2023 FlashFlood: The Complete List

In case you missed any of the pieces we appeared during the 2023 FlashFlood, here's an index to everything.  Happy Reading!

• 'They're Not Going to Come in Marge' by Jennifer Fliss
   
• 'All of These Things, I'd Like to Have, Just One More Time' by Jeanine 
• Skowronski
   
• 'Long Exposure' by Catherine Buck
   
• 'Sorrow Knows How to Swim' by Abi Hennig
   
• Debut Flash: 'Midnight at Aberystwyth' by STC Chessell
   
• 'What We Lost in the Tide' by Emily Roth
   
• 'Together You Try' by Louella Lester
   
• 'That time before' by B F Jones
   
• 'In Every Girl There Is A Forest' by Jonathan Cardew
   
• 'Hetty Gets in Shape' by Nastasya Parker
   
• 'Telling' by Lu Han
   
• 'Monster Mouth' by Sheree Shatsky
   
• 'Become a Patreon at $5 A Month for Amy’s Escape Accessories' by Elena Sichrovsky
   
• Debut Flash: 'Stay, From the Beginning' by Beth Skarupa
   
• 'Hormone Haze' by Rebecca Field
   
• 'Solidarity' by Lisa Ferranti
   
• 'The waning magic of older rabbits' by Judith Wilson
   
• 'The world’s gone to shit, but at least we’ll be together' by Jennifer Lai
   
• 'Argive Burial' by David Luntz
   
• 'Translucent' by Lisa Alletson
   
• 'Unrequited' by Jackie Morris
   
• 'Signal Failure' by Sarah Barnett
   
• Debut Flash: 'Tux' by Lennox Wiseley
   
• '(Mother Loved A Bath)' by Helen Laycock
   
• 'Blackout' by T. A. Benefield
   
• 'We value your feedback' by Sarah Masters
   
• 'Seasons' by Heain Joung
   
• 'A skein of yarn' by Maria Thomas
   
• 'Some Other Right Thing' by Marcy Dilworth
   
• 'Pick-Up' by Tim Love
   
• 'An Everyday Circus Act' by Stephanie Percival
   
• Debut Flash: 'Half Lost' by Pilar Garcia Claramonte
   
• 'Green' by Patricia Quintana Bidar
   
• 'Six Giraffes--As Seen on the Internet from a Drone' by Joan Leotta
   
• 'Vanilla Like Maggots' by Derville Quigley
   
• 'Oh Granny Leave Me Be' by Georgiana Nelsen
   
• 'Yo-Yo Dreaming' by Will Musgrove
   
• 'Her Red Door Open' by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
   
• 'Everyone Deserves a Vacation' by Melanie Mulrooney
   
• 'The Woman Upstairs' by Stephen R. Smith
   
• Debut Flash: 'Conspiracy during Marriage' by Judith Lysaker
   
• 'Trojans' by Sidney Kyle
   
• 'The End of the Women' by Lynn Mundell
   
• 'Trinity' by Sharon Boyle
   
• 'The Dinner Lady Goes Above and Beyond' by Paul Thompson
   
• 'Can of Worms' by Chris Cottom
   
• 'System’s Problem' by Anup Adriym
   
• 'Suitability' by Elle Symonds
   
• Debut Flash: 'Emptied Nests' by Sue Dewey
   
• 'Glint' by Michele Rule
   
• 'Every possible future' by Rosie Garland
   
• 'Disgrace on Wandsworth Common' by Emily Macdonald
   
• 'Siren' by Bill Merklee
   
• 'Fluid Dynamics' by Anne Daly
   
• 'Magnum Opus' by Kim Everett
   
• 'The Unknowing' by Myna Chang
   
• Debut Flash: 'Piccalilli Moment' by Ruth Allen-Humphreys
   
• 'The unicorn in the garden' by Caroline Ashley
   
• 'Aurora Borealis' by June O'Sullivan
   
• 'What Mothers Do' by Fiona Ritchie Walker
   
• 'The Crossing' by C.G. Thompson
   
• 'Penance and Philanthrophy' by Sudha Balagopal
   
• 'Cicadas' by Emma Phillips
   
• 'The Elevator' by Matt Leibel
   
• 'A Therapeutic Lie' by Katy Goforth
   
• Debut Flash: 'Big Bertha' by Sara Sheldrake
   
• 'The Seed' by Peggy Riley
   
• 'The Princess and the Blankets' by Rosaleen Lynch
   
• 'One Day It Will All Bubble Over' by Danny Beusch
   
• 'The Fire Dancer's First Performance' by Alexandra Otto
   
• 'Offerings' by Susmita Bhattacharya
   
• 'Playing God in the Garden' by Caroline Gonda
   
