Flash Fiction

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…

Little Rory can’t leave the woods.  Six feet in any direction,  she starts to fade.  She knows she’s dead  when a hungry coyote  digs up one of her arms  and…

Oh. My. God. Britney. Just tutored Brock Hudson in math. That’s right! BROCK HUDSON. His hunk of an existence was in my kitchen. His shoe print was on my tile floor. Mom cleaned it up. Almost cried. I wanted…

When the fortune teller stopped me on the street and told me I’d be another super hero, I laughed it off. She obviously had no game. A Wall Street stockbroker like me? Come on. If…

“Wake up.” Those were the words that opened my eyes to the nightmare. I woke up not in my bed, but a world of horrors. Where the only sounds are screams, in a land of darkness.  “You must…