Online Fiction Sampler

This is not a comprehensive list by any means. It simply is what I come across, or remember, and then remember to put on this list. But every story here is one that I love, and I hope my friends who visit will love them, too.

Flash (under 1000 words)

Abartis, Cezarija – – “Lovers” — Wigleaf, May 2011.

Anonymous – – “Missed Connection” – originally from Craigslist, reported on Gawker.com.

Augello, Chuck – – “Call Me Your Unbroken” — Smokelong #38, 12/17/12

Avallon, Joanne — “Kapha” — Smokelong, 3/28/2011

Black, Ben – – “The Woodcutter’s Wife” — Smokelong #40, 4/15/13

Bledsoe, CL – – “The Baby” — Right Hand Pointing

Brown, Randall – – “Instead Of The Glass” — Smokelong, June 2011

Butler, L.E. — “Pitch” – – Neon #26, May 2011

Callis, Tetman – – “The Year Our Children Left” — Neon #24, 2010

Eagleman, David – – “Sum” – – NYT reprint from the collection Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife; audio reading also available via The Guardian

Gonzalez, Tracy — “We Walk Away The Three Of Us” — Smokelong, 3/28/11

Griner, Paul – – I Place Myself Unreservedly At Your Service — Dogzplot, September 2010

Harmon, Nick – – “The Fear of Something Happening” — Smokelong #38, 12/17/12

Hovendon, Gabrielle – – “Your Hindenburg” — Smokelong #39, February 2013

Iskandrian, Kristen – – “Phonics” –- Tin House blog’s Flash Fiction Fridays, 10/21/11

James, Christopher – – “Driving Kakek” — Camera Obscura, Summer 2010

Jones, Stephen Graham – – Dedication — Smokelong, 4/30/12

Langeskov, Philip – – “Unspeakable Acts” — New Writing, 10/02/12

Larson, Darby – – “Phone” — The Collagist, Issue #9, April 2010

McGill, Sharon — “Benediction” — Smokelong, 3/26/12

McNair, Patricia – – “Things I Wish You Heard” — Press 53 53-Word Contest, Dec. 13-18, 2013

Nam, Sam – – “I Use Commas Like Ninja Stars” — Smokelong, 2009

Norminton, Gregory – – “Endnotes” — The Guardian, 01/29/08

Rolli — “Were I The Leaves, I’d Be Dead” — Word Riot, September, 2011

Sansone, Nick – – “Amy in Twenty Chapters” — Bartleby Snopes, June 2011

Spalding, Lavinia – – “Finding Spells” — Tin House blog, 12/7/12

Stevens, Angi Becker — “The Way We Speak Now” — Smokelong, 3/28/11

Summers, Jill – – “Stuck Landing” – – Paper Darts, April 2013

Volpe, Eugenio – – “Revived” — Smokelong #37, 7/9/12

Watson, Douglas – – “Life on the Moon” –- Tin House blog’s Flash Fiction Fridays

Yee, Kenton – – “Your Gedanken Collection” — Hobart 12/6/12

Short Stories (1000-8000 words)

Bell, Matt – – “An Index of How Our Family Was Killed” — Conjunctions, 03/04/09

Burgess, Claire – – Male Seeking Female” — Annalemma, 10/26/11

Davies, Jon Morgan – – “Off the Map” – – Summerset Review, Winter 2010

Foer, Jonathan Safran – – A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease — The New Yorker, June 2002, or, for a better rendition of the intended typography, see the Googlebooks form.

Fong, Marko – – “My Father’s Paradox” — Eclectica, Jul/Aug 2010

Sparks, Amber – – “You Will Be the Living Equation” in zine-scene.com Issue 2, with bonus interview. [sorry, no longer online] Story originally published in Annalemma.

Zacharia, Shellie – – “Eddie” – – Summerset Review, Spring 2005

Novella (8000 plus)

Kaufmann, Charles – – “Some Things I Forgot To Tell You” – – Salt River Review, 2006

Mesler, Corey – – “Publisher” – – Eclectica Jul/Aug 2004

Other Forms – Poetry, Non-fiction, Graphic

Auden, WH — “September 1, 1939“

Duhamel, Denise — ““The Woman With Two Vaginas“

Prescott, Vivian Faith — “Slick” – A Digital Prose Poem Chapbook published by White Knuckle Press, a Division of Right Hand Pointing, 2010.

Novak, Jason — “For A.M., 1996- 2013” — The Rumpus, 03/15/13

Savage, Elizabeth — “Prepositions” — Prime Number Magazine 11.2, August 2011

Assorted nonsense by Karen Carlson

“A Forest from Some Trees” – November, 2013 (Mesostic Video Poem)
“When MOOCs Collide” – December, 2013 (Video Poem and commentary on the intersection of concurrent poetry/math/philosophy MOOCs)
“TALK” – January, 2014 (Annoying Video flarf)
“Green” – Forge, July 2009 (short story) [no longer online]
“The Secret of Despair” – Toasted Cheese, August 2008 (short story)
“8:27” – DiddleDog, March 2008 (flash)
“A Practical Illustration of Entropy” – Ink, Sweat & Tears, September 2008 (flash)
“After Gilda” – Right Hand Pointing, Summer 2010 (flash) (no longer online)

Flash Fiction by Zin Kenter:

“The Man With the Nose In His Living Room” – FRiGG, Fall 2010
“Harold” – FRiGG, Fall 2010
“Doodle” – FRiGG, Fall 2010
“The Mystery of Water” – Smokelong, March 2011
“Yarn” – Prick of the Spindle, Fall 2011 (no longer online)

Zin’s Print Publications:

“Harold” – Pear Noir #4, Summer 2010
“Above It All” – Fractured West #3, Fall 2011
“Maples” and “The Man In The Crisp Suit” – The Delinquent #14, April 2011.