Interview with Beth Gilstrap-Barnes
Steven John, Fiction & Features Editor, interviews Beth Gilstrap-Barnes about her two Flash Fictions in Best Microfiction 2019, edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke. Final selections by Dan Chaon. Published by Pelekinesis
The Meanderer by Mason Binkley
I have been training my husband and children not to complain about anything I do that they can do themselves.
Longlist for the Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction 2019
Our longlist is here! Congratulations to the writers whose stories are on this list! There were nearly 400 submissions this year, the competition was fierce! Thank you to everyone who entered the contest! It was a very competitive one, and we’re sorry if your...
Things Said and Done by Frances Gapper
At night she hears a scratchy skittering, mice inside the wall. An owl hoots in the copse; the mice fall silent. The owl hoots again, close to her ear.