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Knowing You as You Do Like Me
I can share this with you – you’ve been there – immersed in her, tasted her bitter dampness.
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Lions and Bears
I realize a lioness is circling me. She crouches and we lock eyes.
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‘Sophie’s Choice’ and What I Understood About Profanation
A father and daughter witness the underlying details of the film ‘Sophie’s Choice’
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How to Catch an Unusual Fish
I pick up my lover and we drive to the abandoned ice cream shop, pull around behind it.
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Late Night Visitor by Andrea Lynn Koohi
The smell of hospitals makes me sick, but I came because I thought you’d want to know
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Nice Shoes
The scent of leather shoes and the anatomy of a breakup
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Incubus
A woman returns to the past and is filled with sounds and sensations
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The Oomancer
A small girl is coaxed to speak again
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Bartleby and Marty
Bartleby and Marty launch a couch company.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Winter Simulator
For a few seconds, I’m suspended in shadowless green. Then suddenly I’m in a field, in a squall, on the edge of a stand of tall spruces. Their icy branches ...
Kinky Christmas Runner-up: Little Christmas
When wisecracking mini-Jesus turns up in a Mason jar, and holds his own.
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Kinky Christmas First Prize: Variant Mass
Inspired by the author’s old hairdresser who was unable to return to Poland each Christmastime.
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The Life of the Party
What happens when a party goes wrong?
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The More You Buy the More You Save
Oh, reticent consumer, presumer of endless parades of dead-soul days. Crash the doors, explore the twin shelves
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Ruby
I see in each ruby a trapped woman in the confines of her man’s world.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Stripped to the Bone
With fork and knife, thus armed he watched as she began to peel back the skin of the plaice with a delicate precision until its white flesh glistened, perfectly pearlescent, ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Interview with the Monument
A wild interview with a national icon.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Shona Doesn’t Do Kids
‘Shona Doesn’t Do Kids’ speaks of childlessness and office life. Quote: ‘Jade launches into a graphic account of her labour. The postman turns pale, hands back the baby..’
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
This Month on the Home Binge Office: UK Cinema
Stream it or skip it? Stream it!
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Word Salad
On my doorstep a package. On the package no name but I’m pretty sure it’s from my mom even though she died 10 years ago today.
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