Flash Fiction

Helpless by Thomas Elson

“Again.” “Again.” “Again.” “Once more.” Her son slid down the wall onto the hallway floor. He saw what they did.…

4 years ago

Jodi’s Eyes by Stephen Banks

“Don’t leave the backyard, Jodi!” “Okay, Mommy, I won’t!” That last conversation echoed in Sarah’s mind like a brave shout…

4 years ago

In The Trees by Kelly Gray

Seemingly out of nowhere, although we are hiking with the dog, my daughter asks me, “Mom, can dogs actually be…

4 years ago

Saturn Box by Anne-Marie Yerks

The guys didn’t blame me when I sold out. But fifteen years later a loser with a man-bun and spray-on…

4 years ago

Root Rot by Melissa Martini

I. Mama is a rose, and you are a rosebud. You were once a single potted plant, sharing the same…

4 years ago

Mother’s Milk by Ross Nervig

When the sound of a stable boy being whipped reached the royal wet nurse through the nursery window, a thought…

4 years ago

A Rising Tide by Brett Biebel

One year, the Platte got so high whole neighborhoods had to be evacuated.  People lit out for higher ground or…

4 years ago

Pest Control by Patience Mackarness

Always she sought a balance between strength, speed, and aesthetic appeal. She fine-tuned with a scientist’s single mindedness, an artist’s…

4 years ago

Soliloquy of New Job by Tai (Taisa) Chirovsky

Office work gives you a lot of time to think.  The desk in front of me says “nothing tastes as…

4 years ago

Approaching Hysteria, Illinois by Max Talley

This is the city in which time converges, an unstable zone where back then is now again as it will…

4 years ago

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