Flash Frog
Small. Brightly colored. Deadly to the touch.
January 2021
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
* = Nominated for Best of the Net
+ = Nominated for Best Microfiction
^ = Nominated for Pushcart Prize
# = Nominated for Best Small Fictions