“Wanna be scared?” Phyllis smiles, clicking into a You-Video channel. Each thumbnail displays a trash can. “So?” Seymour shrugs. She clicks a video, scrolls halfway through and points. “They move. Like someone’s barely alive in there.” Seymour rolls his eyes. “Bullshit. It’s a shtick.” Phyllis clicks the comments section. Users have written, I don’t believe, over […]
Flash Fiction #219 – In the Dumps Read More »
The boy cheered, thinking he had finally captured the wind in a glass bottle. “Silly boy,” rustled the wind, “I can never be captured.” The boy began to cry, sharing with the wind all the abuses he received from his cruel masters. Like the wind, he longed to be free. The wind, so moved,
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As Suyin screwed in devices on the conveyor line, she dreamed of fleeing to America with her son. She’d go to school, become a “girl boss”! Suyin wiped her tears: the dream was impossible for two, but not for her son. Some days she starved, but she always hid money under the floorboard. She waved
Flash Fiction #217 – Dreams for Two Read More »
Daisy hated serving: why was luck never on her side? A coworker invited her to a screening where she would have met a film director, but she was “tired” and declined. She rolled her eyes at the table who asked for more salsa, not knowing the woman was a casting director for an
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