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Image is a color photograph of a swan swimming in a lake; title card for the winner of the CRAFT 2024 EcoLit Challenge, “Here and There at the Lake,” by Janice Vis.

Here and There at the Lake by Janice Vis

October 4, 2024

  Content Warning—sexual assault   Along the western shores of Lake Ontario, the water splits the land and pools into a marshy inlet webbed with bike trails and bridges. I walk these paths every day, just wandering about, here and…

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Image is a color photograph of a perfume bottle; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, "The Catalog of Human Memories," by Celia Cummiskey

The Catalog of Human Memories by Celia Cummiskey

September 11, 2024

  When I was in college, a lover came to visit me in London. He’d been traveling through the Balkans and staying in hostels where he’d needed to furnish his own towel and toiletries. When he arrived at my cubelike…

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Image is a color photograph of an old doll on the ground; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, "Pretend We're Dead," by Melissa Ragsly.

“Pretend We’re Dead” by Melissa Ragsly

August 7, 2024

  My first job was at a farmstand with a twenty-five-foot papier-mâché witch named Winnie towering over the parking lot. Eyes like a lizard’s with vaginal slit pupils and a boulder of a nose. She enchanted people. Drivers would pull…

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Image is a color photograph of the Iowa River; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, "Walking the Iowa River with My Grandmother after the Floods," by Grace Morse.

Walking the Iowa River with My Grandmother after the Floods by Grace Morse

July 10, 2024

  I told you it wouldn’t take long to get to the river. No, I don’t come here alone at night. Yes, I do come here when night is impatiently waiting to arrive, streaking the sky with pink and cobalt…

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Image is a color photograph of a basketball hoop under a cloudy sky; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, "Canines," by Jona Whipple.

Canines by Jona Whipple

May 8, 2024

  She says go like this and bares her teeth at me, lips pulled back. All the other girls lean in to see inside my mouth, too close. I smell the leather of their shoes, but I don’t flinch. Jagged,…

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Image is a color photograph of a rain puddle on a street covered in brown leaves; title card for the CRAFT 2023 Flash Prose Prize Editors' Choice Selection, "Forty-Eight Hours in Miami," by Christina Simon.

Forty-Eight Hours in Miami by Christina Simon

April 1, 2024

  My first time in Miami is tiny cups of sweet Cuban cortadito; and going to the Miami Open with my husband to join the crowds cheering for Carlos “Carlitos” Alcaraz, the Spanish teenage sensation and World #1; and rainy…

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Image is a color photograph of a lit streetlamp at night; title card for the new micromemoirs, "Snap, Stacked, & Night Sky with Generations," by Rebe Huntman.

Snap, Stacked, & Night Sky with Generations by Rebe Huntman

March 13, 2024

  Snap Not when your mother makes you go to the dance. You tell her you’re sick. Really sick this time. See? You’ve broken out in hives. Not when she slathers you in calamine lotion & stuffs you into tights…

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Image is a color photograph of discarded reddish flowers on the edge of dark, water-splashed rocks; title card for the flash essay, "The Little List of Boys and Men Who Vanished," by Claudia Monpere.

The Little List of Boys and Men Who Vanished by Claudia Monpere

March 6, 2024

  Number one had cerulean blue eyes and haloed heat as we danced at Sadie Hawkins in our matching flannel shirts and he wandered night stairs and stars almost as stoned as his mother and strummed “Dust in the Wind”…

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Image is a black-and-white photograph of a crib mobile; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, "Still Awake," by Julie Marie Wade.

Still Awake by Julie Marie Wade

February 7, 2024

  For Margaret Wise Brown In the great green room once known as The Earth, we stretched out in dry grass and stared up at the sky, arms akimbo behind our heads. Elbows for miles. There was a telephone, once…

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Image is a color photograph of sketched body parts; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, "Index of Body Parts," by Kim Magowan.

Index of Body Parts by Kim Magowan

January 10, 2024

  Elbow The so-called “funny bone,” the most sensitive bone in the body. A tap here feels excruciating. The hardest point of the body, according to the scary mass email my mother-in-law sends (subject heading: FOR WOMEN!). “If assaulted, attack…

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