Flash fiction published in Bending Genres

Earlier this month, the good folks at Bending Genres emailed and said they'd like to publish my flash fiction story "My Exploding Uterus" in their latest issue. I was immediately excited. This is one of the first pieces from my new, in-progress flash collection to get published in a lit mag, and this is a great journal to appear in. Bending Genres is an online literary magazine that touts itself as publishing "thrilling, fanciful, oddball, unusual, stunning fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction pieces."

A few notes on the flash fiction story: I came up with the idea after a funny, late-night conversation with my wife. I wanted to write something that explored the fractured, crazy politics around reproductive rights in the world we live in, and I wanted to write it from the perspective of a funny, sassy, smart teenage girl. It was really the voice in the piece - innocent and knowing, sensitive and darkly ironic - that kept me engaged in writing it. I finished it quickly, submitted it, and now it's been published (this rarely happens so quickly). 

​You can check out my flash fiction story here: My Exploding Uterus. View the entire issue 33 here at www.bendinggenres.com. Bending Genres also offers writing groups and workshops. Learn more at https://bendinggenres.com/writing-groups/. 

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