Issue 41:

Summer 2026

Featuring new flash fiction from Karen Arnold, Guy Biederman, Chris Cottom, A.J. O’Toole, Ian Walker-Sperber, and Abigail Williams.

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Issue 41

Jun 1, 2026

Featuring new flash fiction from Karen Arnold, Guy Biederman, Chris Cottom, A.J. O’Toole, Ian Walker-Sperber, and Abigail Williams.

Weaving Hope into Writing

Jun 1, 2026

Issue 41 contributors Karen Arnold, Guy Biederman, Chris Cottom, A.J. O’Toole, Ian Walker-Sperber, and Abigail Williams discuss summer reading tips and notes on process.

Brief Reviews: Van Boyle by Nathan Leslie

Apr 29, 2026

Nathan Leslie’s latest novel, Van Boyle, traces the descent and ascent of a professional baseball player. Van is living rough, struggling and ill. Beginning here, at age 69. the novel proceeds backwards through the years of his life.

Ernst Is Coming Home by Jack Morris

The rumours arrive on the dawn wind and by mid-afternoon the village ladies have landed in Leonora’s kitchen to disembowel the news.

Prudence by Christy Stillwell

They put the shock collar on the boy and that was it for the nanny. First they put the collar on one another. They were professors in English and Philosophy, all of them smart people.

Rosetta Post-its by Guy Biederman

Los Gatos Tienen Hambre, says the post-it on the fridge. Since when did the cats learn Spanish, since when did they learn to write? The same could be asked of you, says another post-it.

Husband by Sara Cappell Thomason

I want a house, a wife, a steak dinner and all my bills paid on time. I want to settle down in a house and get paid. Dinner from my wife served on time

After by Claudia Monpere

and after and after and nothing changes, just the names of the children. This one drew birds wearing hats. That one had an orange juice popsicle for an imaginary friend.