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Earl Lovelace: A Story in Which I Look Good

May 2013

Flash Fiction: If he feels pushed, he will turn into a bull, a storm.

Vaddey Ratner: The Cripple’s Last Dance

April 2013

Flash Fiction: Dossier No. X recovered from Interrogation Cell B of Sala-XX

Ru Freeman: Siege

April 2013

Flash Fiction: The gun empties. He returns.

Randa Jarrar: A Sailor

April 2013

Flash Fiction: Her husband wants to know what she had in common with the Turkish sailor.

Guernica/PEN Flash Series

April 2013

A new partnership with PEN American Center kicks off with a story from Randa Jarrar.

Stories by Students: This Is How the World Ends

December 2012

Flash Fiction: But I have had the feeling for awhile that the end of the world isn’t necessarily a large tidal wave that will wipe out the entirety of the United States, or a huge volcanic eruption, but that the end of the world could be any day for anyone.

Steve Chang: Eternity

December 2012

Flash Fiction: Here, we pass from time to time and nod. It’s so hard to hold on.

Christine Lee Zilka: Maps

December 2012

Flash Fiction: “Look for the swollen ones,” his mother said. “They said he drowned.”

Julia Fierro: Inventory

December 2012

Flash Fiction: And despite her outward nonchalance, after Wyatt was born, when all she had at stake multiplied exponentially, she had come to see that terrible things – the witches and boogey men and homicidal maniacs of her anxiety-damp childhood – could, and did, happen during the day.

Lauren K. Alleyne: The Way The Body Goes

December 2012

Flash Fiction: Sweet body, forgive me. I bore you so many petty hatreds—Ugly, I said. Dirty and weak. And yet, here is death, making such brief beauty of you.

Ten Micro Stories

May 2011

“Every man is limited to a certain number of words in his lifetime… Some of these words might also be words that you whisper in a foreign language that you don’t even know, in a dream, for example”: ten micro-fiction pieces.

Loose Morals

February 2011

Did you know that more people jack off than pick their nose while driving?

Care

December 2010

A special issue: flash fiction from four favorite writers.

Disassembly

December 2010

A special issue: flash fiction from four favorite writers.

I Do Love God

December 2010

A special issue: flash fiction from four favorite writers.

As Formless As My Fear

December 2010

A special issue: flash fiction from four favorite writers.

Glass

By Chad Simpson
September 2007

“Just lie there,” he would say. “Pretend your hands are tied to the bed frame. Pretend you can’t move them.”

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