"The unspoken rule of accepting a cut in line, of course, is that you donāt then waste time filling out forms or running to get cream. You are courteous." Courtesy by #authors@kimmagowan.bsky.social#flashfiction Review!
At the checkout line, I wave ahead a woman who clutches nothing but a bottle of shampoo. She doesnāt say thank you, but she does smile gratefully, so Iām not too bothered by the omission. But then she...
"Maād never once been sick with anything but grief, yet her face had grown sallow and yellower than sun-bleached hay over the last month." The Valley of the Shadow of Death by Rachel Harbaugh and Sarah Hurd #flashfiction#writingcommunity#literarycommunity#author
Silas sat on the rotting porch steps and waited. It seemed heād been waiting all his lifeāfor the sun to come up, for his Pa to pick him up from school, for the lone plum tree out back to bear fruit, ...
"There was desire and lust but it had nothing to do with the swamp or the humidity or the night noises. It was jealousy." Finish out your week with "Jealousy Always Brought Out the Best In Her" by Christine Fugate and @rinapalumbo.bsky.social#flashfiction#literarycommunity#writingcommunity
Green eyes widen, brown roots starting to emerge beneath blonde hair, she has a killer smile, feral, sultry and dangerous. Not her now.
"It appeared near the end, when they started talking about removing Momās breathing tube. Iād hoped for help, but nothing, just the occasional observation, like, 'Sheās gone,' or, a moment ago, 'You have peanut butter on your fingers.'" Grief Sandwiches by Lucas and Travis Flatt #flashfiction
Iām in the elevator with the angel. āIām hungry,ā I say. āYou can eat peanut butter again.ā My mother hated the smell of peanut butter. As kids, my brother and I got it all over everything. Mom said i...
"Elvis Presley and Diana Ross serenade scores of museum goers, friendly folks from out of town whoāve come to witness the oddities of weddings before The Big Divorceāthe bang that hit once dating apps caused strokes, wandering eyes lead to arrhythmia, and rabid love resulted in death." #flashfiction
In the Engagement Room, Lucy holds up her ring finger to a display of diamonds. Something inside her sparkles. She fantasizes about a gold band sliding past her bare knuckle: slowly, quickly. Lucy blu...
"The nurse nods his head. The med student blushes. They bid me good luck." IVF by Ela Brave and IvƔn Brave in our latest issue of New #flashfiction Review!
āThis is your sperm cell,ā the nurse practitioner says. He draws an oval with a squiggly line on the white crunchy paper of the medical exam table. Meanwhile Iām annoyed and feeling like a dumb lab ra...
"So you must understand, dear Duck, the Man was manna from heaven, kind eyes, good hands, and lots of warm words to tickle my ears and my belly and bits of me that hadnāt been tickled in so so long." Don't miss the latest from Philippa Bowe & Karen Walker in New #Flashfiction Review!
Dear Duck, here there are only gulls for company, some are large and quite pretty but they're all strangers. Please reply. How are you?
"Nana catches the ghost of Esmeās fingers on the photo and exiles her like the criminal she is. Nana says sheās told her and sheās told her but Esmeās a little girl who never learned her manners." Esme learns her lesson by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social#flashfiction
A finger on the lips, a rubbing of the brow, a curling of the lip even at the threshold. This is the snip-snip rhythm Esme finds at Nanaās now that Grampa is gone.
Featuring work from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social@travisflatt.bsky.social@rinapalumbo.bsky.social@kimmagowan.bsky.social & Michelle Ross!