Flash Fiction: Ashes by Madeline Anthes
On weekends we drove to our town’s hidden creases: the parking lot behind the middle school to smoke pot, a house party for a college we didn’t attend.
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Category Archives: Fiction
Flash Fiction: Various Histories of Sea Serpents by Anita Goveas
No one talks about what Nana keeps in the basement.
Fiction: Rideshare by Jen Knox
When the yellow car hit us, it hit us like a kiss and pulled back slowly.
Flash Fiction: Saint Florian’s Sanctuary by Brianne M. Kohl
You’re talking too much. Girls always talk too much. It’s why I never win the game.
Fiction: The Hill by Laura Huey Chamberlain
Even then she was never a runner, so now here she is, running up this hill in an ugly raincoat toward a line of yipping boys who are just now cresting the peak
Flash Fiction: The Mermaids by Margaret Emma Brandl
We waded to the lake in skirts and filled our best bone china—the water like a covenant, the taste like sugared silver.
Flash Fiction: Just Visiting by Amy Holt
There were also retired old farmers and their white-haired wives watching, chewing hot dogs and looking at me like I was something grave, offensive to all the hard work they’d known growing up. However, I felt like something meaningless, insubstantial.
Fiction: Impulse Control by Kim Magowan
That paperweight breaks my heart, because I identify with it—I feel like a blue flower immobilized in heavy glass.
Fiction: Distance by Laura A. Zink
I had broken into houses and cars, but that was victimless stuff, or at least victimless in the sense that the “victim” was far away when it happened. No one was traumatized. Mugging was different.
Flash Fiction: Just Scent Itself by Chloe N. Clark
It was the deepest secret I had to give, that love scared me when everyone else our age seemed to find such hope in it.
