Flash Fiction

Coming Full Circle by Traci Mullins

The first sound Liza hears is her own cry and the cold is a shock and the world is too…

4 years ago

The Stone House by Joan Slatoff

Richard Hawk needs quiet. His office has glass walls. Workers continually mill among cubicles outside his door. Someone sticks their…

4 years ago

White Wine in the Afternoon by Joe Kilgore

The season of betrayal was ending. Spring had arrived with warm breezes and budding oaks. The patio of The Black…

4 years ago

In the ‘Hood: 60611 by Julie Benesh

On the near north side of Chicago any September day between 85 and 45 degrees you will see a number…

4 years ago

Red Hazard Lights by Elena Ender

James didn’t thank me when I dropped him off at LAX to go back to his midwestern hometown for the…

4 years ago

New Year by Daniel P Deisinger

January first, at about 1:00 A.M., my predecessor emerged from an alley as I stumbled home. An old man with…

4 years ago

Double Your Fun by Pawel Grajnert

On November 24th, 1936, the frame of a wooden Chicago Rapid Transit train was left wrapped around an all-steel Chicago,…

4 years ago

The Well by Matthew Senn

Widower was surprised, but then again he wasn’t. A stone’s throw from the house, his hand gripped shaded walls that…

4 years ago

Roku by Travis Stephens

On again, she volunteered me for wood cutting detail. A tree felled in one of last winter’s storms, back yard.…

4 years ago

Lardo by Lex Chilson

Their first date. His brittle breath nestles its way inside her ear, eagerly. Trickles its way down her tunnel, taunting,…

4 years ago

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