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by Anika Carpenter ‘The daffodil is the most recalcitrant plant I have ever dealt with – it is awkward, stubborn, uncooperative.—Farmer Kevin Stephens who grows daffodils for galanthamine a chemica…

The Weather is Perfect by Ani King For June. For weddings. For graduations and parties with cars spilling out of long driveways, beer sloshing out of red solo cups, for meandering out into the day …

by J.W. Goll THE SCUFF OF SHOES on gravel broadcasts across the pale prairie as if his soles were amplifiers. A frail half sun hesitates at the horizon, still deciding if today is worth the effort.…

by John Brantingham IT’S JUST DUSK SOMEWHERE outside Topeka, Kansas, and you’ve been driving all day with Ellen beside you, now silently in her own world when you see what you think are giant…

by Robert Shapard AT THE TURN of the twentieth century a movement in self-improvement swept Europe. Its leader, a French psychologist named Émile Coué, wrote, “If you want to change your life…

by Elizabeth Collis HUNDREDS OF REPORTERS have set up outside my home, microphones and long lenses aimed this way like space telescopes. They jostle for the first picture and words of a man who has…

by Evan Harris THE PRAIRIE SHEETS out flat and tan. The Badlands formations rise from it, a forsaken city massed against the huge sky, spires and pinnacles cut by extremes of nature, jagged and sev…

by D.B. Miller I JAMMED MY FOOT on the clutch like I was squashing a bug and shifted into third for the climb. The new girl lived in a capsule on the edge of the forest, a minute’s drive from anyon…

by Jamie Guiney A concrete back yard. Charlie steps out with his morning tea. Sips. Yawns. Listens. Squawk of a crow. Drone of some distant lorry. Someday he’ll get around to laying a patio, has be…

by Annalisa Crawford THE LITTLE CLUTCH OF DAISIES on the grass beside the road remind me of the summer we did nothing but sit in the field behind my house and make daisy chains. Hundreds and hundre…

In this On Submission column, Rosie MacLeod interviews Laura Black, founding editor of <i>Fictive Dream</i>. The journal publishes short stories between 500 and 2,500 words. Find out what they’re looking for below, their behind-the-scenes submission process, and a fun flash fiction event they host every year.

Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/