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Contents of Flash , 1.1 (Oct. 2008)–6.1 (April 2013) Flash , 1.1 (Oct. 2008) Editorial Honey Trap Beryl Bainbridge Recipe for a Stone Meal Ama Ata Aidoo The Later Transgression James Kelman It’s Okay Elleke Boehmer Music for a New Society Michael Cawood Green The Choice Kobus Moolman Moving Kobus Moolman Obit. Alan Wall On the Train Alan Wall Flint-Knapper Alan Wall A Blackening of the Heart Carole Green The Strange Confluence of the Life and Death of an Outlaw Carole Green Away Day David Gaffney Music Like Ours Never Dies David Gaffney The Big Five-O Harry Owen

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Page 1: Contents of Flash, 1.1 (Oct. 2008)–6.1 (April 2013) Contents.pdf · My Father’s Carpet Knife Michael Spring. Telling the Truth Simon Harris. Starting Point Catherine McAleese

Contents of Flash, 1.1 (Oct. 2008)–6.1 (April 2013)

Flash, 1.1 (Oct. 2008) Editorial Honey Trap Beryl Bainbridge Recipe for a Stone Meal Ama Ata Aidoo The Later Transgression James Kelman It’s Okay Elleke Boehmer Music for a New Society Michael Cawood Green The Choice Kobus Moolman Moving Kobus Moolman Obit. Alan Wall On the Train Alan Wall Flint-Knapper Alan Wall A Blackening of the Heart Carole Green The Strange Confluence of the Life and Death of an Outlaw Carole Green Away Day David Gaffney Music Like Ours Never Dies David Gaffney The Big Five-O Harry Owen

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Friendly Fire Harry Owen The House Anthony Cornish Driving from Distraction Jessica Seck Marquis Five Acres Jesse Patrick Ferguson Thursday Study Jesse Patrick Ferguson A Stabbing Pain Angi Holden The Dogs of Donegal Clarence Wilde September 30th, 11.59 p.m. Paul McDonald Top Model David Schuman Errata to My Life Akinwumi Akinwale Melody Eunice Yeates New World Order Pedro Ponce Visitation Pedro Ponce Mommet Die Booth Worth Kim Sherwood Underneath the Mistletoe Paul Cuddihy Alpha and Omega Martin Sorrell Before Magritte Martin Sorrell Leaves Kyle McManus

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What If? Jan Bengree Remembering Margot Jan Bengree Burn Colin Harris New Delhi Love Nigel Jarrett The Photograph, 1914 Andrew James Brown I Noticed You in the Seminar Aruni Mahapatra Ursula’s Roses Leila Coyle My Father’s Carpet Knife Michael Spring Telling the Truth Simon Harris Starting Point Catherine McAleese Alma Mater Joe Carr Curtains J. B. Page Flash Presents Dan Rhodes • ‘Pieces’ • ‘Faithful’ J. Robert Lennon • ‘Election’ • ‘Trust Jesus’ Flash Reviews Ashley Chantler (ed.), An Anatomy of Chester • Reviewer: Nicole Deverenne

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• Sample story: ‘Does Anyone Here Know a Keith?’ Siri Ellis Peter Wild (ed.), The Flash • Reviewer: Francesca Haig • Sample story: ‘The Incomprehensible Texture’ Laird Hunt Advertisements Flash Subscriptions and Submissions

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Flash, 2.1 (April 2009) Editorial Brother-Monster, 1645 Tony Cornish Fasciola Hepatica Trevor Conway Tracking Laurelyn Whitt Crime Scenes Philip Brooks Cantaloupe Carol D. O’Dell Etiquette Guide Francesca Haig Foreign Policy Martin Sorrell A Portrait of the Artist as a Slightly Older Man Matt Bridges Fear is a Floral Book E. M. Reapy Not Far from the Tree Karina Magdalena Szczurek Parting Karina Magdalena Szczurek A Friggin’ Star Joel Willans When Tania Sings Douglas Bruton Children’s Television Matt Thorne Ned Ewan Morrison Inventory Karen Loeb The List K. C. Murdarasi

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Control Justin Reed Italian Louis Gallo An Alternative History of Rhyl Gee Williams Our Town Tom Robson Auditions Annette Bower Ego Shrinker Roberta Allen In Defence of Pigeons David Higgins Reptile Nature Michael Spring Plague Year Sharlene Teo 1999 Sharlene Teo Evening Seán Dagan Wood Pets Seán Dagan Wood Photograph Paul Malone ‘Do These Horses Bite?’ J. R. Angelella Hitler is Dead and He’s Not Coming Back Rodge Glass The Daughter’s Return Jan Bengree Inquest Sam Knowles How It Ends Anna Jaquiery Attention to Detail Ryan Connair

