Once, You Were Asked to Count the Hummingbirds by Joel Hans
And now you should say goodbye to the ones you love. Loop a pair of clouded binoculars around your neck. Pack a peanut butter sandwich and a rusty apple and a bottomless bottle of water.
Call for Submissions: 10
If you haven’t started your 10-themed story yet, there’s still time. This theme celebrates NFFR’s 10th Anniversary. We’ll be open for submissions from July 1-15. Here are some previous NFFR stories touching on numbers (or counting) that might inspire. In the following stories, you’ll notice a use of numbers relating to concepts in the stories, dates, ages, and more.
Issue 31
Issue 31 includes new work by Jack B. Bedell, Courtney Clute, Giselle Gerbrecht, Jude Higgins, Josie Kochendorfer, Joel Hans, Rosaleen Lynch, Imogen Rae, Max Steiner, and Cecilia Wright.
You can’t miss something if it comes back by Frankie McMillan
My sister said she was coming back as a bird, that way she’d be able to see what was happening from above, be able to see our house, me dawdling to school
We Wonder by Yasmina Din Madden
We wonder about the man across the street for a long time. The way he hacks at his bushes with an axe, without rhyme or reason, without any sort of plan.