Short List: Flash Fiction 2025 Quarter 1

A Piteousness of Doves by Sue Dewey

A Recipe for a Breathless First Date by Taria Karillion

Additives, Preservatives and Fear by Nola Addison

Alan Alda and Other Things I Don’t Talk to My Husband About by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris

As Good as Rodents by Rebecca Klassen

Ascent – Descent by Sinead Amirak

Bog Man by Susan Bennett

Camouflaging by Camsyn Clair

Dawn Child by Tim Wardle

Green is for Heartbreak by Hannah Retallick

Harvest by Anne Howkins

I Search Her Eyes for Rivers by Hannah Retallick

Icebreaker by Rachael Yates

If Only Wendy by Jo Simmons

Ill Met by Moonlight by Karen Arnold

Inti by Ruth Edwardson

It’s All So Unexpected by Laura Besley

Somebody That I Used to Know by Alison Wassell

Something Sly by Rachael Dunlop

Stuff He Says I’ll Need This Weekend by Chris Cottom

Tethered by Ashleigh Adams

The Back Seat of My Car by Andrew Drummond

The Game Changer by Kelly Rees

When she meets a man in a bar, she pretends to be someone else by Sam Payne

Your Upstairs Oasis by Bethan Crymble