Upfurler (Reprint) | FlashFlood 2016 | National Flash Fiction Day

Posted on by A.E. Weisgerber

Publication at 5:00 pm BST, 25 June 2016, during FlashFlood 2016.  Link to the story here.

This is the 2nd reprint of this story, and for that I am grateful.  Original publication at FIVE Pure Slush Volume 10 (editor Matt Potter); subsequent reprint at Matter Press (editor Randall Brown); this reprint at Flash Flood 2016 (editor Calum Kerr).

And I’ve overlooked crediting Lisa Reardon at Gotham Writers Workshop for giving me the prompt that started this story’s creation: choose a law and reverse it.  I’m indebted to her for that initial spark.

Thank you for reading.

A. E. Weisgerber is a teacher, editor, and hybrid writer from Orange, New Jersey. Awarded first place for features from the Society of Professional Journalists, she is a Reynolds Journalism Fellow, a 2018 Chesapeake Writer, and 2017’s Frost Place Scholar. Recent items in 3:AM, DIAGRAM, The Alaska Star, Yemassee, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Gravel Mag. Her flash fiction appears in many international anthologies. She is an Associate Series Editor for Wigleaf’s Top 50, and is currently writing her first novel about a terrible family that finally gets something right. @aeweisgerber anneweisgerber.com