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Late Luke Thompson Out of Water E. Cargin Love Story Susan Roberts Float for Good Nathan Curnow Child Jonathan Cardew I Like Everything in Moderation John Bosley Happily Ever After Lana Citron Flash Presents Dave Eggers • ‘On Wanting to Have at Least Three Walls Up Before She Gets

Home’ • ‘This Certain Song’ Kobus Moolman • ‘Vantage Point’ • ‘All Girls’ School’ Flash Reviews David Gaffney, Sawn-Off Tales • Reviewer: Ailsa Cox • Sample story: ‘Happy Place’ Shouhua Qi (ed., trans.), The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories • Reviewer: Paul McDonald • Sample story: ‘He’ Guo Moruo

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Flash, 2.2 (Oct. 2009)

Editorial Of Dedication to a Greater Good Kobus Moolman The Door Kobus Moolman Of Watching Kobus Moolman A Clamour of Rooks Lesley Mace Casualty Figures Martin Sorrell Nothing Special Tara L. Masih Diptych Mark Budman Oulu Nathaniel Rich Talent Niven Govinden Hello Theodore Worozbyt Meditation: March 26, 1978 Harry Owen Moth Chris Powici To Edinburgh Chris Powici Testimony David Swann The Third Space David Swann Shambles Kellie Wells Aspiration Repository Elizabeth O’Hara

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The Meeting Place of Hands Patricio Muñoz Barney Larry Fox The Corner of Broadway and Linden Katherine Barley Outside the Bar Eva Eliav In Taberna Quando Sumos Stefan Forrester The Gowlden Wule Michael D. Conley Dinner Party Helen Howe Consolation Deanna Kern Ludwin Evening in Paris Deanna Kern Ludwin Incident Report Garry Cox Annette Henry W. Leung Adventures in Love Henry W. Leung Fellow Ship Henry W. Leung Mother Imperfect Sara P. Dias To Catch a Cutthroat Chauna Craig Larkspur Chauna Craig The Keys Are in the Fridge Nigel Jarrett 3561 Kelly Lougheed The Chess Players Louis Armand

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Denis’s Trick John Gall Still, Still Life Francine Witte Eye Francine Witte Accelerant John Seed 1984 Mason Ince I Always Look at Other Men Die Booth Surgery Die Booth Origami Rebecca Gaffron Mutton Leon Jacobs Hush Little Baby Stef Hall A List of Things Stef Hall Poked with a Stick Stef Hall Rumplemintz Amy Holwerda What I Don’t Know Now Veronica Gleeson John Davy’s Still an Alright Guy Rosalynn Stovall Getting Out Kim Sherwood This Is How Your World Will End Adam Death Flash Presents Stuart Dybek • ‘Hometown’

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• ‘Fedora’ Sherrie Flick • ‘7:23 p.m.’ • ‘Nebraska Men’ Flash Reviews Liesl Jobson, 100 Papers • Reviewer: Karina Magdalena Szczurek • Sample story: ‘Saviour’ Allan Kolski Horwitz, Out of the Wreckage • Reviewer: Christine Simon • Sample story: ‘Hurry’ David Eagleman, Sum • Reviewer: Matt Bridges • Sample story: ‘Angst’ Advertisements Flash Subscriptions and Submissions

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Flash, 3.1 (April 2010) Editorial Sunday Ritual Mitch Cullin Sponge Mitch Cullin Uncle Flak Kyle Hemmings Hot Days in Kansas Kyle Hemmings Sweet Deal Bob Thurber Deadbolt Bob Thurber Testament Bob Thurber The Pursuit of Solace Beyond Reproach Curt Eriksen The History Brush David Gaffney Junctions 1 to 4 Were Never Built David Gaffney Locals Dan Spencer Eating Her Sally-Ann Murray Volumes Sally-Ann Murray Carnival Christine Simon Clean-Up in Foxhole 12 Steve Kissing The Lobster-Man’s Keeper Steve Kissing One Per Customer Steve Kissing

