The best of Brevity: twenty groundbreaking years of flash nonfiction

The shape emptiness / Brenda Miller

Thumb-sucking girl / Sonja Livingston

The cruelty we delivered : an apology / Ira Sukrungruang

I hoisted them, two drug dealers, I guess that's what they were / Diane Seuss

Wings / Daisy Hernández

Imagining foxes / Brian Doyle

Women these days / Amy Butcher

Forgetting / Abigail Thomas

Poster children / Sandra Gail Lambert

Letter to a future lover / Ander Monson

The birthday place / Rebecca McClanahan

A most dangerous game / Alexis Wiggins

Mother's tongue / Samuel Autman

Wide open spaces / Kathryn Miller

Blood; Quantum / Danielle Geller

Girl fight / Joey Franklin

White lies / Erin Murphy

I remain very sorry for what I did to the little black kitten / Jenny Boully

Shower songs / Brian Trapp

My cousin's backyard / Deborah Taffa

Holy / Lori Jakiela

Fluency / Jamila Osman

Cheekbones / Patricia Park

If you find a mouse on a glue trap / Suzanne Farrell Smith

Lag time / Steven Church

The sloth / Jill Christman

Place / Robert Root

Transgender day of remembrance : a found essay / Torrey Peters

Intro to creative writing / Dani Johannesen

A brief atmospheric future / Matthew Gavin Frank

Counting bats / Thao Thai

Openings / Jennifer Sinor

How to leave a room / Marcia Aldrich

Sunrise / Joe Oestreich

Post-mortem / Traci Brimhall

An Indian in Yoga class : finding imbalance / Rajpreet Heir

Genesi / Bret Lott

The blind prophets of Easter Island / Tessa Fontaine

I go back to Berryman's / Vincent Scarpa

\'in-glish\ / Christina Tang-Bernas

Berfore sunrise / Erika Dreifus

Dropping babies / J.D. Schraffenberger

Solving for X / Pam Durban

So little / Josey Foo

Suspended / Kyle Minor

Fish / Nicole Walker

When a 17-year-old-checkout clerk in small town Michigan hits on me, I think about the girl I loved at 17 / Krys Malcolm Belc

Bear fragments / Christine Byl

Recesses / Mark Stricker

Katy Perry is crooning and won't stop just because I did / Shuly Xóchitl Cawood

Five from Kyrgrgzstan / Jia Tolentino

How to discuss race as a white person / Sam Stokley

Hairy credentials / Nicole Cyris

Alive / Laurie Lynn Drummond

Perdition / Kristen Radtke

Success and prosperity / Bouiyan Chen, translated by Jennie Chia-Hui Chu

Quinto sol / Michelle Otero

Devotion / Sarah J. Lin

Girl/Thing / Anna Vodicka

Ace of spades / Jule Marie Wade

Some space / Michael Martone

An address to my fellow faculty who have asked me to speak about my work / A. Papatya Bucak

Confession / Michelle Valois

Beach city / Jaquira Díaz

On being a trucker / Lia Purpura

How to erase an Arab / Julie Hakim Azzam

Milk for free / Deesha Philyaw

Surrender / Nina Boutsikaris

The salmon / Charlotte Gullick

The things I've lost / Brian Arundel

The farmers' almanac best days for breeding / John A McDermott

All or nothing, self-portrait at twenty-seven / Jill Talbot

Talk big / Lee Martin

Open season / Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Chronology of the body / Sam Kiss

On the occurrence of March 20, 1981 and on the occurrences of every night after / B.J. Hollars

Meanness / Beverly Donofrio

When we played / Matthew Komatsu

The hear as a torn muscle / Randon Billings Noble

Breathless / Heather Sellers

The domestic apologies / Dustin Parsons

The lunch lady and her three-headed dogs / Sonya Huber

Some things about that day / Debra Marquart

There are distances between us / Roxane Gay.