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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Tag Archives: Flash Fiction
Review: Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003–2018 by Kathy Fish (reviewed by Kristen M. Ploetz)
Fish is skilled at using small twists to make every story its own micro-masterpiece.
Flash Fiction: Various Histories of Sea Serpents by Anita Goveas
No one talks about what Nana keeps in the basement.
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
Small Gestures: An Interview with Sherrie Flick (by Curtis Smith)
The tiniest detail is part of the bigger structure and goals for the story, always.
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.
Word to Word: An Interview with Meg Pokrass by Curtis Smith
I try to write something new at least 3 to 5 times a week, and I tell myself that it doesn’t have to be good.
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.
