flash fiction

What she decided at the sandwich shop, not with total certainty, but with some, is that this time in her life would be defined by fine experiences. She is fine,...

When a homeless man asks for a hug and you run away screaming, you’ve finally embraced your lack of faith in humanity. You’ve become fully rational. Let that si...

On your drive home from work, through the velvet fog that looms halfway down the moss-laden trees, you pass a doe and wonder: what if? Your palms sweat. You wip...

Re-design or re-think how the modern fridge is organized, used, and maintained so that the process of going to the grocery store, stocking the fridge, taking x ...

After nine o’clock I see her go off in a red Honda with the front bumper hanging off. The street lamps illuminate her dark makeup and revealed skin peeking out ...

When he retells the story to his buddies, he’s the one who approaches her. But really, he was sitting on a boardwalk bench letting his new tattoo breathe a litt...

Tonight I stood on the subway platform and watched my ex-lover’s wife descend from the staircase. I did not immediately recognize that it was her. At first, it ...

Lebron James steps out of the specialty ice cream shop and stops for a moment to look at a street lamp. He turns and walks up the hill, past the jewelry store, ...

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I was addicted to Band-Aids. Small ones. I'd stick them to my arms, toes, knees—anywhere they'd fit. My family assumed I was accident-prone. I played along. I'd...

Someone asks me if I believe in God. I laugh and say pass me the tequila. Tequila burns the way I imagine loving someone does. Best chased with something sour. ...

A group of unemployed clowns attend a therapy session. 6 clowns were banned from public parks, 4 clowns were affected by NEA budget cuts, and 7 clowns were jump...

George doesn’t eat anything except Cheerios. He says the rings remind him of Infinity and how the world continues to move even when you don’t want it to. He fin...

“My brother and I started a sandbagging company. He handles the bagging and selling. I do all of the sand finding. The gathering.” His date moves her fork in...

The night they make us throw our words into the fire we have nothing but smiles behind our hands. The torn sheets of Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary include a p...