Joni Page Author @jonipageauthor.bsky.social Wild child. Optimist.
Writer of captivating, happy tales.
Author of Beach Shorts - a Sandthology & The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl.
Website: www.jonipage.com
Gratefully living on Kaurna Country, Australia.
Lucy Berbeo @lucypaulina.bsky.social Writer. “Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.” ―Douglas Adams
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
Liminal Space Creative @liminalspacecreative.substack.com Aspiring Métis writer drawn to the grey areas of the human condition. Places we bury deep, where love and sorrow quietly pool together. Spaces that hold both our capacity for sincere kindness and our potential for extreme cruelty.
Heain Joung @heainjoung.bsky.social Writer. Originally from South Korea, lives between in the UK and South Korea. Pushcart Prize nominee. Story collection, The Myth of an Unknown Girl will be out in Summer 2027 by @thirtywestph.com
Christine Collinson @collinson26.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
She/They/Dr/Bruh
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Rachel M. Hollis (she/her) @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Writer of strange little heartbreaks. Sometimes I share them with people who aren’t my mom.
rachelmhollis.com
Jon Fain @jonfain.bsky.social Writer of Short Fiction(s) and Other Prose Entertainments
Selected Publications:
https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/jonfain
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
TM Upchurch @tmupchurch.bsky.social Lives on a big, wet rock by the sea.
Mother, scientist, writer.
https://www.instagram.com/traceyupchurch (nature, book reviews, life)
https://tmupchurchwriting.wordpress.com/ (reads and writes)
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. Helping new and emerging writers find their way. Posts by the EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social
Small. Brightly colored. Deadly to the touch. ⚡️🐸
New story every Monday.
EIC: @ericscottryon.bsky.social
https://flash-frog.com/
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
Flash 500 Writing Competitions @flash500.bsky.social Writing competitions:
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Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds.
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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her
erinbondo.com
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Nick Fogg @nickfoggwords.bsky.social Writer. She/her. Mslexia Novel Comp LL, Aurora Metro Virginia Prize LL, ACE DYCP & WriteMentor Mentoring Prog. BFI Network x BAFTA Crew alumna
Noémi Scheiring-Oláh @itssonoemi.bsky.social Hungarian alien writing in English(ian). Fan of cats and underdogs. ő/she/they/we 💚 Autistic. | noemiwrites.com | 🇵🇸🍉
Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Words in BULL, FlashFlood, Does It Have Pockets, Frazzled Lit, Trash Cat Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Fictive Dream. Genrepunk Awards nominee. Shortlisted for the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. She/her. @lmbayley at the other place.
Sarah McPherson @summermoth.bsky.social HE manager by day. Writer, crafter, LARPer, runner. Procrastinator extraordinaire. Lover of the fantastic. Definitely not a grown up. She/her.
Find me here: https://linktr.ee/summer_moth
Linda Daunter @lindadaunter.bsky.social
Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up.
In the meantime, I write short stories, flash fiction & unfinished novels, draw, paint, take photos, garden, daydream and dance when nobody's watching.
📍NW England
🚫NO AI
🚫DMs - I can't read them!
Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social #amwriting Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' available now from me https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267521176850 or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/
Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social Writer, teacher, semi-Luddite. I follow authors, educators, and lit mags.
Abigail Williams @abbywilliams.bsky.social Writer of short stories, flash and other stuff. SL Bridport. Winner Molotov Cocktail, Flash500, CrankedAnvil, Exeter Writers Short Story. 3rd BFFA, 3rd Oxford Flash, SL Wells, Frome, UnchartedMag. Pushcart Nom.
Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words...
Got a flash fiction story within 500 words, of any interpretation, on any theme, that our readers should read? #flashfiction
https://freeflashfiction.com/
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books, forthcoming), American Literature 101: Stories (Cornerstone Press, forthcoming), and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, Editor, CRAFT Lit Journal.
Alan Humm @alanhumm.bsky.social Editor of the online arts journal One Hand Clapping. Novelist, poet, teacher and father but not necessarily in that order. You can find my writing here: https://www.alanhummswriting.com/
Robert Scott (penname) @robertscottwriter.bsky.social Edinburgh, UK
Writer-currently querying a debut novel & writing another one.
Formerly 'RD Scott' on the old birdie thing back in the day. Finally made my way over here!
Some of my short fiction:
https://robertscottwriter.wixsite.com/website
Mack McKenna @mackmckenna.bsky.social Flash fic, spec fic and Chelsea FCW fan. Queer as. Editor and proofreader at www.otherworldsediting.com. He/They 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Joy is an act of resistance 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Anne Summerfield @summerwriter.bsky.social Writes flash and other fiction. 
