Short List: Flash Fiction 2026 Quarter 2

A fully formed being by Katja Sass

Bring it on by Fiona Shillito

Counting cupcakes by Tracey Sibun

Fireworks by Jane Ricot

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

Half Pipe Dream by Jude Potts

He Said, She Said by Ben Daggers

Home is Where the Hearth is by Lee Irving

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

Nowhere, But with Admin by Ella Ashby

Princess in a Headspin by T.J. Burgoyne

Red by Gayle Beveridge

Rejecter’s Regret by Alfred Johnson

Shrinkflation by Kelly Hopson

Soundtrack by Chris Cottom

The Accident by Jaime Gill

The Final Hour by Susan King

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

Waterproof Mascara by Alexis Wolfe

Where Crimson Bleeds White by Adarsh Anil