SHORT FICTION, ESSAYS, PROSE POETRY
Stories
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It's not what you think
Hawai'i Pacific Review, Volume 17, 2003
A woman deals with the death of her best girlfriend, which is complicated by her friendship with the dead friend's husband.
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waiting for lena
New Orleans Review, Volume 28 No. 1, 2002
An 82 year old woman, still living with her twin sister examines their relationship and how it has affected her life.
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banging on doors
North Dakota Quarterly, Winter/Spring 2005
When the parents of a man in his 20's decide to sell their home and move to a retirement community, he is forced to confront his future and his past, and what leaving his small hometown might mean.
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noise
The Portland Review, Volume 50 No. 1, 2003
An unmarried couple in their 50's hear the static in their relationship.
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you're too smart for that
The Hurricane Review, Volume 1 Issue 4, 2006
A woman in her 30's gives instructional advice about romantic relationships.
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NICE TAN
Cantaraville-One, 2007
Online Journal: Cantara
A man in his 50's learns he has terminal cancer and decides to live his last days unconventionally.
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Out of Sync
Phantasmagora, Volume 6, Number 2, 2007
A wife visits her husband's apartment after their recent separation.
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Essays
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IN LIEU OF FLOWERS
Sanskrit Literary Arts Magazine, Volume 40, Spring 2009
A woman explains how she remembers and honors her parents’ lives and their deaths.
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THE GOOD-BYE CEREMONY
Willow Review, Volume XXXI, 2004
A daughter explains how she and her family cope with her mother's suicide after the mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Winner of the 2004 Willow Review Award for prose.
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the make-up chair
The Yalobusha Review, Vol. VIII, 2003
A makeup artist working on a live news broadcast explores the simplicity, comfort, and complicity of applying make-up on 9/11/2001 and the days following the tragedy.
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Prose Poetry
— Janet Flora's work, rooted in our contemporary world and its emotions, has the grace, power and resonance of writers like Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers and James Salter. Flora, like these masters, tells stories in plain, simple and evocative prose.
— Paul Batista , Author of "Death's Witness"
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