Editor's Welcome
Following the launch of Norton Anthology Flash Fiction International, editor Robert Shapard was able to stop by and put together our fabulous summer issue for New Flash Fiction Review. We are delighted by the following stories. Huge thank you to Robert Shapard!
-Meg Pokrass,
Founding Editor
About Robert Shapard
Robert Shapard has coedited seven books of very short fiction, including Flash Fiction Forward, Flash Fiction International, and Sudden Fiction Latino. He cofounded Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. His longer stories have won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and others; his flash chapbook is Motel and Other Stories.
Issue 4: Guest Edited by Robert Shapard
Proto-Flash Fiction From Ancient Summer!
Letting Go by Pamela Painter
Conversation in Hotel Lounge by Lydia Davis
Not None by Bruce Holland Rogers
Coffee by Edgar Omar Avilés
The Nouns by Daryl Scroggins
Paper Dolls by Robert Scotellaro
Hermit & Bleeding Faucet by Ana María Shua
Initiation by Stuart Dybek
Time Without Number by Robert Lopez
Slap & Royalty by Eric Rugara
Imagining Matanzas by Alicita Rodríguez
Padanaram by Peter Orner
Wake Up by Josip Novakovich
All the Terrible Things by Kuzhali Manickavel
Vocation by Joseph Starr
Gacy’s Wife by Claudia Smith Chen
The Most New Sport by Tania Hershman
The Library Shelves of Babel by Pedro Ponce