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# Nanoism

A place for twitter-fiction

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- [Nanoism’s final year](https://nanoism.net/meta/nanoisms-final-year/) - In 2009, I started this unusual digital literary publication. It was called Nanoism because we (that’s an editorial “we” because this has always been a one-person shop) published “nanofiction,” a play on the more common (but still niche) conventions of micro- or flash fiction. In our case, that was (and remains) stories that fit in
- [A Five-year Anniversary #TwitterFiction Contest!](https://nanoism.net/meta/a-five-year-anniversary-twitterfiction-contest/) - Five years ago, we created @nanoism to be the very first paying publication for literary Twitter fiction, celebrating the very best stories that fit in the cracks of your day. Five years later and Nanoism remains the longest continuously running magazine dedicated to #TwitterFiction of all time. We've published nearly six hundred stories from over
- [839](https://nanoism.net/stories/839/) - My dad collects mugs. For years, everywhere he goes he swings by a gift shop for one. Today, we’re headed to LA and getting him a fourth. John Murphy is recently graduated and lives in Virginia.
- [1000](https://nanoism.net/stories/1000/) - They still talk often. Never on what would have been their anniversary. But often. R. Gatwood's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming, depending on your temporal location, in Metaphorosis.
- [999](https://nanoism.net/stories/999/) - Was my aimless youth the antithesis of my unborn son’s heartbeats, my wife breathing through contractions, the sun painting the sill golden? Kenneth Tanemura has an MFA in Creative Writing from Purdue University. He lives in Daytona Beach, Florida.
- [998](https://nanoism.net/stories/998/) - She wants to drag him to the doctor so the doctor will tell her what to expect. But she knows what to expect. Alisa Golden is feeling a little on edge at neverbook.com.
- [996](https://nanoism.net/stories/996/) - After using his second wish to undo his first, he decided never to use his third. Joshua C. Frank works in statistics, lives in Texas, and is a poet at The Society of Classical Poets.
- [997](https://nanoism.net/stories/997/) - Feedback: excellent at building rapport; needs to work on cutting people off. Kristen Liberty Zecca – medical student, wife, dog mom.
- [995](https://nanoism.net/stories/995/) - I watch my friends hang out without me for hours. I don't think they can see me. I wish they would find my body already. Cooper Warren is a senior in high school and wrote this short story as a project for English class.
- [994](https://nanoism.net/stories/994/) - Your silence was louder than the sirens. Kayla Hazelton is living, laughing, loving.
- [993](https://nanoism.net/stories/993/) - I’ve always heard people say “there’s no love like a mother’s love.” Sometimes, it makes me wonder how much I am missing out on. Morgan Foster is a teenage girl without a mother.
- [March Stories](https://nanoism.net/meta/march-stories/) - As we inch toward the end, the next several stories come from students! I love when teachers use Nanoism as a writing class exercise.
- [992](https://nanoism.net/stories/992/) - She only says bad things about dad but I know she misses him. I hear her crying after she tucks me in. He died before she could leave him. Ethan Noll writes as often as possible because it makes him feel good.
- [991](https://nanoism.net/stories/991/) - She was given a hand mirror and a tampon. She didn’t yet know how many holes she had. Courtney Schmidt is a writer living in San Antonio with her husband and pup.
- [990](https://nanoism.net/stories/990/) - He hurt me. I said sorry. Frances Koziar is a young retiree and social justice advocate in Kingston, Ontario.
- [989](https://nanoism.net/stories/989/) - My storage was almost full, until I deleted every email containing your name. Francesca Leader is a proud Montanan, a deliberately bad cook, and a cat person.
- [988](https://nanoism.net/stories/988/) - Sci-fi books always get it wrong. As I build I wish I were more like it, not vice versa. There’s a reason robots don’t have feelings. Philip Simondet is an improviser, a musician, a podcaster, and a writer, and he still doesn't like himself.
- [987](https://nanoism.net/stories/987/) - I opened the door to see who’d been knocking and saw just the same few brooms and old jugs of bleach, huddled in the corners of the closet. Daniel Galef and David Galef have been writing stories in Nanoism for ten years.
- [986](https://nanoism.net/stories/986/) - Slim jim and mini whisky bagged, the buzzing fluorescence of 7-11 numbs me. A two-faced sign labels the outside world CLOSED. I believe it. Daniel Galef has sunken to shameful déps.
- [985](https://nanoism.net/stories/985/) - My mother died one morning in bed when I was ten. What I want to know, after all these years, is whether my father slept there that night. David Galef is a work in progress.
- [January Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/january-author-spotlight/) - January is the month of Galef, featuring stories from son and father Daniel and David Galef.
- [984](https://nanoism.net/stories/984/) - At the textile mill she marveled as a bobbin spun so fast it blurred into a fuzzy, ghostly ball. Her two ancient sisters looked on uneasily. Daniel Galef spinnt doch.
- [983](https://nanoism.net/stories/983/) - Christmas Eve was the night Santa didn’t come. I mean, he didn’t come every night, but Christmas Eve was the night it mattered. R. Gatwood's fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine and Wigleaf, as well as on Twitter (@iwantanewhead).
- [982](https://nanoism.net/stories/982/) - Sometimes building this time machine seems futile. Why would younger me listen to me when I didn’t listen to that old man when I was young? Philip Simondet is an improviser, a musician, a podcaster, and a writer and he still doesn't like himself.
- [981](https://nanoism.net/stories/981/) - Do you remember that great day when we walked on the beach, holding hands, talking, smiling? That’s when I saw her for the first time. Marcin Kozak writes from the woods.
- [980](https://nanoism.net/stories/980/) - You exclude more than you include. That’s the way it is with new starts. You live in the ark you built, even if you hear screaming outside. Chris Bullard is a retired judge who lives in Philadelphia, PA. Main Street Rag published his poetry chapbook, Florida Man, this year.
- [979](https://nanoism.net/stories/979/) - Their fortune fell, so they had only one estate, two servants, and one carriage. They lived happily ever after, without trouble. The end. Sean Vivier is a web app developer in real life.
- [978](https://nanoism.net/stories/978/) - They had forgotten to invite the last fairy. So she took her revenge, and she gave the princess the blessing of an interesting story. Sean Vivier is a web app developer in real life.
- [977](https://nanoism.net/stories/977/) - This all could have been avoided, thought the angel with the flaming sword, had they been allowed the Fruit of Knowledge in moderation. Sean Vivier is a web app developer in real life.
- [November Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/november-author-spotlight/) - For our November spotlight series, we'll be featuring stories from the esteemed Sean Vivier.
- [976](https://nanoism.net/stories/976/) - American. What an exotic word, laced with legend of antiquity. A fitting name for a school mascot. Sean Vivier is a web app developer in real life.
- [975](https://nanoism.net/stories/975/) - “I love you,” I say, and the customer says, “Thank you,” her voice cracking, and then neither of us knows how to hang up. R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) is the emergent consciousness of a spectacularly inefficient library shelving system.
- [974](https://nanoism.net/stories/974/) - I never miss her. But sometimes I miss the man she thought I was. R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) is the emergent consciousness of a spectacularly inefficient library shelving system.
- [973](https://nanoism.net/stories/973/) - My grief subroutine calculates the shortest route from every input to a memory of you. R. Gatwood is the emergent consciousness of a spectacularly inefficient library shelving system.
- [October Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/october-author-spotlight/) - October is an author spotlight month: four stories by the esteemed R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead), one each Wednesday.
- [972](https://nanoism.net/stories/972/) - Every morning the moment of relief between IT WAS JUST A DREAM and THIS IS MY LIFE gets mercifully shorter. R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) is the emergent consciousness of a spectacularly inefficient library shelving system.
- [971](https://nanoism.net/stories/971/) - I didn't kill a man in Reno just to watch him die. I killed an alien. Watching it? Just a bonus. @Mari_ness lives and writes in central Florida, under the unhelpful guidance of two adorable cats.
- [970](https://nanoism.net/stories/970/) - The corner of the yellowed wanted poster curled as if to say, “He isn’t really wanted, not anymore. If you see him, please don’t call.” Paul Rondema lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter.
- [969](https://nanoism.net/stories/969/) - He needs to describe it. Can’t. In the story he tells, then, it’s his cousin who returned from the brink. Stephen Delaney's story "The Calm" was recently published in Blink-Ink. You can find him him @smallestwords.
- [968](https://nanoism.net/stories/968/) - The pen you left me ran dry. So instead I turned to the typewriter I bought myself. Rina Olsen is a rising sophomore.
- [967](https://nanoism.net/stories/967/) - Saturday night. We put on our costumes, pick up our scripts, and have the argument. Jon Bradmore loves tomatoes and black-capped chickadees.
- [966](https://nanoism.net/stories/966/) - They told me the thief wouldn't notice if I stole that moldy stuffed animal from his vault of riches. But how he wept. T. S. Burkhardh (@CarewornStoryt1) is a writer and artist residing in Michigan and working on too many projects.
- [964](https://nanoism.net/stories/964/) - After saying my goodbyes, I cried in the waiting room. A stranger next to me whose son had died asked me to borrow a pen. Nadia Campbell is a writer of short stories.
- [965](https://nanoism.net/stories/965/) - Slots, vid-poker, peepshows—I thumbed dirty bills into every machine but the kitschy Zoltar. It didn’t take a crystal ball to see my future. @DanielGalef lets it ride.
- [959](https://nanoism.net/stories/959/) - Wendy feels panicky. The bread is moldy, there is nothing to cook for lunch, and her son is already talking about Sunnyside retirement home. Fiona H Evans (@FionaHEvans) is a mathematician and occasional writer of stories.
- [963](https://nanoism.net/stories/963/) - Please don’t pick up, please don’t pick up, he thought, waiting for his ex to answer the phone. She did and they talked for three hours. @mindtoeye is a researcher, sculptor, code monkey, and writer. He works with robots and virtual humans but prefers his colleagues
- [962](https://nanoism.net/stories/962/) - This life is like a dream. When the rain falls on my windowpane I wonder who is trying to wake me up. Sean Vartan lives and writes in Denver, Colorado, USA.
- [961](https://nanoism.net/stories/961/) - She speaks softly to you and you know you’re supposed to speak back. That’s what you paid her for after all. Nicole Spangler lives in Florida and is still trying to decide if she should speak back.
- [960](https://nanoism.net/stories/960/) - He looked at the woman he barely knew. His future wife, and between them only words. Love would never strike. But it would blossom. Arjun Byju is a fourth-year medical student in New York City.
- [958](https://nanoism.net/stories/958/) - Waiting in line to pick up his prescription, she tried not to look too eager. C.D. Marcum (@CD_Marcum) is a haiku poet who talks too much.
- [957](https://nanoism.net/stories/957/) - She ran every morning. Not because she wanted to, but because she hoped it would fix something. Ben Lockwood doesn't know how to swim, so he's always drowning.
- [956](https://nanoism.net/stories/956/) - They left last Monday, but no one noticed; things carried on all the same. If the Universe had realized that was it, it would have protested. Simeon Care is an English writer, currently on submission, who has been obsessed with stories for as long as he can remember.
- [955](https://nanoism.net/stories/955/) - I never saw her again after that day. Not really. Life just got in the way. But it was a great party. Magical. Everyone loved our wedding. James Patrick Focarile lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest.
- [954](https://nanoism.net/stories/954/) - The reason he called. He felt guilty about the fight you started. Raymond Sloan lives in Ireland and writes.
- [953](https://nanoism.net/stories/953/) - She checked the numbers while he was upstairs. “Any luck?” Her heart skipped. They all matched. My god. “Nah. I do need to go out, though.” @SimonKewin is the pseudonym used by an infinite number of monkeys who write from a secret location in the English countryside.
- [952](https://nanoism.net/stories/952/) - A prince walked in on his mother, the queen, with her lover. He said nothing. For love? No. He gained two allies that day. Daniel Boyko is a writer.
- [951](https://nanoism.net/stories/951/) - He cried when his mother’s breaths ceased. His brother grasped his shoulder. Later, during their walk, they could only talk about vacations. Daniel Addercouth comes from a long line of farmers.
- [950](https://nanoism.net/stories/950/) - And after a while of sitting there and listening to the rain outside my window, It said to me: “This is the best way you’ll get to know me.” Sasan Mahmoudi is a second-year internal medicine resident.
- [949](https://nanoism.net/stories/949/) - Presents unopened. Cake still whole in its box in the cupboard. Balloons already starting to sag. Again, he looks out the front window. Robert Keal hails from Kent but currently lives in London.
- [A call for submissions](https://nanoism.net/meta/a-call-for-submissions/) - Nanoism is a brand new twitterzine, a Twitter-based magazine for tiny fiction. We hope to begin publishing nanofiction/twitter-fiction/twiction/tweetfic/[other short-fiction-name-du-jour] in April, both at this site and on Twitter using the handle @nanoism. We're open for submissions and we pay for stories, so check out the guidelines and send us your best. So follow @nanoism, start
- [948](https://nanoism.net/stories/948/) - As he stole time from their marriage for his siblings, parents, bosses, it dawned on her. Being loved wasn't the same as being chosen. Wasila Q. is a hopeless romantic and overthinker.
- [947](https://nanoism.net/stories/947/) - All she wanted was to pause time, just once; and when that wish was granted she wanted to do it again. Emma Wilson lives in Scotland where she researches, writes, and drinks lots of tea.
- [944](https://nanoism.net/stories/944/) - In the lighthouse it was so easy to be good. Light the fire, watch the white sails slide safely along. But now I know what was on the ships. Daniel Galef is ancient, but no mariner.
- [946](https://nanoism.net/stories/946/) - We had to pause between galaxies to hear the music of the stars. It was dark, and we were alone, but oh, those songs. Mari Ness writes stuff. Much of it short. Slightly longer examples can be found in her chapbook, Dancing in Silver Lands, from Neon Hemlock Press.
- [945](https://nanoism.net/stories/945/) - He lit a cigarette and watched his house burn down. “Mary would’ve loved this,” he whispered to himself. Sacha Bissonnette is a poet and short story writer from Ottawa, Canada.
- [943](https://nanoism.net/stories/943/) - In case of loss, please return this notebook to the listed address below: 10 Ivory Court Reward on return: $20 $50 $5 Paul Jaberson thanks you for your patronage.
- [941](https://nanoism.net/stories/941/) - Children are efficient. With two words they removed the single solace in his life: “Imaginary friend.” Joseph Paul Bernstein writes in C++, Python, and English. Check out more of his work at wisdomofdune.substack.com.
- [942](https://nanoism.net/stories/942/) - Brian and Doug still haven’t called. She checks her email again, as if that will fix the loneliness. Ella Shively's favorite word is bioluminescent.
- [940](https://nanoism.net/stories/940/) - Archeologists were puzzled when analysis showed the strata of surgical masks in middens everywhere preceded, by decades, the great dying. Ben Roth’s fiction appears in Flash, Blink-Ink, Sci Phi Journal, 101 Words, decomp journal and Bodega Magazine (forthcoming).
- [939](https://nanoism.net/stories/939/) - He types “happy birthday,” deletes it. They haven’t spoken in years. He types it again, now with two exclamation points. Is that enough? William Talley (@willliert) is your friend.
- [938](https://nanoism.net/stories/938/) - He wrote stories, but they always ended with a predictable twist. Then he was hit by a bus. Carl Gable is a writer. He’s not sure how it’s going to end.
- [937](https://nanoism.net/stories/937/) - The child said, “I don’t want to grow up and be drafted.” They told her not to worry because she was a girl. Somehow, that didn’t help. Alisa Golden still worries at www.neverbook.com.
- [936](https://nanoism.net/stories/936/) - “That’s funny,” he said instead of laughing. Paul Rondema lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter.
- [935](https://nanoism.net/stories/935/) - You'll fall in love, and I'll do the best that I can. D.T. Robbins is okay.
- [934](https://nanoism.net/stories/934/) - At the reunion, I smiled and told them about things I’d done five years ago. Frances Koziar is a twenty-something retiree in Kingston, Ontario, and a microfiction editor at 101 Words.
- [933](https://nanoism.net/stories/933/) - We have received your resistance to authority and filed it with the appropriate department. Lissa Bay is a rebel in Oakland, California.
- [932](https://nanoism.net/stories/932/) - My conversational ideal involves two chairs, burning wood, and a bottle. His: only screens and thumbs. So, no, we haven’t talked in a while. Ben Roth’s fiction has been published by Flash, Blink-Ink, Sci Phi Journal, Aesthetics for Birds, Cuento Magazine, and 101 Words.
- [931](https://nanoism.net/stories/931/) - Mom’s letters stopped suddenly when I was ten years old. Dad didn’t say anything, but he bought me a Sony Walkman. O.C. Dalvey writes simple sentences. And sometimes fragments.
- [930](https://nanoism.net/stories/930/) - She never told me she was married and had kids. OK, I admit I never told her I was married either. But at least I don’t have kids. Steve Legomsky is a law professor. He has published several academic books and journal articles, a novel, and a few short stories.
- [929](https://nanoism.net/stories/929/) - He asks his wife at sundown if she’s married. She reaches for her left hand, but when her answer comes, she’s alone in the room. Esther Rohm is the average height of a woman.
- [928](https://nanoism.net/stories/928/) - Piled together watching cartoons--still not too big to snuggle. I hope you’ll remember this in twenty years. I hope it sustains you. Sara Jackson is an author of speculative fiction and other disputable truths.
- [927](https://nanoism.net/stories/927/) - She married an attorney, pleased over the status it brought. When she learned about the adultery, she wanted them to sell the weekend home. Norbert Kovacs lives and writes in Hartford, Connecticut.
- [926](https://nanoism.net/stories/926/) - Every time we meet you ask if I got new glasses. I thought we were better friends than that. Alisa Golden tries not to make a spectacle of herself.
- [925](https://nanoism.net/stories/925/) - White rose petals, glasses of wine, a fading sunset—holding your hand through the streets of Paris, I knew I should’ve left you long ago. Daniel Boyko is a writer.
- [924](https://nanoism.net/stories/924/) - When he couldn't find the remote, he thought, damn, she took that too. Dorothy Kollat is a writer in Southern California and author of Broken Pieces.
- [923](https://nanoism.net/stories/923/) - He heard the door while showering. He chased him a block before realizing he felt the ground on his soles more than the love in his heart. Keely Honeywell (@kahoneywell) writes and draws, like ya do.
- [922](https://nanoism.net/stories/922/) - They chatted about parties and unfair curfews as they fixed their hair in front of the mirror and the girl in the stall ate her lunch. Andrea Lynn Koohi (@AndreaKoohi) is a writer from Toronto.
- [921](https://nanoism.net/stories/921/) - Its ring is shrill, yet Bettie ignores it, hoping that the caller (a daughter-in-law, or a son even) might visit instead. Laura Besley writes fiction in the precious moments her children are sleeping.
- [920](https://nanoism.net/stories/920/) - We argue over what to call it, that place where the children die. R. Gatwood is precise.
- [919](https://nanoism.net/stories/919/) - Since you died, two thoughts keep hitting me one after the other: “Wish you were here” and then “You didn’t want to be here.” R. Gatwood is concise.
- [918](https://nanoism.net/stories/918/) - I forgot your birthday this year. Maybe that's progress. R. Gatwood's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming, depending on your temporal location, in Apex Magazine.
- [917](https://nanoism.net/stories/917/) - He lived long enough to see his favorite beach vanish and his favorite food go extinct. R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) is the emergent consciousness of a spectacularly inefficient library shelving system.
- [June Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/june-author-spotlight/) - June will be another author spotlight, a special month featuring five stories by R. Gatwood each Wednesday.
- [916](https://nanoism.net/stories/916/) - He lies bleeding in her lap, and he says, Tell me a story, and she laughs through tears and says, I love you, and he says, No, a true story. R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) tells many stories, mostly false ones.
- [915](https://nanoism.net/stories/915/) - We moved into a two-bedroom place: one bedroom for the both of us, the other for Nate’s train set. I was just married, and I compromised. Andre Brito lives in San Francisco, CA.
- [914](https://nanoism.net/stories/914/) - The beat increased as he stood by the subwoofer feeling the song in his chest as she danced across the room and slowly kissed someone else. Frederick Charles Melancon doesn't dance.
- [913](https://nanoism.net/stories/913/) - It longed to fit in: not get called names like freak or puppet, attend school with friends and be considered human. Now, it didn’t matter. Corey Miller (@IronBrewer) brews beer in Cleveland. For more work check out www.CoreyMillerWrites.com
- [912](https://nanoism.net/stories/912/) - I make all the mistakes in the world but never the same one twice. Here's the story: I made a friend once. A. J. Crowan draws things, sometimes writes things and lives in Utah.
- [907](https://nanoism.net/stories/907/) - Day 47: Record rainfall continues. Waterfall now spewing smoke. Trees consuming carpark. Locals concerned. Flora and fauna less so. Cathal Gunning is a writer and poet whose work has appeared in (string of reputable locales)
- [911](https://nanoism.net/stories/911/) - Golden lights in the sky, acoustic guitar, brick patio at a stranger's house. When I met you, I understood why people write poetry. Bryn Yoder works odd jobs while waiting for a long-lost Nigerian relative to pass and bestow his fortune upon her. Fingers crossed.
- [910](https://nanoism.net/stories/910/) - There are no treasures here. Everything is mildewed, cracked, torn, incomplete, forlorn. He moves from room to room trying not to remember. Thomas Cochran lives in rural Arkansas.
- [740](https://nanoism.net/stories/740/) - The pathologist found nothing of note and they reburied her quietly. In time, the primroses grew back but they were never quite the same. CB McCall is an obvious pseudonym.
- [909](https://nanoism.net/stories/909/) - “You think he should have asked for my hand in marriage or something?” “No,” his father says, “but I would have liked to give my blessing.” CB McCall is an obvious pseudonym.
- [908](https://nanoism.net/stories/908/) - I was a teenage minimalist guilty of photos in my closet box. Please don’t say anything about the postcard collection either. Katherine DeCoste (@katydecoste) is a writer who chronically forgets about her tea.
- [906](https://nanoism.net/stories/906/) - I asked you if it was true and measured your silence, the weight of it. When you looked away, I wondered if I would ever feel light again. Mário de Seabra Coelho (@MSeabraCoelho) has been published in a few places but doesn't know why.
- [905](https://nanoism.net/stories/905/) - Family gone, he lives in a van by the pier. With gnarled fingers he baits kids’ hooks and untangles their lines, fishing for memories. Kim Favors writes from California's coast.
- [904](https://nanoism.net/stories/904/) - "Was I ever really human?" I asked. Dimitri frowned. "With all you've achieved...does it really matter?" I whispered: "It matters to him." Kelsey Yandura (@kelseyyan) really enjoys picnics but thinks potato salad is weird. Also, really into fantasy, sci-fi, empathy, and whiskey.
- [903](https://nanoism.net/stories/903/) - His breath puffs out in white clouds. The path ahead stretches into the darkness. Mayhap it wouldn't hurt to lay down for a while. W. B. Biggs is a writer, a teacher, and an aspiring wizard.
- [902](https://nanoism.net/stories/902/) - When I awoke I knew my sister Meredith had left. Because it was the cold that woke me up, you see. My mother had turned the heat back off. Scott Harris (@ScottHarrisMMA) is a freelance writer based near Washington, DC.
- [901](https://nanoism.net/stories/901/) - The two carried the bags of clean clothes back to the van. Who will we be? asked the boy. I don’t know, said the man. Who do you want to be? Robert Hoekman Jr (@rhjr) thinks death is when you stop chasing. He writes and writes. He lives on a farm and refuses to be
- [900](https://nanoism.net/stories/900/) - Out of habit, the man called his wife while going home. Then he realized she left him long ago. He was ok he thought. It was just his habit. Pratik Mitra teaches besides writing.
- [899](https://nanoism.net/stories/899/) - She put PLEASE DO NOT PICK on the plum tree that was within picking distance of the street, as if that would stop pickers from picking. Cheyenne Wiseman is an undergraduate at UC Davis majoring in English.
- [898](https://nanoism.net/stories/898/) - She shut off the news feeling helpless. Wandered her house in despair. Found a half roll of Charmin, and defiantly used twice the squares. Steph Thompson (@stephthmpsn) is cautiously navigating the new year with defiant optimism and an adequate supply of paper products.
- [897](https://nanoism.net/stories/897/) - I anticipate the day I can tell my students I quit that website before they were born. It is not far off, those kids halfway to me already. Ben Roth teaches writing and philosophy at Harvard.
- [896](https://nanoism.net/stories/896/) - She attended the birthday party but didn't know the guests. The more time went on, the more the birthday girl turned into a stranger, too. Madeline Wahl is a freelance writer. Her work can be found on her website: madelinehwahl.com.
- [895](https://nanoism.net/stories/895/) - And in the firelight she knew it would be an insult to ask him to stay, as if that was even a question. Wasila Q. loves the beach.
- [894](https://nanoism.net/stories/894/) - Studying the drugstore employee’s eyes--dull, apathetic, without a trace of fear. She makes me so happy. It’s like the good old days. Jennifer Shneiderman is a landlady and a writer living in Los Angeles.
- [893](https://nanoism.net/stories/893/) - The knock at the door signaled one of two options: either the police had caught up with him, or his doorbell was broken again. Trevor Smith lives in Queens, making radio for NPR and writing books for no one.
- [892](https://nanoism.net/stories/892/) - They liked playing fetch in the rain. Now that she’s gone, he doesn’t have to worry about the mud. C.D. Marcum (@CD_Marcum) writes stories and stuff like that.
- [891](https://nanoism.net/stories/891/) - We packed the U-Haul to the brim with his new life. There wasn’t any room for that shelf we built. It probably would've fallen apart anyway. Nick DelloRusso (@Nickdellorusso2) distributes pasta sauce across the five boroughs and thinks of stories while sitting in traffic.
- [890](https://nanoism.net/stories/890/) - When the king fell, we said he lay in enchanted sleep, to rise in the kingdom's direst need. We needed comfort, even if we must invent it. Sean Vivier makes web apps, teaches ballroom dance, and writes science fiction and fantasy.
- [889](https://nanoism.net/stories/889/) - The guilt weighed on her, though not as heavily as the feel of his mouth on hers. In these moments his girlfriend existed only in abstract. Tunika Onnekikami (@tonnekikami) is just trying to figure it out.
- [888](https://nanoism.net/stories/888/) - She only writes when necessary. Neila Mezynski only writes when necessary.
- [887](https://nanoism.net/stories/887/) - He was seventeen when he first fully understood what being dead meant. He was eight months old again when he forgot all that he had learned. Miguel Paolo Reyes is a researcher from the Philippines.
- [886](https://nanoism.net/stories/886/) - I click "Ask me a different security question" because it still hurts too much to type your name. R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) is the emergent consciousness of a spectacularly inefficient library shelving system.
- [885](https://nanoism.net/stories/885/) - What kind of a Philosopher would cry softly on the subway over a sports team? Rick Andrews is a writer and improviser from New York City. His computer is making his eyes hurt.
- [884](https://nanoism.net/stories/884/) - Citrus scent punches the air; each fruit fits perfect in my palm. In the hot grove, in a wicker wheelchair, my mother eats her final orange. Lucy Smith is in love with words and sentences. She tweets at @lucysmithwriter and websites at lucysmithwriter.wordpress.com.
- [883](https://nanoism.net/stories/883/) - You fall asleep waiting for me again. I take a blanket from our bed and join you on the couch. When you wake you’ll know I’m home safe. Tova Bitterman has been published on Nanoism once before.
- [882](https://nanoism.net/stories/882/) - The princess sobbed over the death of the dragon who'd imprisoned her. She'd loved that dragon. And the prince had killed him. Daisy Roberts thinks Disney movies are amazing.
- [August Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/august-author-spotlight/) - Another year and it's time for another author spotlight. Check out four weekly stories from Daniel Galef.
- [881](https://nanoism.net/stories/881/) - The topless towers toppled. The golden temple folded into the sea. In the ash a child was drawing with her finger, the design of a palace. Daniel Galef (@DanielGalef) is lost to history.
- [880](https://nanoism.net/stories/880/) - P.S. The documents are enclosed. P.P.S. I have double-checked the signatures; I didn’t miss anything this time. P.P.P.S. I love you. Daniel Galef (@DanielGalef) is a Montreal-based writer of poetry, humor, and fiction currently attending McGill University.
- [878](https://nanoism.net/stories/878/) - On the date, he noted four distinct verbal tics. Afterward she added to the tip he left. Both wondered what their friends had been thinking. Daniel Galef (@DanielGalef) is trying to write longer and worse.
- [879](https://nanoism.net/stories/879/) - You left your briefcase on the table, so I brought it into the office. I would like to speak to you when you get home. Daniel Galef (@DanielGalef) is a person of letters, and also some tweets.
- [877](https://nanoism.net/stories/877/) - I drank a six-pack. Smoked a twenty-pack. Packed up my car and left. I picked up a hitchhiker, just to tell her how sad I felt. Raymond Sloan lives in Ireland and never leaves.
- [876](https://nanoism.net/stories/876/) - At fifty-three, she hadn't planned to raise a two-year-old but her granddaughter would grow up in a proper home. Tova Bitterman has no bio.
- [875](https://nanoism.net/stories/875/) - Have you ever wondered what's out there? I have. That's why I'm here. On Earth. Daisy Roberts thinks math should solve its own problems.
