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In Violet

By Melissa Goode

The kitchen lightbulb shatters above our heads. The filament burns red and fizzles to nothing. It is an explosion from…

Carrion Clay

By Matthew McHugh

Sometimes the name they give you is all wrong.  It’s really just meant to be a simple, two-word phrase to…

Flash Perspectives: Interview with Tara Masih

By Amy Barnes
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I’ve always thought of flash fiction as conversations where each exchange reveals or obscures, builds layers, introduces intimacy, teaches, grows…

Buffering

By David James Poissant

That morning, Ted began buffering. One minute, he was Ted, coffee cup in hand, talking animatedly about this thing he’d…

For Mommy, who is always crying

By Francine Witte

in her bedroom like a secret, only we can hear it through the door. My big brother, Lou, took off…

Flash Perspectives with Sian Griffiths

By Fractured Lit
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What are your favorite things to write about? Those topics or items you can’t stop thinking about! Hmmm. Tough question.…

Mad

By Sarah Freligh

Kat goes missing again, but not really. She’s where she usually is—passed out, pants on backward, in the Wawa parking…

Nesting

By Blake L. Bell

Walls Her nest is too tall by the time Molly realizes she can’t climb in. “I left my tools inside.…

Millennial Pink Bread

By Meagan Cass

As if covered in invisible glaze, her bread bakes pink. She buys new flour, new yeast, sends it into the…

High Summer

By Clio Velentza

Their old landmarks are charred, the ashen sludge slips into her sandals. Find me at our pit, he’d said. Where…

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