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  Debra Marquart: The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories (New Rivers Press, 2001); Small Buried Things (New Rivers Press, 2015); From Sweetness (Pearl Editions, 2001); Everything’s a Verb (New Rivers Press, 1995).

  Michael Martone: Memoranda (Bull City Press, 2015); Double-wide (Quarry Books, 2007); Michael Martone (Fiction Collective, 2005); Blue Guide to Indiana (Fiction Collective, 2001).

  Tara Lynn Masih: Best Small Fictions (Braddock Avenue Books, 2017, Queen’s Ferry Press, 2016, 2015); The Chalk Circle (Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2012); Where the Dog Star Never Glows (Press 53, 2010); The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (Rose Metal Press, 2009).

  Kathleen McGookey: Whatever Shines (White Pine Press, 2001); Heart in a Jar (White Pine Press, 2017); Stay (Press 53, 2015).

  Christopher Merkner: The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic (Coffee House Press, 2014).

  Christopher Merrill: Self-Portrait with Dogwood (Trinity University Press, 2017); Flash Fiction International (W. W. Norton, 2015); Necessities (White Pine Press, 2013); Boat (Tupelo Press, 2013).

  Mary Miller: Less Shiny (Magic Helicopter Press, 2008); Always Happy Hour (Liveright, 2017); The Last Days of California (Liveright, 2014); Big World (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2009).

  Dinty W. Moore: The Story Cure (Ten Speed Press, 2017); The Mindful Writer (Wisdom Publications, 2016); Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy (Ten Speed Press, 2015); Between Panic and Desire (Bison Books, 2010).

  Darlin’ Neal: Elegant Punk (Press 53, 2012); Rattlesnakes & the Moon (Press 53, 2010).

  Joyce Carol Oates: The Assignation (Harper & Row, 1988); A Book of Martyrs (Ecco, 2017); Jack of Spades (Mysterious Press, 2015); A Widow’s Story (Ecco, 2012).

  Peter Orner: Esther Stories (Little Brown and Company, 2014); Am I Here Alone (Catapult, 2016); Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge (Back Bay Books, 2014); Love and Shame and Love (Back Bay Books, 2012).

  Pamela Painter: Ways to Spend the Night (Engine Books, 2016); Wouldn’t You Like to Know (Carnegie Mellon, 2010); Getting to Know the Weather (Carnegie Mellon, 2008); The Long and Short of It (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999).

  Jennifer Pieroni: Danceland (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2014).

  Meg Pokrass: Damn Sure Right (Press 53, 2011); The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down (Etruscan Press, 2016); Cellulose Pajamas (Blue Light Press, 2015); Here, Where We Live appeared in My Very End of the Universe (Rose Metal Press, 2014).

  Pedro Ponce: Alien Autopsy (Cow Heavy Books, 2010); Superstitions of Apartment Life (Burnside Review Press, 2008).

  Dawn Raffel: Further Adventures in a Restless Universe (Dzanc Books, 2010); The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies (Blue Rider Books, 2018); The Secret Life of Objects (Jaded Ibis Press, 2012); Carrying the Body (Scribner, 2002).

  Josh Russell: A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, and Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag (Dzanc Books, 2012); My Bright Midnight (Louisiana State University Press, 2010); Yellow Jack (W. W. Norton, 2000).

  Zachary Schomburg: Fjords Vol. 1 (Black Ocean Press, 2014); Mam-mother (Featherproof Books, 2017); The Book of Joshua (Black Ocean, 2014); The Man Suit (Back Ocean, 2007).

  Robert Shapard: Flash Fiction International (W. W. Norton, 2015); New Sudden Fiction (W. W. Norton, 2007); Flash Fiction Forward (W. W. Norton, 2006); Motel and Other Stories (Predator Press, 2005).

  Steven Sherrill: The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time (John F. Blair, Publisher, 2016); The Locktender’s House (Random House, 2008); Visits from the Drowned Girl (Random House, 2004); The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break (Picador, 2002).

  Ana María Shua: Without a Net (Hanging Loose Press, 2012); The Weight of Translation (University of Nebraska Press, 2012); Death as a Side Effect (Bison Books, 2010); Microfictions (Bison Books, 2009).

  David Shumate: High Water Mark (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004); Kimonos in the Closet (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013); The Floating Bridge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008).

  Claudia Smith: The Sky Is a Well appeared in A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness (Rose Metal Press, 2008); Quarry Light (Magic Helicopter Press, 2013); Put Your Head in My Lap (Future Tense Books, 2012).

