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With the opportunity to submit only two stories, you know how difficult this is. Here, we salute a 50-word Dribble (Jan Leary's "Spelling Bee" with all its inherent word play) and a 100-word Drabble (Ray Morisson's "Turncoats" with its full narrative arc and inventive plot twist). Read them both via the link below; they're marked by a blue seal. Latest Issue | The Dribble Drabble Review

The animation, though good, has its glitches (see how I'm illustrated as older in the beginning and younger at the end). And the voiceover lacks the human touch for inflection and pause, etc. I'm working on overlaying my own voice. Thoughts?

"The Truck"

Use this Vanitas painting as inspiration for your submission. Title: "Bird and Bowls"

From standard text to graphic panels to multi-media! https://youtube.com/shorts/7d_7gdOe6Mg?si=2l6DHgRbUXTrEFCl

I encourage you to jump over and experience this fine journal. We do accept flash fiction of approx. 750-1,500 words by the way :) Keith

Visit our Contest Page for details/deadlines for you to select the Top Two

In the spirit of Will Eisner and Scott McCloud...

DRIBBLE Liminal Spaces by Melissa Jo Williams, Canada I've been thinking a lot about transience. Maybe it's the morphine. Maybe it's the pain when the morphine pump runs dry. I've been thinking about shadows, of liminal spaces, of the tapering, narrow path under the River Birch canopy, of its peeling yellow bark that holds on, even through winter. DRABBLE Heart in a Box by Kathryn Silver-Hajo, USA | pull the leaf from its box, edges slightly curled, heart-shaped core ro

Lesson Plans by Rob Vogt, USA (50-word Dribble) After the second plane hit, we were instructed not to discuss political motives with our students. Instead, we analyzed the chemical make-up of airplane fuel, calculated mass times acceleration for concrete chucks cascading toward the street, and brainstormed adjectives to describe New Yorkers running from Ground Zero, panicked and screaming Destiny Made Manifest by Kevin Grauke, USA (100-word Drabble) Beset by fever, the man

by JOHN BRANTINGHAM Founder and General Editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac, and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has 19 books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear, Kitkitdizzi, and Days of Recent Divorce. He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He live

Censured Suicide (a Poem also Entitled Redacted Relationship)

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Of Which I Am the Managing Editor as Well :) Opportunities Await!

Whitewashing History Against a Blackening Afternoon Sky (As Published in Literary Yard by Keith Hoerner) - After Nooning Tree in St. Louis $10,000 down Gets you in Your choice of Ranch or two-story In prestigious Nooning Tree “Is there one, a Nooning Tree?” “Of course,” the saleslady answers Loose strands of hair catching The corner of her mouth Like a lie Tempered by talk of tradition She motions; I follow Slipping on the deceptively Green sod Outside her display hom

According to Buildwriting 1) 50 Word Stories 2) The Dribble Drabble Review 3) Blink-ink 4) Molecule 5) 50 Give or Take

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The 'Transport'ative Nature of Microfiction

Over 250 Microfiction stories to bundle up with and enjoy! Afterward, as a courtesy, please review :) https://tinyurl.com/5tvm2rse