The cobweb-fine curtains blow in the wind, a storm gathers, the men work in the fields, the cat spits out its milk, and I knead, knead, knead the dough on the board, eight loaves already made, another proving, but...
Burn It All Down
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Karen Jones
Karen Jones is flash and short fiction writer from Glasgow, Scotland. Her flashes have been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize, and her story "Small Mercies" was included in Best Small Fictions 2019. In 2021, she won first prize in the Cambridge Flash Prize, Flash 500, and Reflex Fiction and was shortlisted for To Hull and Back, Bath Flash Fiction, and Bath Short Story Award. Her novella-in-flash When It’s Not Called Making Love is published by Ad Hoc Fiction. She is Special Features Editor at New Flash Fiction Review and an editor for the National Flash Fiction Day anthology.