http://www.activemuse.org/2021_Collections/Vasant_2021/Stories/Suzanne_Martinez.html

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Quitters

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Suzanne C. Martinez

Promises

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Nominated by Flash Fiction Magazine for a 2020 Pushcart Prize. Chosen as Honorable Mention for the 2020 Flash Fiction Magazine Editor’s Choice Award.

https://indd.adobe.com/view/f6d01996-5d7e-41a9-af97-d6df45a36d64

Magnus believed he could go any time. Nothing and no one was keeping him inside his ninth floor studio apartment in an upper Eastside high rise. He hadn’t had a good reason to leave since Hester moved out. On that day, he’d cinched up his fluffy robe, slipped on his flip flops and carried her heavy suitcases to the elevator and down to the lobby, even outside to the back of the waiting mega-drone. He’d lifted her luggage into the trunk, shut it, and slapped the top good-naturedly. That was seventeen years ago.

Story continues on p.2

https://www.broadkillreview.com/single-post/2019/05/28/The-Cinderella-of-Sunset-Park

Nominated by The Broadkill Review for a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Best of the Net.

There Are No Whys

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Salmonella Summer by Suzanne C. Martinez

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https://www.bullandcross.com/article/we-are-all-strangers/