Flash

QUESTIONS FOR THE ALIEN WHO LISTENED TO THE VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORD by John Waddy Bullion

March 11, 2024

In your mind, is there nothing better than coming home after a punishing day in the asteroid mines, firing up a space joint, and taking a blissful sound bath in the pure vibes pouring forth from your carefully curated LP collection?

WOULD BE A SHAME by Mary Dittrich Orth

March 4, 2024

...we never even noticed a voyeur, Shana—a girl new to the school, friendless and odd—hiding behind the monkey bars, spying...

I JUST WANT PALS TO JOSH AROUND WITH by Kevin Richard White

February 21, 2024

Maybe we discuss how soft our wives’ hands are, how they look in the shower, how they may or may not love us.

THE ENTIRE LAME HISTORY OF THE CHICAGO SHINERS by Sam Berman

February 14, 2024

God shares my taller daughter’s name now. Which is Hope. I say it five times when she covers the inbound. Hope. Hope. Hope. Hope. Hope.

SELENA GOMEZ WALKS INTO A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PORTAL AT THE REST STOP IN DUBLIN, GA by Stephen Meisel

February 7, 2024

And says a warrior’s prayer as the mahogany bear carvings come alive. She understands the will of the Valkyrie as the will of the H bomb.

JOHN LEAVES HIS HOME by Alex Juffer

January 24, 2024

John tracked their interactions and gauged the hierarchy. A redhead with no shirt and a flashbang sunburn ordered the youngest ones around. They worked in shifts now.

BLADE OF GRASS by Mason Koa

January 10, 2024

Almost breathlessly, he raved to me that he had done it: He had separated himself from nature once and for all. I pointed out that we ate from nature before a light flickered in his eyes and I cupped my hand over my mouth.

THE SECRET TO A LONG LIFE by Kevin Grauke

January 3, 2024

Scientists have theories about why this happens, but I’ve got one of my own: our brain wants us to remember our horrible moments most clearly.

JOHN JACOBS by Conor Truax

December 27, 2023

To the conscious Cartwrights, the deer warnings were novelties. The yellow on the signs was not invented. The deer recognized it as the sun.

THE STAGE NAME by James Tadd Adcox

December 20, 2023

Just as the first wife had found the stage name pretentious and comical, the second experienced the real name as uncanny, unnatural.