- [874](https://nanoism.net/stories/874/) - She sent me a keepsake, as a sort-of reverse wedding gift. To say goodbye, I think. I wasn’t invited to the wedding. She knew I wouldn’t go. Justin Soileau is a stand-up comedian and writer in Los Angeles, CA.
- [873](https://nanoism.net/stories/873/) - He had some harsh words with his reflection. It wasn’t the aging or gaining weight he objected to. It was that it was clearly his father’s. Nick Grills is a writer living in London, UK. Fortunately, his thoughts are all 140 characters long anyway.
- [872](https://nanoism.net/stories/872/) - She selected Ted for his sense of humor, and Jon for his looks. But the billing was too complicated, so she just fed the cat. Sylvia Hiven writes in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a dog person.
- [871](https://nanoism.net/stories/871/) - Sand between our toes, we cruise aquamarine aisles, fingering magazines, shells, and shiny pencils. With all my change, I buy a heart eraser. Jane Eggers lives in Texas.
- [817](https://nanoism.net/stories/817/) - "We'd be just two sad, old drunks if we didn't have each other," he says. We clink glasses. The mirror cracks. Petar Petrov (@ppetrov90) likes short stories that linger long.
- [870](https://nanoism.net/stories/870/) - She could either have the baby or chemotherapy. Everyone else thought it was obvious. Alisa Golden collects words: www.neverbook.com
- [869](https://nanoism.net/stories/869/) - It wasn’t the diagnosis. It was picking up the phone and not knowing who would care. Frances Koziar is a twenty-something retiree in Kingston, Ontario. Microfiction editor at 101 Words.
- [868](https://nanoism.net/stories/868/) - He yanked his loose tooth, buried it under the pillow. Even that did not bring his clumsy father back. J.R. Night (@jrnighttales) is usually lost.
- [867](https://nanoism.net/stories/867/) - One day we will wake up and take a breath and wonder how many nanobots we've just inhaled and if they'll be cozy in there. Shane Olivieri wrote this on a Wednesday.
- [866](https://nanoism.net/stories/866/) - Unadopted. Edward Cody Huddleston is a lot of things but mostly a haiku poet.
- [865](https://nanoism.net/stories/865/) - Our shapes all fall apart, the world just a distorted mess of cubes that wish to be spheres but can’t quite stand the pressure. Clara Schwan is working on her literary revolution.
- [864](https://nanoism.net/stories/864/) - As he looked at the test tube he saw not only saliva but answers to all of the questions which had vexed him since childhood. Lauren Pathak is a writer and comedienne. She also makes an awesome cheesecake.
- [863](https://nanoism.net/stories/863/) - He was instantly in love. She knew his kind heart and said yes. She spent half a lifetime catching up. Mike Sams lives in his head, which is geographically located in Townsville, Australia.
- [862](https://nanoism.net/stories/862/) - We love each other, physically, in our home. A woman outside taps on the canvas and says, You can’t do that here. No. Maximilian Lloyd writes.
- [861](https://nanoism.net/stories/861/) - “Scrumptious,” Eve said and took another bite. “What’s in this pie?” Adam bowed his head and looked away. Behind him the serpent smiled. Paul Rondema lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter.
- [860](https://nanoism.net/stories/860/) - He butt-dialed the suicide prevention hotline for the third time in a week. Bruce Harris is retired.
- [859](https://nanoism.net/stories/859/) - Noah watched the waters rise, losing both her history and future, only comforted with the knowledge that humans can find beauty in anything. Beth Blu (@ElizabethEBlu) nefariously plots novels then recklessly writes them.
- [858](https://nanoism.net/stories/858/) - I found my father on Facebook fifteen years after he left for the gas station and messaged him: Did you get the pack of cigarettes? R. Castillo currently lives and breathes in Texas.
- [857](https://nanoism.net/stories/857/) - He loved her once. She thought. Melissa Sterry likes both whiskey and talking straight.
- [856](https://nanoism.net/stories/856/) - We grew up craftsmen in an age of sadness, when happiness had become nearly impossible to produce. Robert Hoekman Jr is an award-winning writer and editor currently focused on big stories in small spaces.
- [855](https://nanoism.net/stories/855/) - They said there was something new in her paintings afterward—something new in her old paintings. Context, maybe. Regret. And the faces. Daniel Galef is landscape-oriented.
- [854](https://nanoism.net/stories/854/) - When I ask him why he drank the drain cleaner, he says: I hoped you would be the first thing I saw when I woke up in the hospital. J. Bradley lives at jbradleywrites.com.
- [853](https://nanoism.net/stories/853/) - She tried to write a story, but it was already written. This story is also not new. Mayee Zhu lives in North Carolina and overthinks. She overthought this bio, too.
- [852](https://nanoism.net/stories/852/) - The only thing my neighbors and I ever agreed upon was that we'd never talk again once the wall was finished. David Farran is a short fiction writer from Adelaide, Australia.
- [851](https://nanoism.net/stories/851/) - Everyone knew her story, but no one knew it as much as the boy in the red sweatshirt at Justin’s party. Bianca German is a senior in high school '20.
- [850](https://nanoism.net/stories/850/) - Her long brown hair is absolutely beautiful, but it hides her nametag. Laya Anasu enjoys looking at untranslatable words.
- [849](https://nanoism.net/stories/849/) - I met the woman of my dreams, kissed my best friend, finally took a stand for something, and now believe in aliens. It was a good night. David G. Martin (@iamdgmartin) is a fiction writer and tabletop gaming enthusiast living in Murfreesboro, TN.
- [848](https://nanoism.net/stories/848/) - We overwatered plants. We fixed un-broken furniture. Ours was nothing spectacular: small things died in the effort. Nicholas h Politan loves the man who whistles his dog back inside early each morning.
- [847](https://nanoism.net/stories/847/) - The day before my grandmother died, I believed in snow, in its ability to cover all that is unkind in this world if only for a single night. Audra Coleman writes a little of this and a little of that in the mountains of North Carolina.
- [846](https://nanoism.net/stories/846/) - So many illusions died that day on the overpass. Looking down on the passing cars, he realized that UPS trucks aren’t brown on top. Ben Roth teaches writing and philosophy at Harvard.
- [845](https://nanoism.net/stories/845/) - A second date was fine. First Turing Test: inconclusive, but the pasta here was good, and she liked him anyway, and perhaps that was enough. Katherine Knight is watching the rain. She hides at @codaevermore.
- [844](https://nanoism.net/stories/844/) - I pretended to be asleep when we got home, so Dad would carry me up to bed. He knew, but carried me up anyway. Tom Velterop likes writing flash fiction and the beginnings of novels he never finishes.
- [843](https://nanoism.net/stories/843/) - He checked the flight status again. No change. Her plane landed, a month ago. Bruce Harris is retired.
- [842](https://nanoism.net/stories/842/) - She liked to spot constellations. Soon after she closed her eyes, the stars went out, the phosphors around their plastic cores depleted. Xinwen Zhu (@xinwinner) is a biologist who generates too many fleeting thoughts and half-ideas.
- [841](https://nanoism.net/stories/841/) - I let the call from my wife go to voicemail. It was seven, I should have finished at five. I should have finished a lot of things by now. Emma Wilson lives in Scotland where she researches, writes and drinks lots of tea.
- [840](https://nanoism.net/stories/840/) - The old man on the bench fed his bread to the geese because he couldn’t read the sign telling him not to. Elizabeth Moura lives in a converted factory in New England.
- [837](https://nanoism.net/stories/837/) - Bereft in the chocolate aisle, mistaking under-the-breath singing for a kindred whimper, he turns. She has wild hair but hissing headphones. Jacob Edwards is a writer poet person from Brisbane Australia. He watches the world, lives mostly in his head and tweets @ToastyVogon.
- [838](https://nanoism.net/stories/838/) - Momma told me Dad appears in her dreams. I told her if sees him again, ask about the cufflinks. Phil Huffy writes early and often at his kitchen table in upstate New York.
- [836](https://nanoism.net/stories/836/) - After the naloxone, he promised to change. But this time he told no one. Johnna Talbot prefers to be all story and no backstory, but she does admit to writing in San Diego.
- [835](https://nanoism.net/stories/835/) - She washed and pressed his uniform to perfection. He died never knowing his laundress was a Jew who spat in the starch for his brown shirts. Diane Englert, writer and theatre artist, is redefining herself and does not apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
- [834](https://nanoism.net/stories/834/) - He asked me to speak up in class, as if my stutter vanished with volume. Paul Latham lives in West TN.
- [833](https://nanoism.net/stories/833/) - You wake up in the hospital, having failed even at this. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [832](https://nanoism.net/stories/832/) - "Teddy says he doesn't like it when you fight." Jon Bradmore loves tomatoes and black-capped chickadees.
- [831](https://nanoism.net/stories/831/) - In love again. So is she. Arthur Klepchukov was born between Black Seas, Virginian Beaches, and San Franciscan waves. Read his words at ArsenalOfWords.com.
- [830](https://nanoism.net/stories/830/) - I told him once, during study hall, told him exactly how I felt. "Wait," he had said, finally, "is that from a song?" Michael Miersen (@FDSY) is an author and playwright.
- [829](https://nanoism.net/stories/829/) - What if I, after three beers and two whiskeys, could view myself in a mirror and say with a straight face: “Your dreams came true!” Jason Peck lives in Pittsburgh.
- [828](https://nanoism.net/stories/828/) - Couldn’t find Dad, so I asked Mom. “Which is better: Love or money?” She sipped gin, unopened tonic beside her. “Depends on who’s paying.” Austin Eichelberger just keeps writing.
- [827](https://nanoism.net/stories/827/) - She turned to me holding her bags. What she said I didn’t hear, but her eyes told me she’d stay another week. Emma Longmire prefers water over tea.
- [826](https://nanoism.net/stories/826/) - Yesterday’s wedding night didn’t go well. I was a miserable boy, trying to be a man. Today I am a miserable man, dreaming to be a boy again. Marcin Kozak writes from the woods.
- [825](https://nanoism.net/stories/825/) - They took her mother today. Not because of the cancer but because she wasn't born here. E. V. Darke writes to live and lives to write.
- [824](https://nanoism.net/stories/824/) - His smell was already fading from his shirts. Elsewhere the baby was crying, the phone ringing. She would get up off the floor. In a minute. Elizabeth Jennings (n.): A San Francisco Bay Area writer of fiction, lover of coffee, and mother of cats.
- [823](https://nanoism.net/stories/823/) - He crushes another page and throws it in the fire. His son watches then considers his drawing a second time. Munira Sayyid is grateful.
- [822](https://nanoism.net/stories/822/) - She left a day early. From the porch, I watched her taillights fade like so many long gone stars. They say it’s like looking into the past. David Solomon fells trees.
- [821](https://nanoism.net/stories/821/) - Tim’s black eye pulsed. He wiped blood from his nostril. He felt ambivalent about standing up for himself. He hoped his Dad would be proud. Michael Sams is a writer of award-winning, internationally-performed short plays.
- [820](https://nanoism.net/stories/820/) - The reset was scheduled at eleven that morning. Aletta couldn’t make it for one last brunch. Maybe in the next iteration, thought Steve. Miguel Paolo Reyes is a researcher from the Philippines.
- [819](https://nanoism.net/stories/819/) - I'm not prepared for this electric heartbreak. I never should’ve let you leave my insides, the whole world a coffin you fit perfectly. Kate LaDew resides in Graham, NC with her cats, Charlie Chaplin and Janis Joplin.
- [818](https://nanoism.net/stories/818/) - “I’ve made tea for her,” she says. “She’s such a good girl, never late.” “I’m here Mum,” I want to say. Instead I say, “I’ll wait with you.” Liz Cable (@lizcable) likes padlocks probably a bit too much.
- [816](https://nanoism.net/stories/816/) - She left home, leaving only objects which belonged to a child with pigtails–an empty dollhouse, a teddy bear loved to shapelessness. Sean Mulroy lives in Newcastle, Australia. His fiction has previously appeared in Every Day Fiction among other venues.
- [815](https://nanoism.net/stories/815/) - The kiss had to wait—his batteries died. She ran out to buy new ones; every passing second, the illusion she had built crumbled a bit more. Miguel Paolo Reyes is a researcher from the Philippines.
- [814](https://nanoism.net/stories/814/) - Saying goodnight to my daughter: I recline her seat and read by dome light. When it’s cold I start the engine and let it idle her to sleep.​ Adam Henze (@henzbo) is a poet, educator, and researcher at Indiana University. He studies critical literacy and likes to play video games.
- [813](https://nanoism.net/stories/813/) - I told him to stop crying after our house flooded. It was only going to make the situation worse. James Machell (@JamesRJMachell) is an SF/F writer in South Korea with an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh.
- [812](https://nanoism.net/stories/812/) - We talk about a lot down here, but one key point remains unspoken. When the water finally closes over him, it will only be up to my chin. Phil Dyer is finding the time in Liverpool.
- [811](https://nanoism.net/stories/811/) - Saw my father today. Sat opposite him on the Tube. His hair had more flecks of grey in it and I think he’s lost weight. We didn’t speak. Mike Jackson lives in the UK and enjoys writing short tales in his retirement.
- [The Packing Up](https://nanoism.net/serials/the-packing-up/) - Donna and I never heard a sound coming from our new neighbors, who were separated from us by thick walls of black cherry and forsythia. Still, whenever we made love, Donna insisted on closing the windows and drawing the curtains. She would even lock the bedroom door, though we had no children, not even a
- [810](https://nanoism.net/stories/810/) - I said I'd never touch a drink again if I hit her or she got pregnant. An object in motion stays in motion. The moon full, no end in sight. David Joez Villaverde (@academicjuggalo) is, and continues to be.
- [809](https://nanoism.net/stories/809/) - I opened the carton, expecting to find milk, but all I got were eggshells. I think my wife is trying to tell me something. Chelsea Frederick is an asocial introvert and avid fan of audio dramas.
- [808](https://nanoism.net/stories/808/) - It's worse because nothing happened. If we had yelled and fought, at least I wouldn't still be walking toward your turned back. Hoping. J. Yejin An is loud on paper but quiet in person.
- [807](https://nanoism.net/stories/807/) - To her the infant weighed more than the vanished father, a silhouette, larger with each pseudo inhalation—a porcelain doll, its eyes closed. Rees Sweeten isn't full of peanut butter. He has a salty, acquired taste.
- [806](https://nanoism.net/stories/806/) - He was relieved to survive the end of the world. She was relieved she hadn't. They met in the afterlife and wondered which of them was real. Siobhan Rosenthal lives in New Zealand in a campervan. She likes hot showers and doesn't get them enough.
- [July Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/july-author-spotlight-3/) - It's our first featured author month in exactly twelve months: for the month of July, 4 weekly stories by the most excellent R. Gatwood (who was also featured last May).
- [805](https://nanoism.net/stories/805/) - Years later, they met for a coffee. She complimented his hair and he asked about her son. Outside, invisible birds twittered in the trees. Hasen Hull (@HzHull) enjoys long journeys.
- [803](https://nanoism.net/stories/803/) - I wouldn't want my baby raised by a family that would have me as a member. R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) was born from the head of God and is now looking for someplace more comfortable.
- [801](https://nanoism.net/stories/801/) - Eve comes back to Adam again and again—not for love, not for children, but to try to suck that last bite of apple out of his selfish throat. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [802](https://nanoism.net/stories/802/) - Call me Victor. I don't deserve the name of Frankenstein. My creature, my son—let him take that from me. I have given him nothing else. R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) knows every monster by name, even yours.
- [804](https://nanoism.net/stories/804/) - I pretend your train is Einstein's train and your face a beam of light—the two of us shining side by side in perfect sync—as I watch you go. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [800](https://nanoism.net/stories/800/) - I wouldn't wash her handprint off the window for some time. When she came back, I wanted to see how much she had changed. Shane Olivieri bookmarks e-books but remembers the page he's on in a paperback.
- [799](https://nanoism.net/stories/799/) - There we were, young and reckless, on your parent’s front lawn. Now, we’re 18, with a two-year-old and, somehow, I regret nothing. Nicholas Powell is a writer located somewhere in America.
- [798](https://nanoism.net/stories/798/) - There I was, listening to breakup songs halfway before the end. Kristy Lin designs jewelry.
- [797](https://nanoism.net/stories/797/) - on a card written in crayon: dear daddy, im sorry for hurting u. lets make up and not yell anymore. love, mommy Cynthia Day is an amateur who writes more software than anything else.
- [796](https://nanoism.net/stories/796/) - I still speak to my dead dad, call his name when I'm alone, yet phone conversations with my grieving mother drip with dark, heavy silence. Austin Eichelberger just keeps writing.
- [795](https://nanoism.net/stories/795/) - The 14-year-old swiped mascara on her friend's eyelashes with a practiced hand. "My eyes feel all sticky now." "Hush, you're beautiful." Lydia Stevens enjoys writing and summer sunsets in Michigan.
- [794](https://nanoism.net/stories/794/) - There was no sudden shiver, no tingling sixth sense. The night you died, I suspected nothing. Didn't feel a thing. Still don't. Kelsey Sorge's (@kelseysorge) resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
- [793](https://nanoism.net/stories/793/) - Funny thing about memories while you’re dying: as they flash in your head almost concurrently, you acknowledge that it was always about you. Miguel Paolo Reyes is a researcher from the Philippines.
- [792](https://nanoism.net/stories/792/) - I always crawled into my mom’s bed when I’d had a nightmare. Now I have nowhere to crawl, and the monsters aren’t under my bed anymore. Molly Mullen is a high school student from Dearborn, MI, who enjoys writing to express herself. Find her at @mollymaeeee on Instagram.
- [791](https://nanoism.net/stories/791/) - At night, you dial a number you used to know. You ask if it remembers you running your fingers through her hair, how it fell out like stars. J. Bradley lives at jbradleywrites.com.
- [790](https://nanoism.net/stories/790/) - They lay in bed side by side. “The candles were nice,” she said. “It was just one candle,” he said. Joanna Arnow (@arnowjo) is a filmmaker. Her most recent films are BAD AT DANCING and I HATE MYSELF :)
- [789](https://nanoism.net/stories/789/) - After the tornado, Dorothy cobbled shoes from splinters, made a path through rubble and walked, dust like rouge across her cheeks. Lisa Ahn (@Lisa_Ahn) writes quirky fairy tales from a small desk in a house filled with coffee, pets and kids.
- [788](https://nanoism.net/stories/788/) - I watched our apartment burn, praying I’d shut off the stove. Andrew Dolbeare (@adolbeare) writes lies.
- [787](https://nanoism.net/stories/787/) - The broken body of a yellow bird. I found it outside my house. "I will make marshmallows in your image,” I whispered. Marcus Haugen has been described as “pretty laid back.”
- [786](https://nanoism.net/stories/786/) - The fact that generosity annoyed her only made it worse. But, there were monsters to feed and that was the long and the short of it. Daragh Beirne makes little creatures do stuff.
- [785](https://nanoism.net/stories/785/) - GRADES ARE UP. I check mine and return to the classroom chat. Teary-eyed emojis adorn the message. I click the thumbs-up and feel like shit. M. So (@MarlaArielleSo) writes fiction (Twitter-sized or otherwise) for $5+ apiece at fiverr.com/sothefreelancer
- [784](https://nanoism.net/stories/784/) - He dithered at the church door as his mother lay in the hospital, wondering which would be the bigger sin, lying to her or to himself. Nidhi Arora prefers, by far, to inhabit the world of fiction.
- [783](https://nanoism.net/stories/783/) - The night after Dad's funeral, I watched Mom stare at a bottle, saw my sister googling lingerie, and went out and buried my toys. N. Muma Alain is a poet and fabulist from the British Southern Cameroons. He publishes horror/suspense twitter fiction @nmamuma.
- [782](https://nanoism.net/stories/782/) - I’m not sure why I’m still romanticizing something that has crushed my ability to be present in relationships. Isis Orchard is a high school senior.
- [779](https://nanoism.net/stories/779/) - I searched desperately for someone real & fell in love with a lie. We make fake love now because we despise each other. I deserve this pain. J.J. Landry (@JJLandry82) enjoys reading and writing about crime fiction.
- [781](https://nanoism.net/stories/781/) - My son's happy he gets the red one but balloon guy looks too sad. Like he used to have a home circus but this freelance life is killing him. Merry Mercurial is a virtual rock groupie and blue-collar book nerd.
- [780](https://nanoism.net/stories/780/) - She put out her cigarette in his birthday cake so that he could be spared the trouble of broken dreams. Helen Kirkby is a part-time artist and full-time writer living in LA. She is an avid believer in happy lives, not happy endings.
- [778](https://nanoism.net/stories/778/) - Only once, in a dream, did he say those three soft words—then jerk upright, panic-stricken, as if somebody heard. A writer and editor, Stephen Delaney has had recent work published at Requited. He tweets as @marginalwords.
- [777](https://nanoism.net/stories/777/) - He gave no ground as they argued about that tree, whose roots had grown deep and wild, until, finally, he had no ground left to give. Katherine J. Parker (@katjparker) continues to believe in the power of the intangible even when the corporeal stands in her way.
- [776](https://nanoism.net/stories/776/) - She put on her somber face, just in case there was a God. And, hand to mouth, tried hard not to laugh when I impersonated the priest. Divya Kishore studies medicine and aims to become conversant in sports metaphor.
- [775](https://nanoism.net/stories/775/) - Leave him, he told her. You have the house, the investment property. You need nothing else. Nothing. Soon, he’d made himself irrelevant too. Jason Peck lives in Pittsburgh and edits After Happy Hour Review.
- [774](https://nanoism.net/stories/774/) - It was a stretch for a silver lining, but if the operation failed, she’d never have to listen to her husband’s limericks again. Pat Tompkins writes from California.
- [771](https://nanoism.net/stories/771/) - My favorite band came to town. I paid $300 for floor seats so Amanda and I could watch the show through the lens of other people's iPhones. Michael Snyder writes (mostly) fiction, has been published in many places, and lives in TN with his amazing wife, children, and animals.
- [773](https://nanoism.net/stories/773/) - They forced him from Themiscyra, as they exiled all boys, no matter how he protested that he felt like an Amazon inside. Sean Vivier is a web developer, a ballroom dancer, and a writer.
- [772](https://nanoism.net/stories/772/) - The chapters of his life are not in order but the verbs are strong. AJ Atwater’s stories are forthcoming or published in Literary Orphans, The Gravity of the Thing, PANK, and others.
- [770](https://nanoism.net/stories/770/) - "Terminal, go!" "I’m not voice activated." I touched its keypad. It purred. I began typing. It wheezed with pleasure: "Please, don’t stop." @NathanHillstrom studied Computer Science, worked on Wall Street, and now writes in beautiful San Diego. Fiction in Asimov’s & others.
- [769](https://nanoism.net/stories/769/) - The house he'd shared with his wife of many years had burned. With nowhere left to mourn her passing, it was time, at last, to see the world. Justin DeFerbrache teaches English in South Korea.
- [768](https://nanoism.net/stories/768/) - Every May, they meet at the bar, each carrying a hard drive, dressed exactly the same way, to trade lives with each other for another year. Miguel Paolo Reyes is a researcher from the Philippines.
- [767](https://nanoism.net/stories/767/) - The basset hound shuffled, its hind legs unsure of where its front was headed. Even further back, lost but for the leash, its owner grieved. Jacob Edwards is a writer poet person from Brisbane Australia. He watches the world, lives mostly in his head and tweets @ToastyVogon.
- [766](https://nanoism.net/stories/766/) - On a spring day so calm the still atmosphere seemed to shimmer, my enemy buried his father. After that, nothing that came before counted. Dani Bailey is an introvert, but not a misanthrope.
- [765](https://nanoism.net/stories/765/) - The moment I hit send, the postscript made sense: the love poem was for me to read, not for me to edit. Emi Merklin (@somethingemi) lives in Salem, Oregon and forgot she has a twitter.
- [764](https://nanoism.net/stories/764/) - Mankind invents and mass-engineers nuclear weaponry for the second time. Tyson Kendall ironically values anonymity.
- [763](https://nanoism.net/stories/763/) - You give me one of your wings so we can fly together. But I'm bad at this. We fly in circles until we have to swim home, separately, alone. Alisa Golden is paddling around here somewhere.
- [Nano Best Small Fictions](https://nanoism.net/meta/nano-best-small-fictions/) - Back in 2016, Stephen Orsloke (#590) was anthologized in Best Small Fictions 2015. It was even discussed and read out loud on Radio New Zealand (with an awesome accent, naturally). Saladin Ahmed (592) was a finalist. Then M. J. Iuppa (#641) was a finalist in Best Small Fictions 2016. This year, Emily Bowers (#698) was
- [762](https://nanoism.net/stories/762/) - In a jet over Arizona he blotted out an entire city with his thumb and wondered if God ever felt this way. Eddie Krzeminski lives in Florida and falls in love on a regular basis.
- [761](https://nanoism.net/stories/761/) - We grew up together without ever exchanging a word. It was only after she was buried in the cold earth that I accepted her friend request. Bryn Yoder works odd jobs while waiting for a long-lost Nigerian relative to pass and bestow his fortune upon her. Fingers crossed.
- [760](https://nanoism.net/stories/760/) - I was grateful for my credit card consumer protection plan until I went to buy a ring. They called me, concerned, to tell me about Mark. Sylvia Anna Hiven lives and writes in Atlanta. She is single.
- [759](https://nanoism.net/stories/759/) - Welcome back, Jen! Netflix recommends SHAME because you enjoyed Michael Fassbender in X-MEN and drunk-dialed Kevin. (Jen, it’s been months.) Anna Kander writes with her sidekick, a fearless blue fish who doesn’t realize he’s one inch tall. Find her at http://annakander.com.
- [758](https://nanoism.net/stories/758/) - If I adjust my lens, and if the bedroom curtains are pulled back far enough, it looks like she's smiling just for me. Justin Short lives in Missouri.
- [July Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/july-author-spotlight-2/) - July is another featured author month, this time showcasing Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703). This is Derek's second round in the spotlight. He was also featured in September 2016, so if you needed an excuse to peruse the archives, now you have one.
- [757](https://nanoism.net/stories/757/) - When the wild things came, everything was different. They were younger, and confused, and wanted to hold my hand. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) is getting better all the time.​
- [756](https://nanoism.net/stories/756/) - The damage healed, forests and oceans cover the world. There is one desert. At its center, an old Donkey Kong machine plays itself. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) is getting better all the time.​
- [755](https://nanoism.net/stories/755/) - Nobody had time for boys or sun. The ship was cold, leaking regret and self-indulgence, the grownups bailing as fast as they could. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) is getting better all the time.​
- [754](https://nanoism.net/stories/754/) - People harp on right and wrong, but I don't know. Once you've seen a dying star blow ten planets to ash, your perspective changes. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) is getting better all the time.​
- [753](https://nanoism.net/stories/753/) - And so the world was actually a library, each individual storing a piece of information they thought of as their 'life' for a forgetful god. Liam Aidan (@Liam_Aidan) is a self-certified urban spaceman & cake enthusiast. He's also the author of a book of nanofiction called Vestigial Tales.
- [752](https://nanoism.net/stories/752/) - He looked at a hanging branch outside the window as she spoke and wondered how much he’d have to pull to separate the branch from that tree. @DannyPoet is a writer of twitter and micropoetry and may or may not be a fictional person
- [751](https://nanoism.net/stories/751/) - I twist the silver band on my finger. It's a comfort thing. Staring at the darkness, I twist until he leaves for work. Emily Patino teaches writing, drinks coffee, and occasionally talks to her cat, Russell Crowe. He's not great at advice.
- [750](https://nanoism.net/stories/750/) - I deleted my texts to her, canceled the bouquet I’d ordered, altered my online profile, double‑locked the door, and waited. David Galef’s latest book is Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook (Columbia University Press).
- [Dr. Jekyll's Friend](https://nanoism.net/stories/dr-jekylls-friend/) - He gave his creature the pseudonym he was using when I met him. A little joke, that name. Men of our sort are always hiding. I called him my angel once, and he shuddered. Later I understood that he counted me among the temptations of which he longed to be rid. You ask if I
- [Nanoism on the Radio](https://nanoism.net/meta/nanoism-on-the-radio/) - Exactly one year ago, your friendly editor was on the radio to discuss twitter fiction with Colin McEnroe for WNPR. It was a lot of fun (and at least a little bit scary), and I even got to read #642 by our author-of-the-month R. Gatwood on the air. Our segment starts around the 6:45 mark.
- [May Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/may-author-spotlight/) - For May, we're bringing back our author spotlight series. This time, we're doing an encore from our first feature and presenting a round of stories from one of our very favorite concise writers, R. Gatwood. Also, did we mention that Nanoism turned 8 years old over a month ago?
- [Answers to the Folklorist's Survey](https://nanoism.net/stories/answers-to-the-folklorists-survey/) - An old woman says: "This is the story of a town that loses a little boy because they're too busy—or too proud—to believe in a made-up wolf." A young shepherd with a wooden leg says: "This is the story of a stupid, stupid boy. A boy who doesn't know words have power." An older man
- [749](https://nanoism.net/stories/749/) - We keep saying accident. We keep not saying suicide. Both words keep getting louder and louder. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [748](https://nanoism.net/stories/748/) - For months, whenever you hear the word "boundaries," your ears get hot (I'm not a stalker) and you try not to remember how nice she was. R. Gatwood's work has appeared in Wigleaf and Contrary Magazine.