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Soup Pete Marshall Fragile Robert Brazeau Sonya Robert Brazeau Overhead Robert Brazeau Cicatrix Alan Wall King of Kings Alan Wall The Wishing Well Patrick Swaney When You Were an Electrician Patrick Swaney Her Jonathan McNamara Bed David Higgins Tokyo Sky K. C. Murdarasi The Importance of Experience Austin Eichelberger Second Honeymoon Claire Barwise Deciduous Molly Guy Raul y Julia Fred Zackel South By Nogales Sheri Rysdam Retsina; Scotch Derek Alsop In the Tree Jen Campbell Caroline Thomas O’Connell

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The Train-Ride Nora-Lee Wales The Rain That Falls Jac Cattaneo Crawlspace Denise Dooley Honey Lydia Copeland Wonder Annette M. Bower Hanoi Zoo, 1994 Ivan Faute Horse Through Glass Thomas Macarte Uxorious Christopher Conti Menu Wayne Dean-Richards The Lover of Psychic Architecture Ben Kendall-Carpenter Hooded Talents Michael Kelly Lotto Stewart Bourn She Calls It Storytelling Shellie Zacharia 14A Colin Campbell Robinson Post-Rock G. C. Perry Phone Manners G. C. Perry With Benefit of Hindsight She Would Have Stabbed Herself in the Heart G. C. Perry Flash Presents Bernard MacLaverty

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• ‘St Mungo’s Mansion’ • ‘The Voyeur’ Barry Yourgrau • ‘From Childhood’ • ‘Story’ Flash Reviews Tara L. Masih (ed.), The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction • Reviewer: Laura Tansley • Sample story: ‘Utilitarianism’ Tom Hazuka Holly Howitt, Dinner Time • Reviewer: Aileen La Tourette • Sample story: ‘Opening a Box’ Marianne Gingher (ed.), Long Story Short • Reviewer: Sarah Heaton • Sample story: ‘The Conductress’ Deborah Seabrooke ‘Ada’ and More Nano-Fiction • Reviewer: Kirstie Atherton • Sample story: ‘David’ Nicholas Edwards Advertisements Flash Subscriptions and Submissions

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Flash, 3.2 (Oct. 2010) Editorial The Interruption Bernard MacLaverty A Present of a Dog Bernard MacLaverty Roadkill Bernard MacLaverty Lesson Niall Griffiths Of Hiding and Seeking Kobus Moolman Of Sinking Still Kobus Moolman Lay-By Vanessa Gebbie One-Off Gallery Vanessa Gebbie Whistler Variation James Day Butlins With Books David Swann The Balloonist’s Tale David Swann A Night on the Lash David Swann Rocket Texting Isabelle Waterstone Life in Tokyo Jonathan Mack Installation Martin Sorrell A Number of Little Arrows Ivan Antić Nothing is Going to Burn on a Night Like Tonight John Skarl

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Three Words and a Pick-Up Gareth Pert Swimming With Dolphins Daisy Hildyard Extraction Daisy Hildyard Mother and Child Are Doing Well Nicole Devarenne Accessories Robert Scotellaro Absurd Ethel Rohan Special Krishan Coupland Out of My Head and Into the Room Hector Duarte Why I Started Collecting Marbles Lulu Krause Route 99 Diner Sunny Chan Proletariat Chariot Sunny Chan Some Things Worth Watching Sophie Rosenblum Round Sophie Rosenblum Bunny and Trane Anar Badalov The Line on the Reel Anar Badalov Brown-Trout Festival Weekend Caroline Zilk A Bad Year for Salmon Angela Readman Storm Front Joanne Faries A Queen Erin Kautza

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Inside Job Erin Kautza Boxing Avital Gad-Cykman Dojo Sandra Jensen Mykingdomforakiss Jake Campbell High Noon Lesley Mace Funeral Steve Mitchell Yezhovshchina Steve Johnson Nobody L. P. Mackenzie Redemption Shivani Sivagurunathan Synonyms Naomi Nkealah The Life Sentence Paul White You Asked Me to Write a Story About Your Father Who Died Joe Kraus The Novel Inside Christopher Conti ‘Most Beautiful Tweet’ Marc MacKenzie Flash Presents Margaret Atwood • ‘Fainting’ • ‘Strawberries’ Kelwyn Sole • ‘My Mother’s Garden’ • ‘I Live in a House’

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Flash Reviews Tania Hershman, ‘The White Road’ and Other Stories • Reviewer: Laura Tansley • Sample story: ‘Plaits’ Nik Perring, Not So Perfect • Reviewer: Christine Simon • Sample story: ‘The Mechanical Woman’ Sean Lovelace, How Some People Like Their Eggs • Reviewer: Francesca Haig • Sample story: ‘Coffee Pot Tree’ Advertisements Flash Subscriptions and Submissions

