January 2021

Why Flash Fiction?

February 2021

As Storms Gather in the Stereo by Jenny Wong

Mom’s Pumpkin Boyfriend by Francine Witte

Dermatographia by Amy Barnes

March 2021

Man on the Moon by Patricia Q. Bidar

All the Ways We Tried to Kill My Father by Shannon Layne

And This is How You Fade Away by Tyrel Kessinger

The Nicest of the Popular Girls by L Mari Harris

What We Know About Broken Things by Kristin Kozlowski

April 2021

Room No. 5, Albergo Dolce Vita, Florence, Italy by Cheryl Pappas

Dragon’s Teeth by Elizabeth Caswell

Kaysera Stops Pretty Places by Jamy Bond

Happy Now by Claire Taylor*

May 2021

Komodo Island, Now Serving Lemon Cake by Lindy Biller

Witnesses by Jan Stinchcomb^#

Playing House by Holden Wright

The Brick by Alexandra M. Matthews

What We Call the Dead Girl by Christina Tudor^{^}

June 2021

A Pondering of Velocity When You’re Too Scared to Move by Tommy Dean

Pattern Seeker by James Cato*

I Do Not Want to Live Without You by Cathy Ulrich⁺

The Substitution of Air in Different Climates by Rosie Garland and Meg Pokrass^{^}

July 2021

Stay by Sarah Freligh⁺

Miss Darling by Sarah Priscus^#

A Cherry-Scented Cigar by Sara Dobbie^{^}

The Stripper by Candace Hartsuyker^{^}

August 2021

Matzo by Kelle Schillaci Clarke

Faded Chrome Man by Jonathan Cardew

After the Thrill by Amy Lyons⁺

Telethon by Kathryn Kulpa^#

After Flaubert by Andrew Bertaina

September 2021

Black and White by Stephanie Parent

In the City of Sailing Statues by Tara Campbell

Home-Traveling by María Alejandra Barrios

Tokyo Pearl by Teresa Plana⁺

Flash Frogtober 2021

Rag Doll by Sudha Balagopal⁺

There are Absolutely No Ghosts in Mr. Gower’s Field by Sara Hills

Between the Banyan Tree by Sanjana Ramanathan

Playing the Ghost by L. Soviero^#

November 2021

Her Teeth by Eliot Li^{^}

The More You Know by Sarah Starr Murphy

The Allelopaths by Jessica June Rowe

Witness by Rory Say

Eucharist by Paul Luikart^{^}

December 2021

In the Lake Beside the Interstate by A. Kathryn Davis

Allsorts by Sarah Salway⁺

Vigilance by David Kesmodel^#

New Moon by Rebecca Ackermann

January 2022

Luxembourg by Rick White*

Twister by Elizabeth Fletcher

Manifesto by Greta Hayer

Cibola by Andrea Lewis^{^}

The Last Lion by C.M. Crockford

February 2022

Nickels on Eyes by Leslie Lindsay

Disagree and Commit by Sean Ennis

Feels Like Extinction by Linda Niehoff⁺

Last Night in Midlick by Ross McMeekin

March 2022

What You Pay For by Andrea Lynn Koohi^#

Why I Say We’re Cousins by Shih-Li Kow

Alligator Girls by María Alejandra Barrios

Press 3 for Random Track by Dri Chiu Tattersfield

April 2022

No One is Behind Her by Sage Tyrtle

The Note on the Back of My CVS Receipt by Courtney Clute

The Scales by Maria Poulatha

The Famous Sasha by Kim Magowan

May 2022

Package Holiday: Monastir, All Inclusive by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris^{^}