- [747](https://nanoism.net/stories/747/) - He seemed so happy. And he had been unhappy for so long. And I was so tired of taking care of him. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [746](https://nanoism.net/stories/746/) - "Eurydice?" he says for the third time. Behind him, she waits. R. Gatwood never looks back.
- [745](https://nanoism.net/stories/745/) - I say, "It's good, but it's not like it’ll change my life or anything." She says, "I think maybe you misunderstand what a burrito is.” Ben Roth teaches for the Harvard College Writing Program. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy.
- [744](https://nanoism.net/stories/744/) - The BMW was going too fast, and I was behind you on the crosswalk, and you whispered, "Fuck it, pay for my college," and "shit, shit, shit." Colin Lubner is a senior at Villanova, where he writes less than he should.
- [743](https://nanoism.net/stories/743/) - She wrapped her arms around me. It was a function of her programming—I knew that—and yet, it had awakened something real. S. Patrick Gallagher writes from New Jersey. He tweets @TightFiction and @spatgallagher.
- [742](https://nanoism.net/stories/742/) - Everything they upvoted became true. Davian Aw is hungry.
- [741](https://nanoism.net/stories/741/) - Sorting the photo collection had halted again. Now we were sitting in silence, lost in memories of the child who never grew up. Mark Farley (@mumbletoes) blogs about writing.
- [739](https://nanoism.net/stories/739/) - She decides to put the tooth under her pillow before she leaves. Even with one less kid around, her mom will need the money. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [738](https://nanoism.net/stories/738/) - Coming back from dad's funeral, we fought over the urn and his ashes fell on the seat. He stayed there, watching, judging, just like always. Andrew Bertaina lives and works in Washington, DC.
- [737](https://nanoism.net/stories/737/) - Dear Mythmakers of Yonder: We are pleased to inform you that we have chosen your fiction as our history. Sincerely, Nationalist Apologists. Lately published in 200 CCs, Flapperhouse, Pidgeonholes, theEEEL & Strange Horizons, @ahimaaz has writing upcoming in Milkfist and 7x20.
- [736](https://nanoism.net/stories/736/) - She looked to the future, mom lived in the past. Beloved dad and husband saw or remembered neither, but in the present all three reconciled. Guy Stewart writes more than he reads these days.
- [735](https://nanoism.net/stories/735/) - Here I am striving to be happy when happy just toddled by, pancake in hand and smeared the pug in syrup. Kristina Peterson is a high school English teacher and mother to a crazy toddler named Henry. They live in Brentwood, NH.
- [734](https://nanoism.net/stories/734/) - Dog, alone of the animals, followed Adam out of the Garden. Don't be angry when he digs up your garden—he only searches for your lost rib. Gordon Brown is an ex-pat recently moved to the US from Syria. He spends his free time taking care of his pets, of which he has none.
- [733](https://nanoism.net/stories/733/) - I told you I didn’t need a ride home. It’s dark and cold, and the bus is late, but I haven’t felt this safe in months. Jennifer Kalison (@RagingFluffy) performs, writes, wonders, and ponders.
- [732](https://nanoism.net/stories/732/) - The boy blinks up at the man, cheek stinging. He turns away from the rattling dice, already inventing excuses his mother will not believe. Chris Cole lives in Canberra. Loves include short form literature, xc skiing, crepes cooked JUST right, & staring at the night sky.
- [731](https://nanoism.net/stories/731/) - She said she would teach him to change a diaper after recovering. But now he'll have to figure it out alone, along with everything else. M.G. Juelle is a Creative Writing student at Florida International University that likes to keep it short and sweet.
- [730](https://nanoism.net/stories/730/) - Democracy creates fools, who make other fools rule them. Ultimately it fails... we assume. Please, overlord, support more excavations. Evert Asberg (@EvertAsberg) lives and works in Europe.
- [729](https://nanoism.net/stories/729/) - “As I grow older,” he told the young man, “I forget things. Like why I ever got married.” “Me,” the young man reminded him. David Galef is just another form of the author.
- [728](https://nanoism.net/stories/728/) - She was so busy berating the waitress for the wrong order she never saw her boyfriend get down on one knee, then slink back into his seat. Greg Hill searches for meaning and syllepses.
- [727](https://nanoism.net/stories/727/) - His taste in clothes had changed: cashmere turtleneck, skinny jeans. By the time he ordered wine, she knew he'd never be hers again. Jonathan Huston commutes between Los Angeles, Liechtenstein, and jonathanhuston.com.
- [726](https://nanoism.net/stories/726/) - He only wears the wedding ring around his mistress. He got it at a pawn shop by his apartment and liked the sound of the name on the inside. Daniel Galef has a website.
- [725](https://nanoism.net/stories/725/) - The tour guide pointed at landmarks but my eyes were on the dancing woman in the window. She swayed in place with a smile I hope I remember. Zane Castillo is a short distance runner.
- [724](https://nanoism.net/stories/724/) - She drove along the thickly settled road, wishing she had less time free time to think and could spend more time mindlessly running errands. Helen Colby enjoys the satisfaction of completing four errands in the time it usually takes to do three.
- [723](https://nanoism.net/stories/723/) - I can't tell if the reflection in the tears in your eyes is the moon or my phone as I text my new lover and tell you to go on, without me. S. Kay (@blueberrio) is the author of Reliant (tNYPress, 2015) and Joy (@MaudlinHouse, 2016).
- [722](https://nanoism.net/stories/722/) - The groom and the mother of the bride skillfully danced to a waltz. Had they practiced? Sarah Vernetti lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- [721](https://nanoism.net/stories/721/) - The night Mom died, Dad and I bought fried chicken on the way home from the hospital. We ate, stared at the bones, silently. Alex Z. Salinas lives in San Antonio, Texas.
- [720](https://nanoism.net/stories/720/) - She hated how they talked in whispers at her bedside, brought flowers instead of baby toys, silently corrected her ‘whens’ to ‘ifs’. Louise Carey is a professional worrywart, but sometimes writes instead. She tweets flash fiction @louisecarey25.
- [719](https://nanoism.net/stories/719/) - God spun two galaxies around in one hand to help her focus as she considered what to do with one star system's colony of invasive primates. Greg Hill rewrote Chapter 1 of Genesis using only seven-letter words.
- [718](https://nanoism.net/stories/718/) - Even after the wedding guests left, his fingers kept caressing the edges of the metal band in his coat pocket. On the same day, Frederick Charles Melancon married the same girl twice. He tells people that it was just to make sure.
- [717](https://nanoism.net/stories/717/) - I stay busy, and pray when I remember. It's hard to believe I said "I love you" in November. Wesley Selman lives in the great state of Texas and writes under the influence of tacos and cheap tequila.
- [716](https://nanoism.net/stories/716/) - The immortal man looked at the stars, realizing his species would never go there. A lack of curiosity in DNA. The curious had chosen to die. Every morning, Evert Asberg (@EvertAsberg) looks into his notebook to see what stories came bursting out of him that night.
- [715](https://nanoism.net/stories/715/) - On the eighth morning, he stopped reading. This book is terrible, he said. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) lives in Seattle. His book's second draft will be done by Christmas, he hopes.
- [714](https://nanoism.net/stories/714/) - God lives in the desert, the old man told him. How do you know? Old man squints to the dust horizon. I met him there. He was unhappy. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) lives in Seattle. His book's second draft will be done by Christmas, he hopes.
- [713](https://nanoism.net/stories/713/) - He followed at idle, passenger door open. Her heels clacked on the icy sidewalk. He put the ring away, out of questions. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) lives in Seattle. His book's second draft will be done by Christmas, he hopes.
- [712](https://nanoism.net/stories/712/) - All his life he built the tower of jewels. In the end it disappointed him, and he gave it to his slaves. But we are hungry, they said. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) lives in Seattle. His book's second draft will be done by Christmas, he hopes.
- [September Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/september-author-spotlight/) - This month of Nanoism is brought to you by Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) with four stories appearing on Wednesdays.
- [711](https://nanoism.net/stories/711/) - I waited for you to break my heart, but you never would. So we grew together, mold between bread slices of inhale/exhale; ingest/excrete. Evan Anderson lives and writes in a bowl of a city surrounded by swamps and brimming with stories and music.
- [710](https://nanoism.net/stories/710/) - The fact that you've had the hotline number memorized for the past two weeks probably means you're not being melodramatic. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [709](https://nanoism.net/stories/709/) - That night was an envelope I didn’t open. You wriggled through the back door, got married and died before I had the chance to say hello. @JasonAbbate lives somewhere on the east coast. He is fascinated by the presence and absence of narratives and realities.
- [708](https://nanoism.net/stories/708/) - The paramedics sent her last text: itsyours. Adam Dwyer lives in Toronto with a girl and two cats, and shares a birthday with Mickey Spillane.
- [707](https://nanoism.net/stories/707/) - There was a disagreement. She blamed it on the alcohol, he blamed the fact that she called. Now they had to agree on a name. Adam Christopher (@bitesizedAC) is a writer who's never have the good fortune of being mistaken for successful or clever.
- [July Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/july-author-spotlight/) - July is our third author spotlight month and features four stories by Daniel Galef (@DanielGalef).
- [706](https://nanoism.net/stories/706/) - The old man frowns at the encyclopedia and swipes neatly with a pen. A thousand miles away, an obscure mountain top abruptly grows ten feet. Daniel Galef (@DanielGalef) makes emends.
- [705](https://nanoism.net/stories/705/) - I never had arthritis, but my husband did. It wasn’t mentioned in the will, but I feel like Frank would have wanted me to have it. Daniel Galef has a Twitter account, @DanielGalef.
- [704](https://nanoism.net/stories/704/) - The leak in the ceiling remains, which he said he would take care of when he got back. It drips, and forms an invisible stalagmite of hope. Daniel Galef (@DanielGalef) is not responsible for the actions of fictional characters.
- [703](https://nanoism.net/stories/703/) - Becalmed; sails, limp and lifeless. A hundred and fifty men near starved. But, three weeks later, a miracle: all hundred men have survived. Daniel Galef (@DanielGalef) is exquisite in red sauce and best paired with a subtle rose.
- [702](https://nanoism.net/stories/702/) - When she couldn’t walk anymore, I sat on her lap and she stroked my ears. She never hit me. Her son thinks he owns me now. He smells bad. Pat Tompkins writes from California.
- [701](https://nanoism.net/stories/701/) - I stood beside his casket and told him goodbye with the same indifference he’d said it back when I was nine. Steven Fischer is a writer living in Southern Wisconsin.
- [700](https://nanoism.net/stories/700/) - They ambled down the sidewalk, hands clasped, stars above. A penny launched, dropped silently into the fountain of dreams already come true. Brooke Anderson (@themodernreal) writes, facilitates, and wishes she had more time to investigate caribou.
- [699](https://nanoism.net/stories/699/) - Here I sit, in a room with children below their own grade level. They think I am the same. I taught myself how to read. We aren't the same. Riley Jackson writes short shorts, sci-fi/fantasy stories, and is working on a fantasy novel.
- [Nanoism turned 7](https://nanoism.net/meta/nanoism-turned-7/) - It's been so long that we temporarily forgot: Nanoism is now over 7 years old (which is approaching infinity in internet years). Thanks as always for reading and submitting!
- [693](https://nanoism.net/stories/693/) - Feigning nonchalance, she knocked back the placebo before quickly realizing that she would hate herself for a different reason if it worked. Stephanie Hutton is a sleep-deprived clinical psychologist.
- [698](https://nanoism.net/stories/698/) - Mom’s laugh dies down as we talk about her “Dory disease,” and she whispers into the phone, “Please don’t ever let me forget I love God.” Emily Bowers teaches writing, drinks coffee, and occasionally talks to her cat, Russell Crowe. He's not great at advice.
- [697](https://nanoism.net/stories/697/) - He re-opened the can of beans and when he looked inside, again, there was nothing left. J.P. Hern lives in South Florida, where you can find him at the beach or at a coffee house drinking Cuban coffee.
- [696](https://nanoism.net/stories/696/) - The sky is crying, teardrops on endless blue. And they can see her sadness but all they do is turn their faces and lift their umbrellas. Sophia Huang is a 14-year old with big dreams and no way of reaching them.
- [695](https://nanoism.net/stories/695/) - I sent you a love letter with two forever stamps on it. Kristy Lin designs jewelry.
- [694](https://nanoism.net/stories/694/) - The trombone was full of spit. He accepted the whiskey gracefully and when no one was looking, tipped his glass of water into it. Francine Cunningham is an Aboriginal author living and writing in Canada.
- [692](https://nanoism.net/stories/692/) - You leave the perfect amount of water in your nightstand glass each morning to feed my orchid. Drew Knapp. DC. @zuzwan.
- [691](https://nanoism.net/stories/691/) - He spoke in a harried whisper. About things he'd seen. About fears that tightened his stomach like a vise. On the other end, a dial tone. Trevor Pyle is a poet, journalist, and short-story writer.
- [690](https://nanoism.net/stories/690/) - Once again, he tells me that snow is paper-colored. Before I make the bed, I ask him one last time why he assumes the default is white. Alisa Golden just woke up.
- [689](https://nanoism.net/stories/689/) - On the kitchen floor, leaning against the cold oven, she asked why he didn’t love her anymore. Her father said nothing. Natalie Schriefer (@schriefern1) reads a lot and often forgets to talk.
- [688](https://nanoism.net/stories/688/) - He took a bus to the highway with a pack and a sleeping bag and nothing got better but some pretty important things didn’t get worse. Margaret Killjoy (@magpiekilljoy) is a punk who writes things. Novel: A Country of Ghosts.
- [687](https://nanoism.net/stories/687/) - You returned to your happy life. A year passed. And another. Mine was still waiting for me. Marcelle Heath is a freelance editor and fiction writer. She is currently serving as Series Editor for the Wigleaf Top 50.
- [686](https://nanoism.net/stories/686/) - Today I stepped from the ground and just kept going up. The clouds tasted more like pond than cotton candy. Geese are dicks. I’m going home. Zebulon Huset still rollerblades & thinks you should too. He posts heaps of writing prompts at NotebookingDaily.com.
- [685](https://nanoism.net/stories/685/) - The old man in the alley was black with flies. Dead or nearly so, but the tourist had to hurry to catch the bus to the Great Wall. Justin DeFerbrache teaches English in Northern China.
- [February Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/february-author-spotlight/) - Our second author spotlight month features Sean Vivier, showcasing four fine tiny tales appearing weekly on Wednesdays.
- [681](https://nanoism.net/stories/681/) - Chimera's leonine head feasts upon the hero's flesh with delight. The goat's head wishes it had the reach to look away. Sean Vivier also has stories in Daily Science Fiction and Analog.
- [684](https://nanoism.net/stories/684/) - All the portents foretold his son would be his death. He knew how these things worked. He could do nothing but love the boy until the end. Sean Vivier is the one who knocks.
- [683](https://nanoism.net/stories/683/) - He said he'd rather be feared than loved. But what did he know? When had he ever been loved? Sean Vivier can be found at seanvivier.com.
- [682](https://nanoism.net/stories/682/) - Everyone felt sorry for him, called him jilted. But his concerns lay elsewhere. He texted her: r u ok? Sean Vivier is now a web developer.
- [680](https://nanoism.net/stories/680/) - It's 3 AM and I just sent a very detailed account of a Bigfoot sighting to a Bigfoot research website and none of it was true please help me Catherine Kwalton uses Twitter superfluously with creativity.
- [679](https://nanoism.net/stories/679/) - She notices he’s stopped dying his hair as his fingers flip through Korean instant noodles that’ve been discounted again since last week. Geoffrey Miller's fiction has recently appeared in Ginosko Literary Journal, Pank, and The Journal of Microliterature.
- [678](https://nanoism.net/stories/678/) - “We’re not in either, we’re between,” Dad says, eyes ahead. His new navigator, I try to find us—swallowed by a crack between states. Stephen Delaney: “Last revision. Promise!”
- [677](https://nanoism.net/stories/677/) - Curious, apologetic fingers stroked the coarse, post-op stitches then patted the belly that could never again wax and wane like the moon. Meredith Hatcher is into submission, mostly literary.
- [676](https://nanoism.net/stories/676/) - In time he comes to understand that the monster under the bed will never eat him. It will only eat away at his faith in his parents' love. R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) is often found under furniture, but can be minimized with regular dusting.
- [December Author Spotlight](https://nanoism.net/meta/december-author-spotlight/) - This December marks Nanoism's first author spotlight since its inception over six years ago. Every week this month, we're featuring a story by the same author: one of our very favorites, R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead). Enjoy!
- [675](https://nanoism.net/stories/675/) - He gave up :-| trying :-| to keep a mood :-| calendar :-| because every face :-| he drew :-| was exactly :-| the same. R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) is not always concise.
- [674](https://nanoism.net/stories/674/) - This memory is about that humiliating moment on prom night, 1964. For the location of your keys, see this morning (page does not exist). R. Gatwood is not a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
- [673](https://nanoism.net/stories/673/) - He doesn't like the commission's definition of "torture" and how it makes him think about his dad in a different way. R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) is a verbal construct.
- [672](https://nanoism.net/stories/672/) - She'd asked him for an answer, but there was only the important sound of meat being separated from bone, the tiny roar of the lantern. Heather Murphy lives in the mountains of Oregon, where it is too beautiful for mere adjectives.
- [671](https://nanoism.net/stories/671/) - We talked philosophy all through the night, until the sun didn’t come up. When she finally left, I was no longer sure who or if we were. Daniel Galef writes things sometimes.
- [670](https://nanoism.net/stories/670/) - As she plodded back towards her mama's trailer after three long years, she wondered if that was a mirror waiting in the doorway. Karl Lykken hails from Texas.
- [669](https://nanoism.net/stories/669/) - You walk until you can walk no further, then look up at the stars. Have they changed? Have you? It doesn’t matter. You are never going back. Evelyn Benvie writes for fun and the distant hope of someday getting paid for it.
- [668](https://nanoism.net/stories/668/) - In the zombie version of Hamlet there's this awkward moment when everyone gets back up and they have to decide what to do next. Matthew Wester is amused by that moment he shares he's a pastor and people start to worry about how many times they just cursed.
- [667](https://nanoism.net/stories/667/) - The Higgs field collapsed. Matter dematerialized at the speed of light. Neil confronted Herb and neither knew it when nothing hit them. Frank Hubeny is enjoying materialization while he has the chance.
- [666](https://nanoism.net/stories/666/) - I have a wife and a mistress. Providing both believe me in the company of the other, they don't look for me—freeing me to pray full time. Soren James arrived on this planet incarcerated in language—later seeking to invert this prison to a temple of contemplation.
- [665](https://nanoism.net/stories/665/) - He filled the void in his heart with so many lookalikes that when he finally saw her again, briefly, he assumed she was just another one. Davian Aw's favourite vegetables include spinach, broccoli and asparagus.
- [664](https://nanoism.net/stories/664/) - "You won't become like God. You'll become more human," said the honest serpent. "That sounds alright, doesn't it?" said Eve. Justin Lau (@jusco15) is a vagabond at peace. He blogs at justinlau15.wordpress.com and runs Transect Magazine (@TransectMag).
- [663](https://nanoism.net/stories/663/) - She says the same thing about men and cigs: Everything that looks cool will kill you later. Same goes for shoes, cars, and stonewalling Mom. @a_a_hutson likes to sing. Likes to dance. Owns a pair of shiny pants. Find her on the Web at www.aahutson.com.
- [662](https://nanoism.net/stories/662/) - Things looked different in his old town—the buildings smaller, the trees taller, the thistles flowering in the ravine they buried Father. Monica Wang grew up in both Burnaby, Canada, and Taichung, Taiwan, so don't bother looking for the body.
- [661](https://nanoism.net/stories/661/) - I waited for you. They said I was a fool, but I didn't want money. It wasn't even for love. Every life has a purpose, and that was mine. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) gives his report at dex3703.wordpress.com. He is working on a novel.
- [660](https://nanoism.net/stories/660/) - I heard your voice in a jet engine’s roar, so I pulled out my phone to call you. But you were mid shift, so I texted instead: thinking of u. M. Brigman is on Kindle.
- [659](https://nanoism.net/stories/659/) - She never read the entire story. She just skipped to the good part, the life summarized by publication credits and master’s degrees. Sarah Vernetti is currently preparing to have her afternoon cup of coffee.
- [657](https://nanoism.net/stories/657/) - He’d remember that she was still wearing the macaroni necklace the twins gave her at brunch. The doctors would stop pumping her chest soon. Julia Walton's first novel is being published by Random House Spring 2017. *cue happy music*
- [658](https://nanoism.net/stories/658/) - For now most of our lights still work. We'll see. Michael Mungiello is from New Jersey.
- [656](https://nanoism.net/stories/656/) - I watched as my new makeup bag fell from the second story bathroom window of his apartment complex. When my mascara hit the ground, it ran. Kayla Pongrac is an avid writer, reader, tea drinker, and vinyl record spinner.
- [655](https://nanoism.net/stories/655/) - She continued to count, loudly and slowly, long after the children were hidden, basking in the silence between the numbers. Michael Jagunic is an extra on the set of Cleveland, Ohio.
- [654](https://nanoism.net/stories/654/) - Forget the stories we made up about the scars. We never had wings. We were born joined at the back, destined only to weigh each other down. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [653](https://nanoism.net/stories/653/) - We pile in, wailing with the siren, start the first of a million card games, ignore the banging on the bunker door; it stops soon enough. Daniel Galef reads when he isn't writing.
- [652](https://nanoism.net/stories/652/) - "But he’s my son! My only child!" the woman pleaded. The machine input the new data into the equation, assigning it a value of zero. Nathaniel W. Phillips (@EldritchNate) lives on the X and Y axes. He writes so he might someday find Z.
- [651](https://nanoism.net/stories/651/) - Archimedes smiled as the boy fell from the sky. He signaled his men to lower their shields, knowing Daedalus would blame hubris and the sun. Ian Glass plays with film, canvas, and words.
- [650](https://nanoism.net/stories/650/) - His hand trembles over the garbage, clutching the frozen cake. Invisible beside him, she wonders what will happen when he finally lets go. Robert Hanley likes putting words next to each other. If you're especially bored, you can follow him on Twitter @RobertBHanley.
- [649](https://nanoism.net/stories/649/) - Atlas planted the seed of a world tree. He could bear the burden if he knew there would be an end to it. Sean Vivier shrugged.
- [648](https://nanoism.net/stories/648/) - She wondered if his rub-on tattoo from That Day was gone, and if he had let it fade, or like her—scrubbed it off. LiAnn Yim craves coconut, peppermint, and bitter dark chocolate. She tweets from @lkyim and co-edits @GoldenKeyLit.
- [647](https://nanoism.net/stories/647/) - She raised the glass and downed the love potion. Soon, she would love him back. Davian Aw runs the world's largest Keanu Reeves articles and interviews archive.
- [646](https://nanoism.net/stories/646/) - She waited all night for the bus: cheer team gym bag half-full, boyfriend's coat warm, belly warmer, sunrise air cold on her flipflop feet. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) gives his report at dex3703.wordpress.com. He is working on a novel.
- [645](https://nanoism.net/stories/645/) - Feeling lonely for no particular reason, Bobo decides, no more selfish, from now on, all kills will be shared. Filmmaker, new to brand spanking. Most of the time Daniel Appleby is beside himself, just standing there waiting patiently.
- [644](https://nanoism.net/stories/644/) - Staring with wet eyes at a single blue line, again, she decides to start looking for life changing news somewhere other than on the toilet. Cristi Donoso is working on creating stories and people. She has never tweeted @cristidbest.
- [643](https://nanoism.net/stories/643/) - I was between the morning glories and the moonflowers when it began. In the garden, unplugged, I didn’t know it was the end of the world. Anna Lea Jancewicz can be found here.
- [642](https://nanoism.net/stories/642/) - The Tilt-a-Whirl was shut down for repairs, so she didn't get to touch her son that year. R. Gatwood's (@iwantanewhead) work has appeared in Per Contra, Monkeybicycle, and Vestal Review.
- [641](https://nanoism.net/stories/641/) - January morning. My mind’s not right. Still. The dark wind that came last night unfastened all of my hooks and latches, undoing me, still. M.J. Iuppa lives on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario.
- [Nanoism is 6 years old](https://nanoism.net/meta/nanoism-is-6-years-old/) - I started this site as a venue for thoughtful Twitter fiction in March of 2009, which means that Nanoism is now over 6 years old. At the time of its founding, it was the first non-genre publication for Twitter fiction, as well as the first of its variety to pay its authors (@thaumatrope, now defunct,
- [640](https://nanoism.net/stories/640/) - Once upon a time, Michelle’s creations had no choice but to live happily ever after. David Galef writes early and often.
- [639](https://nanoism.net/stories/639/) - When my son received his diploma, everyone applauded except me. I just stared at my watch, horrified at the speed of the second hand. Michael Jagunic lives almost entirely in Cleveland, Ohio.
- [638](https://nanoism.net/stories/638/) - Unsure which fork to use first, the escape artist put down his drink and loudly asked if anybody wanted to see the tablecloth trick. Noel Sloboda applies himself to obscure arts, mostly in Pennsylvania.
- [637](https://nanoism.net/stories/637/) - A few years later, Cinderella tossed the broken slipper in the bin and rubbed her sore feet. @FilipWiltgren is a game designing fabulist who occasionally wishes the word order was reversed.
- [636](https://nanoism.net/stories/636/) - We thought the disaster spelled the end for the country. But it turned out too many people wanted there to be such a thing as America. Sean Vivier can be found at seanvivier.com.
- [635](https://nanoism.net/stories/635/) - I regret little: cutting my sister's arm on accident; breaking Granny’s stained-glass; running over my neighbor's cat; denying it all later. Austin Eichelberger teaches English and writing in sunny, sprawling New Mexico and doesn't regret a thing.
- [634](https://nanoism.net/stories/634/) - Airliner trails streaked the blue sky, impossibly high, flying to unknown lands. Ang kept her eyes on her field, not daring to dream. @SimonKewin is the pseudonym used by an infinite number of monkeys who write from a secret location in the English countryside.
- [633](https://nanoism.net/stories/633/) - When you grabbed my arm and pushed me into the vestibule I wasn’t scared. It had been years since you'd touched me so deliberately. Michael O'Neill is a fiction and poetry writer residing in Chicago.
- [632](https://nanoism.net/stories/632/) - He was captured in the ocean of the well-endowed. Sired sixteen, killed three humans—they still won’t let him go. The audience loves him. Alisa Golden is also reading Moby Dick.
- [631](https://nanoism.net/stories/631/) - I didn't mean to call the black candles in the paper bag tacky. You brought them to my party ten years ago. I think of it every so often. Patti Flynn lives in New Haven, CT with her 2 imaginary Siamese cats. Many people—ok 2—have been charmed by her amazing doodles.
- [630](https://nanoism.net/stories/630/) - He gave the order to destroy me, but the monster fed on love I no longer had. Maddie Bernard overstays her welcome.
- [629](https://nanoism.net/stories/629/) - I could hear her whispering through the anaesthetic haze. She said she loved every part of me. I wondered if she knew how much was missing. Vicky Hinault (@vickyhinault) is a true word obsessive and is happiest when scribbling in her notebooks, usually about the underdog.
- ["Best Small Fictions" Nominations from 2014](https://nanoism.net/meta/best-small-fictions-nominations-from-2014/) - There's a new very short story anthology coming out later this year. It's called Best Small Fictions, and this year it's edited by Tara L. Masih and Pulitzer-prize winning author Robert Olen Butler(!). Pretty neat. The five nominations from last year's Nanoism lineup (in order of publication): 587 by Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) 590 by Stephen
- [628](https://nanoism.net/stories/628/) - Finally, silence predominated, except for the sound of fingers on glass and the vibration of love letters euthanized by satellites. Sometimes Sarah Vernetti has a hard time coming up with clever, pithy bios.
- [627](https://nanoism.net/stories/627/) - Said the man overseas: “Have I met your needs today, sir?“ Said the man at home: “Yes, but do you have to go? No one here asks me that.” Christian Hayden is a necessary evil, I suppose.
- [626](https://nanoism.net/stories/626/) - It was when his holding became more like choking and leaving became more like dancing that I realized all my movements were wrong. Rachel Tanner is a grad student who is a future English and writing professor. You can follow her hilarious Twitter at @rickit.
- [625](https://nanoism.net/stories/625/) - And then we laughed too loudly and for far too long, dreading the silence that was to come after. Kristy Lin (@kristyxlin) wonders if Nanoism received her previous submission but knows that she has to wait 3 months to ask formally.
- [624](https://nanoism.net/stories/624/) - The seagulls were flying in a perfect circle, matching that of the mosquitos and the deer. Nearby, the abandoned radar was humming again. John Pugh XI is a writer/musician living in post-war Manhattan.
- [623](https://nanoism.net/stories/623/) - The goodbye note, all I had left of her, was spotted with little drops, smudging the paper. They looked like tears, but smelled like scotch. Daniel Galef writes when he isn't reading.
