Pfielstorch

Pfeilstorch Fiction is a literary journal of compression: flash fiction, prose poetry, and poems, all under 800 words, each answered within 48 hours a yes or a no, never limbo. We're named for the Pfeilstorch of 1822, a white stork found in Germany with an African hunting arrow driven clean through its neck. Struck on one continent, it flew home to another — and became the first hard proof that birds migrate. Every working writer knows the bird:...