Sally Simon, Writer

Published Writing

  • Waiting for the Earth to Put on Its Brakes,” forthcoming in National Flash Fiction Day’s 2024 anthology
  • “Love Birds,” (collage art), forthcoming in Ink in Thirds, March 19, 2024.
  • “Green Thumb” and “When You Think You’re Life Has Just Begun,” (both 100-word stories), forthcoming in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine, April 25, 2024.
  • This Little Piggie Went to Market,” (micro), in Southern Florida Poetry Review #32, February, 2024
  • Kiki’s Backpack,” (flash fiction), in Ghost Light Lit‘s inaugural issue, February, 2024.
  • “Missing,” (micro fiction), in Bright Flash Literary Review, July 5, 2023
  • “How to hold in a laugh at church without peeing your pants,” (micro fiction), in Ink in Thirds, Autumn Issue, Volume 4, Issue 1, September 2023 View a sample here. Better yet, buy a print copy here.
  • “If Only,” (hybrid fiction), in Ink in Thirds, Autum Issue, Volume 4, Issue 1, September 2023 (see above) Yes! I’m in this issue twice!
  • I’ve Been Thinking,” (hybrid fiction),  in Cutbow Quarterly, Issue 4 
  • Tenth Summer,” (flash fiction), in Raw Lit, Issue 2, Summer 2023 (CW: Reference to child abuse) **Nominated for Best of the Net (Fiction) 2023
  • “Why I won’t eat watermelon since that day at summer camp,” (micro fiction), in NFFD Flash Flood, June 24, 2023 @ 17:50 (UK time)
  • “The Fairest of Them All,” (fiction/satire), in ArrowHeart Publishing’s Identity Anthology, Vol. 2 (print), July 2023. Order here 
  • There Comes a Time,” (flash fiction), in SciFi Shorts, April 21, 2023
  • “Afterbirth,” (100 word micro fiction), third place in 2023 National Flash Fiction Day micro contest, published in their anthology (print), June 2023. Order it here.
  • “We Worry,” (CNF) in Visible Magazine, February, 23, 2023.
  • Magenta Tears,” (flash CNF), in Flash Boulevard, April 29, 2023
  • “Fetal Kicks During a Blue Book Exam,” (flash memoir), in Citron Review’s Love and Desire Issue, July 3, 2023
  • “Prodigal Daughter,” (flash fiction), in Roi Faineant, February, 2023.
  • “If Joni Mitchell can be depressed, so can I,” (flash memoir), in Emerge Lit Journal, June, 2023
  • “The Secret to Staying Human,” (microfiction),  in Microfiction Monday, Jan. 16, 2023
  • “Cousin,” (micro memoir), in Five Minute Lit, March 22, 2023
  • “Scars,” (micro fiction) in A Story in 100 Words, November 29, 2022
  • “Abilene Heatwave, 2012,” (micro fiction), in Dribble Drabble Review, 2023, issue # 7 
  • “The Things I Choose to Forget,” (flash prose), in (mac)ro(mic), July, 2022
  • “Turning the Tables,” (flash fiction), in Havok, 2022
  • Something You Need to Hear,” (CNF), in Multiplicity, Vol. 4, June, 2022. **Nominated for Ellipsis Zine Best of 2022
  • “The Rocks She Carried,” (micro fiction), in 50 Give or Take, yearly anthology, late 2022. (print)
  • Treading Water,” (flash fiction), in Scissors and Spackle, March, 2022.
  • How You Know,” (micro memoir), in Five Minute Lit, January, 2022
  • Last Call,” (flash memoir), in HerStry, December 29, 2021. (Content warning: sexual abuse)
  • Lost Innocence,” (flash memoir), in Anti-Heroin Chic, October, 2021
  • Zooming Grandma,” (one-act), in Masque and Spectacle, September, 2021
  • “Cracked,” (flash fiction), July 21, 2021, in Potato Soup (now defunct)
  • 7th and Oak,” (micro-memoir), April, 2021 in Five Minute Lit
  • Point of Entry,” (flash fiction), in Flash Fiction Magazine, March 17, 2021
  • New Delhi,” (a poem), in Gyroscope Literary Review,, Spring 2021 (page 12)
  • Root of Evil,” (flash fiction), in Dark Fire Fiction, March 2021
  • The Birthing,” (flash fiction), in Farm-ish, Spring, 2021
  • “Portrait Gallery: U.S. Capitol” (a poem), in Children, Churches, and Daddy, Vol. 311, July 2021 issue. Online preview here. (Scroll to my name on the author menu to the left)
  • Slingshot” (flash fiction), in After the Pause, Spring 2021
  • “Mental Illness” and “Modern Suburbia,” (two 10-word stories) in Potato Soup Journal, February, 2021 (now defunct)
  • “Warning Signs” (flash fiction) in Down in the Dirt, Vol. 183, May 2021. Online preview here. (Scroll to my name on the author menu to the left)
  • New Zealand” (a poem) in Academy of the Heart and Mind, February 27, 2021
  • “Zooming Grandma” (a 10-minute one act play) Please contact me for (free) rights to perform. Performed for Open Eye Theater, Summer Shortcuts X, September 2020 Here’s a link to the performance, in which Sally herself portrayed Grandma. Fast forward to 3:23.

Visit my Medium publication, Writing Purgatory, for otherwise unpublished musings and stories that possibly lack plot.

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