More Than an Acquired Taste by Shareen K. Murayama^{^}

As Planned, We Stopped for Sandwiches by Kyle Seibel^#

The Midway by Jamy Bond*

Daredevils by Mick Bennett

June 2022

The Hunted Year by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar

A Missing Beat by Abby Manzella

Appetite by Belle Gearhart

One Year by Julia Ruth Smith

July 2022

The Cul-de-sac Kids by Jennifer Todhunter^{^}

茶茶茶 by Matt Hsu

Nomad by Vincent Anioke^{^}

The Garden Will Take by Kate Crosby⁺

August 2022

Warmer Water by Mathieu Cailler⁺

Hot Air Rising by Olivia Wolford⁺

Not Even Prince Charming Can Save You Now by Kristin Tenor

Everything She Knows About Riptides by Emily James^#

DreamHouse by Christine Naprava

September 2022

Tell Me and Tell Me True by Anthony Varallo

Grown by Lifan Chu

The Breaking and the Baking by Avra Margariti

Farrago by Sabrina Hicks^#

Flash Frogtober 2022

My Siblings are the Birch by A.D. Sui

The Shy Girl by Jan Stinchcomb

This is Not His Ghost Story by Corey Farrenkopf

When the Ghostcatchers First Came by Iona Rule

The Velvet Room by Wiebo Grobler

November 2022

We Used To by Lisa Muschinski

Something by Dan Crawley

What was Meant by Gilbert Ackerman⁺

3,000 Dead Satellites by Jo Gatford

December 2022

Home by Matt Barrett⁺

Oona by Eileen Tomarchio^#

American Soil by Andrea Boll^{^}

They’re So Beautiful When They’re Sleeping by L Mari Harris

January 2023

A Man Takes a Fox, a Chicken and a Sack of Grain Across a River in a Small Boat by Jo Withers

Amnion by Dawid Mobolaji^{^}

Banana by Laila Amado⁺

Bleached by Rob Yates

Good Wood by Brett Biebel⁺

February 2023

Shadowing the Gravedigger by Gary Fincke

Useful Skills by Michelle Ross

Fatherhood as Just a Point of View by David Williamson

Invisible Enemies by Christina H. Chen

March 2023

Oxidation by Tommy Dean⁺

Patagium by K.C. Mead-Brewer^#

The Whale Bone Man by Kaylie Saidin

No Dead Bodies in the Dining Room by Kathryn LeMon^{^}

April 2023

We Americans by Reema Rao-Patel^*

Who Do You Think It Is If It Isn’t Me? by Rory Say

Pattern by Meg Pokrass

Our Nudist Neighbors are Fighting by Joshua Jones Lofflin^*

May 2023

Honeybud by Melissa Ragsly

Dog People by Abbie Barker⁺

In case you missed it the first time, she confesses again by Salena Casha

The Undertaker’s Daughter by Ryan Griffith⁺

Did I Mention the Fires? by Teddy Engs

June 2023

After the Storm by Amy Olassa

Animals in Winter by Darci Schummer^{^}

Set in Stone by Pete Prokesch

And Nothing Else To Do by Melissa Llanes Brownlee

July 2023

Bear by Chloe Coventry

We Could Also Dig a Hole by Michael Czyzniejewski^{^}

Sometimes she wishes he was dead, but then she’d miss him by Dawn Tasaka Steffler^#

The Wives of Husbands in Space by Aaron Sandberg⁺

Surveillance by Quinn Rennerfeldt

August 2023

Certain Company by Lisa Piazza

Declawed by Allison Field Bell^{^}

Missing Person Report by Miriam Mandel Levi^{^}

Leak by Kim Magowan

September 2023

Voices From Home by Chiyeung Lau

Facts About the Southern Cassowary by Jennifer Fliss

Mold Culture by Gabrielle Griffis

Recollection by Rebecca Long

Flash Frogtober 2023

The Ghost of Charles Bukowski Pines for His Job at the Mails by Patricia Q. Bidar

Mount Dora by Travis Dahlke

Taking Apart the Mansion by Amy DeBellis

The Others are Here by Joyce Bingham

Meredith by Zach Keali’i Murphy

November 2023

Home Front by Jeff Burd

The day before you find blackberries shoved under the cabin door by Frankie McMillan

We Don’t Want Kids by Catherine Roberts^#

The Turkeys by Travis Flatt^#

December 2023

Jamie Duncan by Aimee Parkison

Wrong Side Up in South Side, Chicago by Max Steiner

Companions by Elodie A. Roy

The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by Joel Hans^#

January 2024

War–Symphony no. 10723 by Ethan Kahana

My Lament, or Notes from Remedial English by Jeffrey Hermann⁺

And These Signs Shall Follow Them That Believe by Laura Grant⁺

In a voice too low to wake anybody by Katherine Plumhoff^*

Last Call by Tom Walsh⁺

February 2024

Life in Colour by Marie-Louise McGuinness

Pinch Me by Jessica Klimesh

Writing Backwards by Lucy Smith

Rotten Bones by Kate Faigen

March 2024

Ice Cream Day by Gary Moshimer

Pool Hoppers by Phoebe Gibb^#

Three Miles Off the Highway Past Exit 509 by Jo Gatford

The 250th Annual Radishtown Day Summer Parade by Ani King^{^}

April 2024

Atomic Habits by Kelly Pedro

The Laws of Tragedy by Ryan Griffith^#

Tooloulou by Holly Grover Brandon

Speedway Families by Connor Harding^#

Backyard Sea by Tara Isabel Zambrano

May 2024

Imagine the Fire by Allison Field Bell^#

Paint Yourself Black by Sarah Thomas

Boys by Carly Alaimo^*

Australia by J.W. McCollum

June 2024

Wrestling by Augustine Okam

Frailty is a Form of Grief by Maia Kowalski

Shadowboxing by Andrew Siegrist^{^}

The River of Glass Apples by Brad Barkley⁺

July 2024

The Girls by Shawn Nocher^{^}

The God of Tongues by Jennifer Wortman^{^}

Our Baby is Born the Day the World Ends by Sarena Kuhn

The Barter System by Gary Fincke

When I Graduated High School I Applied to Five Colleges and None of Them Accepted Me by Shayla Frandsen

