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| Issue 29: | August 2025 |
| Microfiction: | 62 words |
By Daryl Scroggins
Blue Passage
—After Fudo Falls at Oji by Utagawa Hiroshige
No up or down within the waterfall. Once a man so captured swam and swam as if climbing, and reached a high rocky place. When he pulled himself from the water he found he was young again. But as he cast about, looking for a path away, he slipped. Retraced his journey.
Fudo Falls at Oji (color woodblock print, 1857), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), is held in the Frederick W. Gookin Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. Image was downloaded from the AIC website under CC0 1.0 Universal license (link retrieved on 23 July 2025):
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/34257/fudo-falls-at-oji-oji-fudo-no-taki-from-the-series-one-hundred-famous-views-of-edo-meisho-edo-hyakkei
Daryl Scroggins
has taught creative writing and literature at The University of Texas at Dallas, The University of North Texas, and the Writer’s Garret, in Dallas. He now lives in Marfa, Texas with his wife, Cindy, whom he met 45 years ago.
Daryl is the author of a collection of flash literature, The Light I Want to Keep (MacQ, December 2024); The Scold’s Romance: A Story in Prose Poems (No. 3 in The Ravenna Triple Series; Ravenna Press, 2012); This Is Not the Way We Came In, a collection of flash fiction and a flash novel (Ravenna Press, 2008); Winter Investments: Stories (Trilobite Press, 2003); and Prairie Shapes: A Flash Novel (winner of the 2004 Robert J. DeMott Prose Contest).
His fictions, poems, and creative nonfictions have appeared in magazines and anthologies around the country and abroad, including *82 Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blink-Ink, Carolina Quarterly, Chiron Review, Cutbank, Dime Show Review, Eastern Iowa Review, Egress, elimae, Fiction Southeast, Green Mountains Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, The Memory Palace: An Ekphrastic Anthology, New Flash Fiction Review, New York Tyrant, Northwest Review, Portland Review, Quarter After Eight, The Quarterly, Quick Fiction, and Third Wednesday, among others.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Vigilance, microfiction by Daryl Scroggins in MacQueen’s Quinterly, aka MacQ (Issue 25, September 2024); nominated by MacQ for The Pushcart Prize L
⚡ Suitcase Full of Clay: An Ekphrastic e-Collection by Scroggins in MacQ (Issue 18, April 2023)
⚡ Roadshow, microfiction in MacQ-15 (September 2022); one of three pieces by Scroggins selected as Finalists in “The Question of Questions” Ekphrastic Writing Challenge
⚡ Spring, microfiction in MacQ-12 (March 2022)
⚡ Writer Boy, microfiction in MacQ-4 (July 2020); nominated by MacQ for Best Microfiction 2021
⚡ Field Trips, flash fiction by Scroggins in KYSO Flash (Issue 12, Summer 2019)
⚡ New to School, microfiction in Eclectica (Jan/Feb 2018)
⚡ Two Fictions: “Almost Baptized” and “Against the Current” in New Flash Fiction Review (Issue 10, January 2018)
⚡ Eight Stories: A Mini-Chapbook by Daryl Scroggins at Web del Sol
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