flash fiction 5/14

Jan 13 min read

"Steady Eddie Murray" by Jon Doughboy

It’s September and I’m ten years old and eating a Sabrett hot dog at Shea as the Mets lose to the Expos. The 1992 Mets may have gone down...

"The Thing About Girls" by Catherine Roberts

Jan 14 min read

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"The Thing About Girls" by Catherine Roberts

We’re in your garden eating dried apricots when you tell me you’re moving to France. I straighten my spine, swallow the waxy fruit. “I...

"The happiest Junior Support Desk Associate ever" by Karen Walker

Dec 12, 20232 min read

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"The happiest Junior Support Desk Associate ever" by Karen Walker

After a year at Alliance Northeast, I'd buy a car. Become like everyone else at AN who takes the subway though they could drive to work....

Nov 26, 20232 min read

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"October November" by Anna Fernandes

She’s out here again, head bowed, trying to scrape up our dead skin cells. Or maybe not skin, but hair or coughed-up fragments of lung....

Nov 26, 20232 min read

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"Dead Sea Scrolls" by Geoffrey Bunting

1. When Madee and I split, all I thought about was the language we lost. Words that I was no longer allowed to speak because they were...

Nov 26, 20233 min read

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"Consequences" by Lucy Brighton

“They’re here again. Alfred! Can you bloody believe it?” I twitch open the curtains, “The girl is licking the walls, does nobody teach...

"What will happen to memories when The Cloud bursts" by Tom Walsh

Nov 12, 20232 min read

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"What will happen to memories when The Cloud bursts" by Tom Walsh

The photos sparkle as they fall, the birthday candles and wedding cakes and fireworks and nightclubs and rainbows. I scoop a baby shower...

"The Suffocation of the Mother" by Jennifer Ostopovich

Nov 12, 20234 min read

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"The Suffocation of the Mother" by Jennifer Ostopovich

It began with a subtle tightening in my throat. The middle-aged man in the grocery store queue placed his hand on my midsection with...

Nov 12, 20233 min read

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"Body Parts" by Sandra Arnold

On Cadence’s 12th birthday, as she blew out the candles on her cake, one of her uncles told her it was time she learned to smile. The...

Oct 15, 20233 min read

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"That" by Kerry Langan

The neighborhood infiltrated us, penetrated our skin, became an invisible infection coursing in our blood. The narrow streets and cracked...

"Nipple Gun with Breastmilk Shots" by Alice Kinerk

Oct 15, 20233 min read

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"Nipple Gun with Breastmilk Shots" by Alice Kinerk

A woman with the ability to shoot milk from her nipples was arrested for assault Tuesday after temporarily blinding Congressman Roger...

Oct 15, 20232 min read

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"Little" by Thao Votang

The first time I meet your baby, it spits up milk on my shirt. We might as well call it what it is. Vomit. Baby vomit. A spray of who...

"We Ate and Ate into Extinction" by Janice Leadingham

Oct 3, 20234 min read

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"We Ate and Ate into Extinction" by Janice Leadingham

CW: Reference to indecent exposure/sexual harassment Before the thing with the man on the street, she picks the blue cotton dress because...

Oct 3, 20234 min read

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"Forming a Bruise" by Alison L Fraser

My high school boyfriend leans on me, the full weight of him disarming the rhythm of our steps as we walk home from school. The worn...

Sep 17, 20233 min read

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"Heuristical Me" by William M. McIntosh

I got a message from you last night. It said you felt a lot of crazy ways that I didn’t know you felt, and it said a lot more than that....

Sep 17, 20234 min read

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"Cindy" by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

When I first received the call, I thought it was a scam. Who would believe that Her Late Majesty the Queen had left behind not just a...

"We don’t talk about the weakest ones" by Shareen K. Murayama

Sep 17, 20233 min read

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"We don’t talk about the weakest ones" by Shareen K. Murayama

On the most prolonged day of the year, a line of five-year olds stand sea-facing. They used to call it jumping rock: a plume of ancient...

Sep 3, 20232 min read

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"A Sensual Person" by Jessica Almereyda

I'm a sensual person and I know where you live. So when I'm walking in your direction on my way home from work, I fleetingly consider...

Sep 3, 20231 min read

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"Don’t Look" by Mary Grimm

I’ve always been sitting at this kitchen table, even when I haven’t. My life: ash from a cigarette, swirl of torn paper. His name was… ....

"We Cover Street Preachers in Rainbows" by Katy Goforth

Aug 20, 20232 min read

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"We Cover Street Preachers in Rainbows" by Katy Goforth

The early October air in the south feels like molasses. But it’s one of the last outdoor festivals of the season, so I push through the...