Category Archives: FLASH NONFICTION

FLASH NONFICTION (1000 WORDS OR FEWER)

You Say You Want a (Diet) Revolution?

{May 10, 2025}

Being at the bottom of a pendulum swing is where I come alive. Eating a shitty greasy meal is a reason to eat healthy the next time. Screwing up is a welcome, distracting rasion d’etre.… more

How much longer is this going to take

FLASH NONFICTION by Ed Sage

{May 8, 2025}

I was in a diaper at age four because Liz and Michelle needed a baby for their game. I liked being in the diaper. Even after Steven and Billy saw me, I stayed in the diaper.… more

United State

FLASH NONFICTION by Sean McFadden

{Apr 29, 2025}

Tilting under the bucket’s weight, I turn, the bucket slamming the baseball-sized patch of necrotic skin on my leg where the graft failed, where dead black skin mottled with pale-yellow melted cheese. I limp over to their precious dirt pile to dump out while Scotty the commercial fisherman glares at me.… more

Grandpa Died

FLASH NONFICTION by IAN DOUGLAS ROBERTSON

{Apr 7, 2025}

Grandpa died on Monday. I loved him. At his funeral, I should have cried but I felt like laughing.… more

gendervoid

FLASH NONFICTION by nat raum

{Apr 1, 2025}

there is no one way to woman, but my way wasn’t one of them.… more

The Space Between Us

FLASH NONFICTION by Tess Kelly

{Mar 28, 2025}

I see myself through his eyes. A woman fleeing. Away from him. This is not who I want to be. This is who I’ll always be. I’ve read enough stories, heard enough stories. … more

big-drama show in Barcelona

FLASH NONFICTION by Adam Berlin

{Mar 25, 2025}

They get ICE CREAM, more sugar-shit. He says SHIT, he says DAMN IT (slurred m-sound) and OH MAN, but I don’t call him little man, just baby, just boy, just champ sometimes.… more

Two Micros

FLASH NONFICTION by Sandra Carlson Khalil

{Mar 2, 2025}

I had read that though their bodies were emptied of organs, and filled with sawdust, that the hearts of pharaohs were left untouched. That before they were sealed inside their tombs, their mouths were slit through layers of linen—opened—because they believed in breath in the afterlife. What did I believe in?… more