All Short Stories
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| Title | Author | Publication |
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| 1612 W. Washington | Lillie E. Franks | Flash Frog |
| 3/1 Walking Distance from Packard’s Corner (Great Investment) by Marco Visciolaccio | Marco Visciolaccio | BULL |
| 81 Buddhas | Jay McKenzie | Roi Faineant |
| A Cruise Ship for the Disappeared | Corey Farrenkopf | Electric Lit |
| A Father’s Legacy | Marilyn Duarte | Scissors and Spackle |
| A House of Noise | Coleman Bigelow | BULL |
| A Machine-Shaped Hand by ChatGPT | chatgpt | the guardian |
| A Ridiculous Man: June 1996 by J. Haase Vetter | J. Haase Vetter | BULL |
| A Story in Which Something Happens | Hannah Smart | HAD |
| A Trail of Small Clowns by Caleb Bethea | Caleb Bethea | X-R-A-Y |
| A Yizkor for Charlottesville | Sara McKinney | Scribble |
| About Lucy | Emily Waugh | London Magazine |
| Alchemy | John Haggerty | Five on the Fifth |
| All and Sundry by Candace Leigh Coulombe | Candace Leigh Coulombe | Fractured Lit |
| All Stories by Kevin Wilson | Kevin Wilson | Electric Lit |
| An Apology to the Drive Thru Bank Teller I Robbed Accidentally by Tracie Adams | Tracie Adams | Frazzled Lit |
| An Open Letter to the Better Robin Becker by Robin Becker | Robin Becker | Forge |
| Another Night in Pittsburgh by Mark Ifanson | Mark Ifanson | BULL |
| Anyway, I Wish You Well by S.A. Greene | S.A. Greene | Fictive Dream |
| Athens, Revised | Erin Wood | The Sun Magazine |
| Back Seat Surprise by M.E. Proctor | M.E. Proctor | BULL |
| Beach Tree | Amy DeBellis | Fractured Lit |
| Black Heart | Erik Cederblom | BULL |
| Blackhearts by Beth Sherman | Beth Sherman | Fictive Dream |
| Blood Makes a Bad Dye by Samantha Xiao Cody | Samantha Xiao Cody | Electric Lit |
| Blueberries by Chris Scott | Chris Scott | Maudlin House |
| Boomtown Atoll by Arthur H. Manners | Arthur H. Manners | Phano |
| BREAKING by Emily Rinkema | Emily Rinkema | X-R-A-Y |
| Bridezilla | Kim Fu | Oprah Daily |
| But She’s A Flame | Jay McKenzie | Henshaw Press |
| By My Father’s Hand | Avitus B. Carle | Taco Bell Quarterly |
| Calling the Boys Home by Katy Goforth | Katy Goforth | BULL |
| Camera Obscura | Amy DeBellis | Vol. 1 Brooklyn |
| Chameleon by Mackenzie Hurlbert | Mackenzie Hurlbert | Uncharted |
| Clunkers | Meghan Louise Wagner | BULL |
| CLUSTER by Katherine Plumhoff | Katherine Plumhoff | X-R-A-Y |
| Cold Weather Protocol by Erin Striff | Erin Striff | Forge |
| Collections | Christine H. Chen | BULL |
| Copperfield | Kelli Dianne Rule | JMWW |
| Crumbs | Beth Kanter | cease cows |
| Dancer | Joel Henry Little | Heavy Feather Review |
| Describe Your Most Recent Episode, Cont’d | Carly Alaimo | Split Lip |
| Dreamer, Passenger, Partner by Colin Alexander | Colin Alexander | Radon Journal |
| Driverless by EJ Kavounas | Unknown | Uncharted |
| Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab by Emily Rinkema | Emily Rinkema | Bath Flash Fiction |
| El Amarre by Elda Orozco | Elda Orozco | Marrow Magazine |
| Elevator Etiquette: A User’s Guide by Derek Fisher | Derek Fisher | Internet Void |
| Endlings | Carmen Maria Machado | Lit Hub |
| Everything Got Worse | Kelli Dianne Rule | Heavy Feather Review |
| Final Ingredient | Amy DeBellis | Molotov Cocktail |
| Five Things by Emily Rinkema | Emily Rinkema | N/A |
| Flyover Country by Tim Maughan | Tim Maughan | Blood in the Machine |
