Flash Fiction

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,…

The loud explosion isn’t thunder.The cloudless sky showers not rain, but debris.The singed polaroid flutters to the dirt.As it hits the light, two tuxedoed men appear,surrounded by smiling faces.​​All who…

“Mommy, I tied my shoe all by myself!” said six-year-old Ian.“You're a year behind,” she replied.​“Mom! I got an A on that exam," said sixteen-year-old Ian.“Your brother had a perfect…