Persephone
Flash fiction by Elizabeth Varadan My mother returned to her parents in L. A. whenever things didn’t go well in her life. To sort things… Read More »Persephone
Flash Fiction
Flash Fiction from Fiction Attic Press, featuring stories under 1,000 words
The Crush
flash fiction by A.W. Marshall “Feel it?” He had his fingers arranged in a circle, pressing against my chest like a little cage. “Not yet.”… Read More »The Crush
Chibas Speaks
by Steve Almond
August, 1951. In Havana, in a studio the width of his arms, Chibas speaks. His voice swells with heroism. Clustered around wooden radios the shape… Read More »Chibas Speaks
by Steve Almond
Telegraphing the Fox
In a drawerful of correspondence, I found a slew of cards addressed to my dour, sour father dated a few years previous, from one Gloria… Read More »Telegraphing the Fox
On the Nightwalk
by Mark Sheerin He was on the road when they picked him up and it was night. There he was, large as life, in outsize… Read More »On the Nightwalk
Staking Claim. flash fiction by Vanessa Hua
from the archives (originally published in Issue 5, June 2012) Years before my mother died, my sister was prepared. Ilana arrived home one weekend, clutching… Read More »Staking Claim. flash fiction by Vanessa Hua
Over There
by Steven Gillis
The man next door, our neighbor, is behaving badly or so it seems to me. This is not a good thing, I think. How can… Read More »Over There
by Steven Gillis
Bugaboo
by Jenny Pritchett
At first Antonia thought of a shipwreck. The boy and the girl peeled off their clothes, but they were on their knees in the middle… Read More »Bugaboo
by Jenny Pritchett
Sharper
by Jackie Shannon-Hollis
The list of the things I did for him is inside the black silk envelope. The black silk envelope is in the top left drawer… Read More »Sharper
by Jackie Shannon-Hollis
I Live in a Triangle
by Stephen MacKinnon
I live in a triangle. It’s exactly 213 square miles. It’s a place of Indian curses, ghostly apparitions, cattle mutilations, gigantic snakes, low-flying UFOs, huge… Read More »I Live in a Triangle
by Stephen MacKinnon