- [622](https://nanoism.net/stories/622/) - We meet at a hacker space in Berlin. I score some dust online. She’s gone in the morning. I tell myself I’m done. Exhale. This is a lie. Ben Parker Karris grew up on airplanes. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
- [621](https://nanoism.net/stories/621/) - All that remains of our sultry summer is a puckered-up clementine on the mantel, too integral to the room's aesthetic to be composted. Matt Crowley believes in the forbidden fruit.
- [620](https://nanoism.net/stories/620/) - A woman, at the refrigerator, holds an unmarked jar. She unscrews the lid, breathes in, decides how much she trusts it. It’s true Seth Clabough is a bballing asthmatic beach bum with chickens and a fauxhawk, but the rest are lies. Damn lies.
- [619](https://nanoism.net/stories/619/) - One candy heart out of a billion says: I know it can never be the same, and that’s okay. I smile and think of you, then wish I hadn’t. Daniel Galef reads when he isn't writing.
- [298](https://nanoism.net/stories/298/) - The venture was risky and they had a history of screwups, but the Chance brothers—Fat, Slim, and No—decided they had nothing to lose. Pat Tompkins writes from California.
- [618](https://nanoism.net/stories/618/) - She dreamt of her future child, a marine biologist, on Valentine's Day. Three days later, a future disappointment left her fallopian tube. Monica Wang is a spinster from Vancouver, Canada. She collects sea glass and teacups in her spare time.
- [617](https://nanoism.net/stories/617/) - He felt a glimmer of belated hope when she hurled the bouquet. But it fell at the feet of the bridesmaids, who still clutched their rifles. Noel Sloboda applies himself to obscure arts, mostly in Pennsylvania.
- [616](https://nanoism.net/stories/616/) - Flies found the potato salad. The iced tea was watery and warm. The batteries wore out before the seventh inning. I don’t miss you anymore. Greg Bowers lives and teaches in Columbia, Missouri.
- [570](https://nanoism.net/stories/570/) - Redacted at the request of the author, whose name is not really nobody.
- [615](https://nanoism.net/stories/615/) - Lost in the narrative arc is the last time I said her name not like an errant hammerhead to thumb, the nail crooked as a blister. J. Bradley lives at iheartfailure.net.
- [613](https://nanoism.net/stories/613/) - Q: Looking back, how did it feel to be a famous photographer? A: Like you, kid. I saw pain and suffering, focused my lens on it. Stephen Delaney isn’t a big fan of real life, but he’s glad it gives material for fiction. He tweets as @marginalwords.
- [614](https://nanoism.net/stories/614/) - "Follow the rainbow to the pot of gold," a woman said to herself as she waited for a car under the neon lights. John Siebelink is a college student. He has been an aspiring writer for 20 years.
- [612](https://nanoism.net/stories/612/) - She did not weep because her purity had been stolen, but because it was now her dear sister who would be sacrificed to the gods. Alex Barry can stop writing whenever he wants.
- [611](https://nanoism.net/stories/611/) - A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but I was a new software engineer, and the bug needed to be fixed right away. Pratibha Kelapure is a person.
- [610](https://nanoism.net/stories/610/) - Alaska, he said, counting out the money. His children were tired, but Dad was so happy they believed one more time. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) gives his report at dex3703.wordpress.com. He is working on a novel.
- [609](https://nanoism.net/stories/609/) - After you found out your brother died, the first thing I said to you was, “I thought I told you not to call me.” Jennifer Brush loves ketchup. She also loves catsup.
- [608](https://nanoism.net/stories/608/) - Facing me are hollow eyes and a down turned mouth. “Cheers.” Glass clinks and we drink before hiding our bottles beneath the bathroom sink. If Delia Strange was in a relationship with her writing, the status would be “It’s complicated.”
- [607](https://nanoism.net/stories/607/) - A scream is not a rooster, not in this neighborhood. It won't bring me out of bed. I have work in three hours. Goodnight. Spencer Nitkey is an eclectic teenager with very little certainty about where life will take him. All he knows is that he is excited.
- [606](https://nanoism.net/stories/606/) - Gathering the envelopes (second, third, final notice) from the rug thick with dust, she pauses on last year's sun-bleached catalog. Jennifer Ray Morell (@heyjenray) is a writer and student. She lives in Queens, New York.
- [605](https://nanoism.net/stories/605/) - Seven guns fire three times and Jane collects a flag. Courtney Stafford is a student at the University of Colorado.
- [604](https://nanoism.net/stories/604/) - They raised two girls sleeping in separate rooms. On occasion, she'd tap on his door, her sheepish smile buying her entry inside. Ian Sands is currently not writing a novel.
- [603](https://nanoism.net/stories/603/) - She combed the mommy website until dawn but found no name implying inconvenience or denoting disappointment. Meredith Hatcher writes to keep from going insane in rural Texas.
- [602](https://nanoism.net/stories/602/) - I finally found someone like Me. Then I remembered I had forbidden all other gods. R. Gatwood is mortal.
- [601](https://nanoism.net/stories/601/) - When the rivers dried up and the flowers died, I knew that the end was near, so I sat on the edge of a precipice and watched them warp away. JT Gill arranges words in clever orders, he thinks.
- [600](https://nanoism.net/stories/600/) - She flipped through her kid sister's diary, all stories of kittens and boys. Nothing about an older sister. She wondered who she was. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) gives his report at dex3703.wordpress.com. He is working on a novel.
- [599](https://nanoism.net/stories/599/) - I said, "We should talk about something." She beat a rhythm on the dash, turned up the radio. "Wait," she said. "This is my favorite part." Trevor Pyle is a journalist and writer in Washington State.
- [598](https://nanoism.net/stories/598/) - The agent knew the only way to survive this. He made his way to the nearest superheroes, and he made sure they knew his name. Sean Vivier teaches for a living.
- [597](https://nanoism.net/stories/597/) - I had sinned twice more than Joan, but they let me tag along. At the end of the day, I was a Christian. Danielle Abramsohn writes stories shorter than she is.
- [596](https://nanoism.net/stories/596/) - On my way to the home, I pick a hemlock flower to add to the bouquet. He still laughs at our old running jokes, when I explain them. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [595](https://nanoism.net/stories/595/) - The girl took a selfie with the pop star through a telepresence robot and went back to her hospital bed with a print, forgetting her pain. S. Kay is a compassionate @blueberrio.
- [594](https://nanoism.net/stories/594/) - My father once jumped over fences like an Olympic hurdler to reach his son with the broken arm, breathless. The fences are too high now. Brett Milam writes flash fiction, poetry and editorials, mostly while hooked up to a coffee IV. He's obsessed with his dog, Dallas.
- [164](https://nanoism.net/stories/164/) - A photo of me hung on the fence next to all of the others. Had anyone seen me? I didn't call the number. Tara Barnes freelance copyedits in New York. She also squeals when she finds out Ethan Canin likes something she wrote. Forgive her. This story won 3rd place in our 2010 Nanofiction Contest (for
- [593](https://nanoism.net/stories/593/) - I sailed down the creek in a tiny rowboat using torn bible pages as my map. I never did find that garden. Michael O'Neill is a fiction and poetry writer residing in Chicago.
- [592](https://nanoism.net/stories/592/) - The birds stopped in the sky & I saw the men who move between moments. They sang & prepared the lake where my kid sister was about to drown. @saladinahmed is the author of the Hugo & Nebula-nominated fantasy novel Throne of the Crescent Moon. He lives near Detroit.
- [591](https://nanoism.net/stories/591/) - It wasn't the ruby slippers I wanted. It was Kansas and Auntie Em and true friends for the road, but most of it all it was the little dog. Jennifer Howard (@JenHoward) lives and writes in Washington, D.C.
- [590](https://nanoism.net/stories/590/) - No one is watching how I weep into the earth, thought Abel as his brother's cudgel fell again, that now there is neither one God nor many. Stephen Orloske moaned upon an apple tree yesterday, because he'd nicked his finger with pruners. This story was the winner of our 5-year Anniversary contest.
- [589](https://nanoism.net/stories/589/) - Their cool fingertips meet, then the cold metal rings are on. The bride and groom share a chaste kiss, each thinking of the other's brother. Monica Wang Internets in Vancouver, Canada.
- [588](https://nanoism.net/stories/588/) - The stories of my death are greatly exaggerated. Only the Usurper knows I still live. The irony of this doesn't escape me. Sylvia van Bruggen writes every day, Sometimes the words make it to paper.
- [587](https://nanoism.net/stories/587/) - He worked up to ten mile runs. A tiny boy asked: what are you running from? It's not like that, he said, but couldn't silence the question. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) gives his report at dex3703.wordpress.com. He is working on a novel.
- [The Twitter Fiction Festival (#twitterfiction)](https://nanoism.net/meta/the-twitter-fiction-festival-twitterfiction/) - We've been at this a while. Over 3.5 years in fact (a lifetime in internet years). So if people are going to be writing and talking about Twitter Fiction, you can bet your tweets that we'll be publishing right alongside 'em. There's a five day festival going on, and we'll be publishing a brand new
- [586](https://nanoism.net/stories/586/) - He watches his wife sleep. She lies on her side on their Egyptian cotton sheets, a half-smile dancing on her lips. He sighs and drives home. Mathew Loudon writes.
- [585](https://nanoism.net/stories/585/) - Joey pushes Katie near the monkey bars. Fists clenched, he inflates his chest like his father and shouts, “How many times have I told you?” Jennifer Foley likes to read and write well past decent bedtimes.
- [584](https://nanoism.net/stories/584/) - “Try the wine.” She took a sip, noticed the ring, went to use the restroom. Twenty minutes later, he realized she wasn’t coming back. Robert Hanley will keep writing until they make him stop.
- [582](https://nanoism.net/stories/582/) - Six years since they last saw each other. Seven since they last kissed. Under bitter New York twilight, déjà vu struck like lightning. R. Alexander Woodend is a writer/editor/translator and graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and Columbia University.
- [583](https://nanoism.net/stories/583/) - Goblins aren’t people, but creatures bred for evil. So you can’t blame us for killing their men, nor what we then did with their women. Sean Vivier cannot be summarized in a tweet.
- [581](https://nanoism.net/stories/581/) - The base of her skin graft is silk: when the nerves throb, she pictures it—ribbons in the wind, a river flowing beneath the shallow scar. Austin Eichelberger completed his MA in Fiction in May 2009. He is co-founding editor of the online journal SPACES.
- [580](https://nanoism.net/stories/580/) - One day, He turned off the Sun, put the planets back in the box, stored them with the rest, and left to play in a different galaxy. Iulian Ionescu is a Fiction Writer, Fantasy & Sci/Fi fanatic, Web Programmer, Free Thinker, Blogger and Social Media Geek.
- [579](https://nanoism.net/stories/579/) - The invention of the universal translator was overshadowed by the cries of babies for their fading past-life memories. @kaolinfire writes #twitfic sporadically as @q8p.
- [578](https://nanoism.net/stories/578/) - I think of her often, not because I miss her, but because the last time I saw her was the last time anyone saw her. And that changes things. Foster Trecost is from New Orleans. His stories follow his attention span: sometimes short, and sometimes very short.
- [577](https://nanoism.net/stories/577/) - Today was okay. I call up my in-progress file s_note.DOC and edit some, add a reference to Mom, add “very” to the end bit: “so very sorry.” Daniel Galef writes when he isn't reading.
- [576](https://nanoism.net/stories/576/) - When the end of the world came it was not at all like they said. There was a bright light, yes. But then there was you. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) gives his report at dex3703.wordpress.com. He is working on a novel.
- [575](https://nanoism.net/stories/575/) - He Duct Taped forty-seven rockets to an old lawn chair. "Just like in that movie," he shouted. "'You want the moon, Mary?'" Mom kept packing. K. C. Norton doesn't exist in mirrors.
- [574](https://nanoism.net/stories/574/) - I’m not where I should be. The woman beside me is dead. The paramedics try to save my body whilst my mind works on. What will the wife say? Chris Redfern finds his attitude to life has been greatly affected by his three young boys. No it hasn't. Yes it has.
- [573](https://nanoism.net/stories/573/) - Baby teeth rattle like dried corn in a plastic box. She shuts the childproof drawer, accepts her parents as caricatures. Dan Reiter wishes the world were rounder.
- [572](https://nanoism.net/stories/572/) - He remembers it, longs for it, that old life of cold wells and bitter flies, each time she kisses him with her warm dry lips. @mari_ness does not recommend kissing frogs as a dating technique.
- [571](https://nanoism.net/stories/571/) - And the LORD said to Vishnu, "The War of the Gods is turning into a losing battle. The humans have started fighting for themselves." Etienne Reynaud says things sometimes.
- [569](https://nanoism.net/stories/569/) - They argued for hours on their last night together. Who would be the murder, and who would be the suicide? Brendan Klinkenberg, on occasion, writes.
- [568](https://nanoism.net/stories/568/) - It turned into a prince, like it said, but its lungs were still on the metal tray, and it still stank of formaldehyde. I wiped my mouth. Daniel Galef writes when he isn't reading.
- [194](https://nanoism.net/stories/194/) - Merlot ricocheted off his face. She had always wanted to do that. Only now, though, did she realize she’d never wanted the right excuse. CK Wagner is not quitting her day job just yet.
- [567](https://nanoism.net/stories/567/) - It was pretending to be his wife again; two feet on the stairs, the other six on the walls. “Come out, Ben. Please!” It did her voice too. Dean Clayton Edwards writes in a caravan in the South of France.
- [566](https://nanoism.net/stories/566/) - The suicide lay on the bed beside his favorite novel opened to a highlighted passage he felt would clearly explain his reasons. Matt Crowley sleeps soundly only when his watchtower of books stands sentinel at his bedside.
- [565](https://nanoism.net/stories/565/) - Just sayin’, I was hungry and looked all over for those plums you bought. Didn’t see any, so I ate your birthday cake instead. My bad. Mike Serpa apologizes to William Carlos Williams.
- [564](https://nanoism.net/stories/564/) - Eyes wild with delight, the delight that only freedom brings, she hollered, "I have danced with the devil, and he can't dance worth a shit." Hayley Whitworth (@hayleywhitworth) loves these tiny pieces of fiction.
- [563](https://nanoism.net/stories/563/) - He bought a camera to see how he’d look with eyes closed. Memory full, all the same pose. The receipt was the only paper left on the table. Joseph Dante lives in Florida and exists anywhere else.
- [562](https://nanoism.net/stories/562/) - Rie’s arms itched like fire. She tore her skin off in sheets. Once only the gleaming metal remained, she felt much better. Christian Martin posts very short stories and chats about video games @PixelatedGuy.
- [561](https://nanoism.net/stories/561/) - His wide eyes implored her, but she was convinced. “What happens next matters most,” she sang, checking the gag and pushing him out to sea. Born in a singular quantity, M. Drehd has been divided ever since.
- [560](https://nanoism.net/stories/560/) - But lo, the Lord then formed a greater curse: the financial ruin of the firstborn. Sean Vivier wrote this.
- [559](https://nanoism.net/stories/559/) - In a family that never listened, he learned to shout. And in the world, they followed. Jessie Wang is a writer with big hopes and low expectations.
- [Neighbors](https://nanoism.net/serials/neighbors/) - The Devil moves in next door. He asks to borrow a cup of sugar. What's the catch? He looks sad. I'm the one asking, he says. Every morning the Devil sweeps his sidewalk. He holds excellent backyard barbecues, returns balls and frisbees. Everyone still avoids him. The Devil likes my evening company, offers me exquisite
- [547](https://nanoism.net/stories/547/) - Out in the fields, the old bosses dug bare-handed. Their young watchers didn't understand their crimes and gave them water and chocolate. Derek Dexheimer (@dex3703) gives his report at dex3703.wordpress.com. He is working on a novel.
- [558](https://nanoism.net/stories/558/) - My coat wraps about me like the wings I once loved. It sheds the numbing rain, but not the stares or whispers, knives twisting in my ribs. Nathan Slemp is either a frantic college student or hopelessly buried in his own worlds, depending on the day. He lives in Michigan.
- [557](https://nanoism.net/stories/557/) - Lovesick on the highway, tuned to a radio show on coincidences, when you drive past unaware, picking your nose, and leave my heart pounding. Dawn Sperber lives and writes in New Mexico, found @WonderMeant.
- [556](https://nanoism.net/stories/556/) - Children play in the park. A hand reaches for another rung of the monkey bars, legs dangling precariously. Let him fall, he’ll learn. Mark Rosenblum is a New York native who now lives in Southern California where he misses the taste of real pizza and good deli food.
- [555](https://nanoism.net/stories/555/) - He couldn't feel my face when I was a baby. His hands were too rough, or I was too soft. Like cinderblocks on silk, mother said. Dan Reiter believes in partial telepathy.
- [554](https://nanoism.net/stories/554/) - She spreads mint jelly across a slab of multi-grain toast and wishes for pop-up children who never say no or I can't or don't kill me. Kyle Hemmings lives and dies in New Jersey.
- [553](https://nanoism.net/stories/553/) - There’s a note on my door. Hurrying inside, I catch the last of my dreams climbing out a window, wearing my now useless wedding gown. Zac Newnham (@znewnham) is a creative writing student in Melbourne, taking very small steps on a very long road.
- [552](https://nanoism.net/stories/552/) - The man wanted a dog. The woman wanted a baby. The man did not want a baby, but really wanted a dog. They settled for each other. Danny Croot's potential is only handicapped by his laziness.
- [551](https://nanoism.net/stories/551/) - The vodka tasted watery. She worried. Bruce Harris enjoys relaxing with a Marxman.
- [550](https://nanoism.net/stories/550/) - The first time I overdosed, I saw God. Every time since, I have seen only blackness. I must find him. Robert Holt is a writer of dark fiction.
- [549](https://nanoism.net/stories/549/) - Feasting in a well at the end of time, it wonders why this world discarded wishes into crumbling holes and abandoned them. Matthew Bowers has learned that the quality of his writing is inversely correlated to his professional ambition.
- [548](https://nanoism.net/stories/548/) - Jesus gets thirsty too, but keep your pants zipped. That's what Bill would say, but he never lied about Adam being his, either. Amy McNamara does various things with words in Seattle.
- [546](https://nanoism.net/stories/546/) - They were woken by a scream outside. He whispered, ‘Don’t worry, it’s city life.’ In the morning, a policeman asked them, ‘Nothing at all?’ JR Deschampsneufs: always learning the art.
- [545](https://nanoism.net/stories/545/) - You were the first to want space. Muttering I just need some air, you fled, and that was The Big Bang. Now we're all scattered everywhere. Dawn Corrigan has just stepped outside for a moment.
- [544](https://nanoism.net/stories/544/) - You asked me to edit your memoir. It was much more satisfying after I replaced her name with mine. Cheryl Chancellor lives on the other side of the looking-glass.
- [543](https://nanoism.net/stories/543/) - Subject line: I DON’T LIKE YOUR TONE. Message: blank. Eric Hawthorn has found that writing his own bio is the only time he can get away with referring to himself in the third person.
- [542](https://nanoism.net/stories/542/) - I wonder if she remembers us. But he gave her a new kitten and a new name when he carried her away into another future, the one without us. Linda Palund: a flash fiction artiste and morbid soul living on two continents.
- [541](https://nanoism.net/stories/541/) - Duke was drunk on rubbing alcohol and three days no sleep. “Where’s the mutt?” He would yell, looking for me. “Where is the white devil?” Ben Parker Karris is a young writer currently living in the American Southwest.
- [540](https://nanoism.net/stories/540/) - She could only get herself 302ed so often before people thought she just craved attention and hospital beds. She decided to try harder. Eric Boyd (@EricBoydtweets) writes for a lot of different things. He was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
- [539](https://nanoism.net/stories/539/) - Driving, I scan the sleepy city for a diner I've never been to. The radio seems to sing, "better versions of you are being born right now." Eddy Habib writes words and sells beer in Worcester, MA. He recently caught all the pokemon.
- [538](https://nanoism.net/stories/538/) - Poured from a dusty bottle of Bordeaux: wine she'd been saving for a special moment. Dan Reiter thinks half a true story is better than
- [537](https://nanoism.net/stories/537/) - The storm closed the courthouse. But the bookstore was a more magical place anyway. We do, they said. And the snow melted on the floor. Patricia Doiron finds that every story worth telling can be told in 140 characters or less—unlike Anna Karenina.
- [535](https://nanoism.net/stories/535/) - He still waits for an hour every month, never realizing her goodbye got lost in translation. Maybe, it's not true what they say about dogs. Elin (@elinmatilda_) wants to live in an old castle.
- [536](https://nanoism.net/stories/536/) - It was the professor, in the ballroom, with the revolver. But I needed evidence. This is Ida Pohl's...third attempt? Fourth?
- [534](https://nanoism.net/stories/534/) - She wet his shirt with her tears, and he smiled behind her neck. No one loses his mind twice, he told himself. The Cheshire moon agreed. Dan Reiter has trouble accepting the obvious.
- [533](https://nanoism.net/stories/533/) - Vows etched on a matchstick. “What do I do with this?” he asks. Engine running, suitcase in hand, she says, “Burn it, and think of me.” Courtney Watson is an English professor in Roanoke, VA. Her writing has recently appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review and more.
- [532](https://nanoism.net/stories/532/) - The tourist burned the photos once he learned he could never return home. Paul Fallavollita writes from Greenville, South Carolina.
- [531](https://nanoism.net/stories/531/) - Every day like every other, he built the machine. The machine grew so large it could never work, and he stopped, satisfied. Derek Dexheimer has a writing and photography blog.
- [529](https://nanoism.net/stories/529/) - Having saved him from shipwreck and sharks, she basked there, pondering the purpose of his toes, before she woke from such strange dreams. Ben Adams is a Hoosier who lives on the island of Maui.
- [530](https://nanoism.net/stories/530/) - He asked her, "Would you marry me?" She said, "No, but I'll take you home." N. J. Campbell wonders a lot.
- [528](https://nanoism.net/stories/528/) - First the money ran out. Then she did. Then he quit drinking—he no longer had either the means or the motivation. He wasn't unhappy. Daragh Beirne makes little creatures do stuff.
- [527](https://nanoism.net/stories/527/) - “Tomorrow we will get you some horseshoes,” said the man wiping his brow. “But father,” said the boy, “I am not a horse, I am a bear.” Will Wood is a vagabond. He lives anywhere but Texas.
- [526](https://nanoism.net/stories/526/) - Wind blew the balloon from his hands, and the little boy liked that it was free to play. Sometimes, his father said, it's okay to feel sad. Derek Dexheimer has a writing and photography blog.
- [525](https://nanoism.net/stories/525/) - The clockmaker forged a mechanical heart when his own withered. Arthritis now twists his fingers, and all the clocks begin to wind down. Jennifer K. Oliver requires regular doses of speculative fiction.
- [524](https://nanoism.net/stories/524/) - All our stories are about people before the Bettering—people who hurt because they couldn't help it. People who didn't think hurt was fun. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [523](https://nanoism.net/stories/523/) - They lived uneasily ever after. The evil stepmother had won the custody battle, and the dragon remained at large. David Galef is the pen name of David Galef.
- [522](https://nanoism.net/stories/522/) - She had never heard her doll speak before, but, because it said such interesting things, she decided she didn’t mind. Annie Hintsala is an on line writer who loves haiku and little stories, her son, teaching, singing badly, and cheesy movies.
- [#Twitterfiction Festival Recap](https://nanoism.net/meta/twitterfiction-festival-recap/) - We accepted themed submissions during the very first official #twitterfiction festival, and it resulted in our first daily publication schedule in Nanoism's almost four year history. Here were our selections: Wednesday: the classics, revisited 516 by Sean Vivier 517 by Mari Ness Thursday: generations 518 by Christopher Hivner Friday: legen—wait for it—dary 519 by Cheryl Chancellor Saturday:
- [521](https://nanoism.net/stories/521/) - She wanted to call him Judah, after her father, but he disagreed, saying he didn't want his son to have the most popular name of the year. Matan White doesn't always write, but when she does, she writes nanofiction. This story was a selection from the #twitterfiction festival
- [520](https://nanoism.net/stories/520/) - In her dad's closet, she found flannel shirts, ties, boots, and an old baby photo of no one she knew. All were tossed out. Leann Orris (@ODearMoriah) tweets fiction. She's not sure what else Twitter is for. This story was a selection from the #twitterfiction festival
- [519](https://nanoism.net/stories/519/) - Odin scowled. "What do you call this? The end of the world?" Loki shrugged. "I dunno, looks like a good party to me." Cheryl Chancellor lives on the other side of the looking-glass. This story was a selection from the #twitterfiction festival
- [518](https://nanoism.net/stories/518/) - Puzzle pieces fell to the floor in a jumble. Maria looked down at the abstract image staring back at her and recognized her father. Christopher Hivner writes, reads and uses sarcasm. This story was a selection from the #twitterfiction festival
- [517](https://nanoism.net/stories/517/) - So, Toto. a) We're not in Kansas anymore. b) I'm on trial for murder. In retrospect, we should have stuck with the storm cellar. @Mari_ness lives and writes in central Florida, under the unhelpful guidance of two adorable cats. This story was a selection from the #twitterfiction festival
- [516](https://nanoism.net/stories/516/) - Until one day, Tantalus reached his hand and took fruit from the tree. No need to yearn. It should not have made him feel so empty. Sean Vivier wrote this. This story was a selection from the #twitterfiction festival
- [515](https://nanoism.net/stories/515/) - The wolf feinted twice. When nobody believed the boy’s third cry of alarm, he attacked in earnest. Sean Vivier makes his money from writing and teaching whenever he can.
- [514](https://nanoism.net/stories/514/) - I forget what you look like, I forget everything. Then a picture of Scully reminds me. I don't know why. Her nose, mouth. Your mouth, again. Christina Moody lives on a deserted island, without the comfort of a volleyball named Wilson.
- [513](https://nanoism.net/stories/513/) - The faded blue backpack sat wearily in the corner. I glanced at it, wanting it to disappear once and for all. Jessica Xu is an enthusiastic writer living in San Diego, CA.
- [511](https://nanoism.net/stories/511/) - The eggs make a yellow smear on my plate. Why do they make me eat at this restaurant every day and why do they never cook the yolks? S.D. Rhinewald likes to write, eat, watch hockey, sleep...and then do it all again.
- [512](https://nanoism.net/stories/512/) - Disguised as a bum, Christ lay on a sidewalk. People hurried by except for one little girl. “I like your disguise, Athena,” he told her. Phil Temples is a product of the Midwest, but he now lives in Boston. He's written fantasy/scifi short/flash fiction for over ten years.
- [510](https://nanoism.net/stories/510/) - She was surprised. No one had asked for her name before. Danny Dunlavey is a student.
- [509](https://nanoism.net/stories/509/) - Nineteen real wax candles adorned his birthday cake. An extravagance, he knew, but it was tradition to honor the oldest of the elders. Dan Hart can almost count to twenty on one hand. He also writes fiction.
- [508](https://nanoism.net/stories/508/) - The Time Traveler released the plague on Cro-Magnon Man. See if the Neanderthals could do any better. Sean Vivier is a teacher and writer from central Connecticut.
- [507](https://nanoism.net/stories/507/) - He was asleep, body propped against the Capitol building, sign on his lap: "Don't want coins, just need change." Melinda Dubbs is a Hoosier.
- [506](https://nanoism.net/stories/506/) - I fulfilled all my scientific goals before I retired and often wonder if Oppenheimer harbored these same regrets at the end. Shane Rhinewald wrote this while listening to a Sting song from 1985.
- [505](https://nanoism.net/stories/505/) - How she looks through your memory box--with such reverence, like a student on her first day at school--makes you wish you really loved her. Krishan Coupland was born in Southampton and recently graduated from Staffordshire University.
- [504](https://nanoism.net/stories/504/) - She slipped into her sandals for a walk in the snow, then asked the stranger in the mirror to help her find the door. Terri Ross is a poet/writer currenly working on her first novel. She resides in Ontario Canada.
- [503](https://nanoism.net/stories/503/) - Maya's folks set out milk & cookies. They lit incense & prepared the Ouija board, smiling. I pondered why I was told never to speak to them. Ben X. Caldwell lives in Buffalo, NY but exists in a nonphysical state of perspective and consciousness. The bathrooms are clean.
- [502](https://nanoism.net/stories/502/) - Today our twins were born. Name: Xiang. Weight: 3220 grams. Length: 17.3 inches. He has a little sister. Evert Asberg lives and works in Europe.
- [501](https://nanoism.net/stories/501/) - When the broad­casts stopped, it got lonely in the bunker. In the end we took a vote. We didn’t want to out­live the human race. Jack Vivace lives at home with his girlfriend, his birds, and the shambling horror that came with the apartment.
- [Big Changes to our Little Stories](https://nanoism.net/meta/big-changes-to-our-little-stories/) - After over three years of Nanoism and reaching our 500th story last week (milestone!), we're making a very significant change to our publication schedule. In fact, it's a pretty big change for a site featuring such tiny tales. From now on, Nanoism will be publishing one story per week (on Wednesdays). Everything else stays the
- [500](https://nanoism.net/stories/500/) - Isaac had barely spoken to him since. Abraham began to wonder if he had failed the Lord’s test after all. Sean Vivier wrote this.
