flash fiction

Lolita: (n). 1. A book narrated by a pedophile written by a Russian 2. The book you threw at your boyfriend because it happened to be available and hefty, and t...

0th Week: Land in a country too green. Hear accents sing. Listen to your own clang like dropped pans on checkered floors. 1st Week: Cross streets. Look right. ...

Is the 30-something male caught having sex with a mannequin head in an elevator a preexisting condition that caused him to then set the head on fire? Is it a co...

There’s your kindergarten teacher who saw you bite that other sticky-eyed kid over a Vienna sausage about the same size as the kid’s bloated fingers. There’s...

I get a mocha to go, taking it to a Pacific park, thinking about food and art as I pass a fish taco stand's orca mural and a t-shirt shop.   Flowers ...

So listen up. If we’re going to date I need you to understand Brooke Davis. Because she is me and I am her and if you don’t support her you don’t support me. ...

dreamstop At the four way stop of your dream, a version of you and a long time no see friend are chatting across cars, heads spilling like jugs of formaldehy...

  The dinosaurs are shy and fairly small. My T-rex waits in the foyer for the mail as the Stegosaurus munches aloe vera in the kitchen. In the garage, t...

Soft grey dusk slowly fades into the dark depths of the ocean cove. A lone motorboat speeds across choppy water.   The Canadian boat pulls up to a pr...

Look, it’s not that I’m not grateful to be here, I am, I get it, I am. It’s just that I don’t think I’m a good fit. Oh, yeah, ha ha, I see how that’s funny, I’m...

I walk into an underground bank vault where my parents have planned a dinner party. There is a long oak table with 3 chairs on both of the long sides of the tab...

A circle moment as big as me. I step in and out. Each undulation hula hoop round, a frisk, a foot, a wiggling toe. Then breakfast, a thimble's eye of dough to m...

—Look at this. —What? —This advert. ‘Stylish, compact hearing aid remote control.’ —So? — Don’t you see? “Let me have a go on your stylish remote co...