Lost in Supermarkets

You don’t go to supermarkets to dance, but this is how that music makes you feel, this song that is pretty and jangly and happy…

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Prompt #69

Happy April 20th! Days often mean different things to different people. Some people think of today as 4/20, others think of it as the birthday…

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Five Questions with 2014 NANO Prize Winner Jasmine Sawers

Kirby Johnson: Congratulations on winning the 2014 NANO Prize! What does it feel like to win this contest? Jasmine Sawers: You know when you’re hoping someone…

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Come and Take It: Texas Lit Party @ AWP

Kick off your AWP right with Texas’s finest indie presses and lit mags. Join American Short Fiction, The Austin Review, Bat City Review, Foxing, Gulf Coast,…

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Come See NANO Fiction at AWP!

Writers: put your fancy glasses and knits on! AWP is only a few days away. We’re getting very excited for this year’s conference in Minneapolis. Join…

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7th Annual NANO Prize Opens April 1st!

Great news! The 7th Annual NANO Prize opens April 1, 2015! Amber Sparks will judge this year’s contest. The winner will be published in NANO…

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Salted Carmel Pretzel

When I returned from the restroom, Salvator had switched places with the server. My husband, two tables away, scribbled orders onto a pad, while Kitty,…

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Captives by Angela Meyer

Angela Meyer, Captives Inkerman and Blunt, 2014 Softcover, 112 pages 978-0-9875401-2-6 “It was easy to imagine what could have happened. I was well practiced at…

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Prompt #68

On this day in 1959, Barbara Millicent Roberts (“Barbie”) made her debut at a toy fair in New York City. PROMPT: Write a story that…

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Five Questions with Wyatt Bonikowski

NANO Fiction: You have three flashes featured in issue 8.2 of NANO Fiction, all of which follow a family and utilize a beautiful but limited perspective…

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