She lives with two guinea pigs, 4 rats, and occasionally her partner. When not writing, she is reading, and averages 200 books per year. Her work has been featured in the little living room magazine. Amber Isaacs (she/her) is a queer writer and reader based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She placed 2nd in Reflex Fiction’s 2021 Winter Flash Fiction Competition. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Five on the Fifth, (mac)ro(mic), Complete Sentence, Crow & Cross Keys, Lunate Fiction, and Fewer than 500. Jeanine Skowronski is a writer based in N.J. Their work has been published in Pleiades Magazine, Prism Review, and elsewhere. She can be found on Twitter Gabriela Ramos (she/they) is a writer and teacher based out of Los Angeles. She has further work published in various places including Popshot Quarterly, Molotov Cocktail, and Lunate Fiction, and is also a first reader for Forge Literary Magazine. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Bath Flash Award, and awarded an honourable mention by Reflex Fiction. Follow her on Twitter Katie Oliver writes flash fiction, poetry and short stories and has recently moved to Kerry, Ireland. She loves books, music, and going to the beach. Her work has appeared in various journals and zines around the net. I’m allowed to receive letters the first of each month.Sara Dobbie is a fiction writer from Southern Ontario, Canada. My favorite song is Dream a Little Dream of Me. He made me vacuum grandfather’s ashes from the rug. One leg bounced so high off the carpet it toppled a vase from the mantelpiece. Naughty, naughty, he tattled as the pieces scattered across the floor. They said I’d be famous someday.īrother smashed my Welsh Pony against the wall. While I drew Shetlands and Connemara ponies and hung their pictures over my bed. Screaks like a hedgehog tracked by hawks trickled out into the driveway and onto the street She belted out You Don’t Know Me in the highest voice she could muster, while she left the Pontiac idling in the garage. Mother left the pin bones in oven-baked salmon, left dishes in the sink, left the living room. Every night, we raked through mounds of freshly dug dirt in the back yard for what he hid during the day. SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN KLAXON We want your short stories, poetry and flash on the theme of family for the next Popshot Quarterly issue. He’d sit and stare at what leaked out of him until it was time to eat. Her work has been published in journals such as Popshot Quarterly, Longleaf Review, Multiplicity Magazine, Lunch Ticket, One Hand Clapping, Lunate. While I pranced with my plastic ponies and combed their manes and tails just like mother combed my hair, singing You’re So Vain.īrother admired secretions. She sounded like a dusty Victrola grinding to a halt She warbled I’ll Never Stop Loving You in the deepest voice she could muster. Mother doused him in gasoline and handed him her collection of matchbooks from the finest hotels. Champagne corks popped every Saturday night. The murderer who helps his victims escape real death. The obsession that takes a man closer to the mysteries of the cosmos than he counted on. The invisible chef and his deadly mashed potato. He dabbed Alfred Dunhill cologne on his Adam’s apple and swore never to meander. 36 ratings16 reviews The mother who uses charity as a weapon. Every weekend, the finest lavender truffles. Later, he shrink-wrapped Mother, swaddled her in lace and ribbons and pearls. Her stories and poems have received Pushcart and Best Microfiction nominations.įather stroked Mother’s knees, tenderly as an obstetrician with a newborn that’s already been spanked. Mikki Aronoff’s work appears or is forthcoming in The Ekphrastic Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Intima, Thimble Literary Magazine, London Reader, SurVision, Rogue Agent, Popshot Quarterly, The South Shore Review, The Fortnightly Review, Feral, The Phare, Milk Candy Review, Flash Boulevard, New World Writing, Emerge, The Disappointed Housewife, Tiny Molecules, Microfiction Monday Magazine, Potato Soup Journal, RubyLit, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, Mslexia, and elsewhere.
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