About MicroLit Almanac

Welcome to MicroLit, an online literary magazine. Every few weeks, we’ll publish innovative flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

We hold up fostering community as necessary: a world-building endeavor focused on loving responsibility in a realm that asks much of us. Our creative actions flow, form, and sustain a community built on diversity and inclusion.

MicroLit accepts submissions twice a year. Details will be announced in Fall 2024.

Submissions closed.

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Scant Comfort by Ann Leamon

She seemed a bit better that morning, but we kept the appointment, expecting to be sent home in the sheeting rain with a floppy bag of expensive food and an orange tube of pills.

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A Cold Self, Change by John Coats

Eddie’s dad was a psychopath who delighted in cruelty to his children and their friends and one night…

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Soon Enough by Craig Holt

My son is still with me. We are sitting in the grass on a warm summer evening, looking up, when the star-burdened sky . . .

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Fifty-Four Miles From Dachau by Gail Hosking

I play in the forest near our apartment building assigned by the American military ten years after the war is over. I am building . . .

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Red Pepper Mother by Cheryl Pappas

Your bony shoulders, red pepper, tell me you’re ready to go wherever we take you—