As her non-existent father figure, Gwyneth shall mourn him for what could have been rather than what was.… more
Author Archives: Ben Drevlow
Two Stories
FLASH FICTION by Kim MagowanMy wife says I need to give a shit. I say I never understood that expression. Who would want to be given shit? She agrees that it’s a peculiar expression, but that’s beside the point.… more
THE BLENDER
FICTION by Jeffrey M. FeingoldSometimes it’s too much, just too much. Really, God, if you’re up there, I just don’t know what’s wrong with you, sometimes. Can’t you give a Jew a break?… more
Your Feature Presentation Will Begin Momentarily
FLASH FICTION by Mike McHoneInstead of sitting in my mother’s living room, thirty-one, drunk, and jobless, I would be twenty-one, sober, and doing something responsible and worthwhile and American, like fighting in a war somewhere, and everything would look like a 1940s comic book… more
Still Life with Brass Section and Sea Creatures as Mixed Metaphors
FLASH FICTION by Jenny StalterYour body is a dead and rusty brass section. French-horn shoulders and cornet forearms, tuba torso, your head a trumpet that cannot sing of how you’ve come to be this funky metal. When you speak, it’s all screeching off-pitch.… more
Neil’s Prostate
FLASH NONFICTION by Neil ConnellyHonestly, I thought I meant more to Neil. For every orgasm, from his shady teenage fumblings in sullied sheets to the creation of both his sons, I was there. Always reliable. Plugging away. Doing my prostate thing.… more
Two Stories
FLASH FICTION by Abbie DollWe die, he says. Utters that last syllable bombastically—spits it out with firework freshness, so much so that I swear I can see the concept of death colliding with his premature psyche, making its meteoric crater in the smooth terrain of his young and innocent mind.… more
Soundtrack
FLASH FICTION by Tom WilliamsWhat forty-three-year-old husband with a teen who just passed her written driver’s test and has only liberal arts colleges on her list to visit should be thinking about changing careers? And who is he to think any of this rumination will get him anywhere?… more
Smart-Ass Epistemologies
FLASH FICTION by Patricia GilaAfter her daughter was accepted into the top-ranked university in the country, my sister-in-law—ex-sister-in-law—took up the habit of disagreeing with me about things I wasn’t even trying to agree on.… more
Anamorphosis: From Hero to Zero and Backwards
FLASH FICTION by Ramiz GaralovIt would not be a stretch to say that Sabir Khalilov was the sole architect of his own downfall. Known as much for his brazen antics as for his paintings, Khalilov had finally and spectacularly lost the plot.… more
