Suzanne Hicks (@suzannehicks.bsky.social)

2025 FlashFlood: The Complete List In case you missed any of the pieces we appeared during the 2025 FlashFlood, here's an index to everything. Sadly, the 'Blog Archive' list maxes out at 100 titles per day, so use this as your guide to the complete 2025 Flood.... Happy Reading! 2025 FlashFlood * 'Before the Flood' by Sara Fraser * 'Our Daughters Never Seem to Come Home to Us' by Ani King * 'Rise, Tip, Fall' by Dana Cann * 'Signals' by Michelle Furnace Brosius * Debut Flash: 'The Moments Between' by Peter A Hanink * 'The Coast of Saigon' by Binh Do * 'Chickens Remember One Hundred Faces' by Janna Miller * 'The Bluest Feather' by Beth Sherman * 'Kindness of Strangers' by Kim Steutermann Rogers * 'While Reading My Story about a Girl Fishing with Her Father to My Own Father, He Drums His Fingers' by Debra A. Daniel * 'Violets' by Iain Grinbergs * 'Grief Don’t Leap Years, Dickhead' by Angela Joynes * 'Break Point' by Coleman Bigelow * Debut Flash: 'Sweet Fruit for Tired Wings' by Mizuki Yamagen * 'Too Much Salt' by Adele Evershed * 'The Coachman’s Forgiveness' by Jaye Frisina * 'Spring Equinox' by Lisa Alletson * 'But This is not a Story' by Tommy Dean * 'Blink' by Claudia Monpere * 'Livestreaming Our Bus Driver’s Funeral' by Adele Gallogly * 'Four Horses and a Zebra' by Shara Kronmal * Debut Flash: 'Reuben Pumpernickel’s Authentic Wild West Town is No Longer Open on Holidays' by Raine Phelps * 'The Climbing Fever Epidemic' by David Henson * 'A Tropical Winter' by Maureen Tai * 'At the Roller Rink on My Last Day in Dublin' by Melissa Fitzpatrick * 'Walnut and Fifth' by Melissa Flores Anderson * 'starlings' by Frances Gapper * 'The Star Child' by Jennifer Skogen * 'Leftovers' by Jacqueline Doyle * Debut Flash: 'The moon is beautiful, isn't it?' by Harvey L. Lingat * 'All That Country' by Rachel Smith * 'Overdrawn' by Shantell Powell * 'Imagine' by Gillian O'Shaughnessy * 'The Wish' by Varsha Venkatesh * 'The Billfish Embalmer' by Melissa Llanes Brownlee * 'Crime at the Patriarch’s House' by Akhila Pingali * 'The Rhododendron Will Not Bloom Again' by Harshita Nanda * 'Natural Selection' by Kathryn Reese * 'Golden State' by Linda Michel-Cassidy * Debut Flash: 'A Better Game' by Michael Rosenstein * 'Our Teenage Daughter is Like the Shoemaker’s Elf' by Alice Kinerk * 'Sick Day' by VRL Thonger * 'Six Steps of Salsa Wishes' by Marzia Rahman * 'On Family Movie Nights We Watch The Video of My Father’s Colonoscopy' by Sumitra Singam * 'The Perfect Storm' by Robert Runté * 'Miss Havisham makes a flourless chocolate cake' by Kathy Prokhovnik * 'Rod the Ice Cream Man' by Kelle Schillaci * Debut Flash: 'Laddoos' by Shalini Gupta * 'Tiny Footprints in the Snow' by Athena Law * 'The Art of Survival: Special Exhibition' by Alexandra Otto * 'Today is the New Tomorrow' by Edward Barnfield * 'Unscrewed' by Karen Jones * 'Secrets of the Medicine Cabinet' by Laila Miller * 'Bad Parenting' by Caroline Couderc * 'Appa, I Can’t Find My Name' by Sudha Subramanian * 'Robust Mandate' by Daniel Addercouth * Debut Flash: 'Bluer Than Ever' by Athina Lark * 'Shears of Aegir' by Joachim Heijndermans * 'Eyes in the Trees' by Hana Gammon * 'The Nightingale, the Lark and the Spider Queen' by Kai Delmas * 'In a café, opposite the court, a 42-year-old woman plays two truths and a lie with the bar owner at 3 pm' by Slawka G. Scarso * 'Fire Ants' by Dreena Collins * 'Fruit Flies' by Roopa Raveendra * 'Onset-winter Proposal