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Flash, 4.1 (April 2011) Editorial Like So Many Things in That Childhood Randall Brown Fieldwork Ian Rankin I Liked Her Alan Beard A Mistake William Wall The Grave William Wall Betty Blue Eyes Bob Thurber Unbreakable Bob Thurber Should Have Geoff Gardner Our Father Was Famous for Keeping the House Cold Luke Whisnant

Plugs Rupan Malakin Running the Yards David Swann

The Good Times David Swann Spoons Against Rommel David Swann Tobacco Siesta Dean Marshall Tuck Hungry Horse Katerina Prudchenko Existential J. J. Steinfeld One Last Look Nigel Jarrett

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Column 336 Martin Sorrell Historical David Mohan The Requiyaments Jonathan Cardew The Writing Man Jonathan Cardew The Director J. I. Wells Saffron Earth Sara P. Dias Which Way the Wind Sara P. Dias Bet Paul Kavanagh Salt Calum Kerr Petals Calum Kerr Therapeutic Massage Ian Seed Alchemy Lesley Mace Call of Duty Tony Williams

Lengths Tony Williams Not Today Die Booth Family Paul Blaney Touch Robert Wallace What You Don’t Know Timothy Reilly Bait Sarah Hilary

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Just the Dog and Me Katey Schultz Object, Montparnasse Dan Spencer Surrealism and Beyond (Room 2) Rebecca Reynolds Michael Landy, Break Down (2001) Jessica Thompson Flash Presents Etgar Keret • ‘Malffunction’ • ‘Asthma Attack’ Ana María Shua • ‘Night Sounds’ • ‘Crime’ Flash Reviews Robert Shapard, James Thomas, and Ray Gonzalez (eds), Sudden Fiction Latino

• Reviewer: Brian Baker • Sample story: ‘What Should Run in the Mind of

Cabelleros’ Lupe Méndez

Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis • Reviewer: Robert Graham • Sample story: ‘Good Times’ Adam Golaski, Color Plates • Reviewer: Paul McDonald • Sample story: ‘Luncheon on the Grass’ Mary Hamilton, We Know What We Are • Reviewer: Holly Howitt • Sample story: ‘Never Ever’

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Flash, 4.2 (Oct. 2011) Editorial To Do Jennifer Egan First Draught Carole Green Dilation on a Sudden Theme Paul Noonan Hey, Baby Sabine Sautter-Léger Polymorphism Raúl Brasca Musical Revelation Raúl Brasca Last Choice Raúl Brasca Felines Raúl Brasca The Dog Justin Cooke Buddy Christopher Damore Guts Paul Kavanagh () Frederick Mugford Poster Child Agnieszka Stachura Eight Whole Days Dulcie Few Show and Tell: Louise Sellers, 9 Michael Garriga The Space-Time Continuum Tess Dewhurst Psychology Tess Dewhurst

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Glare Sarah Peploe Butler Eunice Yeates Affection and Recovery Henry W. Leung Brazil Affair Henry W. Leung Most Alive Joseph S. Walker Fingers Gill James The Impairment Joseph Darda 7942 Miles Joseph Darda Free Fall B. E. Scully Cool Shirt Jeanne Althouse Hazzard Adam Eisman Jungle Keith McCleary Island Road. OS 179. 205621 Larry Fox Transit Caitlin Stobie Grandeur Jasminne Mendez Bridget on the Euston Road Caroline Greene Propinquity Caroline Greene The Augur Matt Bone Breadcrumbs Wendy Ann Greenhalgh

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West of Aran Neil Baker When the War Ended Simon Harris Militia Jon Davis Slave Girl Nwamaka Osakwe Mary Shane Joaquin Jimenez Coming Clean D. Z. Watt Flash Presents Robert Olen Butler • ‘Earl Daggett’ • ‘Maisie Hobbs’ Liesl Jobson • ‘Purification’ • ‘Prometheus’s Child’ Flash Reviews David Gaffney, The Half-Life of Songs • Reviewer: Ailsa Cox • Sample story: ‘Domino Bones’ Vanessa Gebbie, Storm Warning • Reviewer: Ian Seed • Sample story: ‘Storm Warning’ Gemma Seltzer, Speak to Strangers • Reviewer: Tony Williams • Sample story: ‘Day 25’ Jeremy Worman, Fragmented

