Flash Fiction

Tilda gasps awake. She had that dream. The one where Jack looms over her with a butcher knife and begins hacking away.​ Jack’s asleep. His breaths are deep and rhythmic.…

“Don’t listen to him. We’d love a garden,” Hattie insisted, glaring at her husband as the old lady hobbled away.​“The neighborhood is famous for her gardens. Why’d you say no?”​“She…

It took a while for Beauty to be convinced that Frog was a prince. But she took care of him.They shared heartaches.They laughed.They cried.​“You see me like no other,” said…

As the time strikes 12:03 pm: Lillian’s teacher-mother randomly freezes at the chalkboard. Lillian’s taxi-driver-father randomly pulls over with his passenger. Lillian’s brother randomly calls to apologize for their fight,…

Scientists set up a glass tube: a marshmallow floated on water inside.Crows,then chimps,then orangutans were shown that dropping rocks made the water rise.Each species got the marshmallow eventually.​When it was…

Vincent awoke, screaming. “Nancy! My leg is missing!”​Nancy pet his stump. “Don’t you remember? As a child it was mysteriously cut off.”​He awoke the next night also missing his left leg.​“Honey, they've both been…

Mom, those stars are pretty, but I’m not that far away. When you randomly smell bubble gum, it’s me. The blinking light in the kitchen is also me. I send…

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…