Jeff Fleischer

Heading out of the country for a couple weeks shortly, but my short story “Signature” is out in the new edition of Mojave River Review. An excerpt: Though the letters had barely faded, Hal realized he was unable to determine the identity of the man behind the decades-old signature. Since he and Alice had never […]

The new issue of Orange Blossom Review is out, and it includes my short story “Split Peas” about a couple that never quite worked out. An excerpt: Walter still didn’t understand why Victoria felt the need to spit in his beer. When they were dating, they kissed all the time. Deeply, nearly always using their […]

The new issue of Chaffin Journal is out. It’s only in print at the moment, but it includes “Focal Point.” An excerpt: A deep breath. Feel the air enter the lungs, let it circulate, return it where it came. Think about it every time, focus on it. What it means to live. Winfield had acquired […]

Both of my last two books received positive reviews from Kirkus, and now those issues are online. Here’s the one for Votes of Confidence, and here’s the one for Rockin’ the Boat. I’ve posted them online before, but it’s cool to see them in a full issue.

More news on the fiction front, as “The Tomb” is published in the new issue of Windmill by Hofstra University. I got the print copy a bit ago, but now it’s online too. An excerpt: We first noticed them in the spring. Rhonda and I had moved into the third-floor walk-up in late February. Her […]

Been a couple months since the last round of stories were published, but the streak breaks now, as the new edition of THAT Literary Review from Auburn University came out today, including my microfiction story “Luck.” An excerpt: John was never quite sure if he believed in lucky pennies, or if picking them up was […]

While it didn’t win the big prize, my short story “Redundancy” was named a semifinalist for the 2019 Vonnegut Prize, given out by North American Review, based out of the University of Northern Iowa.