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"Go Fish" by Sherry Cassells
  • 2 days ago
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"Go Fish" by Sherry Cassells

My father told me if I wanted to catch fish I had to think like a fish except he said it with an r like frish and an extra s and h like...
"Crows Have Surrounded Her House for a Week Now" by Karen Gonzalez-Videla
  • 2 days ago
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"Crows Have Surrounded Her House for a Week Now" by Karen Gonzalez-Videla

In the mornings, they step on the rotten branches of her used-to-be vegetable garden and sneak their beaks into the holes within them;...
"Haircut; An Attempt At Something Significant" by Mugdhaa Ranade
  • 2 days ago
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"Haircut; An Attempt At Something Significant" by Mugdhaa Ranade

Snip. Onomatopoeia. Except, when you are an amateur attempting to cut hair for the first time, it sounds more like: Sss-nn-iii-p. No,...
"sweet services" by Karl Khumo Calagan
  • 2 days ago
  • 3 min
flash fiction

"sweet services" by Karl Khumo Calagan

The funeral home I worked at began as an anomaly. Before Sweet Services popped up at the corner of the town’s only intersection, funeral...
"When Medzmama’s Eyes Sparkle, You Know to Watch Your Back" by Lindy Biller
  • Jun 12
  • 5 min
flash

"When Medzmama’s Eyes Sparkle, You Know to Watch Your Back" by Lindy Biller

“Don’t be shy,” she says. “I’ve got a surprise for you!” You are six, and Medzmama is sitting on that big woven carpet with the cranes...
"Little Man" by Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra
  • Jun 12
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"Little Man" by Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra

When I am a man, I will wear tuxedos to school, and a top hat, and say “Good day” to every person that I meet, even if I don’t know what...
"Halfway There" by Robert Scott
  • Jun 12
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"Halfway There" by Robert Scott

‘Fifty!’ she shouts into the phone. ‘It’s like my life’s over. It’s going to be illness, declining powers, and slipping away. Every day...
"Roswell/Nebraska" by Franny Mestrich
  • Jun 12
  • 4 min
sci-fi

"Roswell/Nebraska" by Franny Mestrich

I wanted to see an alien so I drove out to Roswell, but they didn’t realize I was looking for them until after I left town. It was three...
"Mac, Beth" by Patrick Nevins
  • Jun 12
  • 3 min
flash fiction

"Mac, Beth" by Patrick Nevins

They were sitting on the back deck in the dying light, Mac drinking Scotch, Beth reading the paper. They’d been there for hours,...
"The Secret Life of Dance Shoes" by Cecilia Kennedy
  • May 30
  • 3 min
flash fiction

"The Secret Life of Dance Shoes" by Cecilia Kennedy

Dance shoes awaken to jolts and pounding, shaken alive on the factory floor. In our case, we were also enveloped in a strange mist that...
"Iris" by Mar Ovsheid
  • May 30
  • 3 min
flash fiction

"Iris" by Mar Ovsheid

There were worms in Trajuni’s eyes, but she ignored them for a few weeks because she had too much laundry busying her arms. She had too...
"Pneuma" by Sebastian Vice
  • May 30
  • 3 min
flash

"Pneuma" by Sebastian Vice

The sun beat down on my dangling corpse. With visitors long since gone, I’m left in isolation, suffocating on a cross. Don’t call me a...
"Laugh All You Want but I See the Truth" by Keely O'Shaughnessy
  • May 1
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"Laugh All You Want but I See the Truth" by Keely O'Shaughnessy

I can sense the sceptics. Those who are only after a show, something to tell their friends, a story for their blog post: Ten Most Common...
"Twin Towers" by Don Stoll
  • May 1
  • 4 min
flash fiction

"Twin Towers" by Don Stoll

An aide told the press that his boss had rejected the idea of having His image added to Mount Rushmore because South Dakota was “a...
  • Apr 17
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"Subway Sonata" by Mark Blickley

Greg Burton kicked an empty beer can up and down a freezing subway platform. His sister Carol complained about the noise he was making,...
  • Apr 17
  • 3 min
flash fiction

"Culinary Legacy" by Eleonora Balsano

When I spot Nonna’s Fiat 127 across the ice-cream parlour, my heart skips a few beats. I tug at my white denim miniskirt, desperate to...
  • Apr 3
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold 'em", "Active Shooter 101"... by Matt McGuirk

CW: references to violence Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold ‘em How would I have known there was so much more, just a kid with a 30 rack of...
  • Apr 3
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"The Last Birthday Party" by Hanne Larsson

You’ve been here before. The sea nips at your toes, the sand cool after so much walking that your shoes have almost shredded away and...
  • Apr 3
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"The Fruit I Gave Away" by Margo Griffin

We arrive at 9AM, and it’s already a sticky, sweltering summer morning. The cars are lining up as visitors come early to pick their...
  • Apr 3
  • 4 min
flash fiction

"Gerty", "Spit", and "Blush" by Arden Hunter

Gerty He had a binder clip holding his hat together. It was one of the first things people noticed when they met him, though most were...
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