Flash Fic­tion Reprint from Anne Weis­ger­ber: “Nobody under­stood this could be a thing, until they saw jumpers at a cer­tain height, five hun­dred eleven feet, tum­ble upward.”

Flash Fic­tion Reprint from Jeanne Alt­house: “‘Uncle Seth’ was inspired by an old fam­i­ly let­ter.”

Flash Fic­tion Reprint from Dou­glas W. Mil­liken: “That makes it non-fic­tion, right?:”

Flash Fic­tion Reprint from Hillary Leftwich’s “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammu­ni­tion””

The for­mat of the sto­ry itself is cycli­cal, a for­mat that lends itself to the mes­sage of the flash and speaks to Smith-Stevens’ mas­ter­ful craft.

Flash Fic­tion Reprint from Kristi­na Marie Darling’s “North”: “A girl drove into a bliz­zard at sun­set.”

Flash Fic­tion Reprint from Paul Kavanagh’s “Antoine de Saint-Exupéry”: “We decid­ed to hang Alfred. Viv went for rope.”

Flash Fic­tion Reprint of Jeff Friedman’s “Family”–“It’s the end of the world,” my father pro­claimed at the break­fast table, ris­ing in his bear-checked paja­mas.

Flash Fic­tion Reprint from Jacque­line Doyle’s NOONDAY ROBBERY AT BOONEVILLE SAVINGS AND LOAN: “So yes­ter­day, I kid you not, a guy dressed like Darth Vad­er walks in.…”

Flash Fic­tion Reprint from Nneo­ma Ike-Njoku: “They found Aun­ty Kemi. Some­one said that they picked her up on the street, on her way to work one morn­ing.”