flash fiction
![Green linen embroidered with the white outline of a squirrel, and five leaf shapes cut from multiple colors of fabric secured to the linen with cross stitches in various colors.](https://imaginationasu.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/exhaust-art-web-768x577.jpg)
“An Attempt at Exhausting My Deck” by Kij Johnson
A short story about backyard ecology, interspecies communities, careful observation, and solitude without loneliness.
![Illustrationdone in fabric, quilted landscape with small person looking over vast hills covered in crops.](https://imaginationasu.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/parable-uif-768x568.jpg)
“The Parable of the Tares” by Christopher Rowe
A short story about food, monoculture, and communities that draw together the human and nonhuman.