The Most New Sport by Tania Hershman
When there is a New Sport they find the players to fit: Elongated for basketball; sleek for swimming; flexibly jointed for golf.
Gacy’s Wife by Claudia Smith Chen
John Wayne Gacy buried twenty-three victims in the crawl space of his house. But when Carol Hoff, Gacy’s wife, was asked if she smelled anything, she said Gacy told her the smell was because of mice.
Wake Up by Josip Novakovich
My pet peeve, I told my writing class, is a story that starts with, I woke up and . . . Why not start later, in the middle of the morning, with the action? But after my class, at 11:59 a.m., I reconsidered my writing teleology.
The Library Shelves of Babel by Pedro Ponce
The Library’s closure went largely unremarked, apart from a segment or two on the nightly news.
Issue 4: Guest Edited by Robert Shapard
New flash fiction by Pamela Painter, Lydia Davis, Bruce Holland Rogers, Edgar Omar Avilés, Daryl Scroggins, Robert Scotellaro, Ana María Shua, Stuart Dybek, Robert Lopez, Eric Rugara, Alicita Rodríguez, Peter Orner, Josip Novakovich, Kuzhali Manickavel, Joseph Starr, Claudia Smith Chen, Tania Hershman, and Pedro Ponce.