| Forest Hill Gothic by Casey McFadzean | Casey McFadzean | The Walrus |
| Fourth Step by J. Malcolm Garcia | J. Malcolm Garcia | BULL |
| Frankenhooker (1990) by Emily Costa | Unknown | wig-wag |
| Girl Scout | Elise Jeanmarie | Vol. 1 Brooklyn |
| Go To Hell | Katherine Plumhoff | X-R-A-Y |
| Good Morning Person by M.A. Boswell | M.A. Boswell | BULL |
| Good Night, Sleep Tight | Brian Evenson | Electric Lit |
| Gravity, Reduced | Kara Oakleaf | Smokelong Quarterly |
| Happy as a Clam by Pete Prokesch | Pete Prokesch | JMWW |
| Heartbeat by Jisun Park | Jisun Park | Fractured Lit |
| Hideous Miracles | Barlow Adams | Forge |
| Hippo Brain | Barlow Adams | BULL |
| History Lessons | Arthur Mandal | Forge |
| House Hunters | Mary Heitkamp | Electric Lit |
| Housemom by Hannah Gregory | Hannah Gregory | Electric Lit |
| Hula Hoops Were My Downfall by Clare Reddaway | Clare Reddaway | Funny Pearls |
| Human Trials | Madeleine Vigneron | Khoreo Magazine |
| I Appear Missing | Sara McKinney | Booth |
| I Don’t Know What Wind Is by Chris Scott | Chris Scott | New Flash Fiction Review |
| I Might Have Imagined the Moon | Jay McKenzie | Gwyl Anglesey |
| Images of Women by Elvira Navarro | Elvira Navarro | Granta |
| In a voice too low to wake anybody | Katherine Plumhoff | Flash Frog |
| In Cahoots by Terese Svoboda | Terese Svoboda | Heavy Feather Review |
| In the Slipstream by Sarah Lynn Hurd | Sarah Lynn Hurd | Flash Frog |
| Inheriting It | Garret Crowe | Vol. 1 Brooklyn |
| Inside a Black Hole by Andrew Bertaina | Andrew Bertaina | Los Angeles Review |
| It Never Mattered What Happened at Home | Sumitra Singam | Forge |
| Juice | Kim Magowan | Fictive Dream |
| Julian by Nathan Leslie | Nathan Leslie | New Flash Fiction Review |
| Just Girls by Sarah Perrin | Sarah Perrin | Granta |
| Ken & Sirina by K. A. Polzin | K. A. Polzin | Forge |
| Landline by Kelly Robson | Kelly Robson | Reactor |
| Last Time | Douglas A Wright | Vestal Review |
| Leaving Kit Lacy by David Summerfield | David Summerfield | Vol. 1 Brooklyn |
| Lemonade Stand Deliverance by Andrew Rutledge | andrew rutledge | Maudlin House |
| Lessons by Kevin Sterne | Kevin Sterne | Maudlin House |
| Liberations by Phebe Jewell | Phebe Jewell | JMWW |
| Life on Earth by Spencer Nitkey | Spencer Nitkey | Phano |
| Lines Left by Katie ten Hagen | Katie ten Hagen | Fractured Lit |
| Long Game by Michelle Ross | Unknown | JMWW |
| Lost in Translation by Jennifer Pinto | Jennifer Pinto | Citron Review |
| M.A.S.H by Sarah Gerard | Sarah Gerard | Electric Lit |
| Make Believe by Emily Rinkema | Emily Rinkema | Ghost Parachute |
| Man Enough by Christian Escalona | Christian Escalona | BULL |
| Man of Ten Years | Gary Finnegan | BULL |
| Marrow by Amy DeBellis | Amy DeBellis | Marrow Magazine |
| Median by Kelly Robson | Kelly Robson | Reactor |
| Mercy by Amy DeBellis | Amy DeBellis | Milk Candy Review |
| Millions of Seashells by P.R. O’Leary | P.R. O’Leary | Phano |
| Modes of Transportation | Sadie Sartini Garner | Hearing Things |
| Mordent | Sara McKinney | Uncharted |
| More Static than Skin | Bethany Cutkomp | Fictive Dream |
| Mrs. Morrison Proofreads Her Obituary | Taisiya Kogan | Electric Lit |
| Murder Hotel by Emily Rinkema | Emily Rinkema | Fictive Dream |
| My Father Singing by Jeff Friedman | Jeff Friedman | Your Impossible Voice |
| My Savage Year by Jordan Harper | Jordan Harper | Southwest Review |
