KYSO Flash
Knock-Your-Socks-Off Art and Literature
“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

Archived Issues

Issue 7: Spring 2017

Fiction Flash
(501–1,000 words)
Micro
(up to 500 words)
OLOE Results
(One Life, One Earth)
Faction About Issue 7 Bio Notes Essay and Memoir Review(s) Visual Arts Hybrids + Poetic Forms Haibun Forms Haiga (Art + Poetry) OLOE Results
(One Life, One Earth)
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]” with titles below simply indicates reprinted works; or, more accurately of course, republished works, since KF-7 is an online publication.

All works published in this journal are copyrighted by their respective authors and artists, and may not be reproduced without their permission in writing. Thank you for respecting copyrights.

KF-7 (aka our climate issue) is our leanest, with 52 works (44 written
and 8 vis-art), by a total of 32 contributors.

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

 
:: 7 ::
About Issue 7
Clare MacQueen Introduction: Issue 7
Statistics [for all issues; also includes VIDA data]
 
:: 7 ::
Essay and Memoir
Jack Cooper Overwhelmed: Waking Up to the Mother of All Problems
Arya F. Jenkins Believe Only in the Weather
:: 7 ::
Flash Fiction (501–1,000 words)
Dan Gilmore Dancing
Ashley Shelby Ersatz Café’s Post-Climate-Change Impact Menu
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Haibun Forms
Glenn G. Coats Valentine’s Day
Bill Gottlieb Else
The Ticket
Peter Jastermsky Everywhere
In Check
Sonja Johanson Derecho
Ellaraine Lockie Embracing the Tiger
Bob Lucky Being Right: A Fable
Stella Pierides Fish Bowl
Alexis Rotella Letting Loose
Three Thousand Miles from Home
Kathryn J. Stevens Elsie [ekphrastic]
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Haiga (Art + Poetry)

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

 
P. A. Milton +
Jack Cooper
Eleven Lines [art + haiku] [R]
Tree [art + free verse] [R]
David Rice +
Suzanne Starjash
Survival [fabric art + tanka verses]
Alexis Rotella Not speaking [R]
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Micro-Fiction (up to 500 words)
Roberta Beary Crazy White Dude
Wednesday’s Child Is Full of Woe [R]
Digby Beaumont Ring of Fire
J. Bradley Before and After
Kika Dorsey The World Is Bigger
Dan Gilmore Becoming a Christian Soldier
Maxine’s Story About Alice the Hen
Sonja Johanson Weeds
Michael Loveday Knife
Don Noel Darwin
C. C. Russell Traffic
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Poems, Lineated
Chris Cole The Melting Snows
Jack Cooper No Room to Rage [R]
Noam Poem [R]
Kika Dorsey Lightning Veins
Alexis Rhone Fancher Madhouse Pas de Deux [ekphrastic] [R]
Peter Galle Primordial
Dan Gilmore The Republican Convention: 2016
Sonja Johanson Votary, Light
Leslie Powell Stuffed
Dennis Trujillo Vernacular of Trees
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Prose Poems
Kika Dorsey Artist’s Point
Michael Loveday Click
:: 7 ::
Review(s)
Kathryn Kulpa [Redemption Is Found in the Oddest Places]
A Review of Dan Gilmore’s New Shoes
[haibun stories] [R]
 
:: 7 ::
Tanka Forms
Jenny Angyal But Now We Are Many
Claire Everett Gaia
Hearts of Oak
Bill Gottlieb The Boy
:: 7 ::
Visual Arts

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

Alexis Rotella Four Artworks:
Calla Lillies [R]
Catching a Ride [R]
New Mexico Sunset [R]
The Meeting [R]

An “[R]” with 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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