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The Longest-Running Flash Fiction Magazine on the Planet

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2026 issue

ISSUE 68 IS OUT NOW!

Stories by: Avitus B. Carle, Salena Casha, Thom De Jesu, Marilyn Duarte, Marty Dwyer, Heather Emmanuel, Travis Flatt, Timothy C Goodwin, Kip Knott, Linda Maceri, Andrea Marcusa, Cheryl McDonnahugh, Meg Pokrass, Jeff Radwell, James Keith Smith, Claudia Wair.

Interviews with Christopher Bowen and Bonnie Jo Campbell. A review of Best Small Fictions 2025 by Editor in Chief David Galef.

Cover art by Grace Chang.

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AWARD WINNERS

Reunion Tower

Alvaro de Araujo
The Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, 2023

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Last Time

Douglas A. Wright
Best Microfiction, 2023

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What Belongs To Us

Marisa Crane
The Wigleaf Top 50, 2020

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Just to Say

Nathan Alling Long
Best Microfiction, 2020

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Like Shit On A Cracker

Claire Gyuton
The Best Small Fictions, 2020

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Clown Car

Ethan Cade Varnado
Best Microfiction Honorable Mention, 2019

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Daddy: Mid-July, 1986

Jami Kimbrell
The Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, 2018

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What They Are Doing

Eric G. Wilson
The Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, 2017

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Everything

Avital Gad-Cykman
The Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, 2017

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A National Tragedy

Claire Tristram
Write Well Award, 2015

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Bad Boys

Zack Bean
The Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist

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To Send

Curtis VanDonkelaar
The Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, 2014

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The Floorboards Creak

Andrew Herriott
The Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, 2013

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Why We Never Talk About Sugar

Aubrey Hirsch
The Wigleaf Top 50, 2011

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Intercourse

Robert Olen Butler
The Wigleaf Top 50, 2009

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An Ugly Man

Marcela Fuentes
Dzanc Books Best of the Web, 2009

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The White Cat

Gordon Grice
Sundress Publications Best of the Net, 2006

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Four Hard Facts About Water

Damian Dressick
Anthologized in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, 2018

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Pastels

Nicole Brogdon
Best Microfiction 2024

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One Fell Off

Keith Hood
Best Microfiction 2024

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Heartwood

Lindy Biller
The Wigleaf Top 50, 2024

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Double-Barreled

Subhravanu Das
The Wigleaf Top 50, 2024

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I listen to the Cranberries whenever I please now

Michelle Morouse
The Wigleaf Top 50 longlist, 2024

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new flash fiction books

We are compiling a book publication list from the flash fiction community published in 2020 and onward! We update it weekly and hope it will soon become a useful index. Have a book you want listed? See our guidelines page for more information on how to submit.

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