The village with all of the flash writers

The biker lit a cigarette and one for the young woman off a Zippo with the words Jack Ass engraved on it in cursive. He tapped the lighter against the thigh of his blue jeans to click it closed lik…

The Swan as Metaphor for Love is included in Amelia Gray's collection Gutshot, which is now available from FSG. Purchase it from Powell's A swan's foot, like a duck's, is a webbed claw. In traversing ...

Ten stories picked by Elena Zhang

This Stone House It’s curious. The rocks have faces. There’s Mother in bed, too blue to rise, a crack in the foundation. Father, all show, as decorative as cornices. Siblings, gone: My older sister…

The midday sun filters through blinds and dust motes as I walk into the empty fencing salle. The noise from the city streets melts into the creak of polished wood and the high- pitched hum of the over...

I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...

This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate. Although the writing contains many common poetic images and topics (the moon, birds, fear, loss, love, and language itself all make appearances), …

He only died old. He was old and gray and tired, and we caressed his wrinkled hands before they took him away, and we stared at his lifeless body, because we knew it was the last time we’d see him, an...

Alt: Relaxing Ocean Waves

“Strawberry Pretzel Pie is as big flavored and big-hearted as Dolly Parton herself, sweet and salty and sassy and Southern with ‘lipstick red strawberry sauc...

in the suburbs. When I left, she was still open for business. Everything was bright and shiny and there were lines out the front door. When I abandoned her, things went downhill. There’s mold and sadn...

Fiction from Miranda Manzano, Amy Barnes, Steve Lambert, Cheyanne Mann, Mandy Lange, CL Glanzing, Anyu Ching and Leslie Pietrzyk

I haven’t listened to Cuban frogs but have experienced Puerto Rican coqui frogs. It’s such a symphony of sounds. Eerie. Community. Seasons. Rhythmic. There’s a similar lyricism throughout your piece. ...

April 6, 2026 ISSUE SEVEN BACK TO TOP Mikki Aronoff Fiction At Sea’s Edge ❦ “Maybe the blood of a steak’ll do the trick?” Samuel shrugs to the day nurse, even though Polly’s vegetarian, even though…