that Ends in a Happy Acceptance' by Sharon Boyle * 'Forever' by Eleonora Balsano * Debut Flash: 'To bake an autism pie' by Véro Falco * 'Family' by Chandrika R Krishnan * 'Elevator' by Michael Pettit * 'Still, The Silence Comes' by Ellen Forkin * 'Cheesecake' by Jude Higgins * 'Northern Souls' by Jane Salmons * 'The Aquarium in the Flooded Mall' by Jude Mason * 'The Game' by Gessica Sakamoto Martini * Debut Flash: 'Trevor wants to know…' by Tanner Gore * 'Daniel is a Monster Truck' by Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch * 'How to Overcome a Childhood Fear of Earwigs' by Jan Kaneen * 'Hat & Ghost' by Sonia Hope * 'Added Value' by Sarah McPherson * 'One Day Her Prince Will Come' by Chris Cottom * 'I dreamt I orbited high above the deepest reaches of the Earth’s core where Wisdom winters' by Arti Jain * 'Soldier, Soldier' by Emma Phillips * 'Supermarket Flowers' by Cath Holland * 'Sometimes to Manipulate the Behaviour of Others, like Humans' by Rebecca Klassen * 'Rosemary, That’s For Remembrance' by Karen Arnold * Debut Flash: 'On Being' by Jennie Lord * 'Glide' by David Agyei-Yeboah * 'How Water Distorts' by Helen Chambers * 'A Firefly Teaches Me How to Dance' by Catherine O’Brien * 'Perfect Spiral' by Meg Pokrass * 'The Horatio Law' by Matt Kendrick * 'Things I read the year I turned twelve, including the ones I wasn’t supposed to see' by Ruth Bradshaw * 'Life Hacks For The Time-Poor Parent' by Alison Wassell * Debut Flash: 'February in Cadiz' by Ant Veal * 'Thursday the Twelfth' by Victoria Sellar * 'A Diner Full of Nothin' by Kathy Hoyle * 'When you scream icecream' by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar * 'A Hummingbird Flew in at My Window' by Linda Grierson-Irish * 'Iced Lavender' by S A Greene * 'Circle Dance' by Kleopatra Olympiou * 'Dream I Tell You' by Heain Joung * 'Remember' by Clare O'Brien * Debut Flash: 'The Time of Their Lives' by Angela Huskisson * 'My Undeserving Muse' by Sam Hill * 'Lend Me A Tenor' by Chloe de Lullington * 'Submission Recipe for a Woman/Wife/Mother' by Sonia Dogra * 'Missing the Rainbow' by Calum Kerr * 'Scarf' by Emma Challis * 'Three-Child Rule' by Madeleine Armstrong * 'Home is the Sailor' by Hilary Ayshford * 'I like it when you're winter sad' by Frances Orrok * Debut Flash: 'In Remembrance' by Phil Baarda * 'The Invocation of Saint Florian' by Catherine Ogston * 'When you find the album, do me a favour and burn that photograph' by Nora Nadjarian * 'Pest Control' by Jupiter Jones * 'Medusa, Medusa' by Fiona McKay * 'Jalebi Days' by Abida Akram * 'Clint Eastwood is a Mermaid' by Audrey Niven * 'And on the seventh day she rose again' by Jack Morris * 'Association' by Sherri Turner * Debut Flash: 'The Cabinet' by Juliet Thorne * 'Building Stonehenge' by Craig Smith * 'The Red Balloon Exercise' by Cathy Bryant * 'Mid Life' by Patience Mackarness * 'The Song of Garlic and Ginger' by Mohammed Rizwan * 'Lodger' by Liz Milne * 'If wishes were horses' by Anne Summerfield * 'The Means of Seduction' by Cathy de Buitleir * 'Today, I am tired' by Melody Tobi-Makinde * 'Awakening' by Liv Norman * Debut Flash: 'Rotation' by Bailey Scroggins * 'Home' by Mileva Anastasiadou * 'An apple cake for Anthea' by Cole Beauchamp * 'Acts of Rebellion' by Angela Townsend * 'Missy' by Tania Hershman * 'Vinegar Tits' by Judy Darley * 'The Moon' by Susmita Bhattacharya * 'Wings' by Hugh Behm-Steinberg * 'Another Little Mermaid' by Caroline Gonda * Debut Flash: 'Staycation' by Tracy