Dawn Tasaka Steffler
Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Smokelong Fellow • Storyknife • Best Small Fictions • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color (EastOver Press)
Still Drowning | Flash the Court
Still Drowning | Flash the Court
In “Still Drowning,” Dawn Tasaka Steffler uses the repetitious form of the pantoum to allow the poem’s protagonist to return, again and again, to her grief and regret. Variations of designated line…
Cast Offs | Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Cast Offs | Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Honorable Mention 2026 Gooseberry Pie Writing Competition by Dawn Tasaka Steffler A box waits in front of the animal shelter’s door, on the lid, a message in sharpie: My neighbor died, this is his cat. The vet brings the box in, it is not heavy, lifts the lid; when her son was young, they had […]
Killing Robby Jenkins | Cutleaf Journal
Killing Robby Jenkins | Cutleaf Journal
The world as we know it is ending, and I am in a bathroom in Terminal 1 at Chicago O’Hare, huddled in a corner by the hand dryers, hugging my sobbing,
Lost But Found | New World Writing Quarterly
Lost But Found | New World Writing Quarterly
I’m a decorative throw pillow, I’m a pair of memory foam house slippers After Eric Scot Tryon I work the afternoon shift at the TJ Maxx Homegoods. I eat yogurt for breakfast because my last bone de…
Teeth | New World Writing Quarterly
Teeth | New World Writing Quarterly
I’m a decorative throw pillow, I’m a pair of memory foam house slippers After Eric Scot Tryon I work the afternoon shift at the TJ Maxx Homegoods. I eat yogurt for breakfast because my last bone de…
I'm a decorative throw pillow... | New World Writing Quarterly
I'm a decorative throw pillow... | New World Writing Quarterly
I’m a decorative throw pillow, I’m a pair of memory foam house slippers After Eric Scot Tryon I work the afternoon shift at the TJ Maxx Homegoods. I eat yogurt for breakfast because my last bone de…
Pure Trash | Fractured
Pure Trash | Fractured
Dottie & Coco & Me | River Teeth
Dottie & Coco & Me | River Teeth
Just Another Saturday Night | Necessary Fiction
Just Another Saturday Night | Necessary Fiction
Sex In Public: A Triptych | Ghost Parachute
Sex In Public: A Triptych | Ghost Parachute
The Menopausal Woman and the Tsunami | Bath Flash Fiction Award, Highly Commended
The Menopausal Woman and the Tsunami | Bath Flash Fiction Award, Highly Commended
The Menopausal Woman and the Tsunami by Dawn Tasaka Steffler The Menopausal Woman is finally visiting her sister in Hawaii when an 8.7 earthquake rattles Russia, and now a goddamned tsunami is head…
“I believe in flash, and I especially believe in microfiction”: An Interview with Melissa Llanes Brownlee | Fractured Lit
“I believe in flash, and I especially believe in microfiction”: An Interview with Melissa Llanes Brownlee | Fractured Lit
They Tell Us | Writers Resist
They Tell Us | Writers Resist
Why You Start Drawing Again | Fictive Dream
Why You Start Drawing Again | Fictive Dream
Why You Start Drawing Again by Dawn Tasaka Steffler Because the nurses take your phone when you arrive at Morningside Teen Addiction Center. Because all you have now is paper and pencil. Because no…
The Menopausal Woman... | Sundog Lit
The Menopausal Woman... | Sundog Lit
Détente | 2025 Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction, Finalist
Détente | 2025 Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction, Finalist
You were supposed to find me, not get eaten | Ghost Parachute
You were supposed to find me, not get eaten | Ghost Parachute
David as Toaster | JMWW
David as Toaster | JMWW
Making toast becomes the one thing in her day that she single-tasks, even though, living alone now, she doesn’t need to multi-task anymore.
What Moon Wouldn't Give | Inkfish Magazine
What Moon Wouldn't Give | Inkfish Magazine
Flash Fiction
Interview with Dawn Tasaka Steffler | Inkfish Magazine
Interview with Dawn Tasaka Steffler | Inkfish Magazine
An Interview with Dawn Tasaka Steffler | SmokeLong Quarterly
An Interview with Dawn Tasaka Steffler | SmokeLong Quarterly
Mom gets me a dog for my ninth birthday because she says all kids should have a dog | Fractured Lit
Mom gets me a dog for my ninth birthday because she says all kids should have a dog | Fractured Lit
Rules Keep You Safe | BULL
Rules Keep You Safe | BULL
Flash stories by Dawn Tasaka Steffler | Turn and Work
Flash stories by Dawn Tasaka Steffler | Turn and Work
Bully | The Woolf
Bully | The Woolf
The Election Goes Badly | The Forge Literary Magazine
The Election Goes Badly | The Forge Literary Magazine
Author Interview | The Forge Literary Magazine
Author Interview | The Forge Literary Magazine
Bra Shopping | In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction
Bra Shopping | In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction
What They Don’t Understand Is, Getting Used to the Pronouns is the Hardest Part | MoonPark Review
What They Don’t Understand Is, Getting Used to the Pronouns is the Hardest Part | MoonPark Review
Triple-Digit Fire Weather | Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Triple-Digit Fire Weather | Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Clean Floors | The Welkin Writing Prize
Clean Floors | The Welkin Writing Prize
Détente | Bath Flash Fiction Award, October 2023 First Prize
Détente | Bath Flash Fiction Award, October 2023 First Prize
How to Survive a Black Hole | Pithead Chapel
How to Survive a Black Hole | Pithead Chapel
Sometimes she wishes he was dead, but then she’d miss him | Flash Frog
Sometimes she wishes he was dead, but then she’d miss him | Flash Frog
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