| Mystery Lights | Lena Valencia | CRAFT |
| Next Exit by Emily Rinkema | Emily Rinkema | N/A |
| Nobody’s Cowboy Now by David Waters | David Waters | JMWW |
| Nostalgia Act by Lena Valencia | Lena Valencia | The Baffler |
| Now You See Him by Francesca Leader | Francesca Leader | jjournal |
| Oblivion | Amy DeBellis | Pithead Chapel |
| October by Kyla Hanington | Kyla Hanington | Forge |
| On Aging and Dying in Captivity by Kevin Light-Roth | Kevin Light-Roth | Inquest |
| On the Nostalgia of Dried Apricots and Other Garbage | Jeanann Verlee | X-R-A-Y |
| Our Daisy Summer by Annalisa Crawford | Annalisa Crawford | Fictive Dream |
| Outside Husband by Natalie Warther | Natalie Warther | X-R-A-Y |
| Possession | Amy DeBellis | Bending Genres |
| Professor Leonora Looks Back | Kim Magowan | Gone Lawn |
| Progress by Derek Fisher | Derek Fisher | Heavy Feather Review |
| Quantifying the Dent of Bob | Andrea Bishop | Masters Review |
| Rash by Derek Fisher | Derek Fisher | Atlas and Alice |
| Rat Daddy | Katherine Plumhoff | Forge |
| Reasons to Stay by Derek Fisher | Derek Fisher | Wigleaf |
| Recovery from Solitary is an Illusion by Kevin Light-Roth | Kevin Light-Roth | The Small Bow |
| Review: The Hands are Coming Too | Lindsay Comer | Maudlin House |
| Saturday Girl by Frances Gapper | Frances Gapper | Fictive Dream |
| Sforzando by Timothy Reilly | Timothy Reilly | Fictive Dream |
| Shame | Andrew Bertaina | Forge |
| Shedim | Sara McKinney | Uncharted |
| Shuttlecock by Camara S. Garrett | Camara S. Garrett | Frazzled Lit |
| Signs of Suffering by AD Schweiss | AD Schweiss | BULL |
| Six People to Revise You by J.R. Dawson | J.R. Dawson | Uncanny Magazine |
| Sixteen Failed Attempts to Write a Eulogy for My Father | Jude Doyle | Substack |
| Snapshot of a Self by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | Lit Hub |
| So We Sat in the Parking Lot and Laughed About Death by Michelle Drozdick | Michelle Drozdick | Maudlin House |
| Sophia Goes Bowling at 3AM | Marilyn Duarte | Trampset |
| Souvenirs | Amy DeBellis | Mayday Magazine |
| Stan | Graham Mort | Fictive Dream |
| Steal Smoked Fish | Keegan Lawler | ANMLY |
| Sting | Sophie Hampton | Fictive Dream |
| Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett | Kristen Arnett | Lit Hub |
| Swine at the Trough by Brian D. Hinson | Brian D. Hinson | Phano |
| Swordfish Strips by Michael Brooks | Unknown | X-R-A-Y |
| Take Care | Laura Zapico | Your Impossible Voice |
| Teeth | Amy DeBellis | Argyle Lit |
| Ten Seconds by Sarah Lynn Hurd | Sarah Lynn Hurd | Trampset |
| The Astronaut | Jamie Gill | BULL |
| The Aweigh Hymn | Jay McKenzie | Globe Soup |
| The Beast | Megan Cummins | CRAFT |
| The Birthday Clown of Your Queer Fantasy by Kristen Arnett | Kristen Arnett | Electric Lit |
| The Blue Room | Lena Valencia | Electric Lit |
| The Bread of Life | Katherine Plumhoff | Heavy Feather Review |
| The Cheese Plate | Jake Maynard | Write or Die |
| The Children | Sara McKinney | Fractured Lit |
| The Coin by Rose Hollander | Rose Hollander | X-R-A-Y |
| The Day After Easter, Atlantic City, 2024 by Jamey Gallagher | Jamey Gallagher | BULL |
| The Dog and the Giraffe by Ruth Brandt | Ruth Brandt | Fictive Dream |
| The Family Gathers at a Meal by Andrea Cavedo | Andrea Cavedo | CRAFT |
| The Ghost Coat by Catherine Lacey | Catherine Lacey | Granta |
| The Good Sport | Cecily Carver | Kenyon Review |
