Dad stands vigil at the helm, arms crossed, tongs snapping air as he draws upon some magic intuition that whispers when to rotate the sausages. Or—as he calls them—Hallowieners, because he is Dad, a Midwestern Dad, and the groans from his wife, children, grandchildren, and family cat fuel his laughter.… more
Category Archives: FLASH FICTION
Duffel Bags: A Veterans Story
FLASH FICTION by Patricia AdelizziEach man was missing a limb or two, and sat for hours, smoking and silently staring at the facility’s impeccably manicured lawns. He couldn’t get this image out of his mind. Once he recalled it, he’d be silent for many hours.… more
Fiction Writing for Beginners
FLASH FICTION by David E. PostonThis week, James has another new story. In this one, God is a gigantic pink baby who reaches down from cloudbanks over the Midwest and swirls up tornadoes with his pudgy fingers.… more
Baggage
FLASH FICTION by Sarah FrelighCassie hands her a trash bag that’s technically empty but symbolically full of the stuff Rita’s been shoving into it for years: all the wont’s, shouldn’ts, can’ts, couldn’ts, and a bunch of you’ll nevers, all of it into the sack that she ties off at the top, starving the bad thoughts of oxygen until they die.… more
Two stories
FLASH FICTION by Eirene GentleThe sun rises and sets above the howling like it always does. Turmoil means nothing to it, its astral nature knows only explosion. But I hear the thoughts of the dying when its flame fills their eyes. How it dazzles.… more
Two Stories
FLASH FICTION by Ewen GlassI bet school-friend Amir that he’d continue to act; I could see him as a cosy flannel-shirt kinda guy when he got older. Decades later I find Amir online to tell him I was right. He has no idea who Haley Joel Osment is or indeed who I am, and for a moment I wonder if Amir was a ghost all along.… more
The Bad Kids
FLASH FICTION by Hugh Behm-SteinbergEverybody knows assassins always hang out in the dine-in area of the Acme supermarket, between the bakery and the deli case. It’s a good place where nobody bothers anybody, the food is cheap, and all the people who need those sorts of services know just where to find them.… more
The Mummy
FLASH FICTION by Drew GummersonK is on the receiving end of a fart lighting incident out at the old quarry and we get him down to ER as quick as we can.… more
Groucho’s Full Quote
FLASH FICTION by Michael PershanZeppo turned around sharply, ready to strangle whatever he saw; there was orange madness in his eyes, even after he had recognized me as his brother. It was then I realized that, if pushed, he would do what he would to survive.… more
A Fresh Zodiac
FLASH FICTION by Michael BrooksTyson 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
