Flash Fiction

“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…

Fired, evicted, and about to turn forty-two, Tyrone is now closer to becoming a country star. If only he were Sawyer Cole.​Sold out arenas.Making millions.Free to do whatever he wants....​“Sawyer…

The imprisoned fairy was handed the eldest of the four princes. The fairy gave him beauty, the next intellect, and the third strength. ​ The fourth smiled upon her sweetly.…

School buses pass as I stumble home.Kids inside point down and laugh.I don’t remove the egg shells and mucus that drips from my hair—my face—my backpack.I don’t hide my tears……