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    Flash Friday Archives

    • Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash, Story Sunday, StorySunday

      Perhaps

      Perhaps

      An understated exploration of grief, love, and memory. ...
      by John Brantingham | January 5, 2025January 5, 2025
    • Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, FridayFlash

      Our Best Small Fictions Nominations 2024

      Our Best Small Fictions Nominations 2024

      It is a pleasure to announce Litro’s nominations for the annual Best Small Fictions anthology. Congratulations to this year’s nominees. ...
      by Litro Magazine | January 13, 2024January 13, 2024
    • Editor's Pick, FridayFlash

      Winter

      Winter

      In this wintry poem, Diana delves into her childhood Christmases: loss, reinvention, and belonging. ...
      by Diana Radovan | December 28, 2023December 28, 2023
    • Fiction, FridayFlash

      He Heard the Book Giveth Wisdom and Ate It

      He Heard the Book Giveth Wisdom and Ate It

      Quirkiness meets tradition amidst the whimsical chaos of Mierenhoop’s Fête de l’Âne, with Olivia, Santa the donkey, and a reluctant Uncle Ryan. A festive flash ...
      by David Sherman | December 18, 2023December 18, 2023
    • Fiction, FridayFlash

      Invisible Wings

      Invisible Wings

      Family trauma, China’s turbulent history, and the specter of death. ‘Invisible Wings’: a tale of survival, resilience, and magic. ...
      by Kevin Brown | December 7, 2023December 7, 2023
    • Fiction, FridayFlash

      Pinnacle

      Pinnacle

      Experience the chilling beauty of ‘Pinnacle’ as winter’s grasp embraces high peaks, stirring reflections on life’s seasons. A stirring piece of flash. ...
      by Francis Flavin | December 6, 2023December 6, 2023
    • Arts & Culture, Fiction, FridayFlash

      To Live in a Name

      To Live in a Name

      Dive into a world where the floor turns to snow, and auroras light up the sky. Lekha’s winter dreamscape unfolds in a tale of friendship, ...
      by Devaki Devay | December 1, 2023December 1, 2023
    • Editor's Pick, FridayFlash

      Demeter Stages an Intervention

      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 ...
      by Pauline Holdsworth | October 7, 2022October 4, 2022
    • Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

      Insomnia

      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 ...
      by VINCENT CZYZ | June 3, 2022June 10, 2022
    • Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

      Mardi Gras

      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 ...
      by Louis Gallo | May 27, 2022May 13, 2022
    • Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

      The Staten Island Hanger

      The Staten Island Hanger

      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 ...
      by Gil Kaplan | May 20, 2022July 18, 2025
    • Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

      Florida, 1993

      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 ...
      by Leah Browning | May 13, 2022May 11, 2022
    • Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

      Slow Train in Winter

      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 ...
      by Robin Wyatt Dunn | April 29, 2022April 28, 2022
    • Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

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

      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

      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

      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 ...
      by Bob Thurber | March 25, 2022March 23, 2022
    • Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

      MICROFICTIONS

      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

      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

      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 ...
      by Ryan Pollard | March 11, 2022March 12, 2022
    • Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

      Black Shirt in the Middle

      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 ...
      by ANNE ANTHONY | March 4, 2022March 5, 2022

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