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Image is a color photograph of an old radio; title card for the 2024 Flash Prose Prize Editors’ Choice Selection, "Archeophony," by Sean Trott.

Archeophony by Sean Trott

April 3, 2025

  When I was a young boy, my mother showed me how to tune the radio to hear the voices of the dead. The secret, she explained, lay not only in the frequency one landed on but in the precise…

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Image is a color photograph of stars; title card for the CRAFT 2024 Flash Prose Prize Editors’ Choice Selection, “they shine among gods.,” by Kym Cunningham.

they shine among gods. by Kym Cunningham

April 2, 2025

  This is a story that has already happened. It is also happening right now. It is never not happening.  In a land that touches our own, there lived four sisters. Like all, they were both and not special for…

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Image is a photograph of the Statue of Liberty; title card for the new flash fiction, “Big-Mouth Mitchie,” by sheena d.

Big-Mouth Mitchie by sheena d.

March 21, 2025

  Mitchie’s mechanical pencil shatters into a hundred billion trillion pieces. “Dewanda, behave!” the teacher screams at me. She don’t know us or our names or remember that Dewanda goes to a new school now. So we don’t call her…

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Image is a photograph of a large fossil in orange dirt; title card for the new short story, “Thin Places,” by Emily Giangiulio.

Thin Places by Emily Giangiulio

March 14, 2025

  We fill up on deep-fried bricks of cheese and rib eyes big as our heads at Burly’s Roughrider Bar & Steakhouse. Our neatly laced Merrells and moisture-wicking Patagonias set us apart from the mud-splattered, steel-toed boots under most every…

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Image is a color photograph of a table setting with an Americana napkin; title card for the new flash fiction, “Wicked Americana,” by Sacha Bissonnette.

Wicked Americana by Sacha Bissonnette

February 21, 2025

  I told my mom I loved her at a gas station in Minnesota but I’m not sure she heard. The cashier must’ve been stocking drinks or something so it felt like it was just me and her in there.…

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Image is a black-and-white photo of a taxidermied weasel; title card for the new short story, “Sherlock Holmes and Harry Houdini Make Out in Wisconsin Weeks Before Disaster,” by Francis Van Ganson.

Sherlock Holmes and Harry Houdini Make Out in Wisconsin Weeks Before Disaster by Francis Van Ganson

February 14, 2025

  When considering the mysterious circumstances at the centre of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes says to Watson that in order to begin, there are two questions that must be considered. Firstly, if a crime has been committed at…

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Image is a color photo of a clay devil in dirt; title card for the CRAFT 2024 Dialogue Challenge Winner, "The Devil Alive in Jersey," by Catherine Buck.

The Devil Alive in Jersey by Catherine Buck

January 31, 2025

  “She cursed that baby—” “Her thirteenth, I heard, and who can blame her—” “You can’t blame her for thinking it, but doing—” “Who among us—” “I wouldn’t—” “That’s you, though, isn’t it?” “You’re better than us?” “You think she’s…

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Image is a color photo of a vegetables on a kitchen counter; title card for the new flash fiction story, "The Family Gathers at a Meal," by Andrea Cavedo.

The Family Gathers at a Meal by Andrea Cavedo

January 17, 2025

  The first time was an accident. She was slicing carrots, trying to keep them thin and angled, assaulted on her left by the blaring television in the living room, and on the right by her children squabbling in the…

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Image is a color photo of caribou silhouetted on a hillside; title card for the new short story, "After Skim-Reading Jack London on the Plane," by Elissa Field.

After Skim-Reading Jack London on the Plane by Elissa Field

January 10, 2025

  “The fuck you take your gloves off again?” you growled, never letting up, the oldest. Brother trip, our third in two years, anywhere there’d be northern lights.  We hiked out of the frozen Alaskan woods—the black-dark, wraith rider intimidation…

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Image is a color photo of a deer in a road; title card for the first-place winner of the CRAFT 2024 First Chapters Contest, "Happiness House," by Hadley Franklin.

Happiness House by Hadley Franklin

December 20, 2024

  Preface We almost hit a deer, the night we drove up. We had the high beams on, and they broke through the darkness of the long dirt road that led to Happiness House, but we mostly saw encroaching leaves…

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