Fiction: The Horticulturalist by CL Bledsoe
It was her first day, and she wasn’t sure she was going to like it.
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Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been? An Interview with Stephanie Reents by Curtis Smith
“Seeing the evolution of Blood Meridian just reminds me of the value of the process: which involves drafting and revising, tinkering and experimenting, and for most writers, and certainly me, an unhurried attitude towards creative work.”
Review: The Leper Dreams of Snow by Sean Corbin (reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp)
The leper character could be a kissing cousin of the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground, giving voice to his sense of alienation, a worthy and weirdly satisfying collection.
Flash Fiction: Cold and Foreign Dispatches by Marvin Shackelford
He’s ruining the house a piece at the time, and I’m not sure what he expects to happen when he’s finished.
Flash Fiction: The Saturday Clinic by Melissa Ostrom
She didn’t understand the system. She only knew there was one.
Flash Fiction: Definitely Not SpaceX by Spencer Litman
“Look,” I said, yanking the blinds open. “Aliens.”
NEWS: BIFFY Award Nominations, 2018-2019
We are pleased to announce we’ve nominated Anita Goveas‘ story, “Various Histories of Sea Serpents,” for the BIFFY (Best British and Irish Flash Fiction) 2018-2019. Congrats, Anita!–The Editors at jmww […]
Flash Fiction: Ashes by Madeline Anthes
On weekends we drove to our town’s hidden creases: the parking lot behind the middle school to smoke pot, a house party for a college we didn’t attend.
A Patchwork of Bobbie Ann Mason: An Interview with Curtis Smith
Genuine flash must be hard as diamonds, warm as poetry.
Review: Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003–2018 by Kathy Fish (reviewed by Kristen M. Ploetz)
Fish is skilled at using small twists to make every story its own micro-masterpiece.
