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DOUG AND A CAT by Anissa Elmerraji

December 5, 2022

He lunges into the dirty can and takes the cat by the scruff. It hisses and scratches his hands until blood drops fall from his hands.

A CORBEAU BY ANY OTHER NAME by Camille U. Adams

December 2, 2022

How a mother could be so? Why when she’s in the same room with me I feel swallowed up by a heavy coat pulling me down?

TRANSATLANTIC & TWO OTHER FLASH PIECES by Peter Krumbach

November 30, 2022

The 84-year-old woman across the table from me describes a couple who has chosen to be buried in coffins stacked on top of each other in one grave.

PONT-SAINT-ESPRIT 1951 by Phoebe Billups

November 28, 2022

The man clutches at his stomach as the attendants wrestle him into a straitjacket. By the time they manage to sedate him, the waiting room brims with new patients.

THE PENNY IN THE WELL by Henry Elizabeth Christopher

November 25, 2022

We had sex, he took my blood. Positive ions, positive feedback loops. The cycle perpetuates itself.

ALL THE BEES IN CALIFORNIA ARE DEAD by Piper Gourley

November 23, 2022

I’m in California now, where bees die in the light. Where everybody dies first, then lives forever.

MY STICKY-FINGERED GIRLS by Lynn Mundell

November 21, 2022

I look at the baby doll abandoned on the floor next to its ripped box, its unblinking blue eyes staring back at me. One of its fat cloth legs has been ripped off in the fight.

A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR by Robert Long Foreman

November 18, 2022

Tamberlyn fell on the pavement, hard. Her body slapped against it. It sounded like someone dropped a lot of meat.

CALVIN WESTRA’S “DONALD GOINES” REVIEWED by Conor Hultman

November 17, 2022

What Westra does is this brilliant magic trick: he takes these simple sentences, with their insouciant humor, and stacks them like bricks.

HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE by Claudia Schatz

November 16, 2022

The window over the bathroom sink, up high and pointing out, the only window in the whole house where all you see is sky.