Flash fiction is one of our favourite forms, and so it’s always a pleasure to see it recognised by the annual Best Small Fictions anthology. The anthology has, this year, been adopted by Braddock Avenue Books, and will be guest-edited by none other than Amy Hempel…
Year: 2016
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 43
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] This issue of Neon has everything, from Faye Moorhouse’s beautiful graphic short story “The Cat Ladies Of Czechoslovakia” to Lynn Hoffman’s poetic investigation into the post-literary lives of various fictional characters (just what did happen to that Potter kid after the magic dried up, anyway?)….
DADT
My best friend in the Air Force was gay;she separated eighteen months before DADT became NOYFB. She worked in the basehospital; I worked the flightline. Once on a frosty October morning, tumble-weed skeletons piling up on the perimeter fence, I walked into her clinic. She wore her BDUswell, I thought. With blue gloves she lifted…
The November We Are Fifteen
Previously published in Crack The Spine. The November we are fifteen we run away and the boys around the block put us up in a motel room on the turnpike that has a hole in the door so we can see everyone’s sneakers shuffling past. We write poetry and eat potato chips all week and…
98 Ianthe
Previously published in Shimmer. You used to be in the band; now you work on the asteroid. People you have to work with, they ask about it all the time when they find out. And they always find out – somebody always tells them. They all want to know what that’s like. “You used to…
Empty Frames
They are in a field in one of the two town parks. This is the larger, nicer park, and so this is the park they like to take their children to on the weekends so that they may soak up the things that magazines say they should be soaking up. Children like jumping in colorful…
2016 Write Well Award Nominations
This year we’ve put forward several pieces for the 2016 Write Well Award, run by the Silver Pen Writers Association. This relatively new award seeks to recognise excellence in publishes short fiction in both print and electronic magazines…
2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
The Forward Prizes, awarded annually, are some of the most prestigious awards for poetry available in the UK. Each year we nominate four of the best poems published in Neon during the previous twelve months for the Best Single Poem category, the top prize for which is £1000…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 42
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] From a brief biography of a man raised as a chicken, to a mortuary romance, to a tale that teeters on the edge of a precariously-assembled tower, issue 42 of Neon is packed with excellent poetry and fiction. There’s even a grotesquely surreal comic by…
The Keepers
Carla and I draw our blood in the auditorium. They collect our specimens in Dixie cups and send them to a laboratory. Do it! Do it! they urge us. We disrobe and I masturbate onto their microscope slides. My performance improves when I look at Carla’s breasts. My performance diminishes when I look at Carla’s…