NANO Fiction

NANO Fiction As part of our educational mission, NANO Fiction has made its published archive available online starting January 2nd, 2017.

Founded in 2006 and closed in December 2016, NANO Fiction (Print ISSN 1935-844X; Digital ISSN 2160-939X) was a non-profit literary journal that sought to cultivate the genre of flash fiction by creating opportunities for emerging writers. Founded in 2006 and closed in December 2016, NANO Fiction (Print ISSN 1935-844X; Digital ISSN 2160-939X) was a non-profit literary journal that sought to cultiva

te the genre of flash fiction by creating opportunities for emerging writers to achieve national recognition through our website, print publication, and educational events. Stories previously published in our print issues will post one-per-day five days a week beginning with Volume 1 Number 1 and ending with our final issue, Volume 10 Number 1. Ebooks will still be available for purchase in both ePub and PDF format on our website and Google Play and in Kindle format on Amazon.com. Stories will be organized by issue as well as tagged with literary attributes for easy searching and implementation in classroom settings. We hope you’ll enjoy reading and rereading these works as much as we have.

We've added a new story to our archive: Cleve. Check it out.
11/30/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: Cleve. Check it out.

They had been dating for years although they didn’t see each other very often. When they did see each other they used words like “narcissistic” and “unfair.” One day after work she was especially exhausted and he was especially exhausted. After not having seen each other all day when they ...

We've added a new story to our archive: How Can You Get In?. Check it out.
11/29/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: How Can You Get In?. Check it out.

You, who I don’t know how to talk to anymore. You, whose body comes to me in a dream only to be gone as soon as I say: your face, your mouth, your arms, your breasts, your feet. What happens when you die? The broken light switch in the kitchen, the front door k**b glistening in the saucer by the w...

We've added a new story to our archive: Fill. Check it out.
11/28/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: Fill. Check it out.

I lay in bed late at night, sweat filming my upper lip. The view outside the window was entirely black, no hint of dawn. I’d already pushed down the covers on my side. Laura turned toward me, her mouth parted, breath still minty with toothpaste. Even when it was hot in the room, her hands and feet...

We've added a new story to our archive: Widowers. Check it out.
11/27/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: Widowers. Check it out.

My son’s lived in my basement since his wife, two years ago, died of breast cancer. He keeps to himself down there—except when the Sox or Celtics are playing—and only converses after too many whiskeys. Besides that, he slurps black coffee, chews woodenly on frozen chicken tenders, and dreams of his…

We've added a new story to our archive: Something about Cincinnatus. Check it out.
11/24/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: Something about Cincinnatus. Check it out.

One day Cincinnatus was plowing his fields. A group of senators walked up to him, looking jittery, and he said, “Is everything all right?” The senators requested that he put on his toga. He asked, “Is there going to be a toga party?” But when he came back wearing his toga, the senators told him that...

We've added a new story to our archive: Worst Time #7. Check it out.
11/23/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: Worst Time #7. Check it out.

The first day is the hardest: the stares, the comments. A boy asked if it worked and tried to dial a number on the side of her skull. He pulled hard on the growth and twisted it. She struggled, but two other boys held her against the wall so he could finish dialing. They staged a series of mock-pran...

We've added a new story to our archive: Worst Time #34. Check it out.
11/22/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: Worst Time #34. Check it out.

The apple without the razor blade was her fault. It was an oversight. It came down the line, and she wasn’t concentrating, wasn’t paying attention. It slipped right by her, and afterward all the apples looked like all the other apples. But later one child does not have a bloody mouth; one child can…

We've added a new story to our archive: Worst Time #15. Check it out.
11/21/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: Worst Time #15. Check it out.

Her body parts are too loose, or they are too loosely connected to her torso. Exercising will not tighten them. She has used firming lotions. Nothing works. Her hands fall off while she’s riding her bicycle. Her feet plop off while she’s sleeping. Her head is lost somewhere in the ocean, perhaps car...

We've added a new story to our archive: Tuscaloosa Missed Connection: bullseye - Target - m4w – 22. Check it out.
11/20/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: Tuscaloosa Missed Connection: bullseye - Target - m4w – 22. Check it out.

On a day when everyone here is here to buy everything, you did not come here to buy anything. The daughters trying to distance themselves from their mothers, the mothers trying to lock arms with their daughters: simi- lar white bags, similar color schemes. Today has nothing to do with want: today ha...

We've added a new story to our archive: VOLUME 4 NUMBER 2. Check it out.
11/20/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: VOLUME 4 NUMBER 2. Check it out.

Lauri Anderson, Andrew Bales, Janee Baugher, Lena Bertone, Andrew E. Colarusso, Michael Crane, Jaydn DeWald, Mary Beth Ferda, Hafizah Geter, Amanda Goldblatt, Alina Gregorian, Bryan Grosnick, Bradley Harrison, Annie Hartnett, Ben Merriman, Kristine Heiney, Kelley Irmen, Todd Kaneko, Andrea Kneeland,...

We've added a new story to our archive: Halloween, 1973. Check it out.
11/17/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: Halloween, 1973. Check it out.

It was like love at first sight. She, by stenciled cap, Another Christian Mom for Nixon! enrobed in coke and thrift store polyester, with hands that rose like startled birds from her lap. I was Death, I said, as played by Henry Kissinger, and aimed an unwrapped stogie between her breasts.

We've added a new story to our archive: Sickbay. Check it out.
11/16/2017

We've added a new story to our archive: Sickbay. Check it out.

The cat lay vomiting on the side of the bed and I was vomiting, too, our heads together and apart like a magnetic field, when he laid one way I would lay the other. Just being in each other’s presence was enough to be sick. Great, I thought, two piles of puke trying to hold it together.

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