Flash

THE NINE O’GLOCK SHUFFLE by Lindsey Pharr

November 9, 2022

Your eyes follow their tiny finger and, sure enough, there’s a nine-millimeter handgun lying in the middle of your neighborhood street at eight in the morning on Fat Tuesday.

MY PARENTS DO NOT MEET by Liwen Xu

November 7, 2022

Once my father finishes and leaves, my mother leans back into her chair, rests her eyes on the clock above us, and begins to recall the lovers of her past.

A DEEP-SEA DIVER IS RESCUED OFF THE OCEAN FLOOR by Jessica Staricka

November 2, 2022

They ask her if she knows what day it is. They try to make her guess how long she drifted for. She won’t. Four days. That’s what they tell her.

VESSELS by Jennifer Love

October 31, 2022

When anger threatens to disturb my indifference towards the customers, I breathe deep, I take smoke breaks to cool my nerves in the gnashing waves.

SEX, OR by Brett Milam

October 17, 2022

Unbeknownst to you, you were in a ménage à trois with me and depression and I was only able to pleasure one of you.

THE MOTHERS by Hollynn Huitt

October 14, 2022

His mom made a quiet bleating sound under her breath. Fear bolted through him, but now he was seven and so he stood his ground.

MY GHOST by Aileen O’Dowd

October 10, 2022

The exorcist knocks on the door.

LIT VEGAN SEX by M.C. Schmidt

October 7, 2022

Ultimately, she accepted me, weird diet and all. And last night, for the very first time, she slept over.

HERO by Mike Wilson

October 5, 2022

But maybe it would be good in some way, this sudden death of his, maybe it would mean his son Jason would move back to town and stop chasing that stupid life as a YouTube street magician.

THIS YEAR WAS A BUST by Mike Vizcarra

September 28, 2022

There is a red lipstick stain on my shirt from when we hugged. Mocking me, the way that stains do.