Flash Fiction

I lived here those years Celeste vanished. People reported seeing her. But never a picture. A picture of Celeste woulduh sold for millions.Imagine my surprise when I open this balcony,…

One by one the hot sun dissolvedthe little water puddle’s friends away.​Though the puddle had seen better dayswith clearer waters, it did not want to leave the earth like them.Being…

Marjorie slides off her space suit.“Glenda, play: Home.”“Certainly dear,” says Glenda, her spaceship.Glenda’s red lights dim. Marjorie slides into her only remaining Earth dress, made of spider silk.Glenda’s mirror-scaled walls rotate…

Phelia hums as she plugs the tub. It’s the first time she’s alone in the house.She pours epsom salt in the bath and runs the water.Phelia hears the whispering as…

I hated my mom as a kid. Of course Dad went from happy to brooding; she lectured him all the time about eating candy.We were allowed some. Why wasn’t he?…

The woman petted the newly adopted cat as her husband drove. “To lose both owners…”Powder had been distraught over losing Mira. It understood its ailing owner had to do with…

Eileen stared at sleeping Trent as the sun rose.This face once made her shudder. And now?The sun’s tangerine rays spread over his large ear,slid down his craggy cheek,moving over his…

As the rain pours, Winifred clings to her dead children.Delirium morphs her neighbors' wails into her own skin pustules’ screams for God’s mercy.This is no plague; it’s hell.​Lightning reveals a…

The beautiful woman in her thirties smiles as her handsome family holds hands at the dining table:her husband,her father,her daughter,her son,her mother,back to her.​Her mother squeezes her hand: “May we……

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…