Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.

He’s tried to explain this to the maidens but his bull’s tongue only rasps and scrapes, and he ends up licking the mud-bricked walls for relief.

Ten stories picked by Cole Beauchamp

Featuring new flash fiction from Karen Arnold, Guy Biederman, Chris Cottom, A.J. O'Toole, Ian Walker-Sperber, and Abigail Williams.

Seeking fiction, poetry, and nonfiction interrogating gender, transgression, and bodies. Learn more about our June 2026 writing challenge.

Alt: the number seven is glowing in the dark

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) is now an annual competition that celebrates and compensates excellence in flash. Our first grand prize winner in 2018 was “Whale Fall” by ...

The final winner will be awarded a cash prize of 600€ and the runner-up will be awarded a cash prize of 400€.

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now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home. no special instructions.

now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home. no special instructions.

now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home. no special instructions.

The SFWA Mentorship Program is an all-volunteer service provided free of charge. We aim to connect writers who have questions, whether they are emerging writers or have expansive career experience,…

The request is short, to the point: “Wanted: memory of Mother. Trade for memory of First Kiss. #memoryswap #memoryexchange #mom.”I’m not sure why it catches my attention. I’ve been lurking on the M…

Nadia Born writes about girls who are birds, mothers who are ghosts, and other mysteries. She won LitMag’s Anton Chekhov Award, New Letters’ Editor’s Choice Award and Augur Magazine’s…

First, let me say congratulations. I love “the sentence tree.” I’m a huge linguistics nerd, and when I saw your title in our queue, I was intrigued. Did your micro start out with diagramming sentences...

Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is OPEN Night Shades opens sporadically and for indeterminate periods of time. The detai...

what the devil is a sentence tree baba asks so i show her the diagram the words the branches give me a sentence i’ll show you and she says today’s the fortieth are you coming and i write it out noun v...

what the devil is a sentence tree baba asks so i show her the diagram the words the branches give me a sentence i’ll show you and she says today’s the fortieth are you coming and i write it out noun v...

Alt: mothman reaches out to you with one wizened little moth finger

ALT: a cartoon duck is writing in a notebook with a pencil

“3D-Printing the World and Other Dreams,” flash fiction by Nadia Born

Alt: a group of cartoon ghosts are dancing and playing instruments in a cave .

Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab by Emily Rinkema It’s his turn, and from the back seat he tosses out an easy one. “Would you rather eat a mile of garbage or a mile of …

Diamonds in the Earth by James Montgomery The bat splinters, the crowd roars, and the boy’s held fast by the arc of the baseball, blitzing a course straight at him, a mere speck in the outfield, tw…