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“Flash isn’t a fad, it’s an art; and while I hope people can have fun with it, its pursuit should still be taken seriously.”
— Tara L. Masih, editor of Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction

Contents: Issue 10: Fall 2018

 KF-10 Featured Artist

Fiction Flash
(501–1,000 words) Micro
(up to 500 words) 		Faction About Issue 10 Bio Notes CNF, Essays, Etc. Visual Arts Poetry & Hybrids Ekphrastic Works Haibun (Prose + Haiku) Poems, Lineated Prose Poems Tanka Forms
 

Content Warning: KYSO Flash contains a diverse range of literary and artistic works, some of which are suitable only for mature adults. However, an “[R]” after titles below simply indicates reprinted works (or, more accurately of course, republished works, since this is an online publication).

Unless otherwise noted, all works published in this journal are copyrighted by their respective authors and artists, and may NOT be reproduced without written permission from individual copyright holders.
Thank you for respecting copyrights.

Works by an individual may appear under multiple genres below. For a complete, at-a-glance list of works by each person, see Index of Contributors.

 
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About Issue 10
Clare MacQueen Introduction
◊ Statistics [for all issues; also includes VIDA data]
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CNF, Essays, Etc.
Jack Cooper A Few Hours From Starvation
Jack Cooper and Clare MacQueen Ephective Ekphrastics: A Guide
to Verbalizing Art
Kayla DeVault A Just Transition For Earth: What if U.S. rivers and mountains had the legal rights of people? [R]
Skip Eisiminger What We’re Here After: Immortality and Reincarnation
Dan Gilmore Confession [R]
Bill Gottlieb Fleeing the Valley Fire
John Olson All I Want to Do Is Root [R]
◊ Three Lines by Hölderlin [Poets as holy vessels] [essay/translation] [R]
Nancy Parshall Real Calcutta [R]
Ron Riekki Collusion [R]
 

NOTE:

An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works.
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Ekphrastic Works
Jack Cooper and Clare MacQueen Ephective Ekphrastics: A Guide
to Verbalizing Art
Dr. Tim Gardiner Hazard [haibun]
Ellaraine Lockie The Animal Inside [poem]
Gary S. Rosin Scene and Unseen [poem]
Kathryn J. Stevens Last Dance [haibun story]
Charles D. Tarlton Three Ekphrastic Tanka Prose:
◊ Paul Cézanne’s Madame Cézanne in a Red Chair
◊ Paul Cézanne’s Kitchen Table (Still Life with Fruit Basket)
◊ Paul Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire and Hamlet Near Gardanne 1886-90
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Featured Artist

Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in KYSO Flash are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights.

 
Debbie Strange The Other Side of Light [seven photographic negatives from the series]:
◊ Parallel Universe
◊ Tracery
◊ Otherness
◊ Sea Anemone
◊ Succulents
◊ Teasel Seed Heads
◊ Wildwood
 
Debbie Strange Four Haiga:
◊ (in my hope chest) [R]
◊ (peeling paint) [R]
◊ (snowswept) [R]
◊ (they called us) [R]
 

NOTE:

An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works.
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Fiction, Flash (500–1,000 words)
Glenn G. Coats Vanished From Sight
Salvatore Difalco The Villa
Barry Peters Fingers
Sheree Shatsky Bacon’s Revenge
Marion de Booy Wentzien Moments [R]
 

NOTE:

An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works.
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Fiction, Micro (up to 500 words)
Roberta Beary Paint Me a Picture in Sunnyside, Queens
◊ Swimming in Circles
◊ While Driving to the James Dean Birth Site Memorial in Marion, Indiana
Linda Nemec Foster Conjuring Her Face
Dan Gilmore A Short History of the Banger [R]
◊ When I Gave Up My Battle Against Hi-Tech [R]
Gary Glauber Guidebook to Forgotten Places
Arthur Klepchukov Dawnsong [94-word story]
◊ lying is the girl [100-word story]
Barry Peters How Miriam Became a Poet
Meg Pokrass Recent Rejection Letters [R]
◊ The Price Is Right
 

