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Every year, editors are invited to put forward work for Best Small Fictions. We went back through the flash Litro published in the first seven months of 2026 and chose these five.
There isn’t a single Litro house style here. One begins as a late-night television monologue. One stays close to the sensory world of a dog after a hurricane. Another moves through a fish market after a change of regime. There is translated microfiction about memory and mortality, and a story in which an alligator sighting becomes bound up with family, fear and judgement.
What they have in common is compression without thinness. Each creates pressure quickly, knows what to leave out, and leaves something behind after the final line.
Flash Fiction
The Late Night Show
A late-night host keeps broadcasting through planetary occupation, personal grief and the collapse of the language meant to reassure everyone.
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Flash Fiction
After the hurricane
A dog waits through the aftermath of a hurricane, experiencing time through smell, fear, hunger and the gradual return of human touch.
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Flash Fiction
Changing Tides
A former regime’s privileged widow sells fish in the new order, where the uniforms, seals and currencies have changed faster than power itself.
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Flash Fiction · Translation
Pearl Hunter
An ageing former pearl diver wakes from a drowning dream and finds the sea again, unexpectedly, in the ordinary objects beside his bed.
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Flash Fiction
Alligator
A childhood memory of danger becomes inseparable from a father’s judgement, an adult diagnosis and the damage fear can do inside a family.
Read the story →Congratulations to Ashley Mangtani, Sheila Kannappan, Heike Rentel, Pablo Baler and his translator Slava Faybysh, and James Hartman.
We’ll update this page when Best Small Fictions 2027 announces its final anthology selections.