Suzanne (writing as S A Greene) @sagreene1.bsky.social Writer. SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion) DMs don't work. GoneLawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk Mslexia Liars'League MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFiction
The Ekphrastic Review @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social The Ekphrastic Review is an online daily journal of writing inspired by visual art. It is a worldwide family of readers and writers who love art and literature. Our Ekphrastic Academy has Zooms on art and creative writing.
https://www.ekphrastic.net
Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction writer, photographer. Author of 2 novels & 2 collections of flash. New novel out this spring. My flash pieces have been published in many lovely magazines. Mslexia flash fiction prize winner, 2024. Website: http://bronwengriff.co.uk/
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
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Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Peter Beynon @akapeterbeynon.bsky.social reading writing tossing turning
Chloe Paige @chloepaige.bsky.social 📚 Writer of many things. Reader of even more things
🏆 Winner of the Elegant Literature Award, The Booby Prize & NYC Midnight
✏️ Found here and IG: @chloepaigeauthor
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zj1W2pXZsP1aZZ3vR4vbV4Cra9eZ15F6lwU5lc2tKA/edit?usp=sharing
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social Lover of coffee, chocolate, reading & writing 
@celisasteele.bsky.social @celisasteele.bsky.social 
Stuart Cavet @stuartcavet.bsky.social ✍️ writer & sometime lawyer ⚖️|🥈QuietManDave | HC FFF | SL Bridport Prize | LL SmokeLong 'Mikey', Bath, Farnham, Cranked Anvil | Debut novel, Something Kind Of Strange | 🚫No DMs
https://www.amazon.com/author/stuartcavet
Noris Roberts @norisroberts.bsky.social Lawyer who graduated from Santa María University in Caracas, Venezuela. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and a Master’s degree in Civil and Mercantile Law.
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social Writer of tiny things. Fiction: NFFD, Mslexia, Neither Fish Nor Foul, Funny Pearls, Trash Cat Lit. Gags: Breaking The News, Noising Up, The Skewer, Newsjack. She/her
https://luciennecummings.com/
https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/lucienne-cummings/
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Daily Short Story Deadlines @shortstorycontests.bsky.social Submit your short story to the relevant genre. All of these contests are guaranteed acceptances. Your story gets a video performance reading made!
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-short-story-contest-deadlines/
Broad Ripple Review @broadripplereview.bsky.social Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | Reviews
Free submissions, always.
www.broadripplereview.com
https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/broad-ripple-review-vGnmj
Mizuki Yamamoto @mizuki-yama.bsky.social Prev. writing under Mizuki Yamagen.
Words in SmokeLong, hex, Lit Namjooning, Flash Frog, Does it have pockets? Lost Balloon & elsewhere. Soon in The Forge, The Baltimore Review.
✨ SmokeLong Smokey winner
🎗️ BOTN, BMF, Pushcart noms
mizukiwrites.carrd.co
Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
— Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63
— SmokeLong Subs Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)
Thin Skin magazine @thin-skin.bsky.social Thin Skin is a literary magazine showcasing the work of writers over 50, the 'late bloomers' of the literary world. Find us at https://thin-skin.com/
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.com
Savera Zachariah @savzac.bsky.social
Finalist Fractured Literary Flash Open 2025
@nationalflashfd| @BendingGenres| @LiteraryRuby. nominated Best Small Fictions 2025. Shortlist - NFFD MF, Longlist -Smokey 2025.
Food and travel writer. Bylines @BBC_Travel, @AJEnglish,@atlasobscura
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, editor, translator | Stories in: swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Claudine, Raw Lit | she/her
Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction
Best Small Fictions & Best of the Net nominee
kleopatraolympiou.com
Five South @fivesouth.bsky.social A literary journal.
www.fivesouth.net
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Laila Miller @lailamiller.bsky.social Author. Scientist. Canadian. Australian.
Fantasy. Windows. Flash. Gnomes. SciFi. Turnips. Micros. Puddles. Bees.
Flash Frontier. FlashFlood. Best Microfiction 2024.
Member, Peter Cowan Writers Centre, Electric Sheep, Codex
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
@bettyjoyce.bsky.social @bettyjoyce.bsky.social 
Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social writer & sex educator | NYU mfa
zoebflavin.substack.com
Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social ✳️ 2026 Ditmar nominee|2026 Best Small Fiction nominee|2024 Aurealis Finalist
✳️ Speculative, surreal, literary in:
BSFA Fission#6, Cast of Wonders, Inner Worlds, Factor Four, Fictive Dream, Blood+Honey
✳️ linktr.ee/emmikhor
James C Holland @jimholland.bsky.social Really great writer of really great things. Terrible at bios though, as evidenced by this, what you are reading, right now.
https://jamescholland.com/
C. Jeffery Evans @cjevans.bsky.social Former economist and land use planner. Screenwriter and author with some love on the contest circuit. Husband, father, grandfather, crip rights activist. Big-P progressive.
