Short List: Flash Fiction 2023 Quarter 4

A Photo Finish by Karen Payne

A Recipe for Disaster by Taria Karillion

A Special Kind of Darkness by Zena Shapter

Aisle 4 is now opening by Dave Rees

Behind the Numbers by Nicholas Sweeting

Cutting Back on Non-Essentials by Chris Cottom

Extra-wide Feet and Your Torn-off Sister by D X Lewis

Grandad’s Chair by Graham Taylor

Grandma Taught Life Lessons in Interwoven Kodachrome by Kelly Railton

Happy as a Clam at High Tide by Faith Cobaine

Inti by Ruth Edwardson

Let’s Talk About United by Julia Paillier

Maenad by L.C.V. Swanwick

Old enough to be your granddaddy by Katja Sass

Shelter by Linda M. Bayley

Terms and Conditions by Jamie David Stacey

The Basalt Queen and Blood-stained Chessboard by D X Lewis

The First Supernova by Sam Payne

The Ladies of Plaster of Paris by Terri Mullholland

The life cycle of coral by Jamie David Stacey

The Trouble with Angels by Gayle Beveridge

There Is No Before, There Is Only After by James Pratt

This Withered Eden by Charlie Kitching

Three Lilies by Sally Curtis

What about that sea? by Sarah Masters