- [499](https://nanoism.net/stories/499/) - My robot friend failed his Turing test. He was devastated, but not in the same way a person would be. Tom Byers, fortunately for the human race, does not know how to build robots.
- [498](https://nanoism.net/stories/498/) - The priest respects his parish more than ritual, so he no longer intones “world without end.” Not after what he saw in the Vatican vault. Chad Greene is a profoundly lapsed Catholic.
- [497](https://nanoism.net/stories/497/) - She asked her Facebook friends for their home addresses, so she could send invitations, some at least, for the funeral. Evert Asberg envies me, wants to be me or even thinks he's me. Anyway, he sleeps with my wife.
- [496](https://nanoism.net/stories/496/) - The clerk had just finished folding a sweater when a woman grabbed it and shook it out, holding it up to the air as if it were her husband. Charles Rafferty directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College.
- [495](https://nanoism.net/stories/495/) - Grief gives course to her compass, and she finds her mother, after five months, in a Craigslist ad looking for a new daughter. L. Lambert Lawson blogs, tweets, and edits Kazka Press.
- [494](https://nanoism.net/stories/494/) - “Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” “Cut the crap,” said the wolf. “You know it’s me.” So Little Red Riding Hood opened the door. David Galef publishes far too much for his own good.
- [493](https://nanoism.net/stories/493/) - I looked into her eyes and something was wrong. They were too glassy, too hard. This was not my daughter. Still, I said nothing. Christian Martin writes sci-fi twitter stories and geek poetry @PixelatedGuy.
- [492](https://nanoism.net/stories/492/) - She told me once that she thought cars on a road sounded like the ocean. She always was the type to just dive in. Katherine La Mantia hates tea and watches too much BBC.
- [491](https://nanoism.net/stories/491/) - The flow was lost in translation, but it didn't matter. It was just another ransom note. Helena Högestätt has previously been published on Nanoismer.
- [490](https://nanoism.net/stories/490/) - He leaves before she wakes. His last girlfriend blushed when they made love. Now the other beds seem cold. Chuck Von Nordheim relies on the kindness of strangers in Dayton, Ohio.
- [489](https://nanoism.net/stories/489/) - A cloud covered the sky in breathtaking pace. Apocalypse? I started to run. A wind was rising. Raindrops fell when I entered the brothel. Evert Asberg envies me, wants to be me or even thinks he's me. Anyway, he sleeps with my wife.
- [481](https://nanoism.net/stories/481/) - During the audit, as the woman from the IRS combed through his receipts, he thought of how much simpler things were in the county jail. Eric Boyd (@EricBoydtweets) writes a lot for different things. He is a winner of the PEN American Center's 2012 Prison Writing Contest.
- [488](https://nanoism.net/stories/488/) - Yes, she said to text her anytime. No, she never told me she was the Secretary of State. Steven D. Stark knows if he did or didn't.
- [487](https://nanoism.net/stories/487/) - I love my mommy and daddy so much. The only time they make me upset is when, while playing, one of them begins to chant “low battery.” D. Ahren Bell is a science teacher, science fiction writer, and father. Follow him on twitter @Specksinthevoid.
- [486](https://nanoism.net/stories/486/) - I don’t need a memory palace. One room, one green glass window, a pair of familiar hands, and a smile. It’s enough to live in. Nghi Vo lives close to an inland sea.
- [485](https://nanoism.net/stories/485/) - Jane struggles with what to file, what to throw away. Sifting through her parents’ things, she thinks how much easier this is in the office. Clare Kirwan lives near Liverpool and writes poems and fiction
- [484](https://nanoism.net/stories/484/) - The night my father died, he was having trouble breathing, terrified. I held his hand and told him I’d return in the morning. Here I am. David Galef is a shameless eclectic who publishes in seventeen genres.
- [483](https://nanoism.net/stories/483/) - He was still on the ground in the morning. His jaw hurt. They were both gone; he was alone. He'd never been so proud of his son, though. @EricBoydtweets still writes a lot for different things.
- [482](https://nanoism.net/stories/482/) - "A short life." She runs age-tremulous fingers over the line crossing his palm. It's from a knifeblade, but he nods, figuring she's right. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [480](https://nanoism.net/stories/480/) - I’d eyed the scars halfheartedly concealed by sleeves for months. To believe would’ve been affirmation. To intervene would’ve saved her. Melissa Thomas has written three novels and enjoys being Canadian.
- [479](https://nanoism.net/stories/479/) - He picked up her pink ribbon and felt his life unravel. He was envious even of the search dogs, her scent so fresh in their memories. Jillian Schmidt lives in Oregon with her husband and several bicycles.
- [478](https://nanoism.net/stories/478/) - "Most of the tooth is still there," he said. The child only cried harder. R. Gatwood is no good at comforting the disturbed.
- [477](https://nanoism.net/stories/477/) - There's no air in the jar and you expect me to breathe, but you never poked out any air holes for me. Lucy Quin laughs at the Life Alert commercials.
- [476](https://nanoism.net/stories/476/) - After surveying the desolation of the burning world around him, Sisyphus pushed his boulder back into the valley and followed it down. Kathleen Crow is owned by two cats who abuse her horribly.
- [475](https://nanoism.net/stories/475/) - "Tu ne seras jamais comme moi." She didn't know what the French meant, but she still said it to the mirror after each weigh in. Brenda Cobbs is beginning to emerge from academic writing once again.
- [474](https://nanoism.net/stories/474/) - The sun flickered like a neon light, then went out. Sanja, under her father's tree, wondered how long before the Earth grew cold. Christian Martin posts sci-fi very short stories and geek poetry @PixelatedGuy.
- [473](https://nanoism.net/stories/473/) - I had to sneak my hand on the small of Marie's back like a SEAL team. Two more drinks and she would have been your mother instead. J. Bradley lives at iheartfailure.net.
- [472](https://nanoism.net/stories/472/) - By the top of the third, Dad was already at the bottom of his fifth. Our team won, but we didn't celebrate. Philip Simondet wrote this just for you. Thank him at http://youtube.com/PhilipSimondet
- [471](https://nanoism.net/stories/471/) - He left. But she still looked for his lanky form. Or one like it. She knew losses get replaced. She knew she’d love a copy just as much. Chuck Von Nordheim lives in Dayton, OH, by a river.
- [470](https://nanoism.net/stories/470/) - "I can't do this anymore," she says. "I want a divorce." "I understand," I reply through the bars. Lindsay Kitson writes Dieselpunk out of Winnipeg and blogs.
- [469](https://nanoism.net/stories/469/) - Tommy held the E-meter with feigned curiosity. “For science,” he said. His auditor didn’t like that. “For Scientology," he corrected. Kyle Jaeger is a writer in Hollywood.
- [468](https://nanoism.net/stories/468/) - When she found her tea later, it was not only cold; a tiny paper boat—what used to be the grocery list—was soggily capsizing. Nina Nesseth plays the ukulele.
- [467](https://nanoism.net/stories/467/) - Craig was used to being disappointed, as he had told the paramedic only moments ago. The light at the end of the tunnel was lit by flames. Sam Kearns will dance, sing and handstand for money, though he isn't any good at all three.
- [466](https://nanoism.net/stories/466/) - As the kitchen curtains ignite, the man in the living room types "smelling smoke" and skims a list. Seizure. Stroke. Tumor. Sinus infection. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [465](https://nanoism.net/stories/465/) - The scent of carpet was so reminiscent of Dr. Li's waiting room that, in remembering my frequent visits, I almost forgot I was dead. Lau Lioi lives in New Jersey. She is Argentine, not Asian. She studies architecture and reads like it's her job. If only it were.
- [464](https://nanoism.net/stories/464/) - With closed eyes, she sat on. All would change to dull reality if they opened, so she put his hookah into her mouth and began smoking again. Chad Greene teaches children's literature.
- [463](https://nanoism.net/stories/463/) - They met on a cruise, married days later. He hardly knew her but that was the appeal. She got ill soon after the honeymoon. Prostate cancer. @EricBoydtweets writes a lot for different things.
- [462](https://nanoism.net/stories/462/) - I guess I agreed to have sex with her because that is what adults do, they have sex. And at twenty-five I wanted to feel like an adult. Lacy Lalonde drinks tea and writes fiction.
- [461](https://nanoism.net/stories/461/) - Sometimes, we forget children are fragile. Olivia Rich (@OliviaRich4) tries this writing technique from her creative writing elective.
- [460](https://nanoism.net/stories/460/) - It's strange. Ever since the whole of humanity fled to the suburbs, the giant monsters have yet to attack us. Sean Vivier calls this one "Suburban Flight."
- [207](https://nanoism.net/stories/207/) - “You’ve lost weight,” the video-store man said. “Thanks,” I said. “Lots of salad.” I told my wife and she said, “They always say that.” Charles Newbery is a freelance journalist based in Buenos Aires.
- [459](https://nanoism.net/stories/459/) - I flew west the day the papers went final. Sky at my shoulders, free country below. A vandalized plane sign: "life vAst under your seat." Matthew Fogarty is compiling a playlist for the drive home.
- [458](https://nanoism.net/stories/458/) - An infinite number of universes necessarily exist. God did not create them. God jobbed out the boring bits and called them Heaven. Meika no longer writes for humans.
- [457](https://nanoism.net/stories/457/) - This was the part of the job she hated. She knocked, then waited on the doorstep for the parents to answer. A heavy rain began to fall. @SimonKewin writes this and that. Sometimes other words too.
- [456](https://nanoism.net/stories/456/) - The young woman stared at the older. Wrinkles cut her skin. Her eyes held little joy. The younger sighed and walked away from the mirror. Kelly Kacee Martin should be cleaning right now.
- [455](https://nanoism.net/stories/455/) - The guerrillas concluded they could not eat their bullets, but their bullets could eat the villagers and the villagers had the food. Ian Glass finds fiction and reality parallel each other more often than not.
- [454](https://nanoism.net/stories/454/) - No space left. They seek refuge in garbage bins and in cardboard box houses. The discussion is global warming, but they are still cold. Guy Belleranti writes for both children and adults.
- [453](https://nanoism.net/stories/453/) - My h’nds tremble on the keybo’rd. If they don’t like my next work I’ll be killed. Killed 'nd repl’ced. I wish I h’dn’t broken th’t letter. Pete Sain likes to show what's in his brain, preferably before the autopsy.
- [452](https://nanoism.net/stories/452/) - She called him I Swear This House is Haunted for a long time, but after the break-in she called him Friend, and even let him wash her hair. Aaron Beyer is going to blog about this.
- [451](https://nanoism.net/stories/451/) - Whenever she opened her eyes she could still remember what it had felt like to die that very first time. Matilda Kant spends her days living vicariously by reading other people's stories.
- [450](https://nanoism.net/stories/450/) - She swiped absently at her neck again and he wondered if she too felt God's hot breath. Hayley Whitworth loves these tiny pieces of fiction.
- [449](https://nanoism.net/stories/449/) - Pete dragged him over to one side and whispered something in his ear. After that, whatever doubts he had, Thomas kept them to himself. Daragh Beirne scribbles and doodles and and makes noises at Bad Hamster's Hamsterama.
- [448](https://nanoism.net/stories/448/) - Despite the tears, he made himself comfortable in a memory he planned to frequent. Daniel Stalcup (@dwstalcup) definitely doesn’t live in Los Angeles and isn’t trying to be a screenwriter because that would be silly.
- [447](https://nanoism.net/stories/447/) - She'd thought him joking, when he pointed at the urn and said he hadn't let his last girlfriend leave him. She believed him now. Misti Wolanski (@carradee) loves watching others' eyes widen when she describes what she writes.
- [446](https://nanoism.net/stories/446/) - I used to wear my hair in a bun, smoothing it with wax. These days white flakes fall from my scalp, covering my shoulders. Not snow but ash. Jami Nakamura Lin writes lots of things and is an editor at Revolution House magazine.
- [445](https://nanoism.net/stories/445/) - The firemen praised my courage but said I couldn’t go back inside. Unable to ensure the evidence was gone, I fumed the rest of the night. Noel Sloboda wants to learn Swedish so he can read Nanoismer.
- [444](https://nanoism.net/stories/444/) - When he died, he found the souls of all the animals he’d ever hurt standing in a line, waiting for him. For a moment, none of them moved. Simon Kewin just is.
- [443](https://nanoism.net/stories/443/) - I’m scared, I told him. Don’t be, he answered. I’ve known you your entire life. Here, take my hand, he said and reached out from the mirror. Jens Thuresson enjoys writing, mostly sci-fi and fantasy.
- [442](https://nanoism.net/stories/442/) - For Sale: Human baby. Shoes not included. Alan Green thinks this is less dark than that other story.
- [441](https://nanoism.net/stories/441/) - She asked for a water birth. Maybe I should have suspected, but there was never that much detail in the old selkie stories. Jack Vivace works in numbers by day and letters by night.
- [440](https://nanoism.net/stories/440/) - She sat watching the children play on the swing, missing the future she was supposed to have. J.D. Hall is a writer from Toronto.
- [439](https://nanoism.net/stories/439/) - William ignored his mother's warnings as a rule, so he followed the glow into the swamp without hesitation. Joshua Abramsohn teaches the power of literature to 8th graders.
- [438](https://nanoism.net/stories/438/) - An over-sized glass once filled with cognac in her hand; a melancholic skyline in the window. She thought she was in Manila. Was she happy? Truls Mårtensson is troubled. And from Sweden.
- [437](https://nanoism.net/stories/437/) - Nine candles, one for each decade, danced against his clouded flat eyes. He blew them out when told and asked again, “Whose birthday is it?” Jeffrey Ballard currently lives in the Texas Hill Country. A fact his Yankee family never lets go.
- [436](https://nanoism.net/stories/436/) - Under her wedding dress sweat stings her thigh, where the groom's father has left a cut with his wedding ring which he wears fastidiously. Henry Lu is a computer programmer by day, a painter and writer by night.
- [435](https://nanoism.net/stories/435/) - Please don’t cry; we all have to go sometime. I’m sorry about the mess. The will is in the safe. I can never see you again. J.R. Johnson lives north of the border and likes it.
- [434](https://nanoism.net/stories/434/) - "Tell me about Annie," I urge him, and his gaze softens. But before he can speak, the guard says our time is up, and he is gone again. JJ Sheffer (@bustedjj) lives near York County Prison in York, PA, and often wonders what they’re up to in there.
- [433](https://nanoism.net/stories/433/) - She invests for nine months to afford the elf’s services. She gives birth, then pays the going market rate for happily ever after. Sean Vivier is a teacher and a writer from central Connecticut.
- [432](https://nanoism.net/stories/432/) - Chris pointed his fingers in the shape of a gun and said, "Bang!" That was the last time we saw him in class. Justin Merchant does not live under one rock, but many.
- [431](https://nanoism.net/stories/431/) - Perhaps they would have felt differently had they known the lone photo she carried around was the same one that had come with the wallet. Bruce Harris enjoys relaxing with a Marxman.
- [430](https://nanoism.net/stories/430/) - Votive candles, plush rabbits and old photos lined the porch steps, outside the police tape. Cars drove slowly by. The mailman didn’t stop. Joseph S. Pete (@j5p1) has been published in Dogzplot, Yankee Pot Roast, and elsewhere.
- [429](https://nanoism.net/stories/429/) - Nipples are a sin to look at unless you're the husband, he said, or unless it's by accident and only for a couple of seconds, 6 at the most. James McManus's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Believer, and Paris Review.
- [427](https://nanoism.net/stories/427/) - I have been listening to your story—it's tragic and poignant, I love it! The inquisition resumes tomorrow. Try to get some rest. @ecambrose is the author of a dark historical fantasy series about a barber surgeon, coming next year from DAW books.
- [428](https://nanoism.net/stories/428/) - The philosopher’s stone brought perfect order to chaos. The alchemist had but a moment of joy before the stone stilled his every atom. Sean Vivier is a writer and a teacher.
- [426](https://nanoism.net/stories/426/) - Spending every day combing the beach where he'd found the Spanish coin, he never noticed how empty their new house was. Matthew Brennan is a novelist and short-fictionist.
- [425](https://nanoism.net/stories/425/) - The razor hadn't done it. He had. And she'd put the wedding ring back on to make it clear. Sylvia Hiven lives and writes in Atlanta, Georgia. She does not like fluff.
- [424](https://nanoism.net/stories/424/) - She's old enough to read now and looks at me differently, over her tablet. When I say I'll be home soon, she turns away. Johnna Talbot lives in San Diego with her husband, to whom she spoke this story, then heard that it was one. This story won the 2011 Nanofiction Contest.
- [422](https://nanoism.net/stories/422/) - God sighed. Lego was more fun in the old days. He still had the complete Garden of Eden set in a shoebox under his bed. Sarah Stanton (@mallardbranx) is a birdwatcher, Sinophile, poet, translator and geek. She lives in China but dreams in English. This story won third place in the 2011 Nanofiction Contest.
- [421](https://nanoism.net/stories/421/) - There was time. She grabbed her bag, phoned in the car. ‘You still in departures? Wait for me.’ She’d give him another chance – for Hawaii. Jackie Bateman is a British author living in beautiful Vancouver. She has huge eye-bags despite the fresh air. This story was an honorable mention in the 2011 Nanofiction Contest.
- [423](https://nanoism.net/stories/423/) - No one wants this role. When you see me on the street, no matter how self-absorbed you are, you give thanks you're not me. Move along. Pat Tompkins writes from California. This story won second place in the 2011 Nanofiction Contest.
- [Nanofiction 2011 Contest Winners](https://nanoism.net/meta/nanofiction-2011-contest-winners/) - This year we converted $50 in prize money into $400 of charitable donations to wonderful organizations working from animal health to global health, clean water to fighting hunger. Thanks to everyone who donated! Without further ado, here are Robert Swartwood's selections for this year: Johnna Talbot Pat Tompkins Sarah Stanton Honorable mention: Jackie Bateman Winners
- [420](https://nanoism.net/stories/420/) - Afterwards, because he was sorry, he used to buy me flowers – yellows, purples, the colour of bruises. Nobody buys me flowers any more. @ClareKirwan used to be a magician's assistant but rarely jumps out of empty boxes any more.
- [419](https://nanoism.net/stories/419/) - But on the eighth day He created a race of iridescent spaceflyers with kaleidoscope eyes to tumble amongst the stars and forgot all about us. Ben X. Caldwell writes, acts, and studies in Buffalo, NY. He is the writer of many "works" of fiction that nobody likes.
- [418](https://nanoism.net/stories/418/) - This one time: I did something crazy, borderline illegal, and the scar on my left cheek still talks smack about Ella Thompson. Susan Franceschina is a fledgling human.
- [417](https://nanoism.net/stories/417/) - We meet infrequently for coffee now. In the AM. Without the kids, just in case. Because, according to her only, she doesn't have a problem. Sealey Andrews writes from her home in the Pacific Northwest.
- [416](https://nanoism.net/stories/416/) - He no longer cared about the drugs, the money, his cheap whores or his expensive cars. There were more important things now. Like feeding. Sometimes Pete Sain writes. Here's proof.
- [415](https://nanoism.net/stories/415/) - Black beetles roamed the grass by her feet, fat and shiny like beads. He’d have liked that. The adults standing around her droned on and on. Simon Kewin is writing down everything he knows, one word at a time.
- [414](https://nanoism.net/stories/414/) - so we’re at the bar with our orange juice and I look at her and wonder if we will still be friends after they break up and I date Kevin Jazmín Oña is 20.
- [413](https://nanoism.net/stories/413/) - "I know a romantic place for us to go." I pointed my cigar at the wheel of my Bentley. "Wanna drive?" She shook her head. "I'm thirteen." Evert Asberg lives and works in Europe.
- [412](https://nanoism.net/stories/412/) - He glanced from his red pants to the crumbled remains of a sleigh to a reindeer calmly chewing on grass. If only he remembered who he was. Sylvia van Bruggen is known to write silly stories.
- [411](https://nanoism.net/stories/411/) - Snow melts in layers; she stares through the window knowing that in a few weeks the evidence will be laid bare for all to see. Ashley Brown excels at bizarre beginnings and ends, but finds that stories, like desserts, are better with middles.
- [410](https://nanoism.net/stories/410/) - The doctor said he had the heart of a much younger man. He stood outside the home of the donor’s family, trying to think of the right words. Simon Kewin employs an infinite number of monkeys to write stories for him. It’s easier that way.
- [409](https://nanoism.net/stories/409/) - She thought about packing a single bag and disappearing completely before he woke. Deciding a haircut would do instead, she lay back down. Erica Lee Rosen is figuring it out, everybody just calm down.
- [408](https://nanoism.net/stories/408/) - I drink memory-rich wine for her. When the last drop's gone, she'll leave. Recollections will blur while the grape-odor lingers. Nathaniel Katz blogs about genre at The Hat Rack. When not blogging, he pretends he can write fiction.
- [407](https://nanoism.net/stories/407/) - Up... down... up... down... then drag on the tights and plod out the window. Even with married women, sex was no fun for The Flash. JP Allen grew up in Kentucky, went to school in Vermont, and is writing from Madrid.
- [406](https://nanoism.net/stories/406/) - Zeus didn't have the heart to tell Pandora: Hope had been meant as a torment as well. Sean Vivier wishes we could title these.
- [405](https://nanoism.net/stories/405/) - He had only one rule: that she never refuse him. Other than that, she felt free. Billy Rand is an amalgamation of Billy the Kid and Ayn Rand.
- [404](https://nanoism.net/stories/404/) - He says "I love you" as she turns for his food. She doesn't reply. He pays; her hands sign "Thank you." "See you tomorrow," he signs back. Michael Haynes (@mohio73) lives in Ohio and blogs.
- [Our Annual Contest (for 2011 [for Charity!])](https://nanoism.net/meta/our-annual-contest-for-2011-for-charity/) - Dearest Nanofans, You may have thought 2011 would come and go without an opportunity to participate in yet another great bite-sized creative-writing contest extravaganza. But you'd be wrong, since we're squeezing our annual contest into the last sliver of the year. For those of you familiar with our charity contest last year, the gist is
- [Nanoism: Now in Sweden!](https://nanoism.net/meta/nanoism-now-in-sweden/) - Today marks the official debut of Nanoism's first international chapter: Nanoismer! I'm thrilled to see the nano spirit and framework in another continent and language. Thanks to founders Ebba Åkerman and Elena Tillman Sperandio for being inspired and embracing Nanoism with such gusto. Check out the site, follow @nanoismer on Twitter, and "like" Nanoismer on
- [403](https://nanoism.net/stories/403/) - I returned from the track, devastated. I watched her sleep, knowing she would leave me in the morning. I would try again, to win it back. Kim Tatam loves a good yarn.
- [402](https://nanoism.net/stories/402/) - This is an unpretentious piece about muskrat necromancers eating popcorn and apples. Symbolically, though, it is a metaphor for life. Will Shadbolt is always dreaming up stories.
- [401](https://nanoism.net/stories/401/) - Her puppy grew up. She made a wish and blew. Its fur scattered to the wind, leaving just its heart-seed, which she planted in a clay pot. Shannon Wendt lives in New Mexico with her husband and five rescued dogs.
- [400](https://nanoism.net/stories/400/) - They don't have the time to love each other or to find anything better. They've known each other for so long, and that counts for something. Frankie Romano is a twenty-year-old hypochondriac with a skateboard she's never learned to ride.
- [399](https://nanoism.net/stories/399/) - We took a troubled child from your world and gave him absolute power over a land of magic. Still, the reign of terror surprised us. Sean Vivier teaches when he isn't writing.
- [398](https://nanoism.net/stories/398/) - When I cry, she hits harder. Steven Stark is the author of four books and one e-book. He has contributed to a variety of publications.
- [397](https://nanoism.net/stories/397/) - Sitting in his boat, the idyllic scenery calmed him. Satisfied, he began to row back to shore content the body would not float up. Ian Glass is a English and Humanities major at University of Colorado.
- [396](https://nanoism.net/stories/396/) - "Actions speak louder than words," she said. "Prove it," he said. So she went and got a tattoo: WORDS DON'T MEAN SHIT. Laura DeHaan communicates like the mighty bee, in odor cues and waggle dances.
- [395](https://nanoism.net/stories/395/) - He had the crone curse every man in the castle with deadly plague. As he crested the wall, he wished he’d mentioned the women, too. Sean Vivier's last name is pronounced like Vivian but with an R.
- [394](https://nanoism.net/stories/394/) - Each year we were taught from new marketing books we were obliged to buy. Their content did not differ much. Only then did I understand. Evert Asberg lives and works in Europe.
- [393](https://nanoism.net/stories/393/) - The developer could talk until his tongue fell out, but the farmer only saw the soil his father tilled. Though, his boy lived in the city. Joseph S. Pete owns a fedora, but seldom wears it.
- [392](https://nanoism.net/stories/392/) - She sits still as he gathers his things. He thinks he hears her say “wait" as he closes the door. Maybe. Courtney Caughey works as a communications professional and photojournalist. She holds a bachelor's degree in English.
- [391](https://nanoism.net/stories/391/) - Up from the vast, unknowable deep it came, an ancient, tentacled horror now full upon the beach. "She broke my heart," it said, and died. Suzanne Palmer loves very short stories but doesn't often write them.
- [390](https://nanoism.net/stories/390/) - We pretended there was some mix-up about the dates, but we knew. We knew the worthy had been taken. We knew how few of them there were. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [389](https://nanoism.net/stories/389/) - There was a small hole in the hat, like a bullet hole, that Jensen refused to get fixed. It had belonged to his father. Christopher James writes stories.
- [388](https://nanoism.net/stories/388/) - When they cut my head off and sent it to me for ransom, I didn’t respond. But, it was a nice gesture, and that goes a long way with me. David James Knight (@KnightDavidJ) is a wayward wordsmith moonlighting as a target.
- [387](https://nanoism.net/stories/387/) - "Show me on the doll where the bad man touched you," the doctor says. The girl looks puzzled. "He didn't. Mommy did." Jamie Rosen writes, whether he likes it or not.
- [386](https://nanoism.net/stories/386/) - The flipped kayak stuck between two rocks in the river seemed normal alongside the feverish attempts of the men to get what was under it. Kevin Smiley is a sociologist who is not currently working on his term paper as he should.
- [385](https://nanoism.net/stories/385/) - She stared into the sky without eyes. She saw them coming with their fire, and still she did not warn anyone. Justine McGreevy is an ever recovering perfectionist, sometimes writing writer currently living in Fairhaven, MA.
- [384](https://nanoism.net/stories/384/) - She held firm when he told her she was too fat to do better than him, but when she couldn't pull the ring over her knuckle, she wept. Philip Simondet wrote this just for you. Thank him.
- [383](https://nanoism.net/stories/383/) - He had her name tattooed on his arm when they were engaged. Now he grit his teeth, braced himself, and began crossing it out. Austin Rory Hackett loves pinball, poetry, and pictionary.
- [382](https://nanoism.net/stories/382/) - The land shook; mountains and rivers burst into life. Trapped in her sensory deprivation chamber, Jess began to reconstruct a better world. Zach Lome (@kuraiou) makes volcanoes out of molehills in Chicago.
- [381](https://nanoism.net/stories/381/) - The next time it was a cracked rib. She told him the doctor had also found a suspicious lump. "So I did you a favor then," was all he said. Susan Howe is a purveyor of short and even shorter stories. She lives in England.
- [380](https://nanoism.net/stories/380/) - They were back. I hid once more in the attic. Throwing open every door they searched the house for a second child hidden in the shadows. Kaitlyn Elizabeth is sometimes an upcoming writer-to-be and a student in a classroom.
- [379](https://nanoism.net/stories/379/) - With the slant of sun through the window they touched. Light fades. He leaves. It ends like this, always. The bedroom in dark. Iain Maloney (@iainmaloney) drank way too much coffee today.
- [376](https://nanoism.net/stories/376/) - Wanting to destroy all the people he'd been, he hit Delete. Files splintered. He mashed Control, but already the blood was flowing freely. Tim Terhaar has since leaned into the values of $60 candles and BC poetry.
- [378](https://nanoism.net/stories/378/) - Her salacious smile replaced by a manic rictus, blood smeared across her soft lips instead of lipstick. God help me, I still loved her. Michael Coorlim has lived all over the United States but for now has settled into the northern suburbs of Chicago.
- [377](https://nanoism.net/stories/377/) - The free-floating anxiety hovered around John's head, nagging softly, between when his mother died and when he finally called an exorcist. Steven Saus writes, learns, publishes, injects people with radioactive stuff, and more.
- [375](https://nanoism.net/stories/375/) - Fear breathes in the light shining under the door, in the shadow that crosses it, in the sound of a doorknob turning. Paul LaTour, a freelance writer in Chicago, would title this story “A Father’s Love,” but that would be cheating.
- [374](https://nanoism.net/stories/374/) - A balcony crowded by dead leaves. The young boy kisses his mum good bye. She smiles sarcastically, then leaps. Jack Jones tells lies in England.
- [373](https://nanoism.net/stories/373/) - His GPS told him the town where his birth-parents lived was two hours away. It couldn’t be right. It had taken him fifteen years so far. Simon Kewin employs an infinite number of monkeys to write stories for him. It’s easier that way.
- [372](https://nanoism.net/stories/372/) - So much pain, so much death. So much metal upon him. Ironheart could not be a man, she swore, but an automaton. Until he lifted his helm. Sean Vivier works at a Sudbury school and as a line dance instructor.
