You’re on your knees, breathing hard, heel of one hand against the center of his chest…
And you suddenly get why adrenaline junkies chase this rush by Abby Alten Schwartz
Category: Contest
The Great Wave by Lisa Thornton
Three boats toss in a storm with Mt. Fuji in the background.
We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction: Finalists & Short List Announced
Announcing the finalists and winner for the inaugural We Love Short Shorts contest for flash creative nonfiction.
We Love Short Shorts: Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest
In our first-ever contest for flash creative nonfiction, we’re looking for stories up to 250 words.
In That River I Saw Him Again by Catherine Young
Endless streams of coal trains coursed in and out of my childhood in Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna Valley…
Scars Fists Watch Kiss by Jonathan Winston Jones
Three scars brush my face. Two visible. One hidden.
Precedent by Zachary Ostraff
I found the bunny by a fence. It was dead. I checked its body for wounds. Nothing. It just died.
Brothers In Arms by Jessica Ripka
It is the day after Christmas and we are about to drive to Connecticut in the rain to see relatives in a car rented under my name.
Dead Weight by Claire O’Brien
The first time I encountered rigor mortis I was seven.
The New Pretty by Nicole Graev Lipson
I fall back on the greatest power I know as an adolescent girl, which is to say nothing.
