Long List: Flash Fiction 2025 Quarter 2

A man steals my red mini by Hannah Retallick

All the Invisible Things by Rachel O’Cleary

Anything Goes by Andrew Drummond

Believe in Magic by Emily Sharma

Bloom by Jo Gatford

Blue Beetle by Marie Day

Drowning by Maureen Telfer

Fair Reward by Denarii Peters

First Love Metamorphosis by Emma Mather

Fish Food by David Chesters

Fleas and Stink by Susan King

Good Boy by Kerri McCourt

Growing up by Catherine Westwell

He Said, She Said by Ben Daggers

How to Scoop a Dead Bird from the Ground Without Falling Apart by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar

I Search Her Eyes for Rivers by Hannah Retallick

I Think I Died on Mick’s Bathroom Floor by Donna L. Greenwood

Is It Pronounced Shrewsbury or Shrewsbury? by Hannah Retallick

It’s been minutes, weeks, months, years, decades by Cole Beauchamp

Lucille Ascends by Jo Gatford

Man of Distinction by Julie Gavin

Of Artists and Assholes by Laura Cody

Patterns of Speech by Rachel Dauncey

Pedal, Girl by Kate Miller

Radical Acceptance by Cassandra Moore

Rhyming Game by David Chesters

Shoelaces by Sharon Marie Hier

Siren Call by Jenna Burns

Soldiers by Andrew Drummond

Sustenance by Joanna Miller

The Acrid Stink of the Slap Was More Painful/Hurtful by Janet L Crouch

The Amulet by Bronwen Griffiths

The Best Friend by Susan James

The Graduation by Rosanna Roche

The Origins of the Tradition of Comfort-Aprons: Testimony of Catherine, spinner, age 43 by Joyce Bingham

The Vitaliser by Susie Comish

The woman who got back up by Letty Butler

These days you’re kinda okay by Laura Besley

Things I Miss and Things I Almost Dared by TM Upchurch

Thursday, or perhaps Friday by Jefh Davies

Unconditional Gail by Warrick Cox

Ways to say that thing you’ve never said by Letty Butler

What I Could Never Tell My Mother by Rosie Mowatt

When Dad takes early retirement, he says he should never have been a dentist anyway by Chris Cottom