• 'Suspension, 1864' by Gail Anderson
   
• 'Do You Promise To Be True Companions' by Daniel Addercouth
   
• Debut Flash: 'Baba' by Shilpa Gupte
   
• 'House for Sale' by Lyndsey Croal
   
• 'A Wonderful-Looking Man' by Vanessa Couchman
   
• 'Sticky Blue Rice' by Sherry Morris
   
• 'The Doll House' by Nathan Alling Long
   
• 'Things Only Birds Know' by Karen Jones
   
• 'March Goes To The Market' by Mandira Pattnaik
   
• 'The 24-hour potato service' by Shelley Roche-Jacques
   
• 'To the Doctor Who Called My Son ‘The Overdose’' by Dawn Miller
   
• Debut Flash: 'David Bowie Eyes' by Vicky Heath
   
• 'Cusp' by Emily Huso
   
• 'Flying carpets are overrated' by Noémi Scheiring-Oláh
   
• 'We should have stopped after the fish' by Sally Curtis
   
• 'Zig Zag Girl' by Sharon Telfer
   
• 'Cracks in the Glazing' by D.B. Miller
   
• 'Treasure Hunt' by Tracy Fells
   
• 'Tell the Kardashians It Happened Like This' by Roberta Beary
   
• Debut Flash: 'Sororal' by Becka White
   
• 'Outrage' by Abby Manzella
   
• 'On the Tenth Anniversary of the Bear Cam, Brook Falls, Alaska' by Amy Marsh
   
• 'Mother' by Gessica Sakamoto Martini
   
• 'Spinning' by Jude Higgins
   
• 'Noonday Robbery at Booneville Savings and Loan' by Jacqueline Doyle
   
• 'Pinned' by Damhnait Monaghan
   
• 'From the penthouse balcony, I sip iced coffee' by Katlina Sommerberg
   
• Debut Flash: 'Blended Whiskey, or, Adopted' by Kate Hollingsworth
   
• 'Spring Cleaning' by Richard de Nooy
   
• 'Breakwater' by Shelly Jones
   
• 'Curse of the Marble Carver' by Hema Nataraju
   
• 'Twelve-Mississippi' by Carrie Etter
   
• 'Your life back' by Eleonora Balsano
   
• 'Vital Signs' by Emily Devane
   
• 'Two tiny feet' by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar
   
• Debut Flash: 'Grief and the Tiger' by Suzanne de Kort
   
• 'Orphans' by Emily Utter
   
• 'After the Dead Roses' by Ariel Dawn
   
• 'Let There Be Darkness' by Leila Murton Poole
   
• 'I Once Swallowed a Rollercoaster' by Katie Holloway
   
• 'Birds and Bees Stuff' by Tom Weller
   
• 'Why Turkish Grandma Hates My Doll' by Francesca Leader
   
• 'Iris Grime's Smartphone Diary' by Jan Kaneen
   
• Debut Flash: 'Different Kinds of Grizzly' by Saff Hill
   
• 'Not enough hunters: Deer are winning' by Michelle Morouse
   
• 'memories bundled tightly listen as the fugue plays' by Susan Wigmore
   
• 'On Weekends, The Forest Dreams of Me' by Janna Miller
   
• 'Scenes from a Hummingbird Feeding' by J.B. Stone
   
• 'The Year of the Water Rabbit' by Sumitra Singam
   
• 'The Waiting Game' by S.B. Borgersen
   
• 'The Lost and Found of Other Places' by T. L. Sherwood
   
• 'The Value of Stilt Walking' by Catherine Ogston
   
• Debut Flash: 'Must Be The Music' by Sophia Skyers
   
• 'Central Heating' by Misha Herwin
   
• 'A Stork Arrives at My Doorstep Expecting a Baby' by Regan Puckett
   
• 'Melting Ambition' by DLC Hanson
   
• 'A sea of lights' by Patience Mackarness
   
• 'A CV of Jobs That Were, and Jobs That Could Have Been' by Slawka G. Scarso
   
• 'A boy on a bridge' by Rachel Canwell
   
• 'Grown Ups' by Gina Headden
   
• 'Yeah, I dunno why she called him that, there’s a bunch of stuff I can’t ask her 
• now' by Jane O'Sullivan
   
• 'Chalk Line' by Liv Norman
   
• Debut Flash: 'Lesson 2. Prepositions.' by Stacie Bates
   
• 'Loosened Objects' by Anika Carpenter
   
• 'Will the Shoe Fit' by Sudha Subramanian
   
• 'Where have all the Geese Gone?' by Denny Jace
   
• '#TFW you happen on her profile because his is still private' by Hannah 
• Storm
   
