Flash Fiction

The star engulfed the planet in flames–  this was the end.    The planet knew death.  It had endured the extinction of every species  that had called it home.  It knew these flames  of its former star  were to be its own demise.   These rays had supported life, ages ago,  before they bled the […]

CONTENT WARNING: Suicide   Marina: I hope you  find my note. You  once said the book   Forever is your  favorite and you  read it twice a year.   What you forgot to  mention was that  you have two books by that title. Pete  Hamill’s has  earmarks, hope I  picked right. Sorry  for the bunny  bookmark. Knew you 

Hope lay flopped over a lawn chair;  she had been there for hours  unable to move her limbs,  in the throws of a particularly awful depression.  All alone  until the fly plopped into the swimming pool. The green-tinted vermin swam circles even though it was doomed;  the pool was an ocean, yet it continued trying

While my stepdad placed his stuff into the truck,  I wanted to say so many things.  That I’d miss the baseball games and his ghost stories.  I wanted to thank him for remembering my birthdays  when my dad and sometimes even Mom forgot.  I wanted him to know that, though Mom was cleaning all evidence