The Best Small Fictions Anthology Selections
2019
Spotlighted Journals:
AFREADA
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
Conjunctions
matchbook
New Flash Fiction Review
Spotlighted Stories:
“and when i couldn't leave i lied” - Hiwot Adilow - Brunel International African Poetry Prize (2018)
“Shop Girl” - Dionne Irving Bremyer - New Flash Fiction Review
“Emergency Instructions” - R.M. Cooper - Willow Springs
“Dress Yourself” - Christopher Gonzalez - Split Lip Magazine
“Niñas Del Fuego” - Elisa Luna-Ady - Paper Darts
“Mary When You Follow Her” - Carmen Maria Machado - Virginia Quarterly Review
“X” - Michael Martone - Always Crashing
“The Malingerers” - Kristine Ong Muslim - Conjunctions
“Dog as Battlefield” - Keith Woodruff - Juked
“What We Will Tell” - Rewa Zeinati - Natural Bridge
Main Contents:
“Do No Harm” - Margaret Adams - Monkeybicycle
“Buffalo” - Johanna Aitchison - New Zealand Poetry Society’s the unnecessary invention of punctuation
“Lasting Impression” - Ryunosuke Akutagawa (translated - Ryan C.K. Choi) - The Collagist
“Target Practice” - Christopher Allen - Other Household Toxins (Matter Press)
“Time Capsule” - Jacob M. Appel - Portland Review
“He She It They” - Anita Arlov - National Flash Fiction Day (NZ)
“Gator Butchering for Beginners” - Kristen Arnett - Electric Literature
“Half Hitch” - Frances Badgett - Salamander
“A Pinch of Saffron” - Ally Baharoon - AFREADA
“Orbit” - Joe Baumann - Eastern Iowa Review
“Why Brother Stayed Away” - Ann Beattie - Conjunctions
“Words for Snow” - Roy Beckemeyer - KYSO Flash
“The Goat-Headed Girl” - Matt Bell - Spilled Milk Magazine
“The Ballad of Frankie Baker” - DeMisty D. Bellinger - Little Fiction/Big Truths
“Twenty Hard Things About Being Married to a White Man” - Chaya Bhuvaneswar - Longleaf Review
“Davi” - Beatriz Bracher (translated - Edgar Garbelotto) - Kenyon Review
“How to Burn a Bridge Job Aid” - J. Bradley - Neil and Other Stories (Whiskey Tit) and Heather Press
“In Which We Drive the Transpeninsular, Mexico 1” - Lori Sambol Brody - JMWW
“Nothing” - Randall Brown - I Might Never Learn (Thirty West Publishing)
“Phylum” - Rita Bullwinkel - BOMB Magazine
“Flounder” - Grace Campbell - Chagrin River Review
“Insurance” - Elaine Chiew - New Flash Fiction Review
“I Had to Catch” - Kim Chinquee - Shot Girls (Ravenna Press)
“Sen-Sen” - Judith Ortiz Cofer - Southern Humanities Review
“Aversion” - Sheldon Lee Compton - Unbroken
“The Convent” - Maggie Cooper - The Rumpus
“Fawn” - Carrie Cooperider - Ploughshares
“Coloso” - Hugo Ríos Cordero - The Common
“The Stone Mill” - Ed Cottrell - 3:AM Magazine
“The Collectors” - Julia Coursey - Gigantic Sequins
“The Laughing Hyena” - Shome Dasgupta - New Delta Review
“On the Train to Stavanger” - Lydia Davis - F(r)iction
“You’ve Stopped” - Tommy Dean - Pithead Chapel
“Mobius Strips” - Tom DeMarchi - Flash! Writing the Very Short Story (W.W. Norton)
“My Father’s Girlfriend” - Leonora Desar - matchbook
“What the Science Tells Us” - Melanie Dixon - Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (Canterbury University Press)
“Sunday Dress” - Ruth Ducaso (translated - Sarah Rebecca Kersley) - Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing
“Three Witch Haibun” - Logan February - Raleigh Review
“There will only be one funeral” - Benjamin McPherson Ficklin - wildness
