Sometimes You’re the Windshield by Kathryn McMahon
Dad used to sing about bugs and windshields and fools in love. He’d said that’s what he was, a fool for Mom, that’s why he got mad sometimes.
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Category Archives: Fiction
Flash Fiction: Yoga by Allison Kade
Flow through the asana. Focus on yourself; let the world melt away. Well, okay, maybe offer her a pacifier.
Fiction: Somewhere a Well by Daniel DiFranco
“Do people often get lost in the desert?” Jack asked.
Flash Fiction: The Night of the Stoppering by Samuel J Adams
Sarah saw the stopper in her husband’s neck before detecting the one puncturing her own.
Flash Fiction: Otis by Jennifer Marie Donahue
1. I discovered his lifeless body on the dusty bookshelf beside his bowl. I scooped him up and put him in the water where he sank to the bottom. The […]
Flash Fiction: White in the Lights of His Plow by Stacy Trautwein Burns
Eighty-seven times he pulled that bell, once for each year of his father’s life, and the sound echoed from the open-sided belfry to the plains outside, the casino at the edge of them, the buffalo penned nearby.
Fiction: A Stone’s Throw from Home by Cheryl Pappas
When you’re a woman of childbearing age, your body decides things before your mind has access to the choices.
Fiction: Winter Forbes by Jan Stinchcomb
I don’t remember how I first heard about Winter, but it made me feel cold all over, colder than that night on Jason’s moped. I wasn’t surprised but that didn’t mean I was psychic.
Flash Fiction: Behind the Scenes by Monica Dickson
The girl from the city and the girl from the sticks have far more in common than either of them had with their former not-really boyfriend.
Flash Fiction: Cleansing by Andrew Stancek
It was in remission for over a year — now we are counting days, hours, minutes.
