Barely Casting a Shadow

Barely Casting a Shadow features 161 stories from 138 of the best flash fiction writers in the world, all long-listed for the first four rounds of the Reflex Fiction flash fiction competition.

Inside these pages, you’ll find four winning stories: ‘Anger Management’ by Charmaine Wilkerson, ‘Jimmy Choo Shoes’ by Shannon Savvas, ‘Fly Away Home’ by Helen Rye, and our inaugural winner, and the story that gives this anthology its title, ‘Barely Casting a Shadow’ by Alicia Bakewell. You’ll find humour, sadness, love, and lots of ladybirds. Whatever your reading tastes, there’ll be something here for you.