New Flash Fiction Books

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  • GrassBleed

    Mehreen Ahmed
    Mindfield Publishing, 2021
    96 pp.

  • They Move Away Like Waves

    Mehreen Ahmed
    Impspired Magazine, 2022
    272 pp.

  • Furtive Glimpses: Flash Fiction from The Arab World

    Essam M. Al-Jassim
    White Falcon Publishing, 2023
    314 pp.

  • We Fade With Time

    Mileva Anastasiadou
    Alien Buddha Press, 2022
    93 pp.

  • The Bones of the Story

    Sandra Arnold
    Impspired, 2023
    43 pp.

  • Ambrotypes

    Amy Cipolla Barnes
    Word West, 2022
    142 pp.

  • Child Craft

    Amy Cipolla Barnes
    Belle Pointe Press, 2023
    122 pp.

  • Heart and Salt

    Elaina Battista-Parsons
    Vine Leaves Press, 2023
    113 pp.

  • 50 Give or Take Anthology #1

    Jessica Bell and Elaina Battista-Parsons
    Vine Leaves Press, 2021
    380 pp.

  • 50 Give or Take Anthology #2

    Jessica Bell and Elaina Battista-Parsons
    Vine Leaves Press, 2022
    380 pp.

  • 50 Give or Take Anthology #3

    Jessica Bell and Elaina Battista-Parsons
    Vine Leaves Press, 2023
    192 pp.

  • 48 Blitz

    Brett Biebel
    Split/Lip Press 2020
    148 pp.

  • Winter Dance Party

    Brett Biebel
    Alternating Current Press, 2023
    151 pp.

  • In Rare Cases and Other Unfortunate Circumstances

    Coleman Bigelow
    Alien Buddha Press, 2023
    51 pp.

  • Love at the End of the World

    Lindy Biller
    The Masters Review, 2023
    52 pp

  • Positive and Negative

    Nick Black
    Ad Hoc Fiction, 2022
    152 pp.

  • The World in an Eye

    Maroula Blades
    Chapeltown Books, 2020
    74 pp.

  • Bell and Light

    Jessica Bonder
    Galileo Press, 2020
    23 pp.

  • Kahi and Lua: Tales of the First and the Second

    Melissa Llanes Brownlee
    Alien Buddha Press, 2022
    39 pp.

  • The Potential of Radio and Rain

    Myna Chang
    CutBank Books, 2023
    51 pp.

  • To Say Nothing of the Dog: Flash Fiction

    James Roderick Burns
    Cyberwit, 2023
    153 pp.

  • Some Days are Better than Ours: A Collection of Tragedies

    Barbara Byar
    Reflex Press, 2019
    112 pp.

  • Morsels of Purple

    Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
    Alien Buddha Press, 2021
    150 pp.

  • The Fermi Paradox

    Courtney Clute
    Alien Buddha Press, 2022
    51 pp.

  • Know The Mother

    Desiree Cooper
    Wayne State University Press, 2016
    112 pp.

  • Now You See Him

    Tim Craig
    Ad Hoc Fiction, 2022
    90 pp.

  • Heartland Calamitous

    Michael Credico
    Autumn House Press, 2020
    128 pp.

  • Following the Current of My Ocean

    Lu­sa D’Araujo
    Chiado Books, 2021
    186 pp.

  • Hollows

    Tommy Dean
    Alternating Current Press, 2022
    162 pp.

  • Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose

    Jefferson Navicky
    Deerbrook Editions, 2021
    106 pp.

  • Cunning, Baffling, Powerful

    Sean Ennis
    Thirty West Publishing House, 2023
    50 pp.

  • Wannabe

    Adele Evershed
    Alien Buddha Press, 2023
    65 pp.

  • Light Reflection Over Blues

    Avital Gad-Cykman
    Ravenna Press, 2023
    151 pp.

  • You'll Never Find Another

    Lydia Gwyn
    Matter Press, 2021
    95 pp.

  • Americana: Stories

    Bill Hemmig
    Read Friendly, 2023
    110 pp.

  • The Evolution of Birds

    Sara Hills
    Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021
    136 pp.

  • Small Moods

    Shane Kowalski
    Future Tense Books, 2022
    154 pp.

  • Orenda

    Shalaka Kulkarni
    Notion Press, 2021
    160 pp.

  • Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted

    Kathryn Kulpa
    New Rivers Press, 2023
    51 pp.

  • Acid in Georgia

    Jasmine Ledesma
    Bottlecap Press, 2023
    32 pp.

  • Maybe This is What I Deserve

    Tucker Leighty-Phillips
    Split/Lip Press, 2023
    48 pp.

  • Let Me Think: Stories

    J. Robert Lennon
    Graywolf Press, 2021
    256 pp.

  • Directory

    Christopher Linforth
    Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2020
    80 pp.

  • The Origin of Doubt

    Nathan Alling Long
    Press 53, 2018
    150 pp.

  • Tender Cuts

    Jayne Martin
    Vine Leaves Press, 2019
    89 pp.

  • Automatically Hip

    John McCaffrey
    Vine Leaves Press, 2022
    105 pp.

  • Girls Who Don't Cry

    Mandira Pattnaik
    Alien Buddha Press, 2023
    77 pp.

  • Where We Set Our Easel

    Mandira Pattnaik
    Stanchion Books, 2023
    40 pp.

  • Best Microfiction 2023

    Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke
    Small Press Distribution, Baker & Taylor, Bertrams, 2023
    208 pp.

  • Kissing the Monster Hunter

    Meg Pokrass
    Bamboo Dart Press, 2023
    48 pp.

  • Spinning to Mars

    Meg Pokrass
    Blue Light Press, 2021
    78 pp.

  • Dot And Other Flashes

    Marzia Rahman
    The Antonym Collection, 2023
    68 pp.

  • If Not For You

    Niles Reddick
    Big Table, 2022
    136 pp.

  • Who's Going to Pray for Me Now?

    Niles Reddick
    Big Table Publishing, 2024
    123 pp/

  • Death and Other Survival Strategies

    Carolyn R. Russell
    Vine Leaves Press, 2023
    144 pp.

  • The Anchored World

    Jasmine Sawers
    Rose Metal Press, 2022
    88 pp.

  • The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings

    Karen Schauber, editor
    Heritage House, 2019
    112 pp.

  • What Are The Chances?

    Robert Scotellaro
    Press 53, 2020
    134 pp.

  • Wolfsong

    Kathryn Silver-Hajo
    ELJ Editions, 2023
    76 pp.

  • Everything is Totally Fine

    Zac Smith
    Muumuu House, 2022
    152 pp.

  • Breaking Points

    Chelsea Stickle
    Black Lawrence Press, 2021
    44 pp.

  • Everything's Changing

    Chelsea Stickle
    Thirty West Publishing House, 2023
    37 pp.

  • Blood Histories

    Tara Stillions Whitehead
    Galileo Press, 2021
    32 pp.

  • Snapshots: Short Stories

    Don Tassone
    Adelaide Books, 2021
    176 pp.

  • How High—That High?

    Diane Williams
    Soho Press, 2021
    128 pp.

  • Death, Desire, and Other Destinations

    Tara Isabel Zambrano
    Okay Donkey Press, 2020
    200 pp.

  • Absorption

    Lucy Zhang
    Harbor Review, 2022
    eBook, no pagination

  • Hollowed

    Lucy Zhang
    Thirty West Publishing House, 2022
    30 pp.

  • Fiction Kitchen Berlin: An Anthology of Weird and Wonderful Fiction

    48 different authors
    Fiction Kitchen Berlin, 2023
    153 pp.