Dubin * 'Time Machine' by Bethany Cutkomp * 'Martha's New Boyfriend' by Allan Miller * 'It was heaven when I first moved in' by Joyce Bingham * 'Non-compliance' by Jo Gatford * 'Almond Skin' by Nina Miller * 'If Time is an Illusion' by David Luntz * 'Ordinary Birds' by Ashleigh Adams * Debut Flash: 'Seeds' by Mary Callahan * 'Fibonacci Spirals' by Chris Sewart * 'That Time You Went to Space' by Barbara Diggs * 'Like Father' by Joani Reese * 'Through the Vents' by Will Musgrove * 'Ghost Grapes' by Sarah Freligh * 'Hitching Down the M5' by Bronwen Griffiths * 'wad of notes' by Harriet Rosenthal-Stott * 'The Fox' by Cate McGowan * Debut Flash: 'Nobody's Home' by Michael Mizov * 'An expression of futility' by Abby Williams * 'Butterfield Estates, 1968' by Eileen Frankel Tomarchio * 'Inciting Incident' by Ly Faulk * 'I’ve Had This Dream Before' by Sarah Lynn Hurd * 'By Ear' by Sharon Telfer * 'Cloud Nine' by Abi Hennig * 'Excavating Sniffy Bear' by D. X. Lewis * 'Imagine That' by Barbara Westwood Diehl * 'The Pig in Your Head EP' by Nick Havergal * Debut Flash: 'Heedless' by Chikamma * 'Night Blooming' by Linda M. Bayley * 'Lonesome in Aberystwyth' by Emily Macdonald * 'What Can We Safely Assume About Blue Jays?' by Dan Weaver * 'Martin’s New Hire Understood the Assignment' by Christy Hartman * 'From Her Kitchen Garden Olia Ostapivna Waits and Watches the Sky (Because What Else Can She Do?)' by Sherry Morris * 'How Red Your Heart' by Faith Allington * 'Mapping' by Patricia Bender * 'The Music Teacher' by Sarvin Parviz * 'Wedding Breakfast' by Anne Howkins * Debut Flash: 'Deliverance' by Christina Sponselli * 'Professional Waver' by Guy Cramer * 'Olvera Street Loteria' by Peggy Riley * 'One of the Lies I Tell My Children (#19)' by Ruth Joffre * 'Tongue' by Sudha Balagopal * 'Sebby’s Rocket' by James Montgomery * 'We Were Lost and Young' by Kathryn Kulpa * 'A Normal Tuesday' by Louise Hurrell * Debut Flash: 'Graduation' by Sarah Padgett * 'Gameplay' by Emily Rinkema * 'Disenchanted' by David Galef * 'Primers for young readers: Flick and Jane go to school' by Cheryl Markosky * 'The City at Sunset' by Cheryl King * 'Hero Complex' by Timothy C Goodwin * 'Paperclip Empire' by Myna Chang * 'Born Again' by Rebecca Tiger * Debut Flash: 'A Deer Looks Up' by Simone Kremkau * 'Solo' by Lori Cramer * 'Fetch' by Kelly Pedro * 'The Summer I Learned About Love' by Jeff Harvey * 'Everyone Was Welcome at The Hope and Ruin’s Spoken Word Night' by Anika Carpenter * 'Overactive Imagination' by Olivia Brochu * 'When "Plan A" Goes Awry' by Lisa Ferranti * 'Locks' by Kelli Short Borges * 'Between Spines and Silk' by Alyson Tait * 'Shooting for the Moon' by Jessica Klimesh * Debut Flash: 'What We Talk About When One of Us Is Out of His Mind on Percocet' by Jim Parisi * 'St. Louis Blues' by Kathryn Silver-Hajo * 'Half Moons' by Preeti Chandan * 'Appalachian Appaloosa' by Court Harler * 'Newton’s Laws of Childhood' by Lenny Eusebi * 'When the Circus Left Town' by Tara Campbell * 'In Praise of Moderation' by Susan Fuchtman * 'Brocade' by Eirene Gentle * 'Introductions Over Avocados' by Lisa H. Owens * 'I am the Wedding Photographer Who Took These Photos.' by Ani Banerjee * 'Tenderhearted Optimists at the End of the World' by Diane D. Gillette * Debut Flash: 'Molting' by Jenn Keohane * 'That Summer' by Zary Fekete * 'Orange Blossoms' by M.E. Macuaga * 'Octopus-Hearted' by Jude Potts * 'That One Time You Loved a Mermaid' by Laila Amado http://dlvr.it/TLRfHr