There were nights of learning to dance, practicing with the dog. At fifteen, too old for scraps, I was the star of my own disaster movie, climbing out a window to meet a man by the creek, kissing to frog music while my mother slept, dreaming of her lost loves.
Meg Pokrass is the Series Co-Editor of Best Microfiction. Her new collection, The First Law of Holes: New and Selected will be published by Dzanc Books.
Big anniversary coming, so Vincenzo Perrugia stole the Mona Lisa. She’ll cover the water damage, he winked, pacing their stuffy apartment, hanging a nail on the spotted wall. What will she think? his wife blushed. Tried to imagine her understanding voice, her way of touching them both in the dark.
Meg Pokrass is the Series Co-Editor of Best Microfiction. Her new collection, The First Law of Holes: New and Selected will be published by Dzanc Books.
His kisses were phony but I ate them. They tasted like lemon curd. Light yellow and British, dainty, not mass-produced.
Good stuff, I said to myself. Like some rare, misunderstood wine or small batch absinthe. What Alice sipped in order to grow small. Sipping rabbit shadows all the way down.
Meg Pokrass is the Series Co-Editor of Best Microfiction. Her new collection, The First Law of Holes: New and Selected will be published by Dzanc Books.
“You remind me of someone else,” she said, poking at the egg bits in her salad. It was happening more often now. A man would remind her of a different man who had reminded her of an even earlier man who reminded her of the only man she’d ever loved.
Meg Pokrass is the author of 8 flash fiction collections. Her latest collection, The First Law of Holes: New and Selected will be published with Dzanc Books. She lives in Inverness, Scotland.
My son stared into the terrarium, plush mushrooms rising like trees with red caps over the crystal gravel. “He’s gone,” he said. “What will we do without Sam?” he asked. I kissed him on the forehead. Then he pressed his face against the glass, staring at the tiny unlit stars.
Meg Pokrass is the author of six flash fiction collections, an award-winning collection of prose poetry, two novellas-in-flash and a forthcoming collection of microfiction, Spinning to Mars recipient of the Blue Light Book Award in 2020. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Washington Square Review, Wigleaf, Waxwing and McSweeney’s. She is the Series Founder and Co-Editor of Best Microfiction.
Jeff Friedman’s eighth book, The Marksman, was published in November 2020 by Carnegie Mellon University Press. He has received numerous awards and prizes for his poetry, mini tales, and translations, including a National Endowment Literature Translation Fellowship in 2016 and two individual Artist Grants from New Hampshire Arts Council. Two of his micro stories were recently selected for the The Best Microfiction 2021.