Flash Fiction

Alien leaders at The Intergalactic Federation of Intelligent Life hissed and clicked and warbled and radiated amongst themselves, debating: Should humanity continue to live or be “dismissed”?​Usually voting was easy: creatures…

As her boyfriend’s car barreled and swerved up the golden mountain, Lily glared out her passenger window.​“Isn’t it beautiful?” he asked.​It seemed as though they were driving on clouds. The…

What crooks Edgar and Silo lacked in brains, (they believed) they made up for in resolve. But instead of planning out crimes, they planned on manifesting one from the universe.​We’ll…

Twine cries as she lights her hand-made rocket. I don’t like you that way. She hears Starke’s words again and again as if they just happened. The tears pour as Twine runs…

Silly, the word, reminisced. The 1100s, its infancy, were idyllic days. People saw silly as happy and blessed. That changed in the 1200s. People convinced silly it couldn’t be happy…

Every night, Vera woke her mom and dad with her screams.​“There’s a monster in my closet,” she’d say.​They’d turn on the lights, show her there was nothing there.They thought it…

Thirteen-year-old Lucy holds herself in bed as she sobs.​The kids’ never-ending bullying at school.Her mother calling her a whore.Her stepfather sneaking into her room at night.​“I can’t take it anymore!”…

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Fido the Pitbull whimpers when he thinks about his owner.He wonders where old men go when their bodies stop moving.He wonders if it’s his fault and that’s why he’s behind…

She keeps tapping her phone as she waits by their car.This has become her habit over the course of the last thirty minutes.The minutes won’t even roll over; they just…