A Paranormal Dialogue
(CW/TW: abuse) Constance Malloy He’s dead. Frozen in time. Etched forever in charcoal, posing with his arm on a chair back. But […]
Category: flash fiction
Halo
Meagan Johanson Your mother was in love with you. Enchanted—everyone was, she says, pulling the hair color box from the bag. Those […]
Lesson in Survival
Jamy Bond I’d lost my lover to heroin: lips like small blue balloons, skin like frosted glass. I needed a new life. […]
Seeds
Jolene McIlwain My wife leans into her pappy―Macon, she said yesterday―in this photo we found folded in a hankie in a […]
Windows Explorer Cannot Process This Request
Philip Charter Are you sure you want to reopen this application? [Yes] X […]
What Is or Is Not True
Laurie Marshall While it is true I did not accept his proposal, that did not prove that I did not love him. […]
What Butch Says
Tania Hershman Butch says I need to watch everything you do. I say, But he’s just sitting there. Butch slaps my back. […]
Each Breath a Chain
Sara Hills After school and on Saturdays we couple up and make-out under the overpass in the middle of town—under shirts, over […]
Sharpest Teeth in the Swamp
Myna Chang Every morning, Uncle Leon’s out there baby-talkin’ his favorite gator, Ethyl. “Who’s the smartest girl? Yes, you are,” he coos […]
Dr. Audubon Will See Me Now
Amy Barnes My therapist is a bird woman. When I arrive, a caged parakeet sits in her office. Carrier pigeons arrive and […]
En Caul
Bayveen O’Connell A mighty grunt, then a smooth slither out. The midwife gasped and in the next breath, giggled. “In all my […]
