Flash

HOW TO TELL A LOVE STORY by Wendy BooydeGraaff

June 15, 2022

These two are not young, not rom-com blow-dried and fresh. One of them has an eye with a filmy sheath over the iris, and the eye also wanders, preventing the long lovers’ gaze.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS by C. Beston

June 13, 2022

My husband lost the finger in a card game, then his hosts kept it and bequeathed it to your institution.

THE SHARKS TOOK THE REST by Dana Diehl

June 8, 2022

Killing a shark is always personal. The shark ate your wife. The shark ate your son.

OLD ENOUGH by Isabelle Hughes

June 6, 2022

There hadn’t been this much excitement since the boys came home from war with their uniforms and their little triangular hats. They’d been shipped off again.

ERASE THE LINE by Jason W. McGlone

June 1, 2022

My mother is bursting at the seams and I am watching her stitching begin to give.

SKINK by aureleo sans

May 31, 2022

For now he made his home in men. Or rather, for a time, they lodged in him while he saved up seed money.

EPSILON & CLOSTROMONIA by Shy Watson

May 25, 2022

Clostromonia was beautiful. She was big-breasted and a fine cook. Epsilon’s fellow noblemen regularly begged for slices of her bimbleberry pie. “Ay, Epsilon,” they’d say, “I’m going to snatch the pie from your maiden’s windowsill along with the big-breasted beauty who made it!” In these moments, Epsilon felt proud.