- [371](https://nanoism.net/stories/371/) - My prnts dnt ndrstnd m:( Iain Maloney (@iainmaloney) is listening to Mudhoney.
- [370](https://nanoism.net/stories/370/) - So he's married now. I shouldn't be surprised but god, the world fell away when I saw the ring. He was so kind when I tried to kiss him. Harry Saddler has written SMS stories since 2008 and recently started posting edited versions at @MondayStory.
- [369](https://nanoism.net/stories/369/) - One mouse click. £10m. He was suddenly crushed by the weight of the secret that he now carried. He couldn't even try to give the money back. Phil Oddy lives near Cambridge, UK, and has never stolen £10m. Honest.
- [368](https://nanoism.net/stories/368/) - The baby had its mother's eyes. In return for obedience, it promised to give them back. James Hutchings mostly writes fantasy.
- [367](https://nanoism.net/stories/367/) - The celestial garden should grow everything. Try as she might, Jin couldn’t get the bean from her favorite French press coffee to sprout. C.E. Hyun is a law student. She twitters @ce_hyun and websites @www.cehyun.com.
- [366](https://nanoism.net/stories/366/) - She watched the sunlight dance across her wall. "Beautiful," she thought as she stood to wash last night's makeup from her face. Hayley Whitworth is just a busy mom who loves these tiny pieces of fiction.
- [365](https://nanoism.net/stories/365/) - I ladled spaghetti on his plate held with shaking hands and felt sorry. But later eating side by side, he encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Sara Fowler (@svanfow) is an office drone by day and aspiring children's book writer by night.
- [364](https://nanoism.net/stories/364/) - “Honey, who sent you that email?” she asked. As he formed a lie, it didn't even occur to him that she had no right to snoop. Sarah Trachtenberg is a writer and stand-up comedian.
- [363](https://nanoism.net/stories/363/) - Below the snow, the bulbs promise a colorful spring. I put some store-bought tulips on her bedside table just in case the doctors are right. Audrey Webb writes both fiction and non-fiction in Austin, Texas.
- [362](https://nanoism.net/stories/362/) - Maybe the reason people joke about tinfoil hats is because they really work. Or if not, something like them. I hope so. I am so tired. Robert Mentzer (@robertmentzer) writes for a smallish newspaper in Wisconsin.
- [361](https://nanoism.net/stories/361/) - I said that the winding flight of stairs would take you to the princess. I never said there weren't poisoned arrows. Viona Lam thinks thinking is adorable.
- [360](https://nanoism.net/stories/360/) - Now you know I don’t discriminate, but that man’s a pedophile, and I done work too hard to have someone spoil my children. Khalym Kari Burke-Thomas would do things a prostitute does. Minus the money.
- [359](https://nanoism.net/stories/359/) - He stuck small notes in the pages of her books. She still finds them years later, afraid now to open one. To revisit a better past. Samantha Ten Eyck is getting her MFA in Fiction at Mankato State University. She is an NYC transplant.
- [358](https://nanoism.net/stories/358/) - The head is still warm. I trace our initials inside the fogged silver cover of the serving platter. Is this really what I wanted? R. Gatwood is concise.
- [357](https://nanoism.net/stories/357/) - Here the fallen palm stands tall and stately, pixelated against pink sunsets, like Granny on that Maui beach, you on our wedding day. A. S. Andrews lives in California, freeways away from the beaches and palms.
- [356](https://nanoism.net/stories/356/) - "After 30,” Joan said, “it’s Christmas or July. Then one day you’re old as sin.” She lit a smoke and said, “Think this bus will ever come?” David Massengill offers stories short and long here.
- [355](https://nanoism.net/stories/355/) - He sat in the café and stared at his gold coin. By God, he’d actually danced for pennies....It was a whole other life, just days ago. Pete Sain writes with a coffee in one hand and a beer in the other.
- [354](https://nanoism.net/stories/354/) - She is late. Finally, he must get up and walk, so he can come back in and find her, so the weight of his waiting doesn't make him small. Claire Barwise is a writer living in Brooklyn.
- [352](https://nanoism.net/stories/352/) - The city reeked of fast food and disillusions. He missed his mother's cooking. Elena Tillman Sperandio lives between Stockholm and Brooklyn.
- [353](https://nanoism.net/stories/353/) - A spasm of muscle and it's done, the photos tumbling down the well to soak and fade. At home she waits, not knowing the evidence is gone. Chris Bissette writes mostly fantasy, and tweets far too much as @pangalactic.
- [350](https://nanoism.net/stories/350/) - The taste of this cookie will linger longer than any memory of these words or your date. In bed. James Beamon writes what-ifs because...well, what if he didn't?
- [351](https://nanoism.net/stories/351/) - “Making a snowman isn’t the difficult part,” our eight-year-old son tells us, looking outside the window. “Watching it melt away is.” Debbi Antebi’s work has appeared in One Forty Fiction and Trapeze Magazine, among others. She lives in Istanbul, Turkey.
- [349](https://nanoism.net/stories/349/) - I met a girl today, on the bus, waiting for another bus, but on this one. We talked, but she ran out of English, and we were quiet then. Derek Dexheimer faces challenges.
- [347](https://nanoism.net/stories/347/) - He took the garbage out every night, whistling to boot. "When did you stop loving me?" she asked. Neila Mezynski is author of Glimpses from Scrambler Books.
- [348](https://nanoism.net/stories/348/) - "Went back for iPod, missed boat," Luke texts me. "Flood is coming. Not sure what to do. Drinks next Thursday?" C.E. Hyun is a law student and you can learn more here.
- [346](https://nanoism.net/stories/346/) - He enjoys taking long walks downtown at dusk, breathing the cool evening air as the busy sidewalks gradually clear of witnesses. Tim Sevenhuysen studies sociology at the University of Victoria and writes microfiction at 50-Word Stories.
- [345](https://nanoism.net/stories/345/) - Bee takes pain for a living. Today she takes an extra seven lashes. Her darling Emily has a birthday coming up and her heart set on a pony. James Carver is a recent college grad kneading old ideas into fiction.
- [344](https://nanoism.net/stories/344/) - You're a shitty magician whose tricks i'll believe so i don’t have to deal with the idea that there isn't any real magic left in the world. Nick Orf once pulled a rabbit out of a hat.
- [343](https://nanoism.net/stories/343/) - Each of these two strangers has a friend, a different one, who calls late at night in tears. They try the weather—joke about slow elevators. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [342](https://nanoism.net/stories/342/) - The other memories were boxed, but she stood crying in the bathroom because sometimes it’s hard to replace a toothbrush. D.N.A. Morris is a writer from Houston, Texas.
- [341](https://nanoism.net/stories/341/) - George picked at Emma’s frozen corn casserole, as she pushed a mop across his tiled floor, trying not to remind him of his wife. Danielle Abramsohn writes stories that are shorter than she is.
- [340](https://nanoism.net/stories/340/) - Once she wrote, Something unpleasant has happened to me but nothing came of it. Tim Terhaar wrote this story in Kafka's diaries on 24 January 1914 from the pen of A.'s beloved, L.
- [339](https://nanoism.net/stories/339/) - Prospecting in Fra Mauro, my suit’s cooling unit fails. Can’t dump heat; cooking alive. Why’d I cheat on Gail, overseer of suit maintenance? A.L. Sirois cites as creative influences Firesign Theatre, the Beatles, Pieter Brueghel, Mervyn Peake, H. G. Wells, and Frank Zappa.
- [338](https://nanoism.net/stories/338/) - "If only I could take it back," he thought, gazing over the landscape torn asunder by nuclear blasts. "Retract my gift." Prometheus cried. Alex Shvartsman is a writer and game designer.
- [337](https://nanoism.net/stories/337/) - After a long and lonely period of having myself and my interior neglected, I recently gained popularity with a girl who adores vintage. Evert Asberg lives and works in Europe.
- [336](https://nanoism.net/stories/336/) - Goliath awaited the beheading blow, prone. He’d failed to save his people from conquest. Worse yet, they would cast him the villain. Sean Vivier works at a Sudbury school and also teaches line dancing.
- [335](https://nanoism.net/stories/335/) - They watched each other across the river, longing eyes avoiding the bridge they'd burned, neither one willing to build a boat. Aduhi Chawngthu never quite fits in.
- [334](https://nanoism.net/stories/334/) - Ed got the poultry truck hijack case because of his success in the lobster pound thefts. This crime wasn’t as selfish, but it was more foul. Mike Donoghue mostly lives in his head, but resides in Vancouver.
- [333](https://nanoism.net/stories/333/) - She pulls off her panties, stuffs them into the urn. She drops her uncle’s ashes and her panties into the sea. The nightmares persist. Orest Talpash writes in Edmonton, Canada. His wife limits his rebuttals to 140 characters.
- [332](https://nanoism.net/stories/332/) - The man on the ground with the caved-in head looked familiar. Marc glanced at the baseball bat in his own hand and wondered what happened. Sean J. Logan writes dark flash fiction and twisted poetry. You can find him at Bloody Nightmares or @seanjlogan.
- [331](https://nanoism.net/stories/331/) - Outside, the town was in total darkness. He heard sirens, and the wail of a child in extremis. He prayed, prayed for the sun to stay down. Bob Carlton lives a life devoid of outward incident in Garland, Texas.
- [330](https://nanoism.net/stories/330/) - Fly rubbed its hands impatiently, for it had been given a human voice, but did not want to interrupt the eagerly raised hand. Aaron Beyer writes from California.
- [329](https://nanoism.net/stories/329/) - "Yes. Well. Legends." The lady lifted her crossbow. "It's Robyn. Wood. And I work alone." Des Nnochiri is a freelance writer / screenwriter.
- [328](https://nanoism.net/stories/328/) - The guru climbs the next mountain to ask questions of his fellow guru. He hates it, but he deducts it as work–related educational expense. Mark Budman writes flash fiction.
- [327](https://nanoism.net/stories/327/) - At twenty I married, at thirty I got rich, at forty I got friendly, at fifty I started wearing a wig and my wife stopped calling me a nazi. Evert Asberg lives and works in Europe.
- [326](https://nanoism.net/stories/326/) - Private Coleman never talked to his brother after the resurrection. He’d given his last full measure. You don’t give that back. Sean Vivier likes SF, in case you haven't noticed.
- [325](https://nanoism.net/stories/325/) - Sal knew that his heart was shrinking. He could feel it with every beat, every time he attempted a smile, every time he woke up alone. Aaron Rudolph (@20Limes) writes and kitchen dances in Oklahoma.
- [324](https://nanoism.net/stories/324/) - The discarded couch cried in the cold while nearby trash cans surreptitiously gossiped about its once clean leather, now dirty and torn. Mark Rosenblum is a New York native who now lives in Southern California where he misses the taste of real pizza and good deli food.
- [323](https://nanoism.net/stories/323/) - Afterwards, wrapped coyly in a sheet and concerned that the real reason for her smile showed all too clearly, Lisa gently chided Leonardo. Nick Johns has retired from a life of crime to breed mongrel flash fictions for release into the wild.
- [322](https://nanoism.net/stories/322/) - "Tell your wife I said hi," she said before walking out of the motel room. Shakarean Hutchinson spends too much time online in Charleston, South Carolina.
- [321](https://nanoism.net/stories/321/) - Lost in the border crossing was the cold sun, the blood on the plywood, and how the men backed up against the wall. She went inside to cry. Dan Reiter has already forgotten your name.
- [320](https://nanoism.net/stories/320/) - I'll ring twice. Don't answer. The gun is in the hollowed-out Gideon bible; keys are in the vent. If I don't knock three times, run. Raymond Gibson has an MFA in creative writing from FAU; he lives in Hollywood, FL.
- [319](https://nanoism.net/stories/319/) - Sentences that sauntered through her mind now stumble, plummet from her tongue. People she can no longer name hand back her fallen words. Madeline Mora-Summonte reads, writes and breathes fiction in all its forms.
- [318](https://nanoism.net/stories/318/) - With the knives relocated to the top shelf, she could no longer reach them unassisted. But then neither could he. Yet. J.S. Graustein writes & edits, but does not cook at Grayestone Lodge.
- [317](https://nanoism.net/stories/317/) - Terry had a bird. It whistled a lot. He and Ann married and the bird stopped. It died much later. Ann watched him bury it, feeling nothing. Brian Mihok's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, Wigleaf, trnsfr, and Prick of the Spindle. He edits matchbook.
- [316](https://nanoism.net/stories/316/) - He rushes their love-making, whispering naughty words in seven dead languages. She turns and sighs, wishing he were a more cunning linguist. Jeff Johnson lives in Minneapolis.
- [315](https://nanoism.net/stories/315/) - If I position my head just right, my wife will be looking into my eyes when she smiles. The hologram flickers as I rewind one more time. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [314](https://nanoism.net/stories/314/) - "Like you, I am a museum of stains. I hope she learns to ignore them," the cheap hotel room said. J. Bradley lives at iheartfailure.net.
- [313](https://nanoism.net/stories/313/) - Sapped from the vacuum of his gray hours, gun in his coat to end himself, his supervisor sprays spit as he scolds him, and the plan shifts. Ryan Dilbert is probably anxious right now.
- [312](https://nanoism.net/stories/312/) - Chicken lit a cigarette and looked over at Egg, who was still sleeping. “Well that answers that old question,” she said. Jon Chan currently lives in New England.
- [311](https://nanoism.net/stories/311/) - Between regrets of the night before and dread of Monday morning, he went to First Baptist and prayed the team he'd bet on would win. Pat Tompkins writes from California.
- [310](https://nanoism.net/stories/310/) - "The best stories are about small and delicate things," the writer said. Then the universe exploded. Daan Kogelmans is a writer of things, short things mainly. He also writes comics at The Void.
- [309](https://nanoism.net/stories/309/) - Wizened hands gently held the obsidian king. “It's taken me years to carve them. Now how do you play chess?” Eric Sisco writes fantasy and science fiction.
- [308](https://nanoism.net/stories/308/) - Finally, he spoke their father's name into the mirror a third time. "Well," said his sister, "I guess it only works with Bloody Mary." Tim Terhaar almost has a BA in philosophy. He wishes he believed in ghosts.
- [307](https://nanoism.net/stories/307/) - He runs, but from what he does not know. Is it from the man with the gun, or from the knowledge of what he's done? Craig P. runs a webserial at http://www.wordcereal.com and enjoys playing dodgeball.
- [306](https://nanoism.net/stories/306/) - “Goodbye." Touching a hand to her twin sister's coffin, she left on the arm of her brother-in-law. JC Chute is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Journal of Microliterature.
- [305](https://nanoism.net/stories/305/) - After the rockfall they crawled blindly, holding each other’s heels. At some point they realized there was no beginning or end to the line. Susan Howe is a purveyor of short and even shorter stories. She lives in England.
- [304](https://nanoism.net/stories/304/) - "Phone me," her note read. The linguist overlooked the space, was mildly confused, and let another opportunity slip away. Ralph Morrison plays with numbers and words in Berkeley CA.
- [303](https://nanoism.net/stories/303/) - "Yeah. Well." She hefted the rucksack. And raised her thumb. Again. "Your driving me? Crazy, too." Des Nnochiri is a freelance writer / screenwriter. Visit his website.
- [302](https://nanoism.net/stories/302/) - Jill put flowers in one of the marble vases. Her mom had loved violets. The vase on her father's side held rainwater, sometimes dust. Three years ago, Shelley Ontis couldn't have imagined she'd ever say "Hey, I just tweeted!" without giggling and blushing.
- [301](https://nanoism.net/stories/301/) - He says, “Trust me. I love you.” Her heart says, “I do.” Her fingers intertwine with his, covering the tan line on his third finger. N. A. Lundeen lives, works and plays in Vienna, Austria.
- [300](https://nanoism.net/stories/300/) - Instantly he adds, "Forget I said that," and endures a moment of agonizing hope until she says, "Okay." R. Gatwood is concise.
- [299](https://nanoism.net/stories/299/) - The purist lived high on a mountain top where no one could hear him scream. Neila Mezynski lives in California.
- [297](https://nanoism.net/stories/297/) - The shirt was stained crimson like the lipstick on its collar. James McCormick is... I give up. Is this multiple choice?
- [296](https://nanoism.net/stories/296/) - As the water rose, I started to panic. "Is this it?" I thought. "So what if it is?" followed. Confused, I turned off my sim unit. Frank Colella is into exploring the reality we think we live in and writing.
- [295](https://nanoism.net/stories/295/) - The scientist cackled with laughter as his machine began its work. When the electricity stopped, his wife was still dead. Justin Merchant does not condone the use of mad science for evil.
- [294](https://nanoism.net/stories/294/) - Our first date, she said her dad was killed when she was 9. I asked what he was like. I was trying to make conversation, not melt her heart. Christian Roberts lives in California.
- [293](https://nanoism.net/stories/293/) - “I’m so happy for you” escaped through the uneven gaps of tightly shut teeth, as if trying to avoid spattering vomit across a taxi backseat. Jay MG's writing is lubricated with tea. She does not intend her stories to twist and deform, though they inevitably do.
- [292](https://nanoism.net/stories/292/) - He looks up at the clouds and begins to cry. She looks down to earth and begins to cry. “Why can’t you let go?” she asks. Will Shadbolt is always dreaming up stories.
- [291](https://nanoism.net/stories/291/) - In the end, his reward was only to be allowed into the room while the money was counted—to know the beautiful number, but not to partake. John McKenzie (@jmck)is only allowed to count his own money. MFA Syracuse 1993.
- [290](https://nanoism.net/stories/290/) - The tall emissary (blue scarred forehead, proof of rank) speaks Arabic and Bari; I neither. Writes in Spokane: Richard Baldasty. Spoken in Sudan: Bari.
- [289](https://nanoism.net/stories/289/) - I hand him the gun. A box of cartridges? I ask. One, he says. I hand him a box, but he shakes his head. Just one, he says. Keith Lawrence thinks he is in Dublin, but isn't sure. He didn't realize there would be a test.
- [288](https://nanoism.net/stories/288/) - She told him to erase all traces of their affair. When she changed her mind and called back, he no longer recognized the ringtone. Steven Saus writes, learns, publishes, injects people with radioactive stuff, and more.
- [287](https://nanoism.net/stories/287/) - She curled tighter on the floor holding the school picture, the only one she had. Derek Dexheimer is making progress.
- [286](https://nanoism.net/stories/286/) - “Do you think they would have placed you with us...that we would have been allowed to adopt you if you hadn’t been a colored child?” Ben Nightingale has written for Mendocino Review, Obsidian, and other publications.
- [285](https://nanoism.net/stories/285/) - They could never be married; their mom said no. Sean Mackey thinks it's like Washington always said: It ain't over till it's over.
- [284](https://nanoism.net/stories/284/) - Dear lonelyguy72, We are unable to display your meetpeople.net profile. We have reviewed it, and can find no photo of your erect penis. James Hutchings mostly writes fantasy.
- [283](https://nanoism.net/stories/283/) - Ahmed paints a painting: a close-up of JFK’s face, pained, as he sucks a faceless woman’s breast. The title: Capitalism. David Backer edits fictiondaily.org and blogs at davidbacker.com.
- [282](https://nanoism.net/stories/282/) - If only Barbara had shown young George the body of a dead soldier. Michael Dean Anthony is a writer and editor who, in spare time, shakes his fist at passing motorists.
- [281](https://nanoism.net/stories/281/) - The Prodigal Son sighed. His family’s talk seemed so dull these days. He had nothing to share. He’d seen so much they hadn’t. Sean Vivier is a teacher and writer from central Connecticut.
- [279](https://nanoism.net/stories/279/) - The Mormon belief that spirit babies choose their families cannot be correct because I would have chosen a family with better furniture. Erin Britton has all of her teeth and most of her marbles.
- [280](https://nanoism.net/stories/280/) - The boil in her palm throbbed again before she could finish her lullaby. She kissed it gently but it cried. Charity Temple lives in the Philippines and got exposed to Anne Rice a little too early.
- [278](https://nanoism.net/stories/278/) - Her mum’s last, whispered words were ‘Save yourself for the right man.’ It was a comfort, later, to think she’d died not knowing the truth. Simon Kewin likes cake. And chocolate. And chocolate cake.
- [277](https://nanoism.net/stories/277/) - The message came back through time. The end did come, but we didn’t do it to ourselves. That was important. We didn’t do it to ourselves. Sean Vivier is a teacher and writer from central Connecticut.
- [276](https://nanoism.net/stories/276/) - Worse than feeling her brittle ribs crack as he did CPR was how unfamiliar it felt to be touching his wife’s skin after all these years. Mike Donoghue mostly lives in his head, but resides in Vancouver.
- [275](https://nanoism.net/stories/275/) - Ana tried forcing the lock again; the pin cracked and snapped. Wracked with cold, she curled up inside the trunk and awaited the inevitable. JC Chute edits, except when she writes.
- [274](https://nanoism.net/stories/274/) - Just close your eyes, he said. She closed her eyes, and when he closed his, she opened hers again. Tina Hyland loves you. She loves you very much.
- [273](https://nanoism.net/stories/273/) - He terminates the affair with ease, looking her in the eyes as he tells her that, like love, all good things must come to an end. Jenna Al-Malawi has too many words and not enough to do with them. She would rather be in Chicago if that's alright with you.
- [272](https://nanoism.net/stories/272/) - Mom had a jigsaw puzzle made from a happy family photo. But the kids said they didn’t have enough time to put all the pieces back together. Ronnie Sirmans writes even shorter stories: headlines.
- [271](https://nanoism.net/stories/271/) - He made a gun with his fingers and put it to the dog's head. When Mother came in she saw him laughing, and rejoiced. Tim Terhaar sometimes performs for animals who fail to interpret his gestures.
- [270](https://nanoism.net/stories/270/) - He parks his car at her dad’s house. Mascara running down her cheeks, she digs her nails into his thighs and begs him to drive on. Nikhil Rajagopalan is an owl, not a lark.
- [269](https://nanoism.net/stories/269/) - She wants her diary buried with her and it is, after he has read it. His sons puzzle at his sudden coldness, the way he studies their faces. Dennis Y. Ginoza is an MFA candidate at Pacific University. He lives on the Kitsap Peninsula.
- [268](https://nanoism.net/stories/268/) - Since the day the sun went dark, Eli had turned on his old radio twice a day and hoped. Today it finally spoke, and it spoke only his name. Ian Rose writes short fiction, but not usually this short. He lives in Portland, OR.
- [267](https://nanoism.net/stories/267/) - She set the laser gun to stun. By the time the guards came in, The President would be waking up with the gun in his hand and she'd be dead. Tavia Lewis Castagnozzi is a girl, a wife, and a nerd.
- [266](https://nanoism.net/stories/266/) - When her father told her about the crash, she said nothing and went to her room. Her mother's specter hovered by the window. "See?" It said. Helina Martinez will never forgive her English teachers. Now that she knows proper grammatical structure, she can never finish her tw-
- [265](https://nanoism.net/stories/265/) - Under the stern watchful eye of her father she let her dry lips betray her now empty heart and muttered “I Do” to the man she didn’t love. Vicky Hinault is an aspiring writer and existentialist.
- [264](https://nanoism.net/stories/264/) - High school girlfriend becoming small in the driveway. Dad's foot on the pedal, wind picking up, trees going by all begin to blur. Doug Bond, a writer, runner, singer of songs in the habit recently of sharing a variety of Amuzementz.
- [263](https://nanoism.net/stories/263/) - Response to the Death(s) at Reichenbach Falls: Holmes died today. I picked up his pipe and smoked it, but the flat still smells too clean. K.N. Lang is a native Indiana writer hoping to get out of Indiana as soon as possible. She mostly writes satire.
- [262](https://nanoism.net/stories/262/) - When her husband died, she found three words written in his notebook, over and over. Three words he hadn't said to her in years. Jamie Rosen writes, even when trying not to.
- [261](https://nanoism.net/stories/261/) - Santa smiled at the little boy and gave him a present with his very own hands. The boy held it and said, "When does the happiness start?" Laura DeHaan doesn't much like Christmas.
- [260](https://nanoism.net/stories/260/) - "Here's an old memory." She put the radio to the boy's ear so he could listen to the static. "That's what rain sounded like," she whispered. Dennis Y. Ginoza is working towards his MFA in Writing at Pacific University.
- [259](https://nanoism.net/stories/259/) - Mike says sure, enjoying how casual he sounds. Jim thanks him too much. Then both go silent, watching the pen scratch across the check. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [258](https://nanoism.net/stories/258/) - Shirtless, he struck a match on his zipper and lit the Village Voice crumpled under kindling. Hand me the wood, he said. Michael Dean Anthony lives in Austin, TX and edits Thumbnail Magazine.
- [257](https://nanoism.net/stories/257/) - “Why do you always do that with my boyfriends?” Her twin hesitated. Then came the familiar excuse: “It’s their fault for not knowing.” Noel Sloboda lives in Pennsylvania with three dogs, two cats, and one wife.
- [256](https://nanoism.net/stories/256/) - Lipstick in tiny hand, she ornaments the mirror. She's too young to translate, but I'm experienced. It says, "I love you and this is yours." Kenneth Parker is a student and musician living in the Pacific Northwest. He has work forthcoming from Scifaikuest.
- [255](https://nanoism.net/stories/255/) - The six-foot nopal, pale in the Arizona moonlight, almost made him forget the gag. JP Allen lives in Danville, Kentucky, and studies Political Science in Middlebury, Vermont.
- [254](https://nanoism.net/stories/254/) - A hollow ache, all her life. Then one day, she saw the news and wept. Sirens, a mangled wreck, and a stranger whose face mirrored hers. Tina Doan moonlights as a medical student.
- [253](https://nanoism.net/stories/253/) - Her father always had trouble discerning the two, so she gave him a hint. Fiction, she said, was love; nonfiction, hate. Robert Swartwood (@RobertSwartwood) is the editor of Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer.
- [252](https://nanoism.net/stories/252/) - He’d never had sushi before, wasn’t planning on ever having it again. She also chewed with her mouth open. And Mother would never approve. L.A. Stein is almost as short as her fiction yet is no stranger to tall tales.
- [251](https://nanoism.net/stories/251/) - Angry silence. I hit the radio. “Crops fail as bees continue to decline.” A thunk on the windshield. “There goes another one.” We laugh. Elayna Finley is a new mom and lives closer to the Rocky Mountains than the ocean that she loves.
- [250](https://nanoism.net/stories/250/) - Joe's service was just for family, Dean was told on the church steps. Sylvia Hiven doesn't like padding.
- [249](https://nanoism.net/stories/249/) - Pretty soon the whole room was nodding and, from then on, no one looked her in the eye. Martha Williams hugs her figments here.
- [248](https://nanoism.net/stories/248/) - See Apollo asleep in a field, his horses dispersed, his chariot toppled, and in his hand, an empty can of Bud. See Blind Homer, apologist. Kyle Callahan earned his MFA from Goddard College. He writes and teaches in Vermont.
- [247](https://nanoism.net/stories/247/) - The man shook the last drop from the very last can of gas. "Well, that's it," he said. A dense and luxurious silence curled around them all. Derek Dexheimer lives in Seattle. He is working on a novel.
- [246](https://nanoism.net/stories/246/) - "With this device I shall change history! The accursed name of Adolf Hitler will be erased from the annals of European painting!" James Hutchings mostly writes fantasy.
- [245](https://nanoism.net/stories/245/) - It had started small, but now he was hooked and never played with his friends anymore. Just kept wasting all of his time in the real world. Mike Donoghue mostly lives in his head, but resides in Vancouver.
- [244](https://nanoism.net/stories/244/) - When memories start to slip away, dry leaves caught on an autumn breeze and snatched from the lawn, will you want me to remind you who I am? Milo James Fowler teaches junior high English and writes in the dark. Visit him anytime, day or night.
- [243](https://nanoism.net/stories/243/) - "That's absurd!" She stood, silently ovulating, avoiding his gaze. Freeman Ng tweets one newly written haiku of his own every day at @HaikuDiem.
- [242](https://nanoism.net/stories/242/) - Her first dinner after the divorce was pasta. The noodles looked like wavy lines drawn by a child trying to understand the sun. Nathan Patton keeps it real, but also fictionalizes it.
- [241](https://nanoism.net/stories/241/) - His unconscious sister on the floor, an emaciated mutt giving him the eye, and discreet piles of shit everywhere. Time to save the dog. Marcelle Heath is a fiction writer and assistant editor for Luna Park. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
- [240](https://nanoism.net/stories/240/) - Stacking cans was a dream. To be back in the store, adrift in soft light and music, no longer cold, unkempt, with an unread cardboard sign. Derek Dexheimer lives in Seattle. He is working on a novel.
- [239](https://nanoism.net/stories/239/) - He’d give it six days. That would provide plenty of time, should he change his mind, to remove the extra pills in Saturday’s pillbox. Bruce Harris enjoys relaxing with a Marxman.
- [238](https://nanoism.net/stories/238/) - She drops me off at the house where the bony-elbow lady lives. Promises to come back for me soon. Sometimes I pretend to miss her. Lisa Potts (@LisaMPotts) writes YA and lives in the Midwest along with her kids and various shelter animals.
