Review of Joshua Jones Lofflin, “Flekke,” Flash Fiction Online 151 (June 2026): 8-10 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
Content note: Infertility, infidelity.
After having spent many years now review speculative fiction on this blog, I’ve learned that there are many things that I will forgive in a story if it is in a speculative genre. When the speculative overlay is missing, I’m much, much more judgemental. In the case of this story, I honestly don’t understand what the point is — why tell an ordinary story about ordinary life and ordinary sins, when there are so many extraordinary stories that could be told instead?
This one was definitely not for me.
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