• 'Feel & I' by Karen Walker
   
• 'The Man Who Shot the President' by Debra A. Daniel
   
• 'Beloved, There Is A Song Where The Ocean Meets The Sky' by Tom Okafor
   
• Debut Flash: 'A White Lie' by Keitha Patton
   
• 'We Walked Along This Pedestrian Bridge' by Ashley McCurry
   
• 'Kiss-Me-Quick' by Kayleigh Cassidy
   
• 'Rain' by Harshita Nanda
   
• 'The Exposure of Delight' by Fiona J Mackintosh
   
• 'Red Books' by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
   
• 'Summer of '66' by Robert Vaughan
   
• Debut Flash: 'The No Longer Girls (A Song Unsung)' by Jen Wyrauch Edson
   
• 'Dojo' by Sandra Jensen
   
• 'Why I won’t eat watermelon since that day at summer camp' by Sally R. 
• Simon
   
• 'The Nine Lives of Kenneth Armstrong' by Iqbal Hussain
   
• 'sometimes you walk right in' by Barbara Diggs
   
• 'Peach Tree' by Nisha Patel
   
• 'Youth of America' by Bethany Jarmul
   
• 'dreamland' by Chris Drew
   
• 'Trashed' by James Montgomery
   
• Debut Flash: 'Step' by Cat Rood
   
• 'Windowledge Archives' by Judy Darley
   
• 'Freedom' by Doug Hawley
   
• 'Peeled apple skin' by Taylor V. Card
   
• 'Immortality' by Ani Banerjee
   
• 'Wombat in August' by S A Greene
   
• 'The Moon is Made from Clay' by Keely O'Shaughnessy
   
• 'Dreams of a Lizard' by Laila Miller
   
• Debut Flash: 'Your New Video Game' by Mina Otsuka
   
• 'How I Got Here' by Sarah Freligh
   
• 'It's Complicated' by Fiona McKay
   
• 'What Happens in the Rialto' by Jon Fain
   
• 'Little Spoon' by Tara Campbell
   
• 'Monterey, California' by Lisa Thornton
   
• 'Sherbert Lemons' by Lesley Bungay
   
• 'Lose My Breath' by Nicole Hart
   
• Debut Flash: 'Coyote Smile' by Christy Tending
   
• Debut Flash: 'Bus stop 4' by Jeremy Boyce
   
• 'When the Curator is a Wolf in Disguise' by Joyce Bingham
   
• 'C is not for Cancer' by Kay Sandry
   
• 'This Is How It Is' by Kathy Seifert
   
• 'Maybe it got stuck in between my teeth' by Leia Butler
   
• 'The Mournful Cigarette' by Nora Nadjarian
   
• 'Can Jellyfish Fell Love?' by Martha Lane
   
• 'Nightingale' by LJ Moss
   
• 'A Space Station Odyssey' by David JI Hampton
   
• Debut Flash: 'Teeth' by Martha Hampson
   
• 'TO LOVE ANOTHER ______ IS TO SEE THE FACE OF ___' by Siarra Riehl
   
• 'Planets at Intergalactic Met Gala' by Suchi Stava
   
• 'I'd Like To Report A Prophecy' by Emma Brankin
   
• 'Family Tree' by Megan Cannella
   
• 'The Scream' by Josh Jones Lofflin
   
• 'In the Quiet Moment, Just Before the Light Fades' by Kathy Hoyle
   
• 'Tastes Like Salt' by Alison Woodhouse
   
• 'Mississippi Counting' by Gail Warrick Cox
   
• 'Static' by Darcie Johnson
   
• Debut Flash: 'Honestly' by Nicole Winchester
   
• 'Traceless' by Kelli Short Borges
   
• 'Woman, Scarecrow' by April Bradley
   
• 'Dream State' by Melissa Flores Anderson
   
• 'Kaleidoscope' by Annie Marhefka
   
• 'Woodpecker Houseguest' by Alycia Calvert
   
• 'Behind blue eyes' by Sarah Royston
   
• 'Redline' by Rich Youmans
   
• 'Polaroid 129' by Paul Phillips
   
• 'Jailbird' by Minglu Jiang
   
• Debut Flash: 'Five Minutes to Midnight' by Anthony Q. Rabang
   
• 'Calling Time with Edith Piaf' by D X Lewis
   
• 'Scheherazade' by Kate Mahony
   
• 'A Melody You've Never Heard' by Melissa Fitzpatrick
   
• 'Only Water' by Sarah McPherson