flash fiction

Puff

A cloud went to a party. The cloud didn’t know anyone, so it just hovered awkwardly and nibbled puff pastries in the living room. A guy came up and introduced h...

Lost in Place

I flop onto the couch, flip on the TV. Too early for RuPaul, so I click on a remake of Lost in Space, this one starring yours truly as The Robot, always waving ...

Night Pie

Both of us are still up. Why can’t we go to sleep? Who knows. But somebody made pie! Did you make the pie? Well, I didn’t make the pie. I guess it’s true what t...

Succession

We played hide-and-go-seek in each other’s homes: dinner parties, backyard barbecues, white elephant gift exchanges. We’d steal bits of towering deserts, macaro...