Flash

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.

WHAT WE DID by K. A. Polzin

April 3, 2023

Then there was nothing left to sell. The blood bank told us we needed to give our veins a rest. Should we try pickpocketing, we wondered.

REGENERATION by Hayli Cox

March 22, 2023

Momma’s bones are broken in so many places that the images look like fins in their oceanic blue-black glow. She’s lost so much lately.

THE PINHEADED DINOSAURS WITH THEIR TINY SKULLS by Kellie Rankey

March 20, 2023

We think about shaving and razors and haircuts and the whole fashion of manipulating the body into approved shapes. We wish our teeth were sharper, stronger.

COME by Michael McSweeney

March 15, 2023

I listened to their conversation and paced a circle around the fire. Drank my beer. I didn't know who Dayna was but something sounded heavy and neglected in the other guy's voice.

THE BIRTHDAY by C. Connor Syrewicz

March 13, 2023

Sometimes, we talk. Sports, TV—that sort of thing. Every so often, he invites me for drinks, but I always make up an excuse.

EL LUCHADOR by Nico M.

March 8, 2023

You ain’t never punched nobody before. But you know how it’s done. You’ve seen enough movies.

BOMBING IN ALEPPO by Cory Bennet

March 6, 2023

Like the Ship of Theseus—was it the same skateboard if the deck was different? In my mind it was part of a lineage.

HOW TO TALK TO CATS by Emma Uriarte

March 1, 2023

Fall asleep. Wake up to darkness, the sound of tiny nails on cardboard. Find the mouse, dead for real this time, before work.

#FF073A (NEON RED) by Brenden Layte

February 27, 2023

You, waking from dreams of dinosaurs, exploring deep in the ocean, worlds where Care Bears and Popples are real, listening.