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A light purple background. On the foreground, the text: FICTIVE DREAM Short Stories Online
A collage of 20 Stanchion Magazine covers.
A black cat lounging. Next to it, the text, "CLAUDINE A literary Magazine CURIOUS CLEVER QUICK"
Small Wonders literary Magazine logo. Its a golden trophy with the text "small wonders". On the far right, the text, "science fiction & fantasy flash fiction & poetry" in blue text.
Milk Candy Review logo. A white bunny on a beach jumping to reach the moon.
Flash 500's logo. A feather dipped in a jar of ink. Next to it, the words, "Flash 500 Flash Fiction | Short Stories | Novels"
The cover page for Elizabeth Rosen's chapbook, Survival Skills. It's a picture of a deer walking past a house. The house is painted, blue, red and green.
A drawing of of a green tree with light-green leaves. Next to the stem of the tree, the text "blink ink" in black capital letters.
Gooseberry pie lit magazine header. It's a drawing of a pie. Over the pie, in white, "Home of the Six-Sentence Story. Tart. Messy. Satisfying.
Against a blue background, a frog typing on a type-writer. Beneath the image, the words "FLASH FROG" in capital letters. Beneath that text, the words, "SMALL. Brightly COLORED. DEADLY TO THE TOUCH."
A black and white image of a racoon holding a golden fountain pen. The racoon is peaking it's head into a purple trash can.
the header image of matchbook literary journal. it is black and grey text against a white background. "matchbook" is in big text across the page and under it are the words "Archive", " Guidelines", "mb+", "About" and "Awards"
A black type-writer with a white keyboard, against a bright red background. In a curve over the type-writer, the words "Blood+Honey" in yellow.
image of a web-page. in red square brackets, "100 word story". Below that: "Stories" "Essays" "Interviews" "Book Reviews" "Photo Stories"
Against a blue background, a frog typing on a type-writer. Beneath the image, the words "FLASH FROG" in capital letters. Beneath that text, the words, "SMALL. Brightly COLORED. DEADLY TO THE TOUCH."
A poster of a SmokeLong Reading event happening May 22. The background is a picture of the author: a white woman, wearing a green jacket, sitting on a white bench. The fore ground is the text "Salt City Runaway Gillian O'shaughnessy." The top right corner is an overlay of the cover of the book.
the header image of matchbook literary journal. it is black and grey text against a white background. "matchbook" is in big text across the page and under it are the words "Archive", " Guidelines", "mb+", "About" and "Awards"
The book cover for Salt City Runaway by Gillian O'Shaughnessy. The text is in orange next to a bird with its wings spread out.
The Cincinnati's Review homepage. The page is bracketed a drawing of red lions. On the left in an old white man standing in front if a bungalow with the American flag. On the left are headshots of three female writers of miCRo.
A screenshot of 101 Words homepage. It's the preview of a story, "No Resolution" by Patti Rossiter.
A blue and purple picture of outer space. Over it are the words, "Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy | ORION'S BELT"
The image is mostly text: "call for work: New Rhode Island Flash Fiction Symposium Books is looking to publish a collection of flash fiction by local authors! The catch: each story must be exactly 500 words. The top ten selected short stories will feature in a printed zine, which will be published in fall 2026. We are looking for creative, compelling, & compact narratives that capture the reader within 500 words, no more & no less." A picture of an open book finishes off the image.
A multicoloured mosaic against a light blue background. It gives the impression being under water.
A green cupboard. On the shelves is a red apple, a flower, a stuffed bunny,a cup and a snake slithering down the bottom shelf. The words, "The", "Last" and "Day" sit on the top, middle and bottom shelves respectively. At the bottom on the cupboard, the words "Stories", "Kim Magowan" are written.
The image shows Matt Kendrick, a man with brown hair, glasses, and wearing a grey-blue button-down shirt. He's standing in front of what looks like a ficus tree.
The image is the logo of the European Writers Salon: EWS in the middle of a circle. There are leaves in the upper left-hand corner and four dots in the lower right-hand corner.
The image shows the cover of the collection Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever by Timothy Boudreau: a road map and a blue-gray car with the driver-side door open. A man is tan trousers and a light beige short-sleeve shirt is standing nearby.
The image show the centered white text "Head Down, Keep Writing, Don't Be An Asshole :)" against a black background dappled with multi-colored hearts. The Split Lip logo is in the upper left-hand corner.
The image shows the landing page of Frazzled Lit with the horizontal navigation menu at the top and five images with a large central image of a lake bathed in a purple night sky.
The image shows the logo and navigation menu for the literary journal Pithead Chapel.
The image shows the words THE COMMUTER Poetry, flash, graphic, or experimental narrative arriving every Wednesday morning. The blue and black background is an old-fashioned train with smoke billowing its chimney. In the upper left-hand corner an anthropomorphic sun shines.