Home of the Six-Sentence Story Tart. Messy. Satisfying. Image Design by Laurie Marshall  Home of the Six-Sentence Story Tart. Messy. Satisfying. Image Design by Laurie Marshall  Welcome to Gooseberry ...

I was born to world-famous parents—my father a notorious rapper and my mother a favorite Pedro Almodovar star. My parents can do almost anything they want. Swim with whales. Buy a town. Name a kid Uni...

Scared of bats (rabies). Scared of mice (hantavirus). Scared of mosquitoes (encephalitis). Things that fly. Things that bite. I was scared too. Afraid of everything. I was never afraid of you. I was s...

Submissions Submission Guidelines PLEASE READ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES THOROUGHLY AS THEY’VE BEEN UPDATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2026. Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes fiction with exactly six-sentences...

Presence by Jeff Friedman in Gooseberry Pie The boyfriend is a former boyfriend, now unseen. Disappeared. Yet still a presence. As ever...

Photo by Max Smith on Unsplash by Judy Darley After that, we went to the pier every afternoon. You liked it best on stormy days when sensible folk stayed away from this spindly structure sticking out ...

trampset is an online literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and diverse voices. Read new work and explore featured writers.

Emily Rinkema lives in northern Vermont. Her stories have recently appeared in Cutleaf, Moon City Review, Milk Candy, and Wigleaf, and have been selected for Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. Read more at emilyrinkema.com/.

Gooseberry Pie Lit is proud to nominate the following five stories for Best Small Fictions 2027: How Much Is It Worth to You? by Jessica Klimesh It Starts Like Any Storm by Louella Lester Small Change by Andrea Marcusa  The Replacement by Elena Rotzokou  What a Solitary Bird Drifting on the Wind Might Have Witnessed […]

Louella Lester is a writer/photographer in Winnipeg, Canada, author of Glass Bricks (At Bay Press 2021), contributing editor at NFFR, and is included in Best Microfiction 2024 and 2026. Her writing/photos appear in variety of journals and anthologies.

Stoned and slow, she listens for her heart-wave, the rhythm of you in her. Her stomp, a slow metamorphosis into hummingbird, out of rage. She keeps you in her poppy-song, there with dewed-fireflies and unlovable soil, keeps you small and unsmall, before and for always.

Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing.  Gooseberry Pie Lit is thrilled to announce their 5 nominees: Fiction: “How Edison Got to Be Edison” […]

Home of the Six-Sentence Story Tart. Messy. Satisfying. Image Design by Laurie Marshall  Home of the Six-Sentence Story Tart. Messy. Satisfying. Image Design by Laurie Marshall  Welcome to Gooseberry ...

Monarch is an awards anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. Gooseberry Pie Lit is thrilled to announce our two fiction nomina...

When the song comes on, you don’t quite roll your eyes at me and I don’t quite reach my hand out to squeeze yours. Kylie’s syrupy voice is still lush and full of life. I speak before Nick Cave can …

Capilano by Sudha Balagopal Old Dog by Scott Bolendz Cockaleekie by Kathryn Kulpa Okay, Maybe Just a Little Hoot From Time to Time Lemonhead Ferris Wheel by Tara Campbell Ghost Museum by Mileva Anasta...

Photo by Vinh Thang on Unsplash by Ella Hormel While Mom is in bed, I drive my little brother around the city looking for a store that’s open on Christmas Eve so we can put tangerines in our stockings...

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Publishes 6-sentence stories 2nd Thursday every month. No more than 400 words. Submissions always open. Never a fee. Editor, Jeff Harvey (@jhhwriter.bsky.social) https://gooseberry-pie.com/submissio...

by Getty Images – Unsplash by Joanna Theiss “Scooch,” she says and squeezes next to me on the bench paralleling the field where our brothers play baseball. Hers will get picked for travel ball then al...

Photo by Randy Rizo on Unsplash Honorable Mention in Gooseberry Pie’s First Writing Contest April 2024 by Sudha Balagopal Indian gooseberries are in season which is why Ma sends me to the market so sh...