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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Tag Archives: Flash Fiction
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 […]
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.
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.
Flash Fiction: Tether by Chelsea Voulgares
Granddad’s a storyteller. Example: as a young Navy officer, he survived a ship wreck. He clung to life in a tiny raft by drinking his own pee and punching sharks in the face.
Flash Fiction: A Thrumming Silence by Tommy Dean
I must have heard the sirens, the entire town erupting in wailing chaos, but we never assume the emergency has anything to do with us.
Flash Fiction: Table for Two by Jenn Stroud Rossmann
“The Jennys were disappointed in each other. Each seemed to be wasting an opportunity the other was sure she would’ve made more of.”
Fiction: A Sensational Tale of Symbolic Patricide by Sheldon Lee Compton
Being special was pointless if you didn’t use it.
