Short Stories

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Award-Winning Stories

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Story TitlePublication / Journal / Anthology
“Trespassing—a Criminal Offense”Short Édition (Juried Winner, Summer 2020)
“On the Move”Money Chronicles: A Story Initiative / Short Édition
“A Patriotic Angel”Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories (W. W. Norton) / Mississippi Review
“For the Birds”Featured in contemporary flash fiction studies/anthologies
“Immortality”The Temz Review
“Of Angels and Stars”The Temz Review
“Low Flying Children”Catapult
“My Plastic Dreams”Metastellar
“Three and a Half Muras”Adelaide Magazine
“Death of the Classical Handshake”The Quiet Reader
“The Butterfly Effect, Times Four”Moria
“Lake Effect”Cincinnati Review
“The Night I Met Her She Said Once You Go Yellow”Flash fiction featured in craft essays
“In the Company of a Wolf”Quintessence
“Sixty Seconds”Ink Pot
“Glass”Toth
“Besides The Golden Door”Enterzone
“On the Subject of Magic”Through Darkling Glass
“Aliens In Paradise”Pyrowords
“Frog Legs”Spaceways Weekly
“Brave Heart”Eternity Online
“Two Parts Apart”The Tales’ Realm
“Don’t Touch My Place in Paradise”Jackhammer
“David and Gliaf”AlienQ
“Dream On”Recursive Angel
“Workshop Crit”Papyrus
“Mr. L”Exquisite Corpse
“The Dark Side of the Moon”In Posse – Web Del Sol
“Dying is Easy”Planet Relish / Antipodean
“The Morning Star”Would That It Were
“The Dancing Girl”Would That It Were
“Black Is My Favorite Color”Voyage
“My PC Life”In Posse – Web Del Sol
“The Last Jew”In Posse – Web Del Sol
“It’s Like Salty Water, Only Red”Melic Review
“Good For Nothing”La Petite Zine
“Pig-Malion”Millennium
“Clean Olive Oil”Writer Online
“Wrong Number”Snow Monkey
“180 Centimeters”The Phone Book
“Out of Sink”The Phone Book
“Once in a Blue Moon”3 AM Magazine
“Pharaoh”Ideomancer
“Dinner for Two Without a Table”The Phone Book
“The Art of Love”The Phone Book
“My Left Shoe”Conversely

Notable Anthologies Edited or Co-Edited

In addition to writing short stories, Budman has co-edited several flash fiction anthologies:

Condensed to Flash: World Classics (Ooligan Press)

Short, Vigorous Roots: A Contemporary Flash Fiction Collection of Migrant Voices (Ooligan Press, 2022)

Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories (co-edited with James Thomas, W. W. Norton & Company)

You Have Time for This: Contemporary Short-Short Stories (co-edited with Tom Hazuka, Ooligan Press)

Sudden Flash Youth: 65 Short-Short Stories (Persea Books)

Old Bibliography (before 2012)

