The next morning, the fancy flower is limp, petals dry, brown. It’s over. Loneliness grips Elwood, as if the vivid colors and fruity scent were a charming houseguest whose sudden departure shrunk his world.… more
Category Archives: FLASH FICTION
Wrong Cadillac
FLASH FICTION by Wade HarrisGrandpa’s truck just waved, small. Like she was letting go of something heavy. I cried. Didn’t plan to. Didn’t try not to. Got her home to my place and the project began. First, Heineken, and a Camel. Old man would be proud. Or wonder why it was only 9 a.m.… more
Thinking of North Dakota
FLASH FICTION by S.F. WrightHe looked slightly like a serial killer—but not enough for Luisa to say no; and she sensed that, if it came down to it, she could do him more harm than he her.… more
The Wrong Motherfucker
FLASH FICTION by Keith LelandHenry swears he can use anything in Sharkey’s as a weapon. Every bottle and stool and pool cue. He’d pull the aluminum High Life girl from the wall, moon and all, and use her like a riot shield if The Wrong Motherfucker walked in.… more
The Unspoken
FLASH FICTION by Elizabeth OhgaYou didn’t say you deserve better, you didn’t say leave him, you didn’t even say nande konnayatsuto iruno? since I know you’re more honest in your native language. Instead you said well you are looking a little chubby.… more
An Alternate History of Inmate 2090-54C, Age 20
FLASH FICTION by Dawn MillerWhat if he didn’t meet the older boys behind the high school or the people under the overpass with their trash-can fires and shouts of buddy, pal, bro, people who handed out belonging like the rainbow of pills they stole and sold.… more
Poker with Spiders
FLASH FICTION by Tim FrankWhen my wife looks out the window and sobs while the rain beats down, it’s because she says our baby doesn’t recognize her anymore, because she’s an alien now, a glowing oval-headed monstrosity tucked into a maternity dress.… more
Brief Madness
FLASH FICTION by Cynthia Bernard“We need to bring the sweatshops back home,” the president posted on his official social media account. “We will MAKE UNDERWEAR GREAT AGAIN!”… more
1989
FLASH FICTION by JP RelphThey promised to call us, their first loves, but we’d already packed away our broken hearts with our boardgames and childhood bears. We’d already packed away our Big Dreams for ourselves, our futures—shattered as metal and bone in a box marked Goodwill.… more
Two Stories
FLASH FICTION by Cate McGowanWhen she slips from the rooftop, her first thought is not I’m going to die, but I didn’t feed the cat.… more