  Curtis Smith: Beasts & Men (Press 53, 2013); In the Jukebox Light (March Street Press, 2004).

  Nancy Stohlman: The Vixen Scream (Pure Slush, 2014); The Monster Opera (Bartleby Snopes Press, 2013); Searching for Suzi (Monkey Puzzle Press, 2009); Live from Palestine (South End Press, 2003).

  James Tate: Return to the City of White Donkeys (HarperCollins, 2004); Dome of the Hidden Pavilion (Ecco Press, 2015); The Ghost Soldiers (Ecco Press, 2008); Memoir of the Hawk (Ecco Press, 2002).

  Anthony Tognazzini: I Carry a Hammer in My Pocket for Occasions Such as These (BOA Editions, 2007).

  Meg Tuite: Disparate Pathos (Monkey Puzzle Press, 2011); Grace Notes (Unknown Press, 2015); Bound by Blue (Sententia Books, 2013); Domestic Apparition (San Francisco Bay Press, 2012).

  Robert Vaughan: Rift (Unknown Press, 2015); Funhouse (Unknown Press, 2016); Addicts & Basements (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014).

  Ron Wallace: Quick Bright Things (Mid-List Press, 2000); For Dear Life (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015); The Uses of Adversity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998).

  William Walsh: Pathologies (Keyhole Press, 2010); Stephen King Stephen King (Keyhole Press, 2016); Ampersand, Mass. (Keyhole Press, 2011); Without Wax (Casperian Books, 2008).

  John Edgar Wideman: Briefs: Stories from the Palm of the Mind (Lulu.com, 2010); Writing to Save a Life (Scribner, 2016); Philadelphia Story (Mariner Books, 2005); Brothers and Keepers (Mariner Books, reprint, 2005).

  Diane Williams: Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine (McSweeney’s, 2016); Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty (McSweeney’s, 2012); Romancer Erector (Dalkey Archive Press, 2001); Excitability (Dalkey Archive Press, 1998).

  Joy Williams: Ninety-Nine Stories of God (Tin House Books, 2016); The Visiting Privilege (Vintage, 2015); Honored Guest (Knopf, 2004); The Quick and the Dead (Vintage, 2002).

  Francine Witte: Cold June (Ropewalk Press, 2010); Not All Fires Burn the Same (Slipstream, 2016); Only, Not Only (Finishing Line Press, 2012); First Rain (Pecan Grove Press, 2009).

  Theresa Wyatt: Hurled into Gettysburg (BlazeVOX Books, 2017).

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  Kim Addonizio, “Starlight” and “What Jimmy Remembers” from Jimmy & Rita: A Verse Novel. Copyright © 2012 by Kim Addonizio. Reprinted by permission of Stephen F. Austin University Press.

  Roberta Allen, “The Beheading” and “The Fly” from Certain People. Copyright © 1997 by Roberta Allen. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.coffeehousepress.org

  Steven Almond, “Dumbrowski’s Advice” was previously published in The Sun, 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Nin Andrews, “The Orgasm Needs a Photo of Herself” and “The Orgasm Thinks You Have Forgotten Her” from Our Lady of the Orgasm (2016). Reprinted by permission of the publisher, MadHat Press.

  Arlene Ang, “Unannounced Guest” was previously published on wigleaf.com, Sept. 2010. © Arlene Ang

  Barry Basden, “Johnny Came By” and “Aerospace” from Used Rainbows (Red Dashboard LLC, 2014). © Barry Basden

  Lou Beach, “Humanity Services” and “Shot by a Monkey” from 420 Characters: Stories by Lou Beach. Copyright © 2011 by Lou Beach. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

  Paul Beckman, “Brother Speak” from Peek (Big Table Publishing Company, 2015). © Paul Beckman

  Richard Brautigan, “Women When They Put Their Clothes On in the Morning” from Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan. Copyright © 1971 by Richard Brautigan. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

  Randall Brown, “Cadge” from Flume Press, 2008. Mad to Live.

  Stace Budzko, “How to Set a House on Fire�
�� from Brevity & Echo: An Anthology of Short Stories, ed. by Abigail Beckel and Kathleen Rooney (Rose Metal Press 2006). Reprinted by permission of Stace Budzko.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell, “Sleepover” © 2015 by Bonnie Jo Campbell, “My Bliss” © 2015 by Bonnie Jo Campbell from Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell. Copyright © 2015 by Bonnie Jo Campbell. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. and The Clegg Agency, Inc.

