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Self-Solemnization

By Marilyn Hope

Yung-Su brings a live dove, a Eurasian Collared with dust-brown wings and a black nape, holding it in both of…

My husband said, just keep baking Bread

By Jude Higgins

So I forget the tanks rolling over the wheat fields towards my house, and now I am on my ninth…

The circus without white horses or elephants

By Fiona Lynch

You carry Grandma’s finger in a velvet purse. It’s your turn. Tess doesn’t have a chance of pocketing it now…

Sheepskin

By Hannah Zhang

The flock scattered across the river at the sight of him, and he watched, drooling—a bony shadow in the reeds—as…

Too Distracted to Function

By Lannie Stabile

Trigonometry was Michaela’s least favorite subject. Her teacher, Mrs. Parveen, was at the front of the room, giving trigonometric functions…

Canoeing the Black Fork Mohican, 1978

By Phillip Sterling

What you remember is how you had trouble believing it was Ohio, even southern Ohio, the way the river moved…

Cigar Caps in the Dollar Store Parking Lot

By Jad Josey

You ask me: What is the collective noun for a handful of spent cigars beneath the knotty, crooked oak in…

Nowhere to Land

By Abbie Barker

The night your father and uncle guzzle a thirty-pack of Miller Lite and ride your glittery bike shirtless through the…

Winter 2022 Fast Flash Challenge Winners and Shortlist

By Fractured Lit
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1st Place: The circus without white horses or elephants by Fiona Lynch 2nd Place: Sheepskin by Hannah Zhang 3rd Place:…

Berkeley Square

By Lori Sambol Brody

We took BART and then a bus down University Avenue, me in my jeans and black pleather jacket, as soft…

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