Flash Fiction

In the woods, a beggar girl came upon a fairy trapped in a net. She pulled it free.“I’ll grant you one wish.”​She used her wish to help a gnome about…

Tilda’s eyes open to Jack strangling her. Her body thrashes in bed.  You’ve done it now, her body says, you picked the one who will kill us.Tilda scrambles to a…

Under the ambient bathroom lighting, Gilda nervously looks over her form-fitting new dress. “You can do this. Be a boss ass bitch.” She repeats those words on her drive. All mouths drop…

I can’t with this funeral.Right playlist, wrong singer.I asked for Celine Dion… not Kelly Clarkson.Kelly!Stop crying over my casket!You’ll ruin my makeup…!OMG… Mother!My roots are showing!And pink?Okay, it’s my go-to color, but not at my…

The young mother of three at the register cowered from the line of glaring eyes; her fumbling hands removed items from her cart when a gentle hand intervened.​Eighty-year-old Elaine, with…

Life couldn’t be better, thought Zenith. If only I had someone to share bliss with.​Zenith received a spouse.They experienced bliss… when they didn’t argue.​If only we never fought.Wish granted, and things grew…

Marissa Alcott used to jump for joy when her famous father, Richard Fury, called. But as she aged, the calls dwindled to zero. Whenever she’d get down, she’d remind herself…

Pascal paid Amélie well to immortalize the striking beauty. She loved his painting, Beauty with Emerald Eyes.He joked it was a masterpiece, a lowly whore like her could never afford.Enraged, Amélie…

Ahab was sipping his coffee, grateful for his perfect life, when he peered up and saw it:the blue sky flashed black before returning…like a glitch.​He thought little of it until…

The infant was magic-less. This, despite her mother being a shapeshifter and her father a pyromancer.“Leave her in the woods,” said Grandmother Astor.But, to the scorn of the other Hexen,…