2024 FlashFlood: The Complete List

In case you missed any of the pieces we appeared during the 2024 FlashFlood, here's an index to everything.  Sadly, the 'Blog Archive' list maxes out at 100 titles per day, so use this as your guide to the complete 2024 Flood....

Happy Reading!

 

 2024 FlashFlood

• 'Anadromous' by Zach Keali’i Murphy
  
• 'This is a story about squirrels' by Shelley Roche-Jacques
  
• 'As the Sugar Moon Rises' by Parker M. O'Neill
  
• 'Shapes of ships from the shore' by Laura Besley
  
• Debut Flash: 'Alexandria Oxiana' by Lion Summerbell
  
• 'My Father’s New Dad-Suit Loves Ice Cream' by Marie-Louise McGuinness
  
• 'The Sky Around Us' by Annie Q. Syed
  
• 'Radium Girls' by Kathryn Silver-Hajo
  
• 'Hauntings' by Madeline Anthes
  
• 'POV: You Are the Brown One at a Table Full of White Mental Health Workers' by Sumitra Singam
  
• 'Whistle down the wind my lass' by Sandra Arnold
  
• 'Words Fail Me at the Grocery Store Checkout' by Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey
  
• 'Spit Joined' by Tom Weller
  
• 'Cumulonimbi' by Christine H. Chen
  
• Debut Flash: 'Home' by Hilary Smith
  
• 'History Lesson' by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
  
• 'Go with the flow' by Tak Chiu Chessell
  
• 'Penn Station' by Rebecca Tiger
  
• 'Wilfully Wandering' by Nick Black
  
• 'My Brother, Who Will Die Alone of an Overdose, Once Won the Sportsmanship Award' by Emily Rinkema
  
• 'supposedly an essay about the error of my ways' by DJ Wolfinsohn
  
• 'Outside Arcadia' by S A Greene
  
• Debut Flash: 'Just a Bird Called Jemima' by Tom Turner
  
• 'Spare the Rod' by Don Tassone
  
• 'The OPH' by Maggie G. Daly
  
• 'Portals' by Jane O'Sullivan
  
• 'Riding High' by Jacqui Pack
  
• 'How to make a spicy chicken curry' by Savera Zachariah
  
• 'The Blue Anorak' by Lisa Williams
  
• 'Where Nothing Happens' by Will Musgrove
  
• 'Dearly Departed' by Bob Gielow
• Debut Flash: 'Dissertation in American' by Jingjing J Luo
  
• 'Ingrid, Of Course' by Jeanine Skowronski
  
• 'He Insisted on One Last Date' by Amethyst Loscocco
  
• 'Room 208' by Heain Joung
  
• 'Hillman is not himself' by Abigail Williams
  
• 'Time will say nothing but I told you so' by Alison Woodhouse
  
• 'The Grass Knows She Might Make It' by Laila Miller
  
• 'Papa's Shadow' by Nina Schuyler
  
• 'Hey Babe' by Melissa Rotert
  
• Debut Flash: 'Those Left Behind' by Rita E. Gould
  
• 'Goddess MahaLakshmi goes for septum-piercing' by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar
  
• 'Nature Has a Plan, Whether You Like It Or Not' by Catherine Ogston
  
• 'D Block' by Jeff Kemp
  
• 'On the Bus' by Liz Milne
  
• 'Raising Carthage' by Marianne Holmes
  
• 'Point of Origin' by Myna Chang
  
• 'Death' by Marycynthia' Chinwe Okafor
  
• 'Tissue Paper Whispers' by Ali McGrane
  
• 'End of the Road' by Audrey Niven
  
• Debut Flash: 'I Am In My Father’s Garden' by Michelle Sanchez Rivera
  
• 'I Love You (on Facebook)' by Emma Robertson
  
• 'The Artist Considers How to Paint His Mother' by Bríd McGinley
  
• 'The Trajectory of Ghosts' by Tom Vowler
  
• 'The Upgrade' by Kathy Szaters
  
• 'Da Slippah' by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
  
• 'What they’ll say to you when you go to the doctors, the hospital and the psychiatrist about the pain that makes your leg scream all night every night even though you’re a fit and healthy 22-year-old' by Donna M Day
  
• 'We Blame The Blackthorn, Follow the Wolves' by Kate Axeford
  
• 'Brown Under the Apple Skin' by Steven Patchett
• Debut Flash: 'Nothing to See Here' by Ruth Follan
  
