I am writing to thank you for entering our Flash Fiction Contest. It was truly an honor to read your work! We received many compelling flashes but can only publish six. They will be published online in our next issue late this month. Here are the results:

FIRST PRIZE ($1,000)
“Just Missed Ya”
Carla Burns

SECOND PRIZE ($100)
“Prologue”
Veronica Lucero

HONORABLE MENTIONS ($25)
“Winning Hearts and Flags”
Natasha Stokes
“I Never Die”
Seamus Scanlon
“Workforce”
Mark Rosenblum
“I Clean the Church”
James Bosley

NOTABLE STORIES
“Our Lady of the Blueberries”
Susan Strauss
“Crypsis”
Quinn Elise Rennerfeldt
“The Plus One”
Jordan Drewitt Smith
“Quarrel”
Mike L. Downey
“Abandonment”
William Torphy
“The Twins Lullaby”
Seamus Scanlon
“ToiletBot5000”
Spencer Spalding
“Hasidic Minnie”
Cindy Rosmus
“Robbed”
Cynthia Stock
“Blind Man’s Bluff”
Clark J. Gurney
“Flying Green Gal”
Brenda Shoshanna

Our 2024 flash competition opens in the spring and you are welcome to enter. You may also send prose or poetry to general submissions year-round for no fee.

Thanks again.

Best,

David Bright

Editor