In our 2025 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction, we’re looking for stories up to 250 words. $250 prize + publication.
We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction 2025 – Open for Subs Feb. 1-28
Year: 2025
From the Archives: A New Year Round-up by D. Nicholas Penglase
We’ve gathered five pieces from our archives which explore ideas of change, new beginnings, and the ways in which we let go, or carry with us, the past.
The Right of Rescission by Carole Vasta Folley
She said, “Look at what you’re wearing.” As if that had anything to do with it.
Boys on Bicycles Holding Hands by Brad Snyder
The boys’ tires rotate in sync, a graceful choreography performed in morning sunlight…
Hello, Columbus by Catherine Lowe
Philip Roth is checking me out on the corner of 80th and Columbus….
Traditions of a Mutt by Kira Carson
In 2017, I returned to British Columbia and straight back to work, straight back to the status of regular white girl.
Again by Hayley Notter
The first time I slept with another woman’s boyfriend, I decided not to think about it.
Subtraction by Paula Burke
The summer of 1974, when I was four, Dad shot an intruder breaking into our house at four in the morning.
Atlas Fledgling by Youssef Biaz
The first one died in my hands an hour after coming home. I mishandled it.
The Race by Jess Phoenix
A few days earlier, I had joined up with a group of other Americans to share the adventure and misery of the world’s longest horse race.
