flash fiction 7/14

Jun 25, 20233 min read

"Easy Street" by Austin Treat

Mary, Mother of God, All she wanted from Man, her second husband, was honesty, “hot coal white lies burn faster than gasoline.” Without...

"With apologies, from Furnace Creek" by Kirsti MacKenzie

Jun 11, 20231 min read

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"With apologies, from Furnace Creek" by Kirsti MacKenzie

Could you forgive me if I told you the air was warm as my skin, that there is no sound in the desert but your own shaking breath, that...

Jun 11, 20234 min read

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"Mimesis" by Noor Us Sabah Tauqeer

Jahanara stood sentry outside a place she had never visited. A place she had never had reason enough to visit. A bank. In her browned...

"Road Trip" by Nolcha Fox & Barbara Leonhard

Jun 11, 20233 min read

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"Road Trip" by Nolcha Fox & Barbara Leonhard

The moon is a vacancy sign, and I want to pull in for a rest. But the parking lot is full of stars, their headlights blinking through the...

Jun 11, 20232 min read

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"Fast Car" by Lisa Lerma Weber

Do you remember the time we were driving down Main Street in your dad's old blue Monte Carlo and "Fast Car" played on the radio? You said...

"The Last Letter" by Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos

Jun 11, 20232 min read

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"The Last Letter" by Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos

My Boy, When you read this letter, I will be dead. I’m sorry, but you need to let me go. If you don’t, I might start haunting people, and...

Jun 11, 20233 min read

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"Back Into the Wild" by Cole Beauchamp

The first time we saw it, we were rowing under Barnes Bridge, cool shadows flooding our lungs with their mossy scent. Like the black...

Jun 11, 20231 min read

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"Absorbed" by Katharine Coldiron

I fell asleep with my left hand resting on my phone, and when I woke up the phone had become part of me. My hand had grown around it, had...

"The Very Bad People at a Sad Little School" by Candice M. Kelsey

Jun 11, 20233 min read

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"The Very Bad People at a Sad Little School" by Candice M. Kelsey

There once was a husband and wife who had lived in a big city out West. They were a happy couple who enjoyed teaching high school...

"Exchange Rates for City Babies and Border Girls" by Ra'Niqua Lee

May 28, 20234 min read

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"Exchange Rates for City Babies and Border Girls" by Ra'Niqua Lee

Spring break meant a trip south of Atlanta to Georgia’s fat bottom. Ama’s grandparents lived in a house there with two bedrooms, a single...

"If Your Father Dies on Holiday in India..." by Sumitra Singam

May 28, 20232 min read

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"If Your Father Dies on Holiday in India..." by Sumitra Singam

If Your Father Dies on Holiday in India and His Brother Whom You’ve Never Met Conducts His Funeral, Then Where For You Paining? CW:...

May 13, 20234 min read

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"A Menu For Tomorrow" by Shome Dasgupta

Appetizers I remember your fingertips—your fingertips. I remember your fingertips during our first dinner, and how I was nervous, but...

May 13, 20233 min read

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"Nothing to Lose" by Aimee Truchan

Don’t turn around. Throw your wallet behind you,” the raspy voice says. My breath escapes into the early morning air in the form of a...

"All the departing souls" by Sandra Arnold

May 13, 20233 min read

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"All the departing souls" by Sandra Arnold

A flash of fantail wing, a clack of beak on glass. Elena watches the bird zip between the windows of her study and the kitchen. She...

Apr 30, 20233 min read

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"Flames" by Esther Byrne

From the diary of Cassandra Austen, sister of Jane Austen I have a choice, one which I fear may attract some consternation and regret....

Apr 30, 20232 min read

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"Matinee" by Pedro Ponce

She liked doing it to music. It relaxed her, she said, helped her focus. “On what?” I asked. “The situation,” she said. The niche between...

"The Ninth Life of Hel" by M. Rose Seaboldt

Apr 30, 20234 min read

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"The Ninth Life of Hel" by M. Rose Seaboldt

Hel is perched in the large bay window of Hemlock Tattoo Removal. Her serpentine tail curls around her, flicking in time with the sound...

Apr 30, 20234 min read

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"Used Couches" by Joey Hedger

You find condom wrappers in the couch while we wait for the power to come back on. It is an old couch, covered in torn, brown faux...

"Lisle Donker (back row, second from the right) with daughters Anne, Freda..." by Karen Walker

Apr 16, 20232 min read

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"Lisle Donker (back row, second from the right) with daughters Anne, Freda..." by Karen Walker

Lisle Donker (back row, second from the right) with daughters Anne, Freda, Dagmar, Maud, and grandchildren circa 1901 Long dresses still...

"Third World Unbendable Man" by Jane Camoleze

Apr 16, 20234 min read

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"Third World Unbendable Man" by Jane Camoleze

My previous expectations regarding the hereafter were closer to worms than to bareass comrades. Amazingly enough, Death was not it, and...