In Short – Issue 3 (Spring 2025)

May 31, 2025

“Callypigeon” by Camellia Paul

Flash 

(1000 words or fewer)

“The Long Road Out of Eden”  |  Sue William Silverman

“Crack”  | Brian McGuigan

“Drowning”  | Shoshana Ray

“My Hair Was Never Mine to Cut” | Vani Aadhya

“When I am Six, I Speak in Tongues”  | Amy Cipolla Barnes

“farmhouse elegy”  | Molly Wadzeck

“Man-Sized Boots”  | Brandi Handley

Micros

(400 words or fewer)

“The Telstar”  |  Clifford Thompson

“[Terrible is the punishment of the Lord]”  |  Darby Price

“The Quiet Part”  |  Matthew E. Henry

“Erasure”  |  Timothy C. Smith

“Night Walk”  |  Elizabeth Rose

Short-Shorts

(100 words or fewer)

“Border Crossings, Macau to Hong Kong, 1957”  |  Melissa Hung

“The Seamstress of Buenos Aires” |  Donald A. Ranard

“Shadow Animals ”  | Michelle La Vone

Issue 3 Masthead

Editor in Chief  |  Steph Liberatore

Senior Editorial Intern | Camille Rimbawa

Readers | Cynthia Azujie | Leah Azmi | Amy Botula | Jessie Cathell | Megan Cobb | Joey Conley | Tingjun Cui | Jess D | Rossington Deck | Emily DiGiulian | Erica Dolson | Deb Fenwick | Silas Fransen | Llalan Fowler | Amy Goldmacher | Serena Grant | Maya Green | Lyn Hainge | Jasmine Haskins | Drew Hunter | Sydedah Hutchinson | Marion Jones | Shellie Kalinsky | Caroline “CK” Kearns | Kate Konzelman | Destiny Llanos | Elena Macdonald | Jerome Maquiling | Chris McGlone | Alex Miles | K.R. Mullins | Nawaal Nackerdien | Anna Nguyen | Cole Pryzby | Kim Ruff | Jared Wyckoff 

Contributors