Issue 39: 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize

Winner

Body as a Single-Family Home by Kara Oakleaf

Honorable Mentions

Iron Shoes by Leigh Ann Ruggiero

Bare Hands by Emily Rinkema

Finalists (in alphabetical order)

After the potter is cremated by Belinda Rowe

Appeasement by Jaime Gill

Between the Lines by Theodora Sutcliffe

Liberado by Kathryn Silver-Hajo

My Brother, the Salmon by Kathryn Silver-Hajo

The Rental by Brigid M. Hughes

When You Find That Thing You’ve Lost, Will You Dare To Lose It Again? by Jess Richards