Flash Fiction

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…

"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…

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…

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:…