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• Reviewer: Derek Alsop • Sample story: ‘Lamb’s Conduit Street’ Robert Swartwood (ed.), Hint Fiction • Reviewer: Christine Simon • Sample story: ‘Art Alone Endures’ William J. Brazill Elizabeth J. Colen, John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Sean Lovelace, and Mary Miller, They Could No Longer Contain Themselves

• Reviewer: Francesca Haig • Sample story: ‘Mail Game’ John Jodzio Advertisements Flash Subscriptions and Submissions

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Flash, 5.1 (April 2012) Editorial Man at Number Twenty Jon McGregor Girl at Number Seventeen Jon McGregor Stuffed Robert Scotellaro Baltic Eels Janice D. Soderling In the Silent Sky Shubnum Khan Debut David Swann Tracks David Swann What a Tree Is David Swann Tor David Swann Returned David Swann A Forgivable Man Jon Davis This Body Anna Chieppa The Mermaid Tank Richard Burke The Seed Trevor Williams The Deacon Says Luke Thompson To a Cricket Luke Thompson A Hard Rain Bill Capossere

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Black Butterfly Kirby Wright Penguin Pigeon Steve Cushman Views Grant Faulkner Heights Grant Faulkner Time Travel Grant Faulkner Not Nothing Paul Blaney Snow Elizabeth Welsh Bounce Akeem Balogun The Flood Kimberley Hayes Candle Pips Kimberley Hayes Every Night I Dream of Another Recession Dom Carter The Calling Card Rumjhum Biswas Don’t Go There Again Wayne Dean-Richards Smoke Break Dilys Rose The Immigrants Scott Morris Breakfast, Lunch and Tea Caroline Jones Whitsand Bay J. R. Fenn Pretty Kirsty Seymour-Ure Engkanto Peter Zaragoza Mayshle

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Fighting Men Ethan Denault Night Out Jackie Davis Martin Simple Joe Evans Driving Man Gerard Mulligan Valedictions D. Seth Horton Another Happy Day David Steward Stereotyping Gretchen Tessmer The Jazz Drummer Eric J. Guignard Flash Presents Sarah Manguso • ‘13’ • ‘73’ Xi Xi and Zhou Rui • ‘Sunday Morning’ • ‘The Bus Stop and Haws-sicles’ Flash Reviews Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman (eds), Sudden Flash Youth • Reviewer: Vanessa Gebbie • Sample story: ‘Confession’ Stuart Dybek Meg Pokrass, Damn Sure Right • Reviewer: Louisa Yates • Sample story: ‘Viking’ Kevin Crossley-Holland, Short Too!

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• Reviewer: Jakie Brien • Sample story: ‘A Bagful of Butterflies’ Ethel Rohan, Hard to Say • Reviewer: Karen Campbell • Sample story: ‘Corruptionists’ Lee Rourke, A Brief History of Fables • Reviewer: Randall Brown • Sample story: ‘I Am a Camera’ Tania Hershman Tiff Holland, Betty Superman • Reviewer: Rosamund Brown • Sample story: ‘Hot Work’ Advertisements Flash Subscriptions and Submissions

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Flash, 5.2 (Oct. 2012) Editorial

Hans von Bülow Craig Raine The Male Gaze Craig Raine Eavesdropping Kevin Tosca In Flames Kevin Tosca The Wound Ihab Hassan Road Rage Wayne Dean-Richards Click Robin Greene Rescue Steve Cushman Apples Steve Cushman Playschool Mary McCluskey Preferred Dance Aba Amissah Asibon Sex Ed Charles Haverty Man of the House Casey Haymes Warehouse Elise Blackwell She Is the Keeper Alisa Golden Lucky Alisa Golden L. A. Supermarket Lucas Dean Fiser

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Sacred Jamie Figueroa Feel-Bad Factor Dom Carter The Radio Interviewer’s Hat-Trick David Steward Five Short Videos On My Mobile Phone David Steward Working Identity David Steward Contemporaneous Ross Weldon Assumption Michael Mohr Work Paul Noonan Negation Paul Noonan The Afterlife of Margaret of Antioch Paul Noonan The Smell of His Neck Julie Maclean Over Easily Vincent Pagé Wheel Robert Maslen Dust G. C. Perry Sequence G. C. Perry Eons Trevor Crown Black Glass Trevor Crown Beaky Paul Blaney Spring Migration Kate Flaherty

