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"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...
  • Apr 3
  • 4 min
flash fiction

"Solitude at the Falls" by Sara Dobbie

Clifton Hill is awake and pulsing, moving like a living, breathing thing. A voice radiates from a loudspeaker inviting tourists into the...
  • Apr 3
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"Water, Water, Everywhere" by Samuel Edwards

My Grandfather left me three things in his will; a John Wayne-signed movie poster from Rio Bravo, an assortment of low denomination coins...
  • Apr 3
  • 3 min
flash fiction

“Maybe Soon if Not Now” by Rashmi Agrawal

He kisses me deeply, his cardamom-flavored saliva mingling with mine. Cardamom disgusts me; I like ginger tea. Yet he refuses to add...
  • Apr 3
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"Chick-la" by Nora Nadjarian

She’s the only thing left in the freezer, a chicken, hard as a rock. He calls her Chick-la as an endearment. His ex disappeared one fine...
  • Mar 20
  • 1 min
flash fiction

"Bullet Holes in San Bernardino" by Kate Flannery

I didn’t notice the bullet holes right away. They had hit the faux wood paneling in what the lawyer called his conference room, just...
  • Mar 20
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"The Language of Flowers" by Rachel Canwell

Every day, in the window of the house with the red door, there are flowers. Flowers sitting in pride of place. Flowers spilling their...
  • Mar 20
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"NOTE TO SELF: JUST STOP" by Laura Stamps

1. “Good girl,” I say to the little dog when she pees beneath the palm tree outside my apartment building. That’s what the training video...
  • Mar 6
  • 4 min
flash

"Enbees" by Nick Olson

Wyfy had the metal man in their mind again while tilling in the field, near daybreak, most everyone else asleep aside from Wyfy’s partner...
  • Mar 6
  • 2 min
flash fiction

"Love Has Rules" by Francine Witte

Love Has Rules And you can’t change ‘em. I told this to Harley again and again. Been this way forever, I’d say. He’d ignore me, but still...
  • Mar 6
  • 7 min
flash

"Pelvis", " Tupelo", and "The Unexploded Bomb" by Kieran Wyatt

Pelvis I’m wiping Mrs. Carleton’s backside when she tells me she has a secret. ‘You won’t believe it,’ she says. I help her to stand,...
  • Mar 6
  • 3 min
flash

"Big Top" by Cath Barton

It was the brightness of it I saw first, red and yellow radiating stripes, forming and dissolving in front of my eyes as we galloped...
  • Mar 6
  • 2 min
flash

"The Woman Who Needed to Run" by Emma McEvoy

She pulls on her running shoes and slips unnoticed out the back door, down the rain-slicked path, and through the garden gate where she...
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