Flash

WEIRD ENOUGH TO BE DANGEROUS by MJ McGinn

May 17, 2023

My 7th grade English teacher was just three toddlers stacked on top of each other. The middle toddler googled every question we asked on an iPhone. You could see it through his shirt, star-bright.

RAINBOWS by Tim Frank

May 10, 2023

A rainbow is feeling down, suicidal even. It takes some pills and a bottle of gin to a park, ready to end it all.

NUMBER 30 by Jonah Sheen Tan

May 8, 2023

I studied the rustle of the stately rain tree when I couldn’t see the blackboard and knew Pollock’s Number 30 before I ever experienced autumn.

A PORTRAIT OF JOHN WAYNE’S COLLARBONE, SELMA BRAUN, 1992 by Will VanDenBerg

May 3, 2023

It's 5:34 am and John Wayne is singing to his horse. The shoot is behind schedule; they've gone all night. Wayne's singing voice will be dubbed over.

ANCHORAGE by Marc Tweed

May 1, 2023

That’s the Way of the Boss. That’s the Way of the Boss! Well, fuck.

OUR STORY by Rhea Ramakrishnan

April 26, 2023

You can tell yourself anything you want about yourself, even if it’s not true yet, and eventually it will be. Maybe.

RECENTISH by Spencer Thomas Campbell

April 17, 2023

But the product of this was both gushy and vain. Embarrassing. It was easy to read his real interest, which was carnal, puckered.

THE FAST-FOOD REBELLION and THE LARPER by Will Musgrove

April 12, 2023

On break, he spoke to us through the order box. The sun warming our necks, we tossed French fries to seagulls and smelled the electric static on his breath.

THE FORTY-FIVE DOLLAR SCYTHE by Don Television

April 10, 2023

They looked for the seller. They were sometimes lurking near the booth, watching as you handled the crockery. Watching as you flipped through the records.

OLD MAN SHADOW by Christopher Notarnicola

April 5, 2023

The girl came out, banana in hand, and the guy from the back followed, loosening his fruit-stained apron, gaping at the climb.