Flash Fiction

The grim faces of the first responders say it all:the girl thrown from her vehicle is dead.​A phone rings—my phone; it’s my mom.​This girl has a mother whose calls she’ll…

Romance filled the air, yet not for him.​Amid countless male fireflies, he adjusted his display to catch a female's attention.​After seven tiring days, a bioluminescent beauty signals interest.​More suitors, blinded…

A curvy brunette in a mink coat barely enters the train in time.​Outside, a man snaps photos of her as it pulls away.​A petite lady in jeans and her own…

Lost and starving, Gall roamed the forest. “Eat my fruit,” said a tree.He ate without a thank you.​Now he was thirsty. “Drink my water,” said a stream.Gall drank without a…

Every day, Max came home with stories of his many friends. His mother would hide her tears of gratitude: all these years and they’d finally found a school where kids weren’t…

Augie didn’t cry at birth.His mouth hung open in awe.He’d been a heartbeatin darknessand here was the world!​With time,brilliant colors spilled into the grays.Reds,then blues,then greens and yellows!Things had all…

“Liam, fart one more time in this car, you’re walking home.” He giggled.​To him it was another one of his mother’s empty threats, and he had more foul gas to…

We hold hands around a ten-foot-tall hourglass. My husband turns to me as sand shhhs through. “You are the hourglass,” he says.​That is when I wake.Dank air.Smell of pine.I’m in a…

Once upon a time, Vanu had a toy stick with twiggy protrusions and a knotted head named Abra. Vanu took Abra everywhere. Abra even slept with his human boy, protecting…

12-year-old Pax always took quick glances over to the empty side of the dinner table as he ate with his parents.Had he actually had a sister?He vaguely remembered a chair…