Vestal Review is a quarterly magazine, both print and e-zine, devoted  to what we consider an underrepresented type of fiction: flash (or short-short) stories. A good flash, replete with a cohesive plot, rich language and enticing imagery, is perhaps the hardest type of fiction to write. A good flash is so condensed that it borderlines poetry. A good flash engages your mind not only for the short duration of its read, but for a long time after. Vestal Review is an eclectic magazine, open to all genres except children's stories and hard science fiction. It includes six to eight flash stories per issue. We are blessed with a deluge of submissions and therefore  are very selective. In its twenty-six quarterly issues since March 2000, our magazine has had the honor of publishing the works of many great writers, including Steve Almond, Katharine Weber, Mike Resnick, Aimee Bender, Sam Lipsyte,  Kirk Nesset, Judith Cofer, Bruce Boston, Robert Boswell, Bruce Holland Rogers, Michelle Richmond, Liz Rosenberg and Pamela Painter. Our contributors have been published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Zoetrope, The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Agni, Harper’s, Granta, London Magazine, The O'Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and elsewhere. Their novels have been published by WW Norton, Random House, St. Martin's Press, Knopf, Picador and others. We are an official Pushcart-nominating press. Our stories have been reprinted in the Mammoth Book of Minuscule Fiction, Flash Writing, E2Ink anthologies and have been selected for the new WW Norton Anthology of Flash Fiction. Vestal Review was featured on NPR in November 2004, and is a recipient of the Broome Council of the Arts grant. We pay professional rates of 3 - 10 cents a word plus a contributor's copy.