August 2024

Submerged by Pegah Ouji

Twelve Miles Outside Kindred, North Dakota by Molly Weisgrau

Uniform by Marijean Oldham

Here and Now in the Diluvian City by Brandon Forinash

September 2024

Strawberry Season by Taylor Hopkins

Tides by Meg Pokrass

Insides by Erin Regan^{^}

Hunger by Lindsey Danis

Changeling by L Mari Harris

Flash Frogtober 2024

1612 W. Washington by Lillie E. Franks

Would You Rather I Be Dead? by Chelsea Sutton

Rear View by Chris Scott

The Dead Girls Parade by Cailín Frankland⁺

November 2024

Other People’s Dreams by Emily Rinkema^{^}

Deep Water by Emily Brisse

Empty Nest by Liz Rosen

Scorpions by Evan Burkin

December 2024

The Paw of a Mouse is Called a Hand by Nora Esme Wagner

Girls and Their Cars by Emily Reed

Tell by Beth Sherman^#

The First and Final Meeting of Swim Club #112 by Huck Brock

Neighborhood Watch by Kathryn Kulpa

January 2025

Sissy by Annie Johnson^{^}

In the Slipstream by Sarah Lynn Hurd

Silver by Gary Moshimer

The 2020 Prom Held at the 2025 Class Reunion by Celia Knapp⁺

February 2025

Funnel Cloud Baby by Andy Lopez⁺

Fledge by David Daniel

Abscondence by Sandra Carlson Khalil

Baby Wheels by Elena Zhang⁺

March 2025

The Conductor by Donna Obeid

Quantum Sight by Claudia Monpere

Gulls of the Algarve by Matt Barrett

The Third by Alison Morretta

Materials Needed by Kyle Weik^{^}

April 2025

Gorilla gorilla gorilla by Sara Hills

Dalmatians by Natalie Warther

Imogen, Hector, & the Squirrel by Zelda Knapp

When the rain comes by Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez^*

May 2025

the house by the dead end by Nadia Born^#

A City by an Ocean with a Plant by a Window, and a Cat by Emily Rinkema

Inside Voices by Sarah Perrin

The Day You Lost Your Lunch and Your Grandmother’s Shawl on the Tilt-a-Whirl by Theresa Boyar

June 2025

Come on Down! by Julia Strayer

No Saviors by Sarah Bradley

We Found a Dead Body by Bodhi Jet Atkinson

Eat You Up by Laura Leigh Morris^*

Bad Guy by Amy Allen⁺

July 2025

Take and Eat by Julia Breitkreutz

Through the Ventral Surface by Mizuki Yamagen^{^}

Snow by Sophie Castro^{^}

The Bright Jars of Our Bodies by Sara Hills^#

August 2025

Eugenia by Susan Holcomb

The First Time I Had Sex Aliens Was on TV by Timothy C Goodwin⁺

Papergirl by Lena Kinder

Cartwheels by Natalie Schriefer

September 2025

Dino Land by Will Musgrove

After the Flood by Sarp Sozdinler

Conductor by Cate McGowan

Darkrooms by Ali McLafferty

Sunday Nights by Brad Barkley

Flash Frogtober 2025

Collision by Michael Czyzniejewski

Night is a Mouth with No Shape by Joshua Jones Lofflin

Creatures of the EZ-STOP by Janice Leadingham^{^}

Wrestling by Tom Weller^#

November 2025

Digging Toward the Sun by Andrew Maynard

Peep Show by Martha Keller

Sweet Pea by James Keith Smith

Hydrant Fish by Brandon McNeice^#

December 2025

The Deep End by Mathieu Parsy

Another Border Crossing by Amanda Aileen Fisher^{^}

Five Eulogies for Goldie by Bethany Bruno

Interview by Gary Fincke

Maytag Man by Elise LeSage^#

January 2026

Love and the Side Table by Judy Darley

* = Nominated for Best of the Net

+ = Nominated for Best Microfiction

^ = Nominated for Pushcart Prize

^# = Nominated for Best Small Fictions