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    2026

    “In That Little House on Maple Street with the Curtains Always Drawn,” Milk Candy Review

    “The High Plateau,” Does It Have Pockets

    “You and Me and Jim Beam,” The Bulb Region

    “Adoration,” Trash Cat Lit [includes audio file]

    “Glory Days,” Wild Roof Journal

    2025

    “The Oak of a Man,” Ghost Parachute

    “The Knights of New Hampshire,” Temple in a City

    “They Say There Are No Questions Asked,” Bath Flash Fiction Volume Nine, 05/2025 (available in print at Ad Hoc Fiction)

    “Midge and the Red Blazer,” Emerge Literary Journal

    “Wednesday, After School,” Necessary Fiction

    2024

    “The Man Under the Blanket,” The Cincinnati Review

    “Slaughter,” Switch Microfiction

    “Me and Bob Dylan at the Golden Suds on Arapahoe,” Roi Fainéant Press

    “The Race,” Reckon Review (Wigleaf Top 50 longlist) 

    “Polar Plunge,” Fictive Dream

    “Alternate Ending,” Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

    “Untethered,” WestWord Journal (1st place flash fiction category, WestWord Prize 2023)

    “Trap(ped),” Bath Flash Fiction Volume Eight (available in print at Ad Hoc Fiction)

    “Just Outside Reno, a Mirage,” Cowboy Jamboree Motel Anthology

    2023

    “Dinner for Two,” Tiny Molecules, Issue 17

    “Any Minute Now,” Cowboy Jamboree, Country & Folk edition

Lisa Thornton

Writer. Nurse. Lives in Illinois.

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