If We Were Someone Else

My father would’ve worn faded work-jeans: picking out a different pair every morning from his cycle of Wranglers, each of them bearing the circles of Copenhagen…

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They Say That Doors Will Open Soon As You Find The Missing Key

When fire eats the corner house, I walk a different way. I don’t like the bones of it, how easily the snow blows through. There is…

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The Kitchen

The sun in September is a hammer, is a circular saw. You were using a belt sander on the Saltillo tile in the kitchen. I wanted…

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Flashes of Heartbreak

We know: we’re sick of seeing everyone’s annual saccharine Instagrams of their #baes, too. Valentine’s Day is often viewed through literal rose colored glasses, but…

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Five Questions with Alexandra Regalado

Moira McAvoy: Your piece, “Runs in My Veins,” is one of my favorites from NANO Fiction’s issue 9.1. I particularly loved your fresh take on…

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General Submissions Opening Soon!

NANO Fiction will reopen for general submissions on February 1. At that time, please send previously unpublished works of fiction 300 words or fewer for possible publication…

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Five Questions with Grant Faulkner

NANO Fiction: Your recent collection, Fissures, consists of one hundred 100-word stories. (We’re delighted to publish “Shirley Temple” from the collection issue 9.1 of NANO…

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PROMPT #75

Even though we’re only 11 days in, a lot has already happened in 2016! El Chapo has been recaptured, Apple lost $52 Billion, and North…

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Five Questions with Kaj Tanaka

MoiraMcAvoy: Your speaker in issue 9.1’s “Volleyball” is deeply layered, both sympathetic and immensely unsettling in their tightrope walk between loneliness and voyeurism, and the…

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