2 days ago2 minflash fiction"Go Fish" by Sherry CassellsMy 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...
2 days ago2 minflash fiction"Crows Have Surrounded Her House for a Week Now" by Karen Gonzalez-VidelaIn the mornings, they step on the rotten branches of her used-to-be vegetable garden and sneak their beaks into the holes within them;...
2 days ago2 minflash fiction"Haircut; An Attempt At Something Significant" by Mugdhaa RanadeSnip. Onomatopoeia. Except, when you are an amateur attempting to cut hair for the first time, it sounds more like: Sss-nn-iii-p. No,...
2 days ago3 minflash fiction"sweet services" by Karl Khumo CalaganThe funeral home I worked at began as an anomaly. Before Sweet Services popped up at the corner of the town’s only intersection, funeral...
Jun 125 minflash"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...
Jun 122 minflash fiction"Little Man" by Melissa Wabnitz PumayugraWhen 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...
Jun 122 minflash 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...
Jun 124 minsci-fi"Roswell/Nebraska" by Franny MestrichI 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...
Jun 123 minflash fiction"Mac, Beth" by Patrick NevinsThey were sitting on the back deck in the dying light, Mac drinking Scotch, Beth reading the paper. They’d been there for hours,...
May 303 minflash fiction"The Secret Life of Dance Shoes" by Cecilia KennedyDance shoes awaken to jolts and pounding, shaken alive on the factory floor. In our case, we were also enveloped in a strange mist that...
May 303 minflash fiction"Iris" by Mar OvsheidThere 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...
May 303 minflash"Pneuma" by Sebastian ViceThe 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...
May 12 minflash fiction"Laugh All You Want but I See the Truth" by Keely O'ShaughnessyI 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...
May 14 minflash fiction"Twin Towers" by Don StollAn 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 172 minflash fiction"Subway Sonata" by Mark BlickleyGreg Burton kicked an empty beer can up and down a freezing subway platform. His sister Carol complained about the noise he was making,...
Apr 173 minflash fiction"Culinary Legacy" by Eleonora BalsanoWhen 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 32 minflash fiction"Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold 'em", "Active Shooter 101"... by Matt McGuirkCW: 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 32 minflash fiction"The Last Birthday Party" by Hanne LarssonYou’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 32 minflash fiction"The Fruit I Gave Away" by Margo GriffinWe 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 34 minflash fiction"Gerty", "Spit", and "Blush" by Arden HunterGerty 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...