Flash

HOUSEBROKE by Stephanie Gresham

January 16, 2023

It happens more than a person might think, animals in the house. Squirrels nest in a closet, a rat snake curls up in the tub.

GENE JACKMAN by Steve Gergley

January 11, 2023

But as I looked through the photos, I grew more and more angry. The actor who played Wolverine wasn’t in any of them.

DENVER by Tess Pollok

January 9, 2023

He was angry. He was scared of her. He was scared of the post office. Everything is on accident or everything is on purpose or everything is both.

MEAT by Nathan Cover

January 4, 2023

What they couldn’t see: his heart pumping arterial and venial dilated with rage at being short but filled with fearless venom.

BOSS OF THAT BEAST by Jennifer Wortman

January 2, 2023

We were always competing for not-worst drunk. But we were also secretly competing for worst drunk. So both of us always won. And lost.

THE C WORD by Chloe Alberta

December 30, 2022

If I could only stay kind and beautiful, I, too, could survive on the happiness contained in a single shot of frat boy whiskey. But I always had trouble with kindness.

A v ~A by James Tadd Adcox

December 28, 2022

“They don’t feel anything, do they?” she says. He smiles at her. His smile says, who cares if they do.

I’M JOHNNY KNOXVILLE by Rachel Attias

December 26, 2022

He knows without a shadow of a doubt that he cannot die. It makes him reckless in a way everyone loves, except for Steve-O.

FROG LEG by Diana Anaya

December 21, 2022

Frogs are thought to have a simplified version of our anatomy, which makes them all the more reasonable subjects for high school dissections.

SUDDEN SILENCE FOLLOWED BY MILD APPLAUSE by Matt Kirkpatrick

December 19, 2022

The music lifted like a cosmic prayer. Then the collective scream: the squawk, the beef and bleat of the slaughter, a rumbling dusk arcing across the auditorium.