In Short – Issue 2 (Winter 2025)

January 31, 2025

Artists at Work by Sean Bw Parker

Flash 

(1000 words or fewer)

“What We Wore Together”  |  Kyoko Mori

“Boy + Gun”  | Ira Sukrungruang

“Auld is Old: An Abecedarium”  |  Alice Lowe

“Bra Shopping”  | Dawn Tasaka Steffler

“How to: A Love Story”  |  Allison Field Bell

“Joe’s House”  | Adam Cheshire

“Let’s Say It Was Midnight”  |  Diane Shipley

Micros

(400 words or fewer)

“Peach”  | Jesse Lee Kercheval

“Childhood Cranes”  | Andrew Bertraina

“I Ask My Daughter About the Armed Shooter Drill”  | Holly Karapetkova

“Sippy Cups”  |  Vani Kannan

“The Grief of Four Year Olds”  |  Callie Dean

“Dandruff”  | Michelle R. Brady

Short-Shorts

(100 words or fewer)

“Two Days After a Conversation about Disney Princess Films, the Little Brown Girl Inside Me Reflects on Everything I Didn’t Say”  | Karen Baumgart

“Claire de Lune”  |   Elena Zhang

“Septuagenarian Sex in the Summer of Our Discontent”  | Deborah K Shepherd

Issue 2 Masthead

Editor in Chief  |  Steph Liberatore

Senior Editorial Intern |  Jasmine Haskins

Senior Editorial Intern |  Camille Rimbawa

Readers | Renee Alcantara | Kathryn Aldridge-Morris | Leah Azmi | Amy Botula | Jessika Bouvier | Erica Dolson | Llalan Fowler | Silas Fransen | Serena Grant | Lyn Hainge | Katherine Harnisch | Shellie Kalinsky | Elena Macdonald | Chris McGlone | K.R. Mullins | 

Contributors