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Comprehension, If Not Closure: A Conversation with Riley Redgate
by Nathan Winer

May 19, 2022 Contributed By: Nathan Winer, Riley Redgate

Riley Redgate headshot

Learning to separate your own interests away from those feelings of, “I should be more like this, I should be more like that”—that’s going to be valuable forever. And not just in writing.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Featured Interviews, Fiction, Interviews Posted On: May 19, 2022

2022 Flash Fiction Contest Results!

April 26, 2022

MAYDAY’s March Madness tournament has come to an end. Congratulations to all sixteen of our finalists! From the start, there could be only one champion.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: April 26, 2022

Cowards
by Siamak Vossoughi

March 17, 2022 Contributed By: Siamak Vossoughi

Boys on Bikes by Mark Horst

It seemed like it was always Matt Eastman fighting somebody or Matt Ladreau fighting somebody or the two of them fighting each other.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: March 17, 2022

Shedding
by C. Kubasta

March 3, 2022 Contributed By: C. Kubasta

Abjectification cover

He could imagine the way the metal-hitting-wood would echo through the darkened rooms in the middle of the night, bouncing off the worn wooden floors from downstairs to upstairs, her body tensing in the bed beside him.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: March 3, 2022

Sellouts 1985: Patrick Süskind’s Perfume
by Brianna Di Monda

February 14, 2022 Contributed By: Brianna Di Monda

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

By co-opting the style and tropes of the Romantics and applying them to an ironic magical realism story, Süskind created a postmodern text liberated from the delusion of originality.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Featured Reviews, Fiction, Reviews Posted On: February 14, 2022

Without Barricades There Is No Proof of Intrusion
by Craig Foltz

January 24, 2022 Contributed By: Craig Foltz

River

“Dispossession is not the word you were thinking about. There is a moment before/ the moment before the moment. That’s the moment your body morphs into another. You think, There’s no place like it.”

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: January 24, 2022

Helsinki
by Niles Baldwin

January 20, 2022 Contributed By: Niles Baldwin

Hockey Rink

I approached the truck like I had never seen one before. I didn’t drive but I had seen a lot of people turn a key to make a car start. I wished I could do that to the truck. It would take a long time to get warm and melt the ice that made it stuck where it was.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: January 20, 2022

March Madness Flash Fiction Contest!

January 14, 2022 Contributed By: Kirk Sever

March Madness Flash Fiction Contest

The top 16 contenders will be selected by MAYDAY fiction editors and the winners will be determined by popular vote on social media beginning March 14.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Featured Poetry, Fiction, Hybrid, Poetry Posted On: January 14, 2022

Minnesota Women Writers in Short Fiction:
Darci Schummer interviewed by Raki Kopernik

November 24, 2021 Contributed By: Darci Schummer, Raki Kopernik

Darci Schummer Head Shot

Raw talent is not necessarily a predictor of success. However, engaging regularly in your practice, listening openly to critiques of your work, and not allowing rejection to deter you will all help you succeed.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Featured Interviews, Fiction, Interviews Posted On: November 24, 2021

To Dust We Return
by Darci Schummer

November 22, 2021 Contributed By: Darci Schummer

To Dust We Return

The only cure was lying on her back and looking up at the sky—losing herself in the drift of clouds during the day and the rise of stars at night. Sometimes she wondered if anyone could see her, if anyone was watching.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: November 22, 2021

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