2024 Micro Prize Shortlist

Here is the shortlist of 20 micros we couldn’t stop discussing! We’re excited to have sent these stories to judge Deb Olin Unferth! Results in 4 weeks!

1. Runaway
2. Dad Never Gave Me a Rabbit’s Foot
3. Fifteen Shades of Pink
4. To Play the Blues
5. I Come From Aliens
6. A woman makes a cardboard train
7. Protoplanet
8. Your Funeral Was Lovely
9. Like Broken Glass
10. Car Crashes
11. A Hawk Brings a Message
12. Secret to Marriage
13. Baby
14. Neighborhood
15. The Last Apricot
16. Our Father
17. One Night, The Moon Starts Crying
18. Dated
19. Small Golden Squares
20. Boy and Balut