Ghost Parachute

@GhostParachute

Unapologetically bold. Weird, vivid flash fiction. Tweets by Editor in Chief and Founder @brettpribble and Assistant Editors @MRoetsWritrix and @GirlGoneQuiet

Joined September 2016

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Brett Pribble@brettpribble · Jul 4

Excited my story "The Anglerfish Hears Dolly Parton" was published by Does It Have Pockets (@pocketsmag). doesithavepockets.com/fiction/brett-…

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 4

Read "The House of Black Doors" written by John King and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/2sa8jzvs

GhostParachute's tweet card. Blake existed beyond the black door in the attic. That door didn’t exist before midnight. TJ needed to pass through to the other side and rescue his husband, if Blake needed rescuing. It felt like...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 4

Read "Listen to Your Body" written by @Chelsea_Stickle and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/tyuyj2pn

GhostParachute's tweet card. The doctors couldn’t determine what was causing the thumping fluttering agony in my chest, the dread that haunted me and kept me awake nights. X-rays, MRIs, CTs had no answers. Finally, I told them...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 4

Read "St. Gregorio" written by Alex Gurtis and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/3jw5d8xn

GhostParachute's tweet card. The cockroach fell from the cloth onto its back. I was cleaning the counter while waiting for my espresso to pour when it happened. The machine had been broken for weeks and I finally had some time...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 4

Read "Put a Hat on or You’ll Catch Your Death" written by @JEK_Writer and illustrated by @DamicAndrea. tinyurl.com/2s38zt6s

GhostParachute's tweet card. “Daffodil,” you say to your ten-pound poodle, “are we crazy? If we get wet, will we actually melt?” You’re decked out in a weatherproof windbreaker and rain boots, an umbrella dangling from your...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 4

Read "An Idea Declared Itself Between Us" written by Cheryl Pappas and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1. tinyurl.com/3676fm62

GhostParachute's tweet card. I chiseled at the idea to see if it would budge, but that made it only balloon more between us. Black letters inside jumbled and spun in a ball, like they were caught in a dryer. They entranced me....

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 4

Read "You were supposed to find me, not get eaten" written by @DawnSteffler and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1. tinyurl.com/2t5hfjxx

GhostParachute's tweet card. The whomp-whomp of a military helicopter is faint, but the handful of us nurses and doctors hear it. We un-barricade the door with hospital beds and sprint up the stairwell to the roof. Minutes...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 4

Read "Daisy and Bear" written by @KSilverHajo and illustrated by @DamicAndrea. tinyurl.com/2s3u8t2k

GhostParachute's tweet card. After their parents’ divorce, which was the second divorce, really, or third, depending on how you look at it, Daisy and Bear secretly meet up at the ill-lit Cat’s Meow Tavern at the edge of town....

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 4

Read "Charlie" written by @amykdebellis and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/38mv6rru

GhostParachute's tweet card. Luanne is our last neighbor. I don’t ever see her in the daytime, and Dad says it’s because she’s busy working, but Dad is a bad liar because nobody goes to work anymore. No, I’m pretty sure Luanne...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 3

Read "Stroked" written by @ClaudiaMonpere and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1. tinyurl.com/4wr34tr3

GhostParachute's tweet card. When Fiona was one month pregnant, her father had a massive stroke. He couldn’t move or speak. At three months, she showed him the ultrasound’s gray and white swirls, her baby’s floating body. Her...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 3

Read "deliver us" written by @DidiWood and illustrated by Courtney Burton. tinyurl.com/3chvy4nb

GhostParachute's tweet card. sunday mornings on callused knees, praise our vengeful gilded god who delivers us from thought and choice, pledge allegiance and partake, these blessed burger bits his body, these tangy ketchup sips...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 2

Read "Mothership" written by Meg Pokrass and illustrated by Brittany Williams. tinyurl.com/ynh8etuj

GhostParachute's tweet card. My wife reaches for my hand from the hospital bed and asks me to remind her about the greatest thing that happened in my lifetime. “Tell me the story again,” she says, her voice dry and shaky, and so...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 2

Read "Cathedral" written by @JennyStalter and illustrated by @KaylanStedman. tinyurl.com/5n8deywp

GhostParachute's tweet card. I threw the first punch this time. I’m venomous. I drink. I levitate. Yesterday it was the dishes. Today it’s the trash, all the wine bottles. Jovi’s always mad about something. I throw the bottles....

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 2

Read "When Anxiety Turns You into a Pacman Pellet" written by @lumchanmfa and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/4rmzt6ez

GhostParachute's tweet card. I wind you around and around and drive your breath out of you quick quick in time to your rapid heart and you fight me with deep breaths and meditation but I am insidious and claw my way back up...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 2

Read "The Heartland Deck: 24-Hour Diner—Reversed" written by @nancystohlman and illustrated by @KaylanStedman. tinyurl.com/mvemd6wn

GhostParachute's tweet card. If you find the carcass of the 24-Hour Diner on a side highway, turning gray with rot and neglect—then be careful. The Reversed Diner, dissolving into dust under the punishing sun of a cloudless...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jul 1

The July 2025 issue is here! Cover illustrated by @GirlGoneQuiet. tinyurl.com/3ve3ey6e

GhostParachute's tweet card. July 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute %

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jun 2

Read "Hunger Three Ways" written by @JoyceBingham10 and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/59mfpw9z

GhostParachute's tweet card. Blood The wolf howls into the night, adrenaline and cortisol in my blood increases. I’ll taste of fear. He must enjoy that bitter sweet meat. But in front of me there is a tree, glorious in the...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jun 2

Read "Help" written by Cheryl Snell and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/yyd4zc76

GhostParachute's tweet card. But how? He’s big on empathy, thinks he knows what she’s going through, and so he invites himself over. She serves him sandwiches in the car where she lives. He’s too big for the passenger seat and...

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Ghost Parachute@GhostParachute · Jun 2

Read "Everyone in My Family is a Road Sign" written by @anchalastudio and illustrated by @anchalastudio. tinyurl.com/bdrp9dap

GhostParachute's tweet card. Daddy was a Stop Sign, hard-edged, dull red, scarred by BB pellets, a constructed concrete barricade blocking us from making our own decisions, even Mama, who Daddy misread like most men of his...

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