(Flash Fiction, Prose Poems, Flash Nonfiction, Hybrid Forms)
“The Woman with the Suitcase Full of Stars” // The Fabulist (March 2023)
“A Seismologist Recalls the Come-True Towns” and “Equilibrium” and “Memphis Facula: Shot List for an Improvised Documentary” // Decameron Writing Series, Cycle 6, Summer 2022
“Rings” // Exposition Review Vol. VII, “Flux” (June 2022) *Nominated for Best MicroFiction*
“Mercy” // Miracle Monocle Issue 18 (Spring 2022)
“A Mistral’s a Keen Kind of Wind” // Rathalla Review Spring 2022 [link to downloadable issue]
“This Splenda Packet Advises Me, ‘Be the ENERGY you want to attract’” // Lost Balloon (8 September 2021) *Nominated for Best Microfiction*
“Waystation” // Gone Lawn (Issue 41, Summer Solstice 2021)
“Kitchen Girl” // Ghost City Review (June 2021)
“The Caretaker” // Emerge Literary Journal (Issue 19, July 2021)
“Courting Disaster” & “Cross My Ocean” & “Sunrise House” // X-R-A-Y (June 2021)
“Ohio at Night” // Nurture (May 2021) *Nominated for the Pushcart Prize*
“Covalent Bonds” // Parhelion (Spring 2021)
“Waxing Gibbous” // Sublunary Review (February 2021)
“Leominster” // No Contact (Issue 16, January 2021)
“Easter Sunday Man” // Necessary Fiction (December 2020)
“Mycology” // (mac)ro(mic) (December 2020)
“Drought” // Funicular (Issue 5, October 2020) [print]
“Consolation” // Copper Nickel (Issue 31/32, Fall 2020) [print]
“After the Exhibit” // Lines + Stars (Summer/Fall 2020 — Prose Poems: The Body)
“The Patron Saint of Fury” // Milk Candy Review (June 18, 2020) [Interview here.]
“Infanta” // FlashBack Fiction (May 2020) [Interview here.] *Nominated for Best of the Net in Poetry*
“Red Emergencies” // Ghost Parachute (February 2020)
“Nail Polish” // Smokelong Quarterly (Issue 66, December 2019) [Interview here.]
“The Public Is Invited to See the Yew Trees in Full Fruit at This Time” // Indiana Review (Volume 41, Number 1, Summer 2019) [print] *1/2K Prize Finalist*
“When She Comes Down from the Mountain” // The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (May 2019)
“Cary/Carrie” // The Lindenwood Review (Issue 9, 2019) [print] *Honorable Mention, Flash Nonfiction Contest*
“Sentries” and “You Can Swallow Any Secret, But What Good Will it Do?” // Mojave River Review (Volume 5, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2019)
“The garden’s been a loss this year” // Flash Frontier (April 2019)
“Cherry Season” // Jellyfish Review (Issue 39, January 3, 2019)
“Our Lauras” // Two Hawks Quarterly (Fall 2018)
“The Aluminum Piano” // Monkeybicycle (July 27, 2018)
“The Lord’s Bears” // jmww (July 2, 2018)
“Flora” // Unbroken Journal Issue 18 (July 1, 2018)
“The Hive Vandal” // New Flash Fiction Review (Issue 13, May 2018) *Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Fiction*
“Enamel” // Cheap Pop (March 1, 2018)
“Colts” // formercactus Issue Three (December 2017)
“Thanksgiving” // Tin House Online (November 11, 2016)
“The Year Without a Summer” // HOOT online (Issue 54, September 2016)
“The Gardner Heist” // matchbook (20 June 2016)
“Spines” // Midway Journal (Volume 9, Issue 3, Summer 2015)
Carolyn Oliver 