The Life Span Of Honey
July 18, 2024
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by Gary Fincke On the bottom shelf for things seldom touched, the honey has sat half eaten for six years, suspicious by now in the darkness formed by the contested
Home of the Six-Sentence Story
Tart. Messy. Satisfying.
Image Design by Laurie Marshall
Home of the Six-Sentence Story
Tart. Messy. Satisfying.
Image Design by Laurie Marshall
Welcome to Gooseberry Pie
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes microfiction stories that are exactly six-sentences with no more than 400 words (excluding the title).
We strive to showcase the finest microfiction online, featuring work from both well-known authors and emerging voices alike.
We enjoy stories that are like gooseberry pie: Tart, Messy, and Satisfying, but leave us wanting more. With microfiction stories, every word matters.
Currently, we are unable to pay for publication. However, we nominate for awards including Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions.
We publish new issues of the magazine on the second Thursday of each month. The May issue includes our annual writing competition winners.
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine is always open for submissions, never a fee. Click Here For Submission Guidelines.
STORY OF THE WEEK, FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Molting
Photo by Anton Ahlberg on Unsplash by Pamela Painter It is time to tell my husband that I am leaving him. Perched beside him on our sagging couch, I describe the molting of a lobster, how lobsters bend double and then back out of…
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Everything Ruined
September 11, 2025
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Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash by Mileva Anastasiadou Broken and discarded and floating around like a jigsaw determined to fall back into place but can’t. He stares while my pieces linger undecided, like
Editor-in-Chief
Jeff Harvey grew up near Memphis. He has lived in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Madrid, and San Diego. He’s an editor and writer with work published or forthcoming in MoonPark Review, trampset, Madrid Review, Bright Flash Lit, Your Impossible Voice, Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, SoFloPoJo, Claudine, ELJ, Bending Genres, Bull, Whale Road Review, and in numerous other litmags. His work has appeared on the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist and nominated for Best Microfiction. Jeff’s novella-in-flash Life Would Be Perfect If (Bottlecap Press) was released October 2024.
