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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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Issue 14

Featuring new flash by Josh Russell, Tara Isabel Zambrano, Francine Witte, A.E. Weisgerber, Kara Vernor, Anna Vangala Jones, Cathy Ulrich, Joel Streicker, Helen Rye, Arthur Plotnik, Aimee Parkison, Robert Garner McBrearty, Jayne Martin, John Mancini, Craig Loomis, Adam Lock, Sara, Lippmann, Stephanie Hutton, Karen Jones, Eric Bosse, Paul Beckman, Adam Berlin, Craig Fishbane, Jacqueline Doyle, Nikoletta Gjoni, Michael Hammerle, Paul Crenshaw, Joy Allen, Salvatore Difalco, and Dan Crawley.

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Issue 13

New flash by Jeff Landon, Robert Shapard, Nancy Stohlman, Angela Readman, Sandra Arnold, Christopher Allen, Jeff Friedman, Justin Herrmann, Ron Burch, Rae Kim, Anne Summerfield, Claire Polders, Carolyn Oliver, MJ McGinn, Clio Velentza, Epiphany Ferrell, Elise Blackwell, James Coffey, Tasha Cotter, Lynne Barrett, and Christopher M. Drew.

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Issue 12

New flash by Robert Scotellaro, Jason Jackson, Robert Lopez & Eva Ruiz, Sudha Balagol, Jo Davies, Anita Goveas, C.E. Shue, Stacy Trautwein Burns, Leonora Desar, Tommy Dean, Michelle Ross, Laura Tansley, Traci Skuce, David Galef, and Jacalyn Eis.

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Issue 11

New flash fiction by Kathryn Ordiway, Sarah Salway, Fred Muratori, Melanie Márquez Adams, Elaine Chiew, Kim Magowan, Raki Kopernik, Justin Herrmann, Nancy Tingley, Hardy Griffin, Joy Kennedy-O’Neill, James Hartman, and Nod Ghosh.

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Special Issue: Banned CDC Words

This special issue collects work published as part of our “Banned CDC Words” feature. The prompt is in response to the fight over seven health-related words the Trump administration instructed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to avoid in its 2019 budget request.

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Issue 10

New flash fiction by Gary Fincke, Judy Darley, Sandra Arnold, Daryl Scroggins, Clare MacQueen, Paula Friedman, Frankie McMillan, Rhoda Greaves, Christopher DiCicco, Jonathan Cardew, Colleen Maynard, Tony Eprile, Grace Campbell, Nuala O’Connor, Charles Rafferty, Sharon Eckman, Nicholas Cook, Cari Scribner, Andrew Stancek, Kyle Hemmings, and Pamela Banayoti.

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Issue 9

New flash fiction by Gary Fincke, Tree Riesener, Leonard Kress, Melissa Goode, Gary Duncan, Angela Readman, Francine Witte, Erin Lyndal-Martin, Stephen V. Ramey, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Daryl Scroggins, Rhona Millar, Steve Cushman, Jay Merill, Rachel Smith, Danielle Holmes, Diane Simmons, Lynn Pattison, Jacquelyn Bengfort, Jason Jackson, and Whitney Scharer.

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Issue 8

New flash work by Jude Higgins, Jane Zingale, Bill Cook, Ania Vesenny, Wendy Oleson, Frankie McMillan, Nicholas Cook, Steven Paul Lansky, Marguerite Floyd, Robert Shapard, Rupert Dastur, Doug Cornett, Lou Beach, and Beverly Jackson.

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Prudence by Christy Stillwell

They put the shock collar on the boy and that was it for the nanny. First they put the collar on one another. They were professors in English and Philosophy, all of them smart people.

The Truths Behind a Pumpjack Dare, Northern Alberta, 3rd July, 1991 by Kate Axeford

I’d hauled myself skywards on steep metal rungs. You were safe below, hurling taunts like stones. We’re two brothers, poles apart, but I’d climbed the ladder. I’d had to. You’d dared me to rodeo the Donkey.

Rosetta Post-its by Guy Biederman

Los Gatos Tienen Hambre, says the post-it on the fridge. Since when did the cats learn Spanish, since when did they learn to write? The same could be asked of you, says another post-it.

Husband by Sara Cappell Thomason

I want a house, a wife, a steak dinner and all my bills paid on time. I want to settle down in a house and get paid. Dinner from my wife served on time

After by Claudia Monpere

and after and after and nothing changes, just the names of the children. This one drew birds wearing hats. That one had an orange juice popsicle for an imaginary friend.