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 […]

Mom’s unemployment ran out and her boyfriend found her a job at a local factory installing the flashing lights on emergency vehicles. On her first shift she nicked a portable one and placed it on our ...

By Jeff Harvey Perry stole an issue of People Magazine, the one with Tony Orlando on the cover, and placed it in an old fruitcake tin, hidden under his bed along with his diary, pictures of Joe Nam…

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Photo by Ryutaro Tsukata: pexels.com It’s almost April which means National Gooseberry Month is just around the corner. In celebration we are having our third annual writing contest with $1,100.00 in ...

Gooseberry Pie’s annual writing competition begins April 1, 2026. Please be sure to read this post for all the details including our guest judge Dan Crawley’s writing prompt. Total cash prizes of $110...

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Photo by Avi Theret on Unsplash by Pat Foran Fresh off a ghostlighting incident that left him clear-eyed and cold, the horse we rode in on didn’t seem to mind that we didn’t seem to know what we signe...

Photo by Andrew S on Unsplash This is hard for me to believe but it’s Gooseberry Pie’s 2nd anniversary. I launched in December 2023 with our first issue published on January 18, 2024. I want to thank ...

Photo by Florencia Potter on Unsplash by Swetha Amit After Grandma died a week ago, the day after my sixteenth birthday, I walked to the neighborhood bakery for some pumpkin cupcakes. I stood in the l...

Photo by Lisa Berry on Unsplash by Kathryn Silver-Hajo Tanya yanks the ends of her new clothesline tight, but when she begins pinning the damp laundry, the ties come undone, sheets and shirts landing ...

A monthly article series about the elements of short fiction: ideas for rocket-boosting your writing craft, reading recommendations, and other writing-related ramblings. Click to read Prattlefog & Gra...

Photo by Getty Images Unsplash+ by Sarah Freligh For months they bumped butts, unavoidable outcome of their back-to-backness and the proximity of their tiny islands in the vast tangerine sea of the cr...

Photo by Khaled Ossama on Unsplash by Amy Barnes Christmas songs play on the exercise yard loud speakers because it is December, not because we’re allowed to celebrate in our chocolate prison that som...

Photo Getty Images/Unsplash+ by Kim Steutermann Rogers When box turtles seek the muck of ponds and skunks the undersides of back porches. When late summer scorches squirrels and bird baths desiccate, ...

Photo by Amr Taha™ on Unsplash by Melissa Llanes Brownlee  The guy I dumped in the Iowa cornfields became my boyfriend in my senior year of high school and I let him steal me from his friend, the nice...

Photo by Amr Taha™ on Unsplash by Lynn Mundell It was Gran’s 80th birthday, but that was before Little Charles ate the Gravenstein, his teeth in their green braces going at the fruit like a toy combin...

Photo by James Garcia on Unsplash by Dawn Miller We slip through wall studs, step over chalk outlines of counters, vanities, that over-sized quartz kitchen island we’ve always wanted in this, our firs...

Photo by Harsh Gupta on Unsplash by Sudha Balagopal Three days after she returns from her holiday-wedding-honeymoon, Ma invites us for Diwali, like it’s just another year of celebration, when Pa’s bee...

Photo by Lawrence Crayton on Unsplash by Dawn Tasaka Steffler When we exchanged our wedding vows, my husband said I was the only woman who ever tamed the rabid wolverine in his soul; in my presence, h...

Photo by Unsplash+ by Kathryn Silver-Hajo Our parents argue about everything—like mom’s a vegetarian, but dad insists on bringing home a brisket or chicken livers from his butcher shop every night and...

Photo by Unsplash+ by Jessica Klimesh There were no gifts last year (or any previous year)—no tiered cake or pink champagne, no celebratory pomp at all—so this year I asked the mayor if the town might...

Photo by Harm Weustink on Unsplash By Amy Marques ~After Kafka’s A Little Fable: “Alas,” said the mouse, “the world is growing smaller every day.”  Ah, little one, says the owl whose orange eyes are t...

It was East Memphis High’s fiftieth class reunion, and David Cassidy appeared at my front door in a powder-blue tux with his feathered hair looking the same as in 1975 when his pictures from Tiger Bea...

It was East Memphis High’s fiftieth class reunion, and David Cassidy appeared at my front door in a powder-blue tux with his feathered hair looking the same as in 1975 when his pictures from Tiger Bea...

Photo by Tatiana Tochilova on Unsplash by Claudia Monpere In the morning we always walk the neighborhood, greeting the ginkgos and red maples, the dogs, smelling the smoke from our neighbors’ wood sto...

Photo by Paul Arky on Unsplash by Claudia Monpere A piano tilts on the dirt beside a freeway entrance like an unbalanced stilt walker: chipped keys, case body cracked, chunks of wood missing, and stil...

My aunt had never visited before. She brought Diet Sprite, and we drank it at our picnic table. Dad poured a little Jim Beam into his. Mom wandered near us. I told my aunt how Mom cared for our thr…