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Shame by Julia Ruth Smith

Publication 1st of February 2022

Julia Ruth Smith is a teacher, mother and writer. She lives by the sea in Italy. Recent publications include Versification, Zero Readers, Lavender Bones Magazine, Sledgehammer Lit and Full House Literary. She is on Twitter @JuliaRuthSmith1

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Acrostic Mix Tape by Michelle Christophorou

Publication 2nd of February 2022

Michelle Christophorou lives in Surrey, UK. She has won and been placed in various writing contests, most recently Strands International Flash. Her story “Wearing You” was included in the BIFFY 50 list of best UK and Irish flash 2019/20. Her novella-in-flash, Kipris, has just been published by Ad Hoc Fiction. Find out more at www.michellechristophorou.co.uk, or say hello on Twitter @MAChristophorou

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Coping Stones by Mark Stocker 

Publication 3rd of February 2022

Mark Stocker is a writer from Suffolk. He's had flash and short fiction published in various places, and his stories have been listed in a number of competitions. He was the winner of the 2021 Flash 500 Short Story Competition. He is currently working on his first novel.

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One for My Baby by Karen Jones 

Publication 4th of February 2022

Karen Jones is a flash and short story writer from Glasgow, Scotland. Her flashes have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Micro Fiction and The Pushcart Prize, and her story Small Mercies was included in Best Small Fictions 2019 and BIFFY50 2019. In 2021 she won first prize in the Cambridge Flash Fiction Prize, Flash 500, Reflex Fiction and Retreat West Monthly Micro and was shortlisted for To Hull and Back, Bath Flash Fiction, Bath Short Story Award and longlisted for Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Prize. Her work has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines. Her novella-in-flash, When It’s Not Called Making Love is published by Ad Hoc Fiction. She is Special Features Editor at New Flash Fiction Review. 

- A Hope In Hell

- Acrostic Mix Tape

- Batshit Crazy Jack

- Bite

- Coping Stones

- Girl, in an archway, by a bin

- My Body is the Host

- My child speaks with the voice of a swallow

- One for My Baby

- One for Sorrow, Two for Joy

- Running Repairs

- Shame

- Stage Struck by the Blue Lagoon

- Striking the Perfect Note

- The Artist Encaustic

- The Signs She’d Ignored and the Ones She Hadn’t

- The Zoo is Empty Tuesdays

- Things Left Behind in an Oxfordshire Field in 1989 the Day After an Illegal Rave

- Tick

- Vemodalen

- A Hope In Hell

- A is for

- A Logical Deduction of a Case of Love(s)

- A Stoner Girl’s Recipe for a Cupcake

- A Woman's Relaxing Half Hour

- Acrostic Mix Tape

- After Words

- Batshit Crazy Jack

- Bite

- Can You?

- Coping Stones

- Each Time History Repeats Itself, They Say the Price Goes Up

- Excoriation

- From the Rubble, 1945

- Girl, in an archway, by a bin

- If a Girl were an Elephant

- In a Forest in Slovakia I Find a Sawmill

- Littoral States

- Living Room

- Missing    

- My Body is the Host

- My child speaks with the voice of a swallow

- One for My Baby

- One for Sorrow, Two for Joy

- Questions for a Husband Who Has Lost His Tongue

- Running Repairs

- Shame

- Spinning out of Control

- Stage Struck by the Blue Lagoon

- Striking the Perfect Note

- Tender

- Terrestrial Predators That Stalk at Night

- The Artist Encaustic

- The Rat's Prophecy

- The Signs She’d Ignored and the Ones She Hadn’t

- The Zoo is Empty Tuesdays

- Things Left Behind in an Oxfordshire Field in 1989 the Day After an Illegal Rave

- Tick

- Vemodalen

- When the Things Said (or Not) Cause Lives to Curdle