2022 short list:
Alphabet Love
Breaking Down
Closed Curtains
Danger, Danger!
The Day the Jellyfish Came
Driving Lessons
Fig Newtons
Golden Hour
Gone with the Mist
The Hole
In Memoriam: Emily Branje
My Grandmother’s Magical Measuring Tape in Her Mind
On the curb
One Day
A Picture of Me Taken From Another World
Return of Nyctophobia
Slow Song
Strawberry Sundaes
What They Told Me
Where is Waldo right now?
Adult short list published at nationalflash.org/winners
About the guest judge: 
Jack Remiel Cottrell is an itinerant flash fiction and short story writer with a sideline as a volunteer rugby referee. He was runner-up in the Bath Flash Fiction’s 2018 Novella-in-Flash competition, and was shortlisted for a Sir Julius Vogel Award in 2020. Jack’s collection Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson and other very short stories was published by Canterbury University Press in August 2021.
Read the NFFD interview with Jack here!
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