“Lawrie Shrapnel” - Jan FitzGerald - National Flash Fiction Day (NZ)
“Hineni” - Jennifer Fliss - Longleaf Review
“The Dream of the Moth” - Laurette Folk - Waxwing
“Miss Freda Pays a Visit” - Zoë Gadegbeku - AFREADA
“Curse of Ham” - Nicholas Nakai Garcia - Driftwood Press
“The Last of the Sama-sellang” - Sigrid Marianne Gayangos - Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
“Super 8 Camera” - Nod Ghosh - The Crazed Wind (Truth Serum Press)
“II” - Alison Glenny - The Farewell Tourist (Otago University Press)
“The Cup” - Xiaoshuai Gou - Mascara Literary Review
“Juliet Changes Her Mind” - Amelia Gray - Electric Literature
“Advanced Humor” - Andrew Gretes - Sycamore Review
“All-American Anhedonia” - Jasmyne Harris - PANK Magazine
“James Monti” - Marcelle Heath - matchbook
“Whatever They Told You Not to Be” - Natalie Hernandez - 805 Lit + Art
“The Rat, the Panther, and the Peacock” - Justin Herrmann - Crab Orchard Review
“Your Mother Was a Fish” - A.M. Homes - Literary Hub and Days of Awe (Viking)
“Diction” - Ashley Hynd - Room
“Locked Doors, Lead Melodies” - Amarachi 'Amie' Ike - AFREADA
“The Roadkill Witch” - Kamala Jackson - Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (Canterbury University Press)
“A Dying Language” - Kim Jackways - Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction
“Weather Proverbs, Explained” - Ingrid Jendrzejewski - Streetlight Magazine
“Santo Spirito, 1577” - Michele Finn Johnson - FlashBack Fiction
“Forty-Five Feet” - Joshua Jones - Split Lip Magazine
“Small Mercies” - Karen Jones - Lost Balloon
“Blue-Eyed, Brown Aunt” - Babitha Marina Justin - Two Sisters Writing & Publishing
“Letters Arrive from the Dead” - Rachel Kadish - The Iowa Review
“Film: NOX Transfer” - Karla Kelsey - Conjunctions
“Click” - Roberta Kwok - The Southern Review
“La Rabida Heart Sanitarium, 1954” - Maureen Langloss - Sonora Review
“Sleep Disturbance” - Joy Lanzendorfer - The Forge Literary Magazine
“Persimmon” - Raven Leilani - The Forge Literary Magazine
“Anton’s Saga” - Mare Leonard - 3 Elements Literary Review
“In the Front Room, In the Kitchen” - Denise Howard Long - Spoil the Child (Finishing Line Press)
“Siren” - Fiona J. Mackintosh - Bath Flash Fiction Award
“Madlib” - Kim Magowan - Okay Donkey
“No Future in Oysters” - John Mancini - New World Writing
“Therapeusw” - Jeff Martin - Alaska Quarterly Review
“Boy Meets Girl” - Kathleen McGookey - KYSO Flash
“Sostenuto” - Jolene McIlwain - Litro
“A post-traumatic god” - Heather McQuillan - Meniscus
“The Joke” - K.C. Mead-Brewer - matchbook
“Beenie Man Asks Who Am I & The Jury's Still Out” - Momtaza Mehri - Brunel International African Poetry Prize (2018)
“Ungrateful Masters” - J.L. Montavon - The Gateway Review
“Bangkok, 1956” - Dipika Mukherjee - Vestal Review
“Bliss Place” - Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint - Black Warrior Review
“How to Not Get Ovarian Cancer: A Guide for Jewish Women” - Carla Myers - The Gateway Review
“The Moon Rolling Back Her Eye” - Vi Khi Nao - Noon
“When the Rubber Hits the Road” - Lee Nash - Bath Flash Fiction Award
“The Dog Lovers” - David Norman - Flash! Writing the Very Short Story (W.W. Norton)
“A Case of Fire” - Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor - SmokeLong Quarterly
“Ruinous Finality” - Melissa Ostrom - Passages North
