<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Short Fiction on Thad Fowler</title><link>https://thadfowler.github.io/tags/short-fiction/</link><description>Recent content in Short Fiction on Thad Fowler</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://thadfowler.github.io/tags/short-fiction/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Imaginative</title><link>https://thadfowler.github.io/docs/imaginative/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thadfowler.github.io/docs/imaginative/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Short pieces</title><link>https://thadfowler.github.io/docs/imaginative/short-fiction/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thadfowler.github.io/docs/imaginative/short-fiction/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="recent-work"&gt;Recent work&lt;a class="td-heading-self-link" href="#recent-work" aria-label="Heading self-link"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 &lt;strong&gt;In &lt;em&gt;3:AM Magazine&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;“Speaking in Prosthetic Tongues”
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&lt;h2 id="earlier-work"&gt;Earlier work&lt;a class="td-heading-self-link" href="#earlier-work" aria-label="Heading self-link"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Earlier work of mine appeared in:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New release—"The Sphinx in the Mirror"</title><link>https://thadfowler.github.io/blog/2026/03/04/sphinx/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thadfowler.github.io/blog/2026/03/04/sphinx/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My piece “The Sphinx in the Mirror” is running in &lt;em&gt;A Thin Slice of Anxiety&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2026/03/fiction-sphinx-in-mirror.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Take a peek&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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"The Sphinx in the Mirror" in A Thin Slice of Anxiety

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&lt;/figure&gt;</description></item><item><title>New release—"Speaking in Prosthetic Tongues"</title><link>https://thadfowler.github.io/blog/2026/02/09/speaking/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thadfowler.github.io/blog/2026/02/09/speaking/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Check out my story “Speaking in Prosthetic Tongues” in &lt;a href="https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/speaking-in-prosthetic-tongues/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;&lt;em&gt;3:AM Magazine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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"Speaking in Prosthetic Tongues"

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