• 'Witness' by Kleopatra Olympiou
  
• 'Beware Possible Rip Currents' by Liv Norman
  
• 'As Fast as She Can' by Janna Miller
  
• 'Back Home' by Dismas Okombo
  
• 'Doreen in Room 3' by Rachel Canwell
  
• 'Learning to Drown' by Faith Allington
  
• 'Strand' by Kik Lodge
  
• 'Ordinary Miracles for a Good Christian Boy' by James Montgomery
  
• Debut Flash: 'The box in the attic' by Mariella Angela H. Olden
  
• 'Anonymous' by Harshita Nanda
  
• 'Mid-flight Checklist' by Kate Hollingsworth
  
• 'When the Family Came to Dine' by Angela Fitzpatrick
  
• 'Beachcomber' by Karen Jones
  
• 'You Almost Never Walk Anywhere With Your Father Now' by Fiona McKay
  
• 'How to Turn a Meth Lab into a Home' by Jeff Harvey
  
• 'Nothing Remains' by Mileva Anastasiadou
  
• 'Full Genghis' by Tracy Fells
  
• Debut Flash: Two Comets' by S.T. Gillard
  
• 'Best Friend' by Lori Cramer
  
• 'No One Visible' by Alan Beard
  
• 'Mango Bonds' by Reena Kapoor
  
• 'Magic Carpet Ride' by Roberta Beary
  
• 'Today it hasn’t happened yet' by Cole Beauchamp
  
• 'Among the Stones' by Sophia Skyers
  
• 'Mother/ Mother' by Kerry Byrne
  
• Debut Flash: 'Effervescent' by Anne Trausch
  
• 'The Vacuum Cleaner Who Wanted To Be Famous' by Jude Mason
  
• 'A portrait of a woman hung in my room' by Shaurya Pathania
  
• 'So Far Over The Rainbow the Rainbow is a Fucking Dot' by Gaynor Jones
  
• 'Rigged' by Brenda Klingenmaier
  
• 'What the Lightning Knew' by David Luntz
  
• 'Looking After Angie' by Bayveen O'Connell
  
• 'No need to separate dark from light, just climb right in' by Jo Gatford
  
• 'Penny Candy' by Kathryn Kulpa
  
• Debut Flash: 'Sad Sandwich' by Joel Bryant
  
• 'A Horse Gallops Across the Horizon' by Sharon Boyle
  
• 'After' by Robert Runté
  
• 'Coyote Summer' by Peggy Riley
  
• 'November, 1971' by Sudha Balagopal
  
• 'Mild Surprise On A Family Holiday' by Frances Orrok
  
• 'My Parents Were Unwavering – Girl, Dance School’s a Silly Dream: You’ll Take That Job in the City' by Anika Carpenter
  
• 'Spinning' by Kelli Short Borges
  
• Debut Flash: 'Shattered' by Deb Campbell
  
• 'Humpty Dumpty in Helmand' by Andrew Stickland
  
• 'Mother, Believing' by Gargi Mehra
  
• 'Dolerite' by Sue Pearson
  
• 'Paper Girls' by Emma Challis
  
• 'Dead Reckoning' by Marie Gethins
  
• 'You Think You Don't Like Capers' by Rebecca Field
  
• 'The First Frost Has Come' by June Gemmell
  
• 'Undelivered' by Sharon Telfer
  
• Debut Flash: 'The Woman Who Comes by Every Tuesday at 3PM' by Phung Yi Jun 
  
• 'I hang memories' by Jon Hunter
  
• 'The Reluctant Reader’s Guide to Charles Dickens' by Emily Devane
  
• 'A Kindness of Ravens' by Kim Steutermann Rogers
  
• 'How Planes Stay in the Sky' by Sherri Turner
  
• 'Song of the Stepmothers' by Tina S. Zhu
  
• 'The Gothic Heroine Takes Matters Into Her Own Hands' by Sarah McPherson
  
• 'Herd Mentality' by Jessica Klimesh
  
• 'Silver Lining' by Max Turner
  
• Debut Flash: 'I Forgot to Clean The Microwave' by Kate Taylor
  
• 'The Linotype Burns Words' by Emily Simmons Key
  
• 'Every Night I Resurrect My Ex-Girlfriend' by Valerie Hughes
  
• 'Thirteen Years Later, what Veer’s Mother Says' by Shweta Ravi 
  
• 'Supernova' by Raymond J. Brash
  
• 'What if I Never Actually Liked the Eagles' by Ashley McCurry
  
• 'When my ex messages me after 20 years' by Alexandra O
  
• 'Tidal' by Taylor Hamann Los
  
• 'My Parents’ Marriage' by John Wheway
• Debut Flash: 'Weather' by Eliza Ying He
  
