June Wolfman on People and Perspectives FreedomFiction.com has published six short stories by author June Wolfman. Two of them including the very first one published at FreedomFiction.com was included in the Editor’s Choice section for exceptional writing. The Fish Story by June Wolfman was nominated for the Pushcart Prize last year (year 2025 for 2026…
Open to your story: Stories by June Wolfman In just one year, since April 2025 to present, June Wolfman has captured our hearts and minds with six stories published at FreedomFiction.com including a nomination for Pushcart Prize. There are also other stories appearing in various popular online publications. SPOILER ALERT Read the stories here:https://www.freedomfiction.com/tag/june-wolfman June…
Becoming an Adult by June Wolfman Chandler couldn’t focus on Physics 2 or Calculus 4, despite the exams coming on Friday, because it was another night of drinking for the pledges in his fraternity. He voted against drinking as a thing for pledges, but he was alone. He decided he wanted to check on the…
FreedomFiction.com presents an interview series to know more about our authors and artists. Readers of short fiction are no stranger to June Wolfman, who has a unique voice and perspective on humanity and an empathy for lost souls. She has been published in many well-known short story markets and we are glad to have her…
A Transfer by June Wolfman “I’m scared,” said Mouse, leaning her thin frame against the doorpost of her sister’s room. “Angela, they are screaming at each other again. Can I come in?” Angela, 12, looked at her little sister, only 8, and wiped the tears from her sister’s cheeks, grabbed her sister’s hand, pulled her…
If Only by June Wolfman Terrance loped along, noticing a million details on and around the train station platform, until he reached the cluster of would-be riders at the east end. Gifted with the ability to read minds, Terrance girded himself for the onslaught of input he was about to receive. Terrance had another “gift.”…
Me and my accomplices in fiction thank you all for making this year bigger and better than last year. These two consecutive years offer a grand sizeable bunch of genre fiction stories we have published in recent times. Actually, in 2025, there were many firsts and many returns to the way we do things. I…
* * * We are glad to announce the final six nominations from FFJ for next year’s Pushcart Edition. Lot of heartache and heartbreak as we had at least a little more than a dozen listed that we wanted to share with everyone at Pushcart Press. We literally felt as if we were assaulting our…
A Train Ride to Queens by June Wolfman Edith Hoffman tugged the lapels of her grey worsted wool coat tightly around her and tapped her floppy goulashes, depositing some New York City slush on the subway floor. She shook her gray hair, depositing snow on the train floor. She sat down in the subway, glad…
Art Class by June Wolfman Zoey slept fitfully in her six-by-seven room on the second floor, right off the landing, the hallway light glowing through her eyelids. Though she lived in the New Jersey suburbs, where life was meant to be calm, she felt her stomach hurt, even in her sleep. Zoey’s mother woke her…
Editor’s Choice Awards: List of Exemplary Eclectic Fiction in Vol 17 We are simply going to brand it EEF of FFJ. How’s that?! While there is plenty of time for sending content to Pushcart Press, NY (NY), for this year’s nominees for their annual “best of small press” award called Pushcart Prize — we have…
The Fish Story by June Wolfman The summer of 1987 was steamy hot in Queens, New York, where I rented a room while attending college. I volunteered that summer at a youth center, teaching kids to swim. My parents visited the youth center on several occasions. One Friday, my parents, who lived on Long Island,…
