Flash Fiction

Birds stop trilling as the elephants near the sun-bleached bones. The savannah seems to silence itself for its gentle giants.​With their trunks, they delicately lift the bones of their beloved…

Tears cloud Trista’s eyes. So many people sing “Happy Birthday” to her daughter for her 24th birthday.Gracie rests her head on her mom’s shoulder and Trista hears her as a…

The Okoro family knew they weren’t moving into the neighborhood to open arms. But they figured times had changed enough they’d be left in peace. Every morning they woke to…

Aldous struggled with the door. Dead, shriveled rats littered the ground.Jenny cradled herself as she wept in the dark corner. “You’re right, rat blood won’t do.”“You had to try. I…

He opened an eye as she did her makeup in his mirror.Pretty.They always were.Even drunk, he had good taste.​He closed his eye, pretended to sleep.She’d sneak out,they always did.Easy peasy.​“I…

Beware of the man.Beware of the man who owns the house.The man, whose hands built these walls,wants to bury you beneath my floor boards. ​​That’s what I would warn if I…

I watched my clones, one age five and the other ten, as they ate the ice cream I bought them.Doc had made six total before he passed. Upon my death,…

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…