| The Great Silence | Ted Chiang | Electric Lit |
| The Holding on of Letting Go | Kate Axeford | BULL |
| The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | Granta |
| The Interview by Emily Rinkema | Emily Rinkema | Variant Lit |
| The Invisible Man | Patrick Fealey | Esquire |
| The Jims by Charlie Rogers | Charlie Rogers | BULL |
| The Last Faculty Meeting | Kim Magowan | Atlas and Alice |
| The Last Lipstick Factory by Dana Wall | Dana Wall | Your Impossible Voice |
| The Lies that Bind | JP Relph | Frazzled Lit |
| The Life of the Mother by Susan Perabo | Susan Perabo | Fractured Lit |
| The Mirror Operator by Sarah Mullens | Sarah Mullens | Mayday Magazine |
| The Name of the Game is Love by Karen Heuler | Karen Heuler | Phano |
| The Possibility of Ghosts by Amorak Huey | Amorak Huey | JMWW |
| The Prank by Amy DeBellis | Amy DeBellis | Emerald City Lit Mag |
| The Private Investigator Balances the Scales | Jack B Bedell | BULL |
| The Stranger by Robin Becker | Robin Becker | Forge |
| The Thing | Nick Ekkizogloy | X-R-A-Y |
| The Tugwort by Lincoln Michel | Lincoln Michel | Nightmare Magazine |
| The Ultimate by Robin Becker | Robin Becker | Necessary Fiction |
| The Unexorcist | Barlow Adams | HAD |
| The Way Seahorses Hang On by Anne Panning | Anne Panning | CRAFT |
| The Way The Service Works by Alex DiFrancesco | Alex DiFrancesco | Though I Wear A Uniform I Was Not Born to Fight |
| The Wizard of Ozempic by Amber Baird | Amber Baird | Maudlin House |
| The Word Disorder | Allison Field Bell | CRAFT |
| These Are the Fables | Amelia Gray | Electric Lit |
| This Didn’t Happen | Josh Rank | Maudlin House |
| This Mine of Mine | Brandon Forinash | X-R-A-Y |
| Three Hundred and One by J.W. Goll | J.W. Goll | Fictive Dream |
| Tight Knit by Rachel Offord | Rachel Offord | takahe |
| To the Other Side by Mari Klein | Unknown | Maudlin House |
| Tog(ether) | Bethany Cutkomp | HAD |
| TOM CLANCY DID NOT WRITE DOMESTIC THRILLERS AND DEFINITELY DIED ON OCTOBER 1ST, 2013 | Evan Hannon | X-R-A-Y |
| Trogloxene | Lena Valencia | Electric Lit |
| Tutant Meenage Neetle Teetles | Amy DeBellis | Pithead Chapel |
| Twelve | Elissa Lash | CRAFT |
| Two Stories | Marilyn Duarte | BULL |
| Uniform | Marijean Oldham | Flash Frog |
| Unleashing the Dogs by Phebe Jewell | Phebe Jewell | Ghost Parachute |
| Unlikeable Female Protagonists | Jay McKenzie | Maudlin House |
| Vagabond Mannequin | Avitus B. Carle | Jellyfish Review |
| Viewer Discretion Advised | Katherine Plumhoff | BULL |
| We Have Little Time Left | Sudha Balagopal | Atlas and Alice |
| WE LOVE KIMBERLEY | Tam Eastley | X-R-A-Y |
| What My Fingers Did | Jay McKenzie | Paper Road Magazine |
| What the Dead Leave Behind by Emily Austin | Emily Austin | Lithub |
| When I Say Grief | Ciara Alfaro | Fractured Lit |
| When the Tearing Comes, If It Comes by Abby Manzella | Abby Manzella | Forge |
| White Trash by Emily Hampson | Emily Hampson | Fractured Lit |
| Wife in Reverse | Stephen Dixon | Matchbook |
| Women’s Hospital by Anne P. Beatty | Anne P. Beatty | CRAFT |
| You Work in the Worst Diner in Existence That’s Always Open for Business | Avitus B. Carle | X-R-A-Y |
| You’re Supposed to be a Big Girl, Virginia by Kate Arnold | Kate Arnold | Turn & Work |
| You’ve Got to be Vigilant, Wes by Emily Rinkema | Emily Rinkema | N/A |
| Zen by Kevin Light-Roth | Kevin Light-Roth | Turn & Work |
