I 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
Category Archives: FLASH FICTION
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
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
