Tyson found the soap sepulchered in the basement closet: a dozen Dove bars packaged solo, each ivory as starlight. With his pocketknife, he slit one from its cardboard coffin and inhaled his mother’s skin-scent.… more
Category Archives: FLASH FICTION
Spaces
FLASH FICTION by James W. MillerI’m reading Ephesians. It’s so good, I think. I’m not entirely sure. I haven’t had time to read it, but it feels important. Blaise Pascal says there is an empty space in the human heart that only God can fill. That is so true. I agree. I underline.… more
COMPUTERS DIDN’T EXIST WHEN HE WAS AT SCHOOL
FLASH FICTION by Kerry ByrneNow, in the screen’s glow, he single-taps the keys like a child learning piano until he finds his rhythm and the words pour out of him as quickly as downing a pint or spunking in the shower.… more
Golden Calf
FLASH FICTION by Tempest MillerThe humpback is still humping him, pumping like a perpetual piece of machinery, a motion picture on loop.… more
The Outsized Leather Bag
FLASH FICTION by Elio EspañaI watched him hanging there at the perimeter, like a pall at the edge of a dream. In time he became part of mine, just as much as she had been.… more
Darryl in No Man’s Land
FLASH FICTION by Josh BarnettOne night, Julie left St. Virgil’s and instead of transferring, she walked off the L platform, crossed the river, and proceeded to get gin-drunk for three hours at the Hotel Fernandito bar until some guy who looked kind of like Dave Grohl came up and asked to buy her next drink.… more
TWO STORIES
FLASH FICTION by Jeffrey HermannA country music star who writes sweet, tangy love songs is distant with his wife. He’s close with his dog. His wife wishes he’d write a love song about her. He sits down to write but the only thing that comes out is distance.… more
Jump Start
FLASH FICTION by Brian GiffordAll the chemicals in Home Depot would not resurrect Ron’s sun-scorched grass. What it needed was rain; there had been none for weeks, and none was expected. So Ron was there for a sprinkler, which almost certainly would flop over on its side and saturate the grass around it, leaving the rest of the lawn bone dry. … more
Surrounded by Idiots
FLASH FICTION by Delphine Gauthier-GeorgakopoulosThe poor lad stinks as bad as Snow White’s breath when the lazy cow finally decided to wake up with a piece of rotten apple stuck in her throat.… more
In Joyful Obedience Your Tasks to Fulfill
FLASH FICTION by Matthew Duffus“I’ve been washed in the blood of Jesus Christ,” he shouted as he approached the Reverend Simms. “That is why I know that He’ll forgive me this trespass.” With that, he removed a gleaming pistol from his hip pocket. “I am in need of that offering.”… more
