Flash Fiction

Hal peered over the bridgeat the waves 200 feet below.They lashed excitedly.Another Suicide.Another body to wash away.He nearly jumpedwhen a man grabbed hold. “Let's grab coffee.If you still want this after,I’ll…

The insides of the plane rattled,the seatbelt light flashed.This is why Lisa traveled by land.Why had she chosen today to face her fear?The nine-year-old girl traveling alonegrabs her hand:“It’s okay,…

Celia lived alone on the land.Sometimes there’d be the sound of something scratchingon the walls outside.She never wavered in securing windowsand locking doors...until that record-breaking hot and humid week of…

There are some things in life one cannot explain.As Ed sat on that toilet,he knew he was going to die.He knew it in the same wayhe knew he had to…

It would be untrue to say no one noticedthat their reflections were misbehaving.Sometimes, from our peripheral view,we’d notice incongruent movement.But we always summed it up to a trick of the…

90-year-old Vivi holds to the bannisteras she travels down the staircase.It’s marble, but her creaking bonesmake them sound like wooden ones.Ach.What she’d do to be young again.​“Let me help you,”…

I didn’t believe in ghosts.I came to this mansionbecause I figured it would bethe best way to get in her pants.Scared girls make all the moves,I figured.She was so hot…

Her sexy boss steps into the elevator.Shit.There it is again.Sexual tension.Electric.Like static air before a lightning storm.She closes her eyes,trying to visualize her husband and son.Someone else will surely enter.But…

The bathwater steams as she lowers herself in. She breathes in the lavender from her candles, and tries to focus on the tune of woodland flutes. Her kids are safely sleeping over with…

Laura,  he killed Bethany.  You know it —  I know it —  all the girls know it.  Search psychopath.  You’ll find an exact description of him.  And he’s NOT a…