bestmicrofiction 2019

The following stories have been chosen by final judge Dan Chaon to appear in Best Microfiction 2019. Congratulations!

• Sarah Arantza Amador, “Sanctus Spiritus, 1512” (Cheap Pop)
• Anita Arlov, “He, She, It, They” (National Flash Fiction Day NZ)
• Jessica Barksdale, “Knock Knock” (Matchbook Lit Mag)
• Roberta Beary, “Swimming in Circles” (KYSO Flash)
• Matt Bell, “The Hungerer” (Wigleaf)
• Dick Bentley, “Health Care” (Serving House Journal)
• Gregory Brown, “Birdhouse” (PRISM International)
• Tetman Callis, “Candlelight and Flowers” (NY Tyrant)
• Mike Chin, “Training” (Passages North)
• Myfanwy Collins, “Euthanasia” (Jellyfish Review)
• Tim Craig, “Northern Lights” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
• Tommy Dean, “You’ve Stopped” (Pithead Chapel)
• Olga Dermott-Bond, “Mr Rochester and I” (Bath Flash Fiction v3)
• Leonora Desar, “Fire, Ocean” (TSS)
• Leonora Desar, “My Father’s Girlfriend” (Matchbook Lit Mag)
• Leonora Desar, “The Monkey” (Reflex Fiction)
• Will Finlayson, “The Strip Club” (Southampton Review)
• Valerie Fox, “Even the Christmas Tree was Nicer That Year” (Across the Margin)
• Sarah Freligh, “Any Body” (Cincinatti Review)
• Frances Gapper, “Plum Jam” (Flashback Fiction)
• Jo Gatford, “Things Left And Found By The Side Of The Road” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
• Christopher Gaumer, “He Died We Left Him Til Morning” (The Citron Review)
• Beth Gilstrap, “Becky” (Pithead Chapel)
• Beth Gilstrap, “Bone Words” (Longleaf Review)
• Melissa Goode, “Empire of Light” (Gone Lawn)
• Melissa Goode, “I Wanna Be Adored ” (Cheap Pop)
• Melissa Goode, “Tonight, We Are Awake” (Wigleaf)
• Cavin Gonzalez, “Fragments of Evolution” (Cheap Pop)
• Anita Goveas, “Frau Roentgen’s Left Hand” (Flashback Fiction)
• Anita Goveas, “Let’s Sing All the Swear Words We Know ” (Lost Balloons)
• Tina May Hall, “The Extinction Museum: Exhibit #28 (incandescent bulb, unlit)” (The Collagist)
• Toni Halleen, “Not the Whole Story” (Wigleaf)
• Steven John, “A Brief History of Time in Our House” (Ad Hoc Fiction)
• Peter Krumbach, “11.37” (The Adroit Journal)
• Meghan Lamb, “Missing” (Passages North)
• Raven Leilani, “Kanekalon” (Split Lip)
• Paige Leland, “Self Portrait with Early December” (Former Cactus)
• Robert Lopez, “A Warm Motherly Look” (Wigleaf)
• Paul Luikart, “Breathless” (Brilliant Flash Fiction)
• Fiona Mackintosh, “Siren” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
• Fiona Mackintosh, “The Chemistry of Living Things” (Fish Publishing)
• Lutivini Majanja, “Am Inheritance” (Flash Frontier)
• Prosper Makara, “Lessons from my Mother” (Afreada—Africa’s Literary Magazine)
• Dan Malakoff, “Loop-the-Loop” (Wigleaf)
• Michael Martone, “Boom” (Always Crashing)
• Michael Martone, “Klaus Weber, Curb House Numberer” (The Collagist)
• Kathleen McGookey, “You Can Find Joy in Doing Laundry” (KYSO)
• Adam McOmber, “A Roman Road” (Atticus Review)
• Heather McQuillan, “A post-traumatic god” (Menicus)
• KC Mead-Brewer, “It’s Shaped like a Grin, They Say” (Cheap Pop)
• José Enrique Medina, “Niños de La Tierra” (Burnside Review)
• Tracy Lynne Oliver, “This Weekend” (Fanzine)
• Brenda Peynado, “Fire” (Craft Magazine)
• Dominica Phetteplace, “After the Flood Waters Came” (Wigleaf)
• Meghan Phillips, “Abstinence Only” (Passages North)
• Meghan Phillips, “Final Girl Slumber Party” (Barrelhouse)
• Kristen Ploetz, “LifeColor Indoor Latex Paints® — Whites and Reds (R)” (JMWW)
• Claire Polders, “Breathlessness” (Moonpark Review)
• Dina Relles, “And Sometimes We Meet” (Matchbook Lit Mag)
• Belinda Rimmer, “Domestic” (Anti-Heroin Chic)
• Nicole Rivas, “Crumbs” (The Cincinnati Review)
• Becky Robison, “Baby Dolls” (Pank)
• Brad Rose, “Desert Motel” (Pithead Chapel)
• Sarah Salway, “Not Sorry” (Cincinnati Review)
• Kim Samsin, “World’s Finest” (Matchbook Lit Mag)
• Noa Sivan, “The End of the World” (Synaesthesia Magazine)
• Rachel Smith, “What I Now Know” (Flash Frontier)
• Rachel Smith, “Glossectomy” (Menicus)
• Joe Squance, “The Seeds of Things” (Cease, Cows)
• Elizabeth Stix, “Tsunami” (Southampton Review)
• Paul Strohm, “Masculinities” (West Marin Review)
• Xenia Taiga, “Princesses” (Synaesthesia Magazine)
• Kaj Tanaka, “The Hair Child” (Bending Genres)
• Sharon Telfer, “My Father Comforts Me in the Form of Birds” (Reflex Fiction Magazine)
• Jamie Thunder, “The Central Line Has Severe Delays” (Spelk)
• Cathy Ulrich, “The Delicate Art of Ikebana” (Barren Magazine)
• TM Upchurch, “There Will Be No Lace” (Flashback Fiction)
• Zach VandeZande, “Making an Illegal U Turn on 15th near Union” (Monkeybicycle)
• Elisabeth Ingram Wallace, “Satin Nightwear for Women Irregular” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
• Clare Weze, “Helping” (Reflex Fiction)
• Charmaine Wilkerson, “The Laundry Room Comes First” (Fiction Southeast)
• Benjamin Woodard, “Half Tank” (Atticus Review)
• Luke Wortley, “Reverse Field Trip” (Longleaf)
• Tara Isabel Zambrano, “Feeding Time” (Okay Donkey)
• Tara Isabel Zambrano, “New Old” (The Southampton Review)
• Tara Isabel Zambrano, “Snowstorm” (Atticus Review)
• C Pam Zhang, “BRAINDRAIN” (Paper Darts)