bestmicrofiction 2020

The following stories have been chosen by final judge Michael Martone to appear in Best Microfiction 2020. Congratulations!

• Ashely Adams, “Here Are The Things The Moon Told Me During The Lunar Eclipse of January 21, 2019” (Cotton Xenomorph)
• Riham Adly, “How to Tell a Story from the Heart in Proper Time” (Flash Frontier)
• E. Kristin Anderson, “Ted Cruz Attends a Goldfish Funeral” (Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal at Washington College)
• Nin Andrews, “One day an orgasm decides to move to Spain” (hashtagart.com magazine)
• Jules Archer, “From the Slumbarave Hotel on Broadway” (New World Writing)
• Collette Arrand, “The Thing” (Passages North)
• Tyler Barton, “The Grand Am” (JMWW)
• Christopher Citro, “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” (Cincinnati Review)
• Paul Crenshaw, “Weight Room” (CHEAP POP)
• Tommy Dean, “Here” (New World Writing)
• Leonora Desar, “Men's Secrets” (CHEAP POP)
• Melanie Dixon, “Swans May Bite Without Warning” (takahē magazine)
• Catherine Edmunds, “Her Wing” (Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal at Washington College)
• K M Elkes, “Still Warm” (Reflex Fiction)
• Trent England, “A Quick Word About My Life” (Okay Donkey)
• MFC Feeley, “Why I Love Penguins” (Ghost Parachute)
• Jenny Ferguson, “She Will Become a Bird Scientist” (Matchbook Lit)
• Epiphany Ferrell, “How My Parents, Who Gave Me Up for Adoption, Might Have Met” (Third Point Press)
• Tim Fitts, “Teeth” (Apple Valley Review)
• Sarah Freligh, “We Dive” (Cease, Cows)
• Scott Garson, “Sick Day” (Split Lip)
• Sarah Green, “Lafayette Indiana” (New South Journal)
• Sian Griffiths, “An Imaginary Number” (Monkeybicycle)
• Mary Grimm, “Escape Into the Waking World” (Journal of Compressed Arts)
• Thaddeus Gunn, “An inventory of the possessions of William Kevin Thompson, Jr., age 19, upon his expulsion from the family residence on October 20, 1971” (Kenyon Review Online)
• Kyle Hemmings, “Alice in Neverland” (Sonic Boom)
• Patrick Thomas Henry, “Polaroid Snapshot: Skinny Dipping in the Little Juniata River” (CHEAP POP)
• Mary-Jane Holmes, “Down the Long, Long Line” (FlashBack Fiction)
• Jennifer Howard, “Flat Stanley grabs a burrito” (Maudlin House)
• Emma Hutton, “Skyscraper Woman” (The Short Story)
• Jason Jackson, “In my dream I see my son” (TSS Publishing)
• Steven John, “Giants” (Bending Genres)
• Josh Jones, “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)” (Paper Darts)
• Kyra Kondis, “The Day the Birds Came” (Pithead Chapel)
• Kathryn Kulpa, “Warsaw Circus” (Milk Candy Review)
• Kathryn Kulpa, “Historic Preservation” (Cabinet of Heed)
• Kathryn Kulpa, “Why I Got Written Up by the Manager at Uncle Earl’s World Famous Bar-B-Q” (100-Word Story)
• Sarah Layden, “The Jumper” (Moon City Review)
• Nathan Alling Long, “Just to Say” (Vestal Review)
• Alice Maglio, “Settled” (Wigleaf)
• Natalie Teal McAllister, “Still Life with Prairie, 1860” (CHEAP POP)
• Frankie McMillan, “Dirty Mouth” (takahē magazine)
• Frankie McMillan, “The Fish My Father Gave Me” (Atticus Review)
• Frankie McMillan, “The Story Inside Her” (takahē magazine)
• Hema Nataraju, “For Two Blue Lines” (MORIA Literary Magazine)
• Kari Nguyen, “Bloom” (Flash Frontier)
• Leila Ortiz, “This Is A Comb” (Anomaly)
• Melissa Ostrom, “Brass” (CHEAP POP)
• Pamela Painter, “Ponds” (Journal of Compressed Art)
• JJ Peña, “the summer heat feels just like love” (Into the Void)
• Meghan Phillips, “When You First Meet the Telepath” (Jellyfish Review)
• Tucker Leighty Phillips, “TODDY'S GOT LICE AGAIN” (CHEAP POP)
• Ken Poyner, “Compensation” (Cincinnati Review)
• Santino Prinzi, “Dissolve” (Moon Park Review)
• Aleyna Rentz, “Doc Holiday Goes West” (Flock)
• Johanna Robinson, “Heartwood” (Reflex Fiction)
• Sarah Rose Etter, “The Book of X: Vision #13 (Throat Fields)” (The Adroit Journal)
• Michelle Ross, “Fertilizer” (Pithead Chapel)
• Michelle Ross, “Palate Cleanser” (Bending Genres)
• CC Russell, “Caught” (The Sonder Review)
• Austin Sanchez-Mora, “Fable Told from the Future West” (Cease Cows)
• Robert Scotellaro, “Sumo Wrestlers' Heating Service” (Meniscus)
• Robert Scotellaro, “Hit Man in Retirement” (Spelk)
• Daryl Scroggins, “Cubism” (Moon Park Review)
• Curtis Smith, “The Kitchen” (Atticus Review)
• Karen Smyte, “Muscle” (The Southampton Review)
• Beth Ann Spencer, “Exit Music” (Flash Flood)
• Archana Sridhar, “Rechargeable Moons” (Jellyfish Review)
• Jan Stinchcomb, “Teacup Werewolf” (Wigleaf)
• Jan Ellman Stout, “Stained Lips” (100-Word Story)
• Matthew Sumpter, “Mike Tyson Retrospective” (Pithead Chapel)
• Jeff Taylor, “The Boat People” (National Flash Fiction Day NZ)
• Mary Thompson, “Ladybird” (Spelk)
• Jennifer Todhunter, “Bird Wings” (Pithead Chapel)
• Cathy Ulrich, “The Quiet of Giraffes” (Tiny Molecules)
• Clio Velentza, “Anatomical Venus Girl” (Milk Candy Review)
• Emily Webb, “Wets Eats West” (A3 Review)
• Charmaine Wilkerson, “Bite” (Litro)
• Diane Williams, “Grief in Moderation” (Granta)
• Shelbey Winningham, “Liminal” (Arkana)
• Jo Withers, “Quantum Physics Allows for Particles to Be in Two States at the Same Time” (Spelk)
• Francine Witte, “Midnight on the Moon” (Milk Candy Review)
• Francine Witte, “Middle of Night” (Porter House Review)
• Tara Isabel Zambrano, “A brief progression of natural disasters” (Jellyfish Review)