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Announcing Big Other’s Nominations for Best Small Fictions 2026!

We are pleased to nominate the following fictions published in 2025 for inclusion in Alternating Current Press’s Best Small…

In ten hours, the surgical resident Syd’s day at the hospital will be behind her and she will meet…

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant I actually got together with Ginger when the pandemic…

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant One morning last spring, my father fed the chickens…

Capitol Park: Tuscaloosa It was on a bluff, a bluff. Alabama’s state capitol building for twenty years. There was…

I had only planted the clockseeds yesterday. Not only that, the air was dry as an empty lung. And…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Tobias Carroll! Celebrate by reading this Carroll fiction we published in 2019! Carroll was an…

The crying room—a fancy of certain Northern homes, earlier in the century—is simply a chamber off the parlor, to…

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant Note from the author: This story comprises seven parts…

We imagine the lives of the silent. It’s impossible not to. I was at the zoo, at that time…