All fiction is very much about time. But we have awareness of only the things that have transpired in our own lives. Our memories are deeply flawed. So there is a kind of dream machine that’s taking place while you’re trying to explain what you’ve seen in the world and your imagination does get involved.… More
Two Essays
FLASH NONFICTION by H.L. DelaneyI used to think toughness was armor. Now I think it’s trust—running straight at the world believing it might love you back.… More
Soldier of God
FLASH FICTION by Christian FullerWe will plant a church and that church will grow like a flower I don’t know the name for. But we are not gardeners. We carry weapons fashioned against The Enemy. We are soldiers of God.… More
Where The Water Goes
FLASH FICTION by Susmita MukherjeeHe’d promised himself, promised his therapist, he’d stop letting anger be the first thing out of his mouth. But here he was, a grown man, sober for three months, crying over a clogged drain while his son watched him unravel like cheap plumbing.… More
Bloodsuckers
FICTION by Dina DwyerShe looked at me with that gorgeous face twisted into its worst shape: pity. I hoped she would get hit by a slow-moving car on her way across the street. Just enough to tip her over, the cabbie honking and screaming out his window, her big round ass hitting a red road reflector as she goes down.… More
Hard Times
FLASH FICTION by Vinayak Das GuptaHere’s this little dude. He’s kicking me. Ow! That really hurts! He’s pulling my J’s off! I say, “What the fuck, man?” He goes, “Fuck you,” so I go, “No, fuck you” then he kicks me in the nuts.… More
The Deli Boys
FLASH FICTION by Sabrina HicksThe Deli Boys were men everyone called boys, townies who never left their neighborhood, never left their first jobs, their first girls, pulling the condom off when her head was turned, said real men don’t wear condoms so they rolled them up like whispers in the backseat of their parents’ cars… More
Laurel Hightower
BULL Interview by Frank ReardonAnything is possible with horror, nothing is off the table and that’s both what garners so much fear, as readers’ expectations are torn away, and also expands its reach. Social issues, personal fears, deep-seated dread about ourselves and our futures. There’s an endless trick or treat bucket to rummage through for new ways to do it.… More
Presence
FLASH FICTION by Raymond J. BrashMy girlfriend Annesa says she needs to visit her ex-boyfriend’s grave today because she felt his presence in second period during a lesson about tectonic plates crashing against each other.… More
Cabin 28
FICTION by Mary ThorsonThere was vomit on the rug. That’s the first thing Thomas told his boss. Again, this is something he would never understand. When he got older, how he communicated what he saw. First, he talked about the vomit. Then he talked about the woman in her bed.… More
The Future Is So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
FLASH FICTION by Ellen-Arwen TristramFirst time I nearly died was a bit pathetic, Mum too caught up with the rest of the kids, I was bored. Only got 24 hours on a ward ‘til Mum picked me up for discharge. Didn’t get any therapy, don’t think she took the calls.… More
