For the first time, this year, our contest devoted to the short short was split into three specific categories: micro, flash, and sudden fiction. You all sent in your best and without further delay, we are ready to announce the final ten small fictions in each of our three categories! K-Ming Chang will be selecting a winner and a runner-up in each category, with the winners receiving a $1,000 cash prize along with publication. Congratulations to all authors represented on our shortlist, and thank you to every single one of our terrific submitters! Stay tuned for the winners next month.
Microfiction
Cinderella at the Podiatrist by Margaret Adams
Naz 8 Cinemas by Aliza Ali Khan
Sandbox by Colin Bonini
Abdomen by Allison Field Bell
Wedding Present by David Fowler
Non Sequitur by Elizabeth Fay Furlong
Avoidance by Ariel Katz
For the Birds by Ariya Kelly
Fire on Felsham Road by Kathryn Phelan
Forest of Stone by Matthew Torralba Andrews
Flash Fiction
The Good Daddies by Gianna Gaetano
Was Jesus a Socialist? by Jenny Hayden Halper
Hotel Elefant by Emil Jarczynski
Whale Song by Jeff Martin
Lizard Dreams by Sue McMillan
The Peach Keeper by Sonia Moses
Hatching Moths by Emily Pegg
Fuse by Alan Sincic
Rules Keep You Safe by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
I AM A TINDER LESBIAN HOLDING A SANDING MACHINE, SEEKING GSOH by Charlie Wührer
Sudden Fiction
Nectar by Kerry Anderson
Seven Sol Cycles by Samantha Bolf
SMOOTHING by Hayden Casey
Immaculate by Susanna Cupido
I Play One on TV by Carrie Grinstead
Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine by Ryan Habermeyer
How to be an Atomic Wife by Sarah Hassan
The Ravine by Sophie Holdstock
A Portrait of the Lobotomist as a Young Man by S.B. Kleinman
Glamour by Marcus Rosen