Book excerpt: NANO Fiction (print ISSN 1935-844X; digital ISSN 2160-939X) is non-profit literary journal that publishes flash fiction—a form of short story also known as micro fiction, micro narrative, micro-story, microrrelatos, postcard fiction, the short short, the short short story, kürzestgeschichten, and sudden fiction—of 300 words or fewer. Featuring twenty to thirty authors in each issue, NANO Fiction has roots that draw from Aesop’s Fables and Zen Koans. Notable practitioners of this prose form include Lydia Davis, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Naguib Mahfouz, and Linor Goralik, among others. This issue of NANO Fiction features works by: Lauri Anderson,Andrew Bales,Janee Baugher, Lena Bertone, Andrew E. Colarusso, Michael Crane, Jaydn DeWald, Mary Beth Ferda, Hafizah Geter, Amanda Goldblatt, Alina Gregorian, Bryan Grosnick, Bradley Harrison, Annie Hartnett, Ben Merriman, Kristine Heiney, Kelley Irmen, Todd Kaneko, Andrea Kneeland, Molly Laich, Rachel Levy, Paul Lisicky, Michael K. Meyers, Jen Michalski, Adam Moorad, Miguel Morales, Thomas O’Connell, Brian Oliu, Michael Powers, Laurence Pritchard, Adeena Reitberger, Anji Reyner, Lehua M. Taitano, Vallie Lynn Watson, & Brandi Wells.