.social features one of my stories which I have been so excited to share for months! Grateful to Finn Cohen and all of the editors for helping me get this piece ready for publication. I'd be honored if you checked it out! www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/sea...

Huge thank you to our Blue Frog Guest Artist @jiksuncheung.bsky.social !! Each of these three pieces is absolutely stunning! 🙏🏼💙

Gulls of the Algarve - #fiction by UNCG Creative Writing alum Matt Barrett at Flash Frog buff.ly/TkIVd0t #UNCGAlumni #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere @mfagreensboro.bsky.social

Materials Needed by Kyle Weik *THE BLUE FROG 1st PLACE WINNER* Introduction by Guest Judge GINA CHUNG In the deeply affecting “Materials Needed,” an adolescent protagonist gradually comes to an understanding of thei…

Carved this piece out of me, and I’m excited to finally share it. Thank you @flashfrog.bsky.social @ericscottryon.bsky.social Gina Chung and @jiksuncheung.bsky.social for giving this the home of my dreams!

Only it didn’t have a broken wing, it was just too tired to fly, which happens sometimes, even to gulls who otherwise look okay, even when nothing seems wrong with their wings at all.

Quiet, beautiful story of compassion 💙
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Thank you, Kathryn!

Thank you, Liz!

A absolutely stunning, bittersweet piece by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. Go read it now! So honored to contribute a watercolor to this story 🙏 The original painting will be on the way to you soon, Matt!

Can't wait for the painting! I have the perfect place for it! Truly honored.

“which had been a goal of ours for years, to run so fast we actually caught one, only to realize we’d never get this close if things were actually right.”

This one. A must-read. Congratulations to @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social for winning 3rd place in @flashfrog.bsky.social!

Thank you so much, Jenny!!