  Ron Carlson, “Grief” from Room Service: Poems, Meditations, Outcries & Remarks by Ron Carlson, published by Red Hen Press. Originally published in Mississippi Review. Copyright © 1996 by Ron Carlson. Used by permission of Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. All rights reserved.

  Kim Chinquee, “No One Was With Him” and “He Was on the Second Floor” from Pretty. Copyright © 2010 by Kim Chinquee. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of White Pine Press, www.whitepine.org.

  James Claffey, “Kingmaker” was first published in Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art. 17:3, 2016. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Amy L. Clark, “Looking for Nick Westlund on the MBTA” and “What I Really Meant Was That I Loved You” from A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women by Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia Smith (Rose Metal Press 2008). Reprinted by permission of Amy L. Clark.

  Bernard Cooper, “The Hurricane Ride” from Maps to Anywhere was published by The University of Georgia Press. Copyright © 1990 by Bernard Cooper. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of The University of Georgia Press.

  Michael Czyniejewski, “Intrigued by Reincarnation, Skip Dillard Embraces Buddhism” and “Eating William Wells’ Stout Heart, Fort Dearborn, 1812” from Chicago Stories (2012). Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Curbside Splendor Publishing.

  Gay Degani, “Abbreviated Glossary” from Rattle of Want (Pure Slush Books, 2015). © Gay Degani

  Nicholas DiChario, “Sweaters” from Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction, ed. by Dinty W. Moore (Mammoth Books 2003). Reprinted by permission of Nicholas DiChario.

  Erin Dionne, “New Roller Skates” from Brevity & Echo: An Anthology of Short Stories, ed. by Abigail Beckel and Kathleen Rooney (Rose Metal Press 2006). © Erin Dionne

  Damian Dressick, “Four Hard Facts About Water” was previously published in Vestal Review #30, 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Stuart Dybek, “Initiation” was previously published in New Flash Fiction Review, July 10, 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Pia Z. Ehrhardt, “Brides” was previously published on fictionaut. © Pia Z. Ehrhardt

  Elizabeth Ellen, “8×10” and “Panama City by Daylight” from A Peculiar Feelings of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women (2008) by Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia Smith. © Elizabeth Ellen

  Michelle Elvy. “Antarctica” and “Triptych” © Michelle Elvy. “Antarctica” was previously published in Flash Frontier.

  Grant Faulkner, “Way Station” and “Model Upside Down on the Stairs” from in Fissures (2015) are reprinted by permission of the author. © Grant Faulkner

  Kathy Fish, “The Possibility of Bears” and “Akimbo” from Rift: Stories by Kathy Fish and Robert Vaughan (2015). Reprinted by permission of Kathy Fish.

  Sherrie Flick, “On the Rocks” and “Porch Light” were previously published in Whiskey, Etc. (Autumn House Press 2017). Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Thaisa Frank, “The New Thieves” and “The Cat Lover.” Copyright © 2012 by Thaisa Frank, from Enchantment: New and Selected Stories. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint.

  Melissa Fraterrigo “Momma’s Boy” previously published in Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction, ed. by Dinty W. Moore (Mammoth Books, 2003). Reprinted by permission of Melissa Fraterrigo.

  Stefanie Freele, “You Are the Raisin, I Am the Loaf” and “Crumple” from Feeding Strays: Short Stories by Stefanie Freele (2011). Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Lost Horse Press.

  Sarah Freligh, “Another Thing” from Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction, ed. by Dinty W. Moore (Mammoth Books, 2003), and “We Smoke” from Sad Math (Moon City Press 2015). Reprinted by permission of Sarah Freligh.

  Molly Giles, “No Soy for Joy” and “Protest” from Bothered (Split Oak Press, 2012). Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Amelia Gray, “66:PM” and AM:103” from AM/PM (Featherproof Books, 2013). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

  Kevin Griffith, “Furnace” from Denmark, Kangaroo, Orange (Pearl Editions 2008). Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Tom Hazuka, “Utilitarianism” first appeared in Quarterly West, Summer/Fall 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Tom Hazuka. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Kyle Hemmings, “Supergirl” and “Father Dunne’s’ School for Wayward Boys #1” were previously published on fictionaut. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Amy Hempel, “The Man in Bogota” from The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel. Copyright © 1985 by Amy Hempel. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. Published in Great Britain in The Dog of the Marriage and Other Stories. Copyright © 2006 by Amy Hempel. Reproduced by permission of Quercus Editions Limited.

  Tania Hershman, “My Mother Was an Upright Piano” from My Mother Was an Upright Piano (2012). Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Tangent Books.

