Flash Fiction

SHch SHch SHch.​Sixteen-year-old Selma’s eyes tear open.​Her window, her walls, her bed thrum. Selma can’t move!​​Snap.A beam of light.Her window lifts.Two bug-eyed humanoid creatures float in.​Selma manages to tap her music…

“I’m telling you, Doc, I’ve been in a loving relationship with Olivia for fifty years. She’s still here, just a bit more… shy.”​Hal sits on the park bench; I stay standing.​“Where…

Dina kept the young monster in the cellar. On bad days, Dina beat it — scared it with its own reflection. On good days, Dina forgot all about it, and…

“The best screenplay goes to… Inari Okamoto for Diabolus Ex Machina!”Applause erupts.Can it be?After fifty years, Inari is a winner?​Sound disappears as she climbs the steps.​The blood, the sweat, the…

“Help!” screamed the young mermaid as the ship neared.​The sailors grinned with rotting teeth: the beauty was ensnared in a discarded fish net…and she was all alone.​They hoisted her up.Her…

Everyone in Crawfish County had a story about the late Rosa May. There was her rumored affair with Elvis. Or how she dragged a bear off her dog while wearing…

The current of women in gray veils trudges past Koren… spiritless. ​“In my time, we danced.” Her mother had said before covering the cameras and playing an ancient song by…

Brother and Sister trudged the great road to success with the thousands of other hopefuls. Sister proposed they take a hidden path. “Use your brain, it’s the wrong direction,” said…

At the grocery store, Lilac and Brutus grab the same apple.Fingers touch.Warm shivers run up their arms.​“Do I know you?” asks Brutus, staring into Lilac’s eyes.​The answer is yes. In…

The running man peers back at the cave walls. The approaching shadows are nearing.“Go away!” He screams.He hears the click click of nearing footsteps.With tattered map in hand, he swerves down…