NORBERT KOVACS

PUBLISHED STORIES & PROSE

I hope you enjoy encountering my fiction and prose through the links below. I have listed stories by publication year and from newest to oldest going down. Regardless of when published, reprints appear directly beneath the link to the original story. For stories from magazines that have closed or are otherwise unavailable, links will take you to PDFs of the published pieces. If any of the links below do not work, please send me a note and I will see about correcting them. Thank you.

• 2024
• The Blue Watch Tells the Cliffside Time - Modern Literature
• Thrush's Song - Fine Lines (Autumn 2024 Issue, print)
• Nanofiction Set #13 - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• Nanofiction Set #12 - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• Nanofiction Set #11 - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• Private Island^* - Ekphrastic's Nine Lives Marathon
  *Winner, Flash Category
• Nanofiction Set #10 - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• Nanofiction Set #9 - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• Nanofiction Set #8 - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• Neighborhood Girl - 50 Give or Take
• Blue Music - Ekphrastic
• The King's Tale^* - Timada's Diary
  *nominated for Best of the Net
• Nanofiction Set #7 - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• Nanofiction Set #6 - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• The Twit-o-logical Mechanism - Worthing Flash
• Nanofiction Set #5 - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• "Our garbage..." - Six Word Wonders (print & Kindle)
• A Gathering at Ahmed's - Timada's Diary
• Nanofiction Set #4 - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• Nanofiction Set #3 - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• Nanofiction Set #2 - Edge of Humanity Magazine


• 2023
• Angelus Redux - Worthing Flash
• The Eyes Are Looking - Ekphrastic
• The Bolt - 50 Give or Take
• Lasting Glamour - Ekphrastic
• The Blue Trail - Fine Lines (Autumn 2023 Issue, print)
• Roped - 101 Words
• Irish Swirl - Ekphrastic's Lucky 8 Marathon Showcase
• Dirge for an Amazonian Man - Corvus Review
• Basketball Night - Blink-Ink (Issue 52, "Waiting for a Friend", print)
• Six Nanofictions - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• Frida Kahlo: Inside and Out - Ekphrastic
• It Had To - 101 Words
• Meeting Lisa - Westview (Spring 2023, Issue 37, No. 1, print)
• Pink Shell - Blink-Ink (Issue 51, "Yard Sale", print)
• Red Like Fire - Ekphrastic
• Monsieur Antoine's Visit - MacQueen's Quinterly


• 2022
• Surprise Meeting - Blink-Ink (Issue 50, "Country Roads", print)
• Bear Fears - Snowy Egret (Autumn 2022 Issue, print)
• Your Climate Reimbursement Policy Has Been Updated - Potato Soup Journal
• The Tin Man - Idle Ink
• Crushed and Growing - LIGEIA
• Wise to Her - Ekphrastic
• Waiting and Waiting - Ekphrastic
• The Listening Ear - The Dribble Drabble Review (Issue 6)
• Exercise Stamina - Worthing Flash
• Fjord Summer - Ekphrastic's Lucky 7 Marathon Anthology
• Recommended Diet - Worthing Flash
• Winter Field* - MacQueen's Quinterly
  (reprint) - Birmingham Arts Journal
  *nominated for Best of the Net
• Warning Label on Truth® Brand Cola - Potato Soup Journal
• Pool Party - Storylandia (Issue 42, Summer 2022, print & Kindle)
• Deer in the Summer Dusk - Snowy Egret (Spring 2022 Issue, print)
• Day's Course - Zephyr Review
• Beast - 101 Words
  (reprint featuring alternate text) - The Writers Club
• A Picture to Please - Blink-Ink (Issue 47, "Bad Habits", print)


