Five Questions with 7th Annual NANO Prize Judge Amber Sparks

Sophie Rosenblum: What do you look for in flash fiction? Who are some of your favorite flash writers? Amber Sparks: I like flash that acts…

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Five Questions with Marie Gethins

NANO Fiction: Your story, “Mammoth Task,” is featured in the latest issue of NANO Fiction, 8.2, and it’s one of the more humorous, playful pieces in…

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Dad Grandma

When my father slips into compression stockings, I wonder who will perm his new blond hair. I wonder who taught him how to apply lipstick,…

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Fallen Soufflé

Lola treats herself to a burrito at Chipotle. The woman at the next register invites her for margaritas. Sure, Lola shrugs, even though she had…

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Wood Swallows

Amy Brown’s mother was the bus driver, and so to get to her birthday party all the girls had to do was stay on the…

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Creation Stories

When they cut flesh again and again sometimes the muscle buckles, like how metal can only be soldered so many times before it’s fused to…

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How Clouds Form: The Orographic Lifting of the Mother

Another method by which clouds form is through the lifting of air by an advancing storm system or, more often, by the slope of a…

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Bologna

“Just pop it in the cooler, there. How is that so hard,” he says. “Just throw the damn thing in there.” My sister and I…

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NANO Fiction Loves Moms

  The editors of NANO Fiction love our moms! And over the years we have published quite a few stories about moms of every kind: wholesome mothers,…

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Guadalupe

Lady of Guadalupe, will you lie next to me and caress me? Am I being too forward? I cross my heart and hope to die…

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