Interview with Meg Pokrass, Founding Co-Editor of the Best Microfiction Anthology Series
Steven John interviews Meg Pokrass, Founding Co-Editor (with Gary Fincke) of the Best Microfiction series about the anthology
Brief Reviews: Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
It’s a surprise to find that Kathryn Aldridge-Morris’ stories were not conceived as a collection from the beginning, they are that cohesively tight and interwoven.
Brief Reviews of New or New(ish) Books
…in which NFFR suggests some summer reading for you by Patricia Q. Bidar, Lorette C. Luzajic, Keith J. Powell, and Robert Shapard, with hopefully more recommendations to follow (in the coming dog days).
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 37
Featuring new work by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, Kate Axeford, Jenna Burns, Gary Fincke, Cynthia Gordon Kaye, Jenna Grieve, Sophie Hoss, Cheryl Markosky, Jack Morris, Rowan Tate, and Dilys Wyndham Thomas.
One of the Six Million Speaks to a Great-Grandchild about Inherited Trauma by Cynthia Gordon Kaye
Tell your mother the truth, complicated boy. Illuminate your cramping collegiate mind-spills, logarithms, fruit flies, Shakespeare, splattered on plush beige carpet, unreachable from your bedridden grasps.