  1. Midstream (printed) May ’87, A SovietEmigre’s How-To(essay)
  2. Beyond (printed) #17, 1990, Just A Guy (short story)
  3. Anthology (printed), Water (poem)
  4. Midstream (printed) June/July 1994, Joseph (poem)
  5. Midstream (printed) November ’94, Auntie Motya (poem)
  6. Midstream (printed) June/July 1995, Messiah (poem)
  7. Midstream (printed) August/September 1996, Delilah(poem)
  8. Toth (online), 1997, Glass (short story)
  9. Highbeams (online) Spring ’97, volume 2, number 1, Tourist Lamenting, Geek (poems)
  10. Knightmares 1997, Through The Heart (short story)
  11. Mississippi Review (online) July/August 1997, Volume3, number 7&8, Fur Elise (short story)
  12. Gowanus (online) Autumn 1997, Country Roads (short story)
  13. Enterzone (online) 11/97, #12, Besides The Golden Door (short story)
  14. Through Darkling Glass (online) December ’97, On the Subject of Magic (short story)
  15. Pyrowords (online), Canada, January 1998, Aliens In Paradise (short story)
  16. The Orphic Chronicles (online) 2/98, volume 3, issue1, Florida Antiques (poem)
  17. Midstream (printed) February-March 1998, Lot’s Wife(poem)
  18. Spaceways Weekly (online), Canada, 2/98, Frog Legs (short story)
  19. Eternity Online (online) 4/98, #8, Brave Heart (shortstory)
  20. Talebones (printed) Spring 98, Black Angel (poem)
  21. The Tales’ Realm (online) 1998, Two Parts Apart(short story)
  22. Jackhammer (online), July 1998, Don’t Touch My Place in Paradise (short story)
  23. AlienQ (online), December 1998, David and Gliaf(short story)
  24. Recursive Angel (online), May 1999, Dream On (short story)
  25. Midstream (printed), July-August, 1999, The Sixth Day, Friday (poem)
  26. Papyrus (printed), Winter 99-00, Workshop Crit (short story)
  27. Exquisite Corpse (online), April 2000, Issue #4, Mr.L (short story)
  28. In Posse– Web Del Sol (online), Issue 5, May 2000, The Dark Side of the Moon (short story)
  29. Planet Relish (online), May 2000, Dying is Easy(short story)
  30. Litkit (online), June 2000, Ten Laws Of Acceptance(essay)
  31. Would That It Were (online), July 2000, The MorningStar (short story)
  32. Aileron (online), August 2000, Fall At This Longitude (poem)
  33. Moria (online), September 2000, Romancing On Stones and A Leaf Is Dying (poems)
  34. Dreams And Nightmares (printed), September 2000, Returning Home (poem)
  35. Would That It Were (online), October 2000, The Dancing Girl (short story)
  36. Voyage (printed), England, October 2000, Black Is My Favorite Color (short story)
  37. In Posse– Web Del Sol (online), November 2000, My PCLife (short story)
  38. In Posse– Web Del Sol (online), November 2000, The Last Jew (short story)
  39. Melic Review (online), Winter 2000, IT’S LIKE SALTYWATER, ONLY RED (short story)
  40. La Petite Zine– Web Del Sol (online), Winter 2000,Issue 5, Good For Nothing (short story)
  41. Millenium (online), December 2000, Pig-Malion (short story)
  42. Writer Online (online), January 2001, Clean Olive Oil(short story)
  43. Snow Monkey (print), February 2001, Wrong Number(short story)
  44. Antipodian (online, Australia ), February 2001, Dying Is Easy (short story reprint)
  45. Pedestal (online), June 2001, Dear Nicholas (poem)
  46. Parting Gifts (printed), 2001, Grandmother (poem)
  47. Parting Gifts (printed), 2001, The Other Side (poem)
  48. Mississippi Review (online), Summer 2001, To Own the Block (short story)
  49. The Phone Book (online), Version 4.0, 180Centimeters (short story)
  50. Exquisite Corpse (online), Fall/Winter 2002, Issue 10, Viva España? (essay)
  51. Virginia Quarterly Review (print), Winter 2002, The Land of Dreams, The Garden of Insomnia (short story)
  52. Web Del Sol — Artifacts, Issue 8, Winter 2002, The Dark Side of the Moon (a flash story animation)
  53. The Phone Book (online), Version 5.0, Out of Sink (short story)
  54. 3AM , France , (online), March 2002, Once in a BlueMoon (short story)
  55. Ideomancer , Australia (Online), Pharaoh, (short story)
  56. The Phone Book (online), Version 6.0, Dinner for Two Without a Table (short story)
  57. The Phone Book (online), Version 6.0 , The Art of Love , (short story)
  58. Conversely (online), Fall 2002, My Left Shoe (short story) 
  59. Mississippi Review (online), Winter 2003, A Patriotic Angel (short story)
  60. The Phone Book (online), V.9 March 2003, Pb (short story)
  61. The Phone Book (online), V9 March 2003, Cat’s Magic(short story)
  62. The Powhatan Review (print), Winter 2003/2004, Time(poem)
  63. Quintessence (online) July 2004, “In the Company of a Wolf” (short story)
  64. McSweneey’s (online) August 2004, “An Open Letter to Nepotism” (an essay)
  65. Ink Pot #5 (print) October 2004, “Sixty Seconds”(short story)
  66. Iowa Review (online) December 2004, “The Frog Prince”(flash animation)
  67. Turnrow (print) Winter 2005, “George Saunders interview” (non-fiction)
  68. Neo-Opsis #5 (print) 3/2005, “Golem” (short story)
  69. Gator Springs Gazette (print) Issue 5, January 2005,”Down Came the Rain” (short story)
  70. The Bloomsbury Review (print) Vol. 25/Issue 3. May/June 2005, “Interview with Lara Vapnyar” (non-fiction)
  71. ChiZine (online) Issue 25, July-September 2005, “TheMan With Hungry Eyes” (short story)
  72. Lorraine and James (print) Issue 1, Fall 2005, “A Treatise on the Power of Reading ” (short story)
  73. Eclectica (online) January/February 2006, “The Middle Sister” (book review)
  74. BoundOff (Audio magazine) Issue 2, March 2006 “TwelveSteps Down”
  75. The Bloomsbury Review (print) May/June 2006 “The DeadFish Museum” (book review)
  76. WW Norton Flash Fiction Forward anthology (print), August 2006 “A Patriotic Angel”
  77. Mississippi Review (print) October 2006 “To My Love.”
  78. Ooligan Press (print) November 2007 “You Have Time for This ” flash fiction anthology (with Tom Hazuka)
  79. Connecticut Review (print), Fall 2007 “Scarabeaeus Simplex”
  80. Marginalia (print), Fall 2007 “Notes on Flying”
  81. ShanghaiForeign Language Education Press(print) December 2007, “The Best Flash Fiction of the 21st Century,” flashfiction anthology (with Tom Hazuka)
  82. Stone Canoe (print), January 2008,  “KeepSawing, Shura” (short story)
  83. Neo (print), Summer 2008, “The Artist,” an excerpt from “My Life at First Try.”
  84. Cat Tales, an anthology (print), August 2008, three haiku
  85. The London Magazine, October/November 2008, “Titan. The Office Romance.”
  86. Pank. March 2009. “The Amazing Adventures of Macro-Microbe,” short story.
  87. Mississippi Review. Summer 2009. “Lot’s Wife,” short story.
  88. Flash Fiction (UK). Summer 2009 “Diptych,” short story.
  89. 50 to 1. February 2010. “I was a Cat Once,” short story.
  90. Southeast Review. Summer 2010. “Before the Storm.”
  91. Annalemma. August 2010. “Eternal Love,” short story.
  92. Camera Obscura. Winter 2010. “Paradise Recovered,” a short story.
  93. Blip. August 2010. “Courage Under Fire,” a short story.
  94. Raleigh Review, October 2010, “On Demand,” short story.
  95. Bound Off. January 2011. “The King Died,” a podcast.
  96. Sonora Review. January 2011. “Scalene Triange,” short story
  97. Eric’s Hysterics. May 2011. “10,000 Steps,” short story.
  98. Warwick Review. Summer 2011. “Whispering Reeds,”  short story.
  99. The Literary Review. TBD. “Odnoklassniki,” a short story.
  100. Short Fiction (UK). TBD. “Resoning Nazis,” a short story