Sudden flash youth: 65 short-short stories

Tamazunchale / Robert Shapard

Chalk / Meg Kearney

Twins / Pamela Painter

First virtual / Kathleen O'Donnell

Heartland / Daphne Beal

Confession / Stuart Dybek

Sleeping / Katharine Weber

1951 / Richard Bausch

Little Brother / Bruce Holland Rogers

Currents / Hannah Bottomy Voskuil

After / Bill Konigsberg

Accident / Dave Eggers

Homeschool insider: The fighting pterodactyls / Ron Carlson

Forgotten / Anne Mazer

After he left / Matt Hlinak

The Flowers / Alice Walker

Homeward Bound / Tom Hazuka

A Car / Pia Z. Ehrhardt

Stop / Steve Almond

The haircut / Manuela Soares

What happened during the ice storm / Jim Heynen

Coyote bait / Brian Bedard

Rapture / Gayle Brandeis

Alone / Bryan Shawn Wang

Head case / Nance Van Winckel

Friday night / Elizabeth Ehrlich

Beyond Yesler / Peter Bacho

Half sleep / Matt Krampitz

No wake zone / L. C. Fiore

The teacher's son / Aaron Hamburger

Diverging paths and all that / Maryanne O'Hara

A whole other / Caron A. Levis

The burden of Agatha / Natalie Haney Tilghman

No boundaries / David Lloyd

History / Beth Alvarado

The coat / Lex Williford

Raised by wolves / Craig Morgan Teicher

Trapped /

Shelby Raebeck

Thud / Naomi Shihab Nye

The pillory / Paul Lisicky

Theology / Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur

Pep assembly at Evergreen Junior High / David Partenheimer

My brother at the Canadian border / Sholeh Wolpe

The engines of Sodom / Jonathan Papernick

The Barbie birthday / Alison Townsend

The last good night / Todd James Plerce

Corporal / Richard Brautigan

The Quinceanera text / Erin Fanning

The stoop / Donald Capone

The last stop / Jenny Halper

Forsythia / Jacqueline Kolosov

Fifteen fathers / Alan Stewart Carl

The bracelet / Ann Angel

You cannot make me /

Miles Garett Watson

Jew school / Sonia Pilcer

Disorder / Samantha Davis

The perpetual now / Daniel Levin Becker

Bullhead / Leigh Allison Wilson

The call / Jon Andersen

Between practice and perfection / Azizat Danmole

How to raise a happy dog / Erika Recordon

For good / Sarah Layden

Saturday's child / Kelly Cherry

Hey, Jess McCafferty / Christine Byl

The two rats and the BB gun / Raphael Dagold.