Ragers and rude posters will be blocked.
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
Bill Spencer @billspencer57.bsky.social Liberal. Humor Writer. Author of 2 books by HumorOutcasts Press: Uranus Is Always Funny (2020) and Funny as Hell (2025).
Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social PFP by Terijian
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Have you ever seen me and Kali in the same room? Thought not
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Blue Villa @bluevilla.org Literary mag 📖
Est. 2023 🏙️
Bluevilla.org 🔗
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It’s a privilege to study sonder 📖
Ruth Brandt @ruthabrandt.bsky.social Writer & creative writing tutor.
Words: Fly on the Wall Press, Bridport Prize 2018, Bristol Short Story, Litro, The Phare, Ellipsis Zine, Fictive Dream, Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology and other lovely folk ...
website: www.Ruth@ruthbrandt.co.uk
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Free post creator app: www.post-script.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
Todd Clay Stuart @toddclaystuart.bsky.social Poet • Writer • Excitable Boy • Words in well-lighted places • Noms Pushcart BOTN Best Small Fictions Best Microfiction Wigleaf 50
More words @ toddclaystuart.com
Flemming George @flemwrites.bsky.social 
James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social Bold. Brief. Beautiful.
We publish a new story at least once a week at flashfictiononline.com. Ebooks for our monthly issues are available on the 1st of the month.
Published & edited by @beckyhalsey.bsky.social
Jen Eller-Kirkham @jen-eller-kirkham.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher, learner, facilitator. Fiction, Kidlit, MG, PB. She/her.
Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
https://rinapalumbowriter.com/
Sherryl writes and reads @sherrylwriter.bsky.social Writer of crime fiction and books for young readers of all ages. Most recent crime novel is "Woman, Missing" (HQ). Love reading. Edit part-time. Owner (servant) of a cat.
Kelli Short Borges @kelliborges2.bsky.social Writer. Words in many lovely places. Into travel, photography, kind people. Best Microfiction 24’ 25’ 26’ Wigleaf Top 50 LL. Pubs and more info: https://www.kellishortborges.com
@jmcgregor52.bsky.social @jmcgregor52.bsky.social 
Neither Fish nor Fowl @birdfysh.bsky.social 
@bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social 3 times a year Flash Fiction Award. £1460 prize fund. Anthology. Founded in 2015. 32nd Award results out now. 33rd Award open. Judge Writer and writing tutor . Alison Woodhouse Closes June 7th 2026
Aiden Heung @aidenheung.bsky.social Chinese poet, gay, reader, squash player, Poet at WashU, Assistant Poetry Editor of The Parentheses Journal. Winner of 2024 Levis Prize in Poetry from Four Way Books. Debut All There Is To Lose forthcoming 2026
JJ Surtees @jjsurtees.bsky.social Pushcart prize nominated. Writer. London. Published Unsung Stories, Idle Ink, Liar's League, Fictive Dream & others. 
Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social Writer. Editor NFFD Anthology. BSSA Team Member. First prize Reflex Fiction, TSS Publishing, Flash 500. 2nd prize Fractured Lit micro. Shortlist Bath Flash/Short Story, To Hull and Back and many others. Scottish Indy supporter.
Katrina Kortright @katrinakortright.bsky.social Write|Art|Edit|Law, she/her; hopeful cynic; endlessly curious
ally:🌈🏳️⚧️
KINDNESS & INTEGRITY ALWAYS
Kathy Hoyle @kathyhoyle.bsky.social Writer, dreamer, PhD student. Northern lass. Words at @nffr.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social @fictiveDream.bsky.social @SoFloPoJo.bsky.social Winner @Bathflashaward.bsky.social Writing bot for @writershq.bsky.social
https://kathyhoyle.com
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social Stop fucking about and start writing.
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Fractured Lit @fracturedlit.bsky.social Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance. Open year-round and is available to all writers. https://fracturedlit.com/ Posts by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
Ali McGrane @alimcg.bsky.social Flash fiction in various places | Welkin win, Bath SLs | "The Listening Project" flash novella Ad Hoc Fiction bit.ly/3ohYf67 (Special Mention '22 Sab Awards) | South West UK🦻🌱🌊
alimcgrane.com
Helen Rye @helenrye.bsky.social Writer, editor. UEA Prose MA and fledgling PhD researcher. Won some writing things. Published some writing things. @smokelong.bsky.social senior ed. She/her. AuDHD
Christopher Allen @christopherallen.bsky.social Publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. 2023 Flash Fiction Judge Bridport Prize. #BestSmallFictions #FlashFictionAmerica. Nomad. Very much a back-office guy. He/him