  Jim Heynen, “Why Would a Woman Pour Boiling Water on Her Head?” appeared originally in the Chapbook by the same title, Trilobite Press, Denton, Texas. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Brian Hinshaw, “The Custodian” from Brevity & Echo: An Anthology of Short Stories, ed. by Abigail Beckel and Kathleen Rooney (Rose Metal Press, 2006). Reprinted by permission of Brian Hinshaw.

  Tiff Holland, “Hot Work” from Betty Superman (Rose Metal Press, 2011). © Tiff Holland

  Louis Jenkins, “The Skiff” and “Indecision” from Just Above Water. Copyright © 1997 by Louis Jenkins. Reprinted with permission of The Permissions Company, Inc. on behalf of Holy Cow! Press, www.holycowpress.org.

  Roy Kesey, “Calisthetics” from All Over (Dzanc Books 2007) and “Learning to Count in a Small Town” from Any Deadly Thing (Dzanc Books 2013). Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Ron Koertge, “Principles of Handicapping” and “War” by Ron Koertge, first published in Sex World (Red Hen Press, 2014). Copyright © 2014 by Ron Koertge. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Red Hen Press.

  Len Kuntz, “Lens” and “The Hard Dance” from I’m Not Supposed to Be Here and Neither Are You: Stories (Unknown Press, 2016). © Len Kuntz

  Jeff Landon, “Flying” from Truck Dance (Matter Press, 2011). Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Tara Laskowski, “We’re Gonna Be Here Awhile” from The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (2011) and “Dendrochronology” from The Northville Review (2009). Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Lorraine López, “The Night Aliens in a White Van Kidnapped My Teenage Son Near the Baptist Church Parking Lot” from Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction, ed. by Dinty W. Moore (Mammoth Books 2003). Reprinted by permission of Lorraine López.

  Debra Marquart, “Dylan’s Lost Years” and “This New Quiet” from The Hunger Bone: Rock and Roll Stories. Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers Press, 2001. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Michael Martone, “Miners” and “Dan Quayle Thinking: On Snipe Hunting” from Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction, ed. by Dinty W. Moore (Mammoth Books, 2003). Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Tara L. Masih, “This Heat” first appeared in Midway Journal (Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2009) and was reprinted by The Feral Press (2009); “Ella: Then” first appeared in 100 Word Stories (May 2015) and “Ella: Now” first appeared in matchbook stories (July 2015)
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Melissa G. McCracken, “It Would’ve Been Hot” and “Implosion” from Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction, ed. by Dinty W. Moore (Mammoth Books, 2003). Reprinted by permission of Melissa G. McCracken.

  Kathleen McGookey, “Another Drowning, Miner Lake” from Whatever Shines. Copyright © 2001 by Kathleen McGookey. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of White Pine Press, www.whitepine.org.

  Christopher Merkner, “Children at the Bar” was previously published in Five Points, 17:3, 2016. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Mary Miller, “A Detached Observer” was previously published in Storyglossia, #18 (Feb. 2007); “Los Angeles” from Less Shiny (Magic Helicopter Press, 2008). © Mary Miller

  Dinty W. Moore, “Rumford” from Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction, ed. by Dinty W. Moore (Mammoth Books 2003). Reprinted by permission of Dinty W. Moore.

  Lynn Mundell, “The Old Days” was previously published in Five Points, 17:3, 2016. © Lynn Mundell

  Darlin’ Neal, “Polka Dot” and “Four-Hundred Miles” from Elegant Punk by Darlin’ Neal, (Press 53), copyright 2012 by Darlin’ Neal. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

  Joyce Carol Oates, “Slow” from The Assignation by Joyce Carol Oates. Copyright © 1988 by The Ontario Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

  Peter Orner, “At Horseneck Beach” from Esther Stories. Copyright © 2001 by Peter Orner. Reprinted by permission of Peter Orner and used by permission of Little, Brown and Company. All rights reserved.

  Pamela Painter, “Letting Go” was published in New Flash Fiction Review and “Help” was published in Five Points. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Jennifer Pieroni, “Local Woman Gets a Jolt” from Brevity & Echo: An Anthology of Short Stories, ed. by Abigail Beckel and Kathleen Rooney (Rose Metal Press 2006). Reprinted by permission of Jennifer Pieroni.

  Meg Pokrass, “The Landlord” first appeared in Frigg and Damn Sure Right (Press 53). “Cutlery” first appeared in Five Points. Reprinted by permission of the author.

 

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