Small but Mighty
With fewer than five hundred words between them, ‘Nothing Left’ and ‘Ethan’s Pecs’ by Finnian Burnett are two tiny tales that tell big stories.
Enjoy these micro excerpts, from Issue 37, Winter 2023, here. Bonus points if you can guess, based on the opening lines below, which story the title of this post comes from!
Nothing Left
The squad comes while Random is away.
Find out what happens next, in Issue 37, Winter 2023!
Ethan’s Pecs
Ethan Peck flexes his muscles on screen, and Candice sighs next to me because he’s so dreamy, so tall, so gorgeous.
Find out what happens next, in Issue 37, Winter 2023!
Finnian Burnett teaches undergrad creative writing and English. They’ve published several novels, but their true love is flash fiction. Finnian has placed in or won contests with Bath Flash, Bridport Prize, Blank Spaces Magazine, and Reflex Press. The Clothes Make the Man, a flash fiction collection about Arthur, a trans man navigating academia, was recently released by Ad Hoc Publishing. Finnian’s next collection is forthcoming through Off Topic Publishing. In their spare time, Finnian watches a lot of Star Trek and takes their cat for walks in a stroller. Finn lives in BC with their wife and Lord Gordo, the cat. Visit Finn at finnburnett.com.
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