• 'Goldie and Bear' by Cheryl Markosky
  
• 'Flight' by Anthea Morrison
  
• 'My (Former) Twin Flame' by Angela James
  
• 'I Meet Myself Coming Back' by Rosaleen Lynch
  
• 'Different Kinds of Friction' by Jude Higgins
  
• 'My Lover is an Airmail Envelope' by Chris Cottom
  
• 'Combat Baby' by Naana Eyikuma Hutchful
  
• 'If My Wrinkles Were a Mere Wipe Away' by Joyce Bingham
  
• Debut Flash: 'No Hero' by Suzanne Newson
  
• 'After the Tone' by Suze Kay
  
• 'Learning to unremember what’s past' by Rosie Mowatt
  
• 'Slathering on Chapstick a Gazillion Times a Day' by Sally Reiser Simon
  
• 'She is the Ball in the Pinball Machine' by Nora N...
• 'We don’t say falling by chance' by Eleonora Balsano
  
• 'Will I Ever See you Again?' by Pegah Ouji
  
• 'The Minister of Loneliness isn’t taking appointments' by Amy Barnes
  
• Debut Flash: 'Still' by Zena Ryder
  
• 'Under the Parasol' by James Roderick Burns
  
• 'Mother Said One Mustn't Make A Scene' by Lucy Goldring
  
• 'The Standoff' by Jhenn Kinnear
  
• 'We Live In Yellow' by Noémi Scheiring-Oláh
  
• 'Minnow' by Jo Withers
  
• 'Brussels' by Karin Hedetniemi
  
• 'Santa Cruz Island' by Allison Field Bell
  
• Debut Flash: 'Jaggerbushes' by Bailey Maybray
• 'The Returnee' by Shrutidhora P Mohor
  
• 'Bite' by Avitus B. Carle
  
• 'Out of Season' by Claudia Wair
  
• 'Skulking' by Fiona J. Mackintosh
  
• 'Surly Lizards' by Matthew Bullen
  
• 'As Long as It Fits the Aesthetic' by Bethany Cutkomp
  
• 'I am the mother of wolves' by Jacqueline Parker
  
• Debut Flash: 'Haul' by Willow Woo
  
• 'Dead Horse' by Sheree Shatsky
  
• 'To The Children They Will Say Mum Was Away For Work' by Slawka G. Scarso
  
• 'Bug Facts' by Timothy Boudreau
  
• 'Velociraptor' by Tara Campbell
  
• 'On Baking, and Breadcrumbs, and Time' by Lisa Fox
  
• 'Celestial' by Kim Murdock
  
• 'First class Ticket, Nine Hour Flight' by Karen Arnold
  
• Debut Flash: 'Family Weekend' by Marlee Gaitanis
  
• '"What about Mummy’s saris?" I ask my father after thirty years' by Arti Jain
  
• When the Solid Gives Way' by Kathleen Latham
  
• 'Kev Woz Here' by Emily Macdonald
  
• 'One Does Not Simply Walk out of Prairie Village, Ohio' by Amorak Huey
  
• 'Punctuation' by Anne Howkins
  
• 'When there’s a question you cannot ask without destroying everything' by Carsten ten Brink
• 'The Law Of The Playground' by Alison Wassell
  
• Debut Flash: 'invincible' by Yashaswini Sharma
  
• 'The Ladybird Lesson' by Nuala O’Connor
  
• 'The Diminishment of Ruby Brooke' by Abigail Williams
  
• 'Some cats live forever' by Paul Jenkins
  
• 'Keening in the Kuiper Belt' by Srilatha Rajagopal
  
• 'How To Say No' by Tania Hershman
  
• 'The Faint Scent of Coffee' by Davena O' Neill
  
• 'This Is How You Know You've Kissed A Demon' by Tom Okafor
  
• 'Tommy Was Six Weeks Old When He Shed His First Skin' by Katie Holloway
  
• 'Sunset' by Martha Lane
  
• Debut Flash: 'Driving Love Away' by Gillian Holland
  
• 'To Be Still' by Elena Zhang
  
• 'Observing the Speed Limit in Liminal Space' by Edward Barnfield
  
• 'Everything Must Go' by Nastasya Parker
  
• 'Hindmilk' by Susan Holcomb
  
• 'I'd Follow You' by Jennifer Skogen
  
• 'Pear Drops' by Elou Carroll
  
• 'Moctezuma' by Monique Quintana
  
• 'Shelter' by Linda M. Bayley
  
• Debut Flash: 'High Seas' by Clint Watt
  
• 'Bambi' by Damilare Popoola
  
• 'Sea Fret' by Kathy Hoyle
  
• 'To Know Our Names' by Andrea Goyan
  
• 'Foretold' by Lisa Ferranti
• 'Neighborhood Port' by Leonard Kress
• 'All-Hands Meeting' by Thad DeVassie
• 'Ganesh and Southern Maid Donuts' by Rudri Bhatt Patel
• 'Lights Out' by Abby Manzella
  
• Debut Flash: 'Rise' Bryan Schluntz
  
• 'What to Do if Gravity Lessens' by Bethany Jarmul
• 'Small Mythologies from a Late Summer Garden' by Jenny Wong
  
• 'Waterbabble' by Francine Witte