For this month, I chose (kind of) at random stories from the Friday Flash Fiction series by Tin House, the “the singular lovechild of an eclectic literary journal and a beautiful glossy magazine” that got its start in 1999. I say ‘kind of’ because I scrolled through their list and chose any story that I came across. (This is serving two purposes – I do need some new flash fiction stories for the fiction course I teach.) As with the previous eleven months, I have no idea what these stories are about – the goal is simply to experience new writing. Feel free to read along!
- “Sink Monkey” by Alyssa Proujansky
- “Dance Dance Revolution” by Ben Jahn
- “Hall of Hauntings” by Rebekah Berman
- “As Close as We Dare” by Gwendolyn Paradice
- “Swamps” by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (translated by Ryan Choi)
- “On August Eighteenth at Ten Thirty PM, Annie Otsuka Watched Her First Japanese Animated Film” by Elaine Hsieh Chou
- “Conditions for Growing” by Beckie Dashiell
- “Fantasy” by Tyler Meese
- “Irreversible” by Mary Kate McGrath
- “The Fourth Trimester” by Debbie Vance
- “Origami” by Sabrina Helen Li
- “L’Heure Bleue” by Susanne Lee
- “Natural Order” by Elin Hawkinson
- “Alien Hunters” by Dylan Brown
- “A Brief Description of Mister Kuka” by Santian Vataj
- “The Language of Space” by Danielle Stonehirsch (you’ll have to scroll down the page for this one)
- “Predator Satiation” by Troy Farah
- “The Salesman” by Emily Dezurick-Badran
- “The Game” by Rachel Heng
- “I’m Exaggerating” by Kate Wisel
- “A Trip” by Claudia Ulloa Donoso (translated by Lily Meyer)
- “from Fresh Fables for an Empty Stomach” by Pierre Bettencourt (translated by Edward Gauvin)
- “Jean Wants” by Alyse Wexler
- “Molting” by Sarah Marie Kosch
- “Tacky Goblin” by T. Sean Steele
- “Network” by Jake Rawdin
- “Greetings From” by Melissa Amstutz
- “For All of Human History” by Katie M. Flynn
- “Jerry” by Miles Greaves
- “Some Things About Typewriters” by Cindy Hunter Morgan
- “He Was Trying to Say Something and He Couldn’t Get It Out” by Kaj Tanaka
Ami Maxine 