Jeff Fleischer

Excited to report a second piece in the Saturday Evening Post, which is known for publishing many of my favorite writers.  Having already published “Granddad’s Ballgame” last summer, it has now published “The Querulous Nightingale.” An excerpt: I arrived in Washington the same day that James Forrestal went out the window. My first visit to the capital would […]

My short story “Wheelbarrow” was named a finalist in the Ernest Hemingway Birthplace and Museum’s Hemingway Shorts contest, which means it will be published in this year’s collection later this summer. An excerpt: In the days of my youth, my father would constantly tell me that the world was a more dangerous place than ever before. […]

Crack the Spine published my very short story “Alchemy” a while back, and has now included in its latest anthology, volume XV. Copies can be purchased via the link.

My short story “There’s the Rub,” which originally appeared in Zoetic Press Nonbinary Review, has been republished in the new Spring/Summer issue of The Stray Branch literary journal (#19 vol. 16). Copies can be purchased via this link. An excerpt: After the last few centuries, I can tell you that people don’t get irony. Trust me. At least, […]

My short story “Gnaw Bone” is featured in the April issue of Sliver of Stone literary journal. An excerpt: Sara kept driving east, passing through most of the state where she was born. The one she hadn’t visited in five years. The highways took her past the two state universities she’d considered attending, which she would always associate […]

Very glad to see “Votes of Confidence” appear in this list of books recommended by the Library of Congress for the hearing impaired.

For the second time, I have a microfiction story in the online magazine Crack the Spine. In this case, for issue #211, it’s “How the Other Half Lives.” An excerpt: “The Flahertys have more than us,” we often complained.