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Editor's Pick, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday, International Fiction
Once the wife of Comrade Commissaire, she now sells fish in the market — and learns that scales may outlast diamonds.
Editor's Pick, Flash Friday, flash-friday, Short Fiction
A brief, intimate flash about desire, faith, performance and regret, as a bedroom conversation turns into a reckoning with what gets hidden and what gets saved for later.
Flash Friday, flash-friday, Short Fiction
Milicent’s head is covered with live butterflies. Once mocked in acting class, she has become impossible to look away from.
Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
An elderly disabled woman waits for lunch and care, but memory reveals a hidden life of espionage, desire, and danger in Penny Pepper’s flash fiction.
Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
A station vending machine becomes a daily oracle: tea, soda, or corn soup — each one predicting whether someone will speak to the person they like.
Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
When Bobby Jackson dies, the village takes him out to the pylons. In a landscape without power, infrastructure survives only as ritual, and pity has become just another empty speech.
Fiction, Flash Fiction Contest, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay, Fiction, Flash Fiction Contest, Flash Friday, flash-friday, Technology