Nominated for Best of the Net

“Circa 1984”, a flash that was at Switch in 2025 has been nominated for Best of the Net.

Switch is available online—devoted to microfiction that strays from the beaten path and carries the reader forward. Submissions are capped at 300 words.

“We started Switch in homage to the much beloved ¶, A Magazine of Paragraphs. A hard copy literary magazine the size of a deck of cards, Paragraph was created by poet Karen Donovan and writer Walker Rumble at their Oat City Press, Holyoke, MA in 1985. Paragraph published just that: single paragraphs of 200 words or less, at a time when the beauty and literary quality of "flash" and "microfiction" were just beginning to become widely recognized. In 2005, Karen and Walker published #25, their final issue of ¶, A Magazine of Paragraphs. Switch is our tribute to this gem of microfiction history.”

Thanks so much for the nod—also nominated “The Wall” by Rick Byrne.