“Aya (Here), Tya (There)” - Janika Oza - The Ilanot Review
“China” - Alvin Pang - Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
“Whale Fall” - Alvin Park - SmokeLong Quarterly
“As Petals Fall On Asphalt Roads” - Aimee Parkison - The Adroit Journal
“Top 5 Places in Manila to Check Out While the City Swallows Us Whole” - Jam Pascual - Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
“Tiny House” - Joanna Pearson - The Adroit Journal
“Fire” - Brenda Peynado - CRAFT
“Sleepovers” - Ashleigh Bryant Phillips - Hobart
“Abstinence Only” - Meghan Phillips - Passages North
“The Bug Man” - Meg Pokrass - Alligators at Night (Ad Hoc Fiction) and Tin House
“Eating the Inquisition” - Pedro Ponce - The Florida Review
“A Writer! A Writer! - Antonio Prata (translated - Katrina Dodson) - Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing
“Born of Driftwood” - Gretchen Steele Pratt - The Southern Review
“Upon Discovering That Cows Can Swim” - Santino Prinzi - Jellyfish Review
“No One’s Watching” - Melissa Ragsly - Atticus Review
“Half-Life” - Dina L. Relles - CHEAP POP
“Death of an Ortolan” - Nicole Rivas - A Bright and Pleading Dagger (Rose Metal Press)
“Dientes for Dentures” - Laura Roque - Kenyon Review
“Crafts” - Walker Rutter-Bowman - Tin House
“Where the Wild Things Are” - Andrew Salomon - Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction
“Waves” - Sarah Salway - The Baltimore Review
“The Wardrobe” - Ayşegül Savaş - The Adroit Journal
“Passengers” - Leslie Contreras Schwartz - Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
“Warm Flank, Wet Straw” - Christine Schutt - Noon
“The moon train” - Cherllisha Silva - Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (Canterbury University Press)
“Hometown Market’s Delicious Fried Chicken” - Mary Slebodnik - Flash! Writing the Very Short Story (W.W. Norton)
“The New York Times reports that 200 Iraqi civilians have been killed by U.S. military airstrikes” - Clint Smith - wildness
“The Bad Thing” - Nancy Stohlman - Connotation Press
“estuaries” - Aliceanna Stopher - Crazyhorse
“Eye Contact” - Kirsten Strom - Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (Canterbury University Press)
“The Night of the Mononoke: A True Cinematic Tanka Story” - Charles D. Tarlton - Haibun Today
“Ceres” - Yoko Tawada (translated – Susan Bernofsky) - Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
“Bella Bambina” - Tina Tocco - Ovunque Siamo: New Italian-American Writing
“The Menstrual Cycle of a Grieving Woman” - Jennifer Todhunter - Cleaver Magazine
“The Serpent’s Daughter” - Jennifer Tseng - Paper Darts
“Being the Murdered Babysitter” - Cathy Ulrich - Passages North
“Six Glimpses of the Uncouth” - Robert Vaughan - Hobart
“How Not to Become an Expat” - Kara Vernor - New Flash Fiction Review
“The Dogs of Kerala” - Erik Wennermark - Litro
“The Butcher’s Wife” - Nan Wigington - Lust 7 Deadly Sins Vol. 1 (Pure Slush Books)
“The Forgotten Story” - Diane Williams - The Collected Stories of Diane Williams (Soho Press) and Five Points
“Toetoe” - Iona Winter - and then the wind came (Steele Roberts) and Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction
“I’m Exaggerating” - Kate Wisel - Tin House
“The Earth is All Stones” - Marjory Woodfield - Blue Fifth Review
“A Thousand Eyes” - Tara Isabel Zambrano - PANK Magazine
“Shelter” – C Pam Zhang - Fairy Tale Review