Flash Fiction: United Parcels by Mike Dell’Aquila
I swore to never forget him, to talk to him often, to keep him in my heart. Those were the oaths of children and careless drunks.
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Category Archives: Fiction
Fiction: Here’s the Situation by Christopher Gonzalez
Danny is sitting on our stoop. His frown could draw blood.
Fiction: Guernica by Melissa Goode
Along the Cam, at the Jesus Lock, you take my hand. A sparrowhawk flies above us with its massive wingspan, making a terrible sound, keening, screaming. Your hand is warm. All of this time, it has been warm.
Flash Fiction: LifeColor Indoor Latex Paints® – Whites and Reds by Kristen Ploetz
Whites Arrival Hospital Light – AR101 Doctor’s Coat – AR102 Swaddle – AR103 Midnight Feed – AR104 Nonna’s Smile – AR105 First Year Burp Cloth – FY201 First Tooth […]
Fiction: Beginnings by Caitlin Hamilton Summie
“Letting go is impossible, I have decided. You never really let go, you just accept that what you had is gone. There is a difference.”
Flash Fiction: Sandwich by Luke Whisnant
The first time he saw her she was standing across Lexington Avenue next to a soot-streaked snowbank. She was wearing purple mittens and a purple hat and a thigh-length camel’s […]
Flash Fiction: Buildings that equal new and big by Brian Lutz
In Hangzhou, 200 miles away, he had seen big, new buildings. Or were they buildings new, big. Or buildings that equal new and big.
Flash Fiction: 572 by Dylan Taylor
Nightmare, a perfect baby using its tongue, tracing the squares of the bathroom in absolute quietude of deepest, unbabymonitorable night.
Fiction: The Great Sleep(TM) by Michelle Meyers
The teacher tries to remember what it was called before. Something visceral, something disturbing in a necessary way.
Flash Fiction: In Which We Drive the Transpeninsular, Mexico 1 by Lori Sambol Brody
We drive through the town with sidewalks paved with clamshells, the town where turkey vultures tear the guts of bloated cattle, the town of shrines to the dead, bristling with roadside crosses. This is our lesson: we must keep moving.
