Turning to his patient, and grinning, the paramedic asked: “Perdóneme, un pregunta, Señor: Dañó su cabeza?” (Excuse me, one question, Sir: Did you hurt your head?)… more
Category Archives: FLASH NONFICTION
Owned Something
FLASH NONFICTION by AndreWe had been together for six years before I semi ended things and moved up north. I used the semi because I rarely truly close a chapter. I usually leave a hope, a possibility, a kindle before I am never seen again.… more
Elegy for My Cousin
FLASH NONFICTION by Jade McGregorAt your second one-year cake, you lamented the suffering you had put everyone through, but boy, had you not even started yet.… more
A Three-Act Play About My Dad: Decline and Fall of the Paper Crane Empire
FLASH NONFICTION by Edmond PangIf life had a reset button, I wish my father had beat the hell out of me.… more
Twelve Pack
FLASH NONFICTION by Iryna SomkinaI was ready to negotiate with terrorists. Or at least my boyfriend.… more
East Austin, 2001
FLASH NONFICTION by Chris GirmanHere I am tonight on the Mexican side of town full now with Hondurans and Salvadorans, shabby streets and houses bursting with Latin American men who for some reason, sometimes, notice me.… more
Discards
FLASH NONFICTION by Will McMillanMy turn in line, and how easy to now imagine my mother, a child just like me, in a lunch line at school, thinking a paper lunch card made them special, unaware it was for all the wrong reasons, unaware of what it said of them now and what it threatened to say for their future.… more
Spring Training
FLASH NONFICTION by Salwa EmersonI’d sit on his lap in a well-worn armchair while he watched TV and smoked his cigars, letting me take a drag or two. It was in these moments I fell in love with many things: the scent of tobacco on a man’s shirt, the stubble from his chin on my forehead, and the crack of the bat.… more
Maybe North Carolina Can Cure Me, After All.
FLASH NONFICTION by Sophie NunbergI have fucked my life up and now I’m unemployed, smothering in the high August air of Greensboro, North Carolina. The nearest soul I know is sixty-seven miles away, but they rip ass on the highway here, I can make it under an hour.… more
Two Essays
FLASH NONFICTION by Naa Asheley AshiteyI woke up sobbing because God, in the form of my girlfriend, helped rest the pistol in my mouth and the last thing I heard was his laugh echoed over hers when she helped pull the trigger.… more