NOTE:

An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works.
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Haibun (Prose + Haiku)
Roberta Beary Ladies of the Canyon Cafe [haibun story]
Anna Cates The Nature of the Beast
Claire Everett Custodians
Dr. Tim Gardiner Hazard [ekphrastic haibun]
◊ Old Lace
Bill Gottlieb Accidents of Light
Ryan Jessup By Faith
◊ Finding Clarity After a Funeral
David J. Kelly Chernobyl is currently 1.00008150762% safe
◊ Uneasy [R]
Maureen Kingston Scattering Ceremony
Bob Lucky Jack the Anthropologist [haibun story]
◊ Meaning
Kathryn J. Stevens Last Dance [ekphrastic haibun story]
Christine Taylor To the Gills
 

NOTE:

An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works.
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Poems, Lineated

Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in KYSO Flash are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights.

 
Elya Braden Sweet Time
◊ What to Think Of
Glenn G. Coats Rations
Jack Cooper Certain Kind of Listening
◊ Of Longing [R]
Margot DeSalvo I could write about my sister
Rachel Guido deVries Imperfection [R]
Skip Eisiminger Spade Therapy
◊ The Pearl of Memory: Visit to the Dementia Ward
Bianca Glinskas { Sister, i see you } : { i should find you a grave }
Maria Himmelman At Home in the Sky
◊ The Smallest Things
David J. Kelly Three Senryu:
◊ (cleansing breath) [R]
◊ (our cat’s fleas) [R]
◊ (umbrella) [R]
Ellaraine Lockie Pollage Number 77 [poems + watercolor art, handmade paper, and more]
◊ The Animal Inside [ekphrastic poem]
Clare MacQueen One More Time and I’ll Have It—Fusion in a Mason Jar [R] [+ author commentary]
Bill Mohr Big Band, Slow Dance [R]
Gary S. Rosin Scene and Unseen [ekphrastic]
Alexis Rotella Three Micro-Poems:
◊ (A drawerful)
◊ (She’s not there)
◊ (They won’t be here long—) [R]
 

NOTE:

An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works.
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Prose Poems
Kika Dorsey Bed of Ashes
◊ Cutting Cords
◊ The Walls
Linda Nemec Foster Flight to Warsaw
◊ Gemini Marks the First and Second Hour
◊ Smoke Long
Gary Glauber Devotion
◊ Prevaricator
◊ Save Your Pity
◊ Three Feet and a Yard
Kathleen McGookey Boy Meets Girl
◊ Circus Love Story
◊ Compared to Yours
◊ On a Scale of Zero to Ten
John Olson Odor Plume [R]
 

NOTE:

An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works.
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Tanka Forms
Claire Everett Bittersweet Nothings [tanka tale]
◊ Mother Tongue [R]
Charles D. Tarlton Three Ekphrastic Tanka Prose:
◊ Paul Cézanne’s Madame Cézanne in a Red Chair
◊ Paul Cézanne’s Kitchen Table (Still Life with Fruit Basket)
◊ Paul Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire and Hamlet Near Gardanne 1886-90
 

NOTE:

An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works.
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Visual Arts

Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in KYSO Flash are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights.

 
Paul Cézanne Three Paintings:
◊ Kitchen Table (Still Life with Fruit Basket) [R]
◊ Madame Cézanne in a Red Chair [R]
◊ Mont Sainte-Victoire and Hamlet Near Gardanne 1886-90 [R]
Alexis Rhone Fancher The Animal Inside [photograph]
Alexis Rotella Five Artworks:
◊ Everyone Needs an Angel [digital art] [R]
◊ Imagination [photograph] [R]
◊ Morning in Palermo [photograph] [R]
◊ Night Wind [digital art] [R]
◊ Spring Is Here [digital art] [R]
Debbie Strange See Featured Artist above.
Christine Taylor (prepping) [haiga]
Horatio Walker Little White Pigs and Mother [painting] [R]
 

An “[R]” after titles in the Table of Contents indicates reprinted works (or, more accurately of course, republished works, since this issue is an online publication).


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