- [237](https://nanoism.net/stories/237/) - There was a moment’s hesitation as she reconsidered living with his mistake. Doubt, hope, panic, and the train hit her all at the same time. Susan Howe is a purveyor of short and even shorter stories. She lives in England.
- [236](https://nanoism.net/stories/236/) - When the last machine died, they planted its cogs and pawls and pinions by the river. The soil was rich, the water sweet. Sunlight abounded. Dennis Y. Ginoza is working towards his MFA in Writing at Pacific University. He lives on the Kitsap Peninsula.
- [235](https://nanoism.net/stories/235/) - It's almost Halloween and I only feel like being Thomas Pynchon. Rick Hale will obtain 30 banana splits and one English degree in 2011. He is here.
- [234](https://nanoism.net/stories/234/) - The storm was at its peak when they came seeking shelter. What luck, I still had some space left under the stones in the manor house floor. C. William Hinderliter lives in Phoenix and has read entirely too many Victorian murder mysteries.
- [233](https://nanoism.net/stories/233/) - They never notice that each year fewer of them go home. And they never notice that each year there are more creatures in the woods. Jamie Rosen writes a lot of stuff. Some of it is @dollarbinblues.
- [232](https://nanoism.net/stories/232/) - First interview after the accident.Interviewer says: tell me about yourself.He says: tell me about myself. Ryan Ridge lives in Long Beach, California and maintains an archive of past work here.
- [231](https://nanoism.net/stories/231/) - The bees stung her three times on her hand as she collected the day’s honey. Still, she didn’t mind. You knew where you were with bees. Simon Kewin writes from the UK. It's easier that way because that's where his house is. His blog Spellmaking is open 24/7.
- [230](https://nanoism.net/stories/230/) - The thing that lives with me most from Haiti is the odor. Charcoal for cooking food and the smell of burning bodies. Mike Donoghue mostly lives in his head, but resides in Vancouver.
- [229](https://nanoism.net/stories/229/) - Months later, he unscrews the gate at the top of the stairs. Unanchored, it folds in on itself, a small bundle waiting to be put away. Dennis Y. Ginoza is an MFA candidate at Pacific University. He lives on the Kitsap Peninsula.
- [228](https://nanoism.net/stories/228/) - Men are from mars, women are from Venus. I slide a quarter into the telescope. Where am I from? JP Allen tries to take things away until there's just enough left.
- [227](https://nanoism.net/stories/227/) - The box thuds at her feet: mug, wedding photos, the 25-year pen. The platform trembles, the cold rush of air precedes the oncoming train. Linda Simoni-Wastila wishes she had a shorter last name. She writes and gives a damn in Baltimore.
- [217](https://nanoism.net/stories/217/) - I toss your boxers in our dirty laundry. I light a cigarette and kiss you. Smoke settles on my skin. I barely think about divorce papers. Dawn West (b. 1987) has stories in or upcoming in Camroc Press Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, and others.
- [226](https://nanoism.net/stories/226/) - Her bedroom. No mirrors. Behind a dressing screen, she said, “Blindfold.” I put it on. We kissed. The snakes of her hair hissed in my ear. Clarion grad H.V. Chao has published fiction in Epiphany and Diet Soap.
- [225](https://nanoism.net/stories/225/) - Awakening to his portrait fixed upon the wall. She’s reminded how disease and affluence can get in the way of true love. Artist, athlete, pioneer, unconventionalist. M.R. Carter has never pursed a higher education, career, or full-time employment.
- [224](https://nanoism.net/stories/224/) - Tallying up all the kisses over the years, she had to conclude that she was in a relationship. Jenni Dowsett is an aspiring writer who lives in New Zealand. Two of her stories have been published in magazines.
- [223](https://nanoism.net/stories/223/) - The camera lay on the desk, forgotten, emptied of the wedding photographs. I opened the fridge and ate the last piece of the wedding cake. Aduhi Chawngthu, Hyderabad, India. Loves to write and read.
- [222](https://nanoism.net/stories/222/) - Jane hates me, but that’s okay. She’s only a figment of my imagination. Therapy is going well, but Jane still wants a divorce. Philip Tite is an independent scholar and writer in Seattle. His work has appeared in Silver Blade and This Mutant Life.
- [221](https://nanoism.net/stories/221/) - She saw the whiskey on the table, sensed the stiffness of his shoulders, and started to shake. Martha Williams hugs her figments here: www.marthawilliams.org.
- [220](https://nanoism.net/stories/220/) - He glances at her as he plays her favorite tune. He knows it by heart; he wrote it for her. She smiles back as she walks toward her groom. Ivan Paner is a med student. He likes pie.
- [219](https://nanoism.net/stories/219/) - The grinning carousel horse took her in circles what fun, but to her the best part of the ride was when it carried her far from her mother. Jonathon Delk, trying his best.
- [218](https://nanoism.net/stories/218/) - Once it warms to skin temperature I can't tell the difference, honey. Honestly I can't. Anyway, it doesn't make you any less of a—Honey? R. Gatwood is concise.
- [216](https://nanoism.net/stories/216/) - They kiss. "I only love you because you're Japanese," he doesn't say. "I know," she doesn't reply. "It's okay." Stewart Baker is a librarian living near Los Angeles, born in England. His website is http://infomancy.net. Cats are nice.
- [215](https://nanoism.net/stories/215/) - I listened to your mixtape. Don’t quit Stake n’ Shake, but it’s good. Hell, I wish I could still sing like that. I’m proud, son. JP Allen has trouble writing anything longer than 140 characters. He lives in Danville, Kentucky.
- [214](https://nanoism.net/stories/214/) - Envy leapt around the room, poisoning everyone it touched, ruining the joy of my first success, making me wish I had failed. Stephen D. Rogers is the author of Shot to Death and more than 600 shorter pieces. Visit www.stephendrogers.com to see why.
- [213](https://nanoism.net/stories/213/) - Told him I was waiting there to catch a bus. He didn't get it--wanted to know what the tranquilizer gun was for. Grace Seybold is living in Montreal, writing fiction and relearning how to be an optimist.
- [212](https://nanoism.net/stories/212/) - The heart of Fu-Manchu regrets, and regrets in vain, that it did not await a purer and more permanent passion. James Tadd Adcox lives in Chicago, where he edits Artifice Magazine.
- [211](https://nanoism.net/stories/211/) - The irony of drinking a toast to her husband’s health made Candace giggle. Sharon McGregor loves to talk and read but not at the same time.
- [210](https://nanoism.net/stories/210/) - Weeks later, they met again, but each had company. Kevin Hong is from Chicago, Illinois. He was born with many fingers, but his teachers told him he was only allowed ten.
- [209](https://nanoism.net/stories/209/) - She sat next to the old man. “Closer,” he said. She let him touch her. She wanted to see the baby pony that was born in the night. Christine Cavalier (@PurpleCar) is a writer from Philadelphia, PA.
- [208](https://nanoism.net/stories/208/) - I’ve never heard my dad say lesbian. I’m supposed to believe that my aunt built a house and adopted two foster children with her roommate. Adrienne Bard is an undergraduate student at Emerson College and grew up in Albany, NY.
- [206](https://nanoism.net/stories/206/) - Fear zippers Dan's mouth when I ask about his son. It’s the sleeping, waiting. In bed, I wrap my body around his, bring him into me, silent. Laura Whitney’s fiction is in Annalemma, Word Riot, Storyglossia, and other journals.
- [205](https://nanoism.net/stories/205/) - The villagers who lived under the statue of the Great Leader often wondered what the world beyond it looked like, and whether it had a sun. Jonathan Pinnock (@jonpinnock aka @RealMrsDarcy) is. For the moment, at any rate.
- [204](https://nanoism.net/stories/204/) - She put the sword down as she looked into his eyes, she still didn't recognize him but she knew she should. Maybe she still had a choice. Chad Ewers has probably written a song about you.
- [203](https://nanoism.net/stories/203/) - There are Pros and Cons to being in human form. For instance, in their bodies we are innately compelled toward progression. Jaebi is just another existential brief incarnation known this time around as the Literary Artist.
- [202](https://nanoism.net/stories/202/) - I hid in the museum, slept beneath mammoth bones. The cop called my mom. Nothing. Christopher Mohar is severely interested in meat, as a concept.
- [201](https://nanoism.net/stories/201/) - Never underestimate a woman scorned. Her ability to recall details is dead-on balls accurate and she knows where the bodies are buried. Kathleen A. Ryan (@katcop13) is a retired police officer who blogs at Women of Mystery.
- [200](https://nanoism.net/stories/200/) - “You’re a sociopath,” he said. She tried to keep a straight face, but a rogue giggle escaped. “It’s funny,” she said, “because it’s true.” JJ Sheffer (@bustedjj) is a perfect angel who lives and writes in York, PA.
- [199](https://nanoism.net/stories/199/) - My mother cried when the bottom fell out of our bathtub, saying a bathtub without a bottom’s like a house without a family – empty, dry. Gavin McCall spent most of his life either studying or teaching writing in Hawaii, but he’ll soon move to California to do both.
- [198](https://nanoism.net/stories/198/) - The end, finally. Finally. He dropped his pack, spat a mouthful of blood on the sand, and hoped to hell this time he wouldn't be saved. Manya Lisse did NOT need another source of procrastination.
- [197](https://nanoism.net/stories/197/) - Some condemned her for seeming unfeeling, but she refused to wallow in victimhood. That would be like letting him do it over and over again. Merton Sussex is a Minneapolis-based copywriter, and a writer/editor at DiaryOfFools.com. He loves his wife, and his dogs.
- [196](https://nanoism.net/stories/196/) - When the storm hit the ships broke like old bones and the men slipped into the water. On shore, Mark's mother covered his eyes too late. Dom Turner takes pictures and creates websites by day, but he secretly wants to be a superhero (or a writer).
- [195](https://nanoism.net/stories/195/) - They tore the book down the middle. He kept the ending to rewrite it. She made paper boats of her pages and set them on Monty’s pond, happy. Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé is a city hermit. He’s thinking of making clay miniatures for a recently repotted bonsai.
- [193](https://nanoism.net/stories/193/) - She pulls me into the stall. I do a line off of the toilet paper dispenser. She opens her shirt, and I expect this to change everything. Acia Thomas (@hiacia) lives in Chicago.
- [192](https://nanoism.net/stories/192/) - After the night and the storm, he went above and sat on the deck, scanning the glass-like sea. Now, he would allow himself to dream of home. David McGroarty (@davidmcgroarty) is a Scottish writer who lives in North London.
- [191](https://nanoism.net/stories/191/) - "Wait a second—you mean I'll be without TV all night?" "Ma'am, the technician will be there at 8:00 am." "What am I supposed do till then?" If @danrako can't fix it over the phone, he'll send a tech for your satellite TV. Find more of his malarkey at http://www.dansbait.com.
- [190](https://nanoism.net/stories/190/) - Grieving Arthur, Beth concealed the lump. When no one watched, she slid her fingers across it like a rosary. "Soon Arthur," she prayed. Jason McKinley Williams (@williamswrites) very happily teaches and writes in Winchester, Kentucky.
- [189](https://nanoism.net/stories/189/) - Boxes full of a life, slated for removal to make room for: another child, skates, mourning, matchbox cars, slumber parties, timeout. A. Turner's got a finger on the pulse, a toe in the water, a dog in the fight.
- [188](https://nanoism.net/stories/188/) - She wanted to join the whisper game but he told her robots couldn’t lower their voices. Jessica Otto writes poetry and edits Trapeze Magazine (@trapezemag).
- [187](https://nanoism.net/stories/187/) - Plaid, plaid, plaid. Even his closet made her feel behind bars. JP Allen finds it daunting to write stories longer than 140 characters. He lives in Danville, Kentucky.
- [186](https://nanoism.net/stories/186/) - Standing shoulder-to-shoulder watching their car lifted by the tow truck. It's not a birth or a funeral but it is a milestone. Steve Beck is the founder of OnlineRock. As time permits, he records with Julie Cornett under the band name Needle.
- [185](https://nanoism.net/stories/185/) - He meant it when he said it. But that was last night. Things were different in daylight. Now he was pretty sure he didn’t love her anymore. Pat Tompkins writes from Northern California.
- [184](https://nanoism.net/stories/184/) - I told the chef, at the macro cafe in Jingumae, “Tokyo is a lonely city.” “Maybe,” he said, “but every city is filled with lonely people.” B. N. Landry lives in Austin, Texas. You can find more of his very short fiction on Twitter. Just follow @ShortestFiction.
- [183](https://nanoism.net/stories/183/) - A fisherman whose net needed mending saw a purple airplane, but his wife disbelieved him. "Who was with you?" she asked, knowing no one was. Edward Mullany is a writer and editor. He lives in New York with his wife, Anjali.
- [182](https://nanoism.net/stories/182/) - After half an hour he puts the pen down for good. If he had the words to leave a note he wouldn't be doing this. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [181](https://nanoism.net/stories/181/) - He woke up, panicked. 12:30 a.m. Again. Those thoughts were back. And this time, they had unpacked their bags. Julie Bloss Kelsey (@MamaJoules) enjoys short form poetry and fiction. Her work has also appeared @microcosms, @7x20, and @outshine.
- [180](https://nanoism.net/stories/180/) - When someone finally told her that "LOL" did not stand for “lots of love,” she understood why Karen stopped talking to her. Tara Barnes (@tarabarnes) leaves a lot to be desired.
- [179](https://nanoism.net/stories/179/) - 4am: Poe blinked lazily at the raven perched on his windowsill, lifted the glass to his lips. "Well what would you have me say?" he mumbled. Jessica Otto is a grad student at Goddard College.
- [178](https://nanoism.net/stories/178/) - When I had my heart attack, my wife leaned over me and said, "I am sorry. I’ve been having an affair." "I know," I told her. "Call 911." Mark McGuire-Schwartz wonders about calling for help: Who would come?
- [177](https://nanoism.net/stories/177/) - Three days ago, a climbing party went missing. You move to the next headline, wonder if you’ve fed the dog. Evan Schaeffer lives in St. Louis. Links to his stories and commentary essays can be found at www.evanschaeffer.com.
- [176](https://nanoism.net/stories/176/) - The runt of the litter was her favorite—guaranteed to die before she stopped loving it. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [175](https://nanoism.net/stories/175/) - He grabs her under the palapa, all hands and hot breath. Maria will run tonight, after. Empty bottles; a blouse ripped for the last time. Jackie Bateman is a British writer living in Vancouver. She will always champion the marmite sandwich.
- [174](https://nanoism.net/stories/174/) - I was born over there, your mom in 한국, and you here. Jobs for me are scarce back home. What do you think? You like it here? Is it OK for us? Matt Stranach (@mswriting) is from Fredericton, Canada, and currently lives overseas. He writes realism, horror, and sci-fi. He’s also a dad.
- [173](https://nanoism.net/stories/173/) - Someone is adding a new wing to my house. It is ostentatious and without taste. The builders claim it is my wife, who remains incommunicado. B. N. Landry lives in Austin, Texas. You can find more of his very short fiction on Twitter. Just follow @ShortestFiction.
- [172](https://nanoism.net/stories/172/) - Forgiveness as pure joy, she insisted. A ribbon-breasted finch warbled in its nest. Under the waterfall, his lantern like sunlight in rain. Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé is a city hermit. He’s thinking of making clay miniatures for a recently repotted bonsai.
- [171](https://nanoism.net/stories/171/) - G'night, tweeple: 39 in my childhood bed, stuck here selling knives. Powerball is a losing dream. Down the gullet. Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Sara Lippmann lives and writes in Brooklyn.
- [170](https://nanoism.net/stories/170/) - "How old are you really, darlin'?" "I promise." "Lucky me. But what if this is a fake ID?" "Who gets a fake ID that says they're eighteen?" Robb Todd is listening to the same song over and over again and it is driving you crazy.
- [169](https://nanoism.net/stories/169/) - Always: Reference the championships, insert symbols for swears. Never: Make spelling errors, have mercy. Now: Chat their a$$es off, YANKS42. Scott Akalis likes to hike, yet lives in Chicago. He likes to write fiction, yet lives in the real word.
- [168](https://nanoism.net/stories/168/) - From the way she scooped him from his buggy, shushed him, kissed his tears and hugged him all the way home, he might almost have been hers. Martha Williams hugs her figments here: www.marthawilliams.org.
- [167](https://nanoism.net/stories/167/) - She decided, after many days and many repetitions: Hell wasn’t a labyrinth. It was an empty house and a short memory. Lara Ek is American, Hungarian, Swedish, a reader, and a writer.
- [165](https://nanoism.net/stories/165/) - Deftly he pours a Cabernet the color of his shirt, pushes the glass across the table to her. It's enough time to say no. Ann Marie Gamble (@amgamble) is usually pretty long-winded. And the footnotes! Those are a pain to code. This story won 2nd place in our 2010 Nanofiction Contest (for Haiti).
- [166](https://nanoism.net/stories/166/) - "Don't you wonder how we die?" He mimes flipping a switch and I hand him his pill. He swallows it with water he throws back like bourbon. Ann Marie Gamble (@amgamble) is usually pretty long-winded. And the footnotes! Those are a pain to code. This story won 1st place in our 2010 Nanofiction Contest (for
- [163](https://nanoism.net/stories/163/) - He likes picking scabs. Picking at the scab and watching it fall off is like saying, "Daddy, go away." Viona Lam thinks thinking is adorable.
- [162](https://nanoism.net/stories/162/) - I just stare at the moon, mother said, every time—even the night you were conceived. Stephen Orloske once encountered a witch in the woods doing something very nasty to her kitty.
- [Our 2010 Nanofiction Contest (for Haiti)](https://nanoism.net/meta/our-2010-nanofiction-contest-for-haiti/) - Thanks to the generous support of the folks at Folded Word and many fine writers from across the globe, our contest converted $100 of student-loan debt into $650 for Partners in Health, a fantastic NGO that does astonishing work as a healthcare-provider and local-health-infrastructure-builder in Haiti (and around the world). As a bonus, thirty people
- [A Twitter-fiction Contest for Haiti](https://nanoism.net/meta/nanoism-contest-for-haiti/) - [This contest is now closed. View the results here.] Nanoism just passed its first birthday, and to celebrate we're doing a big contest. This time, we're doing it to raise money for Partners in Health, a fantastic NGO that is a major healthcare provider in Haiti. We have both free and paid entries, cash prizes,
- [161](https://nanoism.net/stories/161/) - I ask if it scares her, seeing him covered in IVs, and she says no. Then she looks up and beams. "Know what? I'm stronger than Daddy now." R. Gatwood is concise.
- [160](https://nanoism.net/stories/160/) - I've never played with Fire nor courted Disaster, but I admit that I have flirted with Death. What can I say? I'm a sucker for Goth chicks. Merton Sussex is a Minneapolis-based copywriter, and a writer/editor at www.DiaryOfFools.com. He loves his wife, and his dogs.
- [159](https://nanoism.net/stories/159/) - A fob chain went under his vest, between ribs, to his wind-up ticker. Only after she left did he learn she'd stolen the key to his heart. Abra Staffin-Wiebe (@cloudscudding): Publishing credits in Baen's Universe etc, runs an SF/F/H writing resource.
- [158](https://nanoism.net/stories/158/) - My son's third spring starts on the sidewalk: Daddy, I smell something. He leans into the hope and discerns it. Daddy, it's grass! Christopher Cocca: MFA at The New School. MDiv at YDS. Published at elimae, brevity, geez, pindeldyboz, patrol, slingshot, and others.
- [157](https://nanoism.net/stories/157/) - LaFayette Blues in a bar. Two young men cast looks over whiskey. The Ohio night sweats on outside. They leave separately. They are careful. Dawn West (b. 1987) lives in Ohio and writes little things. Her work has appeared in Four and Twenty and Fiction at Work.
- [156](https://nanoism.net/stories/156/) - When the novelty wears off, she thought, there had better be something to take its place. She suspected it would be something even better. JJ Sheffer lives, works, loves, and plays—and occasionally writes—in York, PA.
- [155](https://nanoism.net/stories/155/) - Pavlov's daughter, the receptionist, wonders why every time the typewriter rings of its return, she craves chopped meat. Ripley Patton is a liberated woman who loves steak.
- [154](https://nanoism.net/stories/154/) - “She fell on her bike,” the parents tell the nurse, but the imprint of a belt buckle gives voice to the truth. Antonia Day has lived in Minnesota most of her life. She is a mom, gramma, nurse, writer, owns a dog and a cat, and love flowers.
- [153](https://nanoism.net/stories/153/) - He came back from war different, quieter, but she still loved him. More, maybe. Once he shouted at her in his sleep, but she never told him. Dom Turner is a programmer and photographer, and loves writing. He recently sold a story to Albedo One.
- [152](https://nanoism.net/stories/152/) - He wished he hadn’t done it. Or that she couldn’t read his writing. Or that she hadn’t found the diary. Any one of those would do. Ray Templeton started writing in Scotland but now does it in England.
- [147](https://nanoism.net/stories/147/) - Her mother sniffed it out first. He’s not a good boy for you—not authentic. The flowers were real though. From their front yard, but real. Michael Rudin can be followed (@mikerudin) or ogled.
- [148](https://nanoism.net/stories/148/) - She was a virgin when we married, and had been so sheltered, that somehow I never got around to telling her that it was reconstructed. Sometimes Shelby Davis arrives to work late because he's been up all night writing about people whose hobbies end in personal disaster.
- [151](https://nanoism.net/stories/151/) - When told the Backstreet Boys had broken up she took the cassette, her only one, out of the Walkman and crushed it. That's Africa for you. Matt Timlin: an underpaid overworked med student.
- [150](https://nanoism.net/stories/150/) - The drunk woke and saw a long tunnel ahead. Believing he was dead, he entered the tunnel and was hit by a train. Then he saw another tunnel. Jack Horne hopes there’s some consolation in death: finally knowing the answer!
- [149](https://nanoism.net/stories/149/) - They asked what subject they liked most, and then they gave an answer that satisfied them. And that was one conversation. Brian Yoder lives in Portland, OR. He had two cats.
- [146](https://nanoism.net/stories/146/) - I stand alone, caught in the shadows of your real life, lost and paralyzed in the darkness. You love me, just not enough to pull the blinds. K. Sea is greedy and appreciates that wanting more is an inherently human flaw.
- [145](https://nanoism.net/stories/145/) - Today, I bought my first politician. He's a cute, chubby thing. And obedient. Or so his previous owner tells me. Kristle Chester is a freelancer with a warped sense of humor.
- [144](https://nanoism.net/stories/144/) - "Having grandma for dinner is great," she said. I gently reminded her that Nana surely wouldn't have wanted her to talk with her mouth full. Merton Sussex is a Minneapolis-based copywriter, and a writer/editor at DiaryOfFools.com. He loves his wife, and his dogs.
- [143](https://nanoism.net/stories/143/) - Sunday morning and I have to leave the orgy because I'm late for ninja practice again. Ryan Ridge edits Faultline and has work in or coming from Abjective, Juked, Kitty Snacks, Pindeldyboz, Wigleaf, and others.
- [142](https://nanoism.net/stories/142/) - Hamelin is quiet. Our grown-up world runs more efficiently than ever. Once I thought I saw a rat and my heart leapt—but it was only a mole. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [141](https://nanoism.net/stories/141/) - Don't mind the nuclear power plant on the edge of the slums, come burn salt cakes and suck the teat of some rabid wolf with me. Jessica Otto lives in a house in a marsh surrounded by cats.
- [140](https://nanoism.net/stories/140/) - If only you writers, explorers, dreamers of the 22nd century and before had left something untouched. Now our dreams can see only the past. Phil M. Berger lives in Florida, where he writes science fiction short stories, flash fiction, and apparently tweets.
- [139](https://nanoism.net/stories/139/) - Tea with milk was all she could keep down. Later, champagne settled her stomach. She could hardly wait to take off the tight white dress. Pat Tompkins writes from California.
- [138](https://nanoism.net/stories/138/) - Tiles above my bed resemble the sands. Can the mind leave the body? Each day, I try to return to Basra. Where I could move. Ron Keith (@manylaughs). Writer. Thinker. Dreamer.
- [137](https://nanoism.net/stories/137/) - I’m sorry, the agent wrote back, but fiction is a business. I read over my work again, trying to find which words meant money. David Massengill has more flash fiction and short stories at www.davidmassengillfiction.com.
- [136](https://nanoism.net/stories/136/) - Basho, abashed, wrote two lines of a haiku before erasing it; that it was written in blood on stone, made him miss dinner. Jimmy Chen (@jimmychenchen) lives in California with his wife and their temporary cat.
- [135](https://nanoism.net/stories/135/) - Her blouse was sheer and she was bra-less. We stared and she smiled. “For once,” she said, “I want people to notice me, not my wheelchair.” Bruce Harris enjoys relaxing with a Marxman.
- [134](https://nanoism.net/stories/134/) - My dad turned into a dinosaur on aisle five. I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was. I cried among the broken pickle jars as he stomped away. Evan R. Hanson is writer and law student.
- [133](https://nanoism.net/stories/133/) - She mourned for butterflies, condemned to perch and fly again. When she grew wings, she mourned her feet, never again content to walk. Rebecca McNulty (@rlmcnulty) is a student living in New Jersey. One day, she hopes to satisfy the childhood desire of living in a library.
- [132](https://nanoism.net/stories/132/) - Turns out Pluto's not a planet. Everyone laughed, in third grade, when I said there were only 8 planets. I should have been an astronaut. Alex Odom has been published by Boston Literary Magazine, Foundling Review, Six Sentences, Flashquake, and Camroc Press Review.
- [131](https://nanoism.net/stories/131/) - Every night the mail is on the table beside a covered dish. Sometimes a note: "Do you love me?" If I did, I'd have changed the locks by now. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [130](https://nanoism.net/stories/130/) - When I said I wanted to stretch her out like a kite, she proclaimed my right cheek the lightning capital of the world. J. Bradley is the author of Dodging Traffic (Ampersand Books, 2009). He lives at iheartfailure.net.
- [129](https://nanoism.net/stories/129/) - “It’s 2010! Where’s my flying car! Meal in a pill! Who’s suppressing the teleporter?” The Teamsters’ President shifted uneasily in his seat. Mike Donoghue likes mice, most movie, the muppets, malbec and moist macaroons.
- [128](https://nanoism.net/stories/128/) - "Whatcha think?" Moonlight soaked the splatter cast. A cicada tittered sagely, purveying some fleck of vapid insight. I sighed, "Dead poet." Joseph A. W. Quintela writes. Poems. Prose. On Post-its. Walls. Envelopes. Cocktail napkins. Twitter. Anything, really. But, whatever.
- [125](https://nanoism.net/stories/125/) - We're eating dinner late, 8:30pm. My two year old stands up, walks to the glass door, nose pressed up, and says, "She's out there again." Glen Binger (@glenbinger) is part of The Broad Set Writing Collective. He edits 50 to 1 and talks in a higher tone when naked.
- [124](https://nanoism.net/stories/124/) - Her prayer for love seeped through the firmament and tickled his ears. God then hunched over a copy of Cosmo and read her horoscope. Andrew Bowen edits Divine Dirt Quarterly. He spends his time poking fun at God and sharing beers and laughs afterward.
- [123](https://nanoism.net/stories/123/) - Horse smelled funny when he cooked it. Shot it up anyway. Didn't ever come down. William Walsh is the author of Questionstruck and Without Wax.
- [122](https://nanoism.net/stories/122/) - His calloused hand squeezed her tiny thumb. Inadequate insurance, he discovered. He couldn’t afford healthcare. He could pay for a funeral. Bruce Harris is a doctor and a salesman, but not necessarily in that order.
- [127](https://nanoism.net/stories/127/) - Looking at the carnage around his foxhole, Sergeant Jones decided not to pray. All around lay the evidence that no one listened. Steven Saus injects people with radioactive material as "real" job, but for the forces of good.
- [126](https://nanoism.net/stories/126/) - Because he loved her, he packed his bags. He wrote her a good check and a note in dry erase. He left clues but knew she wouldn’t come. Teresa Houle (@teresahoule) wants you to read her.
- [121](https://nanoism.net/stories/121/) - We escaped! The birches gave way to palms and winter was but a wetter summer. Sitting free in a sandbox, I dreamed of sliding in the snow. Uri Grey (@urigrey) doesn't play to win. He plays to survive. If you're curious how he survived that long, hop in here.
- [120](https://nanoism.net/stories/120/) - Beyond the vacant highchair sits our empty pool. Len Kuntz writes and sometimes blogs.
- [119](https://nanoism.net/stories/119/) - His probation stopped on a dimebag. Christopher Cocca writes fiction and MFAs at The New School.
- [118](https://nanoism.net/stories/118/) - We ate wontons until marriage became a tag on a fortune cookie. In a talk about needs he said do you even masturbate. I lied to him. In bed. Sara Lippmann is a writer in Brooklyn.
- [116](https://nanoism.net/stories/116/) - She tells him to back away slowly, she never wanted it to go this far. He nods and puts down the ring. S. Kay (@blueberrio) enjoys tiny things saturated with flavor.
- [117](https://nanoism.net/stories/117/) - Inspecting her bloody knuckles, she asked aloud if he was worth fighting for. From the ground, he gurgled what sounded to her like “yes.” Noel Sloboda lives in Pennsylvania with three dogs, two cats, and one wife.
