Stephanie Niu: A Guide to What Lives Between Land and Sea

Get your No. 2 pencils and your brain-warmers on, today’s share is the sea shanty we’ve all been waiting for, perhaps in horror, Stephanie Niu’s [>>] second prize winner in our 2020 flash contest, “A Guide to What Lives Between Land and Sea.”

This flash originally appeared in SC 9.1, available in print and ebook editions in our storeRead on!

Sheree Winslow: Postcards from My Future Self: Hurricane Mills, Tennessee

There’s a trembling in and beneath the roadway and we’re sharing quick this flash by Sheree Winslow [>>], who is time-traveling, “Postcards from My Future Self: Hurricane Mills, Tennessee“:

This flash first appeared in SC 7.2, available in our shop as an ebookRead on!

Susanna Space: Absence No. 4

We’re close to the quick, Dear Reader, our flash contest is closing soon, so delve in soonest this delight by Susanna Space [>>], “Absence No. 4.”

This flash appears in Storm Cellar #7.2, nicknamed “Strong Water,” available in delicious print and ebook editions in our store. Read on!

Diane Din Ebongue: The Box

Put it on a postcard, Dear Reader, and mail it to your secret friend, and while we’re at it here’s this gorgeous photo by Diane Din Ebongue [>>], The Box:

This photograph originally appeared in Storm Cellar 6.3, available in our storeRead on!

Brian Phillip Whalen: The Mother Cup

The school year is already bursting beyond its seams, it seems, its scenes seemingly itsy-bitsy screams itching to be seen. And lo: Brian Phillip Whalen’s [>>] teaching yearn, “The Mother Cup.”

This short story originally appeared in SC 6.2, available in print and ebook formats. Read on!