FridayFlash

Short Short stories “For sale, baby shoes, never worn”

Demeter Stages an Intervention

Demeter takes Persephone to concerts, cooking classes, pottery lessons. If she keeps throwing new possibilities up in the air like confetti, something will stick. Happiness will get caught under Persephone’s ...

by Pauline Holdsworth • October 7, 2022October 4, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Insomnia

Even after all these years, he couldn’t believe it’d happened while he was asleep. Curled up under the sheets, knees tucked. He never heard the screech of brakes, the impact ...

by VINCENT CZYZ • June 3, 2022June 10, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Mardi Gras

FAT TUESDAY I’m six or seven, and we’re standing on Canal Street, my dad, mom and sister, who’s too young to remember any of this. It’s late February but so hot ...

by Louis Gallo • May 27, 2022May 13, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

The Staten Island Hanger

Photo courtesy the author. We knew about the Staten Island Hanger, everyone did, sitting on its own on a large lot near the New York Harbor, like you could bring something ...

by Gil Kaplan • May 20, 2022May 19, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Florida, 1993

They flew into Miami at night and decided to go straight to the hotel. They were both hungry but too tired to look for a place to eat. They had ...

by Leah Browning • May 13, 2022May 11, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Slow Train in Winter

Blondirikard Fröberg. The trees are shades; hovering ghosts. I’m going to see my mother in her village. The compartment is warm; my wife is asleep. I can almost go to sleep ...

by Robin Wyatt Dunn • April 29, 2022April 28, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

This Week’s Post (Moleskin Notepad, Box of Biros)

by Neil Clark • April 8, 2022April 7, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Meditations of a Mermaid

This used to be a safe place

by Holly Hagman • April 1, 2022March 22, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

The Burning Chill

Photo by Eric Wahlforss One day a hole fell into a man. The hole, which had known only cold ground, took an immediate liking to the soft warm insides of ...

by Bob Thurber • March 25, 2022March 23, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

MICROFICTIONS

Four microfictions that dig into familial relationships in unexpected ways

by Leo Boix • March 18, 2022March 16, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

VOICES/VANISHING/READING THIS, MY BODY

Reading this, my body

by Denise André • March 11, 2022March 10, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Means of Conveyance

Photo by Nate Lampa I can’t remember if the bench was wooden or metal or painted or plastic-coated or anything. Nor how it was structured—slatted throughout? A latticed back? A ...

by Ryan Pollard • March 11, 2022March 12, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Black Shirt in the Middle

Photo by Sophie Louisnard The rusted pickup truck parked outside ends your pursuit; you pause in the doorway, your eyes adjust to the haze and track the room, past the jukebox, ...

by ANNE ANTHONY • March 4, 2022March 5, 2022