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.
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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.
THE TWO OF THEM by Teddy Burnette
November 14, 2022
Catastrophe, he thinks. Couldn’t have gone worse.
MAGICIANS by Scott Mashlan
November 11, 2022
On my way out of the closet I noticed a trunk at the edge of the bed… An antique padlock hooked through the clasp, but it was unlatched, so I slid it out and opened the trunk.