• 2021
• Spoken Word - S/WORD
• Not for a Word - Call Me [Brackets]
• The Burden Wall - BOMBFIRE
• Woman of the Painting - Page & Spine
• Through the Door - The Writers Club
• The Water Seeker - Sparrow's Trombone
• 927 - Nanoism
• Plea - The Dribble Drabble Review (Issue 4)
• Brownie Birthday Cake - Blink-Ink (Issue 45, "Dollar Store", print)
• The Azalea Bush - Evening Street Review (Summer 2021 Issue, print, Kindle, & audio)
• Snowfall - Farmington, Conn., December 2019 - Ariel Chart
  (reprint) - Edge of Humanity Magazine
• Walking from Home - Corvus Review
• Owl Struck - Woods Reader (Spring 2021 Issue, print)
• Shower, Backyard Lake - Writer's Egg Magazine (Issue #11, print & .pdf)
• The Leak - The Write Launch
• Spring Rain - 50 Give or Take
• Snake - 101 Words
• Love by Distraction - Abstract
• An Accident - Birmingham Arts Journal
  (reprint with revisions) - The Writers Club
• You Can Be God, Too - Potato Soup Journal
  (reprint) - Potato Soup Journal: Best of 2021 (print + Kindle)
• Bridgeden Forest - Piker Press


• 2020
• Cleaning - Modern Literature
• Stone Wall - Portland Metrozine
• Mountain - 50-Word Stories
• Insomnia - Corvus Review
• The Cook - Headway Quarterly
  (reprint) - Charleston Anvil (Summer 2020 Issue, print)
• Summer Trip - The Drabble
• To Escape the Cold - Writers and Readers' Magazine (April 2020 Issue, print & Kindle)
• Moving Day - Door Is a Jar (Spring 2020 Issue, print & Kindle)
• The New Boy - Triangle Writers Magazine (March 2020 Issue, print & Kindle)
• Conjuring: A History - Hypnopomp
• The Ring-Rope - Phenomenal Literature
• From the Elements - Blue Pages Journal


• 2019
• The Brown Rabbit - Arkansan Review
• The Keepsake Box - Anti-Heroin Chic
• The Junk Man - Flash Fiction Magazine
• Song - Ariel Chart
• The Two Potters - The Writing Disorder
• Our House - Corvus Review
• Gift for Yvette - Central American Literary Review
• Horse and Garden - Adelaide
• Plant - Thin Air (Spring 2019 Issue, print)
• At the Edge of the Dry Land - The Write Launch
• The River Trip - CommuterLit
• Mark on a White Stone - Blood & Bourbon (print & e-book)


• 2018
• Night Fishing - The Sea Letter
• Brother's Keeper - Foliate Oak
• A Son in His Father's Forest - Ecozon@
• Joan Carlyle's New Neighbor - Jumbelbook (.epub file. 2nd story in bundle)
• Emily's Paper - CommuterLit
• Two Secrets - Ginosko Literary Journal
• Pair of Doors - Literary Yard
• Writing on the Page - Ariel Chart
• Online Chat - Soft Cartel
• Gull, Beach, Sun, Ocean - NatureWriting
• Juggler in the Plaza - Furtive Dalliance (Summer 2018 Issue, print)
• A Provocation Game - Yellow Mama
• The Sea Cliff - Howl
• Morning Run - FIVE:2:ONE's #thesideshow (audio included with story on magazine website)
  (reprint with revisions) - Antarctica Journal
• Sand in a Cup - Gravel
• Crawl - Thrice Fiction
• The Wandering Man - The Wagon Magazine
• The Divorce - Rumblefish Press
• Alone in Hell's Kitchen - STORGY


• 2017
• For Mother's Wedding - Westview
• The Long Lake - Peacock Journal
• The Dancer - Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts
  (reprint with revisions) - CafeLit
• Disagreement over a Novel - Down in the Dirt
• Thrush - No Extra Words (podcast)
  (reprint with revisions) - Inkling
• Friends' Night Out- Foliate Oak
• The Fight - New Pop Lit
• Tired Evening - Corvus Review
  (reprint with revisions) - Wilderness House Literary Review
• Worried Father-To-Be - Adelaide
• The Piano and the Violin - Ekphrastic
• To Aid Your Son on a Date - Scarlet Leaf Review


• 2016
• The Bloom - Ekphrastic
• The Island Interior - Scarlet Leaf Review;
  (reprint with revisions) - Scarlet Leaf Review
• Fate and Freedom - Darkrun Review;
  (reprint with revisions) - Communicators League
• The Dream - Squawk Back