- [115](https://nanoism.net/stories/115/) - It was the worst of times. The best of times had passed him by, leaving him an old man in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Until today. Larry Hodges an Odyssey grad and active member of SFWA with numerous regular and twitter sales.
- [114](https://nanoism.net/stories/114/) - Dad sits Indian-style behind the metal fence. “Is this what you wanted?” Mom asks. I set the cupcake in the dirt and take my mother’s hand. Brendan O'Brien was a backup JV QB in 1997. How you like him now?
- [113](https://nanoism.net/stories/113/) - Dad was more of a dog person, but when he made an issue of it, mom said she wanted cats. I’d have settled for a hamster, plus both parents. Evan Schaeffer lives in St. Louis. Links to his stories and commentary essays can be found at www.evanschaeffer.com.
- [112](https://nanoism.net/stories/112/) - Gregory Sherl misses the tenderness that made him feel home on your skin. He is sick of eating alone. He drunk dials like a champion. Gregory Sherl loves with his fingertips the most.
- [111](https://nanoism.net/stories/111/) - Hindu gods grant Indira’s wish to be reincarnated near me so we can marry yet again. This time, I ask to be reborn a goat. Cycle broken. Karl Kudrej is a TV news photographer turned fiction writer. He believes TV news is fiction. His photography appeared on CBS News.
- [110](https://nanoism.net/stories/110/) - At eight, it started to rain. He should have been off at five, but then, by his accounting, he should have been a lot of things by now. Elizabeth Gallenberg lives in Wisconsin, where she gets hopeless crushes on literary characters and sings to her cats.
- [109](https://nanoism.net/stories/109/) - Happy in her ivory wedding gown and veil, how could she guess that she would love only him, and he would love only the children she bore. K.M.A. Sullivan would like fewer children and more tire swings.
- [108](https://nanoism.net/stories/108/) - Adam, now Eve-less, stood before his most exquisite Bonsai, wallowing in the miseries of youth. Seth is S.H. Gall in Word Riot, SmokeLong Issues 1 and 27, and Five Star Literary Stories.
- [107](https://nanoism.net/stories/107/) - He writes the perfect tweet. Nails it. It’s Hemingwayesque. The Shakespeare of all tweets! One tiny problem, though. It has 141 characters. Bruce Harris enjoys relaxing with a Marxman.
- [2009 Nominations](https://nanoism.net/meta/2009-nominations/) - Here is a list of Nanoism's 2009 nominations for Best of the Net, Best of the Web, and The Micro Award. A big New Year's thank you to the writers who have given us the honor of reading their work. And as always, thank you for reading. Sundress Best of the Net 2009 "Dakar 1989"
- [He Hardly Remembers the Crisis from His Childhood](https://nanoism.net/serials/he-hardly-remembers-the-crisis-from-his-childhood/) - When he and his brother played doctor, it was tests and equipment and bureaucrats and complications. Always complications. Once he told a girlfriend that the scars on his neck were from bites. His timing was good, and they snuggled for the rest of the movie. He hinted to some guys in a locker room that
- [Thump Thump Thump](https://nanoism.net/serials/thump-thump-thump/) - She doesn't talk to people like she should. Right now she's talking to the sidewalk. Her mother leans out the window just to hear her voice. She missed the bus again. Didn't care. She was busy listening to the beating heart under the sidewalk. He gave her flowers, and she cried. Horrid dead things ripped
- [Break It Down](https://nanoism.net/serials/break-it-down/) - O darling, my precious one, love of my life, you're making way too big a deal out of this. Heart of my heart, mate of my soul. Honey: Don't you think you're being a little paranoid? Sweetness. Gorgeous. Woman. Of. My. Dreams—how about you just calm down and put that thing down. O my Angel,
- [Can You Hear?](https://nanoism.net/serials/can-you-hear/) - My girlfriend reads me short stories when I'm napping. She picks authors I detest, those who should have their hands bound. My sister won’t fly home. She has kids, she says. Loud ones. Yeah, I tell her, I get it. I never hear them yelling. Or asking to say hi. When I call and say
- [101](https://nanoism.net/stories/101/) - She lived in fear of rejecting her new face, the face given to her by a stranger and a team of doctors, the face her attacker daily kissed. Elaine Isaak's (@elaineisaak) next book, The Bastard Queen, is forthcoming January 2010. You do not want to be her hero.
- [105](https://nanoism.net/stories/105/) - He wrote the poem out for her carefully and she folded it just as carefully and slid it under the short leg of the table. Grove Koger is the author of WHEN THE GOING WAS GOOD and lives in Idaho.
- [104](https://nanoism.net/stories/104/) - He sat to watch the world go by. He waited for insights. Instead he found himself, thinking more and more about less and less. Dorothee Lang edits the BluePrintReview and currently is into skies, collaborations, and miniatures of life.
- [106](https://nanoism.net/stories/106/) - "It's not your strongest," said his patron, and he fell into an abyss of dark shadows and rum until rescued by that probiotic yogurt drink. S. Kay (@blueberrio) enjoys tiny things saturated with flavor.
- [102](https://nanoism.net/stories/102/) - The Slugger: Slipping the needle into his buttocks didn't hurt until they asked him to pee in a cup. Kathleen Gerard is a prize-winning writer who maintains the blog www.kathleengerard.blogspot.com.
- [98](https://nanoism.net/stories/98/) - Our lives were mapped out by the tracks of your tears that followed the tracks on my arms. Both always trying to stop; both always failing. Jay Faulkner (@thejayphoenix) is a writer, martial artist, sketcher, and dreamer but mostly a husband and father.
- [103](https://nanoism.net/stories/103/) - Her husband said no—that any more than a handful was a waste. She went ahead with it anyway. He seemed to enjoy being a hypocrite. Steve Calvert is a writer from the UK. His website can be found at http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk.
- [100](https://nanoism.net/stories/100/) - My dad was too busy so I said painting projects with his pop were stupid. He looked at his brush and a drop of red paint fell to the ground. DannyPoet (@dannypoet) is a writer of fiction and poetry who is currently working on his first novel.
- [99](https://nanoism.net/stories/99/) - “God offers you paradise after this awful life,” said the prophet, and his people killed themselves. “Better make suicide a sin,” he noted. Alexander B. Joy is a student of English and Philosophy at UNH Durham.
- [December Serial Contest](https://nanoism.net/meta/december-serial-contest/) - [CONTEST OVER; SEE THE WINNERS] We want four life stories. For the last four weeks of December (ending on New Year's Day 2010), we'll be publishing four different five-tweet serials. Each piece in the series should be a complete and engaging story (like always), but all five should come together to form something bigger and
- [December Serials](https://nanoism.net/meta/december-serials/) - The contest is over. The results are in (alphabetical order): Winners "Can You Hear?" by David Erlewine "He Hardly Remembers the Crisis from Childhood" by Ann Marie Gamble "Thump Thump Thump" by Ruby Welsh "Break it Down" by Dale Wisely Runners up "A Song of Loss" by Brad Chacos "Black" by Karl Kudrej "Ursari" by
- [48](https://nanoism.net/stories/48/) - The newly feathered doves resembled matching brown gourds lying on the ground. For the second time that day, she gently held lifeless twins. Patricia La Barbera, author of The Celtic Crow Murders, lives in the Florida Keys.
- [97](https://nanoism.net/stories/97/) - He smirks at the baggie he's confiscated: "So nice of you to share." I watch him light up. So nice of him to mention his poison ivy allergy. R. Gatwood is concise.
- [96](https://nanoism.net/stories/96/) - She hadn't wanted one when she was young. Leading the girl furtively by the hand, no guardian in sight, the woman marveled at finding love. Marcelle Heath is a fiction writer and assistant editor for Luna Park. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
- [95](https://nanoism.net/stories/95/) - The mussels steamed up and split their lips, revealing the soft, moist meat within. Jeremy sighed. He needed to find a girlfriend, and fast. Brad Chacos has a story and an article appearing in future issues of Withersin magazine, but oddly enough, no Twitter account.
- [94](https://nanoism.net/stories/94/) - He thought that the story I wrote about love was "touching." Too bad it wasn't about him. Matan White married her high school sweetheart. Too bad the only way she can communicate with him is by submitting to this mag.
- [92](https://nanoism.net/stories/92/) - Three years after his release. Beth pregnant, crying for a fix. Half-dead. And the gun in his waistband whispering: I got this. Peter Schwartz reads so much he can't help but write.
- [93](https://nanoism.net/stories/93/) - The customer no-shows at a rest stop on I-65. A kilo cold in the trunk. It's snowing. She shivers. "I'm done with this," she says to no one. Dale Wisely is a fan of economy of language. He edits Right Hand Pointing.
- [91](https://nanoism.net/stories/91/) - She lay as still as she was able, making a game of it, trying not to wake him. He would only put his arm around her in his sleep. Michelle Ristuccia's writing blog can be found at wakingdreamsblog.blogspot.com
- [88](https://nanoism.net/stories/88/) - I giggle when he taps my knee. Pure reflex. So tall. So blond. So cute. My giggle spills into laugh. Then cough. And a red-faced physician. J.S. Graustein exists in California but lives in her English dreams. Pop by for tea anytime and tell her a story.
- [90](https://nanoism.net/stories/90/) - Creaking boards, something quiet moving in the dark. I snap the lights on and there stands my dead sister. Thank God. I thought we had mice. William Wood lives in an old farmhouse in the Blue Ridge Mountains with an understanding family. He often writes instead of sleeping.
- [89](https://nanoism.net/stories/89/) - He circled the pack, stayed downwind, out of sight. To no avail. They smelled his fear. "What's your name, Mister?" the preschooler asked. Ed Pahule (@Shadow_Ferret) is an aspiring novelist currently hidden away from his own children so he can get some writing done.
- [79](https://nanoism.net/stories/79/) - Ran into my ex. He said, "Nice car." I said, "Best car your money can buy." "You ran over my foot, still bitter?" he said. "No, we're even." Cindy Kerschner: author, universe contemplator, realist, surrealist, Jill-of-all-trades, twitter antics (@writelane)
- [87](https://nanoism.net/stories/87/) - He flew nonstop against the sun, but no matter how far or how long he went, the days still progressed and his daughter was still dead. Robert Swartwood (@RobertSwartwood) is the editor of Hint Fiction (W.W. Norton, 2010).
- [86](https://nanoism.net/stories/86/) - It's strange to dream of you once more. I am submerged, already wet, in a dishpan of daily demands. You ask for a plate and I throw it. Ann Marie Gamble (@amgamble) prefers a two-egg omelette.
- [85](https://nanoism.net/stories/85/) - They caught him doping and voted to strip his Olympic gold. His last words, radioed from over the Marianas Trench: "Try it now." Robert Laughlin lives in Chico, California. He is the creator of the Micro Award, an annual flash fiction competition.
- [81](https://nanoism.net/stories/81/) - I wanted to ask permission but you were sleeping and the side of your face was totally milky and smooth and I thought like you should sleep Scott Garson edits Wigleaf and has stories in American Short Fiction, New York Tyrant, Hobart, Quick Fiction and others.
- [83](https://nanoism.net/stories/83/) - "Look at this picture," she says. "That's not that long ago. Right before I met you." I look. "I look different," she says. "I look happy." Robb Todd has eight letters in his name, but just five different letters are in play, and a mere two syllables.
- [84](https://nanoism.net/stories/84/) - I found mom’s porn stash in the oven, half-baked in a casserole dish. “No big deal,” she said. “I don’t plan on cooking anymore anyway." Neil de la Flor's 1st poetry collection, Almost Dorothy, will be published by Marsh Hawk Press in 2010.
- [82](https://nanoism.net/stories/82/) - She blamed the glass, insisting it spontaneously broke itself in her hand. Again. Sandra Dawson is not sure who she is but is also known as @blueberrio.
- [80](https://nanoism.net/stories/80/) - Driving to his house for the final time, she had only two thoughts: 1. Did she have enough money for gas? 2. Had she remembered her lighter? RJ Payne (@rebeccajpayne) is genre fiction writer based in Cambridge, England. She is a member of CWIL and www.differentstar.net.
- [78](https://nanoism.net/stories/78/) - Staring at the note from his pocket, she wondered if this time she would do something about it. She put it back and picked up her keys. Jennifer Walker is a freelance writer, published in numerous magazines and websites. She is awaiting the release of her first novel.
- [77](https://nanoism.net/stories/77/) - Our best days: Him: ? Me: … Him: ?? Me: !!! Him: ??? Me: @#%&!!!! Him: …!! Me: >:) Mercedes M. Yardley (@mercedesmy) was always sweet and gracious, she swears.
- [76](https://nanoism.net/stories/76/) - He glared. Sex is not a reward. She shrugged and placed a dish in the drying rack. He stewed on the couch a while, then took out the trash. William Wood lives in an old farmhouse in the Blue Ridge Mountains with an understanding family. He often writes instead of sleeping.
- [75](https://nanoism.net/stories/75/) - Grass between toes. Painted nails, tattooed ankle, slow gait. No haste, not as before. The fields remember her anyway. Flowers kiss hello. Marie Croke's brain resides in her little toe. As she walks it rattles around and around, occasionally spitting out something profound.
- [74](https://nanoism.net/stories/74/) - Our pastor left his hat here, so dad wore it to church the next week. Mid-sermon, the pastor squinted our way, so dad tipped his hat hello. DannyPoet (@dannypoet) is a writer of fiction and poetry who is currently working on his first novel.
- [73](https://nanoism.net/stories/73/) - He leaned on her stomach, imagining he could still hear the little ghost breaths, but she pushed him away, crying, before he could be sure. @Mari_ness lives and writes in central Florida, under the unhelpful guidance of two adorable cats.
- [72](https://nanoism.net/stories/72/) - She lived in a world of beautiful confusion: raindrop curtains and jellybean stars; graffitied skies and dripping suns. Yet they pitied her. Em D likes quirky witticisms, sexual innuendo, and blueberries. Em D hates corny puns, toilet humor, and raisins. (@slashindex)
- [70](https://nanoism.net/stories/70/) - I know you read everything I write, wondering if it’s about you. Well, here you go. You're worth 121 characters to me. Mercedes M. Yardley wears poisonous flowers in her hair.
- [71](https://nanoism.net/stories/71/) - She almost said yes, but out of the corner of her eye, she saw two lurking smirks, an elbow poking a rib. No, she said. Not with you. Jennifer Tatroe (@jhtatroe) lives in Seattle, where she's working on a novel that's decidedly longer than 140 characters.
- [69](https://nanoism.net/stories/69/) - If Frankenstein ever knocks on my door I'll kiss him right there at the threshold. Thank you, I'll say, thank you for being so obvious. Peter Schwartz is just a less obvious monster.
- [68](https://nanoism.net/stories/68/) - The grey cathedral steps open up to arches of sky. From the garden glints the Bishop's ring, who covers his face when I spot him. Dannypoet (@dannypoet) is a writer of fiction and poetry who is currently working on his first novel.
- [67](https://nanoism.net/stories/67/) - In a mountain paradise I found a song. I bore it to my kin on the plain. Freed, it took us to the heights. Day after day. mmSeason (@mmSeason) is the scariest thing in her house. She writes, too: multi-length fiction and poems.
- [66](https://nanoism.net/stories/66/) - Introverts were outlawed in 2015. The last hermit was found and executed in Greenland six years later; within six months everyone was deaf. Meika Loofs Samorzewski (@meika) no longer writes for humans and lives in Tasmania.
- [65](https://nanoism.net/stories/65/) - New scribe, recording a great triumph. His words are flawed, and he cleans the clay, wishing he could erase the cuneiform of his memory. Deborah Walker thinks: least said, soonest mended.
- [63](https://nanoism.net/stories/63/) - Cuddling with her toilet, Lani regrets that fifth Long Island Iced Tea. The naked man on her bed is past caring, for which she is grateful. C.S. Eastman (@queeninyellow) has an unwholesome love of roller derby, robot monkeys and zombies.
- [64](https://nanoism.net/stories/64/) - Eddie lost himself sitting on Father Rex's overstuffed couch, ruminating in the dark odor of altar wine and years of premature communion. Chris Lindgren writes bits of microcontent found scattered & hyperlinked here and there. He is mostly Norwegian & lives in Fargo, ND.
- [62](https://nanoism.net/stories/62/) - They scattered his ashes. The wind turned, blew the stinging ash into their eyes. ”He always had to have the last word,” his wife mumbled. Laurie Darroch-Meekis: world citizen, diving into the realm of writing, eyes wide open.
- [61](https://nanoism.net/stories/61/) - “Why?” he asked. “Because I hate you,” she said. She thought it was less cruel than the truth – “Because I knew I could.” Penelope Friday writes disability articles and pornographic stories. The combination amuses her. She twitters under @penelopefriday.
- [Dakar 1989](https://nanoism.net/serials/dakar-1989/) - Everyone runs to the plane but me. I get the last seat (middle of 5), crush men's bags on my way. I'm white & female. They glare. I have to pee. Again. I think—Sahara. No use. I climb over knee high carry-on bundles while their owners slap me. Curse me. Lock myself in & pee.
- [59](https://nanoism.net/stories/59/) - If I draw you a purple orange, will you teach me to think like a child? Julie Bloss Kelsey enjoys writing poetry, magazine articles, and short stories. You can reach her @MamaJoules.
- [58](https://nanoism.net/stories/58/) - Mommy lied. The bread didn’t have sesame seeds—it had bugs! But the boy was so hungry, he didn’t care. Beth Cato’s work appears in Niteblade, Crossed Genres, and Six Sentences.
- [57](https://nanoism.net/stories/57/) - Dylan got a new job manning the fryer at the In-N-Out on Ventura. He ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more. Roland Goity edits fiction for LITnIMAGE.
- [60](https://nanoism.net/stories/60/) - Her jewelry was missing. She'd heard a noise during the night. Cat burglar? The distant meows told her she was on the right track. Margaret Morris is a freelance writer who produces articles and content for the web. She tweets for fun; find her @LITtering.
- [56](https://nanoism.net/stories/56/) - Were the candles for wax play? No—romance. Suddenly she was terrified. R. Gatwood's work has appeared in a number of small-press publications.
- [55](https://nanoism.net/stories/55/) - That crown of thorns around your tongue? Pathetic. Look, I don’t have to agree with you. Going all dramatic like that gets us nowhere. Errid Farland owns www.ShowMeYourLits.com, a website devoted to the creation of literary flash fiction.
- [54](https://nanoism.net/stories/54/) - "He's not good enough for you," her daughter said. "Why, because he's not your father?" "No," her daughter replied, "because he's black." Tracy Thompson is a 25 year-old aspiring writer: short stories for the past few years and new at flash fiction.
- [The First Time](https://nanoism.net/serials/the-first-time/) - "The first time's always scary," he said. She nodded, not looking at him. They did it. She didn't expect the faces he made at the end, and some stifled laughter escaped. Afterward, she tried to massage his neck. The boy said he could rub his own neck, thank you, and got out of the car.
- [45](https://nanoism.net/stories/45/) - We both stare: her at me, and me at the empty Merlot bottle she found in the bin. My wife hates wine. Unlike most of her characters, Jenny McFadyen (@Cyfarwydd) is living happily ever after.
- [53](https://nanoism.net/stories/53/) - They were so self-conscious they drove everywhere. Even to the store a block away. “I don’t have time,” they’d say. But that was a lie. Dawn Corrigan still likes to walk to the store.
- [52](https://nanoism.net/stories/52/) - The old lady sighs at the sight of elastic-skinned girl across from her whose gaze is fixed on the gold band that strangles an aged finger. Radhika Takru is 22 and enjoys writing on public transport, experimenting with tea, and staring at her shoes.
- [51](https://nanoism.net/stories/51/) - Longing; attainment; boredom. Repeat. Repeat. Reflect; realize; release. Satisfaction. Boredom. OK—what now? Joe Blaylock is at many places on the web.
- [50](https://nanoism.net/stories/50/) - Ants crawl within powdered rosin in the corner. One of their sisters was crushed earlier and now dances underneath worn ballet slippers. Camille Petre is a dancer, writer, musician, student, and aspiring researcher in neuroscience.
- [49](https://nanoism.net/stories/49/) - Sunday morning includes a laptop, reruns, and naked breasts covered with chip crumbs instead of your lips. You snore through opportunity. Brandice Schnabel (@brandice) is a geeky therapist living in Canton, Ohio. She is working on publishing a book of poetry.
- [47](https://nanoism.net/stories/47/) - After she left him she sent a postcard from Fiji. He paid sixty cents in postage due. He didn’t mind. He was used to paying her way. Dan Moreau lives and writes in Utah. This is his first tweet.
- [46](https://nanoism.net/stories/46/) - Visiting her family, she felt like a mismatched pair of socks. Similar enough to wear, but once on, the differences were uncomfortable. Kari Girarde enjoys the fog of the Outer Sunset in San Francisco.
- [44](https://nanoism.net/stories/44/) - It was no honor to be the first robot on the moon. But first robot to know it was on the moon, and what that meant--he was proud indeed. @kaolinfire writes, edits, and makes websites & computer games.
- [43](https://nanoism.net/stories/43/) - One hundred and forty characters. Now I only have a hundred and six. Wait! Stop counting! I haven't even started! And now you say I am done. Stephen D. Rogers has published over five hundred stories and poems.

## Pages

- [About](https://nanoism.net/about/) - Nanoism (edited by Ben White / @benwhitemd) is/was an online venue for Twitter-fiction: stories of up to 140 characters. It ran from 2009-2023, and this was the pitch: Shorter than traditional flash fiction, it's both a challenge to write and quick as a blink to read. Call it nanofiction, microfiction, twiction, twisters, or tweetfic—it doesn't
- [Submit](https://nanoism.net/submit/) - After 14 years of continuous publication, Nanoism is no longer accepting submissions. Nanoism was a twitterzine, an online publication focused on nanofiction, which in this case refers to stories that clock in at a maximum of 140 characters (conforming to the original inherent limitations of the Twitter service). @Nanoism accepted all genres of prose. However, we
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## Categories

- [Meta](https://nanoism.net/type/meta/) - Entries about this site or Nanoism itself
- [Stories](https://nanoism.net/type/stories/) - Stand-alone stories, less than 140 characters of fiction gold.
- [Serials](https://nanoism.net/type/serials/) - Serialized stories, originally told one tweet at a time, now compiled here.

## Tags

- [David Tallerman](https://nanoism.net/writer/david-tallerman/)
- [Ethel Rohan](https://nanoism.net/writer/ethel-rohan/)
- [Lauren Becker](https://nanoism.net/writer/lauren-becker/)
- [Tovli Simiryan](https://nanoism.net/writer/tovli-simiryan/)
- [Jennifer Tatroe](https://nanoism.net/writer/jennifer-tatroe/)
- [David Erlewine](https://nanoism.net/writer/david-erlewine/)
- [Tanaz Bhathena](https://nanoism.net/writer/tanaz-bhathena/)
- [Mari Ness](https://nanoism.net/writer/mari-ness/)
- [Harry John Shephard](https://nanoism.net/writer/harry-john-shephard/)
- [Cheryl Snell](https://nanoism.net/writer/cheryl-snell/)
- [Ana Cristina Rodrigues](https://nanoism.net/writer/ana-cristina-rodrigues/)
- [Tom L Waters](https://nanoism.net/writer/tom-l-waters/)
- [J.S. Graustein](https://nanoism.net/writer/js-graustein/)
- [Rafe McGregor](https://nanoism.net/writer/rafe-mcgregor/)
- [R. Schuyler Devin](https://nanoism.net/writer/r-schuyler-devin/)
- [Steven E. McDonald](https://nanoism.net/writer/steven-e-mcdonald/)
- [Ash M.B.](https://nanoism.net/writer/ash-mb/)
- [Ludimila Hashimoto](https://nanoism.net/writer/ludimila-hashimoto/)
- [Meika Loofs Samorzewski](https://nanoism.net/writer/meika-loofs-samorzewski/)
- [Steve Calvert](https://nanoism.net/writer/steve-calvert/)
- [Deborah Walker](https://nanoism.net/writer/deborah-walker/)
- [Lee Ann Kalwat](https://nanoism.net/writer/lee-ann-kalwat/)
- [Kenneth Schneyer](https://nanoism.net/writer/kenneth-schneyer/)
- [Matthew Sanborn Smith](https://nanoism.net/writer/matthew-sanborn-smith/)
- [Len Morgan](https://nanoism.net/writer/len-morgan/)
- [Robert Laughlin](https://nanoism.net/writer/robert-laughlin/)
- [Kaolin Fire](https://nanoism.net/writer/kaolin-fire/)
- [Salvatore Buttaci](https://nanoism.net/writer/salvatore-buttaci/)
- [K.C. Shaw](https://nanoism.net/writer/kc-shaw/)
- [Michelle Ristuccia](https://nanoism.net/writer/michelle-ristuccia/)
- [Michelle Fee](https://nanoism.net/writer/michelle-fee/)
- [Terra LeMay](https://nanoism.net/writer/terra-lemay/)
- [Jason Martin](https://nanoism.net/writer/jason-martin/)
- [Ben White (@benwhitemd)](https://nanoism.net/writer/editor/) - The Editor
- [John Ayliff](https://nanoism.net/writer/john-ayliff/)
- [Alasdair Stuart](https://nanoism.net/writer/alasdair-stuart/)
- [Olivia Berrier](https://nanoism.net/writer/olivia-berrier/)
- [James Stevens-Acre](https://nanoism.net/writer/james-stevens-acre/)
- [Dawn Corrigan](https://nanoism.net/writer/dawn-corrigan/)
- [Stephen D. Rogers](https://nanoism.net/writer/stephen-d-rogers/)
- [Jenny McFadyen](https://nanoism.net/writer/jenny-mcfadyen/)
- [Kari Girarde](https://nanoism.net/writer/kari-girarde/)
- [Dan Moreau](https://nanoism.net/writer/dan-moreau/)
- [Patricia La Barbera](https://nanoism.net/writer/patricia-la-barbera/)
- [Brandice Schnabel](https://nanoism.net/writer/brandice-schnabel/)
- [Camille Petre](https://nanoism.net/writer/camille-petre/)
- [Joe Blaylock](https://nanoism.net/writer/joe-blaylock/)
- [Radhika Takru](https://nanoism.net/writer/radhika-takru/)
- [Tracy Thompson](https://nanoism.net/writer/tracy-thompson/)
- [Joanne Merriam](https://nanoism.net/writer/joanne-merriam/)
- [Errid Farland](https://nanoism.net/writer/errid-farland/)
- [R. Gatwood](https://nanoism.net/writer/r-gatwood/)
- [Roland Goity](https://nanoism.net/writer/roland-goity/)
- [Beth Cato](https://nanoism.net/writer/beth-cato/)
- [Julie Bloss Kelsey](https://nanoism.net/writer/julie-bloss-kelsey/)
- [Margaret Morris](https://nanoism.net/writer/margaret-morris/)
- [Penelope Friday](https://nanoism.net/writer/penelope-friday/)
- [Laurie Darroch-Meekis](https://nanoism.net/writer/laurie-darroch-meekis/)
- [C.S. Eastman](https://nanoism.net/writer/c-s-eastman/)
- [Chris Lindgren](https://nanoism.net/writer/chris-lindgren/)
- [mmSeason](https://nanoism.net/writer/mmseason/)
- [DannyPoet](https://nanoism.net/writer/dannypoet/)
- [Peter Schwartz](https://nanoism.net/writer/peter-schwartz/)
- [Mercedes M. Yardley](https://nanoism.net/writer/mercedes-m-yardley/)
- [Em D](https://nanoism.net/writer/em-d/)
- [Mary Croke](https://nanoism.net/writer/mary-croke/)
- [William Wood](https://nanoism.net/writer/william-wood/)
- [Jennifer Walker](https://nanoism.net/writer/jennifer-walker/)
- [Cindy Kerschner](https://nanoism.net/writer/cindy-kerschner/)
- [RJ Payne](https://nanoism.net/writer/rj-payne/)
- [Scott Garson](https://nanoism.net/writer/scott-garson/)
- [Sandra Dawson](https://nanoism.net/writer/sandra-dawson/)
- [Robb Todd](https://nanoism.net/writer/robb-todd/)
- [Neil de la Flor](https://nanoism.net/writer/neil-de-la-flor/)
- [Ann Marie Gamble](https://nanoism.net/writer/ann-marie-gamble/)
- [Robert Swartwood](https://nanoism.net/writer/robert-swartwood/)
- [Ed Pahule](https://nanoism.net/writer/ed-pahule/)
- [Dale Wisely](https://nanoism.net/writer/dale-wisely/)
- [Matan White](https://nanoism.net/writer/matan-white/)
- [Brad Chacos](https://nanoism.net/writer/brad-chacos/)
- [Marcelle Heath](https://nanoism.net/writer/marcelle-heath/)
- [Jay Faulkner](https://nanoism.net/writer/jay-faulkner/)
- [Alexander B. Joy](https://nanoism.net/writer/alexander-b-joy/)
- [Elaine Isaak](https://nanoism.net/writer/elaine-isaak/)
- [Kathleen Gerard](https://nanoism.net/writer/kathleen-gerard/)
- [Dorothee Lang](https://nanoism.net/writer/dorothee-lang/)
- [Grove Koger](https://nanoism.net/writer/grove-koger/)
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