Long List: Flash Fiction 2026 Quarter 2

A fully formed being by Katja Sass

Awaiting Recovery by Tracy Fells

Best De-fence by Clayton Lister

Breakers Reach by Andy Morris

Bring it on by Fiona Shillito

Counting cupcakes by Tracey Sibun

Cutting Ties by Catherine Westwell

Falling (Step by Step) by Kelly Hopson

Fireworks by Jane Ricot

Flash Flood Alley – God’s Way of Proving He Doesn’t Exist by Caroline Drew

Gate Closing by David Stephens

Half Pipe Dream by Jude Potts

He Said, She Said by Ben Daggers

Home is Where the Hearth is by Lee Irving

Hotter than a Supernova by Tracy Fells

Il Bestiario Mitologico by Jaime Gill

In the End a Skimmed Stone Always Sinks by Anne Howkins

Jill: The Widow of Whitechapel by Dreena Collins

Leopards and spots by Paul Chiswick

Lessons My Mother Taught Me Behind St. Luke’s Church by Ben Daggers

Masked by Alyssa Mackay

My Brother, the Alien by Josh Lowe

My Favourite Possibility by Ella Ashby

Nowhere, But with Admin by Ella Ashby

Old enough to be your granddaddy by Katja Sass

Please Call Me Eric by SHM Kehoe

Prepping For Departure by Taria Karillion

Pressures and Atmospherics by Carol A Stone

Princess in a Headspin by T.J. Burgoyne

Red by Gayle Beveridge

Reds by David Goodland

Rejecter’s Regret by Alfred Johnson

Shout by Kate Twitchin

Shrinkflation by Kelly Hopson

Soundtrack by Chris Cottom

The Accident by Jaime Gill

The Doll Inside the Doll Inside by Hannah Braithwaite

The Final Hour by Susan King

The Hidden Inheritance by Abbie Saunders

The Mandatory Hourby Olivia Barker

The Script, Written by a Bunch of Drunk Baboons by Katariina Mauranen

The space between by Nicola Bell

They Mate for Life by Hannah Braithwaite

This might be a ghost story by Katja Sass

Unravelling by Sophie Swatman

Waterproof Mascara by Alexis Wolfe

We Mustn’t Use the ‘M’ Word by Taria Karillion

When I was a child by Molly Margaret Lynch

Where Crimson Bleeds White by Adarsh Anil

Wolf vs. Bear by JR Fenn