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Everyone Has A Favourite Spot Sarah-Clare Conlon Husbandry Eliezra Schaffzin Between Lightning and Thunder Eric Scot Tryon The Weight of Metal Eric Scot Tryon The Thing About Endings Eric Scot Tryon Grave Digging Jenny Gray Flash Presents Pamela Painter • ‘Your Letter in an Envelope in the Mail’ • ‘The New Year’ Allan Kolski Horwitz • ‘Excursion’ • ‘It Was Raining’ Flash Essay Jon Davis, ‘Sweethearts, by Jayne Anne Phillips’ Flash Reviews

Etgar Keret, Suddenly, a Knock on the Door • Reviewer: Ian Seed • Sample story: ‘Guava’ Jon McGregor, This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You

• Reviewer: Paul McDonald • Sample story: ‘Dig a Hole’

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Tania Hershman, My Mother Was an Upright Piano • Reviewer: Louisa Yates • Sample story: ‘The Google 250’ Nick Parker, The Exploding Boy and Other Tiny Tales • Reviewer: Jake Campbell • Sample story: ‘Blink’ Calum Kerr and Valerie O’Riordan (eds), Jawbreakers • Reviewer: Laura Tansley • Sample story: ‘Jawbreakers’ Jen Campbell Craig Taylor, Londoners • Reviewer: Tony Williams • Sample story: ‘Philip and Ann Wilson’ Sean Hill, Very Short Stories • Reviewer: Ashley Chantler • Sample story: ‘[Untitled]’ Advertisements Flash Subscriptions and Submissions

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Flash, 6.1 (April 2013) Editorial Lassie in the Cesspit Josef Winkler Surprise Ana María Shua Political Correctness Ana María Shua The Elephant Man Ana María Shua Traveling Freaks Ana María Shua Something Happened Here David Gaffney Everything’s West of Something David Gaffney The Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head David Gaffney It’s All in Storage David Gaffney Functional Market Area David Gaffney The Big Pub David Gaffney The Creature with Enormous Arms Kobus Moolman The Girl Who Lives Beneath a Metal Weight Kobus Moolman The Other Girl with Red Hands Kobus Moolman Three Fragments of Sitting and Looking Kobus Moolman The Prophet Ihab Hassan Hunter Mika Seifert

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The Gamble Alexandra Strnad Raspberries Michael Mohr JoJo Tries to Get Back Jeanne Holtzman Icarus Jane Flanagan Horse Stance Paul Sweeten Reading Age Nigel Jarrett Needs David Steward Rooftops Pria Anand Hair Rachael Ellis Waiting for His Hair to Grow Back Mark Patrick Lynch Geography Clare Kirwan The Borrower Clare Kirwan The Return of Amelia Earheart Peter Cherches Check-Out Time Peter Cherches Hard-Boiled Peter Cherches Some Like It Hot Robert Scotellaro Feasting on Crumbs Robert Scotellaro Fire-Walker Robert Scotellaro 10 Seconds to Lift-Off Robert Scotellaro

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Magic 8-Ball Robert Scotellaro Waiting for Frank’s Pigeons David Swann Skinner & Dewhurst David Swann The Inner Peace of Frank Sinatra David Swann Heavy David Swann Civil Defence David Swann Theatre Trip During a Storm David Swann Malvinas David Swann The Goat of Mendes David Swann Coda David Higgins Flash Presents Maggie Pearson • ‘Old Ted (7)’ • ‘Old Ted (8)’ Louise Cooper • ‘Monsters’ • ‘All the Fun of the Fear’ Flash Reviews Dinty W. Moore (ed.), The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction

• Reviewer: Paul McDonald • Sample story: ‘Toy Soldier’ Rigoberto González Ewan Morrison, Tales from the Mall

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• Reviewer: William Stephenson • Sample story: ‘Incident in a Mall #7: Rena the Cleana’ Khaled Alkhamissi, Taxi • Reviewer: Alex Tickell • Sample story: ‘Twenty-Seven’ Tony Williams, All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten • Reviewer: Vanessa Gebbie • Sample story: ‘The Blinds’ Robert Scotellaro, Measuring the Distance • Reviewer: Randall Brown • Sample story: ‘Revelation at IHOP’ Stefanie Freele, Surrounded by Water • Reviewer: Georgina O’Brien Hill • Sample story: ‘Fifteen Minutes’ Ian Seed, Threadbare Fables • Reviewer: Emily-Jo Hopson • Sample story: ‘Documentary’ Aaron Teel, Shampoo Horns • Reviewer: Caroline Jones • Sample story: ‘The Babysitter’s Trailer’ Advertisements

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