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  • Flash Fiction,  Special Issue

    Lava by Robert Libbey

    May 15, 2022 /

    “You a thief like your friend?” called a voice from the back room. The tips of my fingers left prints on a dusty soap wrapper. “You have any tissues?” I shouted through a rack of comic books.    “Never mind him,” said the old lady at the counter. “Third rack…

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    Visupada by Srivalli Rekha

    May 1, 2019

    Rhododendron by Lucy Whitehead

    November 1, 2019

    Time by Robert Grant

    January 1, 2019
  • Flash Fiction,  Issue 9

    The Biggest News in History by Anderson Fonseca

    July 1, 2020 /

    Translated from Portuguese by Toshiya Kamei The TV is tuned to the Worldwide News Channel. The reporter says, “The moment the idea of God came across our minds, we thought he was our creator, and a question began to haunt us – ‘How will we react when we meet God?’…

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    The Texas Fairy Tale by Parul Yadav

    January 1, 2020

    Midnight at the Crossroads Diner by Myna Chang

    September 1, 2019

    Creative Study: Elisabeth Horan

    March 1, 2019
  • Flash Fiction,  Issue 9

    Home Is by Christian Barragan

    July 1, 2020 /

    Day 1A youthful barista bounces at the register, overlooking the meager clump of customers eyeing the menu. A strange concoction of emotions wells within her, wondering if it’s appropriate to be angry at the ones responsible for her hours. They are, after all, outside. Suddenly she’s glad her family stayed…

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    The Wedding March by Elizabeth Chatsworth

    January 1, 2020

    The Light That Shone Here by Ciéra Cree

    April 4, 2020

    Body clock by Pepita Beck

    September 1, 2019
  • Flash Fiction,  Issue 8

    Six Seeds by Alicia Fitton

    April 4, 2020 /

    Inspired by Alice Godliman’s poem Pomegranite Seeds Myth recounts that Persephone was kidnapped by Hades and taken as his wife to the Underworld. Her furious mother, Demeter, goes to fetch her daughter back, but all who eat the food of Hades are condemned to remain and Persephone has eaten just…

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    time machine by A.H. Lewis

    September 1, 2019

    The Myth of Ophephone and Atlantis by Amanda N. Butler

    September 1, 2019

    The Boy in the Tree by Craig Rodgers

    July 1, 2019
  • Flash Fiction,  Issue 8

    Hands Clasped by Alice Godliman

    April 4, 2020 /

    We hear rumours of her journey as she flies towards us through Europe. Her cloak covers towns first, the busy ports, then it grows outwards from the seams of main roads. It will cover us all in time. Father Matthew says it is Pestilence sent from above, punishing us for…

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    Blue by Agampreet Kalra

    May 1, 2019

    Recall Has Become an Affliction by Kari A. Flickinger

    November 1, 2019

    Lava by Robert Libbey

    May 15, 2022
  • Flash Fiction,  Issue 8

    Aunt Arran by Lia Robles

    April 4, 2020 /

    It is dark and red outside. Dark and red like the night our parents were killed. We sit together, bundled close against a rock outcropping, a few feet from the train track, a few feet from where we had been left. The train station that isn’t. Just a stop, really.…

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    Witness by Scott Elder

    November 1, 2019

    thisis(not)thewayidie by Helena Pantsis

    September 1, 2019

    The Changing House by Luanne Castle

    July 1, 2020
  • Flash Fiction,  Issue 7

    This Shattered Sky by Evan James Sheldon

    January 1, 2020 /

    A boy lived with his father and mother in the woods far from the city. There was a lake nearby, deep and clear, and when it was cloudy the lake shown silver like slick, wet metal. The boy and his father would play by the lake then, throwing sticks and…

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    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward John Ford by Daniel Ellis

    April 4, 2020

    On a Bench by the Waters of Oblivion by E. Samples

    April 4, 2020

    Tempest by Tyler Wettig

    March 1, 2019
  • Flash Fiction,  Issue 7

    The Wolf by Chloe Gorman

    January 1, 2020 /

    The night I died, the cold permeated everything. The kind of cold that got into your bones.  My fur had thinned so much that I feared hypothermia may kill me, but that wasn’t how my story would end.   It was unusually dark at the edge of the forest. I could barely…

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    A Lounge Full of Dead Queens by Haley Jenkins

    January 1, 2019

    I don’t want your future, mother by b.i.w

    October 1, 2020

    Where jam jars lie by Adele Winston

    May 1, 2019
  • Art,  Flash Fiction,  Issue 7

    The Birdkeeper by D. Brody Lipton

    January 1, 2020 /

    Once, in a land far from here, a Birdkeeper toiled quietly in his aviary high in the hills overlooking a thriving city nestled in the valley below. From his home among the pine and fir trees, he could see roads and footpaths leading to the square, the shops and schools,…

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    Nourishment by Ray Ball

    January 1, 2020

    The Red Dress by Lucy Whitehead

    January 1, 2020

    Tea and the Weight of Spirits by Janna Miller

    July 1, 2020
  • Flash Fiction,  Issue 7

    Telling Stories by James Diaz

    January 1, 2020 /

    She remembered hardly anything from before. Certain colors hinted at larger things, but what exactly those things were, she didn’t know for sure. The boy tells her the world was a variation of purple before the Fathers disappeared. Like thistle or plum, she asks, but the boy is preoccupied with a wooden…

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    Racing a Fever Dream for Pinks by E. Samples

    April 4, 2020

    Souls to sell, bots for hire by Russell Hemmell

    January 1, 2019

    [let’s take a picture] by Taryn Dixon

    March 1, 2019
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