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Issue 22

Featuring new flash by Madeline Anthes, Anthony Varallo, Constance Malloy, Lucy Zhang, Josh Russell, Pat Foran, Daniel Roy Connelly, Briana Maley, Sara Hills, and Misty Urban.

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Special Issue: Triptychs

This special issue features work published as part of our “Triptych” feature, including work by Meg Pokrass, Mary Thompson, Paul Beckman, Jude Higgins, Elisabeth Ingram Wallace, and more.

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Issue #21: Disneyland Is Closed

Featuring new flash by Rosie Garland, Nuala O’Connor, Daryl Scroggins, Mary Thompson, Natalie Teal McAllister, Kathleene Donahoo, Rick Krizman, Alan Michael Parker, Evan James Sheldon, and Faye Brinsmead.

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Special Issue: Horo-Flashes

In the best traditions of public service publishing, New Flash Fiction Review asked the brightest stars of flash fiction to gaze into the heavens and share something celestial — their spaced-out stories and astral life projections as foretold by the twelve Signs of the Zodiac. This special issue collects work published as part of our “Horo-Flash” feature.

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Issue 20: Surreal Flash Fiction

Featuring flash by Aimee Parkison, Frankie McMillan, Jenny Stalter, Nod Ghosh, Epiphany Ferrell, Morgana MacLeod, Cristina Fernandez Valls , Kim Hagerich, Stephanie Devine, Jefferson Navicky, Phebe Jewell, Robin Littell, and Katerina Kishchynskam translated by Alice Chester.

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Special Issue: Holiday Noir

Happy Holidays from New Flash Fiction Review! We hope you will enjoy our very first Christmas feature, with dark(ish), sad, and strange holiday stories from NFFR’s own fiction editors and friends. This special issue collects work published as part of our “Holiday-Noir” feature.

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Issue #19: Prose Poetry

Featuring flash by Theresa Wyatt, Louella Lester, Valerie Fox, Jeff Friedman, Alec Prevett, Gary Fincke, Kathleen McGookey, Olga Dermott-Bond, Michael Loveday, Frances Gapper, Melissa Benton Barker, and Lorette C. Luzajic.

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Issue #18

Featuring new flash by James Norcliffe, Tara Isabel Zambrano , Patricia Q Bidar, Len Kuntz, Marissa Hoffmann, Jessica Barksdale, Merridawn Duckler, Fred Muratori, Stephen Wack, Neil Shepard, Gary Fincke, Lisa Ferranti, and Hun Ohm.

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Special Issue: Place

This special issue collects work published as part of “Place” feature, and includes work by Steven John, Frances Gapper, Mason Binkley, Sudha Balagopal, Sheree Shatsky, Sandra Arnold, Frankie McMillan, Francine Witte, Claire Polders, and many more.

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Issue 17: Guest Edited by Aimee Parkison

Featuring new flash by Luke Rolfes, Jan Stinchcomb , Joanna Ruocco, Sarah Blackman, Aurelie Sheehan, Carol Guess & Rochelle Hurt, George Looney, Evelyn Hampton, Jennifer Natalya Fink, Rob Roensch, Constance Squires, Christina Milletti, Mark DiFruscio, and Gretchen VanWormer.

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Issue 16

Featuring new flash by Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Julia Strayer, Sandra Arnold, Lori Sambol Brody, Kathryn Kulpa, Daryl Scroggins, Leonora Desar, Sanjana Raghavan, Gary Fincke, Patricia Q. Bidar, Laton Carter, Alexis Wolfe, DS Levy, Dan A. Cardoza, and Sarah Daniels.

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Special Issue: Love Story Bouquet

What is Love? Do we need it? Want it? Deserve it? Don’t expect to find the answers in the four tiny love stories below. They’re just here for your enjoyment! This special issue collects work published as part of our “Valentine” feature.

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Issue 15: Guest Edited by Josh Russell

Featuring new flash by Michael Martone, Christopher Merkner, Tom Williams, Alissa Nutting, Marcela Fuentes, Dionne Irving Bremyer, Lily Hoang, John Holman, Candace Nadon, Jennifer Howard, Brian Kitely, Margaret Luongo, Matt Sailor, and Jody Brooks.

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I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours by Eliot Li

I tell you I’ve only ever shown it to a girl who I met on a tour bus in Moscow, where I was traveling with my parents. She had bad acne, and she really liked Duran Duran.

The Storyteller of Aleppo by Donna Obeid

In the barren cold camp, you wear a dusty cape and top hat, wave my cane as if it were a wand and tell me your dream-stories, one after the next, your words spun and tossed like tethers into the air.

Bog Iron by Shane Larkin

We make stops on the way to our bog plot to look at the little skeletons. Dad tells me about them. Curlews and skylarks in dancing poses. Tiny skulls.

Morse Code by Elizabeth Cabrera

The old man fell asleep in his car, his nostrils pressed softly against the steering wheel, but the car kept going, because the old man’s foot was not asleep, was still pressing down hard, and later they would say, it’s not really his fault, he’s such an old man.

Get Your Authentic Stardust Here by JP Relph

The night the sky cracked, I was sprawled on the hood of my car beside that good-for-nothing boy, naming constellations, ignoring his fingers on my neck.