Congratulations to all the NFFD Micro Madness longlisted

Congratulations to all the NFFD Micro Madness longlisted

By National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand | Posted: Wednesday Jun 04, 2025

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The 2025 Long List

A late lunch in Oxford the weekend of The Grand National

Anomaly

At the Crossroads Bar

Calgary is so far away, and Dan has gone glam

Cast

Chef’s kiss

Communion

Gen A will disapprove of the choices we made

Grout lines

July, 1969

Magpies

Mānawa, breathing in the mangroves   

Mirror, mirror in the miniature garden

Nest egg

Our messages hang somewhere

Road story

Rob Lowe stares at me for a very long time

Some things will end up being hard to swallow

The development of language

What he does not know

When he comes home from work, his home is no longer his

When our laptop stopped