miCRo: “Lifeboat” by Janika Oza
All three sections of Janika Oza’s “Lifeboat” revolve around food—as sustenance, as survival, as a way to connect to a lost country.
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Best Small Fictions Nominations
Congratulations to these four pieces we chose to nominate for the Best Small Fictions anthology, which seeks “flash and micro fiction, haibun stories and prose poems published in 2019”:
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Why We Like It: “Reverberation” by Nancy Chen Long
Nancy Chen Long’s poem “Reverberation” fights back against silence and erasure. The poem’s title points toward the resonance of sound, and this is exactly what Chen Long’s words do: even in stillness the music of her language ripples across the page.
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“Reverberation” by Nancy Chen Long
At home working on a client’s website—an archive of Yiddish memories—I look up in time to see a...
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Half-Off Holiday Sale!
Half off all subscriptions through December 19!
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Why We Like It: “Operation Rhododendron” by Samyak Shertok
In the opening lines of Samyak Shertok’s “Operation Rhododendron,” everyday objects transform into makeshift weapons for role-playing scenes of war.
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miCRo: “A Tree That May in Summer Wear” by Amy Stuber
Through an explosion of the idiom “empty nest” and a vocabulary that swings from tender to profane, Stuber asks: how can a mother survive knowing what the daughter must survive?
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miCRo: “How close the fire, how hot the oven” by Evan James Sheldon
This microfiction upturns the gentle mother cliché and shows instead a mother whose decision to set fire and kill is an act of compassion.
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Pushcart and Best Microfiction Nominations
Check out our nominations for the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best Microfiction!
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miCRo: Seventeen Fouettés by Mark Wagenaar
Mark Wagenaar’s piece, “Seventeen Fouettés,” brilliantly shows us how violence juxtaposed with art and poetic language can infuse even the saddest of situations with hope.
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