Flash Fiction

Attention Old People!I am Luna. I am 6 in 4 days. I have no gRand paRents. Mine aRe dead in gRaves. Mom said that they died befoRe I was boRn.…

Richie’s friends joke that Alana doesn’t meet the standards of his past beautiful girlfriends. If he’s honest, they’ve said far worse. But he can’t bear to put her name into…

“Guess what, Mommy? I die on my birthday,” said Gracie matter-of-factly a day before her fifth birthday.Trista filed it away as one of those weird things children say, but she…

Doyle, 64, licks his upper lip, his tongue tracing the curve of his grin.He stands at the door of Calvin, 21. He baited him online by pretending to be a…

Kindness never could sit still.It was always on the go.Passing from one person to another.Sometimes it wore glittery outfitsfor everyone to see.Other times it took everything offand decided to be…

We listen to the burbling brook, walking in silence.This date is floundering.My fault. Should have worn my glasses. But no, I just had to impress. Spent this whole date stumbling.…

Jill shambles into the AA meeting.She’d first come out of curiosity. Enough friends had mentioned her drinking problem over the years.She kept coming for inspiration. People started lining up to…

The singing bird was flying sky to sky,This place was a new world it did not knowIt sang its song as it went low and highThere wasn’t anywhere it didn’t…

Luna’s mother peered out the front door window. “Luna… why is there a line of old people?”Luna turned red. She had always volunteered to go to the grocery store with…

She picks up the box. 16 years of marriage and these are the only belongings that are hers alone. She walks down the hall as the walls burst into flame. ​…