by Tara Lynn Masih

Splintered boardwalk grabbing Jo’s mismatched flip-flops. Ketchup-specked poster sounding its clarion call to her. But inside, the fortune teller’s glass ball, cloudy with sea mist.

Tara Lynn Masih is founding series editor of The Best Small Fictions and editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction. Her debut novel for young readers, My Real Name Is Hanna, won a Julia Ward Howe Award and was a National Jewish Book Award finalist. Her collaborative flash novelette, The Bitter Kind, written with James Claffey, is forthcoming in October 2020 in both print and audio. She loves art in miniature! TaraMasih.com