Winter 2025 Issue

Editor’s Note:

On your mark, get set, fall in love! This issue of Spark Flash Fiction highlights couples who came ready to win the game of love.

Featured author Becca Kinzer hits it out of the park with her story, Famous First Date, about a young woman who gets to meet her baseball hero. Abbey Downey’s staff feature, A Changing Wave, will take you back in time to 1914 with a daring swimsuit designer who finds a suitor right where she least expects him.

From motocross to figure skating, golf to boxing, each story in this issue is a romantic slam dunk featuring meet cutes, budding romances, and second chances. You’ll be cheering for these couples from the starting gun all the way to the finish line!

Spark Editors

Don’t forget to vote for your favorite! See the Poll below the stories.

Out of My League Linda Sammaritan		Sunshine, Lollipops, & Slipstreams Marline Williams

Par for the Course Jennifer Colwell		Famous First Date Featured Author: Becca Kinzer

Feisty at the Racetrack Tammy Karasek		Dream Big or Go Home Helen Liptak

A Changing Wave Staff Feature: Abbey Downey		The Almost Kiss Elise Gilmore

Boxing a Ph.D. Irene Ivy		An Unexpected Reunion Tracy Del Campo