Jayne Martin

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” —Nora Ephron

Short Fiction, Poetry, and Essays

Flash Fiction

“The Body Gives, but the Spirit Lives” at Gooseberry Pie

“Us” at Bending Genres

“Slipping Away” at South Florida Poetry Journal (scroll down to 9th story)

“Mayflowers” at South Florida Poetry Journal (scroll down)

“Boys Will Be Boys” at 50-Word Stories

“The Way I Remember It” at Bending Genres

“As the Story Goes” in Ellipsis Zine

“1967” in FlashFlood (National Flash Fiction Day 2021)

“Pecking Order” at [100 word story]

“At the Stroke of Midnight” at The South Shore Review

“Alternate Holidays and Weekends” at Bending Genres

“Third Wheel” at Drunk Monkeys

“In the Land of Plenty” at Anti-Heroin Chic

“Trending on Twitter” at Photo Soup Journal

“H” at 50-Word Fiction

“Puzzling” at Fiction Kitchen

“Fissures” at Fox Glove Journal

“What Had Been Lost” at Spelk Fiction

“A Place for Everything” at Ellipsis Zine

“Last Words” at X-R-A-Y

“Last Minute Shopper” at Storgy

“Eventide” in New Flash Fiction review

“The Tumbling Tomasellos” – 5:2:One

“The Heart of the Town” – First Place Winner, Women on Writing Flash Fiction Fall 2013 Contest 

“Memorial Day” in Tethered by Letters

“Passing Through” in Slick Lit Magazine

“Best Laid Plans” in Degenerate Literature

“Modern Living” in Bending Genres

“The Woman Who Married Her Clock” in Ginger Bread House

“The Visitor” in Cabinet of Heed

“Predator” in Connotation Press

“One of a Kind”  in Bending Genres

“Closing Time” in Spelk Fiction

Poetry

“Consider the Dawn” – The Bluebird Word, November 2022

“A Hole in the Sky” – Shambles, December 2021

“Ode to a Lone Sperm” – Sledgehammer, Summer 2021

“Collateral Damage” – Cleaver Magazine, March 2017

Essays

“From Hurt to Healing” – Women Writers, Women’s Books

“How Is Crafting Microfiction Like Getting a Boat Inside a Bottle” – Flash Fiction Retreat

“Not Our Grandmother’s 70” – Women Writers, Women’s Books

“Let’s Talk About Fear” – Flash Fiction Retreats

“The Only Child” – Hippocampus Magazine

“Out of My Hands” – Hippocampus, April 2018

Last Date

“You arrive from her bed flushed, rushed and unapologetic, wearing the sea green cashmere V-neck I gave you for Christmas.”