bestmicrofiction 2024

The following stories have been chosen by final judge Grant Faulkner to appear in Best Microfiction 2024. Congratulations!

• Laila Amado, “Banana” (FlashFrog)
• Mileva Anastasiadou, “A Bird Has Grown Inside My Throat,” (Atlas and Alice)
• Mikki Aronoff, “Kin” (Atlas and Alice)
• Abbie Barker, “Dog People” (Flash Frog)
• Alan Beard, “Snow 1979” (trampset)
• Brett Biebel, “Danger Proximal” (Pithead Chapel)
• Guy Biederman, “Coyotes, Pelicans, & Prisoners” (Six Sentences)
• Lindy Biller, “Paper Doll” (Gone Lawn)
• Nicole Brogdon, “Pastels” (Vestal Review)
• Melissa Llanes Brownlee, “Sacrament” (CRAFT)
• Kati Bumbera, “Lesson One: Simona” (The Disappointed Housewife)
• Myna Chang, “Blackberry Nights” (Cease, Cows)
• Myna Chang, “Hometown Johnnies” (Fractured Lit)
• Christine H. Chen, “Make Me Yours” (Ghost Parachute)
• Christine H. Chen, “Maxillectomy” (Pithead Chapel)
• Zoa Coudret, “A little martyrdom” (Moon City Review)
• Jon Doughboy, “Its Meanness to the World” (The Disappointed Housewife)
• Jon Doughboy, “Mulberries” (Your Impossible Voice)
• Alyson Mosquera Dutemple, “After Steady Work Dries Up, the Aging B-Movie Queen Reconsiders Fright Night” (Salamander)
• Allison Field Bell, “Tangerine” (Ghost Parachute)
• Alexandra Fössinger, “Father” (Full House Literary)
• Gapper Frances, “Bones, Only Bones” (trampset)
• Jeff Friedman, “Chopsticks” (Switch)
• Frances Gapper, “Bones, Only Bones” (trampset)
• Jo Gatford, “Lovesong for the 0% Finance King Size Mattress” (Stanchion)
• Kate Gehan, “Lucky” (Moon City Review)
• Lydia Gwyn, “Lace in Your Hands” (Centaur Lit)
• L Mari Harris, “Our Mothers” (Exposition Review)
• L Mari Harris, “Something Inside Us Rises Up” (Peatsmoke Journal)
• Sara Henry Paolozzi, “Exorcism” (Wigleaf)
• Yedidyah Herrero, “The morendo” (Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction)
• Suzanne Hicks, “What You Keep” (MicroLit Almanac)
• Suzanne Hicks, “Reservoir” (The Disappointed Housewife)
• Jude Higgins, “Spinning” (FlashFlood)
• Keith Hood, “One Fell Off” (Vestal Review)
• Tiffany Hsieh, “The Punch” (Cease, Cows)
• Matthew Jakubowski, “Ghost Story” (Milk Candy Review)
• Pooja Joshi, “A Wednesday in Dhaka” (Ilanot Review)
• Audra Kerr Brown, “When the Cowbirds Come to Carry Your Sister Away” (The Disappointed Housewife)
• Frances Klein, “The Angel Gabriel Says It's Not a Booty Call If He Doesn't Have Genitals” (Peatsmoke Journal)
• Kip Knott, “Genie” (Wrong Turn Lit)
• Shih-Li Kow, “Sibling Parenting” (CRAFT)
• Louella Lester, “Past, Imperfect” (Cult. Magazine)
• Kik Lodge, “Mother Tongue” (The Citron Review)
• Andrea Marcusa, “U.S. Threat Forecast” (Milk Candy Review)
• Frankie McMillan, “Past Jack Koo's Shop” (Centaur Lit)
• Sian Meades-Williams, “Method for a Sunday roast” (The Prose Poem)
• Dawn Miller, “Culloden” (Fictive Dream)
• Laila Miller, “A tiny, tiny bit of beauty” (Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction)
• Erin Murphy, “In Case of Emergency” (Ilanot Review)
• Christopher Notarnicola, “College Boy and the County Fair” (Lost Balloon)
• Thomas O'Connell, “9/11 in Owensboro, Kentucky” (Paragraph Planet)
• Judith Ohikuare, “Spin Cycle” (hex)
• Mandira Pattnaik, “In Leaping” (The Citron Review)
• Keith J Powell, “Contortionists” (Emerge Literary Journal)
• Ken Poyner, “Beautification” (Open: Journal of Arts & Letters)
• Ken Poyner, “Proof” (Open: Journal of Arts & Letters)
• Imogen Rae, “The Contortionist” (New Flash Fiction Review)
• Ruby Rorty, “Yarnidermis” (hex)
• Michelle Ross, “Counting” (MoonPark Review)
• Carolyn R. Russell, “1987” (Blink-Ink)
• Aaron Sandberg, “The Wives of Husbands in Space” (Flash Frog)
• Aaron Sandberg, “Breaker” (Lost Balloon)
• Saumya Sawant, “Dead Girl Summer” (Tint Journal)
• Angeline Schellenberg, “Giant Silk Moth” (50-Word Stories)
• Donna Shanley, “Marie-Antoinette’s Nose” (MacQueen's Quinterly)
• Beth Sherman, “October Again” (100 Word Story)
• Kelli Short Borges, “Parallel” (The Dribble Drabble Review)
• Kelli Short Borges, “Hive” (Your Impossible Voice)
• Sumitra Singam, “There Are Four Words for "You" in the Malay Language” (Milk Candy Review)
• L. Sovier, “Everything is Flat” (Janus Literary)
• Phillip Sterling, “Flemish Tavern” (100 Word Story)
• John Elizabeth Stintzi, “I AM NOT AFRAID OF TRANSSEXUALS” (manywor(l)ds)
• Kristin Tenor, “Pancakes” (Wigleaf)
• Félix Terrones, “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” (Ilanot Review)
• Eric Scot Tryon, “Last Seen” (Peatsmoke Journal)
• Eric Scot Tryon, “At A Roadside Attraction On The Brink Of Divorce” (The Forge Literary Magazine)
• Rebecca Turkewitz, “Flotsam” (Pithead Chapel)
• Rick White, “Stargazey Pie” (Splonk)
• Nan Wigington, “Not the End of the World” (NUNUM)
• Francine Witte, “We Walked Out of the Forest” (The Ekphrastic Review)
• William Kelley Woolfitt, “Buying Snowball Pumpkins in Athens, Tennessee” (Gone Lawn)
• Jen Wyrauch Edson, “The No Longer Girls (A Song Unsung)” (FlashFlood)
• Addison Zeller, “When He Heard about the Y2K Bug” (The Cincinnati Review)
• Elena Zhang, “There is No Gold Here” (Your Impossible Voice)