Centaur Lit

Congratulations again to the writers whose pieces from Centaur were selected for inclusion in Best Microfiction 2026!
"We Don't Meet in Buda," by Kelli Short Borges
"Yellow," by Christine H. Chen
"Circus," by Dawn Raffel
"At the Dentist's in Arlington Heights," by Tina S. Zhu

Please consider ordering the anthology, coming out soon! It is a wonderful annual celebration of flash fiction!

Best Microfiction The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

“Your skin is not your skin after a month—it’s all new skin. The air that pours out is not the same air from when we were younger, newly married, when we bought and inflated that mattress with his-and-hers sections to adjust for hardness. The hard one liked it soft, the soft one hard. Perhaps there are some molecules remaining of that air of the year 2000...”
From “Deflating Our Mattress after Twenty-Five Years” by Dolo Diaz
Read more at https://centaurlit.com/deflating-our-mattress-after-twenty-five-years-by-dolo-diaz/
Art by Ali McLafferty, “Carousel Centauress.”