What is more singularly human than to adorn our lives with objects. Objects that accompany us to a time bastardized by memory, that remind us in our isolation of people we can no longer hold. That split us open at the hinges and leave us bare to the world.… more
Category Archives: FLASH NONFICTION
Neil’s Prostate
FLASH NONFICTION by Neil ConnellyHonestly, I thought I meant more to Neil. For every orgasm, from his shady teenage fumblings in sullied sheets to the creation of both his sons, I was there. Always reliable. Plugging away. Doing my prostate thing.… more
The Family Uniform
FLASH NONFICTION by Guy CramerThe one thing Papaw and I had in common was our breasts.… more
Venice Party
FLASH NONFICTION by Genevieve Anna TyrrellWhere’s the writers? The friends? The music? The beach bonfire? The laughter? But there is no party. I’m it. I’m the party.… more
The Chicago Winter Rain Wants to Cut a Bitch. You’re the Bitch.
FLASH NONFICTION by Johannah SimonThe rain doesn’t want you to dawdle at the end of the workday. The rain is your bully. It will piss in your Cheerios. It has one mission—purge the streets… more
SLIDE
FLASH NONFICTION by Casey Jo Graham WelmersWe didn’t know if his name was Jerry or Jeremy, and we never bothered to find out. To do so would have granted him personhood, and an upsetting place in our tenuous, paper doll world.… more
Hands
FLASH NONFICTION by Kara KahnkeI wonder about the type of man who believes he has a direct line to God. Direct power to heal individual people. What if I put my hands on him and slid them down his well-defined pecs? What if he didn’t view me as broken?… more
The All-American Cheeseburger
FLASH NONFICTION by Gary ReddinFeel the bones beneath your skin itching. It’s just the entropy. One day you’ll break apart.… more
Two Essays
FLASH NONFICTION by Alex RostI ran a quick round robin tournament through my head of everything I’d ever loved and started to squeeze the fresh pack of cigs in my hand, a grand/empty gesture to show how much I would destroy just for the opportunity to hold you one more night.… more
HUNGER
FLASH NONFICTION by Kent JacobsonThe men liked to talk. Trippi, they’d say, Trippi. What’d he do now? They had families, but what’d the kid do? His latest